If any toy reminds me of Christmas, it’s Kenner’s Six Million Dollar Man range. I would get one new figure a year for four years and sincerely looked forward to it. Limited Edition Gift Sets Available Now! Rather than crowdfund the next issue of the magazine, I thought I’d whip up these gift sets […]
Christmas of 1979 was ALL ABOUT those Micronaut Aliens for me, it remains one of my happiest Christmas gets. Did anything on this page make it under the tree for you? PlaidStallions Toy-Ventures Issue 2 is now available for pre-order. http://www.megomuseum.com/odeon/store/products/ Limited Edition Gift Sets Available Now! Rather than crowdfund the next issue of […]
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 […]
I was forward these amazing shots from the offices of Bang Zoom Design who have employed toy artist extraordinary Johnathan Queen to create another fantastic Kenner toy tribute mural (Johnathan painted this one from downtown Cincinnati). Their choice of classic toy tribute, none other than my white whale, Kenner Stretch Monster! Mark my words, when […]
Toy-Ventures concludes “Monster Month” with a look at one of the coolest Monster toy lines of the 1980s, the Remco Monsters! We talk about its origins, both waves and it’s foreign releasing. Check out the Monsterizer Commericial here: Join our Facebook Group “Mego KOHQ” here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Megoknockoff Get issue 1 of Toy-Ventures Magazine here: […]
In the “amazing surprises in my mailbox” category comes this awesome find from Scott, who recently found this “Sword of Izzur” from the fabled PAC Toys “Lords of Light” toyline, which was a reimagining of the “Micronauts” toys after Mego went bankrupt. We’ve done a Toy-Ventures episode on this range: The thing about […]
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 […]
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 […]
So this weekend on twitter, a fella named Jason (follow him on Twitter) reached out and blew my mind with this shot of him with Membros and Repto from the Mego Microanuts line. This shot was taken at Macy’s in 1979 and I had no idea this was a thing. The Micronaut Aliens were a […]
So it’s 1979 and your parents tell you to circle just one of these and you’ll get it, no strings attached. What set is it? For me it’s no contest, […]
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