When I first started collecting vintage toys in the early 1990's my passion was fed by two publications, the British mag Model Mart and the US 'newspaper' Toy Shop. There was nothing quite like leafing through them on the bus to work! My interest only grew with every new issue. It was a sad day when Model Mart went out of production. Is Toy Shop is still around? There have been a few other vintage toy mags over the last twenty years but none lasted. Here in the UK the last one with any interest in TV/ space/ Sci Fi toys, albeit limited, is the newspaper-style Collectors Gazette.
Are there any vintage toy magazines still in print around the World?
Toy Shop went from a newspaper format to a magazine format - but it ceased publication in 2008.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame. I still have my old newspaper copies, which were so much fun and long before Ebay!
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