The PopCulteer
December 1, 2023
It took the entire month of November, but we have finally arrived at The Master List of every single thing I recommended in The 2023 PopCult Gift Guide.
I made changes to The Gift Guide again this year. Two years ago I started combining every day’s recommendations into a single post. This forced me to be more concise in my descriptions, which was a good thing. Instead of writing 4,000 words every day about three gift ideas, I managed to cover five gift ideas a day in about 1,500 words. This year, due to outside committments, I decided to cut back further. My original plan was to just have three gift ideas a day, in a single post, and wrap it all up the day before Thanksgiving. Then I’d do retro picks and retailer spotlights on the weekends.
This was working great, but after wrapping up my magazine deadlines in the middle of the month, I decided to keep going past Thanksgiving, and just have one Gift Guide post every day of the month. By the last week I was back up to including five gifts at a time, just to try to get everything in.
Because of the nature of how I did the gift guide this year, the links will take you to the post that includes the items listed, but you may have to scroll down a bit to find the exact item you’re looking for. I’ll leave out the Flashback Picks and group all the retailers at the bottom of the list. I’m also not going to bother listing the Turkey Day gag gifts.
With that said, let’s dive into the Master List…
TOYS
The HESS Holiday Truck: 2023 Police Truck & Cruiser
The Member’s Mark Elite Adventure Corps 4-Action Figure Pack
AUTO WORLD RALLYE 4+4 SLOT RACE SET HO SCALE
Menards Rocket Launching Tower Model Railroad Structure
Merchant’s Row VII — Kit Walthers Cornerstone
Drive ‘n Dine Woodland Scenics
Bachmann Trains – Santa Fe Flyer Ready To Run Electric Train Set
UNION PACIFIC ROCKET BOOSTER TRAIN
The Great Garloo Action Figure
BOARD GAMES
Disney Space Mountain, All Systems Go
BOOKS
GI Joe: The Military Years 1964-1968: The Unauthorized Action Figure and Accessories Checklist
DIRECT CONVERSATIONS: Talks with Fellow DC Comics Bronze Age Creators
Kahiki Scrapbook, The: Relics of Ohio’s Lost Tiki Palace
Warner Bros.: 100 Years of Storytelling
Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from Television’s Original Genius
KEITH EMERSON (SIGNATURE EDITION)
Jack & Jill: Fury Hill-by Frank Conniff
Lunch Box Memories-by Jason Young
The Starchildren Saga (Tales from the HoloDrome;The StarHaven Tales: Beyond the HoloDrome)
by Thomas Wheeler
Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans by Kenneth Womack
The Beatles Please Please Me to With The Beatles (Beatles Album Series) by Bruce Spizer
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present (Paperback) by Paul McCartney
Polynesian Pulp: The Tiki Art Of Robert Jiménez
GI Joe: Action Soldier: Celebrating 60 Years of America’s Movable Fighting Man!
Berserker!: An Autobiography by Adrian Edmondson
COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS
MIGHTY MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 1
THE COMPLETE DON NEWTON CHARLTON PHANTOM
The Collected Works of Mike Vosburg
MUSIC
Various Artists-Produced By Tony Visconti
The Beatles-Red Album (1962-1965) & Blue Album (1966-1970)
Pink Floyd-The Dark Side Of The Moon 50th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set
Theatre of the Absurd presents C’est La Vie-Madness
John Wetton: An Extraordinary Life
That Grand Old Feeling-William Matheny
DRINKWARE
Munktiki Import – Whittle Exotica Mug
Tiki Farm RONGO-RONGO TIKI MUG
Trader Vic’s NOTU MUG (BLACK AND RED)
VIDEO
Captain Scarlet & The Mysterons The Complete Series
RETAILERS-BRICK AND MORTAR
Nitro Antique Mall: The Kanawha Valley’s Pop Culture Emporium
Appalachian Books. A Moveable Feast Bookstore
RETAILERS-ONLINE
House of Tabu/ Tabu Recordings
Nightmare1984: The Art of Adam Weaver
The Zerostreet Threadless Shop
HepCatz Design by Brenda Pinnell
The World Famous Empty Glass Cafe
And that is the end of that. Thank you for reading The 2023 PopCult Gift Guide. I hope you found it helpful and/or entertaining. I have to say, I think it turned out pretty good, considering that I was so frazzled that the first batch of graphics I posted in the blog had the year “2024” instead of “2023.”
That is today’s PopCulteer. Check PopCult for fresh content every day, including several reliable regular features…and have a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays or whatever floats your boat.
Next week, The AIR will run a different marathon each day shining the spotlight on one of regular programs. This will kick off Saturday with MIRRORBALL until Midnight, and then Sunday will see 24 hours of The Swing Shift. Starting Monday I’ll have a post every day to let you know what you can expect on our sister internet radio station.
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