This is a cool rack toy I picked up recently that brings back lots of happy memories. My Dad brought this back with him from the 1978 Toy Fair and I immediately cracked it open and made a huge mess on my desk. It maybe lasted a day tops but what a cool item with beautiful art.
Cool toys like the web maker never got into many department store wishbooks but they did get into the Heroes World Catalogs, the Megomuseum has a comprehensive gallery of old Heroes World comics and ads.
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I had the webmaker too! Not exactly a web-shooter, in fact the webs it made were more like real spider webs. I remember an early ad for this showed cardboard cut-outs for the figures, but it was cool that the final product had tiny plastic figures instead.
Holy cow, this is better than any new toy news! I had one of these and for the life of me could not remember what it was called! My dad picked this up for me and he even made a 2' x 2' city scape out of a piece of plywood and upright 2x4's at different heights so I could "web up" a city instead of mom's furniture! I even had a couple of refill packs. If I remember right the little "web shooter" was a case that you could store the figures in and I think the web fluid.
Man you made my day, that was an awesome toy!
My brother bought this. I remember it actually worked. It was kind of messy though. I think we wasted the web tube in about a couple of hours. I think my mom bought it for him at Woolworths.
I had this toy as well. Thanks for the post on it. Seeing the photo again brought back so many memories. I remember that I had the case long after I used up the fluid and lost the cool yellow figures.
Anyone want to buy my new and sealed Webmaker?
Have a really nice Webamaker on ebay right now!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&salenotsupported=true&item=250445446340
Man, I've been looking for this thing for *years* from some foggy childhood memories. Thanks for bringing it back!
I have 2 still on the cards and in great shape can anyone tell me what they sell for and are there people looking for them
shmimmie@yahoo.com
thanks james
I have 2 of these still on the card in great shape are there people still looking for them and what are they worth
thanks james
I still have my web/figure holder with the Spiderman, Mary Jane and Green Goblin figures still stored inside. I've had it since the late-70s. Not sure exactly which store it came from, but I remember playing with the cityscape on the back of the packaging at my grandmother's house.
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