Welcome to TVTA 🙂
TVTA’s mission is to digitally showcase vintage print advertising and catalogue images which have helped shape pop culture across the years: from toys, to film, to music, to comics, video games, fashion, food, drink, and much more!
TVTA began life in 2010 as a French blog documenting French toy ads. In 2011 the site moved to its current WordPress home and expanded to include international adverts, catalogues and posters that went beyond toys. Today the site is an ad-free, non-revenue platform aiming to serve as an excellent digital archive and resource.
TVTA loves: the 1970s, 80s and 90s; comics; video games; music; movies; art and design; writing; photography; fashion; and of course… toys! Please feel free to join our growing community of pop culture lovers and help spread the fun!
TVTA is: Ford (Editor). Wooof (Office Cat extraordinaire). Jaltesorensen (special agent in Denmark). Zerocal (special agent in Brazil).
Contact and Enquiries thevintagetoyadvertiser@zoho.com
Thanks for stopping by 🙂
Disco-claimer: All images within this site are scanned or photographed from the personal collection of The Vintage Toy Advertiser (TVTA) unless otherwise stated. Site content ©TVTA. Images and company/brand logos belong to the relevant enterprises. TVTA is an ad-free, non-revenue site that aims to serve as an excellent digital archive and resource for vintage printed materials. TVTA does its best to provide accurate information and whenever possible always uses information direct from the official site of the featured enterprise. All splellning mistkes courtsey of Wooof. Peace and love always.
Hi there, if I make a donation to your blog would you be able to send me some high res adverts via email?
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Thank you for supporting TVTA. Glad to help out with the scans. Good luck with your exhibition!
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Hello ! congratulations for this great site with so many cool documents ! I’m myself writter of two books dedicated to vintage toys advertisements. The Star Wars French Connection and The History of French Toys Advertisements. Go check on Amazon if you like. See and visit you very soon !
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Salut Geoffrey, merci pour les mots gentil. I’m familiar with some of your excellent Playmo custom work. Your large dioramas are outstanding! I really like your Apocalypse Now, Star Wars and Aliens creations – funny how even when a Playmo figurine has a chest-bursting Alien experience he still keeps his smile 🙂 I will hope to check out at least one of your books soon – and will also make a blog link to your site here on TVTA. Best, Ford.
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Ok, great ! My next 4mx4m Playmobil diorama will be Terminator 2 Judgment Day.
I link your site too to FamousPlaymo.
you may also visit my other web site dedicated to Sci-Fi toys, props, costumes and displays :
http://www.displayourfigures.blogspot.com
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Just came across your site while looking for MOTU stickers and found your MOTU vintage ad.
Cool!
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Thanks! I just made a link to your site – you have some really cool 80s stuff. I like the MOTU sticker book you just added. Also loved the Count Chockula cereals, Donkey Kong Jnr books, the Polonez RC car and that Compurobot just rocks!
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Really fun site! Enjoyed our trade for the Superhelten and Adventure Man scans! Looking forward to your upcoming themes!
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Thank you! And thanks for the trade, I look forward to adding them to the site soon.
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Hi The Vintage Toys Advertiser !
Thank you for your work. I did not know your work until I search for a 1985 toy ad. I scan and share too 75 to 95 toys ads on Flickr (Nhtpirate) and I like seing that people think to other people with taking time to scanning ads and share them.
Good continuation !
Nathalie
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Hi Nathalie ! Thank you for visiting and for your comment. I have just looked at your Nhtpirate site and what can I say… wow ! I am in paradise with all these 70s/80s French toy images 🙂 Can I put a link to your site on my site please ? Will visit often.
Keep up the superb work and thanks for showing me your site !
Ford, TVTA.
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Thank you TVTA ! Of course, you can put a link to my site on your website ! 🙂 I will follow too your next publications.
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Hi, I’ve nominated your fantastic blog for an award. Check it out here….
https://mysideofthelaundryroom.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/the-blogger-recognition-award
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Thank you for the nomination!
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Your welcome. It’s well deserved. Your blog is awesome!! It’s an instant time machine that helps me get through the day!
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Greetings TVTA! I have just discovered you have visited my blog and checked out my post dedicated to “thegreenonionblog.com” Thank you so much for calling in and leaving the like and follow. I have had a quick glance at your Star Wars section and was instantly reminded of my childhood days, I had the Sy Snootles/Max Rebo Band set too (and as I’m a keyboard player I thought Max Rebo was an awesome figurine) Thanks again and I’ll return to see a few more of your 1622 ads!
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Greetings For Tyeth! Love what you did with Green’s saber and your other designs too. That’s cool you’re a keyboard player. Max Rebo is a fave figure of mine along with the rest of the band. Wish Kenner had made a Cantina band too! I play drums, though not in a band atm. Look forward to reading your upcoming posts!
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Thank you very much, I was pleased how Green’s saber turned out (I was a little lucky with my “Force” vision guessing the type of knife he used!). I think the only drawback with a Cantina Band set would be they only know one song! I shall be returning as often as I can to see your posts too, and thanks again.
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Are you Ford? I think you are.
I’ve begun to block in my Art Gowns, Barbie, Shiaparelli post. The gown will be finished tomorrow, then the shoot.
So, I will be talking a bit about TVTA blog, and linking to your blog in general, and the Barbie category, specifically.
Should I only credit TVTA?
Or, Ford at TVTA? Or? Let me know!
-Resa
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So exciting!! Yes you can say ‘Ford at TVTA’ . Good luck with the shoot Resa, can’t wait to see this come togther x
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Very interesting … and I look forward to looking around. 🙂
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PS: A must see for you. https://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/on-toys-for-kids/
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Oh I just loved that so much! Thank you. I left a comment over there.
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Cheers! I hope you find some nice vintage goodies 🙂 I Just checked your site again and followed having been linked there by our good friend Resa the other day, and also the link you sent me to the street artworks.
Keep up the good work 🙂
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Thanks. Make sure you see the link I placed on your end … Perfect for you!
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