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Post by Alucard on May 6, 2009 13:57:16 GMT -5
The 90's were king for random repaints and gimmickry being packed in with superhero toys. It spawned a lot of unintentionally hilarious things. What were some of yours?
Some of mine:
Wolverine in a space suit with a bigass gun. Why does Wolverine need to be in space? Does he really even NEED a spacesuit? It's not like anything ever really hurts the guy. Furthermore, why does he need a bigass gun?
A chrome colored Venom. Why...was he silver? His eyes were black, his spider logo was black, but the rest of him was silver. I believe he was called "Stealth Venom". Because being shiny helps you blend in SO well.
Spider-Man web splashers: This one...I actually liked. Is there any real reason to outfit Spidey with scuba gear? Well, no. But I grew up around water, my parents were scuba instructors, so I kinda dug this line. I guess I was their target demographic. My favorite figure from it was a Spider-Man with a removable mask and fins, with some kind of UFO shaped watercraft made to look like his head, that had a bigass water cannon mounted ontop of it. Why did Spider-Man need a huge cannon? Once again, I don't know. But it got used as the "sonic gun" from the Maximum Carnage miniseries when I played with the figures. That line also had..."Aqua Carnage", it's Carnage...made out of water! He sprayed water out of his palms and he looked like rock candy.
Toybiz made a TON of stuff like that (figures that mutated...like Swarm turning into a giant bee, etc), so...do you remember any?
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on May 6, 2009 13:59:41 GMT -5
anyone old enough to remember the rubber pencil-top ones from the seventies??
i had a few of them
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Post by Alucard on May 6, 2009 14:02:38 GMT -5
anyone old enough to remember the rubber pencil-top ones from the seventies?? i had a few of them I'm not "old enough" but I remember them kinda. I also remember drugstore toys that had a popular license attached to a cheaply made toy usually unrelated to the license entirely. I had an X-Men signal gun, it was basically a pistol flashlight. For...signaling the X-Men? I figure they're probably on top of things...I don't really need to call them with a flashlight gun, right?
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Post by Cap'n Crud on May 7, 2009 4:36:35 GMT -5
I remember Superman had this plane or spaceship looking thing with that spiky cowcatcher or whatever on the front. Seriously he's Superman he can already fly. Why the hell would Superman need a plane?
I also never understood that garbage catapult from The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Outside of embarassing someone and making them smell bad a catapult that shoots garbage doesn't really sound like much of a weapon when the bad guys already got things like swords and guns. Also the foot soldiers were all robots so obviously smelling bad wouldn't matter to them and I doubt they would be programmed to have emotions like embarassment.
I could just picture the exchange Turtles: Launch catapult! Bad guys: Eww man, no fair! They're fighting with garbage.
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Post by Dr. Marlowe on May 7, 2009 5:38:58 GMT -5
The Incredible Hulk on a motorcycle
That one is quite recent, but it sticks out to me as being extremely weird and unnecessary.
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Post by joestodge on May 7, 2009 6:18:05 GMT -5
nothing beats these! ever! instant win!
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Post by joestodge on May 7, 2009 6:21:14 GMT -5
oh yeah and this!
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Post by Mozenrath on May 7, 2009 6:23:27 GMT -5
You go to I-Mockery.com , too? Heh, nice.
I should see if I can find Superman's old vehicles on there. They had a good point: what the hell does Superman need a vehicle for, save maybe a spaceship or submarine? He can fly, is super fast, and would just be slowed down.
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Post by joestodge on May 7, 2009 6:28:49 GMT -5
oh you mean like this??
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Post by Bobeddy on May 7, 2009 6:29:38 GMT -5
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Post by Mozenrath on May 7, 2009 6:38:17 GMT -5
Oh god, I had a lot of those. I know I had a few of their sports turtle toys, them as cops, pretty sure one as a chef. I think I even had the giraffe.
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Post by Joe Neglia on May 7, 2009 6:51:22 GMT -5
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Post by Mozenrath on May 7, 2009 6:54:11 GMT -5
I think Hulk just stole the robot or something.
Uggh, that Batman looks awful. It's so weird that the hardest Batman to find seems to be a regular Batman.
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Post by Joe Neglia on May 7, 2009 6:57:05 GMT -5
I think Hulk just stole the robot or something. In Mega Morphs Land, Tony Stark designed it for him.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 7, 2009 7:01:10 GMT -5
I think Hulk just stole the robot or something. In Mega Morphs Land, Tony Stark designed it for him. That... could hardly make less sense. On that note, I'd love to have a toy of Tony's Hulkbuster armor. It's a pity Doctor Doom never made some, that would of be pretty interesting.
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Post by Joe Neglia on May 7, 2009 7:05:03 GMT -5
On that note, I'd love to have a toy of Tony's Hulkbuster armor.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 7, 2009 7:06:12 GMT -5
On that note, I'd love to have a toy of Tony's Hulkbuster armor. See, it makes sense for Iron Man to have a lot of armors. Those look pretty neat. Still, I wonder if they ever made really stupid Iron Man toys. I want to see Tony in Pizza Oven armor.
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Post by Joe Neglia on May 7, 2009 7:11:45 GMT -5
Still, I wonder if they ever made really stupid Iron Man toys. I want to see Tony in Pizza Oven armor. Can't say I've ever seen one. I guess that's partly due to the vast majority of them being based on his actual in-story armors and not WTF-level cash-cowing like the rainbow Batman figures.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 7, 2009 7:14:31 GMT -5
Still, I wonder if they ever made really stupid Iron Man toys. I want to see Tony in Pizza Oven armor. Can't say I've ever seen one. I guess that's partly due to the vast majority of them being based on his actual in-story armors and not WTF-level cash-cowing like the rainbow Batman figures. It was worth a shot. Batman having goofy looking armor, I can sort of take. Spider Man in a soccer uniform is where I draw the line. Spider Man barely seems to pay his rent, how the hell is he off vacationing in his wetsuit costume? I feel sorry for G. I. Joe and Transformers writers for having to try to pad a toy commercial out into actual TV shows, not to mention make the plot allow new characters forced on them, like Serpentor.
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Post by Dave at the Movies on May 7, 2009 7:18:54 GMT -5
Oh god, I had a lot of those. I know I had a few of their sports turtle toys, them as cops, pretty sure one as a chef. I think I even had the giraffe. I had a lot of the TMNT random action figures. I remember I had the police officer turtle and the olympics one and Bebop dressed up in a purple army outfit. One cool TMNT action figure I got though was Michaelangelo right after the third movie came out. It was actually scaley and real looking. I think it's arms fell off though. I also remember getting some wrestling figures that had like special armor and weapons with them. I got an undertaker one that didn't look like him at all.
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