The Bug Men of Insecta are a wonderfully creepy line of action figures knocking off Masters of the Universe and Sectaurs with a splash of horror. The new gallery has photos, catalog scans and even a video about this weird toy line. More Updates all this week. Cheers! bRaIn Issue 4 of […]
In the late seventies, Kenner did some experimenting and released a line of action figures based on the movie “Butch and Sundance: The Early Years” which was a commercial failure. Kenner had done such a nice job on the toys that they attempted to repackage the line as “The Real West” in 1980. The Real […]
Toy-Ventures Issue 4 is available now: Ebay: https://ebay.us/XSS1X7 MM Store: http://www.megomuseum.com/odeon/store/products/ Amazon:https://amzn.to/3d9Q0AS FACEBOOK GROUPS FROM PLAIDSTALLIONS Pod Stallions is one of the most fun groups on Facebook. Mego Knock Off Headquarters– The leading group discussing 70s dimestore goodness, we talk vintage toys, not other
Crime Busters come out of the United Kingdom and seem to from the late 70s or early 1980s. They one of many Knock Off series that make use of discarded or left-over suits from Ideal’s Captain Action. This kind of item popped up until the mid-1980s. The figures themselves appear to be lower quality knock-offs […]
A fun one today as I bring the site into a more browser-friendly place, I am happy to showcase the new Nomura Star Blazers Gallery to the PlaidStallions Action Figure Archive. More Updates all this week. Cheers! bRaIn Issue 4 of Toy-Ventures magazine ships this June FACEBOOK GROUPS FROM PLAIDSTALLIONS Pod Stallions is […]
Hey everyone, I’m excited to announce that I’ve finally gotten the swing of this WordPress thing, thanks to some very good friends’ advice (thank you, Robyn and Aaron). So, I’m able to bring the Action Figure Archive and information into a more browser-friendly format and obviously add things to them from my recent Toy-Ventures publications. […]
This week we look at the fun and interesting toy lines put out to catch some sales heat from the popular Mego Superheroes line of toys from Kooky Aliens to Biblical Heroes to some just plain blatant copyright infringement, it’s a fun ride. Get Toy-Ventures Magazine here: PlaidStallions Toy-Ventures Issue One (September 2020) Tell us […]
EBAY LINK Black Hole Signal Flashers from Shreddies Cereal- These are a Canadian cereal premium from Shreddies or as I called it as a kid, wall paper paste. Shreddies did a Mego action figure promo that year and folks, I ate a ton of it, thank God for sugar. EBAY LINK REMCO POWERIZED MICKEY MOUSE […]
The newspaper flyer is still a great way to keep abreast of the hot holiday toys during any given year, too bad few folks decided to keep them after reading. This 1978 K Mart Circular (from the Chicago area) is a wonderful little window into that years potential toy purchases, many familiar faces can be […]
1977 saw Gabriel Toys try an interesting experiment in action figures. Instead of licensing a hollywood movie, they sought to captilize on the making of a movie by creating a set based on then legendary stuntman Hal Needham. Gabriel devoted six pages of the 1977 catalog to this line and it […]
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