The Big Toronto Toy show was this past weekend and while I went home empty handed (well, save for the Barbie my daughter bought)I really dug this giant Space Lego display they had going on. Space Lego completely rules and I’ve always envied it’s collectors (including my own wife) I just love those happy smiling […]
I love these little black and white vignettes taken from the floor of the NYC toy fair, while almost every square inch of toy fair is now covered by the “nerd media” (That ain’t a dig BTW, I’m a card carrying member) it’s hard to find good photos from the 70s. My dad was actually […]
It pretty much had to happen, Card #20 is the Six Million Dollar Man and for good reason. My own mother will tell me how she was almost trampled to death at a Zellers store trying to get me this guy for Christmas 1975, (she succeeded) One of the problems of working on this blog […]
Continuing our series of flashbacks thanks to my friend Lou’s vintage negatives we have a shot of what is the Bugs Bunny portion of the show (click on it for a larger look), a whole stage full of Looney Toons characters. It looks odd now but must have been something to see then.Next week, we […]
By 1976, Ideal Toys was coasting a very powerful wave of having one of the top selling toys in the country. Evel Knievel was a household name and despite announcing his retirement twice in 1975, returned to jump buses and he attempted to jump a tank full of sharks (inspired by Jaws, another Ideal toys […]
I found this ad in a Canadian Toy Trade Magazine so I’m not sure if the toy itself ever got made. If it did, I must own it as it is full of win. I’ve mentioned it before but I love the Black Hole, maybe even more than Star Wars. Probably because it’s weirder and […]
“Would either of you ladies be interested in seeing our enormous genetalia?“ Another score for the Superfine brothers!
Card #19 is Big Jim’s “greatest challenge” Dr. Steel. I still remember seeing the commercial for the first time as a kid, I was in my parents room watching Gene Roddenberry’s “Planet Earth” on the black and white one Saturday afternoon when it aired. Big Jim had an enemy? He has a silver hand and […]
There is absolutely no need for men’s underwear to be this funky, it’s plenty funky enough all by it’s lonesome. Those guys could be wearing kevlar vests and those undershirts would still be visible.
I’m too full of chocolate and coffee to do anything like Colouring Book Theatre today but I thought I’d share this fun shot of me and Mego Spider-Man (who does not have a great view) on Easter morning, I’m guessing in 1976. I am assuming that there was some sort if law that children had […]
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