These bring me back, I can remember watching “Charlie Chan and the Chan Clan” on my neighbour’s wall back in 1977. They had played with it so much that all three siblings were saying the dialogue in unison, kind of strange.Two thoughts entered my mind, one was “Who is Charlie Chan?” and the other was […]
It seems as good a time as any to talk about my appreciation of a muscular man in a loin cloth. I’m talking about Tarzan and today’s update to the site is all about the various cool Tarzan toys I’ve picked up over the years. Check out the (Hopefully soon to expand) Gallery of Tarzan […]
Innocent purple jumpsuit or blatent attempt to steal the look of the Mego Dinah Mite doll? You be the judge. I’m really worried about how turned on I am….
I envy all of you who had Shogun Warriors as a kid, I was perpetually denied. The closest I came to owning them was waiting the neighbour kids out until they were 13 and their parents had yard sales. I still have your Mazinga Willy! Victory is mine! , If you haven’t preordered the upcoming […]
Doctor Kromedome was created to fill a void in 1975 for Bionic Villains (Maskatron came in ’76) , the buyer for Wards contacted friends at Mego Corp and this catalog exclusive “Bionic Villain” was born.Kromedome’s weird purple outfit, Cape and Cane kind of give him a bit of Cybernetic “Mack Daddy” vibe. Like he’d be […]
I don’t know why I don’t own a Mego Batcave playset but for some reason I’ve never been able to get one. It really is a sweet item and was recycled a couple of times by Mego, it’s even the Planet of the Apes Village!
With all the Pirate stuff in toy stores, I was reminded by the Matchbox line Fighting Furies, which was a line I never even saw as a kid.The figures were very well made but it was probably was hurt by the fact that the line only had two characters (although a third ghost figure was […]
After the great response to our previous feature on 1970’s Toy Stores I decided to try and find some more images and it turned out better than i hoped.Check out a pile of cool images from stores like Woolco, Macy’s, Kuhn’s Big K, Jeffersons and more. Toys include Star Wars, Mego Micronauts, Charlies Angels, Tonka […]
The CB craze was something that taught more than one toy company a valuable lesson, no matter how fast you can turn out a product, sometimes it’s just not fast enough to jump on a fad. CB Mchaul was the Mego attempt to cash in, a series of nine figures, three vehicles (although a fourth […]
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