There are precious few people alive who don’t have at least one favorite movie. And while you can own the movie on physical media, that tends to end up on a shelf somewhere. If you want something to hand on the wall, you need memorabilia. But which kind is the right one for you? Let’s…
Did you grow up watching DuckTales? If you’re a little older, you probably grew up reading the adventures of Donald Duck and family in comic books. Either way, the man most responsible for those childhood memories isn’t Walt Disney. No, Donald Ducks iconic nephews and stingy Uncle Scrooge were the creations of “The Good Ducks…
A gorgeous collection of screen-printed movie posters from Mondo and other boutique pop culture labels is now available in our eBay store! Which may leave you wondering: what exactly is a “Mondo Movie Poster”? Well, the short answer is “art”. For the longer answer, keep reading! The Alamo Drafthouse’s T-Shirt Shop The first Alamo Drafthouse…
If you’re a collector of trading cards, comic books, novels, movie posters, et al, you’ll probably run into the name “Boris Vallejo” at some point. Moreover, you’ll probably run into it as a selling point, a reason why you should give this comic or poster some extra attention. So who the heck is he? Let…
The 1960s were a Golden Age for custom car culture! As such, creating one-of-a-kind vehicles for TV heroes was a brief fad. It’s not hard to see why: a cool car goes a long way to establishing your character’s identity AND the burgeoning markets for diecast toy cars or plastic model kits made it an…
A24 is an indie film studio/distributor that has gained a huge following in recent years. Hip young movie buffs have come to see the A24 logo as the mark of something worth seeing. The company has carefully built its catalog to be, well, weird. They pick lower budget projects, ranging from sci-fi comedies to graphic…
There are streaming options out there for media of all kinds. Movies, TV shows, music, comics, video games, if it can entertain you, you can get a whole world of it delivered straight to your hands for a reasonable monthly fee. We’ve even known some folks who’ve sworn off physical media because of it! Respectfully,…
Prior to the 1980s, the connection between TVs and toy stores really only ran one way. There could be toys based on TV shows, but they were by-and-large a much smaller part of the toy market than toys that were just, y’know, toys. Then, seemingly over night, the top cartoons of the day were based…
If you told a stranger that you had some statues in your house, they probably wouldn’t assume you meant statues of superheroes or video game characters (like the ones coming to auction this weekend). Those strangers are missing out because pop culture statues have a history going back more than sixty years! And it all…
We were watching A Christmas Story over the holidays and it got us wondering: what’s Ralphie’s beloved BB gun worth these days? Since evaluating collectibles is our specialty around here, we thought it’d be fun to figure out an estimate. What Was Ralphie’s BB Gun? Ralphie is VERY specific about the BB gun he wants…