More Trading Cards Part 1

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It's been a while since I've talked about this but I printed some designs in the summer and have been happily sending them out with DVD orders and ebay auctions, figured this weekend would be a good time to showcase them.

Card #32- Stretch Armstrong

This was long overdue, seeing as he's an iconic toy born in the 1970s. It's one of the few vintage toys I had as a kid but will likely never rebuy as a collector. Those things can be timebombs and I learned my lesson years ago, so did an unfortunate mouse.

1978 Stretch Armstrong Catalog



Card #33- The Ghost of Captain Kidd
Ah, this is one of the coolest action figures of the 1970s IMO, this image was too good not to make into a trading card. I don't collect these either but wow do I think they're neat.

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Cards 34 and 35 tomorrow!

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[livnxxxl]

Cool looking cards. Nice designs. I like Stretch Armstrong. That was a neat toy.

[HardyGirl]

I'm grooving on the Stretch card. Nice work!

[jwyblejr]

I have no idea where I'm at with Plaid Stallion cards. I'll have to check.

[Meule]

Love that Ghost of Captain Kidd card

[vulcan2074]

Those are some Beautiful cards.
Sammy

[mazinz]

I want to hear more about your strong armstrong story and the poor mouse

[Earth 2 Chris]

I loved Stretch Armstrong (and Stretch Monster) as a kid. Looking at that card, it almost looks like he may have influenced the MOTU design a bit, over-muscular and squatty.

The Ghost of Captain Kidd is just a plain awesome figure. It seems so ahead of it's time, more of an 80s gimmick. Great cards!

Chris

[Lonestarhobbies]

I just got my starter cards in the mail this week and was REALLY impressed with the cards! I was fortunate enough to get a #33 Ghost of Captain Kidd card.....it's SWEET!


Now I badly want to get caught up on cards!

[wilbs518]

Great cards as usual.

[toys2cool]

awesome!!

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Cool. My stretch suffered the same fate as so many. Corn Syrup guts all over the place. He was forever sealed into his foam sarcophagus.

[cjefferys]

Cool cards. My grandparents got me a Stretch Armstrong for Christmas when I was a kid, but I have no desire to own one now either. To be honest, I wasn't even that impressed with it as a kid. He was basically a brick that was useless as an action figure, hard to stretch and in a couple months had cracks everywhere and started leaking. Wow, fun! He was damn heavy though, if some neighbourhood punk was causing you trouble, you could probably beat him to death with Stretch, he was a pretty formidable blunt instrument, I guess that's one plus.

[supes]

Wow those are really cool. I forgot how cool Strech Armstrongs head is!

[starsky]

the stretch card is one of my favorites!