Mystery Retro Justice League Board Game

When I was a kid, I used to stay at my grandma’s place for a while and she would always have toys or something to play with. One thing I thought of recently, that I vaguely remembered, was a retro board game featuring Superman, Batman, Robin and Wonder Woman. Each character had four game pieces each and I think the point of the game was to get all four of your game pieces to the Hall of Justice and whoever did that first won. I am thinking it is either a Justice League, or possibly a Super Friends, game. Over the holidays I asked about it and my grandma said it was probably put into a garage sale because we were grown up and they were just taking space. After a little bit of rummaging, I was able to find the pieces to the game but that was it. I guess in a way I was lucky to get the game pieces because they were stored in a bag of Chinese checkers and the pieces to that while she figured everything was shipped out to a garage sale. But who buys a board game with no game pieces? There are also tiny magnets on the bottom of the game pieces so the board must have been magnetic as well. The magnets in the pieces are firmly embedded in there with no signs of falling out after a couple decades. I guess they don’t make things like they used to. I tried searching for it online but never saw any type of retro board game like this. This would have been in the 1980s sometime and judging by the look of the characters, it either came out in the 1970s or based on the 1970s characters for the Justice League or the Super Friends. If anyone has any information on what this game was actually called and what you were supposed to do, in case I was wrong about how I thought the game was played, please email me or post a...

Kids On Dollar Store Toys

Many of the cheap dollar store toys have pictures of kids on the package in case there is any confusion on who the toys are meant for. The kids shown on the toy packages are usually really happy, presumably about the toy, and possibly even playing with the toy to show that, yes, kids will have fun with the toy if you would just buy it for them. Labyrinth Game Challenger These two kids are on the labyrinth game challenger package. The boy looks kind of freaky and looks even worse when the picture is enlarged. He wants to have a labyrinth competition as the girl plays. On the game itself, the little girl is asking if the boy has won the game to which he replies he did. At least these kids look a little more normal. New Concept Bike This kid looks like he was just thrown on the package. He could be doing anything or happy about anything, but let’s just say he got the New Concept Bike and he was just so happy. It’s either that or because he is wearing an open pack of Jiffy Pop on his head. If you don’t know what Jiffy Pop is, imagine a bag of microwave popcorn you cooked on a stove. Speed Track This kid is surprisingly playing with the toy and he almost looks like he is enjoying it. He must really be good at it to have one car in the loop, one loaded in the launcher and holding a third car. Feel free to send along an email if you have any pictures of kids from dollar store toy packages. Please include the name of the toy and perhaps a picture of the entire toy package for reference....

Bad English On Dollar Store Toys

Since many of the cheap toys you find at dollar stores are made in China, chances are you’re going to get some bad translation written on the packages, included in the instructions and sometimes on the toys themselves where they feel some instructions are necessary. Websites, such as Engrish.com, host an assortment of bad English wherever they can find it. They can be very funny when they’re translated wrong, but is it fair to pick on people from another country for poor translation? I wouldn’t be able to piece together anything coherent in another language. Could you? They probably have to translate to languages other than English for other countries so it’s probably tough to keep everything straight, but when you think about it, why don’t they hire someone who is well versed in reading and writing in English to prepare anything written on packages? At the very least they can have someone on staff that can proofread and correct any mistakes. Anyway, here are some of the examples of bad English in a compilation I have come across in my cheap dollar store toy travels. Enjoy. The Frisbee Game The picture is from the top surface of the Frisbee itself. This one isn’t such a good example of the poor grammar issues, but it still sounds kind of weird. However, it would be a good use for the Captain Picard face palm images you can find. Toys Basketball On the backside of the package are these how to use instructions. It reminds me of grammar on the Lolcat pictures. Bricks Sets This is shown on the front side of each package. This one is really tough to wrap your head around. This is shown on the back side of each package. Some don’t really make any sense and some are so close to being fine. Build A Toy Helicopter These are the instructions on how to build the Build A Copter toy. Below is what is says since it is small in the picture. You can click the image to see the full picture as well. At assemble others that process inside. If feel difficult, [please] face home to look for the help. The sketch map possibility that this assemble the method is different from the actual product have a little bit. That one just makes my brain hurt to...

Dollar Plus Replacing Dollar Bazaar

There seems to be a new business opening up in the plaza where the Dollar Bazaar closed down. As luck would have it, the new business moving in is going to be another dollar store called Dollar Plus. I don’t know why the other dollar store closed, although I have a pretty good guess as to why, but isn’t it a little odd to open a similar business in the same spot the similar business failed? It’s going to be a small dollar store which means the prices are going to be higher than other places like Dollarama and Buck or Two so I guess you can’t even really call it a dollar store. It would be more of a discount store. Maybe the plus will refer to the extra money everything will cost. I actually didn’t look to see when it was supposed to open for business but I will definitely check it out once it does open to see if they have any interesting knockoffs, bootleg or any other funny or interesting toys. Maybe these guys will have better luck in that spot being a dollar store than the last store, but only time will tell with that...

Will Be Updating Soon

Hi All, Thanks for your patience in my extreme lack of updating. I have been in school and working for the past couple years and I just recently finished my latest round of schooling mid August. Then, I had written this back in August and posted it but I lost that post and some other stuff happened so I am now writing it again. I have plenty more toys to post about including the millionaire game(which is a chinese version of Monopoly), the Space Wars lightsaber and a couple more Spiderman entries. So stay tuned for some new toy...