Before the concept of Mint On Card...

Why did so few Star Wars figurines survive on their blister card ? This might be a reason... This is Palitoys's campaign during The Empire Strikes Back to promote the art of Bounty Hunting... with scissors !

Front and back of "capture log" - these were distributed in the toystores of the day...

Really ? You are going to ruin a perfect card just to get freakin' 2
seconds of fame Dengar ? He's not even the cool Bounty Hunter ! 

Tattoos...

Something kind of disappearing in today's world are the temporary tattoos that kids used to get in chewing gum packs or potato chips bags. But this was definitely something that defined the 70ies and 80ies and we were always proud to show our latest tattoo to the classroom. Here some examples of French tattoos from Goldorak / Grandizer / Goldrake...

The package was the most colorful element...

Completely harmless... remove using comestible oils ?

Back of tattoo sheet with instructions...

Colous have faded after 40 years

The pirates are back...

Harlock doll, Medicom, Japan, 1990's

Emeraldas, Yellow Submarine (Takara), Japan, 1998

The chubby prince...

He got the Sofubi treatment ! Yeah !

Duke Fleed (Actarus), HL PRO, China,
2017

The Nono family picture !

A bunch of Nono's !

Sniks ? what is a Snik ?

Baseball Astrosnik and rocket, Bully, Germany, 1981

With the success of the Smurfs (Schtroumpfes, Pitufos, Smurfen...) came a number of non-Peyo look-alikes. The Snorkels had their thing in the deep waters of the ocean, and these little guys called (Astro)Sniks had their story in space.

I just found that rocket (marked SNIK-X1 !) on the flea market of Lisbon 2 weeks ago... The little Snik itself is a "retooling"of a similar Smurf figurine. Nice way to go Bully ! Just take a Schleich figurine design, modify it a little and voilà ! No royalties paid I guess...

For the little story, Bully even edited some Comics and other merchandising, but unlike their Belgian blue cousins they never got the TV cartoon treatment...

Counting days with Robocon !

1 click on the Radar... and it's tomorrow!

Robocon, Banpresto, China, 2010's