Update 11/24

Added pictures to the MOTUC and T.H.I.N.G.S./Tomy collections. More to come soon.

Update 10/19

New additions to Tiger Electronic Games, Godzilla, He-Man Style Knockoffs and MOTU Literature.

Update 10/16

Added quite a few things to my TOMY collection.

Update: 10/10

 A fun update today, and depending on what the mailman brings this afternoon there may be an addition to this post.

Added two new categories which are "Super Dino Monsters" and "Tomy Plastic Games/ T.H.I.N.G.S. by Milton Bradley".

Also updated "Definitely Dinosaurs", "Masters of the Universe Classics" and "The Other World".

Tomy Plastic Games / T.H.I.N.G.S. by Milton Bradley

So as a kid I had one T.H.I.N.G.S. toy, and that was Sir Ring-a-Lot. My neighbor had one called Grabbit. I know it was a simpler time but I loved playing these simple little wind-up games. I still have my original Sir Ring-a-Lot (minus his rings though), and was lucky enough to get a boxed one through a trade online.

Then I found a plastic Tomy game called "Kid Kong" at a thrift store. It was a cool looking piece which I initially intended to try and re-sell to make a few bucks. I pulled it apart and fixed the broken mechanism inside, and decided it was too cool to get rid of just yet.

At a garage sale not too long after I found a "Strolling Bowling" game by Tomy, and after I played with that for a while that collector's flame was ignited. I've become very interested in all the old wind-up and battery operated Tomy games from the 70's and 80's. Not so much the arcade and digital stuff they made, but the plastic kinetic games with moving parts and cool characters. I went on a little bit of an ebay bender (I'm very susceptible to these which is why I abandoned Paypal for a year, and may have to again) and purchased several more in the next couple days. I've had to stop myself from that moving forward, but I'm sure I'll be keeping a better eye out for these from now on.

I think the Tomy games and T.H.I.N.G.S. share that same simple, fun spirit, so I'm clumping them together in one post.

My collection so far:


Milton Bradley T.H.I.N.G.S.:

  Sir Ring-a-lot in box

 Sir Ring-a-lot loose

Flip-O-Potamus in box

Flip-O-Potamus loose

Grabbit in box

Grabbit loose

Astro-Nots in box

Astro-Nots loose

 Eggzilla loose (assembled)

Eggzilla loose (unassembled) 

My collection also includes an incomplete and non-functional Dr. Wack-O game.

TOMY Games:

 Starcades Rocket Tower front

Starcades Rocket Tower rear

 Strolling Bowling in box

 Strolling Bowling in case

 Strolling Bowling set up

 Bumbling Boxing in box

Bumbling Boxing in case

Bumbling Boxing set up

 Goof-Around Golf in case

 Goof-Around Golf set up

 Homerun Home in box

Homerun Homer set up

 Kid Kong sprung

 Kid Kong game in progress

 Turn The Terrible Tank box

 Turn The Terrible Tank game set up

 Original Mr. Mouth box

 Original Mr. Mouth

 Newer "Frog" Mr. Mouth (distributed in the US by Milton Bradley)

"Frog" Mr. Mouth

Flippopotamus box

 Flippopotamus

 Bolt n Stein box (not yet opened, will be doing so soon)

Super Dino Monsters

I saw these on a toy collector message board once and really liked them. They appeal to my interests in both plastic Kaiju monsters and cutesy kiddie stuff. So I kept my eyes peeled and came to the conclusion that nobody in my area has these for sale.

Fortunately I was finally able to pick up a set from the same person whose posts I had first admired. This is the whole set, minus paint variants, and they're a fantastic little line.I believe that they are mostly based on Ultraman villains, or at least a few of them certainly are.

My collection so far:

Update: 9/26

Added a new category called "Dollar Store Pirates".

I also updated my Knockoff He-Man figures, my Superhero Knockoffs, and I added Mekaneck, Dragon Blaster Skeletor, Snake Men and Vykron to my MOTUC category.

Dollar Store Pirates

Okay, so after recently complaining that the dollar stores around here haven't gotten in any action figures since their last wave of crappy wrestlers about a year ago, here come the pirates.

Actually the toyline is officially called "Pirates!", and consists of repaints of the wrestler bodies but with new heads and the addition of a peg leg and a hook hand.

I love these, very cheap and awful. I hope they make more.

My collection so far:

Update 9/22

Added pictures to my Tiger Electronic Games and M.U.S.C.L.E. categories, and also added a whole new category called "Masters of the Universe Literature", so check it out!

Masters of the Universe Literature

I've had a collection of scans of MOTU comic books on my Kindle for a while, but only recently have I started collecting the print stuff. There's something about the MOTU world that attracts me time after time, and I'd love to spread those stories to my kids some day.

So basically anything that has a story set in the classic 80's era of MOTU mythology, or is related in some way to that mythology, is fair game here. And there's a lot of it.

My collection so far:

Books about or related to MOTU:

 An amazingly thorough episode guide to the original Filmation series.

A book that explains why all the toys and cartoons of the 80's are tools of the devil. Even "Rainbow Brite".

MOTU Coloring and Activity Books:

I'll say that some of these have varying levels of use exhibited in them. All of the ones I have so far were bought from a single person who saved them from childhood, and while that person seemed very keen on keeping them nice, he also apparently liked stickers, mazes and word searches. 

MOTU Magazine:

These are very hard to find intact as they included some very nice posters in them that are often pulled out. I only want ones that are intact.

MOTU Story Books

MOTU Mini-Comics: