Lord of the Craft Aisle

My love for the Filmation Tarzan series knows no bounds and these amazing poster art and craft sets have now become my new holy grails.

A relationship is like a baseball team

"and i get nowhere unless the team wins"

Kojak's Kar

To me, what set Corgi apart were those mini figures, even though I lost the majority of them on Christmas day...

The Psychedelic Bar

OK, I know I listed this as "greatest bar ever" but that's before I saw this, a combination colour organ and booze dispensary? Where do I get one?

However, what's with "Mr. Nopersonalspace" up there? One sip of whatever concoction he's doling out will have you waking up eight hours later in a Safeway parking lot, guaranteed.

Spiderman joins the Navy

Well, not really but this webslinger appearance sent in by John at the Navy base commisarry probably about 1976 is still pretty swell, love those "Electric Company" eyes.. .

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1975 Big Jim Catalog

Exit sportsman, enter Super Spy

In 1975, things had started to wind down for the good natured adventures of sportsman Big Jim and his crew. A hasty insert to the toyfair catalog this year gives the first traces of the P.A.C.K and the direction that Big Jim would take for the remainder of his shelf life in North America.

Click here to see the 1975 Mattel Big Jim Catalog

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Friction fun from AHI

Some fun additions to the AHI Rack Toys section today and it's all about friction pull back motors combined with licensing (of course). Above is a "spin out" Spider Car, it's amazing just how many different vehicles our famous web slinger got.

This is the friction motorized Space:1999 moon car in Canadian packaging. It's amazing a show like Space:1999 got as much merchandising as it did seeing as the show was trying mostly to be moody and cerebreal. I'm happy about this mind you, I love Space:1999 junk..

AHI Toy Galleries

Those Puppy Dog Eyes

If wearing this sweater ever got a man laid, I truly do not wish to know. I fear that having such knowledge would completely deride my will to live. There is no amount of Booze and Prayer that could erase the fact that "weiner dog sweater" guy got some lovin'.

PS I've told by many that this is Colt Seaver's nephew from "The Fall Guy", I'd say that you people scare me with your useless knowledge but that would be hucking cinder blocks out this glass house I live in....

Inflatable Joy

I am not ashamed to admit that my Big Jims and Mego Superheroes spent many an afternoon poolside thanks to an older sister...

Super small electronic calculator

Eighty Eight bucks is a swell deal but you don't need a calculator when you have some mad crazy "Chisenbop" skills like me.

Plus this thing is prone to catching on fire.

Heroic Flash Lights

Superheroes and flash lights are a cocktail that Rack Toy manufacturers know how to make. Although I really don't think the Duke Boys count as "Superheroes"...

Marvel Heroes Live In Person

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Great line up of hereos here, the same I saw at Woolco as a kid. Think there was any boys excited about the Gnome?

Check out the sweet deal on Mego dolls.

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Major Matt Mason 1971 Catalog

Mattel's man in space "Major Matt Mason" had an successful run during the 1960s space race until about 1969 when man actually walked on the moon and didn't find an alien civilization.

While this did sound the death knell for space toys in general, Mattel marketed the Major until the 1970s and made new items for him.

By 1971 the MMM line was a shadow of it's former self, gone were the many moon vehicles and astronaut pals, all that was left was the good Major and his new alien pal Scorpio. By 1972, Mattel would have a new action figure concept called "Big Jim" and the Major would be all but a fond memory.

Click here to be whisked off into the 1971 Major Matt Mason Catalog

 

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Rom Com

I find it really funny that ROM's tie in comic book would prove to be the more popular item and actually the thing folks remember more than the toy line. I doubt either gentlemen at this meeting thought that would be the case at the time.

 

For more ROM visit the 1979 Parker Brothers Electronics Catalog

Superman VS Shazam

If you can find a friend or sibling to wear the other set, you can reenact one of Comicdom's biggest rivalries.

Confidence and Pride

Are the two things this man will have robbed of him on this fine morning.

The Hot Foot Dragster

This makes a Green Machine look like an orange crate with roller skates strapped to it.

1979 Tomland Toys Catalog

 

Tomland Toys are kind of a mystery to many toy collectors, a member of the Marx family of companies, they were known for producing cheap but fun toys that sometimes kind of skirted copyright laws.

They are perhaps most famous for their 1978 line of action figures called "Star Raiders" and it's follow up line "Star Command: Starroid Raiders" both of which seemed to have been inspired by a certain George Lucas film (hint it's not American Grafitti). In 1979, Tomlands lines seem to have been carried in the United States by a company called Calfax, here is their spacey 1979 selection:

Other Space Toy Links

Beep Beep Sleep

As a child, I always felt a tremendous bit of sympathy for the Coyote, I wouldn't have slept well on a bed filled with his comeuppance.

Smellin' Classy

I was an English Leather user as a teen, which didn't really do much but had I'd been a Hawaiian surf kinda guy I bet the ladies would have flocked to me.