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Toy-Ventures: Mego Meet @ ZoloCon Recap!

Mantooth — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:28:52 +0000

Toy-Ventures: Mego Meet @ ZoloCon Recap!

Toy-Ventures returns to cover our biggest event of the year, Mego Meet, held at Zolo Con in Warminster, PA. This was a true blast of vintage, modern, and Custom Mego action figures. I hope you’ll check out this incredible feast of vintage toys!

Mike Zolotorow, Krista Schmidt and the entire Zolo-Con Family.
Jason Scheiermeyer of White Elephant Toyz
Paul “Dr. Mego” Clarke of Mego Corporation.
Scott Brown -Cool Retro Pop
Kevin Fiore, Scott Fiore and the entire Fiore clan.
Frank Wojo of Absolutely Retro
Todd @Tiny Plastic Men
Paul Wasson Lasermego.com
John Coe Creations
Mark Huckabone from Heroes Online
Brent Sorensen of Brentzdollz
Vin Carnabuci (and family) from Vin’s Universe.
Seth Buckely from Seth Buckley’s Toyland
Mike “MegoZilla” Jimenez
Amber Zombie and Stitch
Steve Stovall from Super Joe Unlimited

And to all of you who attended Mego Meet and contributed to the spirit intended. You put the “Meet” in “Mego Meet,” and it was a true pleasure to get to know you.

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Toy-Ventures: Rare Vintage Toys at SDCC!

Mantooth — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 12:28:17 +0000

Toy-Ventures: Rare Vintage Toys at SDCC!

Toy-Ventures returns from #sdcc2024 with an after-hours look at some incredibly rare and expensive vintage toys available at the summer’s biggest fan event.

Mego Meet 2024 is at ZoloCon

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Denys Fisher Android – Enemy of Cyborg

Mantooth — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 23:35:49 +0000

Denys Fisher Android

I picked up this wonderful boxed Android from the Densy Fisher Cyborg Line at last summer’s PowerCon. It was a trade with my long-time and trusted friend Mark Huckabone, so I had never thought of opening it until today.

Denys Fisher Android

I got a real treat inside as the figure is C10 unused alongside his fabulous missiles, usually missing.

For those not in the know, this is the Japanese Henshin Cyborg figure range by Takara. Toymaker Denys Fisher brought the line to the UK and crafted a wonderful back story for the characters in the form of comic strips on the box.

Denys Fisher Android

The artwork for this fabulous backstory is just so “British Annual” scratchy and raw; I adore it. I never saw these as a kid (Canadian), but I know for a fact that I’d have been obsessed with this line if I had. Clear Robot people who can turn into monsters in Mego scale? It’s a no-brainer for me.

Denys Fisher Android

I also just love the dramatic creative writing they employed, I want to “Strike Terror in a Soul” and have a “Hideous Mission” someday!

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5 Awesome Things on eBay this week- Dec 10

Mantooth — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 02:43:45 +0000

5 Awesome Things on eBay this week

Martin Landau’s collection of Space:1999 toys– OK, I don’t what kind of pedigree you need but these are Martin Freaking Landau’s collection of Space:1999 toys. I have a book from Landau’s collection and it’s something I will always keep. I can’t tell you how cool it would be to own Commander Koenig’s Eagles but you probably knew that.

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Denys Fisher Cyborg Figure Lot– I totally adore Denys Fisher Cyborg and have done an episode on it recently. This lot is like an instant collection, where you get Cyborg, Muton and the hard to get Android! These are some of the coolest action figures of the 1970s and you need these.

Freddy Kruger Knock Off– I don’t know what it is about this thing, not a fan of Freddy Kruger merch but this looks like a cross between him and that little guy from “the Island of Dr. Moreau”. You know the guy I’m talking about right? I didn’t dream him?

