Eldon (toy company)
Eldon Industries, Inc. was a toy company located in Hawthorne, California (the hometown of the Mattel toy company), that also in its heyday operated factories in Canada, Spain, England, Japan, and the Netherlands. The company is best known for items and brands that repackaged Japanese toys and distributed them worldwide - an example is the Billy Blastoff astronaut toy produced by Tomy. Slot cars and plastic toys were common Eldon offerings.
Eldon's slogan was "Just for the fun of it." which could be heard in both TV and radio advertisement, as well as in print ads.
Memorable Toys
[edit]- Poweride Electric Riding Toys
- 1/32 Scale Slot Cars and Sets
- 1/24 Scale Slot Cars and Sets
- HO Scale Slot Cars and Sets
- Billy Blastoff and Robbie Robot
- Power Blocks Construction Sets
- Touch Command (Air Pressure Actuated) Remote controlled Cars, Submarines and Amphibian vehicle
- Steer 'N Score Driving Test
- Slick Strip "N" gauge cars and track
- Collect-A-Car Raceway and cars
- Match Kit Sports Cars, Military Vehicles, Military Airplanes and World War 1 planes
- Pink Panther Magazine Series 1/25 Model Kit
- Outhouse Magazine Series 1/25 Model Kit
- Milk Truck Magazine Series 1/25 Model Kit
- Sand Draggin Magazine Series 1/25 Model Kit
- Bathtub Magazine Series 1/25 Model Kit
- Invader Magazine Series 1/25 Model Kit
- Remote Control Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
- Computer Truck
- Design-A-Matic Woodburning Set
- Bowl-A-Matic Bowling Game
- Cap'n Paddles the dunking duck
- Missile firing F-100 Super Sabre
- Squirt guns
- Pipsqueaks action figures
- 3-D Scenics models