Can you imagine having this beauty staring up at you from under your bowl of Count Chockula (or FrankenBerry, if you will) first thing in the morning? You'd just know it was going to be a good day, having the Super Friends smiling up at you like that.
It's not until I recently starting adding Super Friends stuff to my Aquaman collection that I began to fully understand how much of a merchandising juggernaut the show was in the seventies. I've come across literally hundreds of products either specifically created around the show or some pre-exisiting item retrofitted as to be a piece of SF merchandise.
And of course, all us Aquaman fans everywhere have that show's enormous success to thank for Aquaman's enduring, seemingly-indestructible presence in pop culture, even though that popularity has never been reflected in the arena of his original creation, comic books.
When I won this on ebay, it was for a set of four, so someday I can have a really fun, uber-nerd dinner party...
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I almost bought this and the table cloth yesterday at a toyshow. I love that logo.
I remember buying one set of each item I could find in this pattern when it was on Clearance at either Venture or Target. That would have been around 1980 or so. I had small plates, large plates, napkins, party hats, and some table decoration. I saved one of each of these for years until in one of my moves they disappeared. :-( They were awesome.
I had the whole set for my 7th birthday party, and I've almost gotten it again on eBay a half-dozen times. That and the DC valentines. One of these days...
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