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Post by Joe Neglia on Oct 15, 2019 2:01:01 GMT -5
With the second wave of figures, the original MOTU line started incorporating unique action/special features for each figure (though a few repeated here and there as time went on). Based strictly on the action feature itself (and not the overall figure itself, really), what were some of the best and worst the line offered?
Rokkon, Stonedar and the Meteorbs were knockoff Rock Lords, and that's a bad thing. But it wouldn't have been so bad if the transformations weren't so lazy. Bend over = Rock! is just lazy lazy lazy.
The quality of the Ram Man figure was severely lacking compared to the rest of the line, but holy crap it was fun to knock things down with that spring-loaded mechanism. It just never got old.
Leech was an awesome figure to look at but name one goddamned time you ever EVER got his suction cups to work properly?
Mosquitor's blood-pumping action was cool as hell.
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Post by petef3 on Oct 15, 2019 2:20:15 GMT -5
Stinkor was a Mer-Man repaint whose "feature" was that he...smelled bad. Filmation writers and animators outright refused to ever write him into an episode.
Second Mosquitor and his cool blood MYSTERIOUS RED LIQUID chest-filling feature.
Speaking of repaints, Faker was a pretty lazy effort all around.
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 15, 2019 2:51:49 GMT -5
Stinkor was a Mer-Man repaint whose "feature" was that he...smelled bad. Filmation writers and animators outright refused to ever write him into an episode. Second Mosquitor and his cool blood MYSTERIOUS RED LIQUID chest-filling feature. Speaking of repaints, Faker was a pretty lazy effort all around. Didn't they infuse patchouli into the plastic or something odd like that? Moss Man had neat enough gimmick, but good luck having that feature if you had pets, because that would probably be covered in dog or cat hair in like a week. |
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Post by The Wild Man of Borneo on Oct 15, 2019 3:20:22 GMT -5
Leech was an awesome figure to look at but name one goddamned time you ever EVER got his suction cups to work properly? The mouth worked just fine, but the hands? Forget it. Moss Man had neat enough gimmick, but good luck having that feature if you had pets, because that would probably be covered in dog or cat hair in like a week. Man, I was addicted to that pine smell. I'd just sniff that sucker til the scent faded. |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Oct 15, 2019 3:24:56 GMT -5
Didn't they infuse patchouli into the plastic or something odd like that? Yep |
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Post by arrogantmodel on Oct 15, 2019 3:32:36 GMT -5
SyFy Wire has a great ranking of each figure. I have 46 out of 70 listed. 😁
But I remember thinking Rio Blast and Snout Spout looked cool, and I got them for Christmas one year.
The Dragstor guy with the wheel in his chest and ripcord has some weight to it. Like, it weighed a lot more than the other figures.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Oct 15, 2019 4:51:45 GMT -5
Saurod and Dragstor for me were the best. One could literally spit fire (sparks) the other turned into a dragster car as it barrelled into all the others, my dad's foot and all the way down the drive!! Fantastic.
Worst - Meckaneck or Mantenna all they do is extend there neck or eyestalks hardly exciting, plus they both looked dull. Wait what was Stratos action feature, did he even have one??
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Post by Feyrhausen on Oct 15, 2019 4:56:00 GMT -5
Saurod and Dragstor for me were the best. One could literally spit fire (sparks) the other turned into a dragster car as it barrelled into all the others, my dad's foot and all the way down the drive!! Fantastic. Worst - Meckaneck or Mantenna all they do is extend there neck or eyestalks hardly exciting, plus they both looked dull. Wait what was Stratos action feature, did he even have one?? Stratos was from that first wave where all the figures pretty much had the same feature, a power punch. Where you twisted the waist and they snapped back. All the earlier figures were mainly distinguished from each other by head, armor, and accessories. And differences to arm and leg sculpts. |
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Oct 15, 2019 7:22:19 GMT -5
as a kid I really liked the chest plates/battle armour that would show damage, I think it had 3 stages to it, so clear, slightly damaged and then full on damaged, was this just for He-man and Skeletor?
also I remember having the stilt stalkers, they were shite! not really a action figure feature, but possibly the worst vehicle (if you can call them that)
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Oct 15, 2019 9:44:44 GMT -5
I’m going off memory here as I was a fan as a very young child and not a collector but I remember having the horribly awkward looking “Two Bad” which if I recall could only punch one of its two heads with its alternate fist
And a guy with a robot neck that extended up an inch or so.
