Description: Dino-Riders is a 1988 action figure toy line based around the battle between the heroic Valorians and the evil Rulon Alliance on prehistoric Earth. The toy line saw four series of figures released between 1988 and 1990, each of which included mini comic books with each figure and set. An animated cartoon series was developed that only ran for 14 episodes, along with a few VHS releases. A full size traditional comic book was launched in 1989, but was poorly received.
Description: Founded in 1930, Dinoco Oil, formerly known as Dinoco Gasoline, is an international gas and oil company of fossil fuel owned by Tex Dinoco, and one of America's most popular and consumed products. The company has covered lots of events, including 2006's Dinoco 400 for the Piston Cup. The company is also Strip "The King" Weathers', Cal Weathers', and Cruz Ramirez's sponsor in the Piston Cup Racing Series.
Description: Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), was founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957 in Maynard, Massachusetts. Operating under the trade name Digital, they were a major player in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. Although the company produced many product lines over their history, they are best known for their work in the minicomputer market starting in the mid-1960s. The company produced a series of machines known as the PDP line, with the PDP-8 and PDP-11 being among the most successful minis in history. Their success was only surpassed by another DEC product, the late-1970s VAX "supermini" systems that were designed to replace the PDP-11.
Description: Founded in Sunnyvale, California during the early '80s, Cyberdyne Systems' products were primarily computer processors, but also made small components for larger manufacturers in the tech industry. A T-800 Terminator, which was sent from the future and designed to kill humans, was crushed in one of the hydraulic presses in Cyberdyne's factory. From the Terminator's wreckage, the company was able to procure future tech by way of it's CPU chip and nearly complete arm segment. The advanced technology from these elements were reverse engineered, rapidly accelerating Cyberdyne Systems into the future, suddenly making them a major player in cutting-edge tech.
Description: Described as "the most phantasmagorical musical entertainment in the history of everything," Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 British musical-fantasy film about down-on-his-luck inventor, Caractacus Potts. He turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land. Whether you're into classic movies, old cars, or campy musicals, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has something for you!
Description: Chico and the Man is an American sitcom series that aired for four seasons from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978. It starred Jack Albertson as Ed Brown (the Man), the cantankerous owner of a run-down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and Freddie Prinze (until Prinze's suicide in the third season) as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic young Chicano who comes in looking for a job. It was the first U.S. television series set in a Mexican-American neighborhood. The show's synopsis went something like this: A hard-drinking Anglo widower, Ed stubbornly refuses to fit in with the changing East L.A. neighborhood and has alienated most of the people who live around him, but after hiring Chico, things start to turn around for Ed's garage.
Description: Willy's Wonderland was a once-successful family entertainment center in the remote desert town of Hayesville, Nevada. Following the '80s era Showbiz model of greasy pizza, arcade games, and animatronic characters who perform musical numbers at regular intervals, Willy's felt plenty familiar to locals and tourists alike. Of course, the animatronic characters at Willy's Wonderland had a secret... original owner, Jerry Robert Willis, a notorious serial killer, and his psychotic partners, who often murdered unsuspecting families for their own twisted enjoyment, performed a satanic ritual to transfer their souls into the animatronic characters giving Willy's something the other places definitely didn't have!
Description: The annual Artichoke Festival began in 1959 as a harvest festival to celebrate California’s official state vegetable, the iconic artichoke. Castroville, California, which bills itself as the "Artichoke Center of the World," sees artichoke fans and foodies from around the world make their way to Monterey County each year, and the festival has grown so large that it has been moved out of the town, into a nearby convention center.
Description: BurgerTime, originally released as Hamburger in Japan, is a 1982 arcade game developed by Data East, initially for its DECO Cassette System. The player is chef Peter Pepper, who must walk over hamburger ingredients located across a maze of platforms while avoiding pursuing characters, including Mr. Hot Dog, Mr. Pickle, and Mr. Egg. The player can score extra points by either crushing them under a falling ingredient, or by dropping an ingredient while they are standing on it. In the latter case, the ingredient falls two extra levels for every enemy caught on it. Crushed or dropped enemies return to the maze after a short time. The player could stun the bad guys with their pepper shaker, and a life is lost whenever Peter touches them.
