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Title: Can you I.D. this toy?
Post by: TELLE on July 22, 2005, 11:16:25 PM
(http://i4.ebayimg.com/02/i/04/82/22/76_2.JPG)

On ebay this week, part of a Superman Batman set from the 60s?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5987859780&category=723&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1


Title: Re: Can you I.D. this toy?
Post by: Gernot on July 23, 2005, 05:02:11 PM
Ideal came out with a Justice League set featuring Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman, didn't they?  

That must've been the Justice League's cave entrance.  

Gernot....


Title: Re: Can you I.D. this toy?
Post by: nightwing on July 25, 2005, 08:37:38 AM
Give that man a cigar!

Here it is, the legendary JLA playset from Ideal.  Asking price at the site where I found this image? $10,000.  And they may get it...last year the empty box alone (albeit in great shape) went for $3,000!

(http://batfan.superman.nu/images/jla-playset.jpg)


Title: Re: Can you I.D. this toy?
Post by: Super Monkey on July 25, 2005, 11:14:16 AM
Great Caesar's Ghost! :shock:


Title: Re: Can you I.D. this toy?
Post by: MatterEaterLad on July 25, 2005, 01:20:35 PM
Suffering Sappho!  8)

An occasional Wonder Woman utterenace... :D


Title: Re: Can you I.D. this toy?
Post by: Gernot on July 25, 2005, 03:00:41 PM
Well, blow me down!  ;)    

Er, I mean,  Puff, puff, puff!  ;)  

I seem to recall a DIFFERENT window box with Batman, Robin, Joker, and Penguin on a mountain (for some reason, I also remember an Indian, too).  

I seem to recall Robin's foot was about to be caught in a bear trap.  

Does ANYONE remember this box?  Am I mis-remembering?  Did I have some sort of weird dream?  

I DO remember having Superman, Batman, Robin, and Joker from that series, as well as the Superman and Batman Creepy Crawler molds from that time period.  Heh.   I remember "turning" the heroes into their civilian IDs by removing the capes!  ;)  

Gernot...


Title: Re: Can you I.D. this toy?
Post by: nightwing on July 25, 2005, 03:35:54 PM
My money's on the "weird dream" option, Gernot!  :)

I'm too young to remember this toy when it came out (gosh, it feels good to finally say that about something!), but I think the various figures may have been shuffled around to various sets and even sold separately.  

For sure there was this one variant:

(http://batfan.superman.nu/images/batman_ideal_playset.jpg)

No bear trap, but Robin's foot is sort of "caught" in the packaging!  And that's not a bear trap in front of Diana, but a "ring of fire" (no doubt left over from the JLA's deadly battle with Johnny Cash).


Title: Re: Can you I.D. this toy?
Post by: Gernot on July 25, 2005, 03:46:12 PM
LOL, Nightwing!  

I think I REMEMBER seeing the variant set in an Arlen's store a L-O-N-G time ago!  Geez, that takes me back...  

Thanks for the memories!  :)


Title: Re: Can you I.D. this toy?
Post by: TELLE on July 26, 2005, 02:39:28 AM
Cool!


Title: Re: Can you I.D. this toy?
Post by: nightwing on July 26, 2005, 08:16:21 AM
I can't account for the huge sums this frankly inferior-looking toy commands, but maybe it's got some historical significance.  It seems plausible this was the first toy ever to feature Aquaman and the Flash in figure form.  :?:

Then again, I guess you can never overestimate the power of nostalgia.  I just unloaded my old Mego Wayne Foundation playset for a tidy sum, and that, in my opinion, was a hunk of junk.  I figured it was time to sell; folks my age won't have disposable income forever (soon we'll need it for Depends undergarments and Super-Poli-Grip) and anyone younger than us is unlikely to see the value in this stuff.

Of course I could be wrong and ten years from now it'll be selling for tens of thousands of dollars.  In which case I'll be devoting my limited funds to a drinking habit.


Title: Re: Can you I.D. this toy?
Post by: TELLE on July 26, 2005, 07:04:28 PM
Just like Frank Miller's retired Bruce Wayne!


Title: Re: Can you I.D. this toy?
Post by: Gernot on August 09, 2005, 12:01:41 AM
Does anyone remember if these figures were available ONLY in these two sets?  I only remember having Superman, Batman, Robin, Joker, and Penguin when I was growing up.  I don't remember the Thunderbolt or Keyman at all.


Title: Re: Can you I.D. this toy?
Post by: Gernot on September 27, 2005, 10:39:37 AM
YaY!  I just found another pic of a different grouping of heroes and villians!  

This one's got Superman and Aquaman versus two of the villians!  

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/gernot1962/album?.dir=/cfb7&urlhint=actn,ren%3as,4%3af,0  

So, I DID remember these things coming out in different boxes!  ;)