Don't fuck around. Super Naturals were grim as hell. The marketing was all wrong though. They could have very easily created an animated series or something to base them off of. You're only going to sell so many anonymous characters to imagination-less kids.
I forgot all about Sectaurs. I had all of those Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos. I also had all of the Karate Kid and Rambo figures. The B movie violence that was my play time in the 1980's is crazy compared to kids today.
post by Richard Hertz at Dec 13,2012 9:15am
Yes! 80's violence was/is far cooler than any millennial faggotry.
This thread just reminded me if I ever get some disposable cash I'm gonna collect all of the Visionaries. Those guys were so rad.
post by MikeOv at Dec 13,2012 9:47am
Inhumanoids, YES.
The three creature action figures were definitely pretty popular but with Earth Corps could totally fuck off.
I used to snap the head off of my Metlar action figure all of the time and my dad used to have to glue it back on. D'compose ruled because I could hold my G.I. Joe's captive behind his rib cages and then of course there was Tendril. His character was inspired by Cthulhu, so that alone should speak volumes for how awesome these action figures were.
The T.V. series was pretty violent and touched upon some pretty thought provoking subjects for being a kids series, such as politics, biology, and ancient civilizations.
Remember the Cringer / Battle-Cat action figure that was stiff and didn't have moving parts? Still pisses me off. HEY GUYS IM IN A GIANT BATTLE, LEMME HAVE THIS STIFF TIGER ATTACK YOU
Remember the Cringer / Battle-Cat action figure that was stiff and didn't have moving parts? Still pisses me off. HEY GUYS IM IN A GIANT BATTLE, LEMME HAVE THIS STIFF TIGER ATTACK YOU
yeah, and skeletors cat was just the same statue painted black.
I had all the food fighters, barnyard commandos and army ants. I had a sectaur, a rocklord, a supernatural, a computer warrior, a chuck norris and a police academy figure.
it isn't mentioned in the article,but did anyone ever have a boglin? I still have a mini boglin at home that my kid likes to play with.
Remember the Cringer / Battle-Cat action figure that was stiff and didn't have moving parts? Still pisses me off. HEY GUYS IM IN A GIANT BATTLE, LEMME HAVE THIS STIFF TIGER ATTACK YOU
yeah, and skeletors cat was just the same statue painted black.
i had both. skeletor's cat had a velvet-like texture. there's a video my uncle took of xmas at my house back in 85 or 86 and i was happy as fuck to get skeletor's kitty as i called it.
Remember the Cringer / Battle-Cat action figure that was stiff and didn't have moving parts? Still pisses me off. HEY GUYS IM IN A GIANT BATTLE, LEMME HAVE THIS STIFF TIGER ATTACK YOU
yeah, and skeletors cat was just the same statue painted black.
Waaaay cooler than that - Panthor was Battle Cat but ENSCONCED IN PURPLE VELVET. He was like the Huggy Bear of action-less-ness figures. Skeletor was a straight pimp.
I had all the food fighters, barnyard commandos and army ants. I had a sectaur, a rocklord, a supernatural, a computer warrior, a chuck norris and a police academy figure.
it isn't mentioned in the article,but did anyone ever have a boglin? I still have a mini boglin at home that my kid likes to play with.
Boglins were THE SHIT. I had one of the mini ones around somewhere up until a couple years back. (The mini Boglins didn't have the cool articulated eyes, though.)
My dad wouldn't let me have a My Buddy when I was a kid because he thought it would turn little boys into homos. He was probably right.
Hahahaha, i hated that fucking thing. When my buddy first came out, my dad told everyone i wanted it even though i told him i didn't like the stupid thing. he still brings it up all the time. "hey, remember when you wanted my buddy?" sometimes he'll ask me if i still have my buddy when i never had one in the first place. he did the same thing with mr. buckets and that came out when i was way too old for it.
I had all the food fighters, barnyard commandos and army ants. I had a sectaur, a rocklord, a supernatural, a computer warrior, a chuck norris and a police academy figure.
it isn't mentioned in the article,but did anyone ever have a boglin? I still have a mini boglin at home that my kid likes to play with.
