Viva Knievel!

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Today we journey back to 1973 to witness the birth of one of the hottest toys of the 1970's the Ideal Evel Knievel line! If you you were a child in the mid seventies there was no way you weren't aware of this toy.

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[toys2cool]

I had both that one and the chick in pink

[Earth 2 Chris]

The EK stunt cycle may very well the greatest TOY ever made. Sure the figure was feminie looking, and a bendy. BUT for sheer enjoyment, there is nothing quite like cranking up that "energizer" and letting Evel fly across tile floor and up a homemade cardboard box ramp. And if he landed without crashing, that was just iceing on the cake.

I had the stunt cycle as a kid, and my parents got me the Playing Mantis reissue when it came out. I still get it out and reve it up now and then.

Chris

[kingdom warrior]

God did I love this hours and hours of fun with this and I even had the extra outfits...This is one of My Grails

[slats7]

God how I loved that toy. It was virtually indestructible. Of course, it inspired me and my friends to jump our bikes over crude plywood ramps .. and right over the handlebars.

[megoat]

The EK stunt cycle may very well the greatest TOY ever made.

Chris

Exactly. Don't get me wrong, I loves me Megos of course, but I'd have to say that the EK cycle was the greatest toy that actually did something. I have very fond memories of the thing......

[HardyGirl]

Hey! I posted on this a couple of months ago!

[Lynn TXP 0369]

Did someone say VIVA Knievel??
I Love the movie!! I Love the toys!!
I only had a chopper without the energizer and one EK with white suit and one red race suit EK figure growing up. It was a pain haveing to push the chopper on the ground to rev it up, my mom would never buy me the energizer for it.
It was always a treat to use my buddies so I could make it go right.

Here is some of my EK collection. This is a very old pic of my collection. Some toys I nolonger have and some them are new ones.
I've got a bunch of boxed ones now. I also have almost all the new EK toy reissues todate as well.


This is my second love to Megos and AT Gi-joes!

Lynn

[HardyGirl]

Whoa Lynn! That's an awesome collection. Do you ever play w/ any of that stuff? Since you like Megos, and AT GIJoes and EK, you and I would have totally been friends as kids. What the heck? We could be friends now!

[Lynn TXP 0369]

Thanks!!
Yeah, we would have been good friends! My buddies used to have a ball with this stuff. Yes, we could be friends now..
I'll play with my EK toys when I first get them, that is a must, but after that not so much.
Lynn

[brannon86]

Evel

I heard that the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle was THE TOY of the 70's....I would have to agree...

[Hulk]

That's an awesome EK collection!

[batmanmc]

thats cool lynne. i bought the reissue a couple years ago of evil and his bike like the first pciture.