@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimalit is just like .."weak"..I have considered it being just myself (Gen x etc) being jaded, etc. But I think i would feel the same way..
@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimal Yep, these days we only get the so-called "soft" R-rated movies that only get that rating from too many bullets being fired and two instances of the F-word. "Hard" R-ratings that actually earn it are as rare as diamonds in unicorn poop.
@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimalI honestly don’t mind the sex being cut out in place of better gore or crazier situations, if I feel like going the other way I’ll pull out the pornos for family movie night.
I hated the robocop motorcycle the figure had. He NEVER fit on that damn thing the right way. No matter how you position him, after rolling it a little bit he will always fall off. I never understood how the company got that into production the way it was designed.
Believe it or not, Temple of Doom was PG, not PG-13. It was one of the reasons the rating was created, but the rating itself wasn’t rolled out until later that year with Red Dawn.
@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimal Between Temple of Doom and Poltergeist (which is also rated PG), Spielberg was largely responsible for introducing the need for some sort of rating “between PG and R”.
That is right! This, Gremlins, Jaws and Poltergeist all lead to the creation of PG-13. One person had been involved in all of them: Steven Spielberg, who suggested several times to the MPAA to bridge the void between R and PG between 1975 and 1984. The notion was denied until the complaints intensified during Gremlins and Indy Temple of Doom. @@DestroIsMySpiritAnimal
A friend in 5th grade saw "Alien"- his mom took him. He told us about it the next day. We were all envious! Then he got the toy for Christmas, and brought it to school. It was so cool.
I was 8 when Alien came out. I begged my Dad to take me to see it daily for something like 2.5 weeks. Film gave me nightmares for almost a month straight. It was TOTALLY WORTH IT!
I went to a Catholic school and we didn’t have much money so the nun’s got together and bought me and my brother and sister some toys for Christmas. I don’t remember what my brother and sister got, but I got the Alien action figure. Till this day, I’m still surprised …nuns! I also remember that the head of the alien doll glowed in the dark after you put it up to the light for a minute.
Nuns were normal people too once.....they had little brothers and sisters too. Thanks for the story,I grew up in Catholic family and it breaks my heart that all the good done by members of the church is overshadowed by the arch diocese making poor decisions. For those of you that dont know,Nuns take a vow of poverty and make a pittance not a salary.Those women make almost nothing and took what they had to help out students in their school to put a smile on their faces.Its kind of a big deal even though they are "expected" to do nice things for people.Sounds like they really liked your family
They may have had access to a lot composed of different toys including the Alien one. They probably didn't consciously chose the Alien in a toy aisle... but who knows lol
Parents still don't give a shit about the content their kids are consuming. In fact, I would argue that parent irresponsibility has gotten worse nowadays than it was back in the day. I'm from gen X, trust me I know what I'm talking about. In the 1980s parents at least made an effort to keep an eye on their kids. Nowadays they put a smart phone in their kids hands and forget about them.
The messed-up thing about Rambo is that the original movie was about a Vietnam war veteran with complex PTSD being harassed by cops. It wasn't even about nationalistic, wish fulfillment war glorification with the romance of infinite ammo. Even as a kid, I thought the Rambo franchise felt gross, but I didn't know why until I finally saw the first movie.
3:18 Those are lungs, not “ball sacks.” That’s why they rhythmically inflate and deflate. The face hugger is keeping its victim alive while egg implantation occurs. They even explain this in the movie and it’s discussed during nearly every extra of every film. This isn’t a secret.
Still looks like a big ol' scrote sack though. Given the location of the proboscis that is deepthroating the victim and Geiger's penchant for uncomfortable sexualized imagery, he most definitely designed the lungs to look like a scrotum on purpose regardless of the actual function of the organ.
Maybe so, but I still think they were designed to look like testes. If you look at Giger’s more obscure works sometime, you’ll see that imagery of the sort was actually one of his trademarks.
Intelligence is knowing that the organs that inflate and deflate are lungs. Wisdom is knowing that the thing with two balls resting on a victim's chin while it's reproductive organ is shoved down their throat doesn't look that way by accident.
its kinda funny how things nowadays are. like, my grandma used to give $15-20 every weekend just so i could buy Heavy Metal magazines. she knew it was violent and contained graphic "situations" but it was art or so she said it was lol. thanks to her, i have a mean collection of original mags and books and a severe drawing habit too boot. love your videos btw, keep up the good work.
Accident because he says it jokingly and accidentally forgot to say it normally. I know my bf would have made the same mistake lmfao. A lot of people say that jokingly. That word has been said so much in the media and music and movies it's losing all the power it ever had. They should stop saying it 24/7 and we might believe they actually find it offensive. For an example I'm gay and I say f@&got left and right when yelling at the TV playing games. I've reflected to other people that I don't like as that and other choice gay slurs. As long as I'm not being called it by someone who's genuinely trying to be hateful, then i'm not offended by it. I can assure they aren't offended by it the way they say it all day everyday in everything.
It still blows my mind that my aunt knew and allowed my cousins, ages 6 and 4 at the time, to watch Rated R action flicks, but not Ren & Stimpy. If they saw that show at my house, because my parents were okay with it, they got their butts beat. For the record, my parents did ban MTV though and never lifted it, so I snuck my TRL and Celebrity Deathmatch as I got older.
