Bizarre (probably crappy) action figures you vaguely remember owning as a child

prompted by the weird he-man thing named modulok that HI DERE posted on ITR.

http://fanmode.net/graphics/2008/photos/modulok3.jpg

MODULOK

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3382/3660926378_a88d1277c6.jpg

pharoid, who was like a micronaut or some shit

http://a10.idata.over-blog.com/450x600/1/33/87/43/photos-jouets/CAPTAIN-POWER/soaron.jpg

the only thing i really remember about pharoid is that his hands popped off for some reason, which of course led to their inevitable loss and the most unfun action figure ever

http://cdn2.ioffer.com/img/item/118/047/503/ub1c.jpg

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/tmnt-boxed-set.jpg

oh wait. i think the na turtle actions figured looked a bit different.

what was the name of the action figures who rode futuristic dinosaurs (not transformers, a whole other thing)?

dinobots?

dino riders

u were so close

dinoriders that's the one!

I had a whole bunch of these sword n sorcery type action figures but I can't remember the brand/toyline name... I'll never be able to find them *sob*

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lUQ4nipTWz4/SQVVBOebiII/AAAAAAAAAEU/XsG1QSdrWRg/s320/DinoRiderTrexARMORED.jpg

^^^not crappy

J.J. Armes, who was, unbelieveably enough, a real person.

http://www.bigredtoybox.com/articles/jjarmes.jpg

http://www.dinoriders.com/Toys/NovaDemon.gif i had these

PULSAR, Man of Action!

http://www.bigredtoybox.com/articles/pulsar.jpg

YOU COULD OPEN HIS FACE AND STICK A DISC IN HIS BRAIN.

MODULOK! BEST TOY EVER! I have two sets mixed up in a box somewhere, for maximum multi-limbed mayhem.

Another bizarre He-Man spin-off was called, I think, SUCTOR - MASTER OF POWERFUL SUCTION! A faintly obscene frog monster with rubber suckers for hands, feet and mouth. (Was the tag line HE REALLY SUCKS, or did I imagine that?)

And his arch-enemy HYPNOS, who had a sparking hypno-disc in his chest.

http://www.foreignmego.com/plaid/pulsar.jpg

Plaid Stallions?!? wow what the fuck

seriously

lol I don't know what that part is. GIS is a harsh mistress.

(xxpost) it's a website that covers 70's garbage
http://www.plaidstallions.com/

(sorry in advance for wasting the next couple of hours of your lives while you all peruse that site)

oh shit!!! no apologies necessary!

Star Trek communication console by Mego!

http://www.collectiondx.com/gallery2/gallery/d/415294-4/P9070721.jpg

kind of fails to illicit the same fear and respect a young me gave him in the black hole tbh

if memory serves, the maximilian figure had no moving parts other than being able to flip down his little leg peg stands or whatever. BIG FUN

my favorite toys were M.A.S.K. but they're not crappy.
http://www.albertpenello.com/mask/hocus.jpg

it is crappy that they couldn't make this boat float. otherwise this thing is rad.
http://www.albertpenello.com/mask/box/gatorboxfrontus.jpg

I was really into MASK too. There was a white van which opened up to reveal a red plane that I was particularly keen on.

thread proving that jjusten's toybox and mine were largely identical

I had that pharoid thing and kept the sarcophagus loooong after I lost the action figure, was a cigarette case briefly IIRC

also have memories of frantically searching an empty airplane for a missing micronaut hand

my aunt found it in the snow on the runaway after I had given up all hope

wau, your aunt had a frozen body in her yard

lol

only thing better than stretch armstrong was his mortal enemy, stretch monster

of course these photos are extremely disturbing to look at now

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/sarmstrong.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/smonster.jpg

don't worry kyoko, micronaut's only looking for his hand in the snow

in fairness, those pics were just as disturbing at the time

ha i had a lot of late period gi joe, the clinton-era self-parody years. even i knew that when white tiger-striped versions of earlier vehicles started showing up on shelves the thing was on a downslope

"caution: do not throw against glass"

ha, where the fuck else did you think kids were going to throw him?

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/suckg.jpg

this godzilla ruled my 7 year old world

http://www.plaidstallions.com/mattel79/shogunwarriors1.jpg

don't worry kyoko, micronaut's only looking for his hand in the snow

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, September 24, 2009 6:18 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lock thread. hell, lock internet!

