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Toy-Ventures: Kenner Venus Space Probe Plus Birthday Contest!

Mantooth — Sun, 04 May 2025 20:39:19 +0000

Toy-Ventures returns with a look at the Six Million Dollar Man’s final Toy foe, the Kenner Venus Space Probe AKA “Death Probe.” It is one of the rarest bionic toys out there. Also, it’s our 19th Birthday, so we’re having a contest!
#toyventures #kenner #bionicman

Topics Discussed:
Kenner, Bionic Man, Six Million Dollar Man, Maskatron, Steve Austin, Oscar Goldman, Death Probe, Bigfoot, Plaidstallions, Venus Space Probe, Rare toys, Toy-Ventures,

CONTEST TIME:

It’s Plaid Stallions 19th Brthday, so I’m having a contest and giving away fantastic prizes. To enter, merely comment on this post below to this question:

Who is your favourite Bionic character?

One entry per person, I will draw the winners this Friday May 9th.

Grand Prize

The Grand Prize winner will receive a pack from the Plaid Stallions Shop, including a Tura Satana Action figure, A Set of wave 1 Lincoln Monsters, a copy of Knock-Offs, Toy-Ventures magazines and some vintage surprises from our vintage archives!

Runner Up Prizes

9 Runners up will receive a set of PlaidStallions Polyester Pals and a collector pin of your choice.

Good luck and thanks for 19 years of support!

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

Toy-Ventures is our magazine; we’re an independent publisher trying to bring back print toy magazines; if you would like to support us, please check out the latest issue: https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/shop

Toy-Ventures Issue 12- Stretch Monster

Click Here for past installments of 5 Awesome Things on eBay this week

5 Awesome Things on eBay this week

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The Super Collector Newsletter combines all the news from Mego Museum and Plaid Stallions and a lot of other fun stuff across the Interwebs. It’s got customs, new action figures, vintage finds and a lot of pop culture. Sign Up Here!

We co-produced this amazing action figure with White Elephant Toyz; it’s an 8″ Mego Style Officially Licensed Tura Satana figure with a beautiful box by Joeseph Linsner! Get yours while supplies last.

Knock Offs; Totally Unauthorized Action Figures the book

Knock-Offs Totally Unauthorized Action figures is from the demented mind that brought you “Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings” and features hundreds of hilarious, charming, copyright infringing toys. Get a signed copy in our shop!

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The official FB group for PlaidStallions, come for the conversation, stay for the chill vibe. Remember, you keep the glass

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Toy-Ventures: Six Million Dollar Man Bionic Action Club Kit

Mantooth — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 04:51:34 +0000

Hey everyone, you’re looking at a full-fledged Kenner Six Million Dollar Man Bionic Club Kit member. Let’s explore this epic set from 1976 that I totally forget to send away for as a kid. Also, Happy Holidays! #toyventures #sixmilliondollarman #kenner

The Mego Museum News has rebranded into the Super Collector Newsletter! Encompassing more from sites like PlaidStallions and more. Check it out even if you don’t collect Mego figures.

Our long running Pod Cast, Pod Stallions is now available on Spotify.

The PlaidStallions Polyester Pals have arrived and come in green and orange. Be the first kid in the sandbox with our Podcast mascots!

Do you miss toy collector magazines?

That’s why we created Toy-Ventures magazine, an old-school print publication dedicated to vintage toys from the 1960s to the 1990s. Each issue is packed with never before seen images and information written by some of the top collectors. We’ve got 7 issues and climbing; please check our page here or visit our store.

Our latest book is “Knock-Offs: Totally Unauthorized Action Figures” a love letter to cheeky copyright-infringing toys. You can get this new book via the PlaidStallions Shop, On Amazon (Affiliate Link) or eBay (eBay Link)

FACEBOOK GROUPS FROM PLAIDSTALLIONS

Pod Stallions is based on our podcast and is one of the most fun groups on Facebook. Toys, Comics, Movies, TV, it’s all up for grabs and remember folks, you keep the glass! If you like our show, then you have found your tribe.

Mego Knock Off Headquarters– The leading group discussing 70s Dime store knock-offs and bootleg action figures, we talk vintage toys and not others. We know the difference between Astro Apes and Action Apeman. It’s a fun group where we talk about Lincoln International, AHI, Mighty Gary, Tomland, Bogi, Demo Man, Mortoys, and other generic greats.
Bionic Action Club Kit

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Krofft Supershow Iron On Transfer Book

Mantooth — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000

This past Sunday the first thing I saw when I entered GTA Comic Con was my pal Dana wearing a Magic Mongo T Shirt, which is a sentence I never thought I’d ever type in my life.

Turns out Dana had found this amazing book of Krofft T Shirt transfers that I never knew existed but now, cannot live without. Thankfully, he shared his careful scans with us (give him a follow on twitter folks!)

Nice scans after the jump:

I’m not going to lie, I’m going to put every single one of these on a shirt and wear them in public.

Wonderful Wonder Bug!

I plan to wear this Bigfoot and Wildboy design when I walk my daughter down the aisle.

I’m incredibly smitten with this one too.

This is probably the only Michael Lembeck centric T Shirt in the universe….

