From the “Stuff I hadn’t seen before but now can’t live without” department comes this Six Million Dollar man bubble bath container from the UK. I guess in the 60s they called these “soakies”, I just call this thing awesome. Many thanks to Ebay Seller RetroToyBoy for the photo submission. More after the (Slow Motion) […]
Seeing as it’s Christmas time I thought it would be fun to bring up this vintage bit of strangeness. These captures from the fourth season of the Six Million Dollar Man, the episode is “The Bionic Christmas Carol”. You see in 1974 Gerald Ford passed into law the “Dickens Act” which meant every TV show, […]
I got an early Christmas present in my mailbox the other day in the form of these Kenner store display photos, which were likely meant as internal documents showcasing their hottest toys for 1978. As we all know that was a year of Bionic Men and Women, Stretch Armstrong and massive block buster known as […]
I know I’ve done a piece on the 1978 SSP Catalog (although I have no memory of doing it), I kind of glossed over one of the cooler offerings that year. That being the Monster hot rods, all of which look like Universal Monsters but did Universal get a penny, Nooooo Sireeee they did not. […]
No that’s not a misspelling, six years before Mego launched Micronauts, Kenner had tried their luck with the Microbots, a series of futuristic robots who could build their own environments. They even had their own (one shot) comic book by Gold Key! Sadly, the line didn’t take off and was quickly forgotten, the toys themselves are […]
One of my earliest memories is watching a film strip of “Charlie Chan and the Chan Clan” on my neighbour’s basement wall, it’s a pretty happy one. I’m surprised I haven’t got a large collection of “Give A Show” type projectors as a result..
You know I’ve had a lot of fun at the expense at Kenner’s “Milky the marvelous milking Cow” toy with easy comments like “they must have been drunk that day” surfacing. However a deeper look into the Kenner 1978 catalog provides the insight that Milky was not the result of a vodka soaked luncheon but actually a premeditated series […]
I cannot think of a better update for our fifth anniversary other than doing another vintage toy store update. When I set out to create the original vintage toy store gallery for the site, I never imagined I’d get to part 2 let alone roman numeral X! Being a toy nerd this is my favourite section […]
SSP stood for “Super Sonic Power” and it was one of Kenner’s flagship brands in the 1970s, mostly because of the popularity of “Smash Up Derby” a toy that combined boys love of cars with their desire to wreck stuff (Genius). 1978 saw a lot of goodness with the introduction of Monsters, Vans and Star […]
One of the things I get a lot of Email about here is the Kenner Tree Tots line, “your friends from the magic forest” is a fondly remembered pre school series that captured kids imaginations in the late 1970s. I personally remember the line well, being eight years of age at the time, it was […]
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