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Toy-Ventures: Fisher Price Adventure People Score!

Mantooth — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 23:54:21 +0000

Toy-Ventures set up at Ajax Collector Con this past weekend, and not only did I saw some fantastic vintage toys, but went home with something amazing. You won’t want to miss this if you’re a ’70s Fisher Price Adventure People fan.

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Topics discussed: Tura Satana, Ajax Collector Con, Toy Shows, Kenner Bionic Man, Bionic Bigfoot, Fisher Price, Adventure People, Batman, Gi Joe, Transformers, MOTU, Plaidstallions, Toy-Ventures Magazine, 70s toys, memories, Christmas,

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Lego Police!

Mantooth — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:45:00 +0000

The Police Headquarters was not only my first Lego set but the toy designated to stay at my Grandmother’s house for when i visited. I had a million fun hours with that thing and even though my kids look at the blank faced figures like they’re caveman tools, so did they.

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Pod Stallions Episode 30: Model Kits

Mantooth — Fri, 01 May 2015 04:00:00 +0000

This month sees us discussing the days of slapping paint everywhere and getting a l’il high off glue.

Model kits has us discussing Aurora, Addar, MPC, fundimensions and many other kit manufacturers long gone.

Subjects include Sweathogs, the Fonz, Planet of the Apes, Jaws, Doctor Who, Gerry Anderson, Universal Monsters, Dark Shadows, Star Trek and much more.

As always we get sidetracked into talking about Jason’s singing voice, Cosplay and star wars sneakers.

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Toys & Games by Variety Product Sales

Mantooth — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:15:00 +0000

I had an epic day last Wednesday, what I thought would be a boring trip to a storage unit turned out to be an amazing discovery! When I found the records and remnants of my father’s 1970s toy distribution business including these funky signs he used to use. I have been looking for one of these for years.My dad’s company provided toys and novelties to smaller chain stores (especially Mac’s Milk locations) across Ontario and provided them with mostly rack toys and closeouts. While I haven’t unearthed any physical toys (yet), I sure have some groovy artifacts in the many invoices and pay ables he had, VPS dealt with all the big names and carried all the Brands, Mego, AHI, Larami, Barton, Aurora, Parker Brothers, it’s pretty extensive, here are a couple of examples:
This cool invoice from Grand Toys (distributor for Azrak Hamway and later Mego) shows an order of 576 Batman parachute figure figures, I’m salivating, I don’t own one now! Looking at how much AHI Superhero stuff VPS carried, it’s not surprising I’m totally obsessed with it now.
This invoice from Aurora shows a big order for the classic comic scenes kits, these are really happy memories for me. I remember putting every single one of these together as a kid and playing with them as if they were action figures.I’ve got tons of this stuff and I’ve never been happier to go through a pile of boring old company records before!

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Shogun Warriors Under the Tree

Mantooth — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:31:00 +0000

Got a great couple of vintage images this week from Dan Brackett, who here is opening up his Shogun Warriors Mazinga (man that box looks sweet) and behind him is a Bat-Away set. Dan says he managed to replace the Bat-Away on Ebay for under $10 but no such luck on Mazinga…

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Al’s toy memories

Mantooth — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:04:00 +0000

I’ve been wanting to start a gallery of people’s childhood toy pictures but never really got around to it, then artist Al Bigley gave me a big jumpstart with these great examples from his family album. Above Al is shown with an APC Superman canister puzzle, I had an Apes one like that as a kid.

Al opening a Lone Ranger and Silver from Gabriel, really great his folks documented things so well.
The opening of a Stretch Armstrong is only slightly cooler than Al’s Batman shirt in this photo. Ironically, Al would grow up and illustrate toy packages that many 90’s kids remember fondly including many Batman items!

Many thanks to Al for these great memories, if anyone else would like to share some drop us a line at our mailbox.

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