First published on 7 February 1976, Action was clearly aimed at working-class teenage boys, and the kids in the target audience loved it. But the…
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What??? A boy playing with a doll??? Are you insane? These weren’t dolls, they were ‘Action Figures’. There’s a big difference . . . Dolls…
The Mego company got its start as an importer of toys and household novelties but in the early 1970s, they began production on an action…
The 1/6th scale Action Man was another product imported to the UK from America, where he was launched under the name GI Joe by Hasbro…
The name Adidas actually came from the brand’s creator, Adolf ‘Adi’ Dassler. Founded in 1920, Adidas revolutionised the lacklustre athletic performance shoe market, making an…
Introduced to Britain’s sweet shops by Rowntree’s way back in 1935, Aero has remained a firm favourite with the British public ever since. The popularity…
Aerobics word association – Lycra, Spandex, headbands, striped outfits, jiggling flab, overenthusiastic instructors, Flashdance (1983), sports bras, bike shorts, bad music, Richard Simmons, and in 1982, Jane…
The Afghan Coat was a fur-lined and trimmed sheepskin or goatskin coat, sometimes with intricate embroidery decoration, but often crudely made. Particularly loved by hippies…
The Africar was the idea of Tony Howarth, an English journalist and photographer who spent much of the 1970s in Africa. He disliked the developed…
The hair-do that simply exploded out of the head – BOOM! Also the hair-do that told everyone you were bigger, better and badder than all…
The liberated new man of the 1970s was not afraid of scents. A whole new arm of the perfume industry opened up especially to pamper…
The selective weed killer known as “Agent Orange” became notorious for its use in the 1960s during the Vietnam War by US forces to eliminate…
Beginning in 1960, Aggravation managed to bring young and old together around the board for a classic marble race. Each player’s task was to take…
Was there ever a toy gun as cool as Wham-O’s Air Blaster? Not only did the thing look like a spaceman disintegration ray, it actually…
Ice hockey enthusiast Bob Lemieux dreamed up this popular table game for billiards manufacturers Brunswick back in 1972. Almost instantly, the craze spread across the…
Arcade game designers have always been a creative bunch, generally willing to try any idea (no matter how strange it may seem) if they think…
Just before the outbreak of World War II, Nicholas Kove, a Hungarian living in Britain, was making inflatable rubber toys. He called his company Airfix.…
Born in Melbourne, Australia, former accountant Freeman landed himself a job as a summer relief disc jockey on Radio Luxembourg. He made enough of an…
This English-born Australian entrepreneur was chair of the Bond Corporation from 1969 until 1990 during the years when its aggressive takeover strategy gave the company…
The Disc Jockey widely credited with coining the phrase “rock ‘n’ roll” began life as a jazz trombonist with a band called the Sultans of Swing…