Scenes from Toyfair 78 Part Two

The Fisher Price Sky Surfer was a rare dud for the Adventure People, it was recalled that year for being defective.

A teeny tiny glimpse of the amazing onslaught Kenner had prepared to meet ravenous Star Wars demand in 1978. You can kind of see a whole mess of 12 back figures back there, excuse me I need to lie down.

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Scenes from Toy Fair '78 Part One

It was all about Space and science fiction at Toyfair '78 and Zee Toys was way ahead of the curve with their groovy 3 3/4" Metal Men figures, this display has me absolutely drooling. I have lazily collected Metal Men for over ten years, I think I have four figures...

Tobor is Robot spelled backwards, that blew my seven year old mind...

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Diener heads for outer space

Toyfair 1978: It seemed like every toy company everywhere was blasting off into space this year hoping to get some "galactic windfall"

Skyline's "Star Swords"

Toyfair 1978: Can't imagine what these are supposed to be...

Programming Barbie: readying for '72

Toyfair 1972: Right now a Barbie sized laptop has more memory than all of those computers combined..

Colorforms: Ready for the next 25 years

Toyfair 1978- Those "Space Warrior" sets are something that confused me a great deal as a kid, I wondered if those amazing action figures were inside the boxes or if they were available seperately. Sadly they were called "The Outer Space Men" released and cancelled well before I was born.

Luckily, the lines creator Mel Birnkrant is extremely generous with his time and explains everything on his amazing website. To learn more about these "Space Warrior" sets please visit this page.

Tomland: Gazing into the Future

Toyfair 1978- Most collectors know Tomland for their cool Alien and Monster toys, I wish I knew more about the company itself.

Mattel Calls Him Big Jim

Toy Fair 1972- A legend is born!

Schaper creates Tobor the robot

Toy Fair 1978- Tobor is robot spelled backwards, that blew my seven year old mind....

Horsman's Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Toy Fair 1972- An Angela Lansbury doll with an "Action Bed" accessory? I'm sooooooooo there!

Plaidstallions 3rd Annual Retro Toy Fair

Ha, three years with the same graphic! It's that time of year ago again where I use the American Toy Fair as an excuse to delve into articles and items from previous Toy Fairs. This year I plan to jump around a bit and focus on no specific year and also there will be hopefully be some coverage from the current toy fair as well.

Retro Toyfair coverage begins tomorrow, it's going to be a fun one with a few surprises.

For now enjoy the Previous Retro Toy Fairs.

Retro Toyfair Galleries

More Scenes from Toy Fair 1975

This is the Hasbro booth for 1975, that's the suer awesome G.I Joe Skyhawk zooming over these gentleman's heads. From left to right they are Jim Camilleri, Jack Kipperman and Merril Hassenfeld, the man who put the H in Hasbro. Neat!

1976 Hasbro G.I. Joe Catalog

B. Goldberg and J. Romain are off the see the Wizard, the Mego Wizard of Oz line that is! While I'm elated to find this picture I wish I had more shots of the legendary Mego Toy Fair showrooms. This one looks pretty swell however.

MegoMuseum has the most comprehensive Wizard of Oz Gallery

Da-Dun! Da-Dun! Nora Flynn from Imperial Toys cuddles their new inflatable version of the Shark from "Jaws" Imperial made a lot of wonderful rack merchandising and is still in business today.

Imperial Toys Gallery

The Future is Fantastic! A representative from Saalfields shows off their latest offering, based on the new sicence fiction series "Space:1999" to the buyer from Bradlees. I need to review that for colouring book theatre....

Mort Liebman displays his Star Trek record, one of the hottest items in the toy field. This is the power records booth and I am drooling! Check out those Planet of the Apes and G.I. Joe store displays, amazing.

Imagineering Introduces the Face

Scary!

Ideal Toy Line to be Featured on Lawrence Welk!

The Lawrence Welk show, repulsive to me as a child, downright hypnotic to me now.....

Big Trak

The zenith of electronic toys for 1979 was at Milton Bradley.

More 1979 Toyfair coverage all day.

Plush Superheroes from Knickerbocker

I see these guys at every single toy show I attend, so they must have sold well. The Superman always looks like he has bed head.

More Retro Toyfair coverage all day.

Rocket Soaring Sales Builders

The Starroid Raiders look like the love child of Kenner Star Wars and Play Mobile figures, which totally rocks!

Look for more Retro Toy Fair Coverage all Day...

Velcro Superheroes

I've been tempted by the Superman Velcro puppet on more than one occasion.

More 1979 Toy Fair Coverage all day

Wham-O Fun Fountain!

"Hey a clowns head is exploding, let's play!"

Toyfair 1979 coverage continues....

Fun from Star Wars

I still have that Chewbacca book, if I'm not mistaken, there were recipes in there!