The original “Bromance!” Starsky and Hutch inspired many cool toys like this. I love the official logo on their holster as if two undercover cops would brand themselves.

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I’ve never seen these figures before, but they give me a “Palitoy Action Force” vibe (albeit a lower-quality one), and that card art looks a bit like it’s from a horror movie. It’s win/win!

LJN RoadStars Space:1999 Captain Zantor ship (sponsored link)—

I own one of these and it’s on my desk as I type this. It’s from a classic episode of Space:1999 and starred Christopher Lee as Captain Zantor. Seriously this is one of my favourites from my Space:1999 toys. We got a ton of Eagles but getting this cool Alien ship is a real highpoint for me.

Tonka Smokey Bear Playset (sponsored links)

Camping the Smokey Bear way, I assume he just micro-manages your entire family and invites himself to every meal. What are you going to do? Take it that’s what, you don’t want him to piss off a bear, especially one in pants that walks up right.

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This toy was obviously made to capitalize on the “Pet Rock” craze (yup, I had one, it died) of the 1970s. I don’t think this caught on, but now it’s an affordably priced vintage horror collectible.

Issue #13 of Toy-Ventures Magazine will feature the never-before-seen plans for the 1983 World’s Greatest Superheroes toy line and a cover featuring artwork specially commissioned for Mego’s catalogue, gloriously coloured by Robyn Adams, founder of the Mego Museum.

The Blood-A-Rama Shock Festival Pack

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McDonalds Hawaiian Shirt (affiliate link) —

Once in a lifetime, a garment passes you by that is so glorious that everything else looks like burlap. I’ve had this moment, and fashion is now meaningless to me.  I will never know the joy of having a Big Mac on my heart as this is not my size.

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You have to applaud Europe for adding female characters to the GI Joe Adventure team and giving them cool outfits. I was to shy to buy female characters as a kid and well, that’s a shame. I’ve changed my mind on the whole thing now.

Bootleg V Hat (affiliate link) —

I just want to buy everything with “V” on it; I feel like that will be the void left by not having enough V toys when it is hot.

Dick Tracy Flashlight (affiliate link) –

I post in a trifecta of love for Rack Toys, Dick Tracy and just general 70s weirdness. I want to own this so that at the next blackout, I can act all normal about using it. “What? I come prepared! Sorry?”

Japanese Superman Car model (affiliate Link) —

The one thing I love about Japanese model kits is that I’m always finding something new, and I hope that it never changes. I don’t know why Superman needs a car, but I so want to see this movie that the box is promising. It’s mid-century cool and I don’t care if it has a single word of dialogue. I want this Superman to beat up those Johnny Quest robots a whole bunch.

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Unlike Hasbro in the US, the GI Joe Action Team catalogue names our characters.

We’ve got Hard Rock, Tom Stone (who was also a Palitoy Action Man character) and John Steel. It all sounds like a 70s action movie I’d own on Blu-Ray.

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So nice to see the classic GI Joe set “Secret Mission to Spy Island” photographed so well here, with John Steel doubling as a bad guy!

Danger of the Depths was my favourite GI Joe set as a kid and well, it still is. I love it so much!

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The Canadian Mountie was popular worldwide, heck it even sold in Canada in the 1970s along with some Western outfits. I remember seeing them at Eaton’s on my sixth birthday, I wish I had bought them and kept them MIB, they’re worth a bundle!
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The GI Joe Action Team catalogue starts to get more into the military styling now. I believe many of these sets are taken from Action Man. While the US fell out of favour with military toys, Europe didn’t follow suit. 

Oh, those are the Western Outfits I saw as a kid, sorry I’m writing this as I go. 

The classic yellow helicopter was a standard for what iteration of GI Joe was marketed.

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