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Collecting Toys Magazine 1995 April Blast Off! Foreign Legion Sets Action figure
Collecting Toys Magazine 1995 April Blast Off!
Collecting Toys Magazine is published bimonthly.
Contents
28 Midgets in Motionby Steve Butler
Ohlsson & Rice race cars brought excitement (and vertigo) home.
COVER STORY
32 Blast Off!by Douglas Sadecky
Corgi's Rocket Age toys did for the cold war what nothing else couldthey made planetary annihilation seem like fun.
38 Nomura's Robby space vehicles by Catherine Saunders-Watson If toymakers had written Forbidden Planet, Robby would have had more than one set of wheels.
42 Toys at the five and dimeby Robert Gerth
With limited funds and many toys to choose from, kids in the 1930s made their decisions carefully.
44 GI Joe's first battleby John Michlig
GI Joe's creator, Don Levine, tells the harrowing, but victorious, tale of our favorite foot soldier.
50 Sand and honorby Frank Thompson
Venture into the fearless world of French Foreign Legion toy soldiers and playsets.
56 Happy trails and thundering hoof beats by Bruce Whitehill Good guys, bad guys, cowboys, and Indians. Conflict and hardship created a solid basis for great fun in the form of Western games.
60 High noonby William Kilborn
The 70 Series military jet fighters were Dinky's first postwar toys.
64 The decade devoid of culture?by John Marshall
So many toys, so little class. The less popular action figures of the 1970s had a common threadthey were tacky.
72 Revell's Highway Pioneersby Tom Graham
The birth of the model kit industry gave fathers and sons (and sometimes their fingers) a new way to bond.
76 The Toonerville Trolleyby Asa Sparks
Fontaine Fox's comic strip inspired a line of track-riding toys.
98 Well, blow me down!by H. A. Ferme
Eats yer spinach, cuz you'll needs yer strength to look at Smoking Popeye's price tag.
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