Not too long ago there was a Walmart exclusive line of predator figures. Not neca or anything, just regular action figures right along side the motu and wwe section. I mean predator isn't the worst choice for a kids toyline but it's cool to see that not everything's getting sanitized nowadays
My parents let me watch Predator but not Alien as a child. As an adult now I don't see that much of a difference but it never stopped me from really loving and eventually growing up on those 2 franchises. You could only imagine how excited I was when they brought the franchises together, granted the movies that were of both are not as good as the other ones it still has the lore! I probably watch the first Alien movie and the first 2 Predator movies 2 or 3 times a month.
@@RUGERJONESprobably had something to do with Predator’s imagery not being sexual as well as simply violent like Alien’s was. And the former is also my favorite film btw.
@@eeyorehaferbock7870 yes I always wondered if that was purposely done or it was just Ridley Scott's style, you do not notice it as much in the alien films he didn't produce. However in Romulus the scene when Bjorn is electrifying the xenomorph sack, wow is all I have to say!! Lmao, I did watch a documentary that said they did that on purpose, everything was supposed to resemble a certain human organ. Lol
There is also REMCO's Conan the Barbarian toys, based on the R rated 1982 movie. This later degraded into Conan the Adventurer in the 90's of course....
I've always wanted to see a grim-dark sequel to 'Indian in the Cupboard' where the kid loads it up with Baron Vladimir, the Xenomorphs and everything from the Spawn line-up.
There was also a roughly 5" Commando figure that came with actual cloth pants around 85-86. I saw them once at a Target, and they were gone the next time I went there. Another thing I remember was people sticking action figures on their car antennas. The figures that I saw were a Tron figure and a Baron Harkonnen figure.
I remember reading Hustler magazine (I didn't just watch R rated movies as a kid) and for some reason they loved the Alien toys. They worked them into as many jokes as they could.
@klldzr5749 A lot of people don't. I think it fell out of usage because that's obviously what everyone thinks of when they hear it. I guess one of the bonuses of having older parents is picking up on stuff like that.
Imagine if Kenner had done _Total Recall_ figures. They could have reused at least two or three of the Ghostbusters Fright Features mechanisms. "Press the switch to subject Ahnie to the Martian atmosphere."
I watched all these movies that you’re talking about at a very young age. My mother loves horror, movies, sci-fi horror, and I turned out just fine and I like horror movies. The gruesome toys I love them.
I was reading Heavy Metal Magazine in 6th grade, also when the movie premiered on HBO, all the kids went to a single apartment and the parents just let us watch, as it was "Just a Cartoon", not really action figure related but ...
Oh man. I remember that Max Fx Freddy. I saw it on the store shelf and was like "wtf?" Why make a figure of a regular person who puts on a Freddy mask?
One of the things that always annoyed me when I was younger, was when they put out action figures based on a film, but then gave them ridiculous weapons and vehicles that not only never appeared in the movies, but which those characters would never want to use. In the 90s, maybe early 2000s, I was in a store and I saw that there was a new line of figures based on the classic Battlestar Galactica. At first I thought I'd get one of the Cylons, but then I saw that they'd all been force-fed steroids. Their bodies were at least 50% bigger than their legs, and they all had tiny waists. Needless to say I didn't buy any of them.
Aren’t those lungs on the face hugger? They seem to be inflating and deflating as if it’s breathing. Thats what I always thought anyway. Very cool stuff anyway, and awesome pic with the alien!
Most kids were smoking cigarettes by age 11 back then, they saw nakedness even before that. Kids these days are regularly watching triple x in HD by the time they get their first armpit hair. Temple of Doom was nothing. We were already watching The Shining and the Amityville Horror in the single digits of age
Yeah it's pretty crazy how kids these days are both exposed to so much so quickly and overly sheltered....... None of these kids would have made it back in the 80s
@jacobishii6121 I'm not sure if I'd make it growing up in the world they are living in today? There was definitely a lot more hiding in the shadows back then.
Funny you should mention that. The asteroid that destroyed Buenos Aires came from the direction of the bug home world's and the human media tells you the bugs sent it at Earth. But they never actually show how the bugs shot it at us. For all you know, it's just some random asteroid that happened to land on Buenos Aires and it just happened to come from the direction of the bug home worlds and the bugs had no involvement in sending it. Of course the bugs make an easy scapegoat. And that's the point of the movie that you missed.
Yeah, this guy doesn't get Starship Troopers. The film is a satire of _militarism,_ not fascism. And the main reason why characters wear izaN inspired outfits is as a nod to the Wehrmacht, who were one of history's most infamous fighting forces. The UEF is a functional working class civilisation, but because in that universe, democracy had failed and given away to a dark age, they built their civilisation around military service, with the end results guaranteeing people becoming full-on civilians once they've wrapped up their service. They're not villains, they're just violent morons. The film is first and foremost, a spoof of military recruitment films with the message of how we're as violent, gung-ho and animalistic as any primitive alien life. Saying that the UEF are bad guys out to colonise a planet with the bugs fighting back thoroughly misses the point. Of course, the book is actually pro-military Sci-Fi, so the film doubles as a spoof of the original source, too. Some people just don't get Starship Troopers the film, ya know?
