Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Erik Svensson during the Spring 2018 semester. It can be read in its entirety here.
Scott McMaster remembers the toys he found as a child in a flea market dumpster. During a hot, dry day at Rogers flea market he found a few unrecognizable mutant-looking action figures peeking in. Every visit after, he’d be excited to check the dumpster, before eventual parental intervention broke that habit.