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Where is TVTA??

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Greetings vintage mates! Hope you’re all doing just fine and dandy?

Well, TVTA is still here, although we’re a little bit over there, and maybe just a bit over that way, or this way, or up the road, or down the road, or across the water… heck, we’re gonna need an atlas!

Charles Atlas. “Let me prove I can make you a new man!” 1976 advert. US.

Erm, not Charles Atlas, but you know what we mean. Thank you, Charles.

So, long story short, your humble editor and his intrepid office cat Wooof has moved offices. Not local, but abroad. Change of country. Yikes! Our office equipment is all packed up and waiting to join us, our new scanning room is bereft for the moment of a … yep, scanner. Mrs Coldkettle the tealady is still trying to sort her visa. But we’re getting there… (wherever there is). So where exactly is ‘there’ ?

It was almost Dubai. Then California. Then Melbourne. Then finally…

clue as to where our new offices are located:

Tower of London. Published by The Ministry of Works. Date unknown.

Where is TVTA ??

Cover. ABC of Londons Transport. UK. 1948

Really? TVTA has moved to…

The Clash – London Calling.

Ah. Blimey, those fish and chips and a good old cup of Rosy Lee sure tasted good after 14 years in France!

Suffice to say, we’re back! And we’re looking forward to catching up with our dear vintage mates here in WordPress-land! Geography-tastic! See ya soon. Love ya!

BRITAINS SET N° 460, Scots Guards, circa 1933.

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TINTIN: comic creation of Hergé, and the most valuable drawing ever sold.

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Tintin fromage. Offer to collect free stickers with promotional packs. 1978. France.

TVTA is pleased to present its collection of Tintin print adverts and images, spanning the years 1978 to 2018.

Tintin is the comic character created by Belgium artist Georges Rémi. Rémi was born in 1907, and from an early age began drawing. From 1924 he began to sign his drawings with the name Hergé, reversing the initials “R.G.” (as they are pronounced in French). The character Tintin and his dog Snowy made their debut on January 10, 1929, in the publication Le Petit Vingtième.

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Look what’s happening!

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Dear vintage mates, greetings 😎 Hope you are all doing fine and dandy! For your info and perusal… 1… please check out the newest Ford & Spira collaboration at my sister site The Atomic Mage  2… I miss you! And you can expect a TVTA very special late-summer jamboree post celebrating some rather groovy collectables and pop culture goodies we have quite frankly been missing around here! 3… hah, you don’t expect us to miss Halloween do you? With only 145 days to go to the big event, Ford and intrepid TVTA office cat Wooof have been super mega hyper impressionnant busy designing this year’s cool Halloween pumpkin!! So expect a special post this October! 4… TVTA has also been busy building its skinny and puny body for this summer’s muscle-exposing superhuman oiled-up gurning tight pants skinny-to-megaspacemanhulk power muscle beach bodybuilding bamfest!  We are feckin’ ripped boyo!   
“Are you skinny? Feckin’ Ada, no more! Now, you too can build impressionnant muscles with TVTA!”
That’s all for now, vintage mates     Ford & Wooof 😍

I ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost!

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Ghostbusters and The Real Ghostbusters – Columbia Pictures. TVTA presents a number of product advertisements from comics, catalogues and magazines, plus other Ghostbusters related items.

For Filmation’s The Ghost Busters and Filmation’s Ghostbusters see here

US. Tales of the Teen Titans. 1985.

US. Tales of the Teen Titans. 1985.

France. Pif Gadget. 1988.

France. Pif Gadget. 1988.

UK. The Flintstones and Friends. 1988.

UK. The Flintstones and Friends. 1988

Ghostbusters II Activity Book 1988 US.

 

Toys

The Real Ghostbusters in pack catalogue. Details.

The Real Ghostbusters in pack catalogue. Details.

France. Pif Gadget. 1988.

Ecto 1. Wootbox exclusive. 2018.

In other Ghostbusters news…

Ecto-Plasma Saber. For Tyeth Editions. 2018.

Thanks for Stabilizing with us 🙂

500th Post at The Vintage Toy Advertiser!

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It’s a milestone moment for TVTA as we celebrate our 500th post.

I remember moving over to WordPress in the spring of 2011 and thinking: “well, this seems like a good place to be.” Fast forward a few years and my thoughts haven’t changed a bit. Much of this is down to you, dear readers and fellow bloggers, for checking out, sharing, liking and commenting on my posts and helping to make TVTA’s mission a whole lot of interesting fun. Thanks WP mates 🙂

So, what’s hot off the scanner to celebrate post N° 500… some obscure toy ad? Barbie, Etch A Sketch, Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog? No, but there were a few little clues back there wink wink

How about some horror film ads, vinyl records, video games, poetry or kitchen work units?

Nope, none of those. And definitely no clown ads!!

So what is it then?

it had better be good!

It is…

… After an executive board meeting with Wooof, the cat and I have decided to celebrate our special 500th toy story with Toy Story! All told in the wonderful style of Japanese chirashi movie posters.

Regular readers will know how much we love our Japanese chirashi around here 🙂

So let’s hand over to Woody and Buzz and co for TVTA’s 500th post … Toy Story!

As always, thanks for looking 🙂

 

 

Toy Story (1995)

Toy Story 2 (1999)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Edit: September 2019. Adding Toy Story 4.

Toy Story 4 (2019)

In other Toy Story news …
Toy Story 2 Japanese Movie Programme cover, centrefold and adverts

Disneyland x3. Original 90s Buzz Lightyear toy. DVDs

To infinity and beyond! Until next time  🙂

Photographs TVTA. Images scanned by TVTA from private collection. Updated September 2019 with new images.

May the 1982 Wilton Yearbook of Cake Decorating be with you

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The Wilton Yearbook of Cake Decorating 1982 had been on TVTA’s ‘to get’ list for a few years …

Mainly because of this cake-tastic Star Wars ad …

Star Wars ESB cake pans, candles, molds and toppers. The Wilton Yearbook of Cake Decorating 1982. US.

And this …

Star Wars ESB cake toppers. The Wilton Yearbook of Cake Decorating 1982. US.

But the US baking publication also serves up some other interesting pop culture goodies …

Like these …

And these …

And these …

And these …

Then there’s this cheestastic and delightful happy family in the kitchen ad … hotdog! I think they’re making a happy lion cake …

And … You’ll be a baking star …

And finally, Wooof’s favourite, a most adorable big cat big cake cover … it’s the happy lion …

Right, we’re off to find our aprons and chef’s hats for a round of happy lion cake making in the TVTA kitchen. Until next time, you can have your cake magazine but don’t ever eat it, and remember kids … a lion is not just for Christmas but forever. Thank you for sweetly decorating with us 🙂

 

Dino Riders

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Dino-Riders was a VHS and TV series animated show that ran between 1987 and 1988 with an additional special feature in 1990. The storyline concentrated on the war between the time-travelling Valorian and Rulon factions, and their relationship with and employment of prehistoric dinosaurs as weapons/vehicles.

A toyline was created in the US by Tyco featuring both the humanoid and dinosaur characters. The dinosaurs were so highly regarded for their detailed sculpts and colour that the famous Smithsonian Institution approached Tyco to reproduce adapted versions for their “Dinosaur and other Prehistoric Reptile Collection”. The following two adverts are from France and Italy.

France. Cora catalogue. 1988.

Italy. 1990.