1977 Gabriel Toys Lone Ranger Catalog

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The Lone Ranger toyline is easily one of the nicest action figure lines of the 1970s if not all time and Gabriel Toys had some real long running success with it.




This 1977 Catalog is the third year for the line and shows that it was still going strong, Gabriel put a lot of effort into this catalog and it truly showcases how nice this line really was.

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[HardyGirl]

My cousins had The Lone Ranger, (I think) Tonto, Butch Cavendish and the Carson City playset. That Chuck Wagon set looks a lot like the Johnny West set. According to "A Christmas Story", the Lone Ranger's nephew's horse was named Victor, but the catalog has him as Banjo. I wonder which one is the right name?

[ShadowAvenger]

I still have my Butch Cavendish but he's pretty beat up. I wanted the Lone Ranger or Tonto but the local store was out of stock of those two so I ended up with Butch.

My cousins had The Lone Ranger, (I think) Tonto, Butch Cavendish and the Carson City playset. That Chuck Wagon set looks a lot like the Johnny West set. According to "A Christmas Story", the Lone Ranger's nephew's horse was named Victor, but the catalog has him as Banjo. I wonder which one is the right name?

Victor is the correct name for he was a descendant of Silver.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I got the Lone Ranger/Silver and Tonto/Scout giftsets for Christmas in 81 or so, whenever The Legend of the Lone Ranger came out. I played and played with those things! I still have my original horses, although they are a bit worse for wear, but upgraded my LR and Tonto, and got Butch and Dan to boot! Love this series, and could definitely see myself getting more into it. My dad was/is a huge Lone Ranger fan, so it's a generational thing with us.

On the first page they mention a TV movie...it would have been interesting to see if that may have developed into a TV reunion film with Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels!

Chris

[MIB41]

One of my prized collections. Gabriel really gave allot of love to this license.

[Mikey]

I always hated the Gabriel bodies.

They seemed to get limp and loose very fast

[Falstaff13]

This was the first line I truly ever had as a child (I had Lone Ranger & Silver as far back as I can remember, and I still remember vividly the Christmas I opened Tonto). This remains one of my favorites of all time, and just the box art itself is beautiful. The bodies did have the problem of getting loose, but these were definitely well designed. The Gabriel figures worked well with the Legends of the West line (or, since those were basically the generic line, I guess they worked well with Lone Ranger), and I still am very happy to have mine.

The horse for Dan Reid did have more than one name, and I think it was named Victor on the Clayton Moore TV show. Dan Reid was played by Chuck Courtney, who later played Billy the Kid in the glorious Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula, and I keep meaning to use my Dan Reid and a John Carradine sculpt of Dracula to reenact that title!

[PNGwynne]

One of my prized collections. Gabriel really gave allot of love to this license.

Indeed. A beautiful line, Plaid Stallions nailed it when BH opined that the Lone Ranger and Fighting Furies are the best-detailed figures of the '70s.

[TrekStar]

Those are beautiful, unfortunately I never really got into the Gabriel scene was more a Mego kid,
WGSH and Trek, I did though like the Lone Ranger and remember playing Ranger and Tonto with a
friend substituting horses with bicycles.

[Gorn Captain]

Lone Ranger was my very first action figure. It was a great line, but all of my originals fell apart.
The artwork was amazing.

[EmergencyIan]

Like Chris, I received my Gabriel Lone Ranger 9" Lone Ranger and Tonto along with Silver and Scout on Christmas of 1981. I was absolutely in love with those figures. Such a great, beautiful action figure line.

Subsequently, discovered that there were more figures, horses and play sets in the line. A friend of mine's mother happen to have Sears Wishbook's from several years back. I looked through some of them one afternoon and discovered the extent of Gabriel's Lone Ranger line. For a good while after that discovery, I was desperate to get me hands on the rest of the line. Alas, I was 7-years-old, at the time, and had no way or means or tracking down the rest of the line.

- Ian

[rykerw1701]

This was a great line, but the bodies are tough to fix. Unlike Mego or GI Joe, you have to break them apart and try to glue them back together. I've got the Lone Ranger, Tonto and Butch Cassidy figures and some horses, but not displayed them because the bodies need some help and I haven't gotten around to trying to mess with them. If anyone has any tips, feel free to post them.