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Toy-Ventures Issue 4 Now Available for Pre-Order

Mantooth — Sun, 23 May 2021 00:56:52 +0000

Issue four will ship in mid-June of 2021 and is jam-packed with content.

The Munster Mash– We’re visiting 1313 Mocking Bird Lane when Corey Le Chat gives us a tour of one of the greatest collections of Munster merchandise ever assembled. Many of these items have never been featured in print before.

Apemen down under– William has written a great piece about this Australian line of Planet of the Apes knock off figures called “The Action Apemen”

The Expandable ones- David Lockwood explores the stretchable superheroes and villains made by Funstuff in the early 1980s.

Push Button Action- We talk about the weird world of dime-store action heroes created by Durham from Yung Kung Fu to Glump the Caveman, it’s a comprehensive guide.

Super Amicis– A fun pictorial guide to this cheeky line of figures based on the Mego World’s Greatest Superheroes.

The Toy-Ventures Guide to the Mego Mad Monsters– This issue we take an exhaustive look at this wonderful glow-in-the-dark figure line by Mego with input and anecdotes by Mego’s own Marty Abrams.

Pre-Order Bonus- If you order through our store, your issue will come with a limited edition Mad Monsters souvenir pennant. Supplies are limited, this will not be available through any other offer.

Thank you for all the support this past year, it’s been wonderful and positive and we’re just getting started with Toy-Ventures magazine.

PRE-ORDER HERE

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Hasbro Paint by Number sets

Mantooth — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:46:00 +0000

i honestly don’t know what would have won if i had a choice at six, probably the Super Friends but I think Star Trek had a decent shot.

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El Hombre Lobo paperback

Mantooth — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:16:00 +0000

As a life long fan of the films of Paul Naschy and especially his character Waldemar Daninsky AKA El Hombre Lobo.

Other than movie posters, I never thought there was any merchandise of any sortm until I spied this in a shop.

Somebody actually novelised “The Werewolf Vs The Vampire Woman” and I owe them many, many hugs! I haven’t read this paperback but I certainly will.

Not terribly thrilled with calling him Waldo….

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A Tribute to Bad 70’s Fashion

Mantooth — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:32:00 +0000

Who doesn’t love a clip show? After more than a year and a half of blogging about polyester, it seemed fitting to put together a “Greatest Hits” packageof some of the bigger fashion attrocities of the 1970’s. Thanks of course, to the good catalogs at Aldens, JC Penney, Sears and Wards.So check out the best of Fashion Mockery for the finest in ugly shirts, dress alikes, Furhley wear and of course, Mantooth.

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Kenner Stretch X Ray Commercial

Mantooth — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:52:00 +0000

This commercial is predictably from the DVD I made last month and is possibly one of my favourites. I don’t remember Stretch X Ray as a kid but as an adult collector, I must have had five of these. I couldn’t pass him up! Stretch Monster on the other hand, is the one that always got away…..
One more day until the World’s Greatest Mego Convention.

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Cylons that don’t look good in a dress

Mantooth — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:56:00 +0000

Although Battlestar Galactica is a hit show nowadays, the series that had the better toys was the original. So take a journey back to when Cylons were men in suits, and Starbuk was a dude to the cool toys that got made and the cooler ones that didn’t.

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Quark: All the Emporers Quasi Norms Part 1

Mantooth — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 12:26:00 +0000

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GI Joe VS the Spider

Mantooth — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:31:00 +0000

Skydive to Danger is to me the coolest GI Joe set ever and not just because I had it as a kid. The scenario of Joe parachuting into the Web of a cool giant Spider to me, has the perfect elements of childhood, a dose of reality and a big heaping hand of kid logic.My own son is almost magnetically drawn to it, he’s tried to swipe the spider and web off my shelf on more than one occasion, now that’s a powerful toy. Anybody got a reissue set they want to sell me?

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A look at a Smelly Old Lingerie Catalog…

Mantooth — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:59:00 +0000

Oooh La! La! A weird treat today, a disco era Lingerie Catalog complete with odd outfits, weird hair and maybe just a bit of Le Sexy? A few of my favourites below:

“The high council demands you disrobe now!” Nice shoulders!

“The Mavis”, just in case you wondered what your Aunt who drinks a box of wine everyday looked like in sumpin’ skimpy. Somebody get her a chesterfield.

“Where are you going? Why are you laughing?”

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The Dolemite Jr. Collection

Mantooth — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:45:00 +0000

“What are you looking at? You rat soup-eatin’ motha-F***a!”

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