'90s Toys Kinda Sucked
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Matt guides us through the rapid decline of toys in the '90s mostly exemplified with the once great Kenner Corporation. We look at Star Wars, Super Powers, Batman, Terminator 2, and Aliens as well as some other toy lines from the 1990s.
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They suck so bad I decided to build a room to store them and make a video about them.
frank perreault It's definitely his shop. People are going to buy for nostalgia and prospecting. Nobody buys these because they think they were good toys.
ronindebeatrice thank you!!! Everyone on here bitching about this dude's opinions, I'm sorry, they have nostalgia to them, that's really about it, good for keeping in box and pinned on a wall, but if you do dioramas like I enjoy, then these figures don't do much for it, I get 4 or 5 position options and little articulation for posing. Not to mention how toony they look.
I like 90's toys but people will complain to get attention especially comic book fanboys...
I play with them with the
G.I. Joe Figure and Aliens Figure and Predator just make it look like in the movie or video game
You suck to
The Aliens toys were based off the cancelled cartoon series though, not the movie, so it's a bit unfair to say they're bad when they're not really based on the movie, nor had the likeness rights.
Kind of weird BTW huh, that Fox wanted to adapt the mature rated Alien franchise into a kid friendly toy selling franchise in the late 80s/early 90s.
But then again we had the Robocop cartoon and Terminator nearly had its own cartoon series, the Arnie terminator probably having to foil the plans of the evil Skynet and its henchman the T-1000 every week.
I know kids are a very big marketing group but still I wonder if the people who came up with these ideas and proposals weren't some of the more fervent high class drug users during the 80s because I doubt that anyone not under influence would think that quickly "Hey we have these M-rated movie franchises that are to gruesome for kids under 12, lets adapt them into Saturday morning cartoons."
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I had heard that story, but it makes no sense to include trading cards with photos from the movie with the human characters?
portland 182 I think they came with a comic strip, can't remember the trading cards.
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Again. Ignore the jurassic park toys. One of the best toy lines in the 90s...
The JurassicMan strange isn't it...? 😂 I still have a lot of Jurassic Park toys in packaging.
The JurassicMan Jurassic Park & The Lost World dinosaur figures were the best.
the chunks of removable flesh from some of the dinosaurs
My problem with jurassic park toys is how....knockoffable they were. Any kid with rubber dinosaurs and some thrift store G.I. Joe jeeps could make believe they were in the movie.
Kyle Johnson your a knockoff! Only jp3 and up can be knockoffs. The Kenner line was practically safe from china. They were the best toys of the 90s!
2018: Tons of $10 figurines that have no movement whatsoever. 1990's: Tons of affordable figures with lots of amazing action features.
if these guys had any knowledge of what they were talking about, the reason the likenesses were off for the Kenner Aliens line wrong, is because the likenesses were actually accurate for what they were made for, the Aliens line of toys was made for the Aliens based cartoon, not the movies, but since the cartoon was cancelled before release, they kept the design for the toys, so yeah these guys need to do some research before opening their mouths
Ya these guys are fucking idiots.
Ronimus Prime have you seen the neca snake alien coming out this year OMFG its so awesome and legendary
Yeah preach on brother....hahaha.
Adriel Omar Díaz it looks almost exactly like the classic figure too! The Kenner sculpt was really excellent for its time.
You aren't explaining why you think they are bad most of the time. Resale value shouldn't impact if hey are good or not either.
Yeah, it's mostly just this was a bad figure without any reasoning behind it.
"All this really old stuff that I can sell you to you for mad buck.. that's amazing. All this zany and fun stuff from the 90s that's full of character but I can't sell to you for mad buck.. that stuff's trash."
You do realize Hasbro bought Kenner in 91 right. That is why there was a fall in quality, not them getting lazy
How DARE those toy companies make action figures for children
Explain why they were getting worse? The sculpts were actually more detailed in the later lines. These guys have no idea what they are saying. Do they also not realize how many original Star was figures were created. These guys have no cred. They are speaking so subjectively. These “are cool” these are “trash”. They put so much value on likeness. I’m not sure likeness was ever great in any figure like ever.
ABSOLUTELY! Yea, the muscular 90's Star Wars figures hardly resembled the actual actors, but it's ridiculous that exactly the next few minutes after, they showed a shelf filled with Star Wars vintage figures from the 70's that resemble even less from their movie counterpart, yet they went on "Now these are the real deal!". The vintage figures are great because their hold historic and nostalgic values, not because they overall are superiorly engineered and sculpted compared to whatever toyline that came afterwards.
