Unnecessary Toys

[Mozenrath]

I was wondering what you guys considered toys that really aren't needed to complete a collection, serve no purpose play wise, or have no appeal you can understand for kids or anyone else to play with them.

This is a good one to start with.

I understand that it's an important part of the story, but am I alone in thinking this is a little creepy?

"You guys wanna play with my Hoth playset?"

"No, you be Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, and I mercilessly kill you!"

[B'Cup x]

95% of all star wars toys tbh x

[The Sam]

the Tank Abbott WWE Legends figurine.

[Mozenrath]

Some good ones. I also remember my little brother getting hand-me-down wrestling toys from a cousin. Some good ones, like Undertaker, Mankind, and Owen Hart. Lot of expected ones.

However, one of them was Marc Mero. I sort of questioned my cousin's taste in wrestlers there.

[FinalGwen]

(That set reminds me of a Tatooine Micro Machines set that had a little patch of sand you could spin to reveal their charred corpses. Poor Owen and Beru, every toy company wants to see them dead.)

Usually, the new Doctor Who toys are quite useful and of good characters, but occasionally they really misfire. For instance, nobody (and I mean nobody) wanted a Destroyed Cassandra apart from die-hard collectors. Even in her regular state, Cassandra was a sheet of skin (which isn't conducive to a good action figure, but the destroyed one? It was a plastic frame! When Woolworths closed down in my town, this was the last kind of figure they had. They were being sold off for 15p. And still nobody wanted them.

Also, nobody was that keen on buying a faceless old woman:


I'll give them credit, though, aside from a little Dalek spamming, for the first four series they were really good at avoiding useless figures. Then Series 5 came out, and... Well, anyone else notice a little redundancy?

[Sir Woodrow]

May 12, 2011 5:25:44 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

I was wondering what you guys considered toys that really aren't needed to complete a collection, serve no purpose play wise, or have no appeal you can understand for kids or anyone else to play with them.

This is a good one to start with.

I understand that it's an important part of the story, but am I alone in thinking this is a little creepy?

"You guys wanna play with my Hoth playset?"

"No, you be Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, and I mercilessly kill you!"

I would buy those or that exact reason.

['Foretold' Joker]

Always thought the Doctor Who voice changing masks were fairly daft.


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I'm trying to remember a toys name which was really cool.

It was long and quite large black vehicle you wouldn't find in real life which had about 8 or 10 large rubber wheels attached to it, each section like a centipede had two or possibly four wheels with had a yellow hood. The rear wheels were bigger than the other wheels. It was battery powered (the big chunky ones up from the AA) and supposedly could go anywhere except a sand pit as I discovered as a child, lol.

Sadly I can't remember what it was called but it was probbaly had something beast/monster related in the name. Any ideas on what this was called?

[rockymelvin]

All Transformers from the Bayformers movies.

Endless Dalek repaints in the Classic Doctor Who line.

[Mozenrath]

May 12, 2011 5:48:20 GMT -5 FinalGwen said:

(That set reminds me of a Tatooine Micro Machines set that had a little patch of sand you could spin to reveal their charred corpses. Poor Owen and Beru, every toy company wants to see them dead.)

Usually, the new Doctor Who toys are quite useful and of good characters, but occasionally they really misfire. For instance, nobody (and I mean nobody) wanted a Destroyed Cassandra apart from die-hard collectors. Even in her regular state, Cassandra was a sheet of skin (which isn't conducive to a good action figure, but the destroyed one? It was a plastic frame! When Woolworths closed down in my town, this was the last kind of figure they had. They were being sold off for 15p. And still nobody wanted them.

Also, nobody was that keen on buying a faceless old woman:


I'll give them credit, though, aside from a little Dalek spamming, for the first four series they were really good at avoiding useless figures. Then Series 5 came out, and... Well, anyone else notice a little redundancy?

It's the Question's granny!

[Bo Rida]

I would have liked that granny figure as a kid as I would finally have a tag-team partner/rival for Granny Gross.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

May 12, 2011 5:25:44 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

I was wondering what you guys considered toys that really aren't needed to complete a collection, serve no purpose play wise, or have no appeal you can understand for kids or anyone else to play with them.

This is a good one to start with.

I understand that it's an important part of the story, but am I alone in thinking this is a little creepy?

"You guys wanna play with my Hoth playset?"

"No, you be Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, and I mercilessly kill you!"

Obviously not real, but certainly hilarious.


Batman figures were terrible for this. Slightly different colorations + slightly different cheap plastic add-on times one thousand.

[forgottensinpwf]

[Young Game]

Why?

[Time Lord Soundwave]

May 12, 2011 5:48:20 GMT -5 FinalGwen said:

(That set reminds me of a Tatooine Micro Machines set that had a little patch of sand you could spin to reveal their charred corpses. Poor Owen and Beru, every toy company wants to see them dead.)

Usually, the new Doctor Who toys are quite useful and of good characters, but occasionally they really misfire. For instance, nobody (and I mean nobody) wanted a Destroyed Cassandra apart from die-hard collectors. Even in her regular state, Cassandra was a sheet of skin (which isn't conducive to a good action figure, but the destroyed one? It was a plastic frame! When Woolworths closed down in my town, this was the last kind of figure they had. They were being sold off for 15p. And still nobody wanted them.

Also, nobody was that keen on buying a faceless old woman:


I'll give them credit, though, aside from a little Dalek spamming, for the first four series they were really good at avoiding useless figures. Then Series 5 came out, and... Well, anyone else notice a little redundancy?

I have like six of those figures. Including Professor Bracewell!

As far as Doctor Who is concerned, this will always be the biggest headscratcher:



Seriously! A regular Cassandra figure was suspect enough, but selling the empty rack as "Destroyed Cassandra"? Like Topless Robot said, it was one step up from selling an empty package as "Invisible Doctor", which would've at least been of a main character.

[The Booty Disciple]

May 12, 2011 10:29:51 GMT -5 Young Game said:

Why?

No, there is no "Why?" to this. Awesomeness has never achieved a higher level than this right here.

[turkeysandwich]

May 12, 2011 5:29:29 GMT -5 B'Cup x said:

95% of all star wars toys tbh x

Pretty much, I remember I had this guy as a kid:


He was in Return of the Jedi for 2 seconds and all he did was slightly bow. However I remember giving him a lot to do when I would play with my figures, even though I had no idea what his name was or anything.

[forgottensinpwf]

May 12, 2011 10:29:51 GMT -5 Young Game said:

Why?

If we're going into pointless Turtles toys, then this is definitely an appropriate vid.

(Language)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wOAK9fFCVk

(Needs to be set to 240p for sound for some reason)

[Time Lord Soundwave]

May 12, 2011 6:33:48 GMT -5 rockymelvin said:

All Transformers from the Bayformers movies.

Endless Dalek repaints in the Classic Doctor Who line.

Have to disagree on both points. I own several live action Transformers figures.

I also currently own four Daleks, although only two of them are straight repaints. Daleks are a good army builder, IMO.

[Pervy Stone Cold]

SPOILER: Click to show

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A bee-sting doll.

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May 12, 2011 10:29:51 GMT -5 Young Game said:

Why?

Poor Michelangelo.


Going with the Star Wars examples, I own these two: