Vintage 1983 Tudor Games, QB’s Of The NFL Figure – 49ers Joe Montana

 Back in 1983 Tudor Games released a little figurine for each football team in the NFL.  These figurines were of the various quarterbacks in the league, for that time of the early 80's.  Seeing that in 1981, just 2 years earlier, the 49ers won their 1^st NFL Championship, the 3.5” 49er figure of Joe Montana was and still is a hot commodity.  

Vintage 1983 Tudor Games 49ers Joe Montana Figure

 I recently acquired this figure for a fair price.  The figure is new and still in it’s original packaging, a major plus.  Most of these figures are loose because kids would take them out and play with them.  So, they’re scarce to still be in the original package like this one.  Also, I just noticed, while shooting the picture for this blog, that the package isn’t 100% flawless.  I noticed that there’s sizable notch on the side of the package, but I’m still glad I’ve got it.  A rare and hard to find figure regardless.

49ers 1983 Tonka Van and Figures

49ers 1983 Tonka Van and Figure set

Within the last couple of years I came across other collections from guys who collect other teams like the Giants, Bears, etc.  In their collections I noticed they had some toys with their team logo's made by Tonka, which dated back to 1983.  I found out that all the NFL teams had items made by Tonka back then, so I started looking around and eventually collected the two main items that Tonka made back then with each NFL teams logo and colors.

1983 Tonka 49ers Van, player and bench

First, is the 1983 Tonka Van with included a player and bench with opening sunroof and back door.  I found this collection was in great shape, but no original packing.  But still a great find for me.

New (Old) 1983 49ers Tonka "Players" figure and disk

Months later, I found a completely sealed 1983 Tonka NFL "Players" figure with plastic logo disk. Sweet!

I'm glad, now have both to complete the 1983 release of NFL teams Tonka toys.