I also think I had a lion that could turn into an egg for some reason
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Oct 15, 2019 9:48:37 GMT -5
Didn't they infuse patchouli into the plastic or something odd like that? Yep The toys still smell to this day. That's kind of impressive. |
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Oct 15, 2019 9:50:52 GMT -5
Saurod and Dragstor for me were the best. One could literally spit fire (sparks) the other turned into a dragster car as it barrelled into all the others, my dad's foot and all the way down the drive!! Fantastic. Worst - Meckaneck or Mantenna all they do is extend there neck or eyestalks hardly exciting, plus they both looked dull. Wait what was Stratos action feature, did he even have one?? Mantenna was a missed opportunity. He had four legs, but they were fused together as the toy. Having four actual legs would have been a cool feature. |
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Post by Push R Truth on Oct 15, 2019 12:22:18 GMT -5
Stinkor is such a fascinating look some of the bizzare marketing of 80's/90's kids toys:
Let's make an asshole action figure.
You mean like Ferris Bueller?
No, like it smells like an asshole.
BRILLIANT!
At what point in time does somebody step in and say "Um, pine scent is one thing you guys. There's a reason most plastic shit doesn't even smell like shit."
This wasn't Garbage Pail Kids or Madballs where the whole point was to make something wacky and offensive. It was Masters of the Universe. A solid toy line where the gimmicks were things like stretchy necks, battle armor damage and walking muscleheads punching eachother.
Wonder how close we were to getting a Maximum Sweat line for HeMan
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Post by wildojinx on Oct 15, 2019 14:31:50 GMT -5
I liked Man-E-Faces and Tri-Clops's multiple face (or eyes in the latter case) gimmick. Always wanted Modulok as well. I thought Mekaneck was pretty cool too, I sometimes used him as a living computer, and I liked the battle armor and the club he came with. Liked the gimmicks for Sy-Clone (though I wonder why he had he-man's face), Fisto, and Jitsu as well. Worst? I could never get Kobra Khan to work right (I'd either pour too much or too little water into his neck), and Battle Bones snapped too easily.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Oct 15, 2019 19:05:07 GMT -5
I remember the Christmas when my step nan got me Sy-Clone, Roboto and Buzz-Off
Roboto was one of the coolest Masters figures ever in my opinion and I loved Sy-Clone's spinning action and the radar on his chest
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 15, 2019 19:53:19 GMT -5
Stinkor was a Mer-Man repaint whose "feature" was that he...smelled bad. Filmation writers and animators outright refused to ever write him into an episode. Second Mosquitor and his cool blood MYSTERIOUS RED LIQUID chest-filling feature. Speaking of repaints, Faker was a pretty lazy effort all around. Oddly enough in the early 2000s reboot Stinkor was a total badass. |
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Post by Ron Woodsman aka Shempaholic on Oct 15, 2019 20:10:44 GMT -5
My Mosquitor still has the blood in his chest. I figured it would have dried up by now. My parents bought me Stinkor when I was a kid but it smelled so bad my Mom made me keep it outside.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 15, 2019 23:17:27 GMT -5
Leech was an awesome figure to look at but name one goddamned time you ever EVER got his suction cups to work properly? The mouth worked just fine, but the hands? Forget it.. yeah I stuck the head to the wall at one point for like a day  the hands never worked though. Also Modulok was an amazing toy. |
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Post by CMWaters on Oct 15, 2019 23:27:59 GMT -5
The King Hiss toy was...something. Bunch of snakes inside, but when you had the outer humanoid shell on his arms moved less than even other toys in the line from what I remember.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 15, 2019 23:33:51 GMT -5
The King Hiss toy was...something. Bunch of snakes inside, but when you had the outer humanoid shell on his arms moved less than even other toys in the line from what I remember. I don't remember the Snake Men line as a whole being particularly good... Like Squeeze's giant arms  |
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