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Category Archives: Internal Items
Kenner Employee Toy Store Receipt From 1995
Kenner employees were able to buy currently produced toys at a discount from a company ran store. Here is an employee’s receipt from 1995. This receipt is quite a bit more involved than the ones issued in 1983. Maybe Kenner was just … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Congo, employee, Employee Store, Kenner Products, Predator, receipt, Swamp Thing
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Kenner 18″ Alien Toy Factory Photo From Cincinnati Magazine
Here’s a fun behind the scenes photo from the December 1979 issue of Cincinnati Magazine. This shot of multiple Alien 18″ figures being packaged at Kenner is from an article about different consumer items being made in the Cincinnati area. … Continue reading
Steel Production Molds for Kenner’s Silverhawks Play-Doh Set
Here is a set of three steel production molds used to create the plastic forms/molds for Kenner’s 1986 Silverhawks Play-Doh playset. The plastic Play-Doh forms are shown along with the matching steel mold that was used to create them. Each … Continue reading
Kenner Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure Speaker & Tape Prototype
This is a packaging prototype for the 1991 Wyld Stallyns Speaker & Tape toy from the Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure toy line. Engineers at Kenner would create mock-ups of toy packages using whatever spare cardboard they had on hand. … Continue reading
Posted in Internal Items, Prototypes, Toys
Tagged Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Prototype, Starting Lineup
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Kenner 1979 Press Kit
This press kit, likely handed out in the winter of 1979 at Toy Fair in New York, reviews the past as well as the immediate future of Kenner product lines. Kenner hit a home run with the Star Wars license … Continue reading
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A Look Back at Kenner’s Toy Building History in Cincinnati
Cincinnati.com has posted a great slide show reminiscing about Kenner’s toy building history in Cincinnati. There are some amazing behind the scenes photos of toy production and testing. Highly recommend checking it out here! Image property of Cincinnati.com.
Posted in Advertising, Internal Items, Morgue, Museum, News, Toy Fair, Toys
Tagged Bionic Woman, Care Bears, Easy-Bake Oven, employee, Star Wars, Stretch Armstrong, Super Powers, The Real Ghostbusters, Toy Fair
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Six Million Dollar Man Bionic Arm Toy Buyer Alert
Colonel Steve Austin says you are doing it wrong! This 8 1/2″ x 11″ letter is another great example of how Kenner put a lot of effort into communicating with their toy vendors in order to help keep the end consumer happy. The letter was … Continue reading
Posted in Internal Items, Paperwork, Toys
Tagged Bulletin, Six Million Dollar Man, Toy Buyer
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Need Help Identifying a Kenner Tooling Item – Aluminum Die
Okay Kenner Nation, I need your help identifying an item! This aluminum die was found outside the Kenner Morgue in Cincinnati around 1999 or 2000. I’m trying to figure out what toy it was used to create. Help me identify … Continue reading
Kenner Store Displays on PlaidStallions.com
If the picture above doesn’t make your heart skip a beat Kenner collectors, you just might be dead already. Cruising around the PlaidStallions.com site, I found a page with some amazing Kenner store display images. Click on through here to … Continue reading
Poseable Paradise – Awesome Care Bears Website
Friend of the site and fellow Kenner fanatic Sarafina over at the Littlest Pet Shop Collector website, gave us a head’s up about a great Care Bears site. The website is called Poseable Paradise and it has a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Catalogs, Paperwork, Prototypes, Store Display, Toys
Tagged Care Bears, Littlest Pet Shop
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