From the fall of 1976 comes this incredible display of Mego World’s Greatest Superheroes at Alexanders Department stores. This article boasts that Alexanders had more displays like this than any competitor.

Above, you can see Mego Planet of the Apes Fortress Playsets.

While a site like this is heaven for a Mego fan, it also showcases something never seen before a glorious Official World’s Greatest Superheroes banner!

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The Lincoln Monsters are here!

The Blood-A-Rama Shock Festival Pack

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On this week’s Toy-Ventures, I take you along on another toy hunt, this time to one of Toronto’s finest shops, Tree-House Collectibles. Nestled in the East end, Treehouse is jam-packed with goodies from vintage and modern toys, comic books, vinyl records, and video games. Some of the sights we encounter include:
GI Joe
Transformers
Mego Superheroes
Planet of the Apes
WWF Wrestling
M.A.S.K
Action Force
Master of the Universe
Palitoy Action Force
Remco Monsters
Knock Offs
Kenner Star Wars
Super Powers
Micronauts
Matchbox Fighting Furies
and much, much more.

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Mego Knock Off Headquarters– The leading group discussing 70s Dime store knock-offs of Mego action figures, we talk vintage toys and not others. We know the difference between Astro Apes and Action Apeman! It’s a really fun group where we talk about Lincoln International, AHI, Tomland, Bogi, Demo Man, Mortoy and other generic greats.

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Toy-Ventures this week digs into another vintage toy catalog. This week we explore the 1985 Child World Catalog which is jam packed with the hottest 80s toys like

• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
• Remco Zybots
• Tonka GoBots
• She-Ra: Princess of Power
• Cabbage Patch Kids
• Knight Rider
• Rainbow Brite
• My Little Pony
• Robotix
• My Buddy
• Voltron Defender of the Universe
• Garfield

And so much more, it’s a total time capsule!

Brick Mantooth returns for a limited time, get him before he’s gone!

Toy-Ventures Magazine is our newest creation, an old-school print magazine about vintage toys! Professionally laid out and written, each issue is brimming with obscure and rare toys from companies such as Mego, Kenner, Remco, AHI, and much more. Monsters, Superheroes, Adventurers, Knock Offs, Apes, and so much more, it’s in Toy-Ventures.

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Pod Stallions is one of the most fun groups on Facebook. Toys, Comics, Movies, TV, it’s all up for grabs and remember, you keep the glass!

Mego Knock Off Headquarters– The leading group discussing 70s Dime store knock-offs of Mego action figures, we talk vintage toys, not others. It’s a fun group where we talk about Lincoln International, AHI, Tomland, and all those companies that never thought to put their name on things because….lawyers.

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• The One of a Kind Antique Mall (Woodstock, ON)
• Southworks Antique Mall (Cambridge, ON)
• The Toy Society (Cambridge ON)

While I am there I showcase all the vintage toys, bootleg figures, kung fu movie posters and incredible pop culture memorabilia from the last four decades that I encounter.

It’s an extra long jam-packed episode of Toy-Ventures and one I’d really like your feedback on. Should I do more of these? Would you like to toy hunt with me again? Let me know in the comments below:

 
Issue four of our magazine Toy-Ventures is now available. Toy-Ventures is bringing back the old school print toy magazine with articles written by the collectors themselves, it’s a love letter to toys and action figures from the 1960s to the 1980s and this issue is our best yet. We’ve got a fantastic toy tribute to the Munsters, the outrageous adventures of Septor and Garth, the dimestore goodness of the Durham Click Button action figures, Superhero and Planet of the Apes knock offs and a fantastic tribute to the Mego Mad Monsters Toy Line.

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Mego Knock Off Headquarters– The leading group discussing 70s dimestore goodness like Lincoln International, AHI, Tomland, Durham, you get the picture. Whether you like Mr. Rock or are more of an Astro Apes person, this is the group you need to be in.

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This is the third Toy Flier I have from 1975 with Mego Star Trek on the cover, thank goodness for Star Trek collectors saving these.

The Fisher Price Sesame Street set is the big get here, this was the first year it was launched.

Mego’s Wizard of Oz line was also launched in 1975, it was a big year for licensed toys.

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It’s kind of weird to see the Planet of the Apes adventure set mixed in with growing up Skipper and Holly Hobbie.

Evel Knievel was still a super hot toy in 1975 and surprisingly the Mego planet of the apes dolls still sold despite the series getting canceled almost a year earlier..

Those flock haired Karate Men were under my tree that year, I always wanted to turn them into action figures.

Hedstron, Huffy and Murray….

PlaidStallions Toy-Ventures Magazine #2 is now available and it’s been called “not only an entertaining read, but it’s also an impeccable work of reference” by PopCult.

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Does it have to specifically be in a mall: 
HECK NO! Car shows, county fairs, grocery stores, heck I’d even accept birthday party shots. It’s all fair game.


Learn more here:

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Or simply send me an email at Kid70s*at*gmail.com (replace the at with an @, i just don’t want tons of spam from publishing my email(

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I debated whether to put this here or on the Mego Museum but considering it’s a vintage photo of a toy store in Hong Kong (and let’s face it, this site has an obsession with such things).


This display of Mego Superhero items and Micronauts is my happy place, I drove my mother crazy looking for the 9.5″ Robin on the far left. It looked just like Dick Grayson in the comics, it had to be mine.


Speaking of Mego, the annual convention known as Mego Meet is this June 16-17 in Skokie, Illinois. It’s our last year in the Chicago area before we move to a new state, so last call mid west! Strong chance the guy at the front desk will be me, don’t let that deter you.

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Our website turns 10 this month so we begin by discussing it’s origins and why it came to be. With the topic already being nostalgia, we thought it would be fun to talk about the top ten thing we miss about the 1970s.


This is not a “things were better in our day” type discussion (We like Ebay and YouTube just fine thank you very much) but more about the certain rituals, tastes, establishments and items that sadly, no longer have a place in our modern world.

Topics range from Saturday morning TV to local toy stores, full comic book racks everywhere you looked, ice cream men on bicycles, long gone fast foods, Jason’s crush on Rhoda Morgensten (and her mom!), Network Stars Battling, Heroes World adverts, colorful home decor and of course, wish books. 


Be careful with episode 43 because the filling is hot!

Hit us up on our facebook page and tell us what you miss about the 1970s, 

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