Vintage Toy Hunt and Haul. Toy-Ventures returns with a recap of nearly 3 weeks of hunting flea markets, Antique malls and toy shops looking for treasure. I saw a lot of cool stuff I’d like to share. Along the way, I picked up an eclectic haul of Mego and Knock-Off figures along with some oddball […]
It’s hard to believe, but just a short time ago we had the wacky idea to record the pop culture-centric phone chats we regularly had, in the hopes that there’d be a few other people out there that would find them amusing. Seems our instincts were right, cuz we shut our eyes, hit the gas, […]
5 Awesome Things on eBay this week Miller High Life Tuxedo Jacket (eBay Link)– I may start a “Go Fund Me” for this. You see, it’s my dream to be invited to a charity fundraiser, like the kind that a Batman villain would rob wearing this, a top hat and cane. I will then proceed […]
The 1969 Remco Star Trek Catalog is a deceptive title. We chose to focus on the weird “label slap” Star Trek toys made by Remco but you’ll also notice other properties such as “Land of the Giants”, “Lost in Space” and “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” as well. Remco sold licensed kites right […]
Banana Splits Christmas Ornaments (eBay Link)– OMG these are so amazing, it’s weird to find licensed Christmas items like this from the early 70s. It’s pretty commonplace now but the Splits ornaments are truly pioneers! Weird Baby Spider-Man figure from Brazil (eBay Link)– My friend Courtney sent me this weird thing and mein […]
Toy-Ventures returns with a tribute to one of my favourite Science Fiction shows of all time, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s UFO. This cool-looking series only ran a single season but there is plenty of awesome merchandise from all over the world. We look at Eidai Grip, Dinky toys, Custom Mego, 16 mm films, Imai model […]
As Toy-Ventures Issue 6 rolls out to people worldwide, it has come to our attention that there was a glitch on one page: our look at the Dimensions for Children Richie Rich toy line. Jonathan Sternfeld (from the excellent website the Harvey Mercheum that I recommend you all visit) wrote this terrific piece. While the […]
Space Giants Merchandising Kit (eBay Link)–Â This is an amazing piece of toy and tv history, a merchandising kit for a show called Space Giants or in Japan “Ambassador Magma”. It’s an interesting show and there was a weird battle for rights sometime in the 1990s. Anyway, I really like Space Giants and would love […]
Another glorious look at one of the decade’s greatest successes and possibly one of the biggest hits in toy history. When Ideal toys licensed the likeness of Robert “Evel” Knievel known for his wild (and painful) stunts and combined it with one of the grooviest toy concepts known, it was gold! During these years, the […]
I’ve been quite open about the fact that the Mattel Sunshine Family dolls kind of freaked me out as a kid, it’s the blank eyes, sedate expression and well, even their name sounds like a Grindhouse horror movie. The Sunshine Family was devised in the mid-seventies by Mattel and seems to be grown-up hippies now […]
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