+Glasses&Mouthplates I went nuts for 90s Star Wars figures even though they were muscular. I also loved Batman the Animated series figures and Animated Spiderman. There was though a lottt of crappy figure lines out there and even batman figures were all over the place with different crazy gimmicks.
Because he can't flip them for as much on ebay. That makes them worse.
He says the super powers figures were a step forward cause they had a special action feature.. then says heman was only 5 pts articulation implying that some how super power figures were superior in that way.. Nearly all the heman figures had a gimmick action feature .. the super powers figures cant really be consider articulate cause if you tried to articulate them you would break the action feature and the figure itself.
The82bstewart they actually had 6 because of the torso, SP had 7 because of knees.
These guys are stupid.
You overlooked Jurassic Park
DINO DAMAGE!
JP was a great Toy line :D
had little to do with the movie but the figures were really well made
No, Toy-Biz received the license in 1988 so toys based off the film could launch coincidentally with the film in 1989. In fact these figures were launched two months prior to the film. Every hard core 80's collector knows this. Why Kenner figures are more or less kitbashes of earlier Super Powers figures is due to a major rush to make Christmas of 1990 while Batman was still fresh in the minds of kids everywhere. Shortly after Kenner got the license back, they were saddled with the responsibility of Batman Returns merchandise, while tooling the 2nd wave of figures. Being it takes one full year to get merchandise from concept to shelves, there was no way that Kenner could tool new sculpts for every figure, and it would have been a waste of money to throw away the suddenly outdated product. Kenner's PEnguin was either do to not being able to get Danny's likeness, or not having materials related to his movie look, till it was too late to begin tooling, or because Kenner wouldn't release a figure that looked like that to kids. Kenner was put in an impossible situation and it was amazing they were able to get anything out related to the new film.
I believe im one of the only few that loved the kenner's 90's line up for terminator and aliens.
jonathan alvarez everyone does. It's that these guys are too harsh
There are more of us than you think. Infact the only vintage figures I collect are the Real Ghostbusters and the early 90's kenner movie lines. Aliens, Predator, T2, Jurassic park, Beetlejuice, The dark knight collection and Batman returns, I love them all. As a young movie fan seeing those movies meant so much to me and the toy lines are all I wanted to play with. Infact all those movies are still in my top 20 movies of all time. So owning the figures helps evoke wonderful memories for me.
That weird figure they brought up from Total Recall reminded me... I had a T2 Arnie figure but it looked like it was modelled from the Commando poster with T2 shades.
Some of these figures seemed brittle and broke easily from memory. The T-800 was the best of the lot, I think.
i loved and still love the kenner t2 toyline. they still look cool. in fact i just picked up the terminator meltdown figure from that line.
@@giantguy1321 i can see you are passionate about this too, as am i. i love the early 90s kenner toylines. real ghostbusters, batman, T2, jurassic park, i still collect them. they evoke wonderful memories for me too. i just got meltdown terminator and im probably going to get arctic batman soon.
I loved the aliens toys. You guys are being too harsh, looking at the toys from a grown up view/eyes. For a kid they were amazing.
It was also originally based on an animated series that didn't happen as opposed to the movie, so that at least explains the marine figures and oddball alien variants
The best figure was the Alien Queen.
All the other figures were trash.
It was such a letdown for me, because I really wanted good Aliens toys...
I guess I was already too old to appreciate play value... I wanted likeness.
Most of the 90s toysI bought ended up being damaged by my younger brother and his friends.
(I just remember that I had a lot of Kenner Jurassic Park Dinos back then! They weren't so bad...)
Oh yes. The Ghost Rider line was pretty shitty.
exactly, these figures were designed to play, not for display.
Manu Forster then you should have got the Tod McFarlane line then. He did a whole bunch of movie figurines. His line was called movie maniacs.
He did aliens from all the movies plus a queen and cpl hicks.
Also in his line he did Jaws, the thing leatherface, Jason forees from Friday the 13th, plus more.
They were amazingly detailed and movie accurate.
