I always thought that Optimus Prime's popularity at the start owed at least something to holdover love of CB's/trucking that lingered into the early 80's.
Wow, I would have had a such a blast mixing this line with my 3 3/4" Joes and Chips figures. I can just picture Cobra trying to to move some crazy chemicals in that tanker. My cousin was a big fan of big trucks and truck movies, so much that he actually became a big rig driver, he would have loved this line. Thanks for sharing.
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So awesome to see these sets. You almost forget what the toys and boxes looked like. I had the CB McHaul truck and a few figures. I loved the radio feature. Dang! Toys were just so cool in those days.
I would have loved it if MEGO could have made BJ and the Bear. I also wish they could have made Sheriff Lobo and his deputies Perkins and Birdie Hawkins. I know I would have bought them or begged my parents to get them for me way back when.
2:49 you have Steve McQueen, John Wayne and evil Don Rickles with an eye patch. Would the blonde cowboy be Charles Napier? “But _we’re_ the Good Ole Boys!”
Fun video! I loved that you chuckled a lot. The whole CB fad was chuckle worthy. I never had any of these toys but I was about 10 and remember my best friend (so called) being really into CBs because his dad was driving a truck at the time. So we incorporated a lot of CB lingo into our pretend play on bicycles and in an old junk truck he had access to. My grandma also had a scanner at around that time and it was fun to listen to the random talk on the different frequencies.
CBs were banned in the UK back then but some folk still had them including my brother. I used to use it at night when I was a kid. I would duck into the passenger seat footwell to keep out of sight and talk to the locals. My handle was Tom Thumb. 😆
as a kid, i remember talking to truckers via C.B. from our family car (a Chevy Nova!). And in the early 90s in high school - we discovered that our photography teacher wrote a book on C.B. radio lingo!
I so wanted these when I was a lad, but by the time I had saved up enough for a rig and a couple of figures *Poof* they were gone. But the memory is still as strong as when I spied them in the SEARS Christmas Wish Book all those decades ago. Has it been that long? Why Yes, Yes it has.
Okay so now I'm going to really date myself. I grew up with my dad traveling all over the country in an old 66 Ford Wagon working with the circus. I spent so much time on that CB, and later puting a Cobra 40 in my 86 Shelby. I actually miss the days of CB. But I got to tell you I've got no recollection of ever seeing anyone of these toys. I'm 50 so they were right in my sweet spot. I remember I had a SWAT truck with the microphone for the early 70s. I love your channel so much because I sometimes feel like I'm not even of this Earth cuz I don't remember so many of these toys ever existing. 🤣. Awesome review 👍
thanks for the share, I have a feeling this line may have gotten spotty distribution or we as kids just didn't notice it amidst the wonder of a 1977 action figure aisle.
I love the rig! I used to wish Kenner had made Knight Rider's Michael Knight and KITT in 3¾" scale. After having just seen the CB McHaul rig, I also wish Kenner had made Knight Rider's "FLAG Mobile Unit" rig.
Cool video! I've only seen picture's online over the years. Never actually seen these in person. I never hunted them down. As well, I've never seen them in the wild and I've been collecting figures since the year 2000.
yeah, they're few and far between. I've only ever seen one figure "in the wild" it was on the cash register of a comic shop in Los Angeles and he wasn't for sale.
Had this set as a kid unfortunately they didn’t make it, I loved them. I have a picture of me getting them for a Christmas. I finally completed my collection of the vehicles and figures waiting for the gas station to pop up for sale.
In all my years with Ebay, I have never seen any C.B. McHaul toys. The closest I have to a C.B. McHaul figure is the two villains of the CHiPs line. I got them at a toy show before Ebay came along. Yes, the Star Trek Aliens are less hard to find.
C.B. McHaul. The name reminds me of a line from Carl (of Aqua Teens fame). "Was Gunslinger O'Tumbleweed taken?" I vaguely remember these still being for sale when I was a kid, though.
