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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 8, 2019 1:38:14 GMT -5
I would have definitely bought the Thirsty African Looking For Clean Water action figure.
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Post by Chainsaw on Dec 8, 2019 1:44:16 GMT -5
Galaxy Rangers and Bionic 6 were two of my favorite, unsung cartoons and toy lines of the late 80s. I never owned the toys, but I always wanted them because our local station ran them in syndication.
The 3 3/4 licensed action figure fever was amazing. Because of Star Wars, we had figures from stuff from The Legend Of The Lone Ranger to Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Dec 8, 2019 1:45:55 GMT -5
I had that Rambo. The rocket launcher had a retractable string and it was badass. I used that and the gun for years with other toys.
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Post by Chainsaw on Dec 8, 2019 1:47:56 GMT -5
I had that Rambo. The rocket launcher had a retractable string and it was badass. I used that and the gun for years with other toys. We had a Rambo mini Uzi with those rubber projectile thingies with the suction cups that never stuck forever. I'm still amazed people thought it was OK to make toy guns that looked like real guns.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 8, 2019 2:03:53 GMT -5
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Dec 8, 2019 4:06:15 GMT -5
So, when you were kids and had the urge to have He-Man fight Sylvester Stallone, did you go with: Rocky? Rambo? Or were you that weird asshole kid down the block who had all the strange toys no one else recognized? Uhh Sly did fight He-Man, it was called Rocky IV! Hello?
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 8, 2019 4:21:29 GMT -5
Since the shorts come off, you can also recreate how Stallone was in a porno once.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Dec 8, 2019 14:31:39 GMT -5
I had a chance one to get 4 of those Nightmare Warriors but at the time I was buying KO He-man stuff. Neither I nor the seller knew what they were. Later I realized they are worth a fortune.
I wouldn't mind that Wrangler stuff. Wouldn't have wanted it back then but I'm a sucker for vintage figures done in the G.I. Joe style now as a collector. There is a female figure in that line who looks a lot like a 1 off character from the G.I. Joe toon as well.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 8, 2019 14:42:39 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind that Wrangler stuff. Wouldn't have wanted it back then but I'm a sucker for vintage figures done in the G.I. Joe style now as a collector. There is a female figure in that line who looks a lot like a 1 off character from the G.I. Joe toon as well. My two favorite figure styles will always be the Kenner-style 3.75 figures and the MOTU-style 5.5's. I don't have many but between the few I retained from childhood and the ones I've picked up cheap in toy stores, I've amassed maybe 20 to 30 of those 3.75 figures that came from "regular people" lines. Adventure People and Tonka Play People mostly, but I have one of the Wranglers and a few others like that.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 8, 2019 14:52:32 GMT -5
Here's a wrestling figure you didn't know existed. I mean, you probably knew it existed but that's Pat Roach, one of the best-remembered UK wrestlers of decades-past. --- I got the entire first wave of this line for Christmas one year, but never got the second wave House was in. I would have loved this one. --- I only had a couple of these guys, so Psycho here was repurposed as the Dreadnok's resident meathead (prior to Road Pig being around). --- One of the coolest figures ever. Top 100 without doubt. --- Bang a gong, get it on...GoBots went really stupid almost every time they let another toy company make figures for the line, it just never came out well. The watches like this one were about the best.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Dec 8, 2019 15:07:57 GMT -5
Galaxy Rangers and Bionic 6 were two of my favorite, unsung cartoons and toy lines of the late 80s. I never owned the toys, but I always wanted them because our local station ran them in syndication. The 3 3/4 licensed action figure fever was amazing. Because of Star Wars, we had figures from stuff from The Legend Of The Lone Ranger to Raiders Of The Lost Ark. The Bionic 6 ones were mostly made of metal, they were heavy bastards, I had one and even though he was half the size of my other figures, because of the weight my 6 year old mind made him a powerhouse in my wrestling federation.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Dec 8, 2019 15:21:55 GMT -5
I had the Mahoney Police Academy toy as a very little kid. One of the earliest toys I remember owning along with Real Ghostbusters Proton Pack and the Turtle Van.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Dec 8, 2019 16:50:54 GMT -5
This thread has jogged my memory though, I had some of those Arco Other World toys
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Post by Gecko on Dec 8, 2019 16:51:43 GMT -5
That's the friendliest looking, least threatening skeleton I've ever seen. Or it was until I saw the rest of the line up.
