Bionic Monday!

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Christmas will forever remind me of the Bionic Man, mostly because he or his friends were a staple from 1975 to 1978. I didn't get everything on this page but I had Steve, Oscar and Maskatron and I played with those three for years.




I would feel remiss if I didn't extend the Bionic Monday spotlight to the Bionic Woman, a show my sister watched loyally (I'd watch the Fembot ones or when Steve did a guest star/crossover). While I personally never had any of this stuff, I remember how big a deal it was on the playground.



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[cjefferys]

Those pages bring back a flood of memories for me too. I had Steve, Maskatron, the Bionic Transport and the crystal radio backpack. I really wanted some of those critical assignment arms & legs and Bigfoot, but alas it was never to be. Just barely pre-Kenner Star Wars, this line was huge in my neighbourhood, lots of great memories here!

[HardyGirl]

Wow! I have a lot of these things as an adult, but as a kid, I had Bionic Woman. I had the Mission Purse doll, the Bionic Beauty Salon, and 2 dresses, (Lunch Date and Red Dazzle). The stuff I have now:

SMDM
Bionic Transport and Repair
Mission Control
Critical Assignment Arms and Legs (incomplete)
Maskatron
Steve Austin
Oscar Goldman w/ Briefcase
part of one outfit

Bionic Woman
Original version Jaime
Bionic Beauty Salon
Sports car
Fembot
wrist radio
3 dresses (Lime Delight, Red Dazzle, Peach Dream)

[samurainoir]

Seeing this makes me think of how closely aligned many "boys" and "girls" toys were back in the seventies.

Now we seem to have a huge divide between the action figure aisles for boys and the pink aisles aimed at girls (particularly since they are parting out pink lego for girls into that section now as well now, rather than one Lego section for both boys and girls).

Back in the day, I had female cousins my own age that I played with often, and we were able to play together because I'd have the Six Million Dollar Man and Superman 12" Mego, and they had Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman 12" Mego.

Was there as big a divide in the toy sections back then? Were Bionic Woman and Six Million Dollar Man racked together? or 12" Wonder Woman and Superman? Supergals and the rest of the 8" Mego superheroes?

Where did the Waltons and Wizard of Oz get placed in relation to other Megos? Those seem kind of ambiguous to me, were they more "dolls" and aimed at girls or did both boys and girls play with them?

Dasiy and her Jeep obviously would have been racked with the other Dukes of Hazard right?

I can't even remember... how would they have placed Hercules and Xena figures back in the nineties? Xena had a huge female following, and I remember Xena "dolls" and action figures.

[Marvelmania]

So much great stuff I never knew about like the Empire copter and that sports car.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I just had Steve and the Mission to Mars suit, but man, I loved those things. Awesome toy line.

Chris

[Red Hulk]

Those ads are great where did the Helicopter come from?I had Steve Austin and some of the other stuff but I also like the Jigsaw puzzles that came in those cans.I remember Thrift Drug having a Sidewalk sale as a kid I remember seeing the Command Console and Bionc Woman Hair Salon for 50 cents.

[Hedji]

I am just a little too young to have played with 6MDM. It's amazing how awesome these look to me, but how off my radar they were in 76. At that time, I was all about WGSH, and that's it. But these are pretty mouth watering ads.

[Mr. Hollywood]

Love it all!

[HardyGirl]

I know...I really hate that TRU divides boys and girls toys like that. In the 70s, it was all about women's lib and equal rights for women, so there were more toys closely related for boys and girls (Evel Knievel/Derry Daring, SMDM/BW, Mego Superheroes/Supergals, etc). Now it seems like the genders are being divided again. We've come a long way, baby? Yeah, right.

Seeing this makes me think of how closely aligned many "boys" and "girls" toys were back in the seventies.

Now we seem to have a huge divide between the action figure aisles for boys and the pink aisles aimed at girls (particularly since they are parting out pink lego for girls into that section now as well now, rather than one Lego section for both boys and girls).

Back in the day, I had female cousins my own age that I played with often, and we were able to play together because I'd have the Six Million Dollar Man and Superman 12" Mego, and they had Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman 12" Mego.

Was there as big a divide in the toy sections back then? Were Bionic Woman and Six Million Dollar Man racked together? or 12" Wonder Woman and Superman? Supergals and the rest of the 8" Mego superheroes?

Where did the Waltons and Wizard of Oz get placed in relation to other Megos? Those seem kind of ambiguous to me, were they more "dolls" and aimed at girls or did both boys and girls play with them?

Dasiy and her Jeep obviously would have been racked with the other Dukes of Hazard right?

I can't even remember... how would they have placed Hercules and Xena figures back in the nineties? Xena had a huge female following, and I remember Xena "dolls" and action figures.