Lili Ledy was Mexico’s premiere toy manufacturer and because of trade restrictions, all toys they sold had to be manufactured in Mexico. So many of the popular US lines were licensed and then produced by Lili Ledy resulting in wonderful variations that toy collectors hunt for to this day. Alot of favourites like the Mego […]
I’ve never noticed these cool Batman and Lone Ranger Shaker Maker sets before, I wonder why they chose to make the characters with such gigantic heads?
I loved this toy as a kid, when I wasn’t playing the game I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the figures off the stand. They were like really muscular G.I. Joes complete with flocked hair.
Please, it’s so obvious they’re cops……
I like classic Battlestar Galactica more as an adult than I ever did as a kid, making me wonder why I ever had to have these figures so bad.I would have loved to have found Baltar, Lucifer and Gold Cyclon as a wee one but they’re still evading me into adulthood. In the early ninties, […]
We’ll leave the new Toyfair news to other sites (like AFI) and focus on news coverage of Toyfairs past, staring with 1974 next Sunday and ending with 1977 on the 20th.Be there for regular updates on the first appearances of classic toys, toy industry ads and a whole lot more. Our first annual Retro Toy […]
Today’s colouring book is a personal favourite of mine, Mego Action Jackson.For those not in the know, Action Jackson was Mego’s attempt to muscle into the boy’s market dominated by G.I. Joe with a new character and plenty of TV advertising.Action Jackson was a sportsman/adventurer/military man who kids just had to think of what they […]
I don’t do enough girl’s related things here, so I thought it be fun to highlight some of the things that were new for Barbie in Spring of 1973. Barbie got curlier, Ken started looking like Ron Burgundy and everybody got a just a little bit mod.
Seriously, in 1978 JC Penney was encouraging young woman to dress like Mork, it’s right in the ad copy! Attempts to revive this concept in 1990 with the “Get all Urkeled up!” campaign failed miserably thankfully…….
The one on the left gives me motion sickness….
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