This booklet is a handout given away at ToyFair 1990, raving about the new ToyBiz action figure line and other merch and touting the upcoming Captain America movie.! I remember this wave of Marvel figures being a big deal then. Collectors hadn’t seen Marvel action figures since Secret Wars a few years earlier and […]
Join us as we go to the Ajax Toy show and see some great vintage goodness, including what had to be the motherload of Vintage Fisher Price Adventure People toys. #fisherprice #toyventures #actionfigures 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 […]
5 Awesome Things on eBay this week- Spanish Horror, Bionic Art, Godzilla drops a single, Dark Adventure and Ultimate Ultra-Man. Links are sponsored, so if you click, I get a coin thrown in my guitar case, which is great because I can’t play the guitar. Amazing Spanish Sticker book (affiliate link)– I featured this incredible […]
Mego Announces Atlas Comics Line Plus Marvel Update! Mego Corporation is teaming up with Atlas Comics and Wal-Mart just in time for New York Comic Con! The Mego Museum interviewed Marty, Paul, and Bruce from Mego as they dropped their latest news, the Atlas Comics toy range. This Toy line is based on the characters […]
Major update on the Lincoln Monsters action figures! Our first wave is almost here, and this video showcases the final figures, reveals some bonus items and surprises, new merch and appearances and, of course, a little tease of what’s to come! Special thanks to Chris Franklin and Lisa Johnson for all their hard work. Contents: […]
This past weekend, I wrapped up my “Summer Tour” of conventions as a guest at Fan Expo Canada, where I hosted a panel called “Weird Superhero Merchandise” with my long-time friend Sam Noir (@heysamnoir). My prior cons (SDCC and MegoMeet/Zolocon) both had problematic beginnings (I have severe travel anxiety) and well, now I have […]
DORMEI IS THE BEST! (1983 Continuing exploring this 1983 Hong Kong Toy Trade publication, this week, we focus on the DorMei Factory, famous for making rubber dinosaurs, giant bugs, and Sharks that were often sold by marketed by American companies like Imperial Toys. I have to say that I had a lot of […]
The mystery of the Kung Fu Man has been solved! You probably have never heard of him, but “Action Jose: The Kung Fu Man” has been the subject of conjecture on action figure forums for decades. The discourse is due to the availability of outfits (comically labelled “Dresses”) for this happy Kung Fu Man but […]
Parker Brothers video games were tied with Activision for my favourite games in 1983. I had a lot of these and the ones I didn’t have? I wanted. My top five PB video games would be: 1) Tutankhamen (to be fair next to Shinobi, this may be my favourite game ever) 2) Amidar 3) […]
Capitano Patriato is a companion piece to the “Heroes Araignee” figure I featured a few months ago and one of my favourites. It’s a GI Joe Knock Off wearing an unused Mego 12″ Captain America outfit and a smattering of 12″ military bric-a-brac found in many of these types of things. Just like the Spider-Man […]
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