The Vintage Toy Advertiser    Greetings vintage mates TVTA is pleased to add another new toy entry to the archive. This time it’s the famous Madame Alexander Dolls line from the US, with today’s catalogue images coming courtesy of FAO Schwarz to , and Continue reading ’

The Vintage Toy Advertiser    Greetings vintage mates TVTA is pleased to add a new toy entry to the archives Madelman action figures, from Spain. I hadn’t come across these toys before, and when I first saw the adverts for them I believed they Continue reading ’

The Vintage Toy Advertiser    Greetings vintage mates Another weekend, another walk to somewhere cool. This time it’s the famous Camden Market in Camden town, London, in the same borough where I live. I should be so lucky as the wonderful Kylie Minogue might say . Continue reading ’

The Vintage Toy Advertiser    Greetings vintage mates. Having just moved house and country , I’m exploring my new neighbourhood on my weekends off; you might say I’m a bit of a Day Tripper making the most of things, because you know, Tomorrow Never Knows So, Continue reading ’

The Vintage Toy Advertiser    What is lighter than a feather Dust. Lighter than dust The wind. Lighter than the wind A woman. Lighter than a woman Nothing. Mai Thu was a Vietnamese French artist who made numerous studies depicting the young woman in her Continue reading ’

The Vintage Toy Advertiser    Greetings vintage mates Hope you’re all doing just fine and dandy Well, TVTA is still here, although we’re a little bit over there, and maybe just a bit over that way, or this way, or up the road, or down Continue reading ’

The Vintage Toy Advertiser    Greetings vintage mates. Since TVTA has been diligently keeping track of the number of vintage print advert and catalogue images it has been archiving for your viewing pleasure. To date, prior to this post, our print archive stood at Continue reading ’

The Vintage Toy Advertiser    Hamleys toy shop based in Regent Street, London, England, was founded in by William Hamley. It is the biggest and oldest toy shop in the world, and prides itself on selling not only traditional toys but newer toys that Continue reading ’

The Vintage Toy Advertiser    Greetings, vintage mates This is a fun part to a post I made way back in , in which I showcased some particularly disturbing toy adverts which were leaving me, quite frankly, completely freaked out yet, here I am Continue reading ’

The Vintage Toy Advertiser    Back in Black In , Hasbro began releasing their highly anticipated line of Star Wars action figures known as the Black Series . The first wave of inch figures proved highly poseable due to their large number of articulation points. Continue reading ’