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

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

THIS RULED

ah! MUSCLES!

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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.

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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