Knock-Offs – A Tribute to Cheap Plastic Heroes and the Real Power of Pretending

You weren’t He-Man. Or G.I. Joe. Or a Transformer. But you didn’t have to be.

This story remembers the quiet magic of knockoff toys—those brittle, off-brand figures that filled drugstore aisles and ignited epic adventures in the minds of kids who knew how to pretend harder.

A tribute to cheap plastic dreams, overlooked heroes, and the weird places where imagination actually begins.

For listeners who ever bought “Power Man,” or believed in something that fell apart by Sunday.