Rack Toys of the Apes

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At this past weekend's Motor City Comic Con, I made the aquaintence of toy dealer Bob Serna, who had the most Planet of the Apes toys I've ever seen available for sale in one place. I spent the majority of my cash with Bob and I'll probably be going back for more shortly, here are some highlights. Above is a "Monkey Shines' flash light by Larami.



These "Gorilla Glasses" may also be by Larami and really show you what a true licensing juggernaut Planet of the Apes really was, it's the movie that likely showed George Lucas how much cash he could really make.


Larami's Ape Rifle


Apes Pinball, I love the header card on this thing...

Interplanetary Ape Phones?

A carded Azrak Hamway Ape Water Pistol was possibly one of the rarest items on display.

AHI's Zaius on horseback is a classic piece of POTA merchandise.
Now, onto what I picked up:

I've mocked the Azrak hamway Palnet of the Apes Helicopter for years but deep down, I've always wanted one, why? Because it's stupidly delicious and maybe a little bit because of this:

It's a little monkey pilot! Nice attention to detail AHI...



I don't know who made this cool little punch o'ball but for some reason I had to have it, maybe it's the reuse of the Addar model kit artwork, hmmmmm.
Anyway, I guess I collect Planet of the Apes again.....


Azrak Hamway (AHI) Planet of the Apes Rack Toy Gallery


Rack Toys by Larami Gallery

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[GlobalObserver]

I love this kinda stuff.

[Mikey]

Wow, Claude Akins on a header card ?

Neat !!!

[toys2cool]

wow bro great stuff!!! How were the prices?

[Meule]

Never realised how many cool toys POTA had

[shazam7208]

Awesome Stuff!

[Earth 2 Chris]

I had the AHI Bat-copter and Spidey-copter like that. Batman made sense, Spidey not so much, but man were they fun.

Not much of a POTA fan, but that is some fun stuff. Love the different packaging design styles. Today, it would all look alike.

Chris

[palitoy]

Love the different packaging design styles. Today, it would all look alike.

Yeah, I think that's one of the things that had me going nuts about the stuff this guy brought. I didn't photograph enough of it, it was an amazing assortment of weird-o one of a kind items.

[ScottA]

Very cool stuff. The copter would have been hard to pass on as well since I had the Batcopter one too. I would probably be amazed at the rack toys made this guy must have had.

[palitoy]

Very cool stuff. The copter would have been hard to pass on as well since I had the Batcopter one too. I would probably be amazed at the rack toys made this guy must have had.

The nicest thing about Bob was when I told him I wanted to catalog this stuff, he was really into it. He wanted me to take as many pictures as I could. Sadly, I brought my son's camera to the show because it was smaller and combine that with convention center lighting and these were the best I could do.

[ScottA]

I like the Halloween costumes and I have the poster puzzles of Superman and Batman. Hopefully you'll run into him at future shows now. Were his prices fair on the Mego items?

[palitoy]

Were his prices fair on the Mego items?

It dawned on me as I left that I never once checked out his Mego prices, too bad to because he had an extensive offering, especially soldier apes, every variation.

I do have his number in case anybody wants to check.

[Surfsup]

It dawned on me as I left that I never once checked out his Mego prices, too bad to because he had an extensive offering, especially soldier apes, every variation.

I do have his number in case anybody wants to check.

Awsome pics Brian. Congrats on the new pick-ups! Did the guy have any of the Palitoy/Bradgate cards in his collection?

[palitoy]

Thanks Bill, no he had no foreign items that I noticed.

[Captain]

Oh geez! I had those Gorilla Glasses.....still remember the funky plastic smell they had when I opened the package. I forgot all about them till now.....I left them hanging in my old tree house back at the farm......Probably dissolved into dust by now ?!