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