A lot of them were better than the tat that's sold at retail now for kids. Yeah, adult collector oriented figures such as Marvel Legends, Star Wars Black, NECA etc are better now but the action figures marketed for children are tiny and often lacking in detail and articulation. Just as bad if not more so than 90s figures. Robocop, Alien, Predator, Terminator, X-Men, Batman: TAS all had great toy lines for a while in the 90s. Playmates toys (TMNT, Skeleton Warriors, Toxic Crusaders) were damn good too for the time. Trendmasters made some really good quality toys too based on sci-fi movies of the time.
I don’t do this very often, but dam... 90’s tots were amazing man!!! Fuckin g2 transformers, beast wars, ninja turtles, X-men!!!! What the hell are you smoking....
This video is super suggestive, and there is a surprising bias from these two. I understand their point of view, but they are overlooking the obvious flaw in their argument... the thing that most collectors have trouble realizing... these are TOYS. They are made for kids. Period! I'm a toy collector myself, so I get it. However, all of these arguments about capturing likeness and points of articulation or paint apps... they don't matter to a nine year old who just wants to play with a cool toy. I can agree that it seems like the quality of some of these lines slipped as the nineties progressed, but for Kenner lines like Terminator, Aliens, and Jurassic Park... it wasn't a matter of "shitty" likenesses. I don't feel that they were going for film accuracy, instead all of those figures had a collectively similar artistic aesthetic. They were purposefully plain and simplistic. And... Batman: the Animated Series figures just being "okay"??? Are you serious? Those figures were gorgeous, as they captured Bruce Timm's art style very Accurately! In fact, those same likenesses are being re-released today in a more expensive collectors format. Action figures are art, and art can be subjective. Sure there were crappy figures, but as collectors we need to set our snobbery of points of articulation and photo realism aside from time to time and just enjoy these TOYS as toys.
Neca just released some badass tributes to the T2 Kenner line a few months back with same style packaging from 1991. They look legit.
Also, Power Rangers figs/toys were incredibly popular back in the day & were even brought back in the mid 2010s! I grew up in the Philippines, so we also had Dragon Ball Z action figures which were super popular at the time because the anime was big around '94, so we got all kinds of DBZ merch like posters, trading cards, figures, etc.
These types of toys are epic what's wrong with you
gary loughran yes i agree with you he is a jerk
I like them too
Ya fuck these guys. They don't know shit.
I’m sorry people like these but they are not epic....collector toys today are way better...in articulation and detail and quality. Mind what I said “COLLECTOR TOYS” not the everyday shit toys at your local store.
He is a tool
Hey guys! I really enjoyed this video! I was born in '88 so I grew up on all these 90s toys lol
I do love all the Alien and Predator toys from 90s Kenner. Im surprised you guys dont have more subs, but I really enjoyed this so SUBBED! Is this your guys store? If it is your store where are you guys located, I have been looking for old Alien toys for my collection.
Thank you! Our store is in Dallas, TX. We have some of the 90s Kenner Aliens vehicles and maybe a few carded figures left.
The 80s toys r more bcuz those kids grew up and collected again. Pretty soon the 90s kids will be buying up the toys they grew up with.
Im in the market for beast wars rn
90's toys were buff as hell. Power Rangers toys were fantastic.
There is major disconnect here. With Toys like this, you get articulation OR unique molds. While I still hold Super Powers up as the pinnacle of action figures, there was a LOT of mold reuse there and a lot of people were complaining in the 90's about the action features getting in the way of the Play. Heck, Riddler was just a repainted Green Lantern.
Whatever else can be said about Batman Forever Riddler... it was it's own toy during a time that kids were getting wise to repaints. It looked unique and it looked like the Riddler. The action features had moved toward the accessories, and the sculpts for the figures were more unique... however that cost articulation. The Legends of the Dark Knight figures were some of the best molds around (and the first and still best Tim Drake Robin) but they lost their knee joints in the process. Everything they did was a trade off in one direction or another. There's also a disconnect when comparing the new toys to the old ones. Those Alien toys and the Terminator toys... they were FUN!! Kids had a BLAST with them, even if they may or may not have had the perfect likeness down... which I often suspected was a 'rights issue'.
exactly, those terminator toys were a blast. i had the bio regenerator and everything. they were fun, had character, and you had to use some imagination.
