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A collection of late-80s/early-90s commercials for the toy lines I’ve become obsessed with collecting and evidence of the weirdness and totally unsellable lines of Dick Tracy and The Shadow toys; the ads make me feel for the marketing team – but I’m so very, very glad that the toymakers made those lines. The Shadow figures are complete, the Dick Tracy line will, for awhile at least, have an asterix next to complete* as a carded (and not exorbitantly overpriced) The Blank remains elusive – but I will complete the line, one day.