Zoom zoom zoom! Make my heart go boom boom! My supernova girl! We have finally reached the end of our TBT ABCs and there's nothing I could have chosen for Z other than the 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. Zenon, a girl of the 21st century, lives on a space … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Z is for “Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century”

When I was a kid, I watched Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and, like most red-blooded kids in America, I really wanted a Talkboy. Instead, I got a Yak Bak. Introduced in 1994, this was the less expensive alternative to the Talkboy and featured "Say" and "Play" buttons which are pretty self explanatory and … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Y is for Yak Bak

As we prepared for the dawn of the new millennium in the late 90s, we knew we had to kick it up a notch. We couldn't just have regular products, they had to be edgy! Cool! Hardcore! And most of all, extreme! In fact, our stuff was so awesome that we were too cool to … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: X is for X-Treme

Were you a shy, awkward kid in the 90s? Did you love to read? Did you love dogs? Were you me? Then you definitely loved Wishbone. This PBS Kids show ran from 1995-2001 and it focused on the adventures of a dog, named Wishbone, and his owner, a kid named Joe. Joe had the usual after … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: W is for “Wishbone”

I have been waiting for V to come along ever since I started this alphabet series because Voyage of the Rock Aliens is my favorite awful movie. I'm not sure why I love this movie as much as I do. Maybe it's the musical numbers, the non sequitur storylines, the giant squid, or maybe it's because … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: V is for “Voyage of the Rock Aliens”