I didn't have any bizarre action figures that I can recall, but I did have that Play-doh Hair Salon with people who had holes in their head that you pressed play-doh through to make spaghetti-strand "hair."

http://www.toyarchive.com/STAForSale/NEW2001+/GiJoe/Vehicles/TigerCatLoose1a.jpg

i mean what

how in the hell is stretch armstrong going to defeat his enemies by turning into a giant pretzel? unless his enemy is hunger

Buck Rogers "Col. Wilma Deering" action figure disappointingly un-hot.

http://crozee.tripod.com/buck/wilma.jpg

By comparison:

http://crozee.tripod.com/buck/gray1a.jpg

Bah.

http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/toys/buck/buck/3wilma.jpg

http://lh3.ggpht.com/abramsv/SAui1kkZr1I/AAAAAAAAO1o/s0uVM-H_gk8/erin_gray0124.jpg

"ghwb-era" not clinton-era, btw... christ i'm not that young

1988

The toyline continued to sell well, despite its lack of multimedia support. A new enemy, Destro's Iron Grenadiers, was introduced. The new Cobra line-up was composed mainly of Viper-type henchmen. Issue #86 of the comic series celebrated the 25th anniversary of the G.I. Joe toyline in general. Another G.I. Joe sub-group - Tiger Force, a line of classic characters and vehicles re-colored with tiger-striped camouflage patterns - was introduced before the year's end.
[edit] 1989

mego toys were so awesome!

I owned lots of planet of the apes, star trek, batman, and spiderman figures and had much love for THE LIZARD

http://www.worldsgreatesttoys.com/images/blog/dma/posters/wgsh_figures.jpg

lol Wilma Deering is very obviously a repainted Leia-in-snowsuit-on-Hoth action figure

wearing a black turtleneck and having a huge lizard tail was the coolest thing I could imagine

that may still be true

BTW you guys know there's going to be a Stretch Armstrong movie, right?

i had so so so many Mego action figures, all of which I just bequeathed to my three year old, and most of which were losing limbs; there is now a box full of creepy arms and legs and like, the Joker's disembodied head. I just kept myself from going on ebay and buying about $200 worth of replacements.

'sup

http://www.mwctoys.com/images/review_startrek3_3.jpg

spiderman and that flame dude are mysteriously still immaculate looking, I must have gotten replacements for those around the time I stopped playing with them. Superman too isn't in bad shape. Nothing is sadder than my armless Penguin. The Star Trek guys were in good shape too, some even still had phasers until a week ago.

I was so taken aback by the hott Monster-on-Armstrong action that I only just now noticed the expression on that kid's face.

ok EIII i think you are onto something w/this shared toychest theory because i also had suckerman, although mine was black not lime green

oh god the GORN

<3 this thread

goth suckerman

xp

I've posted this here before, but it was the coolest thing ever when I was 4 or 5

"3 control sticks and detention pen" is kind of o_O tho... guantanamo bay playset

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/potagift.jpg

they should just make a GORN movie

I'd see that shit even if it was awful

stretch armstrong kid reminds me of

http://www.classicscreams.com/Celeb_Pages/Celeb_Pics/Chaney_Jr_WolfMan_Howl.jpg

I had that too, Edward!

http://www.toymania.com/334archives/crystar/crystar.jpg
<3 crystar

None of the action figures I can remember were crappy except for this:

http://www.actionhq.com/store/images/encore_ratchet.JPG

Really, nothing says "hero" like a headless robot on a sled.

i also had suckerman, although mine was black not lime green

― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:38 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

I hope you did not throw it against glass

Ruddy hell, those Micronauts up top gave me a real Proustian rush - my bro and I had them as wee lads. Amongst the usual Star Wars / Action Man / Play People stuff we also used to save up to buy Japanese robots whilst on holiday with our Grandma who lived in Italy (back in the early 80s the stuff out there was completely unavailable in Britain afaik). Best of these was the mighty Gokaiser:
http://img263.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc235ℑ=17600_gokaiser_122_235lo.JPG

i had a mort suckerman

in 9th grade i brought suckerman in for my demonstration speech in honors english and used him as a prop by throwing him at stuff and finished off by totally stealing a joke that was along the lines of "so if you go home and tell your parents that you met suckerman at school today, don't be surprised if they ask 'Was he in the parking lot?'"

