Tarzan in the Valley of the Dinosaurs

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Given my unhealthy obsession for all things Tarzan combined with my love of Rack Toys, it should be of no surprise to anyone that I flipped out when I saw this.

It's so great I'll forgive the fact that Tarzan is clearly a giant!




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[jwyblejr]

Tarzan's gotta be a giant if he's going to wrestle those dinos.

[Megotu]

Tarzan no giant. These small dinosaurs. Tarzan no like fighting big dinosaurs. Also tiny baby dwarf elephant. Never mind why Tarzan keep him around...

[thunderbolt]

Love the Owend By sticker. Misspelling and all.

[palitoy]

Love the Owend By sticker. Misspelling and all.

Clearly there was an issue because the bottom has a similar (but correctly spelled) sticker. Looks like somebody at Fleetwood didn't check with Legal. I'd mock them but I did the exact same thing about ten years ago with Warner Brothers.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I was half-expecting that odd DC Tarzan ad for Pom Poms that ran in the early 70s. It was drawn by Joe Kubert and had something to do with Tarzan and a "Lost World" type place, as I recall.

Chris

[Bronxboykev]

Looking at this I just realized that the AJ Lost Continant would have been A NO BRAINER for a Tarzan playset, along with the unproduced Tree House for 1 million BC

[cjefferys]

That's a great piece, I totally would have bought that as a kid. Heh, I didn't notice that "Owend by" sticker before. Wonder what happened legal-wise. Guess it was so last minute, not only did they have to use a sticker, but did a rush job on it and spelled "owned" wrong.

[HardyGirl]

From the title I thought this was gonna be a cartoon crossover, b/c there was a Saturday morning cartoon in '74 called Valley Of The Dinosaurs. (some eps on YouTube) I thought Tarzan was gonna meet the Butler family!

[torgospizza]

From the title I thought this was gonna be a cartoon crossover, b/c there was a Saturday morning cartoon in '74 called Valley Of The Dinosaurs. (some eps on YouTube) I thought Tarzan was gonna meet the Butler family!

That would have been mind-blowing to me as a kid. I'd have loved to see something like that, because I loved both those shows.

I was half-expecting that odd DC Tarzan ad for Pom Poms that ran in the early 70s. It was drawn by Joe Kubert and had something to do with Tarzan and a "Lost World" type place, as I recall.

It was also a tie-in with Aurora models. I remember seeing that in various comics as a kid and thinking it was sad the ad was cooler than the comic it appeared in.

[tay666]

I was half-expecting that odd DC Tarzan ad for Pom Poms that ran in the early 70s. It was drawn by Joe Kubert and had something to do with Tarzan and a "Lost World" type place, as I recall.

Chris

You mean this one?


Tell you what. It's really tough tracking down some of those old candy boxes. So far, I've only found 2 that I was willing to pay the asking price.