Month: April 2015
1987 McDonald’s Changeables Happy Meal Box
Those McDonald's Changeables signs that I posted yesterday are definitely great pieces of cheap transforming robot toy artwork, but for...
Zorcom Spaceship Patent
You probably remember yesterday's Zorcom Spaceship post in which we got a peek at a 1984 ad for the toy....
Parker Brothers’ Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back Video Game Ad
Is it wrong of me to say that this Empire Strikes Back video game never really was all that great...
“Energy Makes Toy Firm Success”
The Nashua Telegraph from May 14 of 1975 offers up this excellent UPI article which features Mego at the top...
Affiliate Link – How to Draw Manga Transforming Robots
Buy at Amazon.com!* While searching for reference books on transforming robot toys I ran across How to Draw Manga Transforming...
Zorcom Spaceship from 1984
So flipping through Crystar #6 from March of 1984 revealed this full-page ad for the Zorcom Spaceship, a cardboard playset...
Micronauts, Star Wars, Barbie, and Spider-Man for Christmas, 1977
The November 27, 1977 issue of the Daytona Beach Morning Journal includes this article by staff writer and grandmother Anne-Hicks...