Awesome! When Jeff and I reviewed the C.H.I.P.S line in our podcast, "Talking Toys with Taylor and Jeff", we were trying to figure out what reused line the villains had come from! Just got it answered! I'm loving the content! I subscribed and I can't wait to see more.
The trucks are the easiest found and I'd put them up against anything Kenner or Hasbro made. Not Fisher Price because that stuff was made on the planet Krypton.
I remember the CB fad... had a coloring book about CB radio and truckers of all things. I remember seeing the figures and trucks in the Sears Wish Book but never had any myself.
I have a rig with the box and an extra trailer. One figure, the Mc haul sidekick. Any idea what they’re worth? Condition of the actual toys is excellent, I’d say the box has normal wear/fading.
Wow...im trippin...why do these seem familar ?..i never went past 'Dukes',but old enough to remember C.B.,s .I had one in my car once in high school.They were out of favor by then.Great post thanks...poor Isaac
Definitely remember the TV Ad, but don’t think I saw any in stores, didn’t realize they made figures for the vehicles...Also totally forgot the CB McH branding...If you haven’t already, would appreciate a segment on the CHiPs line briefly noted...
I don't suppose anyone has heard of "Jimbo Billy Bob's Country Swing Machine"... tractor and box trailer that came with a music stage, instruments, Jimbo figure, and most importantly...a 45 rpm record of "The Ballad of Jimbo Billy Bob". All I remember is seeing it in a catalog, reading the description, and thinking how corny it was...but I hope to hear the song one day!
Breaker breaker we got a smoky on the tail !! The 70’s was strange time but I’ve seen linkara’s videos on the USA 1 comics by marvel so strange things can happen at truck stop .
I am a die-cast fan. I mainly collect 1/64th scale, the mainline Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Auto🌎World🌎, Johnny⚡Lightning⚡, Greenlight, and M2. I do however have some larger scale cars and trucks. 1/55th, 1/50th, 1/43rd, 1/32nd, and rarely a 1/24th scale but I only have one of those. This Semi truck would be EPIC! Especially since I love Smokey and the Bandit, Cannonball Run, Dukes of Hazzard, BJ & the Bear. The truck especially! But even the figures would be a cool addition! Nice set of figures I wasn't really aware of.
Haha Yeah there hands 😱 but as a kid wouldn't notice until later or someone pointed it out, but I remember the song and movies, BJ and the bear was a great tv show 😀🤙🏼
I picked up the CB McHaul figure(with hat) from an ebay seller a couple of years ago. Paid a hundred bucks for the figure. CB McHaul was referenced in the Eastbound and Down episode of the animated TV series Archer.
As much of a maniac I was for everything Dukes and Smokey and the Bandit, I'm surprised I never had any of this line. I was aware of it back then and remember wanting the trucks and figures but I guess the lure of superheroes and the Force was just too strong.
@@BrickMantooth Lol it's something I've noticed after you and others post a vid about a lesser known toy line. You go to eBay and suddenly items from that line have 25 views in the last hour.
@@tonywilliams6428 I think we (self included) are a highly suggestible bunch. I know Analogtoys videos have me searching for Action Force figures now. Never had them as a kid but THEY LOOK SO COOL!
OK. Just watched Convoy on Amazon Prime. I have to say it was much better than expected. Its a cowboy movie set in semi's with Kris Kristoferson as the hero "Rubber Duckie" and the bad Smokey being "Dirty Lyle" played by Ernest Borgnine. Pretty much follows the song. Directed by the famous action director Sam Peckinpah.
WOW MOVINIG ON! BEFORE SHERIFF LOBO! BJ and Bear funny , surpirse did not try for smokey and the bandit, I guess kids though it was like HESS trucks and kept the boxes.
