Latest ads – Action Man, Dream Girl USA, Buffy, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! trading cards, and a Hellboy Zippo lighter!

Posted on November 21, 2021 by The Vintage Toy Advertiser

Greetings vintage mates! Welcome to another roundup of various print adverts featuring toy and pop culture goodness, this time from the 1970s all the way up to 2007! Let’s get the action going with…

1996. ACTION MAN (Hasbro) US.

I was pleased to get hold of the above Action Man double-page ad, even though I prefer the original Action Man line from Palitoy which I played with as a kid. The Hasbro line has already been around for more than 25 years now (how time flies!) and is starting to tingle the TVTA vintage sensors! I remember my eldest son when he was a child having lots of Action Man toys, and we would mix up what he had with some of the accessories I still had from the 70s.

The rest of the ads below you might remember if you were a 70s, 80s, 90s or even a 2000s kid! The ads come from publications as seen in the UK, US, France, Netherlands and Denmark at the time.

Enjoy 🙂

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McFarlane Toys: Spawn

Posted on March 14, 2021 by The Vintage Toy Advertiser

Spawn Series 29. Tomarts Action Figure Digest. 2006. US.

We recently promised you… a splendiferous and spiffing spotlight on Spawn 😎

And we shall not disappoint! TVTA is proud to present Spawn action figure scans from the 1997 and 1999 McFarlane Toys catalogues, as well as other Spawn goodies!

Spawn is a fictional antihero appearing in comic books of the same name published by Image Comics. Created by Canadian comic book creator, artist, writer, film maker and toy designer extraordinaire Todd McFarlane, the character Spawn first appeared in Spawn #1 in May 1992. The series has several spin-off comics, as well as a 1997 film adaptation, an HBO animated series, and a range of action figures as we shall see highlighted in this post!

Let there be Spawn!