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

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