Toy-Ventures: Star Maidens

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Plaid Stallions Toy-Ventures this week is all about the Star Maidens line of toys, you know I talk a lot about Knock-offs on this show and I love them but our subject today only looks one, they’re actually officially licensed toys from a tv program that not many people watched.

Star Maidens in a UK/German co-production filmed in 1975. It involves the Planet Medusa which has broken free of Its orbit and roams the galaxy while its citizens live underground and it's a matriarchal society where men are second-class citizens.

Uk Based Toy Maker Julius Cowan licensed Star Maidens for toys and did something that hadn’t been done before for a science-fiction property, they chose not to release a single male action figure.

The main focus of the Star Maidens toy line were the ladies and the 12’ Fashion dolls produced consisted of three Medusan characters and an earth protagonist.

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[Falstaff13]

The fact this series got licensed warms my heart. As a kid I would have probably been frustrated that they only made the women (and today I can mourn that there's not a Shem to turn into a Blake figure), but I agree with you applauding that decision. In fact, outside of a fashion doll line, is there a line with no male characters at all?

And you can probably guess from my comment above that I wish there was a figure line for Blake's 7.

[RonnyG]

I've never watched the show, and those dolls DO look cheap and generic like knock-offs---but, there's something about them. I must have them!!!

I'm pretty sure that blue space helmet is the same football helmet that's on my Big Jim: IMG_20210611_191135.jpg

[Earth 2 Chris]

Until this video I had NO IDEA this show existed, and by this point in my nerd life, that's kind of rare. Thanks for sharing.

Chris