Fun fact: The Aliens action figures are not based on the James Cameron movie. There was a pilot done on an animated series based on the movie, the series was going to be called Operation: Aliens. You see, a production company decided to try to do a animated show based of the R-Rated movie, along the same lines of how The Real Ghostbusters is based on the Ghostbusters movie. They had approached Kenner to work on the action figure line based on the cartoon show. All the aliens and Colonial Marines figures you see in the first wave of figures are based off the designs of what would have been the cartoon series.
However, Operation: Aliens the series didn't get picked up, and Kenner was so far along in making the figures, they decided to just release them with just the Aliens title and got permission from 20th Century Fox to do so. That's why they look like that. In fact, it wasn't until later on in the line they included a couple of the film characters that weren't originally going to be in the cartoon series (including Hicks, Vasquez and (I think) Hudson), and included a Queen Hive playset that had the Queen with the design From the film. They even had plans on making a Colonial Marine Dropship vehicle based on the film design, but it as cancelled.
sorry but I disagree with you, I grew up early 90s and they are by far the best.
Sure it does...its subjective
Agree. I think the packaging, the artwork, and the action features alone from the early 90s toys craps on the newer toys anyday of the week.
90s toys are the best
These toys probably don’t matter to you because you didn’t grow up with them. All the 90s kids who grew up and played with these toys probably don’t care about 80s toys. It’s all about nostalgia. The firehouse is one of the best play sets? Its literally a hunk of plastic. Now the Death Star is a good playset. The USS Flagg is a good playset. The firehouse is not that good. Three floors of nothing with a finicky fire pole.
i disagree. thumbs down
I really liked the toy biz super heroes/x-men lines and the Jurassic park lines were Awesome.
I thought the Aliens line was supposed to coincide with an animated Aliens TV series which got cancelled during production. But since Kenner had already invested so much money into the toys, they just went ahead with the line. Which is why the human characters in the line looked so different and why the line came out so long after Aliens.
The reason that the POTF2 X-Wing box shows Tatooine Luke in the cockpit is because the X-Wing Pilot Luke wouldn't be released until a year later; so Tatooine Luke was the only Luke Skywalker figure available at the time. It's the same reason that we see a Stormtrooper in the cockpit of the TIE Fighter on the back of the POTF2 TIE Fighter box.
Also, there seems to be a factual error around the 6:13 mark, where it sounds like the guy in front of the camera says that Kenner lost the Star Wars license during the production of the POTF2 line. That's not the case. Hasbro bought Kenner in 1991 and acquired the Star Wars license along with every other license that Kenner owned at the time. So, Kenner didn't lose the license to Hasbro in 1997. Since Hasbro owned Kenner it was more like a renewal of the existing license, not the license changing hands.
Might I also add, that by the time the 1990's arrived people were buying two of everything, because those old Star Wars toys were commanding big bucks on the secondary market, and same goes for Transformers and GI Joe and Masters of the Universe. Why is that? Nobody bought these to save. They were buying these up specifically to give to their children to open and play with. Only the occasional sealed example was saved, in case of quick replacement, or was left in the attic and forgotten. With these 90's toys, speculators were looking for the next Star Wars and bought these up in droves as investments. Since most of my generation doesn't care much for collecting as much as the previous one, there are less and less potential buyers out there looking to recreate their 90's childhoods, hence a large backlog of inventory for dealers.
Oh man, I can remember that Batman animated series toyline...
When I was 7 or 8 years old, I stole almost the entire toyline from a store. Went in, grabbed the box, simply left the shop, never got caught, even when I stole the Batmobile...
You could not be more wrong. The late 80's and 90's saw a huge rise in the lines and companies making figures. The quality might not have been the best from everyone, but it to me was a better time then today with 4 or 5 lines filling up TRU and Walmart
There is a thing called Opinion lol
Late 90s toys weren't impressive, but early 90s toys were great. My only complaint with the Terminator line is I wish they'd made more characters. It was too Arnold-heavy.
*The strange Terminator Characters were possibly going to be part of James Cameron's cancelled cartoon series for T2, but I also remember some of the strange ones like Cyber Grip was in a novel I believe.*
Did he seriously call Han in Carbonite POTF as a "masterpiece"? That figure has one of the worst head sculpts ever made.
My hometown is Cincinnati, and that was where Kenner made the first Star Wars toys. You forgot to mention how they moved all the toy companies to China. The best toys were made in the USA. Unfortunately we sold out to China, and now we mostly get crap toys. Even today the toys can't even be compared to the 80's toys.
