Although I never had them as a kid, the Shogun Warriors played a big part in my current dementia. My neighbor and then best pal Willie had Mazinga and I played with it every time I visited. Flash forward to 1983 when Willie was having a yard sale, I cruised by on my bmx and […]
“I suggest you buy that high quality Mattel toy little girl”I’m not sure to put this in the Super Hero Mall Appearance Gallery or Vintage Toy Stores Page because it’s a bit of both. If you look in the store you can see a display of Shogun Warriors and on the wall a display of […]
I’m going to devote a couple of times a month to obscure stuff in my video collection, mostly forgotten or short lived TV from the 70’s/80’s. The first show I chose to highlight is Cliffhangers. Cliffhangers was produced by Kenneth Johnson (V, The Incredible Hulk) and it’s concept was throwback to the movie serials of […]
By the late 1970’s, Remco was making a heroic amount of comic book merchandising including logical items like the CSF BatCopter and inflatable Hulk muscles to the truly head scratching stuff like the Hulk Helicopter and Spider-Man pistols. Check out the 1979 Remco Catalog.
Today’s site update is the 1979 Empire Toys Catalog. Empire didn’t make many trendsetting toys, mostly items to fit in with other companies existing lines and using a lot of licenses. Superman, Spider-man and the Incredible Hulk get a lot of face time here.
This one’s kind of personal to me, seeing as my mom seemed to do most of her Christmas shopping with her Eaton’s Card. Three years after they stopped making Wishbooks, Eaton’s department stores made this cool newspaper circular that featured the hot toys of the time. From Muppets to Micronauts, Star Wars to Green Machines, […]
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