Hulk-a-mi-phone

From the "i've seen it all now" department. 

While the toy company gets a l'il gold star for giving Spidey a bugle (think about it), the idea of the Incredible Hulk standing in the desert giving his rendition of "songbird" makes his utility belt and motorcycle seem legit in comparison.

Jiggler Supreme

In 1979 Ben Cooper released a wave of jigglers that comprised of The Thing, Red Skull, Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. They also did corresponding Halloween costumes that year. They were misleading advertised as ersatz action figures in a Heroes World ad, so I really wanted to track them down as an adult.

Dr Strange never made it to the A-List in 70s comics, prior to this I'd seen a cameo he made in a Spider-Man comic. I think the big reason for his inclusion into this line was his TV movie that ran a year previous on CBS. I think it really helped raise his profile.

I'd never held the figure prior to last week and it's charming and a bit goofy, Dr Strange is really mad about something here!

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Dance floor dynamic duo

 Sadly, this moment in time is when Dwayne and Kenny peaked in life, it would be all down hill after this....

Darth and Chewie in Texas

I got an email from Mark this week who actually apologized for "adding to my pile of Darth Vader appearances" (he did get around) and then opened the photos. What Mark doesn't realize is there is few things I like better in this life than....

 Weird, homemade Star Wars costume appearances! Oh, I could hug you for this, sir. Mark (pictured in the middle) says it best:

"This pics were taken back in 1978 at the Angelina Mall (which no longer exists) in Lufkin, Texas.  The costumes are not very good but back in ’78 – it was freakin’ awesome!"

I have no doubt about that, I'd have been in awe too.

Dark lord of the Sith and judging by his chest, model railway enthusiast. 

Thanks a bunch Mark, these are incredible.

Send me your mall appearance photos!

1984 Ideal Toys Robo Force Catalog

 

Robo Force was a nicely designed series of Robot Action Figures that seemed to be largely influenced by Star Wars.

The line, despite an animated special was not a commercial success, this may have been due to Hasbro's Transformers launching the same year, really making Maxx Steele and his "Daleky" crew looking a bit old fashioned. The line endure cult popularity to this day and it's one of the last Ideal action figure lines to be released.

 

Visit the 1984 Ideal Toys Robo Force Catalog here.

  More Ideal Toys and Robots

Quick, Robin the Bat Phaser!

I have a real obsession with toy makers giving Super Heroes who are largely anti-gun, a gun. The most galling is Batman, Spider-man comes a close second as he's also a victim of gun related violence but the caped crusader is the weirdest to me.

Remco got around this by making it a light gun that fires the Bat signal in case Batman ever needs to call himself I guess.

There are two packages for this, one is a window box but I think this version is some really nice toy art.

Cool, Laced Crochet.

because your bacne should be shared with the world...

Buck Rogers Space Toppers

The brilliance of toys such as these is you couldn't always talk your folks into an action figure but you probably could get something like this, a semi action figure.

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To boldly wear

At this past weekend's MegoMeet, I was witness to many new, exciting things but none quite as awesome as this shirt that my pal Corey lent me to photograph.

This one is just everything I love about 70s Trek merch, I wish they made it in lummoxy adult sizes today. It's the second coolest Star Trek shirt I saw all weekend (The first will be coming soon)

Sure, Kirk is socking him but fake Gorn is getting a nipple tweak in there.

I sleep now.