I loved my Turtles, New Adventures He-Man, Crash Dummies, Captain Planet, Batman, WWF, Jurassic Park, Action Man and even Hook movie figures in the '90s, but nothing could beat my original He-Man, Ghostbusters and MASK to be honest. I still have everything.
batman forever vehicles and batcave are some of the best toys ever
Spawn toys is 1994 and a real game changer 😎they kicked ass
Solomon Allen Spawn figures were tip top. Also Wildcats was damn good.
Solomon Allen now they are definitely the best in detail but the worst for articulation, I want a fuckin spawn figure that has articulation like figures now, not some things move and some things are just molded in one position.
Ado Adolescent yes I agree with you very limited to no articulation is horrible in today's market. 👍
Ado Adolescent Their is one that has marvel legends articulation. Look up “ 10th anniversary Spawn figure” it was made back in 2002 by Mcfarlane and it’s dope asf.
Noah 23 thanks man, I'll check it out, haha that is just the ONE thing I wish Todd would do a little more often
Hasbro products (Transformers, GI Joe, My Little Pony) were certainly good, reliable toys in the 90s. The one weakness was any gold sparkle in the plastic became very brittle by the mid 00's. 1990s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were extremely well made and rugged and it isn't unusual to find them in good shape even today.
If these toys from the 1990s did suck, then does that mean anyone who grew up with them should not be allowed to like them anymore?? ;P
90's toys rule I grew up in the late 70's .if u put them down then u are not a real toy dealers.u guys are just wannabe toy collectors
I really do think that people who shit on specific toylines that others actually love and collect are the worst kind of toy collectors; they want the whole thing to be some kind of an elitist club that they and their circlejerk alone are a part of.
Tetsuron that's with everything bro...it really is annoying listening to toy snobs.
I may agree that the 90's were plagued by muscle-bound characters and villains being mistreated by getting so limited amount of toy release in comparison to the heroes, but in all fairness, the 90's action figures were the most ambitious in integrating both classic toy gimmicks while keeping the toy working as a standard action figure with articulations. The Transformers was dying both as a TV franchise and a toyline, until they got underratedly revived in the Beast Era.
mralf people can have opinions, that may be your thing, but I like figures with more detail and articulation than what you got in the 90's, they were nice for the time, but I don't like how my dioramas look with toony looking figures that have 4 position options.
Homie Captain Fordo I think you just have a perverted mind, you like kids?
You guys actually make women grow their hymens back...
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Being born just after the end of the 80s I actually feel quite lucky. Back then we got kids' toys for playing with and likeness wasn't a huge deal and also making them readily avaliable meant they were affordable for us. Yet now, as I've grown, figures are now more about likeness, being displayed and have also seen more restricted releases which has upped the prices, which, as an adult I can afford. It's like figures have grown up with me in more ways than one. So I see nothing wrong with the old and the new.
It makes finding figures for kids to play with hard too. And the likeness has gotten to the point of being creepy. I don't really want to recognize the actors' faces as much as a caricature of the character. Our kids are young enough for the "Disney" phase so I don't want some bruised, scarred thing.
I think they just trash on 90s toys because they're not worth anything and they only see toys as investment.
I think McFarland Toys/Todd Toys really changed the collectors market back in the mid-90s.
Some of the spawn toys are literal works of art.
there you have it, we found the real comic book guy from the Simpsons
It is a damned shame that they never made a standard all black T-800 toy in the old days. I have no idea how that ball got dropped.
Yes let's have a super limited release on toys so only dealers can get them so they can charge three times retail because that's the only way to make money by screwing collectors over lol
Aren't toys for kids to play with? These videos are neat for nostalgia purposes but sometimes I think toy collectors ruin things for kids. Make enough so all the kids who want them can get them. Or just collect for the fun of it for your own display purposes. Not to get money out of it. Of course, discontinued toys will get harder and harder to find but some current lines seem to get gobbled up by collectors right away. My spouse and I did hold on to some of our 80s and 90s toys but our kids play with them.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the toys for 'Jurassic Park', because we all remember that moment in the movie when Jeff Goldblum shot missles at the dinosaurs.
