Monday, June 14, 2010

Parachuting Belushis?

From the "you think you've seen everything" department come these Rack Toys by Imperial based on the underrated Spielberg comedy "1941" particularly the parachuting figures of "wild" Bill Kelso played by john Belushi. It's certainly one of the most logical parachuting figures I've ever seen.
Another completely logical rack toy, I don't often string those words together.
Gliders, completely sound considering the amount of planes in the film. I'm not sure if these were made however, if you have any childhood recollection of this stuff drop me a line.

10 comments:

John III said...

I never saw any of it. I would have bought it right up too. I loved that movie as a kid. Especially the fight scene between the Navy and Army guys

Anonymous said...

I had the bombs and gliders, pretty much staples of the rack toy world. Although I preferred the hand grenade style of cap bomb, oddly one that didn't see a release for this line.

The movie was on cable pretty steady when I was a kid, so I saw it often. I was dumbfounded when many years later I discovered it was considered one of Spielberg's worst. The idea of a comedic film about America a few weeks after Pearl Harbor was considered bad taste.

Meatball said...

Aww MAN!! How am I supposed to compete with this kind of toy weirdness? This kind of discovery makes the Evil Meatball want to just retire! :)

Lady Jaye said...

I had many of these gliders as a kid (late 80s), albeit not as a tie-in to anything (probably the same maker though, as I did have that green US plane). These were WWII fighters from both Allies and Axis. Some of them made better loops than other models (the Japanese Zero was a good one). They were made out of styrofoam, except for the propeller, which was in plastic (red in my days, not clear or white).

The packaging I knew was yellow and smaller, about the width of the body of the plane.

Lady Jaye said...

Oh yeah, the cap bomb also was still around in the late 80s. Mine was red. You'd lift the tip and insert a single firecracker at the end (they were sold in paper rolls). Guess that Imperial simply continued selling those toys for a few years as standard rack toys.

Anonymous said...

When I was young my friendsand I bought those gliders in bulk when they appeared at a local Pic-n-save. Had many air battles with them. Player 1 tossed his glider, player 2 threw his in an attempt to knock the other guys plane out of the sky. Those little planes could take a lot of damage. Loved them.

plasticfetish said...

Wow. Rack toys from the movie "1941"... now that's something new to me.

Chris Jepsen said...

I have a very vague memory of seeing "1941" toys at Lucky's grocery store in Huntington Beach when I was young. I think I remember it because A) Military stuff appealed to me, and B) It was clearly a movie tie-in for a film that was unknown to me -- thus engaging my curiousity. (I don't think many young children were taken to Belushi movies.)

rob! said...
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rob! said...

Forgive my language, but HOLY SHIT THERE WERE 1941 TOYS?!?

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