Patrick Pliers, Roger Wrench, and Molly Hammer.

[GeBe]

Do these three names mean anything to anyone else in the world besides me?

For years I have been looking for an obscure line of toy tools made in the seventies. They were plastic tools with human features and each one was sold on a blister card with a plastic gadget for them to work on. The three names I remember are Patrick Pliers, Roger Wrench, and Molly Hammer, although I think there was at least one other. I've typed these names into online search engines and discussed them in yahoo toy collecting groups, but I always come up empty. What's more, they also made a version of these toys as Disney characters. You'd think that might make them a little easier to track down, but it doesn't.

Yet, I know as sure as I'm sitting here that these toys did in fact exist! As I remember, they were rather cheap dime store toys, but somebody somewhere must have played with them besides me!

Any info would be great!

[Captain]

Did they have cartoony faces on the tools? I remember a red plastic pair of pliers with googly, cartoon style eyes.....I think Marx made them, but I'm not sure?

[GeBe]

They did have cartoonish faces and features, although I don't recall the eyes being googly and they weren't a solid color.


Below is the link to a drawing that I did of them. The artwork is poor, but I do think my memory is fairly accurate and it might help in their identification:



http://www.geocities.com/gbn332000/toytools.html