The 90’s is when Bandai Of America made quality products
The kicker with the Aliens Toys is that there was originally supposed to be a Saturday Morning Cartoon of Aliens called "Operation: Aliens" but the pilot fell through because of the lackluster performance of Alien 3. Kenner already spent the money for the license of Aliens and sell the toys anyways and were very successful. Hence is why the characters look so different from the films. Here is a link for a video explaining it all. Short and sweet. ua-cam.com/video/BqHZBcQ17uc/v-deo.html
As a kid in the 90's i was adore of Kenner's Batman toy line. Especially big beefed up figures such as Legends of the Dark Knight (1997)
I was around in the 80's and the 90's toys were an ascension, not a decline. Everything that's good now in detail, likeness and articulation sprang from the 90's on. The only thing bad about 90's toys were the culture surrounding it, particularly the speculators.
Why aren't more people talking about the awesomeness that was Toy Biz?
I had so many of those Animated Series figures as a kid.
I had a couple of Exosquad mechs and the quality of those were incredible... Wish I still had them now. In the early 90's I was into GI JOE, Ghostbusters, and a little Lego. Lego went to crap around the late 90's and by 1993 I found my true love: Star Trek: TNG. I have the Playmates Bridge, engineering, transporter etc. I love that stuff and I wish I had the space to properly display it. :(
I got that Batwing for Christmas when I was little! Santa Claus wrote a note apologizing for not giving me a Batmobile like I asked for...
Sadly like the dude said they had all those licenses in their hands and in the process trying to evolve they somehow manage to hit that brick wall of failure! The bad and the good thing however after some companies like kenner that bought from hasbro is the fact that can re release once more classic line style toys.Like they did with those ghostbusters they made once more for us,but with harsher price tag as well to pay for the nostalgia we want to buy again!
At least in the 90s you got what you paid for. Action figures back then were around $5.00 each. The cards were much larger, and a lot more effort went into the cards and card backs. Each character had a bio and stats along with unique artwork that was mostly hand drawn. Look at the Transformers Generation 2 line. Great packaging.
Nowadays, action figures are like 8 bucks, with streamlined cards that are tiny and they all look the same across the whole line. Little in the way of accesories and lazy paint jobs as well...
My mum bought me all these. We started with the animated series and Batman Forever toys then worked our way back.
There were great toy lines in the 90's. Beast Wars for example. Although Beast Wars were mid to late 90's and they were talking mostly of early 90's/ late 80's figures.
There's a lot of biased proselytizing disguised as constructive criticism going on in this video.
The 90s Alien line was legitimately great.
The only blemish on them were the human figures, which suffered from generic designs, but the rest of the line was well done and above the standard of the time; you had different sized Aliens within the scale, detailed sculpts, multilayered paint applications with different finishes, action features that didn't impede the poseability of the toy, and a depth and breadth of Xenomorphs that really gave the line longevity - this is further proven by Kenner branching into the Predator franchise and crossing the lines over.
The KENNER "Aliens" line was such a letdown... I bought them anyway, because I wanted Aliens toys... Same with the Star Wars re-release figures... WTF!? But we were SO starving for Star Wars toys... So we bought them anyway... And they are worthless now. :/
90's toys we're the best! I grew up in the 90's playing with most of these and had a blast. My favorite toys growing up were Batman The Animated Series, Power Ranger, X-Men and Jurassic Park toys.
The thing about 90s toys is that u have to go outside the box and talk about a little bit more than the same old sucky kenner toys everybody brings up when they talk about 90s and go to ninja turtles, street sharks, mighty max. MIMP, primal rage and so much other stuff 90s had to offer, including japanese toys. Nobody talks about those.
MMPR, as well.
I feel like the emphasis on the title is "Kinda"
where is your shop located love the 80s toys
I'm not a toy expert but I did first hand notice Jurassic park toys nowadays really suck compared to the ones that came out when I was a kid in the 90's
The turtle toyline went nuts with how many turtle variants there were,especially to the end with mecha and super hero variants
That's what happens when you have a toy line based on a show with limited characters. My kids went through a "Paw Patrol" phase and there are 5 main characters. There are so many different versions now: space pups; jungle pups, super hero pups, pups with jet packs, etc. The show even created two new characters who are barely on but just enough to give them their own figures and trucks. I wasn't about to fall for that scam. And those toys are chintzy as all get out. Only worth about half of what they cost. I know people here are focusing on action figures of the hero variety but quality is a plague across the board and collectors can ruin anything (ie. My Little Pony). We have a couple of the newer figures but our kids seem to prefer our old 80s and 90s ones.
