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Post by wildojinx on Sept 17, 2020 22:12:52 GMT -5
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Sept 17, 2020 23:40:25 GMT -5
Nobody will ever convince me that Bob the Goon wasn't the highest selling action figure of all time!
And those Love Boat action figures would've been in scale with the GI Joe action figures. I smell crossover!
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 18, 2020 0:42:25 GMT -5
As for the ones I remember sitting on shelves for a huge amount of time, the Crystar and Sgt. Rock figure lines, as well as the Transformer Throttlebots and Action Masters.
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Post by MC Blowfish on Sept 18, 2020 7:08:22 GMT -5
Nobody will ever convince me that Bob the Goon wasn't the highest selling action figure of all time! And those Love Boat action figures would've been in scale with the GI Joe action figures. I smell crossover! They would have made great hostages for Cobra. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 18, 2020 10:52:36 GMT -5
Nobody will ever convince me that Bob the Goon wasn't the highest selling action figure of all time! In fact I think he was the number oneeeeeeee......guyyyyyyyyyyy.... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2020 15:21:43 GMT -5
I totally had Bob The Goon.
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Post by XIII on Sept 18, 2020 15:24:48 GMT -5
I also had Bob the Goon. I also had that ghostbusters toilet....which I used for gimmick matches in my action figure wrestling federation.
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Post by DSR on Sept 18, 2020 15:49:44 GMT -5
For some reason as a kid I had two different Batman figures and none of his villains...so I just had one be an evil imposter.
Nowadays I would ADORE a Bob The Goon figure.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Sept 18, 2020 17:02:26 GMT -5
For some reason as a kid I had two different Batman figures and none of his villains...so I just had one be an evil imposter. Nowadays I would ADORE a Bob The Goon figure. Had two Batmen figures too... they were the same Batman 89 figure, but the faces were different. One had a skinny face, the other more stumpy. Was weird. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2020 18:03:54 GMT -5
I remember Inferno from Beast Wars bloating shelves in my childhood. It sucked, because I liked Inferno, but he was one of what I thought of as "mid-size" Beast wars figure, coming in box instead of in a peg packaging, but not as big as the large, top-shelfers that there were very few of like the combiners. So it sucked that he was always filling up that spot instead of Optimus Prime figure which I never managed to get. But it did surprise me no one else liked Inferno. His character sucked on the show, but his figure was just super cool.
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Post by DSR on Sept 18, 2020 18:09:17 GMT -5
For some reason as a kid I had two different Batman figures and none of his villains...so I just had one be an evil imposter. Nowadays I would ADORE a Bob The Goon figure. Had two Batmen figures too... they were the same Batman 89 figure, but the faces were different. One had a skinny face, the other more stumpy. Was weird. Mine both had the same face, but one had a purple costume and one had a gold one. The gold one got some of the paint chipped off of his chin, so it looked like he had a goatee. Naturally he was the evil one. |
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Sept 18, 2020 19:09:13 GMT -5
Had two Batmen figures too... they were the same Batman 89 figure, but the faces were different. One had a skinny face, the other more stumpy. Was weird. Mine both had the same face, but one had a purple costume and one had a gold one. The gold one got some of the paint chipped off of his chin, so it looked like he had a goatee. Naturally he was the evil one. Heel beard. Makes sense. |
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 18, 2020 19:19:27 GMT -5
Another peg-warmer from the Super Powers line was Dr. Fate. He was on store shelves a few years after the line ended.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 18, 2020 21:51:56 GMT -5
Another peg-warmer from the Super Powers line was Dr. Fate. He was on store shelves a few years after the line ended. And that is a great figure. |
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Post by camphor #BLM on Sept 18, 2020 21:57:50 GMT -5
Another peg-warmer from the Super Powers line was Dr. Fate. He was on store shelves a few years after the line ended. Wow, I had that frisky fellow,  ...but I was never really a Super Heroes kid (beyond Spiderman and Hulk). |
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Sept 18, 2020 21:58:01 GMT -5
I remember Inferno from Beast Wars bloating shelves in my childhood. It sucked, because I liked Inferno, but he was one of what I thought of as "mid-size" Beast wars figure, coming in box instead of in a peg packaging, but not as big as the large, top-shelfers that there were very few of like the combiners. So it sucked that he was always filling up that spot instead of Optimus Prime figure which I never managed to get. But it did surprise me no one else liked Inferno. His character sucked on the show, but his figure was just super cool. If we're talking about Beast Wars, I don't think I walked into a Toys R Us or Kay-Bee while I was in college and didn't see row after row of Optimus Minor figures just sitting there, looking sad. |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 18, 2020 22:10:05 GMT -5
From about 97 until they closed the local Kaybee Toys had piles of those Primal Rage figures.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 11:14:22 GMT -5
For some reason as a kid I had two different Batman figures and none of his villains...so I just had one be an evil imposter. Nowadays I would ADORE a Bob The Goon figure. Had two Batmen figures too... they were the same Batman 89 figure, but the faces were different. One had a skinny face, the other more stumpy. Was weird. The one with the skinnier face was made to resemble Batman from the comics and the chubbier faced one was supposed to look more like Michael Keaton. I'm not sure which run came first or at which point they switched it though. |
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Sept 20, 2020 20:45:30 GMT -5
I remember my local Kay Bee had two Rancor Keepers on a peg until about 1992 or so.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 20, 2020 20:53:02 GMT -5
Had two Batmen figures too... they were the same Batman 89 figure, but the faces were different. One had a skinny face, the other more stumpy. Was weird. The one with the skinnier face was made to resemble Batman from the comics and the chubbier faced one was supposed to look more like Michael Keaton. I'm not sure which run came first or at which point they switched it though. IIRC and this is going off of 25 year old knowledge,the Keaton face was the second release. For a bit in the early 90s the first release was worth almost double what the Keaton face one was. No clue about now. Kinda got out of keeping up with action figure prices not long after I finished getting all the figures from the 70s and 80s I wanted. |
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