Not much in the way of suspense or photos here, but here it is! An unused vintage rack toy. As you probably know, companies made legions of plastic compasses, binoculars, flashlights, plastic knives, axes, and everything else...and then just stickered them with logos of various properties, and viola: rack toy! Guaranteed minutes of fun for your whining child. Then it breaks, of course.
Often, they would try and loosely connect it to the property in question. Here, the binoculars and telescope become tools to enable you to be a "Solar Explorer," but just try and be the first man to land on the sun, I dare you.
There is even a sloppy sticker we can see. If you want to know MUCH more about these legendary toys, I would highly, highly recommend the book RACK TOYS by Brian Heiler of Plaid Stallions fame. It's still in print and reasonable--we get nothing from this endorsement; it's just completely rad and you will love the book.
And, as the great Chuck Barris used to say: "We will be right back.............with more stuff."
2 comments:
Are you supposed to use these things to look at the sun? Doesn't sound like a lot of fun.
I agree! I'm surprised they didn't put "Battlestar" stickers on one of those barbershop playsets that had the tiny mug and plastic razor...every rack toy company made that one!
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