Retro Toy Fair Coverage : 1975 gets all Bionic!

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Toyfair 1975 was held from February 16 to the 18th of that year, a pretty signifigant year as many iconic toys from the 70's (some spilling over into the 80's) were born, including the big guy below:

Upon seeing Steve Austin, many of us said "Mike Power Who?" and begged our parents for the amazing Kenner Bionic Man. Below is the toy fair promo reel courtesy of you tube:

Kenner Bionic Man Promo Reel

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Product People Cereal Character Squeezables

Using characters from commercials like Charlie the Tuna and Count Chocula just goes to show how influential advertising is on us as kids. Man, I need to hunt me down a Boo Berry.

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[The Toyroom]

Very cool! I dig that Fruit Brute! Who's that little brown dog next to Frankenberry?

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Janex Talking Batman Alarm Clock

1975 Toy Fair: Janex would later go on to make more talking clocks including Superman and Star Wars.

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[toys2cool]

I love those People Cereal Character Squeezables Silly Rabbit..trix are for kids

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Estes Star Trek Rockets

Toy Fair 1975: I've always loved the concept of making the Enterprise a rocket.

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[toys2cool]

The Klingon Cruiser looks awesome

[EmergencyIan]

Great job on the '74 and '75 coverage of Toyfair, Brian! Lots of fun.


- Ian

[The Toyroom]

I always wanted one of the Janex Batman clocks...instead I got stuck with Bugs Bunny.

[Marvelmania]

It's such a blast seeing all of these cool toys! Loving me some Toyfair!!!!!

[HardyGirl]

I had (and have again) The Bionic Woman and her Bionic Beauty Salon. Now I also have Steve Austin, Oscar, Bigfoot, Fembot and Maskatron. I didn't have a toy of any of the products shown, but I did have the Poppin' Fresh Pilsbury Dough Boy. And I was lovin' my Raggedy Ann & Andy Talking Alarm clock!

Keep 'em coming! 70s Toyfair ROCKS!

[Mikey]

I remember back in the early 80's buying the Enterprise just to get the correct ESTES decals for my AMT model kit.

Now that I think about it, I never did put together or launch the ESTES Enterprise....
Strange, because I was a rocket nut back in the day.

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Kung Fu Figures from Diener

Toy Fair 1975 : Enter the generic Dragon, Diener also created some highly collectible Space Alien Figures.

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Shrunken Head Kit by Milton Bradley

For the aspiring young witch doctor.....

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[Sweep Secondhand]

I remember seeing the Vincent Price artwork ads on the back of comic books for these when I was a kid and I wanted one SOOOOOOO bad! Then I saw it in the store and read where the box said it took overnight just to make one head. I didn't have the patients for that so I bought something else.