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Mego Batman Sale at Gimbel’s in 1976

Photo from Gimbel’s Toy Department in 1976, the caption reads that Mego Batman and Batcycle retailing respectively @ $3.49 and $7, but being promoted as a joint sale of $8.99. #mego #megomuseum #plaidstallions #toyventures #megosuperheroes #gimbels     The Lincoln Monsters are here!   Toy-Ventures is our magazine; we’re an independent publisher trying to bring […]

Free Lincoln Monsters Halloween Decoration at Mego Meet!

Free Lincoln Monsters Halloween Decoration at Mego Meet! The Lincoln Monsters team will be on-site at Mego Meet 2024, inside this year’s Zolocon event! We’ll give away a free Frankenstein Halloween decoration and Lincoln Monsters stickers while supplies last. Come see the factory finished figures and talk monsters with us. Mego Meet is this August […]

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: Amazing Superhero Vehicle Find! Mego, Simms, PPC

The Batmobile! The Spider-Car with Web Trap and Captain America’s pick up? Come explore the amazing lot of Superhero vehicles that eBay almost lost. Mego, Mattel, Simms and some of the rarest 80s Marvel merchandise ever!   https://youtu.be/WH8xMQLhWM8   #toyventures #plaidstallions #mego #secretwars Plaidstallions, toyventures, mego, mego museum, pocket superheroes, pocket heroes, mattel secret wars, […]

Toy-Ventures Magazine: Stretch Monster announcement

Issue 12 of Toy-Ventures will have a Stretch Monster theme with interviews with the toy’s creator, Mr. Tim Efler, and the “kid on the box,” Mike Seta. Sporting a jaw-dropping cover by Peter Carsillo, this issue also features the craziest “subscriber prize” we’ve ever attempted. More on this next week during the Lincoln Monster DeadStream. […]

Kenner Street Hawk and Knight Rider- 1985 Palitoy Catalog

  As a fan of the short-lived television series “Street Hawk,” I was excited to discover some unproduced toy items hidden in the pages of this 1985 Palitoy/Parker Brothers catalogue.  The series launched that year in the US and would be cancelled after 13 episodes.   Kenner, we already had a toy hit with Knight […]

1976 Action Figure Explosion!

I got this catalogue just after Christmas, and I wanted to close the year with the single reason I had to have it. This glorious page of plastic joy.  I never saw this page as a kid, but wow, that’s how the inside of my brain looked when I was five.  This page, with it’s […]