Boglins were THE SHIT. I had one of the mini ones around somewhere up until a couple years back. (The mini Boglins didn't have the cool articulated eyes, though.)
i never had one of those big rubber puppet boglins, but i played with them a few times at friends' houses. they were awesome.
Hahahaha, i hated that fucking thing. When my buddy first came out, my dad told everyone i wanted it even though i told him i didn't like the stupid thing. he still brings it up all the time. "hey, remember when you wanted my buddy?" sometimes he'll ask me if i still have my buddy when i never had one in the first place. he did the same thing with mr. buckets and that came out when i was way too old for it.
Troll dad is awesome.
post by DYA is TESCO VEE at Dec 13,2012 10:42am
Oh, man.
Rock Lords - "yeah, let's combine the fun action of GoBots with... a rock." I had a few.
Inhumanoids - YES. Shit ruled. What's funny is I'm just now realizing how much the character designs were inspired by Jack Kirby's Celestials.
Super Naturals - soooooo awesome. I loved the little ghost-y guys. Had the lion guy, too. For runner-up hologram toys, though, anybody remember Visionaries?
one of my all-time faves was Sky Commanders. They all had these nylon zipline things that they slid down, the tv show had them fighting over some big crazy canyon all the time, but in reality you just strung them all across the living room and your mom wouldn't be able to get to the bathroom and she mad.
holy fuck. i completely forgot about Boglins hahaha. i don't know what they consider "failed", but i can think of some that fell into obscurity, though they are probably from the early 90's.
Z-Bots
Skeleton Warriors
Battle Beasts
Mighty Max
Monster in My Pocket
Starcom
there is one series that i cannot remember the name of, i have two of them left. both are miniature creatures on mock skateboards, one is a guy with a giant eyeball for a head holding a laser gun, and the other is King Kong holding his arms up with broken chains dangling. HELP ME FIGURE IT OUT.
post by arilliusbm at Dec 13,2012 10:45am edited Dec 13,2012 10:46am
I was just playing with a mighty max last week with my kid. Haha, they were awesome. Too bad POLLY POCKET SUCKED
post by arilliusbm at Dec 13,2012 10:48am edited Dec 13,2012 10:51am
For best-looking action figures off alltime, my vote goes towards Skeleton Warriors, though I'm positive that was the early 90s. Kinda like Street Sharks.
Edit: yea, both of these were 1993-1994. I had one skeleton warrior but by that time I was pretty much done with action figures I think.
Hahahaha, i hated that fucking thing. When my buddy first came out, my dad told everyone i wanted it even though i told him i didn't like the stupid thing. he still brings it up all the time. "hey, remember when you wanted my buddy?" sometimes he'll ask me if i still have my buddy when i never had one in the first place. he did the same thing with mr. buckets and that came out when i was way too old for it.
Troll dad is awesome.
he still trolls me all the time about all kinds of shit and i troll my daughter constantly too. my grandfather trolled my dad a lot too. i guess it's a family tradition, like alcoholism.
Still got my matchbox and hotwheels from the 80s and early 90s. Ive got a few that are from the late 70s and are much heavier and sturdy than the shit today
post by i_am_lazy at Dec 13,2012 11:13am
I'm pretty confident I had at least one of the Food Fighters and one of the Barnyard Commandos. And I ended up with a few Super Naturals and a couple of Rock Lords from my cousin (One of which was a Rockasaur.) I think he had a couple of Air Raiders too.
For best-looking action figures off alltime, my vote goes towards Skeleton Warriors, though I'm positive that was the early 90s. Kinda like Street Sharks.
Edit: yea, both of these were 1993-1994. I had one skeleton warrior but by that time I was pretty much done with action figures I think.
FALSE, Skeleton Warriors are not the best-looking action figures of all time.
Also you spelled OF wrong and you wrote OFF. Talk about grammar.
post by Captain Planet at Dec 13,2012 11:14am
also why didnt the Captain Planet make the list of failed 80's toys?