Description: The Boston Red Stockings formed as the charter member of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players in 1871, and several name changes later, The Boston Braves were born in 1912. The Boston franchise played at South End Grounds from 1871 to 1914 and at Braves Field from 1915 to 1952. The franchise would go on to move from Boston to Milwaukee, and then again to Atlanta, making it the oldest continuous professional baseball franchise in the country.
Description: Guitar Shop is the sixth studio album by virtuoso guitarist Jeff Beck, released in October 1989 after a four-year break from making music. This was Beck's first album to showcase his fingerstyle play, leaving his more familiar plectrum playing style. Guitar Shop reached No. 49 on the U.S. charts and won Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1990, this being Beck's second album to win that award. In a further move from his previous jazz fusion stylings, Beck adopts a more straightforward instrumental rock approach on this album, save for two tracks ("Guitar Shop" and "Day in the House") on which quirky spoken vocals are included.
Description: Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films (and later, videos) that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming block on U.S. television. The themes covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics. The series' original run lasted from 1973 to 1984 and it was later revived from 1993 to 1996. Additional episodes were produced in 2009 for direct-to-video release. Schoolhouse Rock! debuted as a series in January 1973 with Multiplication Rock, a collection of animated shorts adapting the multiplication tables to songs. During the early '70s, Schoolhouse Rock was one of several short-form animated educational shorts that aired.
Description: The Xenomorph XX121, better known just as Xenomorph (which literally translates to "strange form" from Greek ξενος, xenos=strange and morphe=form) or the "Alien", is an extraterrestrial hive-based endoparasitoid species with a multi-staged life cycle, possibly originating from the planet Xenomorph Prime. One of the deadliest of all known alien species, these creatures require a host organism in order to reproduce. The appearance of the Xenomorph can vary depending on the host in which the embryo is implanted. The Human phenotype is generally around 7–9 feet (~ 2.13 - 2.74 meters) in height and roughly 181.43 to 272.15 kilograms (400-600 pounds) in weight, with a long, muscular tail and large, curved, oblong head.
Description: The Greatest American Hero is an American comedy-drama superhero television series that aired for three seasons from 1981 to 1983 on ABC, yet remains strangely memorable for some reason. This design features the iconic icon on the superhero's chest along with a nicely seasoned vintage effect.
Description: Stay Puft Marshmallows are a fictional food in the Ghostbusters franchise. Their mascot is the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Sometime during Ray Stantz's youth, he roasted Stay Puft Marshmallows at Camp Waconda and it remained his fondest childhood memory. In 1984, when Dana Barrett first encountered Zuul, her abandoned groceries included a bag of Stay Pufts, and sometime later, a sign advertising them was seen on the side of a building near the firehouse when the storage facility exploded. Needless to say, when it was time to think of the most harmless thing possible, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was top of mind for Ray and, well, we all know how that turned out.
Description: Pre's Trail Run was a 10k race held in Eugene, Oregon, and named after medal-winning runner, Steve Prefontaine. Pre, as he was known to most people, helped spearhead the design and development of the parcourse along the Willamette River in Eugene, but sadly never got to run it himself as he was tragically killed in a car accident just a couple of month's before it opened on Labor Day in 1975. The initial race was well attended for a first-time event that was put together in a fairly short time, but the 1976 event was a much bigger affair that operated like a world-class running event and really put Pre's Trail Run on the map of events for competitive runners around the world.
Description: Poovey Farms is Pam Poovey's family dairy farm in rural Brown County Wisconsin where they raised Holstein cattle and produced milk, cheese, and other dairy products. This design includes an authentic Poovey Farms Racing logo with plenty of wear and tear to give it plenty of street cred.
Description: The Overlook Hotel is the centerpiece of one of the greatest horror tales of all time, The Shining, by Stephen King. Located in Estes Park, Colorado, high in the Rocky Mountains, it's real life counterpart is where King went to get away from it all, only to be inspired by this remote and magnificent location and his own situation, leading him to pen The Shining. This version of the Overlook Hotel tee features a little subtle aging, but is otherwise near new in appearance.
Description: Before there was a mouse, there was a rabbit, and his name was Oswald. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was created in 1927 by Ub Iwerks for WDC. This familiar-looking rabbit was a precursor to the anthropomorphic rodent that would become known worldwide, but had the distributor of Oswald's earliest cartoons not surreptitiously claimed the rights to the character, guests at the most magical place on earth would be welcomed by a rabbit and not a mouse...