I still don't understand the meme-before-memes; "Keep on Truckin' " (edit I remember the TV commercial for that "trucker music album" (Ed Sovine?)... On tape, LP or 8 track
The weird thing is Marvel was exploiting this same fad with a short lived Quasi Supre Hero book. US-1. About Ulysses S Archer (USA!) A Truck Driving Secret Agent who due to some horrible accident was now was a sort of living CB Radio Via the metal plates in his skull. The 12 issues are while not expensive, are hard to find. The cast of characters re-appears briefly in the 00's as Space Truckers.
Brick Mantooth Yeah Marvel did a lot of those back then. There was another book about a motorcycle stunt team that turned into some merged Phantom Rider gestalt. Riding the Evil Kenievel fad. Some of their other 70’s fad books actually found weird staying power. The 70’s Occult title Son of a Satan didn’t last long. But the characters became mainstays in the Defenders. And the main character Daimian Hellstrom, Son if Satan is appearing in one of the upcoming movies or tv shows. (Which blows my mind). And of course we can never forget Marvel’s delightfully odd Godzilla and Shogun Warriors books.
@@BrickMantooth I kind of wish I had those. They were just so weird. I had a few issues long since lost. I did manage to keep my Godzilla, Shogun Warriors and Micronauts.
@@BrickMantooth Hah! In a weird twist of fate I couldn't remember what the Stunt Cycle comic was. But in trying to figure out if todays announced lawsuit by th eestate of Evel Knievel against Disney over the Duke Kaboom character had any merit, I re-discovered that Ideal had re-used some of the Evel Knievel stuff for a later line. "Team America." The Marvel Comic. And if you thought US1 was cheesy and dated. I think Team America fought "The Orb" (A guy with a helmet shaped like an eyeball.)
they rank up there with batman watergun , Pez Pistol , punisher crotch canon and wolverines crotch blow stem. The hall of fame award OF What WERE THEY THINKING!!!
They still look like the Reverse Flash stole their fishin' poles and they haven't relaxed their hands yet to me. Have you heard this one *Brick Mantooth* ?
The truck stop, the truck, the ramming function - it all has 'Mask' vibes to me.
Yeah, thanks, I just vaguely mentioned 80s toys but yeah, total MASK.
i cant stop laughing at the right hand placement. i know it can get lonely on the road, but damn
They're ALL Ready for those Lot Lizards! LOL
I always thought that Optimus Prime's popularity at the start owed at least something to holdover love of CB's/trucking that lingered into the early 80's.
Pretty much, right?
The video has a huge feeling of nostalgia, even for someone who is not from that era
thank you!
Wow, I would have had a such a blast mixing this line with my 3 3/4" Joes and Chips figures. I can just picture Cobra trying to to move some crazy chemicals in that tanker.
My cousin was a big fan of big trucks and truck movies, so much that he actually became a big rig driver, he would have loved this line. Thanks for sharing.
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So awesome to see these sets. You almost forget what the toys and boxes looked like. I had the CB McHaul truck and a few figures. I loved the radio feature. Dang! Toys were just so cool in those days.
My inner ten year old could not stop laughing every time I saw those hands!!!! 🤣😆🤣
you're not alone.
I would have loved it if MEGO could have made BJ and the Bear. I also wish they could have made Sheriff Lobo and his deputies Perkins and Birdie Hawkins. I know I would have bought them or begged my parents to get them for me way back when.
2:49 you have Steve McQueen, John Wayne and evil Don Rickles with an eye patch.
Would the blonde cowboy be Charles Napier?
“But _we’re_ the Good Ole Boys!”
You, sir, win the internet today. :)
Orange Whip?
Fun video! I loved that you chuckled a lot. The whole CB fad was chuckle worthy. I never had any of these toys but I was about 10 and remember my best friend (so called) being really into CBs because his dad was driving a truck at the time. So we incorporated a lot of CB lingo into our pretend play on bicycles and in an old junk truck he had access to. My grandma also had a scanner at around that time and it was fun to listen to the random talk on the different frequencies.
Great video! We used to play "trucker" music and pretend we were truckers as kids. Thanx for the great memories!
That's awesome
we did too.
