Vintage Commercial Friday

Vintage Commercial Friday

I’ve uploaded a couple of commercials from volume 2 of our DVD “70s Toy Explosion“(thanks so much to everybody who ordered BTW) and thought it’d be cool to share them today. It’s fun aaaaand so much less time consuming than scanning an actual catalogue.

This commercial for the Barbie Star Traveller is of interest of to me mainly because I swear this is Judy Strangis from “Electra Woman and Dyna Girl”.

The second commercial I chose is for Mork and Mindy toys, I’m not the biggest Robin Williams fan in the world (in fact I’m jokingly trashing him on my other blog today) but I really remember “Mork Mania” fondly. I still want to buy that Egg Ship figure set.

nanoo nanoo
One day you will be mine eggship….

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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.

10 Comments

  • Wings on April 3, 2009

    Oh man… I had that Mork and Eggship when I was a kid. Used to play with it all the time. Lost now… 🙁

  • wee67 on April 3, 2009

    Why does Judy destroy the van at the end of the commercial? She pushes it righ toff the table!

  • sitboaf on April 5, 2009

    Good call. That is totally Judy Strangis, or my name isn’t Mighty Isis.

  • ourboy on April 5, 2009

    I had the Mork/Eggship, too.

    I also had a Mork shirt/pants/rainbow suspenders outfit. I was stylin.

  • Anonymous on April 9, 2009

    I might still have the Mork w/eggship from my youth. I’ll have to look and see. I wouldn’t mind parting with it, if you’re still interesting in getting one. I’d give you a decent price, or trade you for something else. It would be just the loose figure with the egg. I don’t remember having a box for it.
    By the way, just found your blog and website the other day. Great, great stuff and is bringing back a ton of good memories.

  • Wings on April 9, 2009

    Funny how you posted this and now on this week’s Theme Thursday, the topic is “egg”.

    My post for Theme Thursday – Egg: Mork & Cadbury! Oh, and Aliens!

  • Anonymous on May 1, 2009

    Oh I remember Mork well. All I wanted for my birthday was the Landspeeder and all I got was this stupid dude inside an egg….

  • Anonymous on May 3, 2009

    I had that egg spaceship too, i thought it was pretty cool!

  • Anonymous on June 7, 2009

    I found the Mork Eggship at a chuch sale today. I paid a nickel for it.

  • James on September 11, 2009

    I had that set, it used to mingle with my Star Wars in some odd way, usually because I didn't have any SW vehicles yet.

    It sadly got taken away from me when I brought it to school. I was told it was given to poor kids in Mexico.

    Imagine what some Mexican kid would think we were up to with a dude that flew in an egg.

    Adios Mork.

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