^^^not crappy
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
J.J. Armes, who was, unbelieveably enough, a real person.
http://www.bigredtoybox.com/articles/jjarmes.jpg
― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dinoriders.com/Toys/NovaDemon.gif i had these
― dog latin, Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
PULSAR, Man of Action!
http://www.bigredtoybox.com/articles/pulsar.jpg
― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
YOU COULD OPEN HIS FACE AND STICK A DISC IN HIS BRAIN.
― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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?)
― Soukesian, Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
And his arch-enemy HYPNOS, who had a sparking hypno-disc in his chest.
http://www.foreignmego.com/plaid/pulsar.jpg
― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Plaid Stallions?!? wow what the fuck
― Hat Trick Swayze (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
seriously
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
lol I don't know what that part is. GIS is a harsh mistress.
― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
(xxpost) it's a website that covers 70's garbagehttp://www.plaidstallions.com/
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
(sorry in advance for wasting the next couple of hours of your lives while you all peruse that site)
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 24 September 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
oh shit!!! no apologies necessary!
― Hat Trick Swayze (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 September 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 September 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 September 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
my favorite toys were M.A.S.K. but they're not crappy.http://www.albertpenello.com/mask/hocus.jpg
― mizzell, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
it is crappy that they couldn't make this boat float. otherwise this thing is rad.http://www.albertpenello.com/mask/box/gatorboxfrontus.jpg
― mizzell, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― chap, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
thread proving that jjusten's toybox and mine were largely identical
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I had that pharoid thing and kept the sarcophagus loooong after I lost the action figure, was a cigarette case briefly IIRC
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
wau, your aunt had a frozen body in her yard
― sturdy, ultra-light, under-the-pants moneybelt (HI DERE), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
don't worry kyoko, micronaut's only looking for his hand in the snow
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
in fairness, those pics were just as disturbing at the time
― sturdy, ultra-light, under-the-pants moneybelt (HI DERE), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― goole, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"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
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
this godzilla ruled my 7 year old world
http://www.plaidstallions.com/mattel79/shogunwarriors1.jpg
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
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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."
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.toyarchive.com/STAForSale/NEW2001+/GiJoe/Vehicles/TigerCatLoose1a.jpg
i mean what
― goole, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
how in the hell is stretch armstrong going to defeat his enemies by turning into a giant pretzel? unless his enemy is hunger
― brownie, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Buck Rogers "Col. Wilma Deering" action figure disappointingly un-hot.
http://crozee.tripod.com/buck/wilma.jpg
― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
By comparison:
http://crozee.tripod.com/buck/gray1a.jpg
― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Bah.
http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/toys/buck/buck/3wilma.jpg
http://lh3.ggpht.com/abramsv/SAui1kkZr1I/AAAAAAAAO1o/s0uVM-H_gk8/erin_gray0124.jpg
― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
"ghwb-era" not clinton-era, btw... christ i'm not that young
1988The 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
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
― goole, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
lol Wilma Deering is very obviously a repainted Leia-in-snowsuit-on-Hoth action figure
― sturdy, ultra-light, under-the-pants moneybelt (HI DERE), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
wearing a black turtleneck and having a huge lizard tail was the coolest thing I could imagine
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
that may still be true
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
BTW you guys know there's going to be a Stretch Armstrong movie, right?
― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― akm, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
'sup
http://www.mwctoys.com/images/review_startrek3_3.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― akm, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― sturdy, ultra-light, under-the-pants moneybelt (HI DERE), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
oh god the GORN
<3 this thread
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
goth suckerman
xp
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Pigbin Josh (herb albert), Friday, 25 September 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i may have been star wars and transformers deprived but i did have this mofo:
http://www.zoidsevolution.net/models/rcz/crimson_horn.jpg
― this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Friday, 25 September 2009 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
the holy grail for gi joe kids was this thing:
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k278/jeffbez/GIJoe6.jpg
― goole, Friday, 25 September 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
(xp) actually it was this earlier model:
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/zoids/images/6/6a/Ojrrh.jpg
― this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Friday, 25 September 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I owned more of these than I thought likely.
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I had...
ModulokThat weird bug-accompanied inspector dudeA solitary Dino RiderMASK stuff (including GATOR)Loads of GI Joe (my mate Matt had theta snow leopard thing)loads and loads of MUSCLE dudesThe calculator robot watch thingLoads of Battle BeastsOne of those stupid transforms-into-a-rock dudes (that exact one, actually, and a couple more too I think?)A few Starcom dudesa few Visionaries1 Centurion dude (the orange one)Loads of Star Wars dudes, mostly inherited from brothersplenty of TransformersLion-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.
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
http://bravestarr.org/figures/images/3030fig2.jpg
― conrad, Friday, 25 September 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
haha wtf
― this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Friday, 25 September 2009 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
there was not an orange centurion dude - jake rockwell was yellow
― conrad, Friday, 25 September 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
OK dude, the yellow one!
I had a couple of Bravestar dudes, too.
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 25 September 2009 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I had these two, plus Thallo and Pegasus:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zYmZ4EHSDhA/SpHDtMQrjgI/AAAAAAAAA8s/UXazfRckfJU/s400/Clash+Titans.jpg
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 25 September 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― chap, Friday, 25 September 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
just had a mad flashback when i stumbled across these dudes:http://www.action-figures.ca/action_figures/other_world/jip_mog.jpg
― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 25 September 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 25 September 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
xp: the x-men?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 25 September 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
not forgetting ZEENO and HONDUhttp://www.action-figures.ca/action_figures/other_world/zendo.jpghttp://www.action-figures.ca/action_figures/other_world/hondu.jpg
― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 25 September 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― I saw your posse, but now it's me who's bossy (DavidM), Friday, 25 September 2009 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Friday, 25 September 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/P1000306.jpg
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 25 September 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Modulok was the only He-Man toy I ever had!!
― (bracket name) (jel --), Friday, 25 September 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
boulder hill!!!!http://images.absoluteanime.com/admin/favtoy/favtoy-mask-boulderhill.jpg
― cozwn, Friday, 25 September 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
this guy was my favouritehttp://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o143/invisiblewraith/AlexSector.jpg
― cozwn, Friday, 25 September 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Someone should poll 1970s-80s action-figure franchises.
― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Friday, 25 September 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
this is the era when wrestling figures were good, too
― cozwn, Friday, 25 September 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― cozwn, Friday, 25 September 2009 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 26 September 2009 03:49 (fourteen years ago) link
those WWF figures were great if you could ignore the fact that they're supposed to have "body slam action" and the like.
― Akon/Family (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 26 September 2009 12:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b293/lambkin80/collage14-2.jpg
― circa1916, Saturday, 26 September 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://toyarchive.com/STAForSale/NEW2001+/Silverhawks/FigBuzzSawLoose1a.jpg
― circa1916, Saturday, 26 September 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― kingfish, Saturday, 26 September 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 26 September 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― kingfish, Saturday, 26 September 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
WOAH! Thank you sooo much! Super Naturals...."The Toom of Doom"...this is RAD stuff.
What a great thread for a Saturday morning!
― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 26 September 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― kingfish, Saturday, 26 September 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link