Well-Made Toys wasn’t a real household word but they were very well known in 1974 when they landed the Planet of the Apes license and filled toy stores with their cute plush novelties based on the TV series. It burned brightly but not for a long time, leaving lots of cool toys in it’s path. […]
I love it when a toy concept I adore is crossed over with a license that rules, in this case it’s the merging of Colorforms with Planet of the Apes. One of the my favourite things about this piece is it seems strongly influenced by the “Return to the Planet of the Apes” cartoon series. […]
You know you’ve hit monsterous proportions when you’re on a kite and having nothing to do with flying. I’d love to find a display of these or heck, even one. Click on this picture for a bigger view.
1974 saw the deluge of Apechandise as evidenced by this great newspaper ad, with the cancellation of the series in 1975 would see this stuff go on clearance. When I started toy collecting in the early eighties, you could find discounted Apes merchandise in almost every convience store in Toronto, it was a good time […]
More shots from the 1974 Multiple Toys Catalog featuring these awesome Planet of the Apes playsets, I’ve seen the packaging on the set bove before but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t released. I actually had this set at one point, I love how the soldiers are referred to as “earth men”, I guess the folks […]
This next week will be devoted to all things simian. Iy you grew up in the 1970s (which I’m guessing much of my readership did) then you couldn’t have avoided “Apes Week” unless you didn’t have a TV or lived in a cave. We’ll spend the next five days looking at the garbage bags of […]
At this past weekend’s Motor City Comic Con, I made the aquaintence of toy dealer Bob Serna, who had the most Planet of the Apes toys I’ve ever seen available for sale in one place. I spent the majority of my cash with Bob and I’ll probably be going back for more shortly, here are […]
I get a lot of people asking on the message board who made this set, it’s by Multiple Toys and they made several variations, one including a bunch of army men so you can reenact “Battle for the Planet of the Apes”, it goes a little crazy with the scale but I doubt any kid […]
You know, if 20th Century Fox had have gone with these puppets instead of actors in costume, Planet of the Apes would have been a very different movie…
Aurora Comic Scene Models are a really happy part of my childhood seeing as my Dad sold them for a while and as a result, I had a good supply. I sucked at model building (still kinda do) and used them more as action figures, which I think a lot kids did. The Apes kits […]
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