Turtleneck and martini not included

Turtleneck and martini not included

Spy Kits

Spy kits like this (check out the international currency, that’s attention to detail!) seem to be a forgotten art. As a kid, I had one that included a t pack of cigarettes that fired bullets, I don’t even know where to begin on that one.

This one is pretty amazing with it’s gun with silencer and real working camera,  you were Matt Helm Jr.
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Mantooth
AKA Brian Heiler author of "Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings" and co-editor of "Toy-Ventures Magazine". Co-Host of the "Pod Stallions" podcast. Host of the Brick Mantooth Youtube channel, painter, designer, writer, mental health advocate, toy collector, Mego, and Mego Knock-Off enthusiast. I have large feet, ADHD and I live in Canada. Talk toys, not others.

7 Comments

  • Neal P on February 9, 2012

    How did I miss out on this gem? I would've loved to have had this as a kid! I was always envious that my brother had a Secret Sam briefcase back in the 60s. I don't know what happened to it. I wish he had stored it away for me to play with in the 70s, but I guess brothers don't think that far ahead.

  • Dantheman on February 9, 2012

    I probably bet this what Sterling Archer had as a kid.

  • Retro Hound on February 9, 2012

    Man I wanted one of these so bad! Especially a pistol with a silencer! I always thought that was the coolest.

    As to the cigarettes, they also sold us candy cigs, so none of that would fly today.

  • MaGnUs von Tesla on February 9, 2012

    That is one awesome spy kit!

  • Dolly the Bird on February 9, 2012

    It must really suck being a kid today! No plastic guns with silencers, no play ciggies, no fun! Even as a girl, I would have killed for this set when I was a kid! Super cool!

  • Anonymous on February 11, 2012

    I remember the "spy kits" + cowboy kits + similar weapon + equipment kits, in USA toy stores, in the late 1990s. There was a big "no toy firearms" movement, in parent's movements, back then.

    So, a lot of toy companies would make "spy kits" or other kits, and replace the gun(s) with bayonets + grenades, in those kits.

    Better to let your kids "play" knife or grenade someone, than to play that they're shooting a toy pistol at someone?
    How silly was that? Hee hee!

  • Robert Robinson on June 22, 2015

    This toy spy kit was sold only in the UK. I got it for Christmas 1975. Even though the brief case was made of cardboard, it was a great toy. Today it goes for over $700.00 on the web.

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