I honestly cannot believe this exists!

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Krofft Week Wrap up

Mantooth — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 16:05:00 +0000

I got a lot of nice mail over Krofft week and many folks wanted to join in! Seeing as most of you have better collections than me, it made sense to showcase them here today.

Manuel has a great selection of Krofft borad games, I’ve never seen the Bugaloo’s one above.

A lot of folks noticed my lack of Pufnstuf merch this week, mea culpa?

I am going to assume this is all the same game with different shows plastered on them.

Sharry sent in this awesome Bigfoot and Wildboy puzzle I want to own.

Speaking of Sharry, she’s also got some cool encounters with former Krofft celebrities, here she is with Sigmund’s Johnny Whitaker.

And here she is with Far Out Space Nut’s Chuck McCann!

Thanks everybody for digging Krofft week, it shall return.

Pod Stallions is now available on YouTube! We’re slowly downloading the whole catalog to this playlist, check it out here.

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PodStallions 21: Bionic Man-ia

Mantooth — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:00:00 +0000

It was bound to happen, episode 21 talks of the Six Million Dollar Man television series which slow motion ran across our television screens (and our collective hearts) during the Polyester decade.

In this we discuss the series itself, the spin offs and the crazy/wonderful merchandise that made Christmas more memorable. We go through the fan club kit, discuss favourtie episodes and villains. Jason also gets to relay his experience working with the license some 30 years later and even

Of course, that being said we get off track into discussions about Mego, Star Wars, West World, Penny Dreadful, the career of John Saxon, Star Trek the Motion Picture , David Carradine and other things completely unrelated to our subject.

Episode 21 will have you looking your Bionic Eye.

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The Japanese Spider-Man figure by Popy we discussed.

The very first episode of Kamen Rider V3 sees his whole family murdered by a villain called Scissors Jaguar.

The Ark diecast ad we discuss on the show that features Jason’s beloved Baltan toy.

How Star Wars figures were sold in Japan.

The Captain Scarlet model kits Jason mention.

Denys Fisher Cyborg toys based on Henshin Cyborg.
A website devoted to the Shinsei UFO Commander toys.
The Kamen Rider Henshin suit that keeps Brian up at night.
Drool over the amazing Jumbo Machinders!

Plenty more content on the PodStallions Facebook page!

We’ll be adding Bionic Man collectible photos to Facebook.

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Cool Toys I Saw on the Weekend

Mantooth — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:06:00 +0000

This past Sunday, I was publicly outed as a toy collector twice. The first time was when Airport security X Ray’d my carry on baggage. The officer yelled “who’s this Captain Hero doll you got?” I told her it was Batman, her question of “and the little fella?” was met with “Robin!”. She burst out laughing and said” Oh, I should have known“. T

he second experience was when Canada customs searched my car with a fine tooth comb, no doubt looking for all the guns and cigarettes I obviously hid inside the dollies and dunkin donuts coffee. “What are you some kind of toy collector?” the security guard asked me with the disgust of a father whose son has just told him that instead of football, he’s going to take “LARPing” this semester.

Toy collecting is still, well, weird to the outside world. I guess that’s why I hop a (budget) flight every once in a while and hook up with pals to do toy shows. It’s a feeling of normalcy, the same kind that my friend gets when he drives 14 hours to put a block of cheese on his head and watch football. So, rather than show you pictures of my pasty face on “nerdcation”, here is a run down of some of the cool things I saw this weekend, because I know you’ll likely dig it:

This is the first thing that really caught my eye, a super duper sweet Remco Monsterizer. I don’t even collect the 9″ Monster dolls and I wanted this badly. From what I hear it went to a very good home.

My buddy Will mugs for the camera with what was probably the best pick up of the day, a boxed Kenner Stretch X Ray.

Stretch people are tough to find in good condition, either the box looks like junk or the doll has just gone and exploded (seriously this happens), it’s tough to find a nice figure in a nice box.

I didn’t pick up anything of merit at the show, unless you’re one of my kids, they made out like bandits. We headed back to my friend Charlie’s place (of the Charlie’s basement series) and I did what I always doo, take random pictures of things I think are cool.

Marvel comics Freezies! “Mmmmm Captain America tastes like patriotism”

A whole unbroke box of Creature Feature cards, I can’t tell you how much I loved these as a kid. Going to Charlie’s gives me inspiration to spend tons of money.

7-11 Slurpee cups, I love how obscure the characters get.

I mean really, Triton? I would not have known who that was as a kid, despite the fact that I loved FF.

Boxed Bionic Bigfoot, I doubt I’ve really looked at this since Christmas of 1978, it set off sparks in my head.

That’s it for now, hope you’ve enjoyed it, I’ll likely post the rest in a couple of weeks. Thanks for making me feel normal.

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Hey Bigfoot, got your ears on?

Mantooth — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:08:00 +0000

The Six Million Dollar Man “Tower of Power” playset gives you not only an Evel Kneivel esque vibe but also, 3 3/4″ versions of Steve Austin and Bigfoot that can interact with your Stars Wars guys and Pocket Heroes.Exactly why Steve Austin and Bigfoot are racing cars is anyone’s guess.

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