Anyone Remember King Zor the Dinosaur.....

Great Garloo · May 05, 2009, 01:50:33 PM

Remember King Zor made by Ideal in 1962?

King Zor came with a radioactive green dart gun, darts, and round yellow missles which King Zor used to shoot back at you. Once you loaded King Zor with the yellow balls you were ready to rumble. When you turned on his switch, he started to move about your floor. King Zor would back off, roar and change direction when his tongue came into contact with something. If your dart hit the target on his tail, King Zor would turn at you, roar, and start firing his missles at you.

King Zor's body was blue, while the arms and legs were green. The box showed King Zor with a yellow belly, but the production run never had the yellow, only the few used for commercials and marketing. Adding an extra color was too costly, I suppose.

I remember King Zor making a brief appearance on an early episode of "The Brady Bunch." Mr. Brady was walking into the boys' room and almost stumbled over him.

raycastile · May 05, 2009, 09:51:15 PM

This shot from last year's UMA Display at Wonderfest should satisfy your desire for both King Zor and Hamilton's Invaders images.

BlackLagoon · May 05, 2009, 10:04:09 PM

That predates me, but it looks really cool. I'm also wiping the saliva off of my laptop after seeing Ray's OSM guys there!

raycastile · May 05, 2009, 10:05:38 PM

Quote from: BlackLagoon on May 05, 2009, 10:04:09 PM
That predates me, but it looks really cool. I'm also wiping the saliva off of my laptop after seeing Ray's OSM guys there!

Ah, hold on. The Colossus Rex figure and card are mine, but the rest are Dan Roebuck's. The Calisto is mine, too, if you want to count him as an honorary OSM.

BlackLagoon · May 06, 2009, 03:17:55 PM

He's honorary in my book! Great stuff either way!

ChrisW · May 07, 2009, 02:57:27 PM

King Zor's my favorite toy from way back when! In fact, that my guy in the pic that Ray posted. He usually sits on the book case in my studio, so it was nice to be able to share him in the UMA display at WF last year. He works fine, rolls, stops, roars, fires from out of his back.

What I DON'T have is the darn dart gun! I still hold this lingering hope that someday I'll stumble across one in a flea market or auction, and the dealer doesn't have a clue what he's got! When they come up on ebay, they're a bit rich for my blood...

Great Garloo · May 09, 2009, 10:39:13 AM

If I am not mistaken, I seem to remember a childhood friend of mine having a King Zor board game as well.

Monsterfink · June 07, 2009, 01:46:15 PM

Although I'm too young to actually remember Zor, he still has a place enough in my heart to warrant me doing artwork of him http://necronomitom.blogspot.com/2009/06/king-zor.html

Universal Steve · June 07, 2009, 04:28:31 PM

I used to have one when I was a kid. It was a favorite toy of mine. I also had the King Zor board game. That was pretty cool but not as cool as King Zor himself.

BlackLagoon · June 07, 2009, 04:52:04 PM

Quote from: Monsterfink on June 07, 2009, 01:46:15 PM
Although I'm too young to actually remember Zor, he still has a place enough in my heart to warrant me doing artwork of him http://necronomitom.blogspot.com/2009/06/king-zor.html

Great artwork! Thanks for sharing!

ChrisW · June 07, 2009, 07:02:40 PM

Monsterfink - nice re-imagining of the fearsome beastie!
Great Garloo - you remember correctly - the King Zor Board Game had sme great playing pieces of Dinosaurs, cavemen and dino eggs - ok, so their knowledge of natural history left something to be desired! The worse thing about it was the bland box art. Just a color photo of the King Zor toy on a stark white background. Even as a kid I thought it was terrible - nothing to stir the imagination.

Richard · June 08, 2009, 02:08:06 AM

I have my original "Zor" from Christmas of 1962. He is one of the few pieces I would try to save from my collection (If I could only save what I could carry out). I still have the green dart gun but ONLY ONE dart (my brother broke all the others because I would shoot him in the butt). The box King Zor came in is long gone. And I lost my original King Zor game due to sewer backup in my childhood home but have since replaced it. It's the same game idea as the "It's About Time" game that came out a few years later. A fun very simple game for a kid~as most of the monster games were.

Jscareshock · June 08, 2009, 10:46:59 AM

I wasn't allowed to get a King Zor when he first came out. I recently found the board game at a yard sale, so I am hoping I'll be able to find him soon. As a kid I had dreams of getting King Zor and RObot Commando and having them fight it out to the death.

dlhenderson · June 15, 2009, 07:07:24 AM

I remember an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. where Robot Commando made a "guest appearance".

Hepcat · January 20, 2011, 03:55:17 PM

Here's the TV commercial for King Zor:

King Zor commercial ( Ideal 1962)

Very cool! And here is the board game:

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