Wheeljack’s Lab – Vintage Toy Blog

Follow this blog for the new, the unusual, the rare and cool Generation 1 G1 Transformers toys. Reviews, news, toy resources, galleries, unboxing, opinions and personal reflections on vintage toys.

Dune Retrospective

Posted on March 1, 2025March 1, 2025 by Chris Ingledue
1980s Toys, Uncategorized, comic books, Dune, Movies, novels, television series, toys, Video Games

Dive into this epic interstellar world with us through our Retrospective of Dune. This science fiction franchise features the character, Paul Atreides, as he fights for the planet Arrakis to help the future of his family and friends. The story began in 1965 with a novel by Frank Herbert. The planet Arrakis contains the only […]

Zorro Retrospective

Posted on January 7, 2025January 7, 2025 by Chris Ingledue
1980s Toys, 2000s Toys, Uncategorized, action figures, comic books, Movies, novels, television series, toys, Video Games, Zorro

Join us in a Retrospective of Zorro. The franchise begins in 1919 when Johnston McCulley created this incredible superhero western character. Zorro first appeared in All-Story Weekly in August of 1919. This masked, swordsman vigilante in the Pueblo of Los Angeles in Alta California appears in many stories across practically every form of media for […]

V Visitors (V) Retrospective

Posted on January 4, 2025January 4, 2025 by Chris Ingledue
1980s Toys, Uncategorized, action figures, comic books, novels, The 1980s, toys, V, video game, Visitors

Beginning in 1983, a crew of reptilian humanoids began their awesome franchise through four different television series, novels, comic books, a toy, and computer game. Kenneth Johnson, an American writer, producer, and director, first began this loved world of V Visitors. This Sci-Fi world of lizard-like aliens, the Visitors, appear on earth in search of […]