1974 Spider-Man and Thor Puzzle (sponsored link)

Wow, there is a lot to love here. The fact that it includes Thor is round, and now I want to see Thor fight Dr. Octopus for realsies. Also, where is he?

Evel Knievel Toothbrush (sponsored link)

“Brush your teeth, kids. Also, could you hand me mine? They’re down there by your feet. Thanks, say no to Communism!”

Star Trek Estes Rocket kit (sponsored link)

Oh, I dreamed of these as a boy; they seemed everywhere, but as an adult, I never circled back. I think I have way too many hobbies.

Superfriends Pillow Case (sponsored link)

That first season of Super Friends, which I find hard to watch now, was a pretty big deal to 3-year-old me. I know the Flash had a cameo that year, but Hawkman and GL definitely weren’t on the show until later. I’m not sure I remember Albino Marvin, though.

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It’s another chapter of “Stuff that took my money as a kid” and I totally remember these things. I know they really don’t serve a purpose but if I saw this anywhere, i’d be tempted to buy all of them.

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.

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This week, Toy-Ventures looks at a flyer from the legendary toy store chain Child World. 1976 was a great year, and this is packed with toys from Space:1999, Mego, Six Million Dollar man, McDonaldland and Vincent Price shrinking heads!

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After years of being marketed as an Evel Knievel toy line, Ideal toys had a severe problem with Knievel’s career hitting rock bottom. They had a hit toy concept but needed a new marketing method. Ideal tried classic monsters with the Scare Cycles in 1979 but regrouped and launched Team America in  1980.

Armed with a TV budget and a comic tie-in with Marvel, the gambit paid off. So much so that in its third year, Team America added figures of the Team America comics characters themselves, including the mysterious marauder. They also added a familiar face to the team, Marvel’s Captain America.

Ideal Team America

The proposed Team America vehicles were also from Evel Knievel tooling.

I’m not ashamed to admit that I bought those comics and really enjoyed them. Never saw the toys, however.

I wonder how many licensed Team America products were made?

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During these years, the EK stunt set was a top ten bestseller in North America and it was a steady rocket ride for the next couple of years.

A nice depiction of the carnage that can be had with these toys, as a bonus, the Evel Knievel figure had no bones to break.

The crash car empowered little boys to break their toys, a brilliant stroke of marketing. Growing up we all want to see what would happen if we ran our toys into a wall, this gave us a safe way to do this.

Evel’s steam-powered Rocket was a bit of a bust that nearly killed him but it sure made for a cool toy. It was later recycled into Ideal’s Star Wars clone, Star Team.

The old standard, I think most of us think “Motorcycle” when we think of Evel.

The Stunt Stadium was one of the bigger playsets of the era.

The scramble van was on Santa’s “most requested” list that year..

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Popy Gorenger Challenge Machine (eBay Link)  Popy scooped up the rights to Evel Knievel in the 1970s and decided to give him some friends. Popy released Evel, Kamen Rider and this dude Gorenger and well, they’re pretty darn amazing toys. This very set was featured in Issue 3 of Toy-Ventures magazine.

Space:1999 Promotional Booklet for Season 2 (eBay Link)-   This wonderful (and huge) full-colour booklet was given out to TV networks and I assume the press to promote the exciting second season of Space:1999. I have no valid reason to own this but baby wants it now.

Clash of the Titans Retail Booklet (eBay Link) This booklet was meant for retailers who had chosen to carry Clash of the Titans merchandise. It’s loaded with info about the various items (The Mattel figures are in there) and promotions surrounding this movie. Man, I remember being ten when this came out thinking it was going to be the next Star Wars.

AHI Lost in Space Robot (eBay Link) After the success of merchandising Star Trek and Space:1999, AHI went after another UHF Sci-Fi staple, Lost in Space. The Lost in Space items are really hard to get and this robot is quite tempting.

Walton’s Farm House Playset by Amsco -I know it’s thanksgiving in the states, so what’s more “Thanksgivingsy” than the Waltons clan? Amsco made these killer playsets out of cardboard for Planet of the Apes, Space: 1999 and Marvel Comics but I figured if I had gotten one as a kid, it probably would have been this one.

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OLD BUTTERICK BAT-MAN HALLOWEEN COSTUME SEWING PATTERNS

EBAY LINK Batman Halloween Costume Sewing Patterns– Where was this when i was five? I had to go as the Collegeville “The Bat” that stink doesn’t wash off! Unclean!

EBAY LINK Planet of the Apes Inflatable pool by AHI– I am totally aware that I can’t afford this and that I also have zero use for it as a grown man BUT I WANT IT! I really want this, it’s weird how much I do, it’s actually freaking me out a little.

