One of the biggest splashes in the toy industry is when game (and nerf) giant Parker Brothers decided to make an action figure. Not just any action figure but an electronic space hero with bells and whistles not seen before. Rom was truly a toy ahead of his time and while he didn’t prove to […]
While I never really enjoyed “bagatelle” games as a kid, I must admit to being slightly addicted as an adult. Mostly to the crazy graphics on these things, AHI utilized this format for a number of licenses including Star Trek and Space:1999. Trek was deemed so popular that it came in two flavours, Spock (seen […]
I was pretty easily scared kid, how the sight of early Big Bird didn’t send me running to my room I’ll never know….
I can only imagine this is what Brick Mantooth’s bed looks like, I’ve never seen it.
Secret agents? Space capsules? These kids live in a far more exciting neighbourhood than me. The highlight of my walkie talkie spying career was catching my buddy’s sister in some guys van in ’79, it’s something I simply cannot unsee, I’m sure he felt 10,000 times worse.
Following the blitz of Star Wars, a lot of previously unknown companies began cashing in on what the toy industry called the “Sci Fi craze” of the late 70s. These toys were often lower priced generic toys that likely offered better margin for the toy retailer. Kingsford’s line of Star Force toys is one of […]
I love a toy mystery but these rack toys based on pulp character The Shadow were driving me crazy, first, they looked almost exactly like Secondly, why The Shadow? It wasn’t like the character had a big presence in the mid seventies, even his DC title had been cancelled by this point. Fortunately, I met a kindly soul who […]
“For that Chevy Chase look every time” I really shouldn’t be making fun.
The Ideal “In a Minute’ cake maker concept confuses me, mostly because there’s no baking involved in the baking. So many questions. So why do you need an oven at all, why wasn’t this set simply a bowl, a cake pan and an egg timer? What the heck was the “cake” made of? Was it […]
Vigilante protectors of the sacred rubber ducky.
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