Fuzzy clocks!
Every once in a while you find something that pretty much was a great idea that should never have gone away, this is one of them.
Bat Math
I have known weakness and affection for the superhero school supplies created by Alco in the mid 1970s. So I was overjoyed to find this recently at a toy show, a Batman slide rule that I had no idea existed. Now my mind races if Batman was the only character in the line of slide rules, […]
The Virtue Brothers
Appearing this Saturday night at the rectory, an evening of laughter and total piousness. BYOC (Bring your own chair). Warning: the first three rows will get wet. Show begins at 6pm, ends at 11pm. No one will be admitted during the “Hosanna’s on first” routine.
Italian Shogun Warriors
Mattel marketed their successful “Shogun Warriors” toy line not only in North America but to Europe as well. What’s fun about all international toy lines in the 1970s were the things that were different or at times, additional. And the Italian Shogun Warriors line does not disappoint, while Godzilla is strangely absent, Goldrake a popular […]
Man of Spare Tire
This 1976 Toyfair appearance by “Superman” to promote his upcoming Duncan yo-yo features possibly the most disappointing man of steel I’ve ever seen. That guy looks like Ruben Kincaid, was Norman Fell dressed as Batman somewhere?
Gonzales and Jones
“Can these two hotshots get along long enough to solve mysteries every week? Find out Mondays this fall on ABC!”
AHI Mysteries #1 : Remote Control Enterprise
In doing research for “Rack Toys” (which is almost there, I swear) I’ve had the pleasure of pouring through many old AHI catalogs and I’ve noticed several items I believe to have never been made but with AHI you never know. Case in point this remote control battery operated Star Trek “U.S.S. Enterprise” that is featured […]
Pocket Power
Sadly all Mitch and Harry kept in them were inhalers and various ointments…
Nerd Therapy Session: X-Ray Blechs
X-Ray Blechs This one takes place during my family’s one memorable trip to Florida in 1977 (referenced already in this tale) and my first experience with feeling totally ripped off. It’s an “I’m still kicking myself” experience and it’s after the jump. So let me preface by saying that, I was the kid who religiously filled […]
Capturing the copter
Nick sent in this great vintage shot of him putting the stickers on his Action Man Capture Copter on Christmas morning 1978 and if I may add, doing a far better job than me of putting the stickers on. If you squint you can see a Mego/Palitoy Joker and Penguin right off the left. Nice […]
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