One More Old Toy Line for the Day, Arco Space War

Damn, after years of trying to figure out the name of toys I was given for Christmas 1978 I finally happened to stumble across these terrible, terrible things. Space War was a Star Wars knockoff, and everything I could ever want to know about the toys is hiding over at Toymania.

I would love to get my hands on the Vader knockoff and the Stormtrooper knockoff, but the eBay prices on these things scare the hell out of me. $50 or more for a cheap action figure from the seventies? Wow. That’s pretty damned impressive.

I wonder if the photo of me with these toys is still out there somewhere. I was so proud of my toys that Christmas.