Do you like Dick Tracy?

[chalwa]

Anyone who likes Tracy and/or may have a custom mego to share please drop by my new blog:
Ye Gods! He Collects Dick Tracy!
Comments are welcome and encouraged!
And thanks for all the Birthday wishes, guys!
Really cheered me up!

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[toys2cool]

Great stuff,I love Dick tracy both the vintage and new stuff,I have the playmates set from 90 except for the Blank I've never seen a mego custom though

[The Toyroom]

I've never seen a mego custom though

I did a Dick Tracy custom figure and box that was posted on the old boards

[david_b]

I still have that huge coffee Dick Tracy table book from 1972. Big blue cover. I plan on keeping that for life..!

It's a cherished favorite ~

[chalwa]

I still have that huge coffee Dick Tracy table book from 1972. Big blue cover. I plan on keeping that for life..!

Geez, THAT was the book that my uncle let me borrow as a child and hooked me for life on Tracy! I still have the original book that my uncle gave me when I was older and a nice copy that hadn't been read to death by a 6-year-old!
I'd love to see the box that was made. Any link?
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[starsky]

first thing that comes to mind is warren beatty and madonna

[jwyblejr]

Just thought of that skit Robot Chicken did about Mr.Tracy. The one where he takes off his hat and well..........I won't go no further.

[goldenryan]

it's too bad the figures from the movie aren't worth anything.

[jemboy2004]

remember when the blank from the movie was all the rage in the old toy shop days?

Well I could like Dick Tracy if they called him Richard Tracy instead. I really just hate the name Dick.

[captact]

I remember back then that the Blank figure by Playmates was a huge hush-hush figure,..you couldnt know who it was under the mask until the movie was released,..but once it did,...the stock was sent to Canada?!!?? making it a hard to find figure back then (like the Batman animated series/movie The Mask of the Phantasm,...the figures werent available until the movie was released as this was also a surpise and unexpected character).
That "Tracy" movie remains one of my favorites too (besides Flash Gordon 1980).

[chalwa]

That "Tracy" movie remains one of my favorites too (besides Flash Gordon 1980).

I am a huge fan of the Flash Gordon movie, but really didn't like Tracy on the big screen.
It's been so long since I actually watched it that I can't recall what put me off, but I do remember feeling it missed the mark. The comic strip Tracy is my first love so I guess I'm biased. I just think they worked so hard to make it "comic strip"-y that they lost something. The same thing worked so well with Flash but Tracy is very complex and he seemed so one-dimensional in the theatre. (odd thing to say about a one-dimensional comic character!)
Just me though.
I don't mind the name Dick. I have a cousin with that name and grew up associating it with detectives (private dick). The name was originally meant to convey that link.
Funny story: A local newspaper printed a story on a local township and when it was founded. Turns out the people had the surname of 'Dick'.
Swear to God the headline read: (and I still have the paper to prove it)
"Local Town founded by Dicks"
Heh.
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[vintage spideyfan]

I'm drinking coffee from a Dick Tracy mug right now...

[toys2cool]

That "Tracy" movie remains one of my favorites too (besides Flash Gordon 1980).

Same here,I'll always love the movie cause I enjoyed it so much as a kid.The Blank figure is still one of my holy grails and one day i'll have him