Ready Ranger Mobile Field Pack

 

Over the years I've had a lot of people tell the Aurora Ready Ranger Mobile Field Pack lived up to the hype and was a really fun toy. 

Did you have it as a kid, what was your experience with it?

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Pod Stallions Episode 30: Model Kits

This month sees us discussing the days of slapping paint everywhere and getting a l'il high off glue.

Model kits has us discussing Aurora, Addar, MPC, fundimensions and many other kit manufacturers long gone.

Subjects include Sweathogs, the Fonz, Planet of the Apes, Jaws, Doctor Who, Gerry Anderson, Universal Monsters, Dark Shadows, Star Trek and much more.

As always we get sidetracked into talking about Jason's singing voice, Cosplay and star wars sneakers.

Please note I am working on raising my volume level, thought I had it licked this show but it's a work in progress.


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Here come the Microbots

No that's not a misspelling, six years before Mego launched Micronauts, Kenner had tried their luck with the Microbots, a series of futuristic robots who could build their own environments. They even had their own (one shot) comic book by Gold Key!

Sadly, the line didn't take off and was quickly forgotten, the toys themselves are very hard to find these days but there is eveidence that some made it onto store shelves..

Check out the amazing world of the Microbots!

More Robots

When Big Bird was scary

I was pretty easily scared kid, how the sight of early Big Bird didn't send me running to my room I'll never know....

Bat Plane Memories

New to the AHI Batman Rack Toys Gallery is this fun little plane which in 1976, caused my grandmother much duress. As a kid, I was often baby sat by her on Saturdays while she worked in her store, this usually meant a trip to Woolco and a cheap "shut up toy" of this ilk.

Upon buying this very toy, I promptly shot it into the then bustling crowds of the Whitby mall, causing my normally good natured Grandmother's head to explode, seriously this was the first and maybe one of five times I've seen her blow her stack. She was so pissed she returned the thing. I remember at five years of age thinking that action was deserved.

Sadly, these days I could probably land the actual bat plane into the same mall and not hit a soul...

Explore the Wonder World of Azrak Hamway

Checking out 'Zilla

This is the Mattel booth at a regional toyfair where the newest thing is the Mattel Shogun Warriors Godzilla doll. In the background I can see more Shogun Warriors and the Galactica Logo. Call me a nerd but I really dig on this vintage toy industry insider stuff.

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

The Super Steins!

No it's not the story of a Jewish family given strange powers after an accidental dose of Gamma radiation (well, not until I sell that screenplay) but just a series of cool super hero merch from the mid seventies boom:

Ah the man of steel, I need this for better beer consumption.

Classic Adams Batman, very nice!

It's nice to see modern Wonder Woman on something, I noticed a lot of 70s stuff used Golden Age clip art.

And of course, Shazam! New to the team and hot on television. It's somewhat cruel but I get kind of a kick pointing this stuff out to my pal Rob at the Aquaman Shrine. Rob has a well grounded theory that the addition of Shazam pretty much screwed the King of Atlantis out of rightful merchandise. He's totally right but I always enjoy his "Agggghhh!" type comments when I post this stuff, sorry man.

More 70s SuperHero Merch (all of it has Aquaman):

PlaidStallions First Sponsor : Odeon Toys

I'm very pleased/totally surprised to have my first corporate sponsor here at PlaidStallions, the good people at Odeon Toys. It's an odd story how this came to be and goes to show you how fate works in funny ways.

A couple of months back I won this catalog on Ebay, I'd never heard of Odeon before but the description listed a lot of great mid 1970s licenses like Planet of the Apes so I went ahead and won it.

Immediately after I receieved an email from a man named Victor Machismo Jr, who claimed to not only to be the son of the President of Odeon but the current president of the reformed Odeon toy company that would be putting out product in 2010!

So I urge you all to welcome our awesome new sponsor and visit their new website, where you can read about the rise and fall and eventual rise of this amazing company, see all the amazing products they had in their 1975 catalog and check back this Friday to see their 2010 product offerings.

You can follow the link here:

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A Prehistoric Display

My pal Ray Miller sent over these cool shots of his new display of Aurora Prehistoric Scenes model kits at the Kruger St Toy and Train Museum in Wheeling West Virginia.

As featured here before, Ray has one of the premiere collections of these kits including rare prototypes like this beauftiul build up of the giant bird.

As an aside, I highly recommend the Kruger St. Toy and Train Museum as a family outing, I visit there each year for the Mego Meet Con and it really is a fun place to explore. Ray's cool prehistoric scenes display runs for the next three months.