Description: North Wilkesboro Speedway is a short oval racetrack located on Route 421, 80 miles north of Charlotte. The speedway opened its doors on May 18, 1947, as a dirt track with the first official event promoted as a modified race, including heat races and a feature event. The original dirt oval was paved in 1957 and continued to operate until the track's closure in 1996.
Description: Thin Lizzy's Nightlife is an underrated gem of a record, while also a complete anomaly within their catalog. Subdued, soulful, and smooth in ways that Thin Lizzy never were before and rarely were afterwards. Of course, this hard rock band still included plenty of moments of the style of primal rock 'n' roll they were known for, though still managed to make it more enigmatic, sincere, and philosophically complex than their other material and certainly more so than their contemporaries at the time.
Description: The Milwaukee Braves were unique among professional sports franchises. When the team moved from Boston to Milwaukee in 1953, the Braves became the first major league ball club to change cities in half a century. The shift initiated a series of westward migrations by teams and provided the impetus for league expansion. Milwaukee fans inherited an array of heroes from handsome young slugger Eddie Mathews, who led the majors in home runs to high-kicking southpaw, Warren Spahn, on his way to the Hall of Fame. They had powerful Joe Adcock, feisty Johnny Logan, speedy Billy Bruton, Wisconsin farm boy Andy Pafko, and then next spring, they added legend-in-the-making, Henry Aaron.
Description: More American Graffiti is set over the course of four New Year's Eve holidays beginning in 1964 and tells four separate stories, one of which is that of John Milner, the head honcho of the racing scene in the first film, as his drag racing career advances. John's story follows him and the Milner Racing Team crew through a series of personal and professional ups and downs, culminating in a fatal finale. This Milner Racing Team design is a replica based on a screen used tee, ensuring it's accurate to those seen in the film.
Description: Formed in 1987 under the moniker Katzenjammer, Kyuss would go on to be the coolest band during their lifetime. With scorching-hot riffs, serpentine grooves, and no rush to get anywhere faster than absolutely necessary, they truly encapsulated the vastness of the California desert from which they hailed, which makes their unique cult following all the easier to understand.
Description: "Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless in a world of criminals who operate above the law." That was the narration that opened the 1982 TV drama, Knight Rider. While that gives a pretty good general overview, a more detailed synopsis goes something like this: Reborn, so to speak, after getting shot in the face, Knight dedicates his life to fighting for justice. Billionaire Wilton Knight hires Michael to be the lead field agent in his Knight Foundation's public justice organization, part of which includes the development of KITT, a superpowered, intelligent souped-up Pontiac Trans-Am.
Description: In Big Trouble in Little China, Jack Burton is the owner/operator of Jack Burton Trucking. His truck is named Pork-Chop Express, as he primarily hauls pigs to the slaughterhouse. It's an '85 Freightliner FLC-120 with the iconic 'mudflap girl' on the front grill, along with the words 'Haulin' Ass.'
Description: During the mid-seventies, this fuzzy little monster started flipping everyone off and nobody really knows why. He started on decals, then t-shirts, and even as graffiti, but nobody really knows the true history of this little guy and how he came to be. He was usually standing on his own and often accompanies by the phrase 'this ones for you, baby,' but was always holding his middle finger up high with his signature IDGAF expression.
Description: Ghoulardi was a fictional character created and portrayed by voice announcer, actor and disc jockey Ernie Anderson as the horror host of Shock Theater at WJW TV in Cleveland, Ohio, from January 13, 1963, through December 16, 1966. Shock Theater featured B-grade science fiction and horror films and aired in a Friday late-night time slot.At his show's peak, Ghoulardi scored 70 percent of Cleveland's late-night audience, outperforming national programming. Fans sent up to 1,000 pieces of mail a day and the Cleveland Police Department even attributed a 35 percent decline in juvenile crime on Friday nights as kids were all home to catch Ghoulardi on Shock Theater.
Description: This Pennsylvania-based performance legend started out as a maker of motor mounts for engine swaps and floor-shifters back in 1958, but they steadily expanded their product line through the 1960s. Hurst wheels, Line/Loc, and Swifter Shifter gloves were developed among other items, and later, Airheart Brakes and the Schiefer Manufacturing Company, which made clutches and other driveline components, were acquired. Hurst Performance floor-shifters were skillfully engineered, reliable and stirring in appearance, plus, their marketing was in tune with the times, catering to the flourishing muscle car movement of the 1960s.