unlucky substitute teacher was not amused

I had the black hole toys too

I was fascinated by toy lines created for movies that bombed

should not even go into star wars realm but this was my holy grail as a child. only ever saw it in a toy store once and snapped it up.

in retrospect, it was a handful of action figures and a piece of cardboard... but god how I cherished it

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/sears.jpg

arrrrgh - THE MIGHTY GOKAISER:

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/1610/gokaiser.jpg

I was fascinated by toy lines created for movies that bombed

anyone else here have the Tron toys? They came with a disc that stuck onto the back of the figure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0VaFsESh3g&feature=related

These things were a gyp. Of course, the first thing I did upon opening the packaging was rip the dude's arm off like the kid in the commercial only to discover that "returning almost like new to its orignal shape" really meant "dismembered 4 life."

this was my very favorite thing to play with when i was a kid. what was weird was one day i was watching the merv griffin show and a young pee wee herman used hugo in his stand-up act! he called him something like mongo or mr.mongo. that was the first time i ever saw pee wee. hugo would get all sticky from the glue they gave you for his disguise mustache and beard. i can still smell his head! isn't that weird.

http://www.house8.com/weblog/hugo.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/2424158716_5ae27b5dd2.jpg?v=0

http://www.plaidstallions.com/kenner/hugo1.jpg

i loved hugo.

hugo so creepy

anyone else here have the Tron toys? They came with a disc that stuck onto the back of the figure.

― Hat Trick Swayze (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:51 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

YES

also loved the tron video game - 4 games in 1!

sorry scott but that guy is freaking me out

this thing really actually stunk irl.

http://blog.falcadia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/stinkorcardback.jpg

hugo is like one step away from

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/magic.jpg

guess who this is? give up? it's hugo! he's in disguise!!!

http://mishkanyc.com/bloglin/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/hugo5.jpg

arrrrgh - THE MIGHTY GOKAISER:

HOLY SHIT, I HAD THIS

wtf dude that Hugo doll is the stuff of nightmares

Hugo = Ben Gibbard from Death Cab For Cutie

damn, hugo

omg manglor was the 1st thing i thought of when i saw this thread - that sticky lil motherfucker was all covered in dirt and lint within a week - so nasty

his eyes look right through me

xpost jinx - I was just about to post Hugo! Mine eventually got real scummy as dirt and fuzz and crap would stick to the leftover glue on his head. I found him years later in the attic looking like a grizzled old hobo.

was he mad at you for leaving him in the attic?

Ruddy hell, those Micronauts up top gave me a real Proustian rush - my bro and I had them as wee lads. Amongst the usual Star Wars / Action Man / Play People stuff we also used to save up to buy Japanese robots whilst on holiday with our Grandma who lived in Italy (back in the early 80s the stuff out there was completely unavailable in Britain afaik). Best of these was the mighty Gokaiser:

― Bill A, Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:46 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

that reminds me, I visited london when I was 6 and was bummed when my mom wouldn't buy me the DALEK ACTION FIGURE. do you know how often you would see a DALEK ACTION FIGURE in a toy store in the states? 0.00 times!

I know it was the end of the trip and you were prolly broke mom, but man, motherfuck a paddington bear

at least I came home with some dope judge dredd comix

I remember having some sort of bright green pterodactyl looking action figure, I think it had a glow-in-the-dark piece in its head and a set of red plastic wings that stuck on the back. I have no idea what it was. It was like the size of a GI Joe guy and moved at the waist in a similar way.

I remember breaking the center joint and feeling so ashamed about it that I had to bury the broken pieces in the yard of the really sketchy kid down the block when everyone there was gone one day.

do you know how often you would see a DALEK ACTION FIGURE in a toy store in the states? 0.00 times!

word

xposts

god help me, a hobo hugo lurking in my attic

joygoat, that was also a Micronaut -- Repto, to be exact. Like most pterodactyls, one of his hands was a buzzsaw.

http://www.esoterichiphop.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/clipboard01.jpg

xpost - Hugo was pissed.

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/BASIC13.jpg

"Big Jim" w/ his Kung Fu Grip

not an action figure per se, but weird that i wanted/had this thing that was basically an 8 track player

http://www.2xlrobot.com/

BIG JIM Big Jim

i used to sub this dude in for daleks:

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/action-figure-boxes/129-1.jpg

but we both knew we were living a lie ;_;

Hugo's creepy little atrophied arms scare the shit out of me.

