This is a web-long devoted to my personal search for vintage toys. Growing up in the late 70s and early 80s, a kid couldn't help be exposed to all sorts of groovy plastic and die-cast wonders. The saturday morning cartoon-fests and comic book ads, along with seeing what the older kids were stashing in their toy chests presented a completely different world. My own lot was more pedestrian- Lego blocks, including electric and geared sets, Matchbox & Corgi cars, toy trains, plus exotic ones from relatives in europe. 5th grade came, and I moved to model-building, a large lot that would later be torched during my middle-school pyromaniac phase. Music and girls soon replaced toys after that.
However, for whatever reason, I'm now drawn back to the ads in old back issue Marvel comics. Antique shops and Ebay now offer some gems that came out before I was born, and I no longer risk a beating by handling someone's fur-face G I Joe...unless they are a collector, of course.
Screw mint condition, in box- I want to PLAY!
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