Tomland Toys are kind of a mystery to many toy collectors, a member of the Marx family of companies, they were known for producing cheap but fun toys that sometimes kind of skirted copyright laws. They are perhaps most famous for their 1978 line of action figures called “Star Raiders” and it’s follow up […]
Parker Brothers was already a household name for board games and in the 1970s, like a lot of other toy manufactureres, they were attempting to the name in the growing electronic game market. Competition was fierce but Parker in 1979 had some memorable concepts like Merlin and Wild fire Pinball. While ROM: Spaceknight was a […]
Here’s a cool shot from 1979 featuring the webbed wall crawler at the opening of a “Toys By Rizzi” store in Downers Grove, IL. Spider-Man was joined by Bigfoot (not sure if he was the bionic one) but sadly there are no photos of him. If you look closely you can see a whole aisle […]
Today’s mall appearance comes from the UK where Spider-Man was used on a bus tour to promote the Palitoy Superheroes line (which were repackaged Mego Superheroes). I don’t know about you but this is more Spider-Man than I ever hoped to see….. Send me your mall appearance photos!
UK kids weren’t immune to the awesome, corrupting influence of George Lucas and got Star Wars Mania every bit as bad as we did here in North America. There were of course, subtle differences as evidenced in this 1979 toy catalog by Palitoy, UK distributor for the Kenner line. Among them you’ll notice several exclusives […]
The influence of Star Wars is incredibly obvious in any Christmas Catalog from 1978 to about 1982. Space Toys were pretty much in the minority prior to 1978, then all of a sudden cool, crazy stuff like these helmets and pistols started popping up. “Space Swords” were my favourite, awesome “nudge, nudge, don’t sue us!” […]
Awww yeah, we wrap up our month of Halloween with our third dip into the “Collegeville barrel” with this grooving catalog from 1979.’79 saw some great new additions to Collegeville as they scored some major licenses most important at the time would be KISS, the rock band that wore Halloween costumes 24/7. For the space […]
What a tough choice kids had in 1979, smooth as glass spy James Bond or those “Whacky” Village People? In 1979 it was an honest dilemma, now those pictures look like different sections of an adult video store. “I’d get the biker son, he looks tough, that Roger Moore is a cissy!”Please tell me that […]
I thought I’d seen everything BSG related but I honestly have never seen that Calculator before. The radio is one of the more “on model” cylon pieces I’ve ever seen, a lot of this stuff just didn’t really look right.
Well, it’s one of those days where your teacher is too hung over to do anything so he just wheels in the projector. In my case, I’m sick but it works just as well. I thought it would be fine time to showcase these commercials from our DVD showcasing a character near and dear to […]
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