As far as gi joe goes a drug dealer isn't that odd considering the fact that cobra are terrorists and pimp destro was just a preview of the exploded crayon boxes that were 90's joes. Starship troopers was really a shoe in for toys with soldiers and monster bugs if you just ignore the whole movie also that brain bug looks like a knob.
This is a great topic, so many crazy R-rated movies were sold to us kids back in the late 70s thru like 91. Another good topic would be the same but for video games, that might be even more inappropriate. They made a goddamn side scrolling shooter based on Platoon for the NES!?! Imagine showing Platoon to a 10 year old?
There was also a Friday the 13th NES game I was allowed to own. I convinced my mom it was okay to watch the movies because the kid from the Goonies is in one of them and that is all she needed to hear.
You bringing up the Starship Troopers toys unlocked a core memory of me watching the film at all too young an age and in hindsight realizing the Buenos Aires asteroid attack was probably a false flag to be used as an excuse to colonise the bug's homeworld and strip it for resources.
We literally see the rock heading to earth, it takes out the coms on the ship the female lead is on...did you even watch the movie or just a bread tuber tell you about it?
@@thebrownwolf Don't take your unhappy life out on me, poop wolf. Now, if the humans had the ability to reach Klendathu then they surely have the capability to knock an asteroid onto a collision course with Earth to get the population on-side with the invasion of Klendathu for it's resources. You never see who sends the rock. You remember seeing the movie, right? You wouldn't have just accused me of what you yourself are guilty of, would you?
@@thebrownwolfSo the asteroid happens to be coming from the direction of bug territory. The film leaves it ambiguous how the bugs launched the asteroid or if they even did it. For all you know it's a random asteroid that just happened to come from that direction. The only thing telling us the bugs launched it at us is their state sponsored media which as you know from the film, isn't very reliable. It's very likely that the Earth federation invaded Klendathu for erroneous reasons.
The movie has little resemblance to the novel. The bug were a technologically advanced species at least on par with humans. This included spacecraft, lasers and such, etc. The war wasn't about trying to colonize a planet with big bugs on it, but a regular war between two starfaring species (more than two if you count the other species). The strike on Bueanos Ares came after many smaller conflicts with the bugs. That strike is what kicked off the larger war the novel was set in.
Honestly it seemed obvious to me that it was just an asteroid and the comms ship fooling around bumped it and altered its trajectory causing it to hit Buenos Aires and the Federation spun it as a bug attack to incite support for the war.
I was 10 in Metro Detroit when RoboCop came out. We all had the toys and played RoboCop all the time. He's a hero to us to this day. Love your videos man.
This is a great list! The Alien figure is such a weird thing to exist 😂A neighbor had it as kids, and we used to use ROM to fight him as they were close in size.
ED 260 was indeed made for the cartoon. According to the Robocop wiki, it was an upgraded version of the 209. There was also a 260a variant that had treads in the legs, jump jets and a rocket arm attack.
Pg-13 was being considered because of movies like The Temple of Doom, but it was the Gremlins movie, specifically the microwave scene, that made it happen.
tbh the naked arnold is probably the least weird part of the toy when the entire selling point was that you could peel off his flesh to reveal the endoskeleton...
You thinking that Starship Troopers translates to not a good idea for action figures, translates to you not being qualified to determine what action figures should've and shouldn't have gotten made.
Just found your channel. Very interesting! And as a woman who is now 52 I'm somewhat of a collector. The set I wish to god I still had were Pegasus Perseus from the original Clash of the Titans. Somewhere along the way over the years I lost them in a move or something. I have others from random films I loved but those are the ones I truly wish I still had.
I remember a Robocop toy I got as a kid where you had to operate on Robocop with a probe on his circuit board; if you mess up it makes this traumatizingly loud noise of an icu heart monitor flatlining. I still have it somewhere. Edit: Robocop Alpha Commando Cyberlab is what it was called
Blast from the past, I had almost of these as kid, I had nearly complete starship troopers line even micro figure. But then friend borrowed almost all of it and we stopped talking week later.
Those Galoob micro figures are the same scale as the Star Wars and various military toy sets, so it was entirely possible to have the Mobile Infantry figures get backup from Darth Vader and Imperial Stormtroopers lol.
I remember in the end of Starship troopers when the brain bug is captured they literally shoved some metal tube into the Bagina mouth and they even censored it.
A video game known as Splatterhouse was never meant to be played in the USA, but it still got into the states. That game was definitely not meant for kids, and then they made Splatterhouse action figures...
I should maybe point out how all of the Imperial from Star Wars were dressed as Nazis and no one ever said anything about it. Those grey and black Imperial officers were based on SS officers. Peter Cushing even joked about it in the behind the scenes reels.
I'm disappointed that you missed the Predator action figures from the 90's. There's more, too. Both Resident Evil and Spawn action figures were targeting a young audience, although Spawn eventually pivoted to adult collectors by the early 2000's.
I don't think starship troopers was really THAT weird. It had a cartoon series which was very different and the movie caters to the Warhammer 40k audience, I know that every time I've ever watched it I end up going on a imperial guard/cadian tangent before realising that I really, really hate painting hordes of infantry.
Before starting this video, I had most of the "Alien" toys. Fun Fact: In Star Trek: Generations (the movie) The kids were playing with Aliens toys near the Christmas tree in Picards nexus dream.
