Rack Toys: Cheap Crazed Playthings Vintage Toy Book Batman, Spider-Man 1980s

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Seller: palitoy ✉️ (2,120) 100%, Location: Oshawa, Ontario, CA, Ships to: US, EUROPE, CA, AU, JP, Item: 271248391522 Rack Toys: Cheap Crazed Playthings Vintage Toy Book Batman, Spider-Man 1980s.
             " I loved this book, much more than I thought I would. If you grew up in the 70s and 80s you need to get this ." CollectionDX "The  Rack Toys  book   doesn’t fail to entertain and amaze. The world’s ugliest  Batman  toy? Check!  Star Trek  putty, complete with “As Seen on TV” bug? Check.  Cylon  sunglasses? You better believe that’s a big check! Page after page after page . . . and each time I think I've absorbed it all some other bit of strangeness makes me stop and chuckle. " -  Battlegrip.com                                                                                                                                                                     
                         AS SEEN IN MAD MAGAZINE!            
                                                                   PLAIDSTALLIONS PRESS presents:                      RACK TOYS: CHEAP,CRAZED PLAYTHINGS                                                                 
                       

                              Colorful packaging hanging from your pharmacists or grocer’s shelves, designed to entice you while you sat in your parents shopping cart. Often terribly made, these strange playthings were low priced enough to wear down even the most frugal adult and were most likely forgotten or broken by the time you left the parking lot.

Rack Toys is a love letter to re purposed  illogically licensed toys that were not meant to be remembered

                                                                                    Facts about the book:                                                                           
  • Limited edition Publication                            
  • 144 pages, completely in color, measuring  approx. 8.5 x 11  inches)                            
  • Hundreds of full color images of rare rack toys, catalogs, store displays, advertisements and more. Rack Toys touches on every genre of toy in the last forty years. Every toy collector should be able to find memories within it's pages.                            
  • Introduction by Jason Lenzi (Bif Bang Pow! toys)                                                                                     
  • It took more than 5 years to compile the information for this publication.                        
                   
                                                                                                             Here's a list of the chapters:                        

                                                  
  • The Future is Fantastic- Science Fiction rack toys beginning with the mid 1970s Planet of the Apes explosion and moving onto the parachuting Kirks and Spocks of Star Trek, Space:1999, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Martian Chronicles and standards like Flash Gordon.
  • Saturday Morning Fun- Remember the Banana Spilts? Ultra Man? Groovy Goolies? Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons? They're all here along with parachuting Fred Flinstone, Josie and the pussycats and Dr Shrinker.
  • Spooky Fun- Monster toys including the Azrak Hamway (AHI) Universal Monster explosion from the 1970s, Jaws toys, rubber King Kongs, Godzilla, Lincoln International Monster dolls and Imperial toys rubber bats and so much more!
  • TV and Movie Super stars:  Where Mr T joins forces with the Karate Kid, Manimal and Street Hawk to defeat the terrible people from the Love Boat.
  • Generic Joy:  Squirt guns, poopatroopers, cap guns, rubber bugs and more green plastic army men and ninjas than you can shake a stick at.
  • Hey, Knock it Off : Exploring the world of bootleg toys including Batmen, Astro Apes,  Mr Rock, faux Bionic people and poorly made Darth Vader figurines.
                     
                                                   

                           

                                Here are some example pages to give you an idea what the book looks like:                            

                           

                            

                            

                            

                            

                            

                           

                           

                                             Rack Toys is an independently produced publication, by purchasing directly from us you are helping a small business create more fun toy related books. People who order directly from us get three free collectible Rack Toys postcards, only available from Plaid Stallions. Each is an ironic shot from a book's chapter introduction page. Every order includes a stack of Mego Museum, Lincoln Monsters, Tomland and Foreign Mego trading cards.
                                                                                                                        Payment and shipping information:                                                        

We are located in Canada and the book is a little  heavy (We used premium paper ), so shipping is of course a bit more expensive due to the weight of the book but we only charge the actual costs for shipping . We eat the packing materials

                           

Airmail to the US : 8.31 US$                   Europe: 15.00 US$ 

                Canada : 5.60 US$

                           

Combined shipping:                                  If you want us to ship your copy of RACK TOYS together with issues of MEGOZINE                                       We will merely refund the shipping overages after payment.

                           

If you have got any questions regarding the book, payment or shipping, please let us know.                           

                                                       

                                           
                                    We usually ship 1-2 days after payment is received.                                

Azrak hamway, imperial toy, mego, AHI, Tomland, fleetwood, jak pak, harmony, laverne and shirley, frankenstein, dracula, lincoln international, larami, kirk, spock, aquaman, ben cooper, jiggler, water pistol, tarzan, filmation, simpsons, the shadow, specterman, ghost rider, famous monsters of legend, green arrow, bendy, doll, 70s figure, wolfman, creature from the black lagoon, godzilla, king kong, mr spock, planet of the apes, Space:1999, buck rogers, flash gordon, chip kidd, worlds greatest toys, fantastic four, thor, avengers, dr strange, Hulk, spiderman, captain america, the flash, justice league, baywatch, knight rider, manimal, bj and the bear, matt houston, simon and simon, doctor who, blakes 7, close encounters of the third kind, 1941, kojak, mash, trapper john MD, hercules, archie, josie and the pussycats, krofft, dr shrinker, land of the lost, the beatles, galaxy laser team, universal monsters, martian chronicles, alien, puzzle, Mr T, A Team, flash light, dukes of hazzard, Mr Smith, NBC, heiler, six million dollar man, kenner, filmation, space sentinels, Stan lee, hasbro, secret wars, mattel,  mego, avengers, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s,mighty hercules, , 
  • Condition: New

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