Evel Knievel Takes on Big Cavities!

"Let's face it.....Evel Knievel can convince kids to brush their teeth better than you can!" Right, he can pick his own teeth up from the bottom of his rocket car and show kids how white and clean they are.

In other Evel Knievel news, World's Greatest Toys Blog is taking a look at the Evel Knievel products pitched by Mego in 1975. These are the rarely talked about Bike accessories and *ahem* Popsicles(!) Evel was playing both sides when it came to tooth decay.

Scotty, Beam Starsky up!

Technological advancement in the 70's made it easy for companies to market once expensive walkie talkies to us kids and wow, they were cool. While I longed for the Mego Star Trek communicators my sister and I ended up with some generic looking ones on the end. My best friend and I spent hours annoying a neighbour with a CB, we'd be playing SWAT and all of a sudden hear "WILL YOU TWO SHUT UP!"

Colouring Book Theatre : Star Trek

Today's colouring book comes from Sharry aka Hardygirl and it's one I'm excited to have here.

Star Trek was always on when I was growing up thanks to my sister's obsession with William Shatner, I was convinced as a kid that it was a filmation saturday morning series like Ark 2.

In the 70's most Star Trek merchandise was aimed at kids, there was something really charming about that.

The book is titled "Planet Ecnal's Dilemma" and it's by Whitman, one of the higher profile players in the trillion dollar colouring book industry. It's also one of the nicest books I've seen.

Sharry tells me the story begins with the enterprise going to the planet Ecnal who has asked the Enterprise for help because their planet is dying. I hate to be nerdy but check it out, they got Sulu right. That sounds weird but I have a Power record where they made him black.

Again, nice detail on the crew, Deforest Kelly must have loved how he was defined by his wrinkles.

It's rare in mid seventies Trek merchandise to get so many details right, if you look at old Gold Key comics at the time, the Enterprise has flames coming out the back and the bridge has large devices on it with humungous dials and levers.

The crew discover that planet Ecnal is dying, what could be causing this?

Spock does some science stuff to figure it out and for some reason dresses like a pharmicist from the 50's.

Turns out it's another alien race (the Lerows) draining the life energy from Ecnal, these aliens look a little over budget for the original series but right in place with the animated show.

Kirk takes off his shirt, makes love to their women and blows up a computer, I won't bore you with those pages, it all works out in the end. Thanks Sharry for this awesome book!

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Previous Colouring Book Theatre Entries can be found here.

Coming Next Week: Superman!

Commericals : Shogun Warriors, Battlestar Galactica, Micronauts and more!

It's movie day today! Surfing YouTube last night and I found this great block 70's Toy Commercials that weren't really marked as such, this series features Shogun Warriors, Micronauts and Suckerman!

This second block of commercials features the Mattel Battlestar Galactica Action Figures, Viper Launch Station, More Micronauts and Mego World's Greatest Superheroes.

I get asked a lot about the Micronauts, usually I do Micro Stuff at the Museum Blog but I thought I'd post a picture of the Aliens here, my favourite characters.

Might as well point out links for the stuff in the commercials above, you could lose a whole day in these sites:

Battlestar Galactica: The PS site has the 1979 Mattel Catalog but also check out the Battlestar pages at the 3 3/4" Archive

Micronauts: Megomuseum has a section but also check out Innerspace Online for a complete perspective.

Mego Superheroes: The galleries at Megomuseum are unmatched and there is also the book World's Greatest Toys that everyone should own.

Shogun Warriors: Wildtoys has a great page and we've got pages from the 1979 catalog.