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Eaton’s Toy Land 1979

This one’s kind of personal to me, seeing as my mom seemed to do most of her Christmas shopping with her Eaton’s Card. Three years after they stopped making Wishbooks, Eaton’s department stores made this cool newspaper circular that featured the hot toys of the time. From Muppets to Micronauts, Star Wars to Green Machines, […]

A toy galaxy far, far away

It’s hard to believe that Star Wars is now thirty years ago, thanks to polyester pal the Intergalactic Pimp, we have cool scans of those Kenner Star Wars product catalogs that used to be inserted in the Playsets, so many happy memories, I used to carry one of these with me everywhere.Sorry I screwed up […]

Butch and Sundance: The Plastic Years

Another toy line that I never knew existed, Kenner’s Butch and Sundance (based on the 1979 prequel) line made a real quiet debut but the amount of effort into them have made them a cult favourite with collectors. The Saloon playset is a recycled Star Wars Creature Cantina and the figure’s body style would later […]

It came from Charlie’s basement

One of the highlights of a recent trip to Chicago was being able to rummage through my friend Charlie’s basement and look at his collection. It was almost a museum to growing up in the 70’s, I thought I’d share random images of some of my favourite items. Expect a part two to this some […]

More Vintage Toy Store Pictures

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 […]