I remember showing off the movies that I watched to my brother and showing him We're Back! A Dinosaurs story. So we were watching it and about a minute before it happened, I suddenly remembered the CIRCUS OF FEAR. He got through most of it... Until the main antagonist gets silently eaten by a murder of crows. Needless to say .. he had nightmares after that one lol
Literally had everything you mentioned in this video. I was raised by my grandparents and my grandmother would hit up yards sales and that’s how I got most of my toys and my friends was like why do you have an action figure of Rambo.
My parents made a couple of rules for me for R rated films when i was a kid 1: It had to be considered a "classic" 2: one or both parent(s) had to watch it with me
18:08 the Imperium of Man does not recognize the sovereignty or rights to existence of extraterrestrial biology. By Divine Right, the Stars are Ours. Terran Pride: Worlds Wide.
I remember that Terminator toy. Me and my brothers tossed one on top of our roof as a gag and my dad didnt find the melted figure until 2 years after the fact.
They always like to mix children with stuff that aren't meant for kids. Just notice how in Hollywood, cartoone and even some animes you can evil related to kids(like demons), evil kids, kids with guns, psycopath kids, etc. And even to this day, they sell The Joker's action figures. The Joker is a psycopath and a r*pist. And that version of MAD show made for kids is full of refernces about movies that aren't meant for kids.
Dude, you always make my day when u put out a video. Top tier content all the time. I'm sick in bed with Rona, high on NyQuil, and gotdamn, this shit just made me leave Open Bar.
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This sort of phenomenon has proven 2 things:
- Kids also like scary violent movies
- Adults also like action figures
Indeed. They make R-rated toys nowadays, but they RARELY make R-rated movies any longer.
Good point. Even when they do, they have zero sex. It's lame
@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimalit is just like .."weak"..I have considered it being just myself (Gen x etc) being jaded, etc. But I think i would feel the same way..
@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimal Yep, these days we only get the so-called "soft" R-rated movies that only get that rating from too many bullets being fired and two instances of the F-word. "Hard" R-ratings that actually earn it are as rare as diamonds in unicorn poop.
Didn't a new R rated Alien movie just come out?
@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimalI honestly don’t mind the sex being cut out in place of better gore or crazier situations, if I feel like going the other way I’ll pull out the pornos for family movie night.
the first robocop cartoon actually did a decent job of having the satire of the movie.
Oh interesting. I don't remember that. Maybe I should rewatch?
I hated the robocop motorcycle the figure had. He NEVER fit on that damn thing the right way. No matter how you position him, after rolling it a little bit he will always fall off. I never understood how the company got that into production the way it was designed.
Totally, plus I remember there was a life action series that captured it well, too. My parents hated that.
Believe it or not, Temple of Doom was PG, not PG-13. It was one of the reasons the rating was created, but the rating itself wasn’t rolled out until later that year with Red Dawn.
oh damn, I alwasy thought it was the first, but no,. I guess its the thing that triggered PG 13?
@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimal Between Temple of Doom and Poltergeist (which is also rated PG), Spielberg was largely responsible for introducing the need for some sort of rating “between PG and R”.
@BrianGeers don't forget about Gremlins.
I think it was grimelins that pg 13 was created
That is right! This, Gremlins, Jaws and Poltergeist all lead to the creation of PG-13. One person had been involved in all of them: Steven Spielberg, who suggested several times to the MPAA to bridge the void between R and PG between 1975 and 1984. The notion was denied until the complaints intensified during Gremlins and Indy Temple of Doom. @@DestroIsMySpiritAnimal
Alien: Romulus should have ended with the Xenomorph looking right at the camera, breaking the fourth wall and saying "Give up- Alien can't be beat!"
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A friend in 5th grade saw "Alien"- his mom took him. He told us about it the next day. We were all envious! Then he got the toy for Christmas, and brought it to school. It was so cool.
I was 8 when Alien came out. I begged my Dad to take me to see it daily for something like 2.5 weeks. Film gave me nightmares for almost a month straight. It was TOTALLY WORTH IT!
@@TheBubbaclawgod damn unc
@@TheBubbaclaw "2.5 weeks"... "almost a month"... You sir are very specific, timewise.
@@simonpaquet7161 Should I have said "Two and a half weeks" instead? *Shrugs*
I went to a Catholic school and we didn’t have much money so the nun’s got together and bought me and my brother and sister some toys for Christmas. I don’t remember what my brother and sister got, but I got the Alien action figure. Till this day, I’m still surprised …nuns! I also remember that the head of the alien doll glowed in the dark after you put it up to the light for a minute.
That is too sweet. Shotout to those nuns for getting you alien paraphernalia! Haha
That's wholesome!
Nuns were normal people too once.....they had little brothers and sisters too.
Thanks for the story,I grew up in Catholic family and it breaks my heart that all the good done by members of the church is overshadowed by the arch diocese making poor decisions.
For those of you that dont know,Nuns take a vow of poverty and make a pittance not a salary.Those women make almost nothing and took what they had to help out students in their school to put a smile on their faces.Its kind of a big deal even though they are "expected" to do nice things for people.Sounds like they really liked your family
Only thing nuns ever gave me was an ass whooping 😢
They may have had access to a lot composed of different toys including the Alien one. They probably didn't consciously chose the Alien in a toy aisle... but who knows lol
Parents still don't give a shit about the content their kids are consuming. In fact, I would argue that parent irresponsibility has gotten worse nowadays than it was back in the day. I'm from gen X, trust me I know what I'm talking about. In the 1980s parents at least made an effort to keep an eye on their kids. Nowadays they put a smart phone in their kids hands and forget about them.
