Glue together the Fonz!

1976 was the year we reached "Peak Fonzie"

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Sweathogs Vs Fonzie

Even as a kid, I knew the Sweathogs bike really belonged to Big Jim, they clearly stole it.

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Genuine Imitation Brand Fonzie

This Official Fonzie Jacket complete with "autographed photo" is the very peak of "Fonziemania" in 1976. I certainly remember being all in on that sort of thing having a shirt, a button, pillowcase and of course the Mego doll.

Now, my kids call Fonzie "that guy on the pillowcase".

The Fonz AM Radio

This may be the spiffiest Fonzie toy ever made and if I'm not mistaken, it's in scale with the Mego doll!

Komic Korner

From that time when Superhero T Shirts were hard to get.....

Mighty Men of Action and Adventure

I've posted bits of this before in the dial up days but I don't think I've shown the whole ad.

I'm just in awe, I'd wear the majority of these right now especially the Famous Monsters and Tarzan.

Also, it's weird to see Shazam! designs yet only one Batman.

Aaay, Fonzie!

This little picture is another thing that I love about toy catalogs. You see, in 1976 Mego rushed the Fonz doll to the market place but his friends and his trademark motorcycle would have to wait until 1977.

JC Penney offered the Fonz with this fill in motorcyle, it probably wasn't even made by Mego and looks nothing like Fonzies bike. I kind of want one.

Imitation Fonzies

Lest we never forget the massive spread of "Henry Winkler Mania" that pummeled the country in the mid 1970s. It's somewhat understandable that teens and pre-teens wanted to be more like this leather clad rebel so we can forgive this young man doing his best "Ayyyy" here.

Somehow though, it's just unforgivable when you see a grown man doing it. This guy should have dressed like Schneider from "One Day at a Time", he could have pulled that off...

1977 Vanity Fair Catalog

Venity Fair was one of the leading makers of electronics for children, which by 1977 standards meant they sold radios, walkie talkies and other items that look like stone tools to today's generation..

What sets them apart is the breadth of licensed items they produced, take 1977 for instance where we got a variety of products ranging from James Bond to Holly Hobbie, from the Fonz's fifties antics to the far out future of Space:1999.

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Ayyy It's the Fonz Bike!

Toy Fair 1977 :I would pay a million dollars to see Henry Winkler on that Big Wheel nowadays.....

Sit on Fonzie's face

I'm loving this selection of Bean Bag chairs from '76, my personal fave being the Star Trek one although Fat Albert is tempting.

Again with the Welcome Back Kotter and how often do you see licensed merchandise from Convoy ?