Slave Girl Figurine with weapon, Stan Solo Creations, 2022
This one is a recreation of a figurine that should have been but never was. Kenner did not feel it was right to put a "slave" figurine out on the market for kids to play with in 1983... even though the Jabba playset had the slave collar ready to be used ! Of course, the Geek fan-base did not let this one go... and here you have it, in all her beauty and naïve sculpting, just like the other figurines of that time...
This one got a string through his head, a shield and a gun. Not exactly sure where it came from or what it is supposed to represent, but I can remember these as prizes you could get as kids at the village fair duck fishing stands...
Goldorak being such a success story in France, it was not long before everyone wanted to surf the Super Robot wave. This one here is a build-yourself kit that was given with the purchase of the PIF Gadget magazine, a publication for kids that saw daylight in 1969, but got a lot of hype during the 70ies and 80ies, especially because they were one of the first magazines that came with a "gadget" (little plastic toy or other gizmo) that kids could build themselfves and put in a backpack to bring to school and show their friends during recess.
PIF Gadget nº554, Sep.1979
Announcement in PIF nº553
The relationship with Goldorak (=PiforaK) and his detachable fists, the Fulgoropoing (here "Herculopoing") cannot be more obvious.
I would have been the most popular kid on the block if i had a watch like this one back then...
Just thinking that only a few years later, Japan would enter the digital age and sell LCD screened Casio's and Seiko's watches that were as accurate as anything Switzerland could offer...
For me, soldiers of the first WW will always link me to Tardi, one of the great cartoonists that wrote a number of books on the subject... all of them showing there is no one victorious at the end.
No idea where this thing came from - (found at the flea market) - seller said it might be linked to Angola ? If so not so much a rocket then some type of artillery shell ?
All I know is these would make excellent futuristic bowling pins !
In Portugal, the series was known as "Carrossel Mágico" (spelled as "Carrocel Mágico"), and aired on RTP in 1966. The dub was based on the original French version (with the characters having their own voices), and several of the characters were renamed, with Pollux/Dougal being called "Franjinhas". It was also the first foreign children's series to be dubbed into European Portuguese.
Here is a strange rubber toy found at the feira... made in Czechoslovakia. It is strange how babies in these countries are completely strapped down before being put in their craddles. The word cocoon comes to mind, but is there really a scientific reason to do this ?
A bootleg, of course. But I found this one at the "loja do Chinês" for under 5 EUR. And it works ! B/O with spinning fan on top and light in head. Since you don't see a lot of Astroboys in Portugal, this one was a no brainer...
This baby came from the US-version of the (vintage) Death Star Space Station (not the UK / Palitoy cardboard one, but the plastic version by Kenner.
You have to admit Kenner product-designers did a great job when all the source-material they had were some movie stills of only the eye-part of the beast...
Computers were all the rage in 1970. Well, a year earlier it helped us land a man on the moon.
So no wonder that the toy business hooked in on that wave. Anything futuristic had to be run by computers, with computers... right ? This red sleek car had a programable chassis based on pre-cut cards and was sold with a bunch of cones to organize wild slalom competitions !
Computacar, Mettoy, Hong Kong, 1970
Chevrolet Astrovette !
To be relevant with the real world, most of the astronauts were seen driving Corvettes too - read more of it here...
