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When KB Toys closed

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:00:26 +0000

When KB Toys closed is a relative question. While KB Toys went out of business in 2009, the store closest to you may have closed earlier than that. It was a sad end for a staple of my childhood, and

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My boys and the Hot Wheels Shoebox

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:00:32 +0000

I took the boys to Toys R Us the other night to do some Christmas shopping and buy a little (very little) something for them. I ended up finding 99 cents worth of something for me, too, in the diecast

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What it was like owning a Commodore in the 1980s

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 11:00:57 +0000

Since questions occasionally come up, and I remember well what it was like owning a Commodore in the 1980s in the United States, I’ll share my recollections of it. It was very different from computing today. It was still interesting,

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If you have wooden trains, you need Suretrack

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:41:30 +0000

I finally bought my boys a box of Suretrack, after thinking about it for a mere two years. Wait. Make that a long two years. A long two years of the most destructive forces known to humanity (two young boys)

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Buy wooden trains cheap

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:56:31 +0000

My son likes wooden trains. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since I like the bigger metal (and sometimes plastic) trains that run on O gauge track. The downside to Brio and Learning Curve (Thomas) trains is that sometimes they seem to cost nearly as much as Lionel, even though they're essentially carved blocks of wood.

There are several ways to save money on them, however.

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Lionel bankruptcy

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:22:01 +0000

It was all over the various news sites, but Lionel, the train maker, filed Chapter 11 yesterday.

A lot of the news stories got a lot of details wrong.

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