Remco Batman Kite

Remco Batman Kite– In 1970, right after the Superhero craze, Remco made this weird series of Kites based on DC Comics characters including the short-lved powerless Wonder Woman. I honestly wasn’t sure if these things got made but here they are and this one is realistically priced.

Sweathogs Picture Puzzle- Sweathog Mania, I lived through it, many of us did and it burned brightly but not for a long time, leaving a trail of weird merchandise in it’s wake. What I really love about this piece is the obvious insertion of Gabe Kaplan, like he’s Gazoo or something. Man, he had some good lawyers….

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Denys Fisher Monster Factory

Mantooth — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 04:00:00 +0000

Sometimes I buy Monster toys and then totally forget about them in October, case in point this set. A wonderful “do it yourself” craft set from the UK that includes Frankenstein, the Wolfman and Dracula (the Chocolate, Vanilla and Strawberry of the monster world).

What’s that you ask? Can we look inside Brain? Your wish is granted after the jump!

So Copycast is a series released by Denys Fisher, who by the way, is the man who invented Spirograph, I always like mentioning that. Monsters was one of a few themes that you could get in 1976.

Monsters, Planet of the Apes and Dinosaurs, there is no loser here! Seriously I’d pick all of these guys for my team.

Pretty sure the Copycast material isn’t good now, so I won’t try to make figures of these guys but the molds are a little cartoony. I’m not complaining.

I never bore of monster toys and honestly, i hope I never will…..

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The Skull Machine

Mantooth — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:34:00 +0000

The Skull Machine sounds more like a Ted V Mikels film than it does a toy but it’s actually quite a neat concept from Deny Fisher UK (inventors of the Spirograph).

Basically it’s a child’s first look at rotational molding, as the machine allows kids to make three different kinds of heads they can then paint. There were several variations on this theme but seeing as this is October, I chose the horror themed one to spotlight.

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Super Size Bionic Woman

Mantooth — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 04:00:00 +0000

In 1977, the British Distributor of Kenner toys Denys Fisher, produced an 18″ tall version of Jaime Sommers and marketed more like a fashion doll. Pity they didn’t do a Steve as well.

These little foreign variants are what drew me into toy collecting in the first place, I loved discovering what’s out there and what i missed as kid, so to speak. Even though my collection is “Bionic Woman Free” for the most part, I can really dig and appreciate cool grail pieces like this.

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War of the Daleks

Mantooth — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:08:00 +0000

TOTALLY TRUE STORY: When i was 15 years old I found a copy of this game at a “Toys and Wheels” store at the mall in Canada. I don’t know how it got there but this store used to buy a lot of close out stock like Action Jackson uniforms and the like so maybe it was a sample.

All i can say is, as a 15 year Doctor Who fan, I thought I was dreaming.

The game is lost to time (and to the fact that I moved like 20 times from the age of 19 to 28) but I still have one of the chubby l’il daleks on my desk.

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Denys Fisher Cyborg

Mantooth — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:11:00 +0000

Not enough props can go out to what I think is the UK’s better kept secrets, originally a Japanese line called “Henshin Cyborg”, the clever monkeys at Denys Fisher took it, made it smaller and added a keen back story.

I didn’t grow up in the UK, had no inkling it existed when I was 7 but when I look at this stuff I swear I feel nostalgia, it’s that cool.

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Bionic Bubble Bath

Mantooth — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:01:00 +0000

From the “Stuff I hadn’t seen before but now can’t live without” department comes this Six Million Dollar man bubble bath container from the UK. I guess in the 60s they called these “soakies”, I just call this thing awesome. Many thanks to Ebay Seller RetroToyBoy for the photo submission.

More after the (Slow Motion) jump

How crazy cool is this thing?

A good close up of Steve’s killer head sculpt, it’s crude but you can totally see Lee Majors in there. Arrrgggh I want this!

I imagine Ebay searches for “Noveltime” will increase this year…

More Bionic Goodness

Always Buying Lincoln International and Tomland Monster dolls

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