My latest article at Flashbak looks at space-centered toys from the 1970s/1980s that were actually just recycled toys from earlier product lines.
Here's a snippet, and the url: (http://flashbak.com/kid-catastrophes-recycled-space-toys-1970s-1980s-32039/ )
"There
is nothing worse for a kid than getting a new toy only to find that it is,
actually, an old toy.
Specifically,
that your new treasure is one that appears to be from your new favorite outer
space movie or TV series, but is actually just a recycled old toy given a paint
job and a few new details.
Alas,
this happened to kids of the disco decade all the time.
It was a great age for toys in general, and
for the science fiction genre on film and television too, but some toys still
proved to be huge disappointments.
The
recycling of old toys and slapping a new name on them is a procedure that every
major toy company of the day used, apparently, and just about every popular
franchise you can think of fell victim to it.
Although this post doesn’t begin to scratch the surface, here are a few
of the more memorable recycled toys of the era." (read the rest at Flashbak!)
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