Please, back then all they did was plop us in front of the television, or usher us outdoors out of sight, out of mind.
The messed-up thing about Rambo is that the original movie was about a Vietnam war veteran with complex PTSD being harassed by cops.
It wasn't even about nationalistic, wish fulfillment war glorification with the romance of infinite ammo. Even as a kid, I thought the Rambo franchise felt gross, but I didn't know why until I finally saw the first movie.
3:18 Those are lungs, not “ball sacks.” That’s why they rhythmically inflate and deflate. The face hugger is keeping its victim alive while egg implantation occurs. They even explain this in the movie and it’s discussed during nearly every extra of every film. This isn’t a secret.
Thát s what is SAID.. but what do you SEE?!!!
Still looks like a big ol' scrote sack though. Given the location of the proboscis that is deepthroating the victim and Geiger's penchant for uncomfortable sexualized imagery, he most definitely designed the lungs to look like a scrotum on purpose regardless of the actual function of the organ.
Maybe so, but I still think they were designed to look like testes. If you look at Giger’s more obscure works sometime, you’ll see that imagery of the sort was actually one of his trademarks.
The underside of them definitely does look like female genitalia though (this is intentional, due to Giger’s designs)
Intelligence is knowing that the organs that inflate and deflate are lungs. Wisdom is knowing that the thing with two balls resting on a victim's chin while it's reproductive organ is shoved down their throat doesn't look that way by accident.
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As an 80s kid, I love the fact we all grew up watching R rated films
its kinda funny how things nowadays are.
like, my grandma used to give $15-20 every weekend just so i could buy Heavy Metal magazines. she knew it was violent and contained graphic "situations" but it was art or so she said it was lol.
thanks to her, i have a mean collection of original mags and books and a severe drawing habit too boot.
love your videos btw, keep up the good work.
I'll never cancel you, Destro Is My Spirit Animal. Everyone makes mistakes!
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And it's Profit Director Destro, the greatest of all Destros
Saying Arnold’s name is definitely a slippery slope
@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimalyeah it was an accident
Accident because he says it jokingly and accidentally forgot to say it normally. I know my bf would have made the same mistake lmfao. A lot of people say that jokingly. That word has been said so much in the media and music and movies it's losing all the power it ever had. They should stop saying it 24/7 and we might believe they actually find it offensive. For an example I'm gay and I say f@&got left and right when yelling at the TV playing games. I've reflected to other people that I don't like as that and other choice gay slurs. As long as I'm not being called it by someone who's genuinely trying to be hateful, then i'm not offended by it. I can assure they aren't offended by it the way they say it all day everyday in everything.
The beep on Arnold's name LMAO
I don't know if this was a gag or not but it got a good laugh out of me. Thanks. Great video btw
The youtube AI strikes Arnold's last name as the Nword so people bleep it out
Speaking of Robocop and created movie ratings. The original cut of Robocop was so violent and gory it caused the NC-17 rating.
I'll never forget working for Toys R Us online at the time and getting calls over selling Breaking Bad figures lol
It still blows my mind that my aunt knew and allowed my cousins, ages 6 and 4 at the time, to watch Rated R action flicks, but not Ren & Stimpy. If they saw that show at my house, because my parents were okay with it, they got their butts beat. For the record, my parents did ban MTV though and never lifted it, so I snuck my TRL and Celebrity Deathmatch as I got older.
Not too long ago there was a Walmart exclusive line of predator figures. Not neca or anything, just regular action figures right along side the motu and wwe section. I mean predator isn't the worst choice for a kids toyline but it's cool to see that not everything's getting sanitized nowadays
My parents let me watch Predator but not Alien as a child. As an adult now I don't see that much of a difference but it never stopped me from really loving and eventually growing up on those 2 franchises. You could only imagine how excited I was when they brought the franchises together, granted the movies that were of both are not as good as the other ones it still has the lore! I probably watch the first Alien movie and the first 2 Predator movies 2 or 3 times a month.
@@RUGERJONESprobably had something to do with Predator’s imagery not being sexual as well as simply violent like Alien’s was. And the former is also my favorite film btw.
@@eeyorehaferbock7870 yes I always wondered if that was purposely done or it was just Ridley Scott's style, you do not notice it as much in the alien films he didn't produce. However in Romulus the scene when Bjorn is electrifying the xenomorph sack, wow is all I have to say!! Lmao, I did watch a documentary that said they did that on purpose, everything was supposed to resemble a certain human organ. Lol
While not directly tied to a movie, Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos always baffled me. Pretty much all his movies in the 80s were R-rated.
There is also REMCO's Conan the Barbarian toys, based on the R rated 1982 movie. This later degraded into Conan the Adventurer in the 90's of course....
Oh yeah, I think I had one or two
Wait, did the Arab Rambo villain have a vest with a ied on it?! 😳😳😳bruh….😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I've always wanted to see a grim-dark sequel to 'Indian in the Cupboard' where the kid loads it up with Baron Vladimir, the Xenomorphs and everything from the Spawn line-up.
