A Mickey Mouse utility belt would have made a certain amount of sense in relation to comic books, where Mickey was having adventures when not puttering around the suburbs. Disney comics were bigger in other countries — were the utility belt and/or other Remco Disney marketed abroad?

As an almost-boomer I associated Remco with science kits in canisters labeled “The Thinking Boy’s Toy”; also with fancier stuff like the Jonny Reb cannon, the drive-in movie (which I desperately wanted until I saw an actual photo), and the Showboat (which I did have. Decades later was very distressed to see the Showboat classified as a girl’s toy). Also associated Remco with gold foil labels pressed onto the plastic — a sign of class. Then toys fell off my radar for a while.

I could never quite believe it was the same Remco making those McDonaldland figures. Those were not aimed at the Thinking Boy.