It's not often I get to play toy detective (which is a shame because I have the hat and everything) so it was gratifying to make this discovery this week. Ever since I posted the Kenner Toy Proposals for the Man From Atlantis Line, I've wondered what the line would have actually looked like. Then I found a curious couple of pages in the far back of the 1978 Kenner Catalog that answered my question.
I am pleased to present Scuba Squad , Kenner's attempt to rebrand the toys they were making from the then cancelled series, which gives a glimpse of what might have been. Click the link to see the evidence yourself.
Hah! I remember that show! Toys would have rocked. My friends and I spent hours trying to perfect that "Man From Atlantis" swimming stroke... It didn't impress the swimming instructors at all!
ReplyDeletegreat detective work, i woulda loved this stuff as a kid! great work. dusty abell
ReplyDeleteExcuse me, I seem to be having a Zippy the Pinhead moment here:
ReplyDelete"Scuba Squad! Scuba Squad! SCUBA SQUAD!!!"