"FUCKING RULED" is the end of THAT sentence. Shit was my absolute favorite. I remember being firmly convinced that was the future is space. Too bad nowadays it's all energy drinks and fucking Richard Branson. Stupid declining civilization.
holy fuck. i completely forgot about Boglins hahaha. i don't know what they consider "failed", but i can think of some that fell into obscurity, though they are probably from the early 90's.
Z-Bots
Skeleton Warriors
Battle Beasts
Mighty Max
Monster in My Pocket
Starcom
there is one series that i cannot remember the name of, i have two of them left. both are miniature creatures on mock skateboards, one is a guy with a giant eyeball for a head holding a laser gun, and the other is King Kong holding his arms up with broken chains dangling. HELP ME FIGURE IT OUT.
I had shitloads of Z-Bots. And I know what you're talking about with the skateboard things, I just can't for the life of me think of the name.
Also on the early 90's note...there was a line of toy cars and trucks that also were monsters...can't remember what they were called.
Other weird 90's toys...anyone remember Snailiens?
"FUCKING RULED" is the end of THAT sentence. Shit was my absolute favorite. I remember being firmly convinced that was the future is space. Too bad nowadays it's all energy drinks and fucking Richard Branson. Stupid declining civilization.
Can we talk about Captain Power for a minute? It was a sub par TV show that seemed like it came out of nowhere, had the coolest toys including a spaceship that you could fire like a gun that somehow interacted with the show and then just disappeared as quickly as it came?
The most infuriating part is that no matter which store you went to they always seemed to only carry the shitty boring characters' action figures. I once and once only spotted the awesome robot bad guy with the tracks for legs. It spawned a fist fight between my younger brother and I that would have made ECW fans squeamish.
Can we talk about Captain Power for a minute? It was a sub par TV show that seemed like it came out of nowhere, had the coolest toys including a spaceship that you could fire like a gun that somehow interacted with the show and then just disappeared as quickly as it came?
The most infuriating part is that no matter which store you went to they always seemed to only carry the shitty boring characters' action figures. I once and once only spotted the awesome robot bad guy with the tracks for legs. It spawned a fist fight between my younger brother and I that would have made ECW fans squeamish.
What was the toy that had light guns like this except they were space cowboys and the bad guy was cowboys skeletor? They were pretty cool.
Can we talk about Captain Power for a minute? It was a sub par TV show that seemed like it came out of nowhere, had the coolest toys including a spaceship that you could fire like a gun that somehow interacted with the show and then just disappeared as quickly as it came?
The most infuriating part is that no matter which store you went to they always seemed to only carry the shitty boring characters' action figures. I once and once only spotted the awesome robot bad guy with the tracks for legs. It spawned a fist fight between my younger brother and I that would have made ECW fans squeamish.
SO AWESOME. This was like the holy grail of toys when I was 8 or 9.
Yeah, Alan Moore = "not necessarily great for kids". Although I'm hoping now that Miracleman reprints are finally in the works, we'll get a "Kid Miracleman London Massacre Playset".
the mouse poop is from my childhood home. We basically abandoned a house with all our crap in it and left it there for years. I went back and played with all my childhood toys which at that point were getting loved by mice.
Well, I dropped acid in 1999 with a friend and we went there and played with all the toys for hours until we noticed all the mouse poop... black plague time.
When we sold the house, I dumped all the toys in a rubbermaid container and haven't gotten to cleaning them.
You're one weird dude Pepelis. I don't think I'd let a rubbermaid container of mouse shit in my house never mind kepping it there for years. But I don't live in NH.
Oh man. The shock I had as kid renting the real Toxic Avenger after years of playing with toy toxic avengers. Some of my first experience of seeing boobies on film.
holy shit, that dude looks like he was the one mouse pooping
post by DYA is TESCO VEE at Dec 13,2012 12:35pm
LOL @ Cobra-la guy menacing a Battle Beast, tiny Panthro, and a Smurf. Also, sick transformers. You should totally give me that Jetfire so I can repaint it as a Macross fighter.
i still have the penguin battle beast, though the hologram doesn't work anymore. these were also favorites of mine, and i had this which was essentially a torture chamber.