CBs were banned in the UK back then but some folk still had them including my brother. I used to use it at night when I was a kid. I would duck into the passenger seat footwell to keep out of sight and talk to the locals. My handle was Tom Thumb. 😆
I like how Brick chuckles every 20-30 seconds :)
There is a lot of irony in this line.
I had that toy line too and the dukes of hazard , I used the C.B. Garage from Cotter’s garage.
Looks like lots of fun! Another great video
Thanks again!
as a kid, i remember talking to truckers via C.B. from our family car (a Chevy Nova!). And in the early 90s in high school - we discovered that our photography teacher wrote a book on C.B. radio lingo!
Ha! That's awesome. I discovered my art teacher was an underground cartoonist, he was not pleased.
I remember the whole CB/Trucker craze of the 70's and ironically, 45 years later, I am a trucker now!
So does everyone still use cb radios?
I get the feeling that more than a few people involved in creating this line were having a very good laugh.
I so wanted these when I was a lad, but by the time I had saved up enough for a rig and a couple of figures *Poof* they were gone. But the memory is still as strong as when I spied them in the SEARS Christmas Wish Book all those decades ago. Has it been that long? Why Yes, Yes it has.
Like all kids we believed any toy would be around forever. We didn't understand the business cycle!!
Okay so now I'm going to really date myself. I grew up with my dad traveling all over the country in an old 66 Ford Wagon working with the circus. I spent so much time on that CB, and later puting a Cobra 40 in my 86 Shelby. I actually miss the days of CB. But I got to tell you I've got no recollection of ever seeing anyone of these toys. I'm 50 so they were right in my sweet spot. I remember I had a SWAT truck with the microphone for the early 70s. I love your channel so much because I sometimes feel like I'm not even of this Earth cuz I don't remember so many of these toys ever existing. 🤣. Awesome review 👍
thanks for the share, I have a feeling this line may have gotten spotty distribution or we as kids just didn't notice it amidst the wonder of a 1977 action figure aisle.
@@BrickMantooth I was always more space toy oriented.
I love the rig! I used to wish Kenner had made Knight Rider's Michael Knight and KITT in 3¾" scale. After having just seen the CB McHaul rig, I also wish Kenner had made Knight Rider's "FLAG Mobile Unit" rig.
I'm shocked Mego never brought the rigs back, they are nicely made.
Very interesting Toy Line that i never heard of!!! Great Video.
Thanks for watching!
Those hands... I just can't unsee them! :-o
10:33 and I catch you on flip side. Another great vid.
Cool video! I've only seen picture's online over the years. Never actually seen these in person. I never hunted them down. As well, I've never seen them in the wild and I've been collecting figures since the year 2000.
yeah, they're few and far between. I've only ever seen one figure "in the wild" it was on the cash register of a comic shop in Los Angeles and he wasn't for sale.
Had this set as a kid unfortunately they didn’t make it, I loved them. I have a picture of me getting them for a Christmas. I finally completed my collection of the vehicles and figures waiting for the gas station to pop up for sale.
Wow, congrats!
In all my years with Ebay, I have never seen any C.B. McHaul toys. The closest I have to a C.B. McHaul figure is the two villains of the CHiPs line. I got them at a toy show before Ebay came along.
Yes, the Star Trek Aliens are less hard to find.
I've been actively searching for decades and i have 7/9 carded.
C.B. McHaul. The name reminds me of a line from Carl (of Aqua Teens fame). "Was Gunslinger O'Tumbleweed taken?" I vaguely remember these still being for sale when I was a kid, though.
This gave me some good laughs first thing in the morning. All those calendars! Also, once again: Isaac FTW!
Glad you enjoyed!
Awesome! When Jeff and I reviewed the C.H.I.P.S line in our podcast, "Talking Toys with Taylor and Jeff", we were trying to figure out what reused line the villains had come from! Just got it answered! I'm loving the content! I subscribed and I can't wait to see more.
thanks for the subscribe!
@@BrickMantooth you got it!
