By 1980, Stretch Armstrong’s popularity had begun to decline, his roster of characters had dwindled down to two Gone were favorites such as Stretch Monster and Stretch Octopus, it was now just Stretch and his alien enemy X-Ray. Boxed Stretch X Ray courtesy of Bill Frost More Kenner Goodness:
Larami was one of the better known Rack Toy companies in the seventies and early eighties. The company had a merchandising system known as “Code A Matic” and considering they were a subsidery of “Tasty Baking Corporation” most likely had their own merchandising representatives as well. 1980 saw their toy division offering their staple of […]
It’s refreshing to see this many monster toys on a Christmas catalog page, usually they get kind of dismissed or marginalized as being “seasonal”. The only thing missing is some slime. While I’ve blogged about Gre-Gory being the one that got away for me as a kid and my obsession with the Remco Monsters is […]
Halloween 1980 and that’s yours truly rocking the Ben Cooper Boba Fett outfit. I really liked this suit for a couple of reasons, the first being that you could see through the mask but people couldn’t see in real well, the other being that the picture on the front of the smock totally looked like […]
After a year of accumulating other people’s encounters with Spider-Man and Darth Vader, it never dawned upon me that I had anything to add until I found this. This is probably around 1980 and at the Metro Zoo, who used to use 70s super celebrity Bigfoot quite extensively in their marketing (you can still see […]
What’s a more appropriate way to end a week devoted to back to school than by paying tribute to those items that often ended up on our binders, Puffy Stickers! Imperial Toy was one of the biggest producer of these back in the day, even when they didn’t have the license they would come awfully […]
In the late seventies, Kenner released a line of action figures based on the Western film “Butch and Sundance : The early Years” which was a commercial failure. Kenner had done such a nice job on the toys that they attempted to repackage the line as “The Real West” in 1980. The Real West would […]
It’s hard to imagine with all the decapitated looking McFarlane monstrosities currently at Toys R Us but it was downright crazy of Kenner to make toys based on the R Rated Ridely Scott film “Alien’. It’s obvious that Kenner, high off the fumes from the model glue that is the Star Wars franchise decided to […]
Chris sent in the wicked shot of him and Chewbacca at the Albany Mall in GA. in the summer of 1980, cool Honda shirt Chris.Wanna See More? Check out our Mall Appearance Gallery and the Marvel Comics: Live and In Person Gallery.Got a mall appearance photo from the 70’s/80’s to Share? Drop me a line!
1980 was a growing year for this offshoot of Azrak Hamway as they expanded their line of Super Hero action figures, reintroduced the Universal Monsters to 80’s kids, while continuing to offer old favorites like Batman utility belts and KISS makeup. Check out the 1980 Remco Catalog here.RRRRRRRRRRRR!Other Remco Catalog links:1976 Remco Catalog1979 Remco Catalog
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