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(The only thing that would be even cooler would be Car Wars toys, but there was never a Car Wars toy line for me to drool over.) Visit the Battletech Toy Archive! Owning a collection of these Tyco Battletech toys would be fun and they’d make an awesome addition to my office at Steve Jackson Games. I mentioned in my 2009 Battletech toys post that I’m such a Battletech geek that my essay in Hobby Games: The 100 Best* was about the Battletech game I’ve even re-read some of the old novels over the last few years and wrote about the BattleTech: 25 Years of Art and Fiction* book back in 2011 ( reading post here). The images hosted at the site are smaller than I would like - if I ever get my hands on this catalog I’ll have to post larger scans to the web - but they’re big enough for us to read the text and see the photos.īrowsing through the catalog I worry that I’ll never get lucky and stumble across several of these toys in the wild.
Battletech toys archive#
It was only a few days ago in my Gabriel Lone Rangers toys post ( posted here) that I mentioned how much I miss printed catalogs and the Tyco Battletech toys catalog at the Battletech Toy Archive just reinforces that statement.
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But they’re kinda pricey, which shouldn’t surprise me all that much for a line that turns two decades old next year. eBay seems to have a good number of toys available and even Amazon lists Battletech toys* for sale not many of them, but there are some up there and ready to buy. I notice today that the Tyco Battletech toys seem to be a little easier to find today than they were when I last really started looking into the series. Fingers crossed there that this stays up and working! Fortunately, it looks like the ads, catalog, and toy pages are still there - as well as the images - so that archive hasn’t been lost, but it’s always a sad day when a website dies and takes down some of the only info on the web about a toy line. The Battletech Toy Archive, according to the front page of the archive, was last updated about a year ago and remains the best place I’ve found online for information about the Battletech toys. I wrote about the 1994 Tyco Battletech toys back in 2009 ( post here), and it looks like since I first wrote that no new information has made its way online. I went in search of the old Tyco Battletech ( search*) toys again and found out something a little frustrating about the internet: when you run a toy site and write about toys there’s a chance that Google will start pointing you at your own posts when you search for information.