I had the red truck and my brother had the black truck. Played with both of them for many days.
"...We about to go a' huntin' Bear..." - Cw McCall.
"Based on a popular fad your father is into." Also the ad copy for Milton Bradley's Swingers Key Party game.
Wow! Interesting. I do not recall ever seeing this toy line. Very cool....and very expensive on eBAY.
Yeah, it can get a little pricey.
Like it or not, Mego released some really cool stuff. I would love to have some of this stuff from this line. The trucks look really cool.
The trucks are the easiest found and I'd put them up against anything Kenner or Hasbro made. Not Fisher Price because that stuff was made on the planet Krypton.
Thanks for the laugh. That's a 10-4, good buddy. Watch out for bear traps!
glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching.
I remember the CB fad... had a coloring book about CB radio and truckers of all things. I remember seeing the figures and trucks in the Sears Wish Book but never had any myself.
I remember being fascinated by the CB radio craze.
Another great video!
thank you!
yea the way these figures hands are positioned it looks like there definitely working on that load all right.
I have a rig with the box and an extra trailer. One figure, the Mc haul sidekick. Any idea what they’re worth?
Condition of the actual toys is excellent, I’d say the box has normal wear/fading.
those toy trucks look detailed
they are really nice, some of the best toy vehicles Mego ever made.
Wow...im trippin...why do these seem familar ?..i never went past 'Dukes',but old enough to remember C.B.,s .I had one in my car once in high school.They were out of favor by then.Great post thanks...poor Isaac
I’ve got the play set sign missing the base
Isaac sure does get a lot of Guest shots, and well earned to boot.
It's in his contract.
I need to go back and watch again... wait was he the one in the tanker?!
Awesome, I didn't remember that one.
Yeah, that is a consensus it seems.
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6:15 Oh no! Not Isacc!
Isacc was rescued by CB.
Definitely remember the TV Ad, but don’t think I saw any in stores, didn’t realize they made figures for the vehicles...Also totally forgot the CB McH branding...If you haven’t already, would appreciate a segment on the CHiPs line briefly noted...
I'll eventually cover CHiPS, it's a little harder with lines I don't actively collect but I'll get there.
I don't suppose anyone has heard of "Jimbo Billy Bob's Country Swing Machine"... tractor and box trailer that came with a music stage, instruments, Jimbo figure, and most importantly...a 45 rpm record of "The Ballad of Jimbo Billy Bob". All I remember is seeing it in a catalog, reading the description, and thinking how corny it was...but I hope to hear the song one day!
that's a new one to me.
wow these are rad!
Oh my always wanted but hard to find😩!!
Yes, very hard to find.
Does the CB McHaul police car fit inside the trailer of either truck?
Can you imagine a Sheriff LOBO Action Figure Series? I sure can.
Every night when I close my eyes.
@@BrickMantooth Almost a Night Ranger reference.
Thanks for the video. Thumbed up.
Thanks for watching!
Breaker breaker we got a smoky on the tail !!
The 70’s was strange time but I’ve seen linkara’s videos on the USA 1 comics by marvel so strange things can happen at truck stop .
yeah i gotta check those comics out.
I’m surprised the tooling for the rigs couldn’t be reused for other toy lines like chips or other road based franchises
Me too! All i know is that one Mego designer pitched a BJ and the Bear set using this rig. It got shot down.
I am a die-cast fan. I mainly collect 1/64th scale, the mainline Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Auto🌎World🌎, Johnny⚡Lightning⚡, Greenlight, and M2. I do however have some larger scale cars and trucks. 1/55th, 1/50th, 1/43rd, 1/32nd, and rarely a 1/24th scale but I only have one of those. This Semi truck would be EPIC! Especially since I love Smokey and the Bandit, Cannonball Run, Dukes of Hazzard, BJ & the Bear. The truck especially! But even the figures would be a cool addition! Nice set of figures I wasn't really aware of.
