HG Toys was a company known for applying licenses to their staple of role playing items, puzzles and playsets. In 1980, they rocked the 25th century with Buck Rogers, explored the seedy streets of Vega$ and smashed a few cities with Godzilla. Shoot they even made Fantasy Island merchandise, what’s not to love? Check out the […]
‘Whitman Buck Rogers Color and Activity Book”As much as I love Buck Rogers, I really have to say this is book is a pretty big Fail.Right from the cover you can kind of see that it’s rendered in a hasty style, as if who ever did the art really had to be somewhere and really […]
I love Buck Rogers, I watched it faithfully as a kid every week and as an adult I’ve worn out my boxed set. It’s the perfect 70s entertainment for me, cheese, sci fi and sexy all sloppily tucked into an ill fitting spandex jumpsuit.As a kid however, the closest I ever got to the toys […]
Headed over to the Toronto Comic Con yesterday with my son, purpose was to take in the chaos, do some shopping and of course, meet Buck Rogers himself, Gil Gerard. Well, I failed on the shopping aspect but once I got through the several hundred washed up wrestlers ( the WWE needs a job retraining […]
Few things say “Back to School” more than a shiny new lunch box, especially one from Aladin who made really striking items over the decades. This catalog is the best of what the fall of 1980 had to offer, classic monsters, oodles of Superheroes, Good Robots, Bad Robots, Muppets and Men from the 25th Century! […]
Biddy-biddy-biddy, I’m so there. Stay Tuned all day for more flash backs from Toy Fair 1979
This week’s catalog is from Fleetwood Toys, a Rack Toy manufacturer that focused entirely it seems on the hottest licenses from TV and pop culture. in 1980, Fleetwood was concentrating on late seventies icons such as CHiPs, Buck Rogers and Vega$ but not forgetting such evergreen properties such as the Marvel Comics Superheroes and Mighty […]
Last week in the comments section, Blogger Agent Morris mentioned he had the same catalog as me and a pre Buck Buck Rogers Erin Grey was easily found. The search took me about four minutes to find TV’s Wilma Deering in her early twenties, looking as fabulous as ever. I had a crush on her […]
It’s not a household name but chances are you had some HG Toys gorwing up, their lines were simple but popular items such as puzzles and gun sets all utilizing the hottest tv stars of the day. From Godzilla to Barbapapa, from Vega$ to Alien, HG Toys had a really interesting mix of cool and […]
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