Love this. Somebody make this
1979. The ALIEN 18" figure was a good example of that time! I still have mine!
My prized posession
There was also a roughly 5" Commando figure that came with actual cloth pants around 85-86. I saw them once at a Target, and they were gone the next time I went there.
Another thing I remember was people sticking action figures on their car antennas. The figures that I saw were a Tron figure and a Baron Harkonnen figure.
Dude, I *grew up* on the Lynch Dune. Of course I had some of the figures!
That Alien action figure was one of the scariest things I'd seen at the time.
My Buddy was scarier.
I remember reading Hustler magazine (I didn't just watch R rated movies as a kid) and for some reason they loved the Alien toys. They worked them into as many jokes as they could.
@@mr.pavone9719 could be the phallic symbolism? Have you seen the H.R. Giger original art? If not, check it out.
@@mr.pavone9719just look at H.R. Giger’s other artworks sometime and you’ll understand why soon enough.
Speaking of GI Joe, I always thought Snow Job was an interesting name for a toy
There was a Skidmark G.I. Joe, too.
@@klldzr5749 a "snow job" is slang for flattering someone with bullshit to get them on your side.
Too be fair, snow job is old time slang for a con job or scheme and the character was always running some prank or con.
@@No_Body81 I did not know that, thanks! My mind was in the gutter again I guess 😄
@klldzr5749 A lot of people don't. I think it fell out of usage because that's obviously what everyone thinks of when they hear it. I guess one of the bonuses of having older parents is picking up on stuff like that.
Intriguing topic, and well presented, DIMSA. Looking forward to the next one!
Imagine if Kenner had done _Total Recall_ figures. They could have reused at least two or three of the Ghostbusters Fright Features mechanisms. "Press the switch to subject Ahnie to the Martian atmosphere."
I watched all these movies that you’re talking about at a very young age. My mother loves horror, movies, sci-fi horror, and I turned out just fine and I like horror movies. The gruesome toys I love them.
I was reading Heavy Metal Magazine in 6th grade, also when the movie premiered on HBO, all the kids went to a single apartment and the parents just let us watch, as it was "Just a Cartoon", not really action figure related but ...
The “balls” are its lungs so it doesn’t die of suffocation before it impregnates the host
Yeah, they look like balls though. Deflated balls.
My mom also gave zero f**ks. Toy collecting is just as helpful as therapy, though.
Oh man. I remember that Max Fx Freddy. I saw it on the store shelf and was like "wtf?" Why make a figure of a regular person who puts on a Freddy mask?
He's supposed to be able to take on the powers of what he dresses up as--so he basically becomes a pedo that haunts your dreams!
@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimalHe's supposed to be an actor getting made up to be various movie monsters.
I had a booklet or card back with the Dune figures pictured in it as a kid in the ‘80s and it always fascinated and creeped me out at the same time.
What about the SPAWN toys!?! They were horrifying!
One of the things that always annoyed me when I was younger, was when they put out action figures based on a film, but then gave them ridiculous weapons and vehicles that not only never appeared in the movies, but which those characters would never want to use.
In the 90s, maybe early 2000s, I was in a store and I saw that there was a new line of figures based on the classic Battlestar Galactica. At first I thought I'd get one of the Cylons, but then I saw that they'd all been force-fed steroids. Their bodies were at least 50% bigger than their legs, and they all had tiny waists. Needless to say I didn't buy any of them.
Aren’t those lungs on the face hugger? They seem to be inflating and deflating as if it’s breathing. Thats what I always thought anyway. Very cool stuff anyway, and awesome pic with the alien!
They probably are lungs, but they def look like deflated balls
And that was intentional
I'm surprised they never made a cartoon or toy line for Apocalypse now.
I'd definitely by a Kurtz action figure
There is a Platoon Nintendo -game which seemed always kind of odd for me.
Thank you for this excellent vid. You bring up points that are completely lost on the younger generations.
Thanks!
Temple of Doom is my 11 yr old daughter's favorite Indiana Jones movie.
How old is she?
Bro
I had Rambo, the Terminator, Feyd from Dune and the RoboCop with the caps.
Hey you said it correct. Most people say it like Geiger like a geiger counter but ive heard him say his own name in interviews and it is Giger.
I loved the Toxic Avenger!😂❤
I saw it as a kid!😂❤
Damn that '79 Alien 👽 toy is huge!😂❤
I saw it as a kid!😂
Most kids were smoking cigarettes by age 11 back then, they saw nakedness even before that. Kids these days are regularly watching triple x in HD by the time they get their first armpit hair. Temple of Doom was nothing. We were already watching The Shining and the Amityville Horror in the single digits of age
Yeah it's pretty crazy how kids these days are both exposed to so much so quickly and overly sheltered....... None of these kids would have made it back in the 80s
@jacobishii6121 I'm not sure if I'd make it growing up in the world they are living in today? There was definitely a lot more hiding in the shadows back then.
speak for yourself erik get a time machine and get u some 90s church thatll fix ya
@@combatbattalion6 I'm satin
@@combatbattalion6 your mom was with me when I was burning stogie's. She just never told you :*)
This guy looks like Tobey Maguire. I'm not even kidding. I would want him in a fanfilm.
