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Tonight’s Toy-Ventures is about a childhood toy woe and a deep appreciation for the “Man Vs Nature” action figure genre. It’s the Mattel Big Jim Devil River Trip!
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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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Escape with me to a time when dads had bushy mustaches and a strong scent of pipe tobacco and Old Spice.

This catalog has everything a 70’s dad could want, it’s got all the ties, underwear, and cigarettes he can drink. Let’s dive in, shall we?

The Promotion this year was a “Daddy Bag” you could wrap his gifts in, my family has one of these. In hindsight, “Daddy Bag” may be the worst name for something ever and I don’t think any of us ever wanted to be seen in public with this thing, it’s probably still in the hall closet.

You had to expect a page of ties.

Masculine Jewelry by Swank, it’s nice when a 3rd rate Hustler clone branches out into merchandise like this.

Lloyd’s Stereos were kind of a “Dad brand”.

Get dad a classy ashtray!

Elastic waist band pants? I’m in.

Getting dad a mower on Father’s Day is the male equivalent of getting mom a frying pan on Mother’s day.

Time to musk up boys!

I really wanted to make a joke about how the guy in the middle is Ray Buktenica but that may be the most dated reference I’ve ever created.

Old man brand recliners, I swear that every house on my block was issued one of these.

Happy Father’s Day!

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The Muppets were a smash in syndication, who doesn’t think of them when that ITC logo appears?

The Mego 12″ Wonder Woman brought in the bucks for many a year while Sindy was attempting to get some Barbie magic in a different scale..

The concept behind Kenner’s baby wet and care are still available at toy stores to this day.

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The Micronauts by Mego Corporation (released by Grand Toys) were an incredibly strong seller in Canada, the Eaton Center in downtown Toronto had a huge window display of them that year (If anyone had the sense to snap some pictures, please send them to me) The Micronauts coverage in this flier actually dwarfs Star Wars.

Space Lego started to appear around this time, one of the coolest toy lines ever IMO.

Capsela was an electronic building set with a space age flair..

Star Wars was distributed in Canada by Irwin Toys under the name “Kenner Canada” I sent many a proof of purchase to that Toronto address….

Matchbox had been selling the Mobile Action Command line of figures and vehicles for much of the 1970s, small wonder, at $1.99 per set they were a well-priced toy. The Spider-man racing set is one of the few superhero-related items in this flier.

I think it’s impossible to have grown up in the 1970’s suburbia and not know someone who had a Marx Green Machine or Big Wheel. I got to use my neighbour Gordon’s Green Machine once, so at least I can go to my final resting place knowing I hit the spin-out lever..

Classic board games like Sorry and Operation were joined by soon to be classics like Hungry, Hungry Hippos and Mr Mouth

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This page is from the 1975 Eaton’s catalog and I’m pretty sure I burned it into my brain that year. Joe’s world (and packaging artwork) has always captivated me and 1975 was a super special time for me…mainly because I was five.

Atomic Man was a childhood favourite of mine (though the appearance of Steve Austin did diminish Mike’s appeal) and Sky Dive to Danger (the set where Joe lands into a giant spider web) will forever be my favourite GI Joe set of all time.