I don’t do enough girl’s related things here, so I thought it be fun to highlight some of the things that were new for Barbie in Spring of 1973. Barbie got curlier, Ken started looking like Ron Burgundy and everybody got a just a little bit mod.
Even though this Mattel Tarzan set is made completely of recycled Big Jim pieces, (That’s Big Jeff as Lord Greystoke) it’s got to be one of my favourite action figures ever. For more Tarzan stuff check out our Tarzan Toys Gallery.
Technical difficulties prevent me from doing a forgotten TV segment today, so I bring you some truly useless knowledge and opinion in it’s place:Top three worst Female Action Figures of the 1970’s#3- Ilia (Star Trek the Motion Picture by Mego)I want to preface by saying I like the Motion Picture and I think this figure […]
These great little colour digests were likely distributed in newspapers and at retail locations, hoping to load children’s Christmas wishlists with Mattel products. It’s a great smattering of hot toys of the day from the classic Barbie and Hot Wheels to 70’s phenoms Pulsar and the Sweathogs, this booklet is a nice cruise down memory […]
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 […]
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