Ok, I would so totally use a set of these on my bed today. This picture also features one of my favourite things, the use of toys in the child’s bedroom set. For some reason, I really like that extra detail, I probably need to get out more. That’s the Dinky Toys Enterprise by the […]
A bravura addition to the site today, it’s the Ideal Toys Evel Knievel giveaway comic in it’s entirety. Even if it didn’t have the Marvel Comic Logo on it, the art style would give it away. Like many promotional comics, it manages to crowbar in every Evel Knievel toy while telling some sort of story.“The […]
Another great batch of photos this week, starting with Chris Franklin, a fellow Megomuseum forum pal proudly displaying his Remco Energized Superheroes along with his 12″ Mego Spidey. Here is a killer shot of Betsy opening an Evel Knievel set. According to Betsy her Evel was best friends with Mego Batman, they even picked up […]
“Let’s face it…..Evel Knievel can convince kids to brush their teeth better than you can!” Right, he can pick his own teeth up from the bottom of his rocket car and show kids how white and clean they are. In other Evel Knievel news, World’s Greatest Toys Blog is taking a look at the Evel […]
I love little things like this article about the hottest selling toys of 1974. As you can see Evel Knievel is getting killed by play-doh and Barbie! #8 is still my favourite, oh Crazy Foam, how I miss thee….
Toyfair 1974: Ideal’s Evel Knievel was one of the hottest action figures going as this less than subtle ad from Ideal suggests, if you grew up in suburbia chances are you knew at least one kid with this thing.More Fun: 1975 Evel Knievel Catalog
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose exploits made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.Knievel’s death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.Knievel […]
Ideal’s Evel Knievel was one of the most popular toy lines of the early 1970’s, by 1975 Ideal hoped to expand the line by adding adventure to it and of course bringing the girls in with Derry Daring. Click here to see the catalog.
What do you get when you mix Evel Knievel with the Universal Monsters? You get Ideal’s Scare Cycles, daredevil biker monsters is the perfect way to kick off our Halloween festivities this year.
Today we journey back to 1973 to witness the birth of one of the hottest toys of the 1970’s the Ideal Evel Knievel line! If you you were a child in the mid seventies there was no way you weren’t aware of this toy.Coming Next Week: Plaidstallions jumps forward to 1982
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