He really does 😂
4:30 he meant "endoskeleton"...
I want to see Toy Story but Andy gets an Alien instead of Buzz Lightyear
Yes, Please someone make this
*The Bugs attacked humanity first, leveling Buenos Aires*
Funny you should mention that. The asteroid that destroyed Buenos Aires came from the direction of the bug home world's and the human media tells you the bugs sent it at Earth. But they never actually show how the bugs shot it at us. For all you know, it's just some random asteroid that happened to land on Buenos Aires and it just happened to come from the direction of the bug home worlds and the bugs had no involvement in sending it. Of course the bugs make an easy scapegoat. And that's the point of the movie that you missed.
Yeah, this guy doesn't get Starship Troopers. The film is a satire of _militarism,_ not fascism. And the main reason why characters wear izaN inspired outfits is as a nod to the Wehrmacht, who were one of history's most infamous fighting forces. The UEF is a functional working class civilisation, but because in that universe, democracy had failed and given away to a dark age, they built their civilisation around military service, with the end results guaranteeing people becoming full-on civilians once they've wrapped up their service. They're not villains, they're just violent morons.
The film is first and foremost, a spoof of military recruitment films with the message of how we're as violent, gung-ho and animalistic as any primitive alien life. Saying that the UEF are bad guys out to colonise a planet with the bugs fighting back thoroughly misses the point. Of course, the book is actually pro-military Sci-Fi, so the film doubles as a spoof of the original source, too. Some people just don't get Starship Troopers the film, ya know?
As far as gi joe goes a drug dealer isn't that odd considering the fact that cobra are terrorists and pimp destro was just a preview of the exploded crayon boxes that were 90's joes. Starship troopers was really a shoe in for toys with soldiers and monster bugs if you just ignore the whole movie also that brain bug looks like a knob.
This is a great topic, so many crazy R-rated movies were sold to us kids back in the late 70s thru like 91. Another good topic would be the same but for video games, that might be even more inappropriate. They made a goddamn side scrolling shooter based on Platoon for the NES!?! Imagine showing Platoon to a 10 year old?
There was also a Friday the 13th NES game I was allowed to own. I convinced my mom it was okay to watch the movies because the kid from the Goonies is in one of them and that is all she needed to hear.
Ha ha, good plan. I definitely remember the Friday the 13th game, like most of these games, it wasn't very good.
You bringing up the Starship Troopers toys unlocked a core memory of me watching the film at all too young an age and in hindsight realizing the Buenos Aires asteroid attack was probably a false flag to be used as an excuse to colonise the bug's homeworld and strip it for resources.
We literally see the rock heading to earth, it takes out the coms on the ship the female lead is on...did you even watch the movie or just a bread tuber tell you about it?
@@thebrownwolf Don't take your unhappy life out on me, poop wolf. Now, if the humans had the ability to reach Klendathu then they surely have the capability to knock an asteroid onto a collision course with Earth to get the population on-side with the invasion of Klendathu for it's resources.
You never see who sends the rock.
You remember seeing the movie, right?
You wouldn't have just accused me of what you yourself are guilty of, would you?
@@thebrownwolfSo the asteroid happens to be coming from the direction of bug territory. The film leaves it ambiguous how the bugs launched the asteroid or if they even did it. For all you know it's a random asteroid that just happened to come from that direction. The only thing telling us the bugs launched it at us is their state sponsored media which as you know from the film, isn't very reliable. It's very likely that the Earth federation invaded Klendathu for erroneous reasons.
The movie has little resemblance to the novel. The bug were a technologically advanced species at least on par with humans. This included spacecraft, lasers and such, etc. The war wasn't about trying to colonize a planet with big bugs on it, but a regular war between two starfaring species (more than two if you count the other species).
The strike on Bueanos Ares came after many smaller conflicts with the bugs. That strike is what kicked off the larger war the novel was set in.
Honestly it seemed obvious to me that it was just an asteroid and the comms ship fooling around bumped it and altered its trajectory causing it to hit Buenos Aires and the Federation spun it as a bug attack to incite support for the war.
Commando was one of my favorite movies as a kid!😂❤
I was 10 in Metro Detroit when RoboCop came out. We all had the toys and played RoboCop all the time. He's a hero to us to this day. Love your videos man.
Thanks!
This is a great list! The Alien figure is such a weird thing to exist 😂A neighbor had it as kids, and we used to use ROM to fight him as they were close in size.
I drew the line at the "Deliverance" playset with real pig squeals.
I'd buy that.
Is that real though? What kind of sick f*ck would make such a thing?!
You come across as a Tarantino fan like myself. Enjoyed it.
Did that Robocop commercial say "ED 260"?? Ed two-sixty??
I always thought the big baddy was ED 209? Ed two-oh-nine?? 🤔
Right? So did I. Maybe they changed it fpr the cartoon
ED 260 was indeed made for the cartoon. According to the Robocop wiki, it was an upgraded version of the 209. There was also a 260a variant that had treads in the legs, jump jets and a rocket arm attack.
Pg-13 was being considered because of movies like The Temple of Doom, but it was the Gremlins movie, specifically the microwave scene, that made it happen.
The head of the alien at the end is also, well, the end of a currten male organ
Great job and really enjoyed seeing this taboo line up :)
Lmfao that intro make me choke on my breakfast 😂😂
Nice!
tbh the naked arnold is probably the least weird part of the toy when the entire selling point was that you could peel off his flesh to reveal the endoskeleton...
