5 Awesome Things on eBay this week-
Thor Lords figure by Creata (eBay Link) – Ok, I’ve been collecting toys since 1985 but I honestly have never seen or heard of this toy line before. The name, the concept, the whole thing is pretty weird. I need to do some googlin’
Gordy Toys Knock-Off Fisher Price Play People– Wow! My friend Courtney sent me this and it’s pretty brazen. It’s a carbon copy of the Fisher-Price Play people but made oh so much shoddier. This is another “thing I’ve never seen before”, I’m grateful that there is so much undiscovered Rack Toy country out there.
Knock Off Star Wars Canteen (eBay Link)– This is a pretty brazen one, usually, the toy looks like R2 d2 and they use the words “Space Wars” and such. This one just goes for it and puts “Star Wars” right on the header card. Wow, that’s enough to make George Lucas spit out his diet coke!
Star Wars Placemats (eBay Link)– From the unlicensed to the licensed. I love stuff from the “Wild West” days of Star Wars merchandise and this is so terrific. That Darth Vader image haunts me, I think it was lifted from a comic book ad? Help me out peeps!
At the Earth’s Core Super 8 Movie (eBay Link)- You can never go wrong with a Doug McClure movie from the 70s and this to me is the finest.
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I see the thought process here–Star Wars cantina, Star Wars canteen. What, no canned tuna?
This concept came to some low-level marketing exec Mos Eisley…er, most easily.
The canteen looks like Ideal’s Robo Force… Maxx Steel!
The Darth Vader head reminds me of the ones on the “Darth Vadar Lives” buttons.
You can never go wrong with beasts and bad dudes.
The Darth head looks like the art from the Star Wars head candy dispensers.