Toy-Ventures take a trip to the spinner rack to highlight the memorable and truly forgettable comic books based on toy lines. We won’t tell you number one but rest assured; it ain’t Man Tech.

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Even though Fleetwood began in the 1970s by grabbing such high-brow licenses as Charlie’s Angels and the Marvel Comics Superheroes for Rack Toys, the 1980s seemed to be the company’s high point with them retaining many high ticket licenses from TV and movies.

1984 is a good example of how Fleetwood was doing with some of the most popular TV faces like the A-Team and TJ Hooker, alongside riskier brands like Sword and the Sorcerer and Manimal. The Marvel Superheroes were back under the Secret Wars brand and they even dabbled in a little Hardcastle and McCormick.

1984 Fleetwood Toys Catalog Cover

TJ Hooker was Fleetwoods vehicle to sell toy guns, handcuffs, and police cars that year. If you asked me, they totally missed the boat not having a car with a Shatner figure on the hood.

The A-Team was huge with kids and it gave Fleetwood the excuse to slap a label on a bunch of Rack Toy standards. In this case, even the toolset makes sense!

That Mr T Flashlight is absolutely inspired.

Daydreams and Cuddles were two in-house lines for Fleetwood to capture the girl’s market. They didn’t seem to have any female-centric licenses this year.

Sword and the Sorcerer was an R-rated affair that came out in 1982 (although a lot of us discovered it on cable). It’s very odd to see toys for children based on a film with nudity and gore. Also, are these the only toys based on an Albert Pyun film? I think so.

Manimal was a short-lived NBC TV series famous for its very strange premise. Some of the Manimal “figures” ended up in Sword and the Sorcerer sets. This should surprise no one.

Fleetwood had a long-running relationship with Marvel Comics  which continued when the line rebranded under the Secret Wars banner. Instead of parachuting superheroes, they became balloonists, which is even sillier.
Hardcastle and McCormick was an ABC series about an ex-judge and ex-con teaming up blah, blah, blah, everyone remembers the car.

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EBAY LINK Black Hole Soap– I featured Black Hole soap on eBay previously but I’ve never noticed the Cygnus version of this before.

EBAY LINK Kojak Bike Siren– It is my goal on 5 awesome things on eBay to feature every weird bit of Kojak merchandise ever. I was a kid in the 1970s and yes, we knew who Kojak was but we never once, all said “Let’s play Kojak!”. We played SWAT, Emergency, and even CHiPs (I always ended up Sarge, boo!) but I cannot remember any kid on my cul-de-sac ever saying “who loves you, baby?”

EBAY LINK Secret Wars Captain America Airborn Parachutes by Fleetwood- These seem like the 80s version of the Azrak Hamway parachute figures I obsess about but I can’t abide that basket, it’s like Cap has gone for a balloon ride, I imagine he’s got a nice bottle of Reisling and some brie in there too.

Havoc Super Agent Doll Training Pack Weapons Set- HAVOC is this amazing UK 70s toyline that is basically fashion dolls that are butt-kicking spies, it’s really ahead of it’s time. The dolls are a little too stylized for my liking but the art on these boxes is wonderful, EBAY LINKseller also has another adventure kit up for grabs. I really need to do a feature in Toy-Ventures on these soon.

EBAY LINK Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind Puzzle– My friend Dave sent me this with the note “Don’t you want a puzzle of naked space children?” and yeah, this is probably one of the reasons that Star Wars merch sold better.

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If you like vintage toys from the 60s to the 80s, please check out our publication,  Toy-Ventures magazine. Issue 4 is shipping this month and it’s loaded with cool toys and information. 

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