Sleeping Bag O Rama

 

This selection of sleeping bags from 1979 really taps into the pop culture at the time, it's a mish-mosh of TV Properties and popular brands. I'd have gone for the Black Hole at the time, you?

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The First issue of Toy-Ventures magazine is almost here:

1980 Toys R Us Flyer featuring Mego, Mork and the Kenner Alien

It's sadly looking like the end for Toys R Us in the United States, so let's go and focus on when it was a growing company that made for an amazing experience.

This Flyer from 1980 is so jam-packed with late 1970s pop culture that every page seems to have some Incredible Hulk or Wonder Woman merchandise tucked in there somewhere, it's a real trip!

1980 Toys R Us Flyer is really to send you back in time here.

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Hagensick's Playroom 1975

1981 Toys R Us Flyer

Childworld 1975

Childworld 1981

1975 Toys R Us

Good Night and Na-No Na-No

From that brief time when Mork trumped Darth Vader and Spider-Man...

Colouring Book Theatre: Mork from Ork: An Outer Space Activity Book

Mork from Ork: An Outer Space Activity Book (1979), Grosset and Dunlop.

          This month I received a box of joy from Tracy, who generously donated some colouring books so that I could share them with the world. 

           I thought I'd open with this remind of when "Mork Mania" briefly swept our landscape, distracting briefly us from Roller Boogie and .

This book also serves as a bit of a redemption for artist Tony Tallarico, who was last mentioned in this oddity, as it shows he was fully capable of drawing likeness.

Grab your crayons and rainbow suspenders and join me after the jump

Heart throb choices

Hey some girls like them funny and furry....

Halloween Costumes: Best Selection in Town!

Love, love, love this ad from '79, all the faves are here, Mork, Remco KISS your face, Imagineering's "The Face" but the big standout on this piece would be the "Incredible Melting Man" makeup kit by Imagineering. Based on the movie of the same name (which is also a great episode of Mystery Science Theatre 3000) the melting man kit was short lived and now quite desirable to collectors.

More Halloween stuff all day!

Vintage Commercial Friday

I've uploaded a couple of commercials from volume 2 of our DVD "70s Toy Explosion"(thanks so much to everybody who ordered BTW) and thought it'd be cool to share them today. It's fun aaaaand so much less time consuming than scanning an actual catalogue.

This commercial for the Barbie Star Traveller is of interest of to me mainly because I swear this is Judy Strangis from "Electra Woman and Dyna Girl".

The second commercial I chose is for Mork and Mindy toys, I'm not the biggest Robin Williams fan in the world (in fact I'm jokingly trashing him on my other blog today) but I really remember "Mork Mania" fondly. I still want to buy that Egg Ship figure set.

One day you will be mine eggship....

The Ork Look

Seriously, in 1978 JC Penney was encouraging young woman to dress like Mork, it's right in the ad copy! Attempts to revive this concept in 1990 with the "Get all Urkeled up!" campaign failed miserably thankfully.......

Nanu Nanu!

Oh how I wanted this Mork from Ork Eggship when it first came out, I love how mattel cleverly reused the Battlestar Galactica body for ol' Mork. At the same time you could buy Mork gum in a similiar eggship, it only cost $0.50 and placated me.

On a side note, I'm attempting to create a directory of vintage toy shops over at the Mego Museum, if you have a local toy haunt in your area and want to share please fill out the form at the bottom of the page. Thanks for reading.

Flash Gordon meets Mork and Mindy

A two for one today, the uber cool Flash Gordon toy line based on the Filmation cartoon and the Mork and Mindy toy line which is made of 100% recycled ideas!