One of the most exciting toys I ever found at a car boot sale has to be the Remco Mighty Mike Camelback Skyway set from 1967 - like this one pictured on Ebay.
I'd never seen one before and was blown away when I looked inside the box on the seller's stall. This will have been around 1998.
The box was HUGE, easily one of the biggest I ever schlepped home. It was a swine to get to the car!
Once home I had a good look at all the zillion parts. There was track, yellow bases and supports, a white jeep and about four or five separate and quite gorgeous boxes inside the main box like these pictured on Ebay:
These boxes contained lovely snap-on plastic vehicle bodies, which attached to the detachable chassis of the jeep! Talk about neat!
When set-up the whole toy set was ginormous and spanned the floor like behemoth! The powerful hill-climbing action of the jeep-trucks made easy work of the rickety skyway and it trundled up and along it as if on an expedition in the Amazon.
When I sold my set on Ebay around 2001 it was the biggest thing I'd ever had to parcel up and ship. I can't remember where it went but the postage was astronomical!
[the biggest thing I ever shipped eventually became a vintage butchers pushbike, which I had to wrap and post to Spain!]
For a detailed look at the Mighty Mike set in action check out this video by a fellow fan on You Tube. Its long so turn off when you've had enough!
Did you have a Mighty Mike camelback?
I did not have the camelback, I had a much larger set, the balancing gift set. It had the camelback, a single track version of it, a balance jig, a trailer to tow, camper and wrecker snap on backs. This is the set I had for years of enjoyment http://www.timewarptoys.com/mmgift1.JPG
ReplyDeleteWow, that looks amazing Lance! I love the balancing rods on the side of the vehicle! What a toy. Did you mix up this set with other toys like Major Matt Mason or was it strictly Mighty Mike time?
DeleteMM is way too small for use with MMM. Although my friends and I had quite a few different scale stuff, my Mighty Mike when not being a solo act, was often paired with Tootsie Toy cars and military vehicles. Even a few Dinky toys.
DeleteYou don't have any photo's of those glory days do you Lance?
DeleteI don't but my mom may have some. I'll have to dig through the boxes of photos and slides and see what shows up. I hope there's some of the Mercury rocket I made for cub scouts using my Mercury capsule with GI Joe astronaut. Dad used a lot of slide film and then Polaroid film when it became available and I'm not sure how well those have held up for the 40+ years.
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