Oh man REPTO. That's exactly what it was. Someday I should dig up my neighbor's yard when I'm home visiting my parents to see if it's still there. I should also try to find the vintage Fuzz Face that my cousin and I buried in my parents yard because it looked like a land mine.

oh god 2-XL! I had that guy too.

I used to jam devo and kiss 8 tracks into him when I got sick of his lip

It's the Terracotta Army of M.U.S.C.L.E. dudes!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/2388291143_d4b050549b.jpg?v=0

http://mishkanyc.verbsite.com.lg1x8zmax.simplecdn.net/bloglin/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/hugo31.jpg

http://mishkanyc.verbsite.com.lg1x8zmax.simplecdn.net/bloglin/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/hugo6.jpg

okay, i'm done with hugo. good times...

MUSCLE dudes yesss!! i had sooo many of those

create thousands of pretend friends

2nd from left on bottom = Hugo disguised as Liam Gallagher

"create thousands of pretend friends"

^^ new cape of good hope descrip

ooh I had lots of those little M.U.S.C.L.E. dudes.

Wow, that 2XL robot is cool.

do you know how often you would see a DALEK ACTION FIGURE in a toy store in the states? 0.00 times!

There was definitely kudos attached to having rare or unusual toys (at least in the playground at my primary school there was). Recall getting a "Donkey Kong Jr" Game & Watch from my auntie who lived in the far east one year and it causing quite a stir.

Something called "Pulsar" which was a guy with a transparent torso and you pushed on his back and the blood circulated through his vessels. I loved that stupid thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar_(Toy)

OH I had a watch that turned into a robot calculator! That was awesome!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1Fqdx-VkV0Q/SFfvLVakcWI/AAAAAAAAABI/1JIWSxnqmPc/s400/robot+watch.JPG

^ had that!

I had always wanted a calculator watch, but when my dad came home with a calculator watch robot...

haha we are veering away from the "crappy" portion of this thread, huh

that stretch armstrong is making me tear up...my mother would never let me have that toy!

xpost, yes most of these toys rule

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/2388291143_d4b050549b.jpg?v=0

from top left, i had the roller guy, bearded sumo man-tits guy, hatchet guy from borneo, skinny depressive, salad bowl head guy, yelling hesher guy, antler beetle head guy, spike head guy

and about half a pound more. i loved those things.

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/10222008020.jpg

I had the B&W guy too.

xpost anyone else ever play tug'o'war with Stretch? We discovered he was filled with sticky purple goo once he became Stretch Armless.

Hugo looks like Moby.

when the girls talk about "the keeper", is that what they're talking about?

yes

awesome muscle man not in that picture = The Hand

OMG I HAD THE HAND

i had a wolfman dude (ruled), a wierd planetary/molecule lookin guy, a dude with a mohawk (or was it a greek helmet, can't remember)

fuck i might have to hit ebay. and i HATE grown ass toy collecters (except John)

http://www.x-entertainment.com/updates/pics/granok.jpg

Granok of The Inhumanoids. He could transform into a rock!

at least I came home with some dope judge dredd comix

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:06 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

okay, totally off-topic, but here are some of the '77 2000 AD's I brought home... how much would they be worth today I wonder... more than 9p I reckon

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/22-1.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/23-1.jpg

in earth money

2000AD frickin' ruled. Started reading it about '78 and had an order with the local newsagents for it till I went to University. On a Saturday morning the sound of the letter box would have my bro and I physically fighting to get there first so we could read it.

I remember being struck by how much more brutal they were than US comics

can't believe there isn't some anthology collecting those early issues, only thing I can find is this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-2000AD-Mighty-Tharg/dp/1853756687/

Ah, the stretch monster... poor little guy met his demise when I tied his arms to a tree assassination style and shot him with a bb gun. All this red goo came out of him. I wonder what my parents thought of me.

a future in the firing squad?

We had these little guys called MACs or something. Each one had their own vehicle, like a firetruck or a snowplough or something, and they had a cool plastic island that was their base. They were great but I'm struggling to find them on Google.

Is that Matchbox's "Mobile Action Command"? We had some too, they were great:

http://www.plaidstallions.com/matchbox/mac.html

I had a large collection of Fisher Price Adventure People. The biggest set I had was the tv crew:

http://www.toyzdollz.com/images/FPadve126.jpg

You could look through the camera and focus it like a really crappy telescope.

