Childhood Memories: The Toys of the Silver and Bronze Age 4 4

[Robot Man]

Finks, Weird-Ohs, Nutty Mads, oh my!

[Robot Man]

1960's Marvel stuff

[BAT MAN]

[BAT MAN]

[HouseofComics.Com]

Funny enough, a bunch of my childhood toys were mailed to me today. Death Star with box. One Shogun Warrior. Navarone was the best but wouldn't fit in this box. I was happy to hear that my sister found my Fort Apache set. EdgerX told me that the Navarone set is actually the earlier Iwo Jima playset, with Germans subsituted for Japanese. Which makes a lot of sense considering the map has an amphibious landing and that Iwo had a mountain redoubt aspect to it.

Seeing this thread, it reminds me that I would often only get one or two of a series of toys. I only had one GI Joe ever, the Atomic guy. Only one Shogun Warrior. Only four Megos (no villains). Only one of those model kits--the glow in the dark Godzilla. I think I had no Big Jim, only his buddy Big Jeff. Star Wars I had them all though.

[HouseofComics.Com]

2 minutes ago, DC|Marvel said:

This and the Star Trek bridge set were my two most wanted but never received toys, the product of much starting at the toy section of the Sears and Penneys catalogs.

[N e r V]

1 hour ago, DC|Marvel said:

 

1 hour ago, HouseofComics.Com said:

This and the Star Trek bridge set were my two most wanted but never received toys, the product of much starting at the toy section of the Sears and Penneys catalogs.

[Number 6]

1 hour ago, HouseofComics.Com said:

This and the Star Trek bridge set were my two most wanted but never received toys, the product of much starting at the toy section of the Sears and Penneys catalogs.

Got this for my 4th birthday along with Scottie and the Neptunian (you can barely see him in my left hand). 

[N e r V]

I actually own stacks of Sears, Penny’s, etc ... toy catalogs from the 1960s and 1970s but am to lazy to scan them so I swiped the above image. It’s from the 1975 Sears toy Christmas catalog if I remember correctly 

[HouseofComics.Com]

49 minutes ago, N e r V said:

 

Nice! Thank you so much!

[01TheDude]

10 hours ago, BriD. said:

These were great! I imagine it's hard to find an original set with all the parts. Any SSP racers were fun

 

[01TheDude]

[kav]

I had this purple plastic alien action figure type toy that the eyes and chest lights lit up thats all I can remember about it I've scoured the internet to find a pic or description with no luck.  Year was about 1969.

Edited August 15, 2018 by kav

[N e r V]

20 minutes ago, kav said:

I had this purple plastic alien action figure type toy that the eyes and chest lights lit up thats all I can remember about it I've scoured the internet to find a pic or description with no luck.  Year was about 1969.

I think you might be thinking of Scorpio from the Major Matt Mason line? It’s a super cool one to own if that’s him.

 

Edited August 15, 2018 by N e r V

[Ottobord]

18 minutes ago, kav said:

I had this purple plastic alien action figure type toy that the eyes and chest lights lit up thats all I can remember about it I've scoured the internet to find a pic or description with no luck.  Year was about 1969.

 

[kav]

1 minute ago, N e r V said:

I think you might be thinking of Scorpio from the Major Matt Mason line. It’s a super cool one to own if that’s him.

 

good guess but this one was dark purple and had human shaped plastic jointed arms and legs.  about 10" tall.

[N e r V]

Just now, kav said:

good guess but this one was dark purple and had human shaped plastic jointed arms and legs.  about 10" tall.

No worries. Scorpio needed to get posted on this thread anyway... 

[kav]

1 minute ago, N e r V said:

No worries. Scorpio needed to get posted on this thread anyway... 

 

[N e r V]

Anyone play with colorforms (besides the Outer Spacemen figures) growing up? I had this set as a child and have picked up several since then. Early creative impulse to create your own stories with pictures.

 

[HouseofComics.Com]

I had the Batman colorforms set.