Playing homemaker is still around but the 1970s were probably the last gasp of it being the norm. The 1980s saw a rise in little girls playing career woman, so things like the Easy Bake Oven became less prevelant. However, we’re looking at 1974 and it was all the rage to emulate “Betty Crocker” and […]
Talk about good omens, the first thing I saw when entering this year’s 2009 Megomeet show was Art Baltazar’s 8″ mego custom of our very own spokes model, Brick Mantooth. Art got the bug when he did a portrait of Brick a couple of week’s ago and I’m glad he did.Using a modified Big Jim […]
The Age of Rom has come! Card #23 is Rom: Space Knight by Parker Brothers Rom is such an iconic piece of 70s lore and I find it funny how many people tell me they never knew he was a toy! That’s because while Parker Brothers did an admirable job of marketing the toy, Marvel […]
In the 70s, parents groups had pretty much ruled out the concept of killing each other by stomping on war toys but it was still perfectly fine to shoot animals. Everybody was doing it, Big Jim, G.I. Joe, the Adventure People (OK they never had a gun) and this great series by Marx simply called […]
I had never heard of these before finding them on ebay last month, what a perfectly wonderful and logical idea. I’d have been all over this concept as a kid. As an added bonus, I’ve made one of the stickers printer size, so let’s all print it out and wear one to work today, come […]
JD who sent in that great Spider-Man picture from last week also sent this awesome Darth Vader appearance from 1980 at the Parmatown Mall, also in the Cleveland area. The store was either Higbees or May Company, he can’t remember. Just in case you don’t see it, there is something that sets this apart from […]
So you’re Hasbro in 1975 and everybody is cutting into your G.I. Joe profits with dolls named “Mighty Gary”, “Fighting Yank” and “Mr Action”, what do you do? You rip them off of course! That’s exactly what Hasbro did in 1975 with “The Defenders” a fairly cheap blow molded doll (whose head would later be […]
And I want every single one of them! Argh! I’m not really a Joe collector but about once every 4 years, I go on this insane bender, where I purchase as much as I can find and afford. Eventually I came to my senses realising a) I’m broke and b) I have no room to […]
At this past weekend’s Motor City Comic Con, I made the aquaintence of toy dealer Bob Serna, who had the most Planet of the Apes toys I’ve ever seen available for sale in one place. I spent the majority of my cash with Bob and I’ll probably be going back for more shortly, here are […]
I love this ad for Licensing Corporation of America (the people who you had to contact if you wanted to make any sort of superhero toy goodness in the 1970s) featuring the Mego Superheroes. Eventhough it’s been featured at the Mego Museum, I just thought it deserved more attention. And Speaking of Mego (like my […]
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