Fleetwood Toys was a Rack Toy manufacturer famous for nabbing the hottest licenses from TV and pop culture.
For their 1984 catalog, there were a lot of new faces replacing previous characters "CHiPs" was now replaced with "TJ Hooker", instead of "The Fall Guy" we've got the antics of the "A Team", the Marvel Comics Superheroes are still there but now under the "Secret Wars" banner.
Then there are the surprises, "The Sword and the Sorcerer" was an R rated film but Fleetwood liked the brand so much they offered two pages of toys as well as "Manimal". Sure the critics destroyed it but to Fleetwood, it was worth the gamble that kids would like it.
Then there are the surprises, "The Sword and the Sorcerer" was an R rated film but Fleetwood liked the brand so much they offered two pages of toys as well as "Manimal". Sure the critics destroyed it but to Fleetwood, it was worth the gamble that kids would like it.
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The A Team was obviously a license to print money.
One assumes the popularity of He-Man combined with childrens' ability to see R Rated movies on cable/home video influenced the decision to make toys based on "The Sword and the Sorcerer".
Fleetwood 1984 Catalog
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ReplyDeleteI had the A-Team Copter and the Spider-Man Secret Wars Web Shooter. Cool to see them.
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