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The Choice is Yours!

Here you have it gents, 1979 presented you with either the one piece jumpsuit made from lightweight “Poplin” (wasn’t that a girls toy line from the eighties?) or the classic double knit polyester leisure suit and fellas, you can get it in lime green or sky blue! I don’t think I could make that important […]

Holy Licensing Royalties Batman!

With the recent addition of Star Trek and Planet of the Apes galleries to the Azrak Hamway section of the site, you had to know this would be coming. If there is one character that AHI did the most with, it would be the caped crusader, thanks to my pal Bill Frost I’ve got some […]

Super Sale

This ad for Towers (A Canadian chain of department stores) from December 15, 1980 has some pretty swell deals going for it. Highlights include Mego 12″ Superheroes for $4.95 each, Remco Utility Belts for $3.22 and the Hoth Ice Planet set for $10.50. This didn’t help me much as a kid, we lived far away […]

Hulk meets Ron

Ron sent in this amazing Hulk appearance picture yesterday and I’m absolutely floored. This is the same Hulk that appears in the Marvel Superheroes: Live and In Person! brouchure and as Ron pointed out (because I probably wouldn’t have noticed it) there are two MIB Mego 12″ Hulks behind him. As for time and period, […]

Evel Knievel : The Comic Book

A bravura addition to the site today, it’s the Ideal Toys Evel Knievel giveaway comic in it’s entirety. Even if it didn’t have the Marvel Comic Logo on it, the art style would give it away. Like many promotional comics, it manages to crowbar in every Evel Knievel toy while telling some sort of story.“The […]

Utini This!

Finally a bop bag that makes sense, I never understood trying to punch out the Hulk or Mr. Spock (what the hell did he ever do to anybody?) but I totally get wanting to hit a Jawa. They seems to be kind of annoying in the Star Wars universe, they dicker, sell shoddy merchandise, have […]

Pajamas you wear outside

I’m pretty sure these share the same print as my daughter’s pajamas or her bed sheets, I’m not sure which, I would never imagine making “real world” clothes from the pattern.

Official Planet of the Apes Merchandise

More additions to the Azrak Hamway toy galleriesthis time it’s all about the Planet of the Apes merchandise made by AHI. Thanks to Bill Frost for the great pictures! Sky Diving, rifle touting Galen sure didn’t make oodles of sense but it just didn’t matter when you were five. These super deformed Wind Up “Little […]

On the Prowl

They’re on a mission and ladies, failure is not an option. I’m still working on it but be sure to check out the MegoMuseum Blog for coverage of Megomeet later on today, I gots some fancy moving pictures and everything!

More Trading Cards

I’m unveiling two more PlaidStallions Trading Cards today at Megomeet so I thought I’d share, I opened the series with bad guys, both by Kenner, that was totally unintentional. So I decided the next two would be good guys and by coincidence, they’re both Mattel Toys. Pulsar seemed like a natural, this image is mind […]