Batman the Animated Series had awesome toys, they had a new style that defined an Era that made it through the 2000's.
We had some cool stuff back in the 90s; I even found a '95 Hexadecimal (Reboot action figure) at Winners in 2016 by some grace of miracle. They did have some ridiculous color variants though, like my yellow "Rocketfire" Batman from the mid 90s Kenner line.
The Reboot figures were very good but the accessories were not. I had a Bob figure that came with a hoverboard and it broke shortly after I took it out of the packaging.
I loved those terminator and aliens figures.
Your parents basement looks awesome!
That’s what your mom said!
I guess with the 90s, they were making significant advances in sculpting and tooling, and went a little too far in providing posed detail and action features etc. at the expense of basic playability.
You're out of your tree, those Aliens toys ruled -- had all of them. It was messed up considering I saw Aliens AFTER the cartoon line, and was REALLY confused when Apone was slaughtered.
And I bought that battle damaged Terminator figure, and I loved it -- I'd make the chest pop off in battles with one of the Incredible Crash Dummy figures.
The Aliens toy line by Kenner was cool. I had a couple of those. They were actually made to go along with an Aliens cartoon series that was never produced.
I do agree that the later products are a degradation in quality but due more to bad decisions, not simply to laziness
Where is this store?
Yknow, every generation has crappy toys but its the Really good ones we enjoy! 90s had some great toys and are still very collectable .
I had Bucky O'Hare and his mate the 4 armed duck in the orange jump suit with the eye patch
"Super Powers were so great even though they had tacky made-up filler characters like Golden Pharaoh and Tyr but the Terminator 2 line sucked because it had tacky made-up filler characters like Cyber-Grip Villain"
the keaton batman toys were great. i think they went with the old penguin figure because it just fits and it looks good. in fact in the movie batman returns they actually use that likeness for posters of penguin running for mayor.
The moment where he looked at a kid's $5 3-3/4" Terminator toy with a solid likeness and cool gimmick and called it "absolute trash" is when he lost all his credentials.
I didn't know there were so many badasses who collected toys and pretended to be hard mofos!!
the only people who hate 90s toys are people who were born in the 70s and 80s and or love those old toys. 90s toys are awesome
I always thought the Toy Biz version was the Michael Keaton. And I thought the 90's Kenner one looked more like the Super Powers head.
nowadays they have the realism and articulation but there was something about having character that the 90s toys had that cant be duplicated by the advancements of new toys.
Thing I find about newer toys is they break easier, i.e. New transformers etc. The 80's toys were clunky but they last even today.
I really liked those Alien figures.
I love how every time they show a new toy that was 90's, they almost always have to go "Yeah that was kinda cool" I mean yes you had duds like the Terminator line and much of the later Batman film licenses but damn, Mcfarlane made huge strides in sculpting and new ways of thinking about articulation and that push really is what made Toy Biz to create the Marvel Legends line in 2002. If it wasn't for the 90's toys we wouldn't have all the engineering we have new. Beast wars was great, the Aliens line was great as was the Predator line. Ninja Turtles, Exo Squad, Bucky O'Hare, there was some GREAT toys in the 90's and I grew up in the 80's. I'm 40 and I can tell you that there were crap toys in the 80's just as much in the 90's.
“There was nothing like this before the ‘super powers’ line”...... just take a look at the Real Ghostbusters figures from the mid to late 80’s, particularly the Fright Features and Monster lines. Those figures were awesome.
I donno, I was a 90s kid and I friggin LOVED those aliens toys. And I think they did pretty well on the inventiveness front. I mean, the different animal = different alien idea kinda came from those toys and then ended up in the movies.
2 guys that never had sex with a woman right here in this video
The Trendmasters Godzilla Figures Were Good, The Jurassic Park Line Was Good.
WWF (now WWE) Hasbro action figures throughout the 90’s had great detail. Face sculptures and attires.
Speaking of playmates what do you think of the Dick Tracy line?
I definitely had that T-1000 at 7:17
Kenner was bought by Hasbro but Hasbro still used the Kenner brand name in the 90s with starwars and certain things.
Two of the worst 90s toy lines were 'hook' as in the Robin Williams film just all types of ridiculousness, and robocop I can't talk about that to much or I get sick the one good toy in the whole line was the chopper bike only because it was good for gi Joe's..