Larami Toys
"As Seen on TV"
By Euphrates



From the very begining, toys made by the Larami Corp. were doomed to convenience stores and 
grocery store impulse isles.  Rack toys.  These were the toys that you always found for .39 to .99 cents 
on a single, lonely peg, somewhere in the middle of the detergent section.  Just for some 
perspective, most of the quality toys by Mattel and Hasbro were $2.99 to $4.99.


There were two methods for obtaining these toys.  Method number one: You could wail at 
the top of your lungs while spinning in a circle on the floor, until Mother tossed the jewel 
disdainfully into the cart just to shut you up.  Method number two: Deftly slide the item 
between the Quisp and the toilet paper, while Mom is 
temporarily occupied by your sister, who is trying to open an unpaid-for Snickers bar, and 
hope that it makes it though the check-out undetected.


Let's be honest, the Larami Corp. makes crap.  Generally, crap (and usually the same crap over
and over - binoculars, ID sets, wallets, stamps, darts) based on movies and TV programs.
They made toys that you would play with for about 3 minutes before it would become toybox fluff,
or get dropped down the heat vent behind the cou3ch.  The thing that beguiled us was, and always 
will be, the packaging.  The card graphics were fun, colorful and hissed "Buy me.  We will be 
friends for ever so long!"  Do you remember any of these?





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