I started this site back in 1996 or so as an homage to the classic toys of the 60's, 70's and early 80's that fueled my imagination and brought countless hours of joy to play time. I was inspired by the other toy lovers I found via Usenet and the nascent Internet, and wanted to contribute to the collective knowledge of toydom. Much of what is documented on my site has probably been superceded by countless WIKIs, but I enjoy the site as much as I enjoy my toys, so I keep it up anyway.
I currently own, or have owned, most of the toys pictured. Some pictures were donated by other collectors who wanted to see some of their old favorites up on the site as well. I have about a half dozen toy lines yet to put up, including Super Joe, POTA, BladeRunner, Space 1999, and the Mego Flash Gordon toys.
None of the toys on this site are for sale, but if you'd like to write in and let me know what you think about anything you found here, let me know!
April 10th, 2008
I feel like putting up a new page this weekend and I am going with the will of the person. One person requested Mego Flash Gordon, so this weekend I’ll snap some shots Flash, Dale and Ming and get ‘em up!
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April 4th, 2008
you decide!
- suckerman
- mego flash gordon
- shoot out in space
Let me know what you want me to do next in the comments. Still don’t have a good poll plug in yet for wordpress.
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April 1st, 2008
Actually, I just finished uploading all the Micronaut pages, so my transition to Wordpress is complete! And I did a ton of the work on my delightful new MacBook Air from the comfort of my couch. I love this machine!
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April 1st, 2008
So I moved the testing environment live tonight. BEM is now a wordpress powered site! I love it. Wordpress rocks.
I am planning to add a links page to each toy as well, so if you have suggestions, stick ‘em in the comments for the main page for each toy.
There might be a few broken links. If you find any, please let me know!
Thanks!
Rick “The Bem”
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March 26th, 2008
Added 5 different toys to WordPress. Took longer than hoped. Have to go back and edit some of the code because the relative URLs all broke. oh well. Be done soon…
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March 24th, 2008
Just found a very cool Italian line of toys called TH3. Kinda magnemo-ish, but without the magnets. They are a sci-fi themed toy line with lite up stuff. I’ll eventually take pictures and post them, but a quick google search will probably reveal some pics for the curious.
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March 24th, 2008
I just upgraded The BEM to a wordpress blog system. Now I can post whatever random toy thoughts come my way and have a CMS for the toys themselves. No more broken links! Yeah!
Hope you like it. Look forward to seeing any comments as well.
Toodles. Rick “The BEM” Sanchez.
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