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Bionic Dress up

  This play suit hails from the UK and is most likely the product of Berwick, it’s almost like a larger version of the Kenner Steve Austin doll’s outfit. I’d have loved it to pieces as a kid, imagine combining it with the Funstuf Electrogenic arm?

Being bionic

Cowboy and army man are nice but being Steve Austin is the bomb. This set likely comes from Berwick, a UK company that specialised in role play items for kids and made fun stuff like a Tom Baker Doctor Who and Captain Britain costumes for kids.

1978 Berwick Toys Catalog

Most North Americans have probably never heard of UK based Berwick toys before but that should change because they created a lot of fun and inspired toys  for the English market. Berwick’s main items seem to be role play such as their line of play suits and games. 1978 saw the introduction of a toy called […]

1977 Berwick Toys Catalog

Most North Americans have probably never heard of UK based Berwick toys before but that should change because they created a lot of fun and inspired licensed items for the English market.Berwick’s main items seem to be role play such as their line of play suits and games, while all the American standards are there […]

Care for a Jelly Baby?

I was scanning the catalog from a UK company called Berwick when I came upon this neat-o Tom Baker Doctor Who play costume and I thought it deserved blog attention.Like a lot of 70’s Canadian kids, I was watching Doctor Who on TVO from the time I could talk. The first con I attended was […]