The action figure selection is pretty awesome this year with Mattel’s Big Jim sharing the spotlight with the Mego Planet of the Apes and Star Trek figures. I had some of this stuff as a kid and the stuff I didn’t have? I wanted it.

On the other side of the spread, we have the amazing GI Joe Adventure team, my first action figure love, being overshadowed by the “It girl” of `75, Kenner’s Col. Steve Austin from the Six Million Dollar Man line. I was a lucky kid who got one that Christmas, and I enjoyed it for years.

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Issue #13 of Toy-Ventures Magazine will feature the never-before-seen plans for the 1983 World’s Greatest Superheroes toy line and a cover featuring artwork specially commissioned for Mego’s catalogue, gloriously coloured by Robyn Adams, founder of the Mego Museum.

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]]> https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/wishbook-simpsons-1975-mego-big-jim-gi-joe/feed/ 0 25534 https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/marx-johnny-west-gabriel-lone-ranger-frontier-fun/ https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/marx-johnny-west-gabriel-lone-ranger-frontier-fun/#respond Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:44:03 +0000 https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/?p=24982 Marx Johnny West & Gabriel Lone Ranger- Frontier Fun From the Shoprite 1974 Catalog, the 70s was the last great decade for Western Toys. The Marx Johnny West line was still going strong, these figures are Canadian variations in Mod colours. Debuting that year was the Gabriel Lone Ranger line, one of the finest of […]

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Marx Johnny West & Gabriel Lone Ranger- Frontier Fun

From the Shoprite 1974 Catalog, the 70s was the last great decade for Western Toys. The Marx Johnny West line was still going strong, these figures are Canadian variations in Mod colours. Debuting that year was the Gabriel Lone Ranger line, one of the finest of the era.

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]]> https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/marx-johnny-west-gabriel-lone-ranger-frontier-fun/feed/ 0 24982 https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/muppets-snoopy-and-mcdonalds-1980-shoprite-catalog/ https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/muppets-snoopy-and-mcdonalds-1980-shoprite-catalog/#respond Tue, 22 Apr 2025 02:19:59 +0000 https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/?p=24973   This page of plush makes me smile, I was to old for such things when the catalogue came out but these were all childhood friends. I never wanted the Ronald McDonald doll, but that pocket Grimace was sooo tempting.   #muppets #sesamestreet #snoopy   Issue #13 of Toy-Ventures Magazine will feature the never-before-seen plans […]

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This page of plush makes me smile, I was to old for such things when the catalogue came out but these were all childhood friends. I never wanted the Ronald McDonald doll, but that pocket Grimace was sooo tempting.

 

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]]> https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/muppets-snoopy-and-mcdonalds-1980-shoprite-catalog/feed/ 0 24973 https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/fisher-price-adventure-people-1980-shoprite-catalogue/ https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/fisher-price-adventure-people-1980-shoprite-catalogue/#respond Thu, 17 Apr 2025 01:17:03 +0000 https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/?p=24955   I recently was reunited with the 1980 ShopRite catalogue. I burned holes in all of these pages that Christmas season, and some, like this incredible spread of Fisher Price Adventure People, still strike a chord.   My latest video is about the Adventure People: #fisherprice #AdventurePeople #80stoys #shoprite #plaidstallions   Issue #13 of Toy-Ventures […]

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Fisher Price Adventure People 1980 – Shoprite

I recently was reunited with the 1980 ShopRite catalogue. I burned holes in all of these pages that Christmas season, and some, like this incredible spread of Fisher Price Adventure People, still strike a chord.

My latest video is about the Adventure People:

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Issue #13 of Toy-Ventures Magazine will feature the never-before-seen plans for the 1983 World’s Greatest Superheroes toy line and a cover featuring artwork specially commissioned for Mego’s catalogue, gloriously coloured by Robyn Adams, founder of the Mego Museum.

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As shown in our recent Toy-Ventures Video, the 1983 Consumer’s Distributing Toy Catalog is from an era where the Canadian retailer was truly one of the biggest retailers of toys in the country, not only through their stores but by creating “Toy City” which were superstores in major Canadian cities.

The following pages are a total time capsule to a wonderful era of toys, enjoy.

Consumers Distributing 1983 Toy Flyer

Cabbage Patch Kids were the hot toy of 1983, oh the carnage….

GI Joe’s second year was particularly awesome and sort of my swan song of toys at the time.

I personally love the Arco Other World toys. Sure, it’s a MOTU KO, but it’s so different and weird. The Machine Man racers would eventually become Go-Bots…

Return of the Jedi was the big hit of the summer but Consumers was having trouble selling Kenner’s Micro Playsets from the years earlier. Such an underrated toy line. I love it. The Mego Dukes of Hazzard were still available despite Mego going bankrupt, that’s because Canada’s Grand Toys made a special trip to Hong Kong to restart Lion Rock because of this Consumers listing and other purchase orders.

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I had completely forgotten that Team America was sold in Canada, I did read (and enjoy at the time) the Marvel Comic book, which hasn’t aged super good.

My friends sister at the time was Strawberry Shortcake obsessed, I know everyone’s names to this day.

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I really dig Grover swiping his pose from Burt Reynolds like that.

The Fisher Price circus train sure had some long legs.

I laid this very site out on a Texas Instruments computer.

I remember wanting those Coleco mini arcade games but dang, they were pricey!

There is a Mattel Wayne Gretsky doll at EVERY antique mall in Canada, they’re right next to the Bob and Doug McKenzie record and the “Blue Jays World Series” newspapers. It’s Canadian law put into place by Stephen Harper.

My 7th grade teacher made us play IQ 2000 like almost every day. She was a terrible teacher.

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Issue #13 of Toy-Ventures Magazine will feature the never-before-seen plans for the 1983 World’s Greatest Superheroes toy line and a cover featuring artwork specially commissioned for Mego’s catalogue, gloriously coloured by Robyn Adams, founder of the Mego Museum.

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I realized I haven’t documented completing the glow-in-the-dark trinity of Space Sword, Space Shield, and Space Trooper Helmet by Toy Box Inc.

Meant to cash in on Star Wars, these wonderful toys were somehow better than what Kenner offered in terms of lightsabers.

I had the shield and sword as a kid (via @canadiantire), and they were the best, but I never got that helmet. My pal @peterjoek gifted me one this fall, and well, it’s about time I showed them off!

Here is the Video I did on these wonderful toys!

The Lincoln Monsters are here!

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Planet of the Apes Model Kits Catalog

The Addar Planet of the Apes model kits arrived in 1973, and wow, did they kick off a licensing explosion.

AMT Star Trek Model Kits

These kits were EVERYWHERE when I was a kid. AMT Star Trek seemed to dominate every toy store, including local variety stores and cigar stores. I probably had them all at one point, completely ruined by a lack of skill and patience. I got there eventually, but wow, that road was paved with many swears.

Star Trek Fan Catalog 1974 featuring buttons and books

When I finally got to Cons as a teen in the 1980s, buttons were a big deal. I doubt many were officially licensed, but we didn’t seem too bothered by it. I’ll take a “Star Trek Lives” bumper sticker.

1974 Catalog Order Form-  – STREK

I’m totally filling this out, I hope my mum will write me a cheque for $11.

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Fisher Price Adventure People 1976