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Thread: The Top Ten Coolest Star Trek Toys of the 1970s

  1. May 8, '09, 6:50 AM #1
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    Plaid Stallions The Top Ten Coolest Star Trek Toys of the 1970s


    With the J.J. Abram's helmed film poised to be a block buster, I thought it only fitting to do a top ten list of some of the better 23rd century items we got in the 1970s. Many might seem crude by todays standards but most have never been topped in the fun department.
    The 1970s were truly the golden age of Star Trek merchandise, prior to that companies just lazily put the words "Star Trek" on recycled space guns and "Astro trains"(?) but the 1970s saw the biggest merchandising spree this side of Planet of the Apes.


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    Great list Brian! I have a 90s reissue of the AMT bridge model, and it shows Sulu as the third guy on the box, but maybe it's open for interpretation.

    No love for the Mego Phaser 2 game (the big honkin' console one)? A friend of my dad's found it in a dumpster and gave it to us. Dad cleaned it up, and we were shooting Klingons before I even knew what Star Trek was!!!

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    I had never seen that Star Trek Big Wheel before. Holy poop I would loooooooooved to have that when I was a kid. And I was only a mild ST fan in the 70's. It would have cured my insane jealousy of Richie San Fillipo's green machine in ward speed!
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    Wow, they made a Star Trek Big Wheel ???
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    WOW! A Star Trek Big Wheel?? That is just beyond cool! I never even knew anyone made those. And I have the Star Trek Colorforms set and of course the Mego Enterprise Bridge set. Those are still a hit w/ kids today!
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    I found the Big Wheel in a toy trade magazine but I swear I also found it in a Sears Catalog, I'd better back that up.
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    Once again, they made a Star Trek Big Wheel?! That is soooo cool!
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    Yeah, that Big Wheel is AWESOME. I don't recall ever seeing it before either. Nowadays they'd slap some stickers on the existing Big Wheel mold.

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    Omg!! What a great list!!!!
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    If I could make 1 change, I would swap out the Phaser-2 target game for the regular Remco electronic phaser.
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