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Heroic Flash Lights

Superheroes and flash lights are a cocktail that Rack Toy manufacturers know how to make. Although I really don’t think the Duke Boys count as “Superheroes”…

Marvel Heroes Live In Person

Great line up of hereos here, the same I saw at Woolco as a kid. Think there was any boys excited about the Gnome? Check out the sweet deal on Mego dolls. Send me your mall appearance photos!

Major Matt Mason 1971 Catalog

Mattel’s man in space “Major Matt Mason” had an successful run during the 1960s space race until about 1969 when man actually walked on the moon and didn’t find an alien civilization. While this did sound the death knell for space toys in general, Mattel marketed the Major until the 1970s and made new items […]

Rom Com

I find it really funny that ROM’s tie in comic book would prove to be the more popular item and actually the thing folks remember more than the toy line. I doubt either gentlemen at this meeting thought that would be the case at the time.   For more ROM visit the 1979 Parker Brothers Electronics […]

1979 Tomland Toys Catalog

  Tomland Toys are kind of a mystery to many toy collectors, a member of the Marx family of companies, they were known for producing cheap but fun toys that sometimes kind of skirted copyright laws. They are perhaps most famous for their 1978 line of action figures called “Star Raiders” and it’s follow up […]

Smellin’ Classy

I was an English Leather user as a teen, which didn’t really do much but had I’d been a Hawaiian surf kinda guy I bet the ladies would have flocked to me.