Monthly Archives: January 2022

Emily the Strange postcards set

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It’s a new entry for the TVTA category archives as we present a selection of postcards from the 2002 collectable set for Emily the Strange.

Emily the Strange is a comic book character created by Rob Reger and features the delightfully dark and cynical young protaganist Emily, along with her four cats Sabbath, Miles, Nee Chee and Mystery.

As well as comic books, Emily the Strange appears as a clothing line, stationery, stickers, video games and fashion accessories. The featured postcards in this post were made as a set of 30, and TVTA has managed to get its inky fingers on 13 of them.

TVTA office cat Wooof highly approves today’s post! Bad kitty!

Wish You Were Here?

The reverse of the postcards are fun too, as they each have a slightly different design.

Here are two examples…

As always, thanks for looking 🙂

Balls! Time to get mad with TVTA!

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Madballs Mad Money Wacky Cash banks. Wonderland catalogue. 1987. France.

Greetings vintage mates! Remember the short but popular phase of Madballs toys? They also had their imitators like Uglyballs and Weird Balls. Back in the day I had a few Madballs, but I didn’t know the line expanded to include money savings banks and water squirters, as seen in the 1987 edition of Wonderland Catalogue.

Madballs Water Squirters. Wonderland catalogue. 1987. France.

TVTA is pleased to present some additional images from the 1987 Wonderland Catalogue, featuring excellent toys from the likes of Bravestarr, Barbie and Popples.

Enjoy the images.

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Comic shop 7″ Vinyl Record Haul!

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Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters theme. 1984. 45 tours West Germany pressing.

Happy New Year vintage mates! May love, joy, light and creativity be yours in 2022!

I spent the Christmas and New Year holiday working, with just two days off in between… luckily one of those days involved going into the nearest city for a spot of shopping, where I stumbled across a cool second-hand comic book store which also sold a selection of vinyl records and CDs. I plan to go back again later and grab some of the albums and CDs they had, but for now here are ten singles I purchased.

Format & Era: 7 inch 45 RPM vinyl. One picture disc. 1970s / 1980s. French and West Germany pressings.

Total Cost (Xe converter): 10 EUR / 11.37 USD / 8.40 GBP / 14 CAD / 15.64 AUD

Disc condition: All ten discs minty mint with two having mild surface scratches.

Picture Sleeve Condition: Fair to excellent condition.

My Best Picks: Seeing a Star Wars record always makes me happy to add it to my May The Vinyl Be With You collection! I was also pleased to see the novelty Zorro disc with its still-intact cut-out mask. The Elton John picture disc was a nice find too – Empty Garden was Elton’s 1982 tribute song to John Lennon. (edit: just checked out Thompson Twins Doctor! Doctor! on YT and man I forgot what an absolute 80s classic that is, and kind of sums up that era of music, especially the synths.)

Meco. La Guerre Des Etoiles (Star Wars). 1977. 45 tours French pressing.
Zorro theme. 1985. 45 tours French pressing.
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