{"id":19281,"date":"2022-02-15T10:26:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/?p=19281"},"modified":"2022-02-15T10:26:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:26:51","slug":"eatons-1975-big-jim-and-barbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/eatons-1975-big-jim-and-barbie\/","title":{"rendered":"Eaton’s 1975: Big Jim and Barbie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Eaton's<\/a><\/p>\n

Over the weekend, I found a wonder 1975 newspaper flyer\/catalogue from Eatons. For those not in the know, Eaton’s was Canada’s department store chain and a really big deal back in the day. When I saw these images, I felt like I’d seen them before and immediately bought this (best ten bucks I’ve spent in a long time). I’ll share more pages from this but this one particularly resonated with me.<\/p>\n

I was ALL ABOUT Mattel’s Big Jim at this time, I had many of his sets and like a lot of kids that Sports Camper was a birthday gift that year. However, the big memory here was figuring out that Mattel was using Barbie tooling to make Big Jim toys. The Big Jim Sports Camper was Barbie’s Country Camper, his Sky Commander plane was the Barbie friendship. I think at the time I felt like I had really uncovered something, a toy conspiracy, not realizing this was obvious to anyone with eyes.<\/p>\n

None of this deterred me from enjoying Big Jim.<\/p>\n

Check out this awesome Big Jim Catalog from 1975<\/a>
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\"1979<\/a>

1979 Italian Big Jim Catalog<\/p><\/div>\n

We have a new book out called “Knock-Offs: Totally Unauthorized Action Figures” it’s a 132-page tribute to bootleg toys.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Knock-Offs<\/a><\/p>\n

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