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Fleetwood Toys for 1982

Fleetwood Toys was a Rack Toy manufacturer famous for nabbing the hottest licenses from TV and pop culture. For their 1982 catalog, CHiPS was the big in demand item for them as well as a new series “The Fall Guy”, many of the older staples such as Marvel Comic heroes, The Lone Ranger and cartoon favourites […]

LJN TV Superstars 1983

LJN toys had a long tradition of picking up cool cop shows like SWAT and The Rookies and that tradition carried on in the 1983 catalog where they hoped to continue for toy maker Mego (who ahd just filed for bankruptcy) left off by continuing the CHiPs line. Also offered this year was Magnum PI […]

Enter Hypnos

When creating a follow up to their hit Pulsar doll, Mattel went alien (a popular choice) with Hypnos whose powers involved a good old fashioned hypnotic wheel and a complete lack of pants. Evil and passive aggresive, now that’s an arch enemy.