Greetings vintage mates! Remember the short but popular phase of Madballs toys? They also had their imitators like Uglyballs and Weird Balls. Back in the day I had a few Madballs, but I didn’t know the line expanded to include money savings banks and water squirters, as seen in the 1987 edition of Wonderland Catalogue.
TVTA is pleased to present some additional images from the 1987 Wonderland Catalogue, featuring excellent toys from the likes of Bravestarr, Barbie and Popples.
Enjoy the images.
The NINJA Special !!!
You’ve just enjoyed the Bravestarr range of toy weapons above, now get ready for the incredible multi-weapon charm of the Ninja Special…
This clever piece of kit combines a pistol, grenade launcher, rifle, combat knife, mini throwing blade, a throwing star and a crossbow!
Below: Arco Cap Firing MAC X1 toy tank. Remote control jet and helicopter. Toy soldier combat set and Special Mission friction vehicles.
Barbie Friends and Popples
Front and rear cover of catalogue
Thanks for looking 🙂
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Damn, I didn’t have a single one of those as a kid 😦
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Not even the plastic farm animals? I had those (plus dinosaurs), and the plastic toy soldiers combat set.
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Nope, non of that. After the wall came down I got one Barbie but was almost too old for that 🙂 She had a lot of shoes though.
I did have a really cool wooden play set for cowboys and indians. As a fun fact: since I don’t go to Mc Donalds, when our daughter was about 3 I took her to an indoor playground and that was the first time, I ever sat in a ball pit. Fun times!
As a kid I spent a lot of time with library books and drawing, so it really wasn’t all that bad! It is however sometimes odd to see how much stuff kids have these days.
#firstworldproblems
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Oh that wooden playset for the cowboys and indians sounds brill – would’ve loved one of those, especially a fort or castle for my soldiers!
We were a quite poor single parent family but mum always got us cool toys for Christmas (I think she went into debt for the rest of the year for it). Cool you mentioned the library! We too were encouraged to join and I have tons of memories of taking out books and reading. Loved it.
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Eeek!
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😂😁
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I definitely remember the “Squirt-Ball” versions, they appeared at “Jumble Sales” and charity stores all the time. My mother used to help the local church with “Bric-a-Brac” sales so I saw them all the time. Now the Marshall Bravestarr stuff, I wouldn’t mind getting hold of some of those blasters!
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Yeah, those Bravestarr blasters are really cool aren’t they!
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Those Mad Balls toys look like great creepy fun!
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Cheers, Paul. Agree!
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Forgot about these! My lads had a few … the image of the ‘eye’ one and ‘baseball’ one brought it all back. 🙂
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Thanks, 70s. Was good to see these images appearing in the catalogue 😀
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Well, they are delightfully grotesque! The pink one looks like something out of Doom. Elsewhere the remote control jet and helicopter caught my eye, they look so cool!
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“Delightfully grotesque” is perfect! Yeah, the catalogue has some really cool toys and images. Was pleased to get hold of it 😊
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