I watched wild west films and enjoyed cowboy toys as a kid.
A lot of us probably did at some point. It was an era when popular American TV syndications played on our old three channel televisions.
Series such as, The Virginian, Rawhide, Bonanza, The High Chaparral, The Lone Ranger, etc, were all packed with simple narratives, typecast characters and catchy theme tunes.
As a symbolic nod to those childhood Wild West memories, there are a few fave 1970s Marx Lone Ranger bits and pieces hanging around the Last Chance Saloon with the other old toys.
Bright colourful box art and an imaginative array of action figures and accessories still tap into the stereotype myth that was the Old West for me as a young cap-gun slinging kid.
Tony K
UK
Wow. What a great selection of Lone Ranger toys. I never had any of these, although I did have various 1/32nd scale figures by the likes of Timpo, and the usual range of cap guns, holster, cowboy hat, and a plastic 'tin star'.
ReplyDeleteThanks Paul - Yes, I'd imagine a lot of us share great memories of Timpo. They provided us with such a rich and colourful range of little plastic figures and playsets to stimulate the imaginations. I remember buying them as single figures for pocket money prices. They're still a very popular range with collectors today.
DeleteBlimey, what a fantastic range.
ReplyDelete"Ride like the wind Bullseye!"
Thanks Mish. Marx/Gabriel went in guns blazzin' to create some classic outfits and accessories for their Lone Ranger figures. The biggest and perhaps the most colourfully detailed was a large fold-up diorama playset called Carson City. An ideal backdrop for those high noon gunfights.
DeleteAn amazing display of Rangerbilia Tone! all in such fine shape too, boxes and all. No rodeo scuffs or campfire ash on any of them! It must have been a lifetime's labour for you to amass such a brilliant collection, a great achievement and an important archive of wild west toys. So long pardner and well done.
ReplyDeleteThanks Woodsy. They're lovely old seventies toys with some fine box art. I only have a small portion of pieces from the large selection of outfits, figures and accessories, which was produced. Until next time... Adios Amigo.
ReplyDeleteThose toys really take me back. The rebel riders confederate was played to death in our back garden, my brother had the union stolen rifles outfit - great days back in the 70s!
ReplyDelete- Joe