Yeah it totally fits in that aesthetic
Haha Yeah there hands 😱 but as a kid wouldn't notice until later or someone pointed it out, but I remember the song and movies, BJ and the bear was a great tv show 😀🤙🏼
I loved BJ and the Bear!
I picked up the CB McHaul figure(with hat) from an ebay seller a couple of years ago. Paid a hundred bucks for the figure. CB McHaul was referenced in the Eastbound and Down episode of the animated TV series Archer.
I wonder what motivated Mego to make a 1950s-style patrol car. As a kid I had the Dukes and CHiPs remakes.
I'd like to know that as well, I wonder if it's based off a movie.
Wonderfull Awesome Toys
They are!
Every guys adventure is getting their load delivered on time
WHY DID I NOT HAVE THESE? CONVOY!!!
Aw now I have Convoy in my head.
As much of a maniac I was for everything Dukes and Smokey and the Bandit, I'm surprised I never had any of this line. I was aware of it back then and remember wanting the trucks and figures but I guess the lure of superheroes and the Force was just too strong.
Yeah, I'm sure it heavy competition from not only Star Wars but the Fisher Price adventure people as well.
You weren't lying about it being rare. A quick eBay search netted me 4 hits.
Yeah it went from being cheap to being pretty heavy bread in the last few years. This video probably won't help that.
@@BrickMantooth Lol it's something I've noticed after you and others post a vid about a lesser known toy line. You go to eBay and suddenly items from that line have 25 views in the last hour.
@@tonywilliams6428 I think we (self included) are a highly suggestible bunch. I know Analogtoys videos have me searching for Action Force figures now. Never had them as a kid but THEY LOOK SO COOL!
SIDE NOTE: Movin' On, BJ And The Bear, CHIPS & Sheriff Lobo were all on NBC. But I never saw the Convoy Film though.
I need to check it out.
@@BrickMantooth I don't think I have ever seen it either. Its funny how certain films, even though they were big hits, just fade into obscurity.
OK. Just watched Convoy on Amazon Prime. I have to say it was much better than expected. Its a cowboy movie set in semi's with Kris Kristoferson as the hero "Rubber Duckie" and the bad Smokey being "Dirty Lyle" played by Ernest Borgnine. Pretty much follows the song. Directed by the famous action director Sam Peckinpah.
@@YAMISOOLD2009 "Call Me Ernie" Ernest Borgnine is in it! Way Cool now I want to see this.
Very rare to find these! The trucks.are $$$$
I've heard of them and seen pics, but I have no personal memories of this line. My dad being a ham radio guy was into the C.B. stuff back then though.
Both my grandfather's had one, it was everywhere.
KId Watts looks more like George Peppard than Galoob's sculpt for Hannibal in their A-Team line.
What a waste for them to not have had a helicopter. They could have *"even had a bear in the air!"*
"...Jammin' Gears Has Got To Be A Fever..." - Merle Haggard (Theme Song From Movin' On)
The Bear Masher...i swear that could be in MASK
Hope Isaac is safe !!!
He's fine.
Is it just me or does Bad Leroy look a lot like Don Rickles with an eye patch?
No I see it.
I personally thinks he looks like a potato head.
If Tor Johnson was on crack, that's all I'm fixin' to say about that.
Is it an eye patch or a hockey puck?
3:55 Lol, not THAT Jack Jones 😆
... or is it? Hmmmm... 🤔
We may never know...
I had the bald guy with sunglasses, I’m surprised I didn’t have all the toys because my dad was a truck driver
That opening video was wrong in the funniest way🌝😸👍
i know, i heard it.
I kind of want it
I vaguely remember the black rig, and had the Dukes of Hazzard police car and General Lee. Why oh why did they have a hole in their hands!?!? 🤣
It was a left over from Comic Action Heroes because they had batarangs and other accessories. CB had no extras, so it looks weird.
@@BrickMantooth I had the Pocket Superheroes versions, I would have been 7 when they came out.
I still have a record on how to speak CB. 10-4.
