Remco Toys

Hi All,

Here is a collection of still photos of various Remco toys. There are so many great toys and sets shown - some have been featured on Moonbase Central before, others I have never seen. 

There is a great Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea set, with a yellow Seaview; various Batman toys; a bobby trap that resembles a WW2 German Teller mine; a mortar; a host of Star Trek toys that have nothing to do with the show; A Land of the Giants Spindrift spaceship made from toothpicks (that belongs in a book on the most bizarre toys of all time); a grow-a-tooth doll; Speedrail monorail train sets; the Partridge Family bus; in I Dream of Jeannie, Jeannie lived in a bottle, and Remco did the bottle as a sort of doll's house playset; an Earthquake Tower skyscraper over 5 feet tall - was this a tie-in with the 1970s disaster movie ? 

Universal movie monsters, and various cheap toy lines from more recent times. What an amazing line-up of toys. Wow.

REMCO Toys : A Pictorial History - YouTube

Paul Adams

New Zealand

MAX HEADROOM ANYONE?

 

I associate Max Head Head Headroom with TV programmes like Lexx for some reason. Maybe they were on during the same period?

Max was always a good laugh as long as you could cope with the jerky movements. I've no idea what he went on about now though.

Do you remember Max?

V OR NOT TO V

I'm perplexed by this Argentinian toy rifle, the Luminosa.

It was on an old auction and listed as a "V" toy, you know, the V Visitor TV series, the one with the lizards under the skin.

Now I wasn't a mega fan of V, although I did watch it, but I don't recognise the rifle or any of the imagery on the backing card art. Is it V?

Do you think so?

I MISS BIRD'S DREAM TOPPING. DO YOU?

 

I used to love this stuff, Dream Topping.

It had a sort of vanillery creamy taste and did great things on top of tinned fruit like juicy peaches.

I think you just added milk to a white powder to get the dream going. the box above says cream has been added, which I assume is a powder. Or was the topping available ready made?

Did you like Dream Topping? What is it called in your neck of the woods?

ALIEN ATTACK: SPACEX CLONE WARS

 I'm always chuffed when I see the HG Toys copies of the Tri-ang SpaceX cruisers.

They came in brown and silver hard plastic.

I saw these on Ebay where they sometimes turn up. I saved the pics.

The card scenery which formed the basis of the HG Alien Attack set looks great. Golden age styling!

The set came with figures too. These sets were still available in 1980, a good 10 years after the SpaceX Cruiser came and went I think.

Are there any SpaceX copies anywhere later than 1980?

Is this a set you had or have?

MERRIMACK MINIATURE FAIRY TALES

 

I saw these on an online auction and thought, hmmm, I think I recognise those!

Merrimack Mighty Midget Miniatures.

All the main fairy tales all neatly stacked in a little plastic case of mini books!

Do they ring any bells?

ARE YOU REDDY BREKKING?

Had a hot bowl of Reddy Break tonight and it's true, I'd forgotten how good it was!

Quite delicious and I remember when I was a kid it was marketed as central heating for kids! In fact the kids on the TV ad back then did actually glow!

This ad must in some way still have an influence because my 4 year old Grandson refused some Reddy Brek because he'd heard it makes kids  sort of light up! ha ha Now that's marketing!

Do you like Reddy Brek?

More Dreams: The 1953 Mattel Dream Car on You Tube

Hi all,

Just found a short item on Hot Wheels TV, on You Tube, about the Mattel Dream Mobile. It gives a history of the original Mattel Dream Car from 1953, stock number No.465. 

This was a large plastic toy, 10 1/2 inches long, with a friction motor, and removable 'bomber bubble' top, and originally sold for $1.98. It came in '4 futuristic colors'. These were Red Blaze, Chartreuse Dreamliner (green), Black Diamond, and Blue Bullet. 

The presenter also mentions yellow and ivory (cream). There is a shot of a period Mattel ad, which also appears on the Hot Wheels Wiki entry for this model, from which most of this information is taken. 

Mattel introduced a scaled down Hot Wheels version in 2020 in red, and a blue (really more of a turquoise) version for 2021, which actually appeared in late 2020 - I have already sent you a shot of this on its card [which has already been on the blog].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jyi4XZf_wE

Paul Adams from New Zealand