I think I still have this set in the basement somewhere...

xpost YEAH THOSE. LOVE THOSE GUYS

http://www.plaidstallions.com/matchbox/mac1.jpg

THIS RULED

ah! MUSCLES!

xpost

Kobra Khan, with water-squirting head action! -- actually probably doesn't qualify as 'crappy' since he was the go-to when you were short of water pistols in a water fight.

http://he-man.us/Innovations/KobraKhanFix/KKF-Part11.jpg

Battle Beasts, Battle Beasts, they fight for the fun of it!

http://www.toplessrobot.com/BattleBeasts.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1DnJ8-6atkg/SRGkv8Ai54I/AAAAAAAAAfY/-e11mrLh8BU/s400/BattleBeasts.jpg

http://www.toyarchive.com/BattleBeasts/FiguresGroupPic1a.gif

http://www.toysyouhad.com/BigJeff.jpg

he had muscles that grew when you flexed them.

Big Jim and Big Jeff must have some crazy times together, hanging out in their boxers.

can't believe there isn't some anthology collecting those early issues

There are many volumes of these Dredd books which run chronologically:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1906735298/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253831991&sr=1-1

And there are similar volumes for some of the other stories.

http://toyarchive.com/RocklordsBoulder1a.jpg

I had that! Weren't they called Rock Lords? Bit of a useless thing to transform into.

rock lords

starcom!
http://www.norsemeat.com/reviews/starcom.JPG

This is bringing back so many memories. They had magnets on their feet for some reason.

http://www.retrotrader.com/catalog/images/zzzzzzzzzza%20014.jpg

oh man starcom yeh

the visionaries
http://www.planetforce.com/VISLOOSE.JPG

Centurions:

http://www.andysaedah.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/centurions2.jpg

http://www.toyloft.co.uk/Images/Centurions/jake_ff1_300.jpg

Not crappy: roll-a-matic (pull back and let go) Daleks:
http://www.sevenzero.net/toyroom/image/newDayDaleks17226.jpg

I still have these--the dog loves them.

speaking of centurions, I had a big old school cylon action figure

and the xenomorph from alien

there was a whole line of alien toys, which was kind of weird cuz no kid had any business watching that movie

had some space: 1999 junk too

i remember towards the end of the original transformers' run they were reduced to making little gi joe-like versions THAT DIDN'T TRANSFORM.

Jurassic Park had action figures: this is the character played by the actor who played Newman in Seinfeld.

http://toyarchive.com/STAForSale/NEW2001+/JurassicPark/JurassicPark/JPDennisNedryNothing1a.jpg

The likeness is uncanny!

Not exactly action figures but:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/22935-large.jpg

Sindy doll - the doll you had when Barbies were too expenive... or unrealistic. Or something.

Mine had hands that came off, which I lost so she was permanently Sindy the stumpy double amputee.

i had MODULOK too!!

This is more bizarre than crappy, but i SO LOVED THIS

http://www.vecchigiocattoli.it/masters9989.jpg

shit, i remember wanting to save up for some shitty promo deal where you blew $20 on more figures and got plenty of slime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHncoxvxRO8

And they even re-purposed this yet again, only for Harry Potter:

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0763/

Next time I visit my parents' I'm going to look for that robot watch of mine. It ruled.

Man that green slime was ubiquitous in the late 70s/early 80s. I remember sesame st branded "oscar the grouch" slime garbage cans with green slime in em. Mum hated us wanting the stuff, I think it stained everything.

yuh and I'm totally going to try and track down modulok xp

All my 80's franchise toys were given away/sold/trashed long ago by a mom who didn't cotton to my packrat ways and had no idea of the workings of the secondary market.

The fact that she got rid of my die-cast mini Bespin playset was devastating, tho.

