As some of you may know, I have been posting a boatload about toys over the past three or four months, I still have four more posts to write, but I wonder if this one isn’t a fitting end to the series, if if a bit preemptive. Cogdog has been chiding me all along [...]
Archive for December, 2009
This is a comment I left on David Wiley’s post “Responses to the Rev and Stephen on ‘Openness’”, it’s extremely long, and should really be read in the context of the post on David’s blog, but for posterity I wanted a version here, because I think it outlines some of my facile thinking on openness [...]
Who provides the seats at an open table?
Published by December 30th, 2009 in Uncategorized. 26 CommentsImage credit: Torley’s “architecture”
I’m following the beginnings of George Siemens‘ and David Wiley’s discussion of the term open as it relates to the open education movement with great interest. I’m fascinated by the various connotations a term takes on as it gains popularity, and I think we can agree—that like organic or green—just about everyone [...]
With just 45 minutes left in what has been an amazing Christmas at la casa bava, I’d just like to send out some warm season greetings from the mighty bava to all my loyal subjects. And as a special thank you, I am going to recycle a gift I recently got from Scott “hot [...]
The original 12, not the apostles mind you, but more importantly the 3.75″ Star Wars figures released in 1978 that ushered in a new institution in toy franschises and arguably one of the earliest signs of the immense consumer-driven fan culture that would form around Star Wars for the next 30+ years.
The first wave [...]
Darcy Norman posted about a Retro LED Footbal game a long while back, and in 1980 I got the Coleco Head-to-Head Football game, a handheld video game for two players, and absolutely the most memorable and fun of the handheld video games I got during the late 70s and early 80s. What was amazing [...]
“These are not the droids you are looking for…” I must have uttered that famous Jedi mind trick phrase by kenobi a million times while playing with Kenner’s Land Speeder. And pound-for-pound this may have been the best of the Kenner toy vehicles given how faithful it was to the film version. The crazy [...]
While the Death Star was the first and most impressive of the Kenner Star Wars play sets, the second may have been even more special to me given the subject: the Mos Eisley Cantina. I mean let’s face it, given the impact of that scene in the film, this play set would have been amazing [...]
Catalog Description:
(15) Star Wars Millennium Falcon Spaceship. Use with mini-figures (not incl.). Battle alert sound, landing gear folds up. Cockpit canopy opens. Entrance ramp folds down. Radar dish swivels 360 degrees. Rear deck area lifts off to expose laser gun with seat that swivels 360 degrees and “clicks.” Game table. Secret floor panel. Remote force [...]
Day 10: Fisher Price Play Family School House
Published by December 23rd, 2009 in 1102xmaS. 2 CommentsI have no hard proof, but I have to believe that the Fisher Price School House was the most ubiquitous of the Play Family sets. it seemed like there was one of these in eery home, and the magnet letters seemed to be on just about everyone’s fridge (I just bought those magnets for [...]
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