LJN’s Mr Action went by many names around the world (seriously, this line sold everywhere there were kids it seems) but it’s largely forgotten it seems. Most commonly mistake many of the parts for GI Joe these days, which is ironic because lines like this actually were seriously hurting Hasbro’s bottom line in the early […]
We decided to put the show up a little early for the seventh anniversary of the site. Jason and Brain talk about their memories of the first time they saw Star Wars anything. The toys, the comics, the magazines, the school yard rumors, the knock offs, it’s all there. We even get waaaay off tangent and […]
In 1979, Kenner toys launched just a dandy line of action figures on a Western, “Butch and Sundance the early days” was a prequel to 1969’s mega hit “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” but without Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Instead we were left with Tom Berenger and William Katt (who would be a […]
I thought I’d dedicate the Friday feature space to this odd little line of early 1980s obscurity. Not because I collect them but because they kind of fascinate me. When Toys R Us first hit my town in 1984, the Bug Men came with it. Their cards looked warn already and it was sort of […]
I gave up writing a weekly list for Topless Robot, in order to finish writing Rack Toys. I will admit to missing it from time to time, so I’m going to keep fresh by churning out the odd one for PlaidStallions. One of the things children of the 1970s were witness to was the birth […]
Life is strange, if you had asked me 30 days ago if there was going to be a Lincoln Monster update in the Halloween blog posts this year, I’d have answered no. Truth was, there wasn’t much by the way of things to update. Then all hell broke loose and I’ve got more than I […]
Toyfair 1974: Deviled ham pitchman Mason Reese does a little moonlighting to support the new line of pirate action figures. The Matchbox Fighting Furies were one of the nicest made action figure lines of the 1970’s.
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