After almost three decades of toy collecting, not many vintage toy sightings make me want to wet my pants. This past few weeks I’ve had the pleasure of almost losing control several times, first with the Tomland Monsters and then followed up by this, the AHI Superfriends car in glorious detail. My friend Mark from Heroes […]
Knickerbocker was always known for plush novelties but in the late 70s, they decided to enlist some heavy hitters, in the form of the hottest TV and movie superstars like the Incredible Hulk and Mr. Spock. Knickerbocker chose some of the more popular TV and movie characters to captilize on for some interesting plush toys […]
A couple of years ago I got a friendly email asking me if I’d ever spoken to any of the folks who actually participated in the Superheroes at Sea World show. I wrote the person back and said no but if they ever did I’d love to hear about it. Then I just forgot it, […]
As a collector, one of the bigger mysteries I’ve enjoyed is the interesting amount of merchandise that appeared in the 1970s devoted to the character “The Shadow” whose heyday seemed to be at least 30 years prior to my birth. Click here to visit the Shadow 1970s merchandise gallery More Groovy Superhero Toys from the […]
Jonathan sent these awesome photos of his family’s trip to sea world in, explaining that we’ve never mentioned Aquaman’s dive from a tower into a ring of fire before. He’s right, I hadn’t heard of that stunt but it seems totally appropriate for the King of the Sea to handle it over that spotlight hogging […]
I love a toy mystery but these rack toys based on pulp character The Shadow were driving me crazy, first, they looked almost exactly like Secondly, why The Shadow? It wasn’t like the character had a big presence in the mid seventies, even his DC title had been cancelled by this point. Fortunately, I met a kindly soul who […]
Here we have one of the last uses of the AHI Helicopter molds (which had been used for Planet of the Apes, Batman, SWAT even the Hulk!) in the mid 1980s AHI/Remco snapped up the rights to the Archie Red Circle comics heroes such as “The Web” here, the result were some pretty middling, kinda chubby, […]
While the Spider-Man Ski mask might go down as coolest bit of hero merchandising ever, I can’t imagine there was a child alive that was excited about the Hulk suspenders, you can’t put perfume on the pig that is wearing suspenders as a child. I’m also honestly surprised there is no Spider-Man bow tie.
Superheroes and flash lights are a cocktail that Rack Toy manufacturers know how to make. Although I really don’t think the Duke Boys count as “Superheroes”…
If you can find a friend or sibling to wear the other set, you can reenact one of Comicdom’s biggest rivalries.
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