In Love With Toys documentary has scenes that knocks your 70's toy lovin socks off

[mego73]

Ray Castle (curator of the Museum Of Monster Toys and all around good egg) did this documentary some years ago which he has uploaded to You Tube.

Of particular interest is this recreation of someone's Christmas 1979 (don't worry, all those boxes are repros)

YouTube - In Love With Toys, Part 1 (1995)

The 1970's part talking about Megos and other figures

YouTube - In Love With Toys, Part 5 (1995)

And most of all the end of the show which has Ray going through a recreation of a 1970's five and dime store toy aisle

YouTube - In Love With Toys, Part 10 (1995)

Most of the stuff in that scene is real, coming from his and friends collections. The whole thing is worth watching but these parts hit home with us Mego fans the most.

[Thadiun Okona II]

That was cool! Thanks for the links!

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Nostalgic. Thanks

[palitoy]

I've had a copy since it came out, it's got some terrific stuff in there and mullets!

[toys2cool]

That was awesome

[Earth 2 Chris]

It's a lot of fun and has some great pics. A little heavy on the Colorforms aliens, but hey.

It's kind of sad to think most of the 90s Toy Biz stuff is pretty worthless now. That poor guy...

Chris

[palitoy]

It's kind of sad to think most of the 90s Toy Biz stuff is pretty worthless now. That poor guy...

At least he has his job at the Warner Brothers store....

[Earth 2 Chris]

At least he has his job at the Warner Brothers store....

Ooh, that's rough!

Chris

[palitoy]

Sorry, he just seems so luckless.

During the 90's, my friend opened up a collector toy store and did quite well, he didn't over price short packed figures and got great customer loyalty out of it. He must have had 4 or 5 customers like this guy in the video, who would buy 1 or 2 of everything new and hoarde them. One guy even had a storage unit for his spawn and toybiz collections.

I used to say to my friend "what do these guys think will happen in 10 years? They all have warehouses full of MOC figures!"

Last fall, I saw one of those guys at a show, he had a booth with Maleboglia (SP) and toybiz X Men 2 for $10.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

Sorry, he just seems so luckless.

During the 90's, my friend opened up a collector toy store and did quite well, he didn't over price short packed figures and got great customer loyalty out of it. He must have had 4 or 5 customers like this guy in the video, who would buy 1 or 2 of everything new and hoarde them. One guy even had a storage unit for his spawn and toybiz collections.

I used to say to my friend "what do these guys think will happen in 10 years? They all have warehouses full of MOC figures!"

Last fall, I saw one of those guys at a show, he had a booth with Maleboglia (SP) and toybiz X Men 2 for $10.

Yep, same situation here, I owned a comic & toy shop for a few years back then, and I had guys who'd come in and purchase multiples of everything, intent on storing them away for a while and making a mint on them later. I often wonder what those guys wound up doing with all those toys that most people don't want these days? I myself got stuck with alot of that stuff as well, but thankfully I wised up soon enough that it didn't get out of hand.

Never saw this documentary before, other than the clip of the Xmas recreation, it's pretty interesting to watch! Gotta love that dime store toy aisle at the end

[EmergencyIan]

I loved the dime store aisle, too! All of it's really good. That dime store toy aisle reminded me of a "Ben Franklin" store.


- Ian

[Mego Milk]

Hey, I had a lot of that stuff!

[Wee67]

I've always sounded out the letters for AHI when saying the company name. Here he says "AY-hi." Is that the correct way? Is this akin to the Mego vs. MAY-go experience? BTW, I never said Azrak-Hamway as a kid.

[garagesale]

The documentary is very nice. I could not take my eyes off the screen for even a second. The recreations were almost eerie (Christmas and the dime store), and made my heart swell up a little.

JamesD

[toystalker]

that was great to watch, while here in the uk we didnt seem to have that many old toy lines and characters from that documentary, it was still a great education for me

enjoyed that very much

and i still pick up toys in pound/dime stores to this day

thats why im known as the toy stalker haha, agreed the toys are not always on shelf these days but more likely to be in the loft storage or basement