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5 Awesome Things on eBay this week

Mantooth — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:19:10 +0000

Original Black Hole Magazine Cover Art (eBay Link) —

As a lover of all things Black Hole, I will say this is striking. The Cygnus is one of the coolest space ships ever built. My only quibble with this is and no offense to Robert Forster but why no Vincent or Bob? Not to mention Ernest Borgnine, he sells magazines, people!

Chuck E Cheese Statue (eBay Link)—

I didn’t enter a Chuck E. Cheese until my twenties when I took a girl on a date there. However, I grew up watching the commercials on Buffalo 29 as a kid, so I do get nostalgic for this kind of thing.

Shindana Slade (eBay Link) —

I sincerely straight up adore Shindana Toy’s crime-fighting badass! He’s a street-wise, college-educated army vet turned government agent. I treat him like a de-facto member of Big Jim’s P.A.C.k.

I did an article about Shindana toys in Toy-Ventures Issue 10 and below is a video I did earlier:

Also, PBS did a great piece on the history of Shindana Toys and it’s well worth watching.

Green Lantern/Green Arrow kid’s shirt from 1975 (eBay Link) —

I don’t know about you guys but this kind of stuff never made it to my mall. We’d be lucky to get Batman or a Generic Hero T-Shirt (I had Captain Whizzo) but this was “Heroes World” stuff, that was it. Wow, I just love this and the seller has a pile more.

Space:1999 Commander Koenig Bank (eBay Link)—

As a child, I’d have really saved better if I had the stern face of Martin Landau judging me. Commander Koenig would have probably talked me out of that ice cream because I’m saving to order from Heroes World. Where were you when I needed you, Martin Landau?

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Toy-Ventures 10: Slade Super Agent from Shindana Toys

Mantooth — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 13:56:00 +0000

This week’s installment of Toy Ventures is all about one of the coolest action figures of the 1970s, Slade: Super Agent by Shindana.

We talk about Slade but also a little bit about the company that was Shindana toys and how they changed the landscape for the better.

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Shindana Toy Center

Mantooth — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 05:00:00 +0000

I love seeing stuff like this 1977 article and especially a whole store display of Shindana merchandise like the JJ Walker plush, Wanda and of course, the amazing Slade Super Agent dolls.

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The Origin of Slade

Mantooth — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:17:00 +0000

It should be obvious by now that I have a mild obsession with the Shindana Slade doll, which most would instantly recognize as being a non licensed doll version of Richard Roundtree in Shaft, it’s pretty obvious but as I explored a little further I noticed some other factors that inspired the so called “Super Agent’s debut, namely Big Jim and his Wolf P.A.C.K….

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In 1975, Mattel had taken good natured sportsman Big Jim and transformed him into a crime killing super spy with a team of specialists. While Jim, Dr Steel and Big Josh got manly make overs for the P.A.C.K, Big Jack was actually dropped from the line. Leaving the P.A.C.K without a black character. This may have inspired the folks at Shindana to fill that void, even the packaging suggests seems to be aping the size and style of the first P.A.C.K window boxes.

The box carefully mimicks the first issue P.A.C.K window boxes, although the Jack Kirby artwork is sorely missing.

Everything I ever learned is from neighbourhood, war and college.

Even though he’s slightly shorter (I corrected that for the photo), Slade fits in incredibly easy into the P.A.C.K although he looks maybe too cool…

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Shindana Toys for 1977

Mantooth — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:56:00 +0000

Toy Fair 1977: Shindana’s crime fighting “Slade” figure out cools just about any other action figure this year. I still want a Redd Foxx doll as well.

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