Review: Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation By Lou Scheimer and Andy Mangels My earliest memory in this life, other than eating delicious Play Doh on Christmas morning 1971, was watching a Batman cartoon with my sister in the TV room one random morning in 1972. The Penguin was stealing a tank and gassed a […]
This “Manta and Moray” watch is my first find of merchandise from childhood favourite show “Tarzan and the Super 7”. Somebody actually offered this for sale at the Megomuseum forums where I’m known to be, so it was rather serendipitous It’s pretty well documented that DC comics felt Manta was a little too close […]
Looking at this vintage licensing ad stirs some emotion in me. I mean seriously, why were we not treated to “Bigfoot and Wildboy” action figures? We live in a world where got toys of “The Waltons” but the “Space Sentinels” seemed too risky? Agggghhhh, I’d almost be filled with rage were it not for that […]
My obsession with Filmation’s short lived (and sadly “damned to never be on DVD”) series “Tarzan and the Super 7” continues with the only known merchandise, all of it lower cost rack toys. Above we have Bubb-a-loons featuring Web Woman (a boyhood crush), Manta and Moray and The Freedom Force (one of the cooler superhero […]
Filmation’s Tarzan and the Super 7 series is easily one of my favourite cartoon series of all time. It’s copyright infringing characters made me a fan for life, however merchandise for the series seems few and far between. However, it seems that rack toy manufacturer Imperial did have the license and exploited it nicely, here […]
My pal Dan at the awesome website The Terror Trap (this is a timely month for a plug) sent over shots of his vintage Groovie Goolies PVC collection. As a lover of mock horror, these are just awesome to me. Not many Filmation shows got merchandising so it’s really nice to see how perfect these […]
It couldn’t get more obscure or joyous for me. Growing up, I LOVED Filmation’s post apocalyptic series “Ark 2“ with a passion. So i nearly did a spit take when I discovered this Halloween costume on the ebay. I would have fought tooth and nail for it but I was lucky enough to snag it […]
I always kind of found it odd that out of all the cool shows that Filmation produced in the 1970s, my least favourite ones got all the merchandising. Sure, I watched Isis on TV but there was no way in heck I could buy a girl doll. Also, despite being a lover of SF at an […]
The name “Ben Cooper” and “Halloween” are pretty synonymous to children of the 1970s/ The company produced a staggering amount of items devoted to October 31st and chances are if your parents used “store bought” costumes, they were from Ben Cooper. 1973 like every year is a load of fun, lots of popular licenses (including […]
Colouring Book Theatre is back and I’m happy to announce that for the next two segments we have a guest reviewer (which means I’m still snug in my Sunday morning bed) , here to take us to the world of Mongo is a man who knows the terrain, Jason Lenzi from Bif Bang Pow! will […]
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