I featured Lilly Ledy's Capitan Boy yesterday, so it feels right to look at another of Billy Blastoff's contemporaries, his rival over at Remco, ADVENTURE BOY. I don't recall seeing this little American fellow in the UK and I certainly didn't have any pals who owned one.
Adventure Boy often featured in US Catalogues alongside Major Matt Mason and Billy Blastoff and this is how I first came across him in the last few years. The packaging is classic late Sixties Remco, a house style I particularly love [ Mighty Mike, Star Trek etc] and like Eldon's Billy B you could get different beautifully boxed sets. Pictured are Spacecraft, Snowmobile and Skymobile from 1970 [images courtesy of Ebay].
I'm just not sure about Remco's unique selling point for Adventure Boy though. You stuck two of your fingers in his trousers to create his legs! A neat idea, finger driven toys, but when compared with Billy Blastoff's battery driven vehicles, TV and raygun, well Adventure Boy is really just pants! Did it ever catch on or was Adventure Boy the first and last finger driven toy line?