EBAY LINK ADAM 12 Milk Carton– My friend Dave sent me this (much of this list is Dave this week, I’ve been swamped) and my first thought was “who thought to save this?”. I still want to meet this human. 

EBAY LINK Vintage 1975 Coleco Evel Knievel Bicycle Moto Cross Game Wow, I don’t remember this toy but I certainly remember every kid on Fairview drive trying to be Knievel and skinning their knees. I think I got my first stitches at four imitating Batman but landing in broken glass, I find it funny how the “we never got a trophy” crowd seems to want a medal for that. 

EBAY LINK Defenders of the Earth Say no to drugs poster- I like the Defenders of the Earth Toyline, it was nice to see figures of Flash Gordon and the Phantom on toy shelves. It’s also really naive to think kids won’t smoke pot because Mandrake the Magician said not to. 

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Planet of the Apes was a new hot ticket item for 70s wunderkind Mego who also produced the World’s Greatest Superheroes around the same time. Big Jim was Mattel’s answer to G.I. Joe and Dinah-Mite was Mego’s stab at Barbie, who was the original.

Child Guidance was one of the bigger players in Sesame Street merchandise, it’s so nice to see Roosevelt Franklin. Etch a Sketch is never going to stop being cool..

I have many fond memories of Play-Doh Pumper No. 9. The Mego Superheroes “Supervator” was a complicated game where you used strings and a glove to make the heroes retrieve “Nasty Secret Plans” and avoid villain cards like the enemy of Tarzan. See video below:

Planet of the Apes and Superhero Puzzles from HG are collector’s items now. Another toy I forgot I had until now is the Mattel Put-Put railway, along with Spirograph and Lite-Brite. I had to explain to my son what Lite-Brite was last week, that made me sad….

Here is a whole page of toys that made my four year heart go pitter patter, the Big Jim Kung Fu studio was a cool set up that allowed Big Jim to kick a little ass. The Mego Batcave was also recycled by clever Mego into the Planet of the Apes village and the Action Jackson “Lost Continent” playset, we kids didn’t mind. I consider both the Matchbox Fighting Furies and the Gabriel Lone Ranger to be two of the nicest toy lines made in the 1970s.

Rodney Allen Rippey was made by Shindana, a company that catered to people of colour. Shindana made some wicked cool toys and below is one of my favourites, Slade!

Barbie always got the best vehicles and playsets, lucky for us boys Mattel converted her country camper for Big Jim so we boys could play with it and still feel masculine. .

Another great vehicle is the Barbie friendship, again Mattel recycled this for us boys in the form of the Big Jim Skyhawk. It is a pretty awesome piece, my daughter has the modern version, which isn’t made of vinyl…

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EBAY LINK Popy Kamen Rider Stronger Challenge Machine Figure + Kabutoro 1975 Evel Knievel– We covered the Challenge Machines in Toy-Ventures Issue 3, they’re Japanese versions of Evel Knievel but featuring Japanese Superheroes. I want all of these, real, real bad.

EBAY LINK M*A*S*H HEAD QUARTERS-  I love Rack Toys and M*A*S*H didn’t go too many and this “Head quarters” by Ja-Ru is a real treat, it’s got BJ and Col. Potter on the card, so I’m going to say it’s early 1980s.

EBAY LINK VIC’s GIANT FRANKENSTEIN JIGGLER 
Apparently these were sold at Universal Studios theme park and related to the friendly Frankenstein that wandered the park, so is it a souvenir?  I need to know!

EBAY LINK Buck Rogers Shaker Maker Set- Who wants to spend a post-covid rainy day at my house making these? Come on, let’s paint a chubby Tiger Man together!

EBAY LINK Paper Hero Gatchaman- This is the Japanese version of the OurWays Studios Jointed Heroes but with Mark from G-Force, this is incredible.

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This is the third Toy Flier I have from 1975 with Mego Star Trek on the cover, thank goodness for Star Trek collectors saving these.

The Fisher Price Sesame Street set is the big get here, this was the first year it was launched.

Mego’s Wizard of Oz line was also launched in 1975, it was a big year for licensed toys.

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It’s kind of weird to see the Planet of the Apes adventure set mixed in with growing up Skipper and Holly Hobbie.

Evel Knievel was still a super hot toy in 1975 and surprisingly the Mego planet of the apes dolls still sold despite the series getting canceled almost a year earlier..

Those flock haired Karate Men were under my tree that year, I always wanted to turn them into action figures.

Hedstron, Huffy and Murray….

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