One of the OTHER fave toys:

http://www.landoslocker.com/range_micros/images/bespin_world/bespin_world_box.jpg

I used to take both the Han & Han-in-Carbonite mini and freeze him in a plastic container for 35mm film in the downstairs fridge. No idea why, just seemed awesome that way, and he wouldn't break when you chipped him out.

http://www.12back.com/micro/bfc3-th.jpg

Centurions:

POWER EXTREME!

http://i33.tinypic.com/2s8pbvp.jpg

jayce and the wheeled warriors. you could kind of exchange weapons, and a couple of the cars kind of stacked up together, sort of. the bad guys were little green brain monsters.

also the crappiest thing i had was this fisher-price playset that was sort of g.i. joe-looking in design, with a native american guy, an older white guy, an orange jeep, a canoe and little tent that actually could be propped up and would stay up. it was so pointless but i loved it. many a g.i. joe spent some time imprisoned in that tent.

huge xpost: Kobra Khan was the only water gun I was allowed to have.

lol I totally forgot about the Evil Horde Slime Pit. If I recall correctly, the slime craze started w/ The Real Ghostbusters franchise & instantly became a cross-series phenomenon. See also: Mad Scientist toy sets. I had this thing:

http://www.gravija.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/monsterlab.jpg

I'm really getting a nostalgic rush from that Star Wars micro playset, which I had also totally omitted from my memory. This was the one I owned:

http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/celebrity/images/StarWars/micro-hoth.JPG

lol I misread that as "Hot Wampa Cave" and was all o_O for a second

This is the only star wars figure I ever had

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l9bpFCNwFPs/RyIYPr2FPEI/AAAAAAAACT0/-nD4iAc2Oc0/s320/Squid%2BHead%2BFront.JPG

Pity me.

and this is the only transformer, man what a shitty childhood

http://www.battlegrip.com/images/reviews/01-01-09/kickback/kickback_robot_large.jpg

70s slime. my friend had this -

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/slimemonstergame.jpg

Kobra Khan OMGGGG. If you left the water for a while it smelled so so bad when it was released into the face of your poor victim.

Other than that I only have the rubbish GI Joe tiger tank thing, and the rubbish ambulance Transformer. I guess I'm a bit younger than most of yous.

http://www.toydreams.co.uk/images/thundercats/loose/figures/lionocomp.jpg

his face got scratched up and was red underneath, which kinda freaked me out.

(xxpost) At least it's actually a genuine Transformer and not some cheap knock-off.

What a thread.

MAC MOUNTAIN!

Oscar Goldman:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1365/1466764100_900a706647.jpg
http://www.dollprice.com/images/12032007/l8324.jpg

He needs to go to a better tailor...

Anyone else ever have Bullet Man?

http://www.reproman22.com/images/gijoebullet.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3070/2567885865_188b5e87b1.jpg

hahahah - ever seen the 40 Year Old Virgin? this exchange, from that:

Cal: (Pointing to an action figure on a shelf) Is that the Six Million Dollar Man's boss?
Andy Stitzer: That's Oscar Goldman.
Cal: Why do you have that?
Andy Stitzer: That's worth a lot of money. That's much more valuable than Steve Austin.
Cal: Well, that may be the case. But none of this shit is sexy, okay?
Andy Stitzer: I'm not trying to be sexy, man.

x-post, obv

He needs to go to a better tailor...

He even had socks. A girl who lived across the road from me had the jacket off me for her dolls iirc.

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Jeeez, Bullet Man is really bringing back some kind of repressed memory - those arms and helmet look very very familar...

Six Million Dollar Man was the shit. lots of accessories and pop-out bionics.

and Maskatron:

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/maskatronboxedlarge.jpg

i may have been star wars and transformers deprived but i did have this mofo:

http://www.zoidsevolution.net/models/rcz/crimson_horn.jpg

the holy grail for gi joe kids was this thing:

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k278/jeffbez/GIJoe6.jpg

(xp) actually it was this earlier model:

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/zoids/images/6/6a/Ojrrh.jpg

I owned more of these than I thought likely.

I had...

Modulok
That weird bug-accompanied inspector dude
A solitary Dino Rider
MASK stuff (including GATOR)
Loads of GI Joe (my mate Matt had theta snow leopard thing)
loads and loads of MUSCLE dudes
The calculator robot watch thing
Loads of Battle Beasts
One of those stupid transforms-into-a-rock dudes (that exact one, actually, and a couple more too I think?)
A few Starcom dudes
a few Visionaries
1 Centurion dude (the orange one)
Loads of Star Wars dudes, mostly inherited from brothers
plenty of Transformers
Lion-O, but my favourite was his mate the snow dude (who I think was a baddie - liked his helmet)
some Zoids

That GI Joe aircraft carrier is making me bug-eyed, and I want to find a Centurion on bay now.

http://bravestarr.org/figures/images/3030fig2.jpg

haha wtf

there was not an orange centurion dude - jake rockwell was yellow

OK dude, the yellow one!