I still have my ED-209 action figure from when I was a kid.
Gotta love the Hudsucker Proxy references. Only recently saw that movie and you know. That quote makes the video that much better!
You thinking that Starship Troopers translates to not a good idea for action figures, translates to you not being qualified to determine what action figures should've and shouldn't have gotten made.
Times back then weren't as pussified as they are now and PC was frowned upon. Robocop fascinated me when I was little and I loved the action figure
Just found your channel. Very interesting! And as a woman who is now 52 I'm somewhat of a collector. The set I wish to god I still had were Pegasus Perseus from the original Clash of the Titans. Somewhere along the way over the years I lost them in a move or something. I have others from random films I loved but those are the ones I truly wish I still had.
I remember a Robocop toy I got as a kid where you had to operate on Robocop with a probe on his circuit board; if you mess up it makes this traumatizingly loud noise of an icu heart monitor flatlining. I still have it somewhere.
Edit: Robocop Alpha Commando Cyberlab is what it was called
pretty good shit, man!
Thanks!
They should've had Children of the Corn!😂😂😂
Blast from the past, I had almost of these as kid, I had nearly complete starship troopers line even micro figure. But then friend borrowed almost all of it and we stopped talking week later.
Those Galoob micro figures are the same scale as the Star Wars and various military toy sets, so it was entirely possible to have the Mobile Infantry figures get backup from Darth Vader and Imperial Stormtroopers lol.
I’m surprised police Academy did not make that list
That's because only the first one's rated R. 2 is PG-13, and 3 through 7 are PG.
I remember in the end of Starship troopers when the brain bug is captured they literally shoved some metal tube into the Bagina mouth and they even censored it.
One man's R-rated trash is another man's treasure.
Can’t forget the Tales from the Cryptkeeper figures. Especially since they’re clearly based off the Crypt Keeper from the HBO show
I still consider the Toxic Crusaders line to be the best looking action figures of all time.
I grew up a latch-key kid. None of this is surprising. I saw Robocop when I was 12. I would have loved to have some of these toys.
True. Me too, Parents werent really there to police what we watched, and it was all on a continuosu loop if you had HBO or cinemax
80s were just a different time!
My brother got the alien from independence day for his birthday. It was giant and creepy as hell.
A video game known as Splatterhouse was never meant to be played in the USA, but it still got into the states. That game was definitely not meant for kids, and then they made Splatterhouse action figures...
I should maybe point out how all of the Imperial from Star Wars were dressed as Nazis and no one ever said anything about it.
Those grey and black Imperial officers were based on SS officers.
Peter Cushing even joked about it in the behind the scenes reels.
I'm disappointed that you missed the Predator action figures from the 90's. There's more, too. Both Resident Evil and Spawn action figures were targeting a young audience, although Spawn eventually pivoted to adult collectors by the early 2000's.
😮 max fx sounds AWESOME ..i would also love to see that ..
I don't think starship troopers was really THAT weird. It had a cartoon series which was very different and the movie caters to the Warhammer 40k audience, I know that every time I've ever watched it I end up going on a imperial guard/cadian tangent before realising that I really, really hate painting hordes of infantry.
Before starting this video, I had most of the "Alien" toys.
Fun Fact: In Star Trek: Generations (the movie) The kids were playing with Aliens toys near the Christmas tree in Picards nexus dream.
McFarlane's Sniper Wolf really grabbed my attention and made me say, "this is for kids???"
I remember showing off the movies that I watched to my brother and showing him We're Back! A Dinosaurs story. So we were watching it and about a minute before it happened, I suddenly remembered the CIRCUS OF FEAR. He got through most of it... Until the main antagonist gets silently eaten by a murder of crows. Needless to say .. he had nightmares after that one lol
Literally had everything you mentioned in this video. I was raised by my grandparents and my grandmother would hit up yards sales and that’s how I got most of my toys and my friends was like why do you have an action figure of Rambo.
I loved and had Robocop too!😂❤
My parents made a couple of rules for me for R rated films when i was a kid
1: It had to be considered a "classic"
2: one or both parent(s) had to watch it with me
The original terminator was a slasher movie with guns
18:08 the Imperium of Man does not recognize the sovereignty or rights to existence of extraterrestrial biology. By Divine Right, the Stars are Ours. Terran Pride: Worlds Wide.
Still have my Alien
I remember that Terminator toy. Me and my brothers tossed one on top of our roof as a gag and my dad didnt find the melted figure until 2 years after the fact.
They always like to mix children with stuff that aren't meant for kids.
Just notice how in Hollywood, cartoone and even some animes you can evil related to kids(like demons), evil kids, kids with guns, psycopath kids, etc.
And even to this day, they sell The Joker's action figures. The Joker is a psycopath and a r*pist.
And that version of MAD show made for kids is full of refernces about movies that aren't meant for kids.
I remember my cousins having starship troopers arachnids and Alien xeno toys god I miss that era
Dude, you always make my day when u put out a video. Top tier content all the time. I'm sick in bed with Rona, high on NyQuil, and gotdamn, this shit just made me leave Open Bar.
Thanks!
Hello nice video😊
Thanks!