Toys and Replicas
The first mass produced Tricorder replica was featured in AMT's Star Trek Exploration Set in 1974.
followed shortly thereafter by a palm sized version in Remco's 1975 Star Trek Utility Belt which was sized and marketed to very young children in hopes of taking advantage of Star Trek: The Animated Series that was on TV at that time.
The first life sized Tricorder was produced by Mego Corporation in 1976 and was actually a cassette tape player made to look like a Tricorder. In the 1990s Star Trek replicas were mass produced by Playmates, Playing Mantis and Master Replicas making commercially produced replicas affordable to the average fan for the first time in history.
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