I had a couple of Bravestar dudes, too.

haha, those kids faces on the slime game box . . .

I just remembered I had this, which may have been the ne plus ultra of crappy action figures tied in to TV shows:

http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff341/GeekOrthodox/Action%20Figures/090d_1.jpg

I had these two, plus Thallo and Pegasus:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zYmZ4EHSDhA/SpHDtMQrjgI/AAAAAAAAA8s/UXazfRckfJU/s400/Clash+Titans.jpg

Wow, I never knew there were Clash of the Titans toys. I would've loved me some of them, it was my favourite film for a while.

Also, Zoids were in-fucking-credible

just had a mad flashback when i stumbled across these dudes:
http://www.action-figures.ca/action_figures/other_world/jip_mog.jpg

There was also kraken I REALLY wanted, but instead I got a snow speeder. In retrospect, the snow speeder is way cooler because it has light up blasters and made blaster noises.

But I still kinda want the kraken:

http://www.toymania.com/334archives/clash/kraken_box.jpg

xp: the x-men?

not forgetting ZEENO and HONDU
http://www.action-figures.ca/action_figures/other_world/zendo.jpghttp://www.action-figures.ca/action_figures/other_world/hondu.jpg

http://www.toplessrobot.com/mtrek1.jpg

I think I had most of the Star Trek: Motion Picture figures. I later set fire to 'Scotty' and after I put him out he was the dead spit of Falklands war casualty, Simon Weston. Really.

Also, Zoids were in-fucking-credible

I collected them when I was 7-8 years old. I think I had nearly all the original wind up ones. They're probably worth a lot of money now, by dint of the fact that I got rid of them all.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/P1000306.jpg

Modulok was the only He-Man toy I ever had!!

boulder hill!!!!
http://images.absoluteanime.com/admin/favtoy/favtoy-mask-boulderhill.jpg

this guy was my favourite
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o143/invisiblewraith/AlexSector.jpg

Someone should poll 1970s-80s action-figure franchises.

this is the era when wrestling figures were good, too

http://www.tons-of-toys.com/item_images/Action%20figures%20from%20Q%20to%20Z/Wrestling/Classic%20carded%20WWF/rockers.jpg http://i5.ebayimg.com/01/s/000/77/56/8287_2.JPG http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rv7Y0JwZL._SL500_AA280_.jpg http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/6/8/1/9/9/6/webimg/290165296_tp.jpg

I had the Clash of the Titans Pegasus. I never knew it was a Clash of the Titans tie-in.

The body was the same one used for the Dazzle Dolls horse.

those WWF figures were great if you could ignore the fact that they're supposed to have "body slam action" and the like.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b293/lambkin80/collage14-2.jpg

http://toyarchive.com/STAForSale/NEW2001+/Silverhawks/FigBuzzSawLoose1a.jpg

Heh. Evan Dorkin wrote a cartoon talking about how you could have a hit show called "I HAD THAT!", about nothing but toys that 30/40somethings used. Anyway, back with the i had that:

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/02/the_10_worst_transformers_rip-offs.php

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/roboforce-unseen/5b.jpg

ROBO FORCE: I had Max Steele! Who had a suction cup for legs, and grabby arms. I remember being excited by their cartoon finally coming to air, even tho it was like a single ep on an off night that I missed since we had to be at our parents' friends' house that night.

I still love toy robots.

Also, the Zoids spin-off STARRIORS:

http://www.starriors.com/images/cast/Wastor_-_CRANK.gif

Wind up drill that was used to torture he-man figures

Don't know the names of these:

I recently went through all my old figures (on their way to the Goodwill im afraid) and I came across one that was a snake man but for the face it had a hologram that wasn't really 3d.

Also there were these tiny figures, maybe an inch high or so, that were half animal/half man kind of things with battle armor and stuff, and they had a square on their chest that you would rub to either reveal a hologram or have it change colors or display a logo or something like that...

The first one might have been the SuperNaturals:

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/supernaturals/supernaturals.html

the second one was Battlebeasts

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/09/the_10_greatest_toylines_without_cartoons.php

http://www.toplessrobot.com/BattleBeasts.jpg

WOAH! Thank you sooo much! Super Naturals...."The Toom of Doom"...this is RAD stuff.

What a great thread for a Saturday morning!

Then you have websites like X-entertainment who's entire raison d'etre is this stuff; cataloging the various pop culture of our collected anglophone childhood