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

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

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