I had that too, Edward!
― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.toymania.com/334archives/crystar/crystar.jpg<3 crystar
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― sturdy, ultra-light, under-the-pants moneybelt (HI DERE), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Bill A, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i had a mort suckerman
― brownie, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I had the black hole toys too
I was fascinated by toy lines created for movies that bombed
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
arrrrgh - THE MIGHTY GOKAISER:
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/1610/gokaiser.jpg
― Bill A, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 24 September 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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."
― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i loved hugo.
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
hugo so creepy
― 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!
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry scott but that guy is freaking me out
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
this thing really actually stunk irl.
http://blog.falcadia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/stinkorcardback.jpg
― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
hugo is like one step away from
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/magic.jpg
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
guess who this is? give up? it's hugo! he's in disguise!!!
http://mishkanyc.com/bloglin/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/hugo5.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
HOLY SHIT, I HAD THIS
― sturdy, ultra-light, under-the-pants moneybelt (HI DERE), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf dude that Hugo doll is the stuff of nightmares
― Hat Trick Swayze (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Hugo = Ben Gibbard from Death Cab For Cutie
― Bill A, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
damn, hugo
― brownie, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
his eyes look right through me
― brownie, Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Pigbin Josh (herb albert), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
was he mad at you for leaving him in the attic?
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
at least I came home with some dope judge dredd comix
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― joygoat, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
do you know how often you would see a DALEK ACTION FIGURE in a toy store in the states? 0.00 times!
word
― man, motherfuck a paddington bear (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
xposts
god help me, a hobo hugo lurking in my attic
― brownie, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost - Hugo was pissed.
http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/BASIC13.jpg
"Big Jim" w/ his Kung Fu Grip
― Pigbin Josh (herb albert), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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/
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
BIG JIM Big Jim
― brownie, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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 ;_;
― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Hugo's creepy little atrophied arms scare the shit out of me.
― Darin, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― joygoat, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
It's the Terracotta Army of M.U.S.C.L.E. dudes!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/2388291143_d4b050549b.jpg?v=0
― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://mishkanyc.verbsite.com.lg1x8zmax.simplecdn.net/bloglin/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/hugo31.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://mishkanyc.verbsite.com.lg1x8zmax.simplecdn.net/bloglin/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/hugo6.jpg
okay, i'm done with hugo. good times...
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
MUSCLE dudes yesss!! i had sooo many of those
― goole, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
create thousands of pretend friends
― brownie, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
2nd from left on bottom = Hugo disguised as Liam Gallagher
― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"create thousands of pretend friends"
^^ new cape of good hope descrip
― goole, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
ooh I had lots of those little M.U.S.C.L.E. dudes.
― man, motherfuck a paddington bear (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, that 2XL robot is cool.
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.
― Bill A, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link