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Toy-Ventures: Mego Meet @ ZoloCon Recap!

Toy-Ventures: Mego Meet @ ZoloCon Recap! https://youtu.be/xvFUEGig2jk Toy-Ventures returns to cover our biggest event of the year, Mego Meet, held at Zolo Con in Warminster, PA. This was a true blast of vintage, modern, and Custom Mego action figures. I hope you’ll check out this incredible feast of vintage toys! Mike Zolotorow, Krista Schmidt and […]

Toy-Ventures : Top 5 Coolest Star Wars items @ 4th Moon Toys

  Toy-Ventures visits Toronto’s newest Vintage shop, 4th Moon Toys. This store is devoted purely to Star Wars memorabilia, and its location is a part of Canadian toy history! You’ll have a good feeling about this magical shop. Visit 4th Moon Toys Website: 4thmoon.ca #kenner #toyventures #starwars Mego Meet 2024 is August 16-17 in conjunction […]

5 Awesome Things on eBay this week

5 Awesome Things on eBay this week- Space Raiders, Happy Days, the Bionic Woman, Sherlock Hemlock, Big Jim as Tarzan and Barry Freaking Manilow! These links are sponsored by eBay. Tomland Space Raiders (eBay Sponsored Link) Tomland was one of the bravest and cheekiest toy companies out there. The majority of the output was just […]

Action Jose: The Deadly Dresses of The Kung Fu Man

The mystery of the Kung Fu Man has been solved! You probably have never heard of him, but “Action Jose: The Kung Fu Man” has been the subject of conjecture on action figure forums for decades. The discourse is due to the availability of outfits (comically labelled “Dresses”) for this happy Kung Fu Man but […]

Toy-Ventures: Big Jim P.A.C.K grail finds!

Toy-Ventures returns and celebrates the end of a 25-year quest for some of the rarest Mattel Big Jim P.A.C.K items. It’s a story with a few twists and turns! #toyventures #bigjim #toycollection Thanks to treehousecollectibles.ca https://www.instagram.com/crossroads_collectibles_canada/ Mego Meet 2024 is August 16-17 in conjunction with Zolo-Con! https://www.facebook.com/events/236781772848368 Check out the original Big Jim P.A.C.K commercials […]

Toy-Ventures: The Saga of Tonka’s STEEL MONSTERS

In honour of the release of Furiosa, Toy-Ventures looks at the most excellent 1980s Post-Apocalyptic Toy Line: Tonka’s Steel Monsters. It was all things “Mad Max” except for the name. How did such a gorgeous toy line fail? What didn’t get made? We get the scoop from the creators. #toyventures #tonka #MadMax   Get Issue […]

Plaid Stallions 18th Birthday Contest

It’s Plaid Stallions’ birthday, and now I can ship it off to college or the army I guess. Starting this site on a lazy Saturday while my baby daughter napped was more important than I’d ever realized. I had no idea that when I started posting old catalogue photos online. Starting Plaid Stallions would open […]

7 Awesome Things on eBay this week

  Spider-Man and Captain America Richochet Racers (eBay Link) — I’ve never owned these toys but have always been obsessed with them since I saw them at my friend Richard’s House. None of it makes sense and none of it has to, I always loved the comic book ad for this, it also makes zero […]

Toy-Ventures Issue 12 Cover and Prize Reveal

Good News! Issue 12 of Toy-Ventures magazine is now up for pre-order. Issue 12 is a celebration of Stretch Monster featuring a deluxe gatefold cover by Mr. Peter Carsillo (Cover artist for Issue). Articles include The Hiliarious House of Prank ‘N Stein Stretch Monster is NOT Indestructible Time of the Mego Apes Palitoy Commander Power […]