Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hot Wheels, and Boys’ Life in 1991

Okay, kids. It’s time to leap back over two decades to the July, 1991 issue of Boys’ Life magazine and this full-page article all about that year’s New York Toy Fair. Both Hot Wheels and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles get mentioned in the article, but the real joy comes in the Bucky O’Hare and Toxic Crusaders discovery on the page.

Bucky O’Hare and Toxic Crusaders? It’s sometimes easy to forget just how weird toys got in the late eighties and early nineties.

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