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1960s Television Tie-In Board Games
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Above - Ad for various Evel Knievel (1938-2007) toys circa 1976. Includes Robbie Knievel (1960-2023), Teenage Stuntman!
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Kissy Doll Commercial (1961)
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Class A: a whole new concept in model car competition - 1972.
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Mystic Skull board game, 1964. This is a very rare item and is seldom found intact. The plastic skull is designed to fit on the bone-like post in the center of the board. There's a lot going on in this game.
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Tammy (1963)
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WARNING! 80′s toy!
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Tammy’s boyfriend Bud from Ideal Toys 1965. New episode on YouTube ready for you to watch, enjoy. https://youtu.be/D3GXrzfAJns
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In the mid-1970s, spurred by the success that Mego was having with The World’s Greatest Super Heroes line of action figures, other toy companies were eager to jump on the bandwagon. The problem was, Mego had a virtual stranglehold on superheroes with their license agreements with both DC Comics and Marvel Comics, who were the only game in town at the time.
Since the comic book superheroes were unavailable some companies, for example Kenner, licensed TV superheroes like The Six Million Dollar Man.
Another company, Hasbro, had tried and failed to get the license for The Six Million Dollar Man. Undeterred, Hasbro created their own cyborg hero: Mike Power, the Atomic Man. Hasbro then followed up with another superhero figure, Bulletman, who was extremely similar to - but supposedly not inspired by - the Fawcett Comics character of the same name from the Golden Age. Both were incorporated into the G.I. Joe Adventure Team.
That leads us to Ideal in 1977, and their own entry into the superhero action figure market: Electroman, and his arch-enemy, Zogg.
Electroman was one of those concepts that looked much better on the page than in real life (especially in the comic book ads, which look like they were drawn by Dave Cockrum).
In a world where most action figures were smaller (the bulk of Mego’s figures were 8 inches tall; Hasbro’s G.I. Joes were 11.5 to 12 inches; Kenner’s The Six Million Dollar Man was 13 inches), Electroman came in at a whopping 16 inches!
And what superpowers did this gargantuan action figure possess? He flashed light from his head and made noises.
That’s it.
Yes, Electroman had some decent (but not great) articulation. And he had soft, flexible boots. But really he was just some schmoe with a flashlight welded to the top of his head.
Zogg wasn’t any better. He looked like a monkey that had been dipped in Nair, and he was barely articulated at all. Sure, he could move on his own (due to wheels in his feet and an electric motor), but if you shined Electron’s light - or really any flashlight - at his head, Zogg would stop and fall over on his face.
On top of which, both figures required 3 “C” batteries (sold separately, of course) to power their gimmicks. Back in 1977 batteries cost as much as a student loan payment, and lasted about 6 hours!
In the end, the toy buying public was completely underwhelmed by Electroman and Zogg, and Ideal cancelled the figures after just one year.
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MY FAVORITE DOLL SET-UP!!!
I even have a puppet raggedy Andy ☹️👍
I have many more dolls this is just my favorite raggedy set up I have more they’re in a raggedy Ann moving box/toy box! They’re so cute
I even have those big walker dolls (Patti playpal from the 50s SHES ACTUALLY IDEAL TOO OMG
I also have knock off pattis which is still as cool I love every doll old or new
#dolls#doll collector#doll collection#raggedydoll#raggedy andy#raggedy ann#antique dolls#johnny gruelle#marcella gruelle#Marcella#American character dolls#tiny tears doll#ideal#ideal toys#ideal dolls#patti playpal
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I hear the cottonwoods whisperin' above
Tammy, Tammy, Tammy's in love . . .
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The Lone Ranger Western Adventure World
Action figures and play sets by Ideal Toys.
1977 advertisment
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As if you needed something from this blog to occupy your beautiful time on this the Memorial Day holiday in the United States and the Spring Bank Holiday in Great Britain:
If you try a cartoon story today with tiny elves dancing and singing in child-like voices while leaves float away into the water and bunnies hop about with twitchy noses, you're lost. Children will tolerate such foolishness but they won’t accept it. They’ve seen too many pointless, aimless pretties that insulted their intelligence. In the area of comedy, today’s child has a taste as sharp as his parents.
--attributed to William Hanna and Joseph Barbera "themselves," through a press release prepared for newspapers in local markets where The Magilla Gorilla Show would be airing starting in early 1964 for the Ideal Toy Company (ultimate source therefor)
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1950s Ideal Baby Nursery Playpen Toy
#50s#ideal toys#baby toys#dollhouse furniture#vintage toys#antique toys#toywave#toycore#kidcore#toycommunity#etsy finds#uploads#plastic toys
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Ideal Toys Evel Knievel toy sets - 1976.
#ideal toys#vintage toys#comic book ads#evel knievel#evel knievel super jet cycle#sky cycle#stunt cycle#action figures
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