In kindergarten (which was 1974), I played with a type of weird toy where the figures all connected, for hours at a time. I’ve been trying to figure out what they were ever since with no luck, so I just figured they were education toys produced by some anonymous company. Nope, they were produced by […]
One of the reasons I began collecting toys was my love for Space:1999 merchandise, so these Mattel Space:1999 toy offerings from 1976 are something I’m really hyped about bringing to the site.
Seeing as Gabe Kaplan is making news as an author these days it seems cool to revisit the Mattel Welcome Back Kotter dolls. The classroom playset had a record so you could reenact your favourite moments, the Sweathogs motorcycle was a clever recycling of Big Jim’s motor cross bike. Mattel never throws anything out!
Masters of the Universe was another toy line that caught my eye during this time. It’s bright colors and simple themes reminded me of a simplier time (pretty amazing considering I was 12 at the time). Castle Greyskull is also one of the best done playsets I have ever seen. Although I closet watched the […]
I admit it, I had a Donny Osmond doll. Even worse was that I chose him during the annual family March break shopping trip to the Scarborough Town Center, passing over the Mego Human Torch doll i had coveted for so long.All of this was done to impress my older sister who remarked how cool […]
How far we’ve come in my lifetime, here we have the Barbie’s “Friend Ship” play set. What’s Barbie’s role on her plane? Stewardess. Something tells me that Ken would be serving the coffee if this play set were released now.Mattel recycled this into a Killer play set for Big Jim, I believe Big Josh was […]
That title sounds like the coolest cartoon we never got but it’s just the contents of the 1979 Mattel catalog, this time focusing on all the cool Shogun Warriors and Godzilla merchandise at the time. Launching fists, pre transformable mecha and Godzilla gets himself a gang.
I had no idea Mattel was so watch friendly, not only can you get Big Jim, Barbie and Hot Wheels watches as well. The Big Jim He-Man watch is probably my favourite though, I wonder if Mattel licensed a He Man watch ten years later?
I don’t collect it now but man the Big Jim Camper pictured on this page just rocked my world back in ’74. I remember drooling over that boat and buggy set. Early Big Jim is just so representative of the early 70s, you can’t get more peaceful than a guy who goes fishing. I still […]
Although Battlestar Galactica is a hit show nowadays, the series that had the better toys was the original. So take a journey back to when Cylons were men in suits, and Starbuk was a dude to the cool toys that got made and the cooler ones that didn’t.
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