As a fan of the short-lived television series “Street Hawk,” I was excited to discover some unproduced toy items hidden in the pages of this 1985 Palitoy/Parker Brothers catalogue. The series launched that year in the US and would be cancelled after 13 episodes. Kenner, we already had a toy hit with Knight […]
I got this catalogue just after Christmas, and I wanted to close the year with the single reason I had to have it. This glorious page of plastic joy. I never saw this page as a kid, but wow, that’s how the inside of my brain looked when I was five. This page, with it’s […]
Toy-Ventures visits the second annual “May the North be With You” vintage toy show. My prequel-loving son accompanies me as we take in some breathtakingly rare Star Wars toys and other goodies. Who got the better haul? You decide. Hey next week I’m going to be at Power-Con in the Mego Meet […]
1978 Kenner Star Wars Catalog If you were a kid under ten in the late seventies, you witnessed one of the toy industry’s biggest game changers, the Kenner Star Wars line. Even though it was late for Christmas of ’77, Kenner came out with both barrels blazing the following year, utilizing their master toy license […]
It’s bittersweet to see the Kenner Super Powers in this catalogue, two years previous they got a whole page complete with vehicles and playsets. Now they’re regulated to a small corner and wouldn’t return in 1987. I have a real fondness for this line, I bought many of them but I totally did not […]
Toy-Ventures: Kenner Bionic Bigfoot Toy-Ventures looks at the Kenner Big Foot, an action figure made for a very special recurring guest star on the iconic television program, the Six Million Dollar Man. We explore the history of Kenner Bionic Bigfoot, a figure of one of the show’s most popular recurring nemesis that barely […]
1978 Kenner SSP Catalog SSP stood for “Super Sonic Power” and it was one of Kenner’s flagship brands in the 1970s, mostly because of the popularity of “Smash-Up Derby” a toy that combined boys love of cars with their desire to wreck stuff (Genius). 1978 saw a lot of goodness with the introduction of Monsters, […]
Hello and welcome to Consumer’s Distributing week on PlaidStallions. I recently picked up a grail catalogue in the form of the 1980/81 Consumer’s Distributing catalogue. For those not in the know, Consumer’s was a popular Canadian chain of catalogue showroom shops that ran from the 1950s until about 1995. At their peak, they had over […]
I found these Kenner Toys Order Form scrounging around in my dad’s files (he was good at keeping things) and it needed to be shared. These are from 1975 and 1977 AKA my earliest years of playing with action figures. It’s just so fun to find out how much our classic toys cost. Oh and […]
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 […]
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