{"id":9125,"date":"2008-12-18T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T05:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/index.php\/2008\/12\/18\/goldman-doll-readied\/"},"modified":"2019-09-08T18:09:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T18:09:01","slug":"goldman-doll-readied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/goldman-doll-readied\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldman Doll Readied"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\"Oscar<\/a><\/p>\n

Thursday, March 24.1977:<\/span>
<\/strong>CINCINNATI (AP)<\/strong> – First, Kenner sold millions of the Six Million Dollar Man Then, there was a scramble for the Bionic Woman. Now, the nation’s second-leading toy manufacturer is,about to unleash its- newest bionic spinoff\u2014the Oscar Goldman doll.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Goldman is the character on both television series who watches over the two superheroes and worries about whether their wires are shorting or their bionic parts need replacing “He’s a strong secondary character in both shows,” a
Kenner official said, “and is unusual in getting that prime time exposure twice a week with the success we’ve had with the Man and the Woman, it was logical for us to bring out an Oscar Goldman figure.”<\/div>\n

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“The Man”\u2014Steve Austin and “The Woman”, the manufacturer’s pet name for Jaime Sommers\u2014are proof of the power of television over’ the toy industry.<\/div>\n

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Kenner officials have long acknowledged that shows such as the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman are highly marketable.<\/div>\n

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The Steve Austin doll sold more than two million copies in 1976, passing the record of its 1975 introductory year. The Jaime Sommers doll sold 1.5 million copies by the end of the past Christmas rush.<\/div>\n

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The company executive said the Oscar Goldman doll was a hit among Kenner’s new 1977 lines at the Toy Fair held last month in New York among Kenner’s other new toys is a followup to the successful Stretch Armstrong doll.<\/div>\n

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The 13-inch doll is a muscular wrestler who can be stretched as far as four feet,
twisted and contorted and then returned to his original shape. Kenner has now introduced an adversary called Stretch Monster The doll, scaly and green, will be marketed as a beast to Stretch Armstrong’s beauty.<\/div>\n

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**I’m going to venture a guess that it was a very slow news day and I’ve never thought of Stretch Armstrong as a “Beauty” before. I will say though, that I got an Oscar Goldman that very Christmas and it was an exceptionally fun toy. <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Goldman Doll Readied<\/a><\/blockquote>