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1979 Beno’s Toy Catalog- Kenner Star Wars- Star Bird

Mantooth — Thu, 20 May 2021 14:57:10 +0000

I had never heard of this California-based chain of Toy Stores called “Beno’s” before but judging by this glorious catalog, they offered the best-selling toys of 1979 including of course, the Kenner Star Wars line, this beautiful time capsule is a joy to behold.

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Your 1977 Robot Selection

Mantooth — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 11:50:00 +0000

Tomy’s Mighty Max is a really neat toy that often gets mistaken for a Micronaut or a Shogun Warrior.

I wish more records were included with playsets, I think it adds a neat quality.

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Rascal Robots

Mantooth — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:16:00 +0000

Rascal Robots by Tomy were such a “right place/right time” creation. Awesome wind up robots that fit in with your Star Wars “guys”? Who wouldn’t want that?

Personally I liked to pretend mine was IQ9 from “Star Blazers”.

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Fashion Plates

Mantooth — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 04:00:00 +0000

Over the years I’ve known women who have told me they asked for Tomy’s Mighty Men and Monster Maker only to receive this, the so called “girl’s version”, Fashion Plates. My wife was one of those people, luckily her brother got the MMMM, so she still got to play with it.

Not to put down Fashion Plates (I’m sure it was a fun toy) but Monsters aren’t gender specific, they’re just cool.

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Bathtubbies

Mantooth — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:30:00 +0000

My love for this line knows no bounds.

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Ultra-Men and Monster Maker

Mantooth — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:09:00 +0000

Leave it to the Japanese to make a fun toy more “funner” (it’s a word), here we see what I can only imagine is the original version of we here in North America know as “The Mighty Men and Monster Maker” easily one of the coolest toys from my youth.

In Japan however, their version was licensed and it allowed you to create scenes from Ultra-Man and some animated series I’m not familiar with (Is that Captain Future? Help me out anime guys).

I shouldn’t be jealous but I slightly am…

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Tomy makes monsters

Mantooth — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:01:00 +0000

The Tomy Mighty Men and Monster Maker was one of the more memorable toys of my childhood, from the moment I saw the commercial, I was single minded in my purpose to get it for my birthday which I luckily did.

That meant the entire month of October preparing my house for Halloween, as toys went I got my mileage out of this sucker and it’s one I’m surprised hasn’t seen some sort of reissue.

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