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Retro Playgrounds Part 2: Story Book Themes

Another return to the retro play ground this time our adventures are grounded to Earth but they are no less fantastic. Journey now to Story Book Themed Playgrounds. Castles, Giant Shoes and Spiders all draped with a little bit of 70’s funk. In case you missed our last entry in this series, it was Space […]

Holy Diecast Batman!

Another bit of vintage toy industry advertising. Growing up, Corgi Jrs were some of the coolest diecast around, not only because of their Superhero lines (I still have my Batmobile and Batcopter) but because they seemed to license almost every cool car from TV and movies including James Bond and Starsky and Hutch. Hopefully I’ll […]

Remco Star Trek Electric Phaser Gun

I recently got a Childworld Flyer from 1975 which included some killer art, until I find a scanner big enough I’ll highlight some of the better pieces here and on the Megomuseum Blog. Today’s image of the Remco Phaser is probably my favourite, I love that young Spock from what is probably the series pilot. […]

Care for a Jelly Baby?

I was scanning the catalog from a UK company called Berwick when I came upon this neat-o Tom Baker Doctor Who play costume and I thought it deserved blog attention.Like a lot of 70’s Canadian kids, I was watching Doctor Who on TVO from the time I could talk. The first con I attended was […]

1976 Remco Toys Catalog

Remco was a division of Azrak Hamway and while AHI made more of the dimestore “Impulse’ items, the Remco brand was used to promote toys of a higher quality. In 1976, the company attempted to infiltrate the action figure category (the McDonalds characters), Games (Magic Hat) along with their usual children’s role play items such […]

Some Sesame Street Toy Love

You can’t go wrong with a whole page of Sesame Street goodness like this 1978 Eatons Circular has. I still have my Fisher Price clubhouse and my kids use it every day. I do however find the Bert and Ernie Puppets on this page slightly disturbing. “Aaaaaaaggggghhhh!”

Go Disco!

Sadly, there’s just not enough time in our modern world to “Go Disco” as the fine print in this ad tells us to do. Maybe the world would be a happier place. If I saw people doing the hustle at my office, I’d be happier.