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197 Children’s Palace Catalog- Mego-Big Jim-Barbie-Sesame Street

Planet of the Apes was a new hot ticket item for 70s wunderkind Mego who also produced the World’s Greatest Superheroes around the same time. Big Jim was Mattel’s answer to G.I. Joe and Dinah-Mite was Mego’s stab at Barbie, who was the original. Child Guidance was one of the bigger players in Sesame Street merchandise, […]

Le Dentiste

Found the French version of the Play-Doh Dr Drill N’ Fill (blandly named “Le Dentiste”) in a catalog and I’m still amazed this was a thing. How many kids didn’t just instantly get dark with this?