So, where was I?
Ah, yes, TV toys... is this the first Space: 1999 toy I've presented so far? It could well be... after all, I was never a fan of the show by any means. I did watch a number of episodes, and I thought the SFX and the props, etc. were all cool, but the show never really caught on with me.
On the other hand, my friend Jim H. Cobb (if the name sounds familiar, he's achieved a bit of success in the past 15 or so years as a novelist, writing technothrillers and the like) was a HUGE fan of the show.
Anyway, name-dropping aside, this is another of those wonderful AHI toys that was so cheap to buy way back then that is so expensive to collect these days! It appears to be a figure of Commander John Koenig (played by Martin Landau) that walked... not sure if it was battery powered or you'd wind it up!
The Time Tunnel, on the other hand, was a show I really enjoyed (if there's anything I enjoy more than giant creatures battling each other, it must be time-travel stuff). While the show's production values and effects weren't great, I really enjoyed the traveling in time aspect... even if there was a LOT of stock footage employed! This game, as you can see, was made by Ideal.
Click this one for a major supersize view... it's Illya Kurakin (or something like that) as a rubber hand puppet! I recall a long time back, I posted a photo of a Sean Connery James Bond puppet, and I'd guess this was by the same manufacturer, since it's the same style. I'm afraid I never got into The Man From UNCLE, but this was just too cool not to grab and share!
Now, another mini-gallery... There's No Need to Fear, Underdog Collectibles are Here!
Yep, a very mini-gallery... only two items! Neither of which seem to be very on-model to my eye, but both look like they were produced well after the last episode was created!
Hey, how about some View-Master stuff to help fill out this post?
Sometimes I think I need to start collecting View-Master reels... if nothing else, it could help satisfy my curiosity when I see something like this set, featuring the DC Super-Heroes! Was it basically a Super Friends set? After all, the core members are there... and the photo isn't large enough I can read the titles of the individual reels!
That same reel set may have been part of this Good Guys View-Master Gift Set... but I honestly don't know! I do know I wish I had a better photo than this one to show.
Here's another View-Master gift set... featuring Indiana Jones, and I'm guessing it was a Temple of Doom tie-in of some kind... I mean, doesn't that look like Indy's sidekick there? What was his name, Short Round or something like that? You can tell it's been a long time since I saw that movie, eh?
This would've been a nice lot to win, wouldn't it? All four of Irwin Allen's 1960s TV shows... Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Time Tunnel, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea! OK, so I would've only been interested in Land of the Giants and Time Tunnel...
...especially Land of the Giants. I mean, Deanna Lund in 3-D?
Somehow, I'm not sure how well the Monkees would've translated to View-Master form, but I should probably tip off my sister-in-law that this exists, because she's an even bigger Monkeemaniac than I am!
OK, so this is by no means a TV toy, but it's here in alphabetical order, so here it is: The Wizard of Oz! And, like with the previously-presented Frankenstein and Dracula View-Master sets, rather than license a movie, the View-Master people created their own 3-D set using what appear to be a variation on the kind of stop-motion animation puppets that were used by Rankin-Bass! Although to be honest, they used this same approach for some licensed stuff, too... I know I've shown the Road Runner one, but I recall a Peanuts set that had original 3-D photos taken using models, too.
Here's a really early View-Master Gift Set, featuring Popeye! I would guess this was an early 60s set, that tied into the ultra-low budget made-for-tv cartoons that disappeared from sight for about 20-30 years until recently released on DVD (and I'm definitely not talking the Fleischer or Famous Studios cartoons, either).
Here's two more "mystery" View-Master Sets... a Spider-Man and Batman set... and I'm not sure if either of them were based on cartoon episodes, or were all-new for View-Master!
This Superman set, which must be a reissue of the original set, certainly appears to be based on the Filmation 1960s cartoon series... I remember looking at these reels when I was a kid!
OK, we're very near the end of Volume 2 of "Found on eBay" photos... so here's a gallery of movie posters and lobby cards!
There will absolutely be more War of the Worlds stuff in future posts!
As well as more Beatles stuff, naturally!
And we wrap up Volume 2 of "Found on eBay" with another appearance of Rocketman/Commando Cody! Been a while since I posted one of these!
Next time around, we'll start up with Volume 3 of my "Found on eBay" photo files, which means we'll start at the beginning again, alphabetically speaking! We'll start off with 7th Voyage of Sinbad, a Mego item, some AHI, Archies, and more!
Jon
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