The ten greatest cheapo drug store toys

[EmergencyIan]

Gotta agree with the top pick! Nice list.


- Ian

[Marvelmania]

Brian,

I always look forward to these articles.

Who the heck is the chick Cap is chasing after??????

Why that's Nightshade of course From the cover of Cap and the Falcon #164 where she turns the Falcon into a werewolf.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

Great article, very funny! And to be honest, I did (and still do) love those cheap dime store toys!!

[huedell]

It's funny... I remember buying toys like that and them actually losing
most of their value once they were out of the package and their "franchise
affiliation" wasn't as apparent.

Example:
Crappy plastic handcuffs once removed from flashy DUKES OF HAZZARD
packaging...are basically just crappy plastic handcuffs---unless you had a
great imagination---which I did NOT

[mego73]

I love these crappy toys. Flash Gordon dinosaurs are the best. The dime store toy I remember as being utterly pointless was a Magnum PI pinball game

[Tyme2tyme]

The cheapiest toys I got as a kid could still be identified as to what they were after opening. I got several Star Trek toys such as the phaser/water gun and the phaser/disc shooter. JOHN

[GlobalObserver]

My best drug store purchase was the AHI Apemen. I also bought all of my comic books at the drug store. I sure miss 20 cent comic books. *sigh*

[Mikey]

One thing they forgot .....

I forgot what they were called, but they were cardboard writing pads with a black background ... Over this was a sheet of plastic "paper".
When your done doodling, you lift up the paper to make it all go away.

They used to sell these things with almost every TV and Comic characters name on them.

[GlobalObserver]

One thing they forgot .....

I forgot what they were called, but they were cardboard writing pads with a black background ... Over this was a sheet of plastic "paper".
When your done doodling, you lift up the paper to make it all go away.

They used to sell these things with almost every TV and Comic characters name on them.

I must have bought a thousand of those things. The poor man's version of Etch-A-Sketch. I still remember getting that black wax under my fingernails.

[goldenryan]

To be fair the pota cartoon did have airplanes. i wish they made a parachutist db cooper atleast would of been actuate. and for all we know ming the merciless might have been breding baby dinosaurs to take over mango or something

[Evel KMego]

Fun stuff indeed!

[vulcan2074]

Cool List
Sammy

[theantiquetiger]

One thing they forgot .....

I forgot what they were called, but they were cardboard writing pads with a black background ... Over this was a sheet of plastic "paper".
When your done doodling, you lift up the paper to make it all go away.

They used to sell these things with almost every TV and Comic characters name on them.

Those are called "Magic Slate" pads and are very collectible.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Y'know.... there are a LOT of old weird widgets I'd love to see something on. Seems like nobody does impulse buys any more. I used to love the weird noname stuff! Gave me a chance to add my own story. The Tomland figures (8 AND 3.5 inch) are STILL personal faves, and I have fond memories of my jawas facing a horde of Shogun Warrior tops.

Some of the stuff I've been looking for:
-them weird metal "V" shaped spaceships. They had wings that shot missiles and were available durned near everywhere when I was a kid
-Monster colouring books. Really, REALLY cheap. I have two: "Sea" and "Swamp" and used to have "Flying" and "Space." Don't know if there were more; but I'd step on my Grandma... hell, I'd step on MYSELF for a copy of the "Space Monsters" one.
-still looking for one of them robot candy cases....

Don C.

[palitoy]

-them weird metal "V" shaped spaceships. They had wings that shot missiles and were available durned near everywhere when I was a kid

My Dad sold those to all Macs stores in Ontario, they were by Laramie, I've seen a couple of different cards for them, even under the Battlestar Galactica brand but never on the card that my Dad carried them. Maybe his were knockoffs.