My History w/ K. Fabe Toys

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K. Fabe Toys started producing products in 1970. I was born in 1973. This means that I was at the perfect age to be “corrupted” by Kurt Fabe. 

The Robo-Link-6 figures were the first toys that I remember seeing. The robots seemed twenty feet tall. I remember thinking how lucky that kid on the TV commercial must be. He had every figure. I was so jealous of that kid. 

I grew up surrounded by K. Fabe Toys, movies, cartoons, novels and comic books. My interests were stoked by adults that told me that the products were garbage, they would rot my brain, and that they were probably made by Satan himself. 

I moved to Denton, Texas to attend college in 1992. Coincidently, this was the same year that Steve Sansweet published his book Star Wars: From Concept to Screen to Collectible. While I had absorbed as much as I could about the creation of the Star Wars films as a kid…until that point it hadn’t really occurred to me to investigate the creators at Kenner. Sansweet, opened my mind to the idea that the items used in the toy development and production process could even be collected. Honesty, Cincinnati (home of Kenner), and by default the nexus of preproduction collecting seemed like a million miles away. However, it quickly stuck me that the toys that I loved just as much as Kenner, Kurt Fabe Toys, had been based in Dallas. My dorm room was thirty minutes from Dallas!