I forgot thy made Swamp thing toys. Them and Robocop were examples of adult characters that should have never been made for kids.
i still have a bunch of the Alien and Predator figures from the same era, and i used to have Terminator ones, long before i was ever old enough to see any of the movies.
i had swamp thing figures, a toxic crusader, and a my pet monster. they were all awesome. i recently found my pet monster in my parents' attic, but all the rubbery parts, like his nose and handcuffs, were rotting so i threw him away :(
I wish i still had my box of mcdonalds toys from the 8os
post by dreadkill at Dec 13,2012 3:01pm edited Dec 13,2012 3:01pm
i still have one of my favorite happy meal toys. it was similar to a transformer. it was a box of mcdonalds french fries. a head folded out of the top, the bottom dropped down and became feet, and the sides slid out to become arms.
i had swamp thing figures, a toxic crusader, and a my pet monster. they were all awesome. i recently found my pet monster in my parents' attic, but all the rubbery parts, like his nose and handcuffs, were rotting so i threw him away :(
Micro Machines are second only to Legos in my eyes. i still have a box of about 200 or so, and my mother still has one of the mini-Micro Machines. they released so many awesome sets that were never advertised for amazing movies. i have the whole Indiana Jones set, as well as a few Predator ones, and there is also a full T2 set. i have most of the Star Wars figures and some ships, as well as a few random Star Trek ones. i think my cousin still has a few of the playsets made to look like car parts like a distributor cap. i actually have Micro Machine Storm Troopers on my desk at work. BEST. NON-LEGO TOY. EVER.
i had swamp thing figures, a toxic crusader, and a my pet monster. they were all awesome. i recently found my pet monster in my parents' attic, but all the rubbery parts, like his nose and handcuffs, were rotting so i threw him away :(
i have this somewhere...i have tons of old original SW toys.
my mom has a picture of me asleep on the GI Joe air craft carrier. I fell asleep on it during an epic playing session... it wasnt mine BTW. it was my older neighbors and he let me have it after he grew out of it.
post by MikeOv at Dec 13,2012 3:51pm
I always wanted them to make this an action figure, as a kid.
there was a better commercial with a part that went "yooga yooga yooga to ride on one. the big bigger biggest kind of fun!" i wish i could find that one.
post by eyeroller at Dec 13,2012 4:36pm
^ Looks like they come in a kid's meal at the Ramrod.
I just stopped at my mothers and grabbed my big rubber LJN WWF figures. They're beat to shit but I have Hulk Hogan,Roddy Piper, Iron Sheik,George the Animal Steel,Nikoli Volkov,Brutus Beefcake, Junkyard Dog,Macho Man, Big John Studd, Greg the Hammer Valentine, Jessie Ventura, and Hillbilly Jim. If anyone out there has the ones I'm missing all donations will be accepted. Would love to get a King Kong Bundy, Jake the Snake or Paul Orndorff.
Does anyone remember those diecast action figures that were people in yellow and blue tracksuits with a stylized "5" badge? Those things could withstand m-80 blasts, easily.
cher only played with the mound in notshavers pocket
post by andrewbastard nli at Dec 13,2012 6:08pm
Remember Mask toys. They were all magnetic.
I'm drawing a huge blank on the name of these figures but who remembers those little dudes, like 2,5 inches tall and they had this little square hologram on their chest and you'd rub it and a symbol would show up, fire, water, wood, or wind (I thinky...WHAT WERE THE CALLED??
I'm drawing a huge blank on the name of these figures but who remembers those little dudes, like 2,5 inches tall and they had this little square hologram on their chest and you'd rub it and a symbol would show up, fire, water, wood, or wind (I thinky...WHAT WERE THE CALLED??
Micromachines were cool.
They were called battle beasts. We were talking about them above. The acid reverend pictures have the flying squirrel one.. Awesome toyz
post by andrewbastard nli at Dec 13,2012 6:27pm
Oh I'm retarded... but yeah battlebeasts.
post by DMYA is ROCKS FALL, EVERYONE DIES at Dec 13,2012 6:59pm
^^^ the whole "elemental" rock/paper/scissors thing with those little guys was cool... until you realize that "wood" isn't an element.
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