I recently found this wonderful Japanese toy trade magazine from the early 1970s, it’s full of amazing toys of Ultra-Man, Kamen Rider, Spectreman and of course, Godzilla. Please join me in exploring this with little to no commentary because I can’t read Japanese! Those GI Joe costumes of the Monster Attack Team […]
Aw yeah, back with a new Toy-Ventures and I’ve got an update and some packages to open. Check out my latest box from the UK filled with knock-off monster toys and warning, this episode ain’t for the kids. Join our FB group Mego Knock Off HQ https://www.facebook.com/groups/Megoknockoff/ Order Toy-Ventures issue 1 here: http://www.megomuseum.com/odeon/store/products/
Message from Space is Japan’s answer to Star Wars and boy is it weird but in a good way, I saw it as a kid and it left a mark. Not a lot of Message from Space merchandise hit our shores (the film kind of bombed here) but Entex imported some model kits from Japan […]
Kusan may not be as well known as Ben Cooper or Collegeville for Halloween and they certainly didn’t get the “A” licenses but they sure knew how to create some innovative and highly creative costumes. Not only is their assortment fun but their catalog is just a wonderfully well designed affair, every page just […]
One of the bigger explosions in the seventies was the rise of the homemade craft kit, which no doubt was brought about by the hippie movement of the 60’s.. Children across America were making macrame (guilty!), rug hooking (guilty!) and happily making Christmas tree Candles (My father must have worried about me). One of the […]
It may seem commonplace now but the mid-seventies TV series “Police Woman” was groundbreaking television. Angie Dickinson played “Pepper” Anderson, a no-nonsense lady cop and she became the first female lead of an action series (thankfully not the last, a bit of a Xena fan here). Horsman dolls sought to capitalize on this powerful new […]
The Lone Ranger toyline is easily one of the nicest action figure lines of the 1970s if not all time and Gabriel Toys had some real long-running success with it. This 1977 Catalog is the third year for the line and shows that it was still going strong, Gabriel put a lot of effort into […]
“V” was an early 80s TV sensation, the brainchild of Kenneth Johnson (responsible for the Six Million Dollar Man and the Incredible Hulk series) , V was a parable about facism wrapped in the amazing trappings of science fiction. The original mini-series was a ratings smash, so by the time a weekly series rolled around […]
The name Aladin and lunch pails are synonymous. For generations, many of us received these wonderful licensed metal containers to bring to school, back when kids could bring peanut butter sandwichs to school that is.. This 1980 Catalog features a great mix of popular characters, many like Barbie and Superman are still being put on […]
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