Glamour Gals was an interesting attempt by Kenner in the early 1980s to capture the girls market. Instead of doing the standard 1/6th fashion doll made so popular by Mattel’s Barbie, Kenner decided to do what they at the time were doing best, action figures. The 4″ size of the figures allowed Kenner to expand the Glamour Gal’s […]
We decided to put the show up a little early for the seventh anniversary of the site. Jason and Brain talk about their memories of the first time they saw Star Wars anything. The toys, the comics, the magazines, the school yard rumors, the knock offs, it’s all there. We even get waaaay off tangent and […]
The good folks at Super 7 shared with me this brilliant catalog they’re handing at next weekend’s WonderCon out in anticipation of their 3 3/4″ “ReAction” figures (great name!). This catalog is loaded with inside vintage toy references and of course, the cover pays tribute to the Kenner game box. As a collector of both […]
I was thumbing through the Kenner catalogs a while back (I know how to spend a Saturday night) and I came across these, very odd tie ins that I hadn’t included when I built the Bionic galleries. It’s Steve Austin for the preschool set, a bike (cause a Bionic man needs one) that makes the […]
In 1979, Kenner toys launched just a dandy line of action figures on a Western, “Butch and Sundance the early days” was a prequel to 1969’s mega hit “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” but without Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Instead we were left with Tom Berenger and William Katt (who would be a […]
I found this image in an early 70s Kenner catalog, at one point they were trying to market Charlie Chaplin to kids. I was aware of silent movies as a kid (mostly Laurel and Hardy) but this seems a bit of a reach to me, I guess toy buyers felt that way too because I […]
As much as I enjoyed my childhood, it sometimes pains me to think of the stuff we didn’t get, for whatever boring grown up decision. Sure, some of these licensed wouldn’t have sold and could have forced the companies into risky financial positions but baby Brian wants his toys dammit! Here are the top ten […]
Described by Kenner in 1979 as “Combat vehicles of the future….half insect, half machine” Megabug Gladiators were perhaps just too ahead of their time. That’s pretty much the only reason I can think of to justify why this cool toy line of insect tanks wasn’t a hit with kids. Had it been spawned in the […]
In 1977 Bionic Man-ia (get it?) was still running so high that kids everywhere were asking Santa for a doll of a middle aged man in a bad sports coat (self included BTW). So the only logical thing to do was expand upon the licenses offerings (I’m writing this sipping out of a Bionic Man […]
I know I said I was done posting and on holiday but then Tom (who sent in this above bit of awesomeness a few years ago) sent me an early present. This home movie shows Tom giving his mom a lesson in how to work a Stretch Armstrong properly. If that wasn’t cool enough, it’s […]
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