Talking Point Episode 19: Unreleased Starcom Toys
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Today Patrick looks at the Spring 1988 Coleco Catalog to check out the unreleased Starcom figures and vehicles!
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Great video... this was all new to me. Very cool stuff.
I freaking loved Star Com!
How did you come by the catalogs?
StarCom is a big love of mine. I have been doing online searches for catalogs, magazines, and anything I can find almost monthly for....oh wow...over 20 years. Then suddenly this was about $20 on eBay. So excited.
I absoutely agree that Starcom was the most underappreciated line of the 80s. I got in to Starcom as it was going out. I found the entire line on clearance at Hills department store in West Virginia. Because it was on clearance, I was able to get a bunch of the vehicles for not a lot of money. But then I never saw them again.
We got Starcom in the UK in the mid/late 80s and I still have loads of loose ones in a big box somewhere! The only one I didn't get and regret was the Six Shooter. Some of the very late smaller vehicle releases also escaped me, probably because of regional distribution. I still keep my eye out for them at toy fairs though!
i have the starmax bomber, starwolf, shadow parasite, and all the 3 main colonels in the animation. All were destroyed by sociopath sibling.
I have a few starcom sets back in the day the the Shadow Raider and Shadow bandit being the largest of them I also had the command pod for the good guys but never had any of their figures of vehicles . but I fondly remember playing with the starmaxx and star wolf that a friend had , great line , they really put a lot of thought into how they worked
Do you know if Mattel still have the rights to starcom?
If you guys love starcom as much as i did, go check out what teccotoys is doing with 3d prints. Very similar, we talked and he too is a huge starcom fan at heart.
Loved this! I’m
Reconnecting to starcom after the 1980s and 90s as a kid. I remember as a high school kid in the 90s my friend and I made a stop motion video with his parents camcorder using astarcom figure and the base with the elevator.
Where did you get that shirt?!?
I had the elevator space station set and I can still hear that sound of the elevator working and man I loved these toys as a kid so awesome I can't believe that to this day we haven't seen a magnetic gimmick that worked as well and as fun as starcom
I would think to my parents that all those winding gear sounds may have been annoying. But I still love hearing it. I must be conditioned to associate that sound with fun. Tomy really made some solid motors.
Really interesting stuff thank you for making!
In Canada I remember the second series toys being advertised in Consumers Distributing catalogs
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Actually in my opinion I think d i n o r i d e r s is more under appreciated than star c o m lol
That is one of the other few contenders for sure. How they have not had much of a modern presence is strange. Other brands have had new comics, toys, and cartoons. But they haven't even had an official t-shirt?
Fantastic video and informations!
Make a video for the released figures and vehicles 😊
great episode. I did not know there was a starcom cartoon to go along with the toyline.
It was produced by DiC and has some great animation, especially in about the first 5 episodes. Power deploy sequences start being reused after that, but the stories and characters remain solid. You can see some very clear inspiration from Star Trek (original series).
Is there a website to identify what Starcom figure I own?
I love Starcom. Absolutely wonderful line of toys. Working on getting all the north american released figures right now. All I need vehicle wise is the Upriser. Good luck to me 😆
I think the Upriser was the last vehicle I needed. The last 3 figures were Speed, Cronax, and Bomber. It is all so worth it.
Star Com = Perfecr 5th. Any musicians here? When I started taking ear training classes and I learned what a Perfect 5th interval was supposed to sound like.. I immediately heard that STAR COM in my head from the commercials and TV show.
I had never heard of this, so I just watched a youtube video on octaves and a perfect 5th. Yeah, I can definitely hear the StarCom commercial in that.
Amazing finds! So glad you found and shared that catalogue with us! Starcom was awesome and thankfully i could find them here in Canada. I should redo my old video of those.
Thanks! I will check that video out. Finding that Canadian 1988 insert cross-sell catalog was so difficult. I knew it existed but didn't realize that the cover is the same as the common 1987 insert.
What about the double fighter?
I included it at 17 minutes in, but would love to have additional original images and would share them if I ever get them.
Fantastic episode! Thank you so much for digging deep and unearthing all of this great info!
Thanks again for watching! I really appreciate your support.
Excellent episode once again!! Love StarCom and whoever made that shirt is a genius!!
Yes he is! And thanks again!
Excellent video! That catalog is a treasure!
Thanks. I really appreciate it!