I've got one of those too! Never listened to it.
YES DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE Thank You *Brick Mantooth!*
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That C.B. Radio that was $140 in 1978 is worth a Paultry $670 in 2024 Dollars, btw!
Oh. and the actual C.B. Mchaul Rig that was $20, is around $95 in 2024 Dollars, too. Golly.
I was about 12 years old when this came out and I don't even remember it,,, I was busy with space glider and Luke Skywalker
yeah, that totally makes sense.
Wouldn’t it be diesel from the pump?
probably.
WOW MOVINIG ON! BEFORE SHERIFF LOBO! BJ and Bear funny , surpirse did not try for smokey and the bandit, I guess kids though it was like HESS trucks and kept the boxes.
Also you might like oddity archive .
Convoy good movie
You know, I've never seen it.
@@BrickMantooth With Kris Kristofferson and ally mcgraw
Brick Mantooth it’s on blu-ray! 😉😁
I still don't understand the meme-before-memes; "Keep on Truckin' "
(edit I remember the TV commercial for that "trucker music album" (Ed Sovine?)... On tape, LP or 8 track
Yeah I'm not sure what that means either, I do remember those ads though.
Those right hands are interest ing
Yes, it's been the subject of many debates over history.
If only Mego started this line in 1975.
Yeah they would have had a longer run with it for sure.
The weird thing is Marvel was exploiting this same fad with a short lived Quasi Supre Hero book. US-1. About Ulysses S Archer (USA!) A Truck Driving Secret Agent who due to some horrible accident was now was a sort of living CB Radio Via the metal plates in his skull. The 12 issues are while not expensive, are hard to find. The cast of characters re-appears briefly in the 00's as Space Truckers.
I remember that book, it was weird and sort of dated the minute it hit the shelves.
Brick Mantooth Yeah Marvel did a lot of those back then. There was another book about a motorcycle stunt team that turned into some merged Phantom Rider gestalt. Riding the Evil Kenievel fad. Some of their other 70’s fad books actually found weird staying power. The 70’s Occult title Son of a Satan didn’t last long. But the characters became mainstays in the Defenders. And the main character Daimian Hellstrom, Son if Satan is appearing in one of the upcoming movies or tv shows. (Which blows my mind). And of course we can never forget Marvel’s delightfully odd Godzilla and Shogun Warriors books.
@@andrewtaylor940 Oh for some reason I bought every issue of "Team America" as a kid.
@@BrickMantooth I kind of wish I had those. They were just so weird. I had a few issues long since lost. I did manage to keep my Godzilla, Shogun Warriors and Micronauts.
@@BrickMantooth Hah! In a weird twist of fate I couldn't remember what the Stunt Cycle comic was. But in trying to figure out if todays announced lawsuit by th eestate of Evel Knievel against Disney over the Duke Kaboom character had any merit, I re-discovered that Ideal had re-used some of the Evel Knievel stuff for a later line. "Team America." The Marvel Comic. And if you thought US1 was cheesy and dated. I think Team America fought "The Orb" (A guy with a helmet shaped like an eyeball.)
Ten 4 good buddie
oh no not the Bartender from Love Boat, a kidnap hostage?
Way to get in front of the "Hand" jokes.
It won't stop them, it never does...
they rank up there with batman watergun , Pez Pistol , punisher crotch canon and wolverines crotch blow stem. The hall of fame award OF What WERE THEY THINKING!!!
Cool toy line, makes me want to fill one of the trucks with flour in little plastic bags.. and pretend it's coke !!!!!
That would have happened in the 80s version.
The Kid character is a good Steve McQueen
On the back of the box, it's clearly a drawing of Henry Winkler.
C.B. McHaul...more like C.B. McHand! Never heard of these.
1:51 I had that trash can!
They still look like the Reverse Flash stole their fishin' poles and they haven't relaxed their hands yet to me. Have you heard this one *Brick Mantooth* ?
Not that exact variation, no.
Why are they so grungy looking?