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Post by Beebs is the Final Girl on Mar 22, 2017 23:28:57 GMT -5
I had: Transformers
Star Wars
Masters of the Universe
GI Joe
WWF/AWA figures and rings
Barbie- she had a thing for everyone not Ken.
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Post by eDemento2099 on Mar 23, 2017 6:45:03 GMT -5
LJN was better at action figures than they were at video games. Alongside their fondly-remembered Thundercats line, they also did a bitchin' D&D line too, including my favorites Warduke and Hook Horror (though I was a little disappointed HH was a bit hollow with minimal articulation).   Well, given that D&D was associated with satanism and evil by the religious right during the 70s and 80s, I suppose its only appropriate that LJN was the company chartered with designing D&D toys - what with the sadistically bad licensed video games that LJN designed until Maximum Carnage in the mid-90s. |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 25, 2017 4:29:00 GMT -5
My favorite 80s toys back then and now was M.U.S.C.L.E. As a kid they were great cause they were so cheap I could usually get mom to buy me at least the pack of 4 once a week when we went to TG&Y.And I could use my allowance to buy the bigger packs. All the kids at school had them and traded them. With the wart covered Hand looking figure being the "rare" one. The year they came out my birthday was MUSCLE themed. Had the wrestling ring playset on top the cake. And everyone got a cupcake with a MUSCLE figure on it.
Sometime in the early 90s I sold off all mine at a garage sale. Forgot about them until in the late 90s the LCS owner's wife was collecting them and painting them. Since she was buying them in huge lots of Ebay I would buy the extras off her. Last time I talked to her,been at least 8 years ago,she had a full set and had almost all of them painted now.One off the semi local antique malls has the MUSCLE Wrestling belt that also holds figures. But it is boxed and they want twice what it is worth.
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Post by Stu on Mar 25, 2017 14:52:26 GMT -5
Ah, the Rambo figures. They were fun just because of their weapons
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Post by Shai on Mar 25, 2017 15:38:19 GMT -5
I was a tomboy so I had GI Joes, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters and Thundercats toys. The closest thing to a girly toy I had was a few She-Ra toys.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Mar 25, 2017 18:42:38 GMT -5
G.I. Joe in the 80s was the all-time greatest action figure line IMO. Perfect scale and articulation. Not too big, not too small. I feel modern figures are often too articulated for easy play. The line also had plenty of great vehicles and play sets. Lastly, because it wasn't really based on a movie or anything Hasbro could basically come up with any character or designed they wished.
Masters of the Universe is a pretty close second for a lot of the same reasons I listed for G.I. Joe but suffered with articulation and scale.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 19:16:27 GMT -5
I had four obsessions as a kid:
G.I. Joe
Transformers
Ninja Turtles
Masters Of The Universe
Transformers is by far my favorite franchise in general out of all of them, but as a toy line G.I. Joe is pretty much the best thing ever.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 26, 2017 16:27:05 GMT -5
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 29, 2017 22:08:30 GMT -5
 Bogglins  Animax - I'd love to find someone who actually has one of these. The rollout was bungled and what little did make it was mostly in Canada. Had a short-lived Marvel tie-in going when it crashed and burned.  Mad Scientist - some exquisitely grotesque toys |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 29, 2017 23:15:07 GMT -5
 Sgt. Rock - the line of DC action figures nobody remembers |
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Mar 30, 2017 9:34:21 GMT -5
All bow before Mosquitor!  |
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Mar 30, 2017 12:28:51 GMT -5
I see Joe, Transformers and the Turtles are now all tied at #2. #1 is WWF action figures. I get that this being ultimately a wrestling board is the reason they are #1 and I'm not hating on them but LJN's WWF figures being the best action figures of the 80s is laughable. They had no articulation! Now the Hasbro ones from the early 90s are a different story, those were awesome.
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Post by Stu on Mar 30, 2017 19:08:09 GMT -5
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 31, 2017 0:17:06 GMT -5
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 31, 2017 0:20:11 GMT -5
Some marketing exec actually expected this license to be the next Star Wars   |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Mar 31, 2017 5:29:07 GMT -5
All bow before Mosquitor! I loved that toy. |
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Post by Gecko on Mar 31, 2017 6:14:02 GMT -5
Some marketing exec actually expected this license to be the next Star Wars But look at all the different colours and sizes it's available in!  |
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Post by Stu on Mar 31, 2017 10:15:08 GMT -5
Some marketing exec actually expected this license to be the next Star Wars That Baron Harkonnen figure would've made a great hoss in anyone's action figure wrestling federation. |
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Post by brody on Apr 3, 2017 6:47:53 GMT -5
My brother had lots of those toys, but I usually played with the wrestling figures My first wrestling ring was a cigar box where my thumb wrestlers went at it. |
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Apr 5, 2017 10:42:35 GMT -5
Oh Mega Force. I was so proud as a kid, it's the only line I managed to get every single item of. |
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