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Post by Paul on Dec 8, 2019 17:04:49 GMT -5
I'm getting all nostalgic seeing those orange Toys 'R Us price stickers.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 8, 2019 22:15:45 GMT -5
Once a leading innovator in toys, Ideal just couldn't keep up in the '80s. While they still have some cult status, their offerings in this time were...lacking: Take Robo Force, for example. An entire line of good and evil R2-D2s wasn't going to sell. Some of them look neat, though. --- And then there were the Manglors. These pieces of crap were sold on a bill of lies. They weren't actual action figures but rubbery pre-formed molds that could be slightly stretched. I emphasize "slightly" because their advertised gimmick of being literally pulled apart and put back together was complete bunk. --- Rocks & Bugs & Things was a neat idea for a line - basically Rock Lords via Cthulhu. They came with little mini-figures that they could eat. The brand name may still be the stupidest of all time.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 8, 2019 22:22:50 GMT -5
I'd have loved a Robo Force figure or two, but yeah, having a whole line of similar-looking figures is going to bring diminishing returns. That looks like one of those sorts of guys I'd get and treat as a sidekick to another character in another toyline, and call that a day.
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Post by wildojinx on Dec 8, 2019 22:33:32 GMT -5
Remember Sun-Man? A noble concept (made to combat the lack of black action figures) and a well-put together figure (I remember it being sturdier than some of the MOTU figures). However, then you see the villain: Not exactly someone that could compete with the likes of Skeletor or Hordak or the like.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 8, 2019 22:36:56 GMT -5
I knew of Adventure People as Ashens has looked at a few on his channel, even if the line is way ahead of my time, but I had no idea they made a robot. They had a few other robots. Here's the weirdest one: Did the Over the Top toyline make a Ruker (Terry Funk) figure? Or a Female Arm Wrestler (Reggie Bennett) figure? Sadly, no. There were seven figures total - Hawks and five others from the movie (Armbender, Bull, John Grizzly, Golden Boy and Ice Man) and a larger Hawks figure. It's a shame we never got wave 4 of the Super Powers line. That was going to have some nice treats (Blue Devil, Supergirl, Black Lightning,Bizzaro, Man-Bat, etc). I've heard so much back and forth on the legitimacy of the list, I'm no longer sure what to believe regarding it. This thread has jogged my memory though, I had some of those Arco Other World toys It was a really unique line. Done as a full action figure line, but everyone is a bendy. Made them a lot cheaper than most lines, too, though very few places I shopped stocked them. I'd see them at Fiesta, but never K-Mart or the like.
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Post by prettynami on Dec 8, 2019 22:51:02 GMT -5
This thread really brings me back. I can't confirm if a lot of the stuff I have thats weird is this stuff because my mom would always take the "random" figures she bought for christmas out of the packaging before using them as stocking stuffers. I had a figure that sorta looked like the dragon dude and we got an insane amount of go-bots and thundar stuff in stockings too. I have a bin somewhere filled with stuff I thought was weird even at the time.
We also had like a ton of the Indiana Jones toys, my parents were huge fans of Kenner (they one time wrote them a letter cause a part was missing on something they got... And they got the part and a personalized letter back with some other goodies and they fell in love with the company).
The other one that strikes me is the police academy one. Somehow I had managed to get a mail order Capt. Harris (he was mysteriously my favorite character from the movies) with a gimmick hat/dress uniform, but I can't remember owning any other Police Academy figures to do a UPC send in like those sorta thing normally require. Maybe it wasn't mail order and my parents lied to me, just like my box top cheesasaurus rex! Oddly enough, I never knew the figures were based on a cartoon until I was an adult, still haven't seen an episode.
The toys I wish I had more of looking back at them now are the Galaxy Rangers ones, the one I have is seriously neat.
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