It’s hard to find vintage newspaper toy circulars, most people threw them out five minutes after reading. That’s a shame because they are such a neat and attractive way to see pop culture history. That’s why this toy circular from the Zayre stores is one of my favourites, first I was five years old when […]
It’s time to reveal another PlaidStallions trading card, this one comes directly from the brain of my pal Rob Chatlin. Rob has been an tremendous behind the scenes help to PS plus it was a darn good idea so it became card #14. I don’t collect Gabriel Lone Ranger figures but I honestly think it’s […]
It sounds rather odd that after 3 years of blogging about 1970’s toys, I’ve never once mentioned Nerf products of any kind. It seems odd considering how cool I think this stuff is, especially the safe missiles…. I have a toy collector friend, who has one of those collections I can only dream of. When […]
Kyall sent me this wonderful (I’m sorry about that) Wonder Woman collection today, the world could use more Lynda Carter, that’s what I always say. Check out Kyall’s Wonder Woman Collector’s site here. And if you have a collection you’d like to share, drop me a line!
One of the things that bother me about Barbie is the fact that her hands can’t hold anything, not that I’d go on a shopping spree if she did mind you. I was surprised to find out that in 1973, an opposable thumb was actually a selling feature on both her and Ken. I’m surprised […]
In the early seventies, Mattel toys had a big hit on their hands with Big Jim, a nine inch muscle bound sports hero/man’s man who came packaged in his underpants. Jim’s entire structure was mostly built on non violent, positive activities such as sports and outdoor adventures. This seems to be the result of parental […]
It’s refreshing to see this many monster toys on a Christmas catalog page, usually they get kind of dismissed or marginalized as being “seasonal”. The only thing missing is some slime. While I’ve blogged about Gre-Gory being the one that got away for me as a kid and my obsession with the Remco Monsters is […]
With Halloween appraoching, it seemed like a great time to showcase all the little additions I have for the various Rack Toy pages on the site. It’s all about the Monsters this week. Above is a carded Azrak Hamway Frankenstein, later issue than the one previously featured on the site, the card now includes Dracula […]
While Monster Toys often get the shaft in department store catalogs for being too seasonal , the one place where that doesn’t seem to happen is the games section which always have a few monster items in for good measure. Take this 1971 spread for instance, we’ve got the classic Green Ghost game , something […]
My pal George at the Mego Forum turned me onto these cool toys from 1973, these two dinoaurs seem to be exclusive to Sears. What a no brainer, light up remote controlled dinosaurs. Like probably every boy (and likely a bunch of girls), I went through a dinosaur phase in my life and these would […]
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