This is the first of a few pirate crews I’m putting together. I gifted this one to my godson; I will likely do the same with another; but I’ll be keeping two for my little one. With all of the pirate crews, the overall idea is the same, but the crew members are unique. Pirates…
Tag: capitalism
America’s Team
What’s more American than Cowboys? What’s more American than celebrating diversity? … Maybe football and capitalism and mind-numbing entertainment… I’m joking, of course. I put this group of cowboys together because they did not fit in any of the other western crews I assembled. Then I decided to have fun with it and add a…
Wifey with the Win
One of the toys that I bought my nephew for this fifth birthday (in addition to the toys that I already mentioned) was another Green Lantern whose real name is Simon Baz. I had hoped to use this toy to teach him a little about Islam and Islamophobia. Unable to contain my excitement about this…
How to Get Black Action Figures
Back in the 1980s, Yla Eason saw the problem with the absence of Black toys and she did the work of creating Olmec Toys so that our kids could at least have some toy that looked like them. A few decades later, you can get the impression that toy companies have taken great strides and…