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    1981 Tyco Turbo Vettes

    Tyco Turbo Vettes (sometimes spelt TurboVettes) is an electric racing slot car set featuring the on the Chevrolet Corvette C4, released into the US, UK, and other markets in 1981…
  • 1270 Tyco Hot Lixx Guitar Poster

    1989 Tyco Hot Lixx Computerized Electronic Guitar

    The Hot Lixx was an electronic guitar synthesizer toy, manufactured by Tyco Industries and released into the US, UK, and other markets worldwide in 1989.
  • 9162 Tyco Dino Riders Brontosaurus Box Front

    1989 Dino Riders Brontosaurus with Ayce, Ion and Serena

    The Dino Riders Brontosaurus with Ayce, Ion and Serena is an action figure set of a large brontosaurus dinosaur equipped with armor and heavy weapons. Released in conjunction with a…
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    The Early Bird Show with Marty Monster

    The Early Bird Show was a Saturday morning live kids TV variety show filmed in Melbourne Australia between 1985 - 1989.
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    RC Car Display with Clear Shoe Boxes

    As you may have seen from our Taiyo & Tyco Collectors around the World page, you can create a great looking display of your best items using Transparent Shoe Boxes from Amazon / eBay. But wait! Save yourself time and money by ensuring you get the right type and size!
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    10 Must Have Vintage Toy Restoration Tools

    Here's 10 tools and materials you'll need to do a quick and basic restoration without causing damage.
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TycoCollectors is the ultimate reference for 80s, 90s, and 00s Toys

We focus specifically on Tyco Toys / Tyco Industries (USA), Taiyo Toys Co. Ltd (Japan), as well as associated brand such as Metro RC, Dickie Toys, all spanning some of the most memorable radio control cars, slot cars, HO scale trains, and general kids toys of the last several decades.

There are currently over 400 products documented here covering US, UK, Japanese and European brands, each with history, reviews, photos, valuation, and where to buy them now. For any specific requests, please contact me.

The site itself is entirely built and maintained by one collector in Australia in my spare time as a resource for the collectors community, with the goal of both documenting these pieces of history, and hopefully one day inspiring current toy companies (e.g. Mattel and Nikko) to revisit some of these classic designs and to do them justice with just the right amount of modern technology.

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