The story of J.J. Armes is so fantastic that it sounds like it came out of a toy maker’s brain storming session. After losing his hands in a childhood accident, Jay Armes worked hard and trained himself to use his steel prosthesis in any fashion that a hand could function, he also trained his mind […]
Remco got piles of mileage out of these choppers but I rarely see the non licensed stuff in catalogs, mostly you see the Star Trek or the (incredibly stupid) Hulk versions of this. I also never knew what CSF stood for, “Chopper Special Forces” that would have never been my guess.
One of the biggest names when it comes to diecast cars in the world has to be Corgi and in the 1970s they were a licensing machine! If it was hot with kids and involved vehicles then it was likely a Corgi product. Everybody from Kojak to Batman to James Bond even the rebels from […]
These weird little playsets like this were made by a company called “Tootsie Toy”, they did do some licensed items (like the Shadow!) but for the most part they did fun knock offs of the Six Million Dollar Man, King Kong and Flash Gordon as evidenced here by “Major Mars”. More on this in the […]
I’ve never really understood what possessed Mego to make these beautiful action figures based on the Flash Gordon comic strip, it was two years before the movie and animated series and while I admit I knew who the character was as a kid, I just didn’t see this being a hit. Anyway, I’m really glad […]
“V” was an early 80s TV sensation, the brain child of Kenneth Johnson (responsible for the Six Million Dollar Man and the Incredible Hulk series) , V was a parable about facism wrapped in the amazing trappings of science fiction. The original mini series were a ratings smash, so by the time a weekly series […]
I’ve gone on record on many occasions as to not understanding the toyetic appeal of Kojak. Starsky and Huth or SWAT I readily enjoyed as a child but Kojak wasn’t something I ever wanted a toy of.I do admit I think that the Kojak office set is pretty damned skippy however, it even comes with […]
Gabriel’s Chutes Away was one of those games I often requested but never received. It’s pre video game functionality is something we don’t see much anymore.
Created a new gallery for that often forgotten era in G.I. Joe’s history known as Super Joe, the era when Joe got shorter and was blasted off into the distant future to do battle with “Gor King of the Terrons” (incidentally, Gor was only the second villian Joe ever had but not the first alien).The […]
This question comes in once a month, like clock work: “I had these soldiers that were 3 3/4″ and secured to a base, they made clicking sounds to simulate gunfire” They are Mattel’s Heroes in Action line, a neat little line of 3 3/4″ soldiers that seems to have sold much better in Europe than […]
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