Star Wars Follies: Here's the Windup - MPC/Ertl Structors Action Walkers
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2019
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Michael explores the 1984 lineup of MPC Ertl Star Wars Structors Action Walkers.
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i may be have born after long after these toys, but i love Star Wars Follies!
Because of Vader, this is now Star Wars Follies 16, and you can't prove me otherwise
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6:05
Did he just predict that Rise of Skywalker scene?
You're right!
What adds so much to these videos are your childhood experiences. I am a bit older than you but my brother had many Star Wars toys. His thinking was similar. Middle class and you knew you could not have everything.
That DROIDS commercial in the middle destroyed me... Excellent job RetroBlasting!
Two Star Wars Follies in one episode. Nice
Two follies in one? No way! Great vid as always and I really appreciated the use of the ‘Zilla roar on threepio. Any chance we see Godzilla or other Kaiju in a retro blasting Video?
Unfortunately the vintage Godzilla toyline that everyone thinks of is from the 90s and I know Retroblasting covers modern toys (specifically fan toys of Star Wars)
I like the new footage added to the full theme song intro (and the whole video as well).
"Threepio is prone to falling apart at the best of times..."
It's film accurate.
Yes
I love when you talk about vintage toys! Your enthusiasm always makes my day great!
R.I.P. Jimmy!! Even though we hardly know you...thank you for your service!!
Love the new video always a treat to watch a retroblasting vid
Thanks so much #RetroBlasting, and a big thanks to Nathan Cloud as well! Great episode, and yeah, my old 4-LOM (aka Zuckuss) figure began a mild fascination with the character that carried into the EU/Legends stories...good days that will be long remembered! 🤘😊 #BlastOn
I had all three MPC Structors kits. I got them from Lionel Playworld at a Mall back in the day, between 1984-85. I still have my original MPC Structors AT-AT. As a kid, I had painted it gray and added some painted details with black paint. I also acquired some years ago another AT-AT and AT-ST in sealed boxes. I opened the AT-ST and put it together and left it unpainted. It is displayed beside my AT-AT. That AT-AT is my favorite Structors while the C-3PO is my least.
Love the new edit on the intro. And as always, I look forward to the next video.
Retroblasting: You´re simply THE Best!
Keep on doing what you do!
You have so much love for your Content.
Please: NEVER EVER STOP!!!
Just wanted to say thank you. Your video on the Rattler was a life saver. With that video I was able to fix a wheel that was on the wrong way and replaced a missing landing gear and situate it in gear down mode. Really appreciate that .
That bit with c3p0 attacking the stormtroopers makes me want to get the micro collection and that c3p0 just so I can display him attacking the micro Death Star
Id love to see more Broken Vader videos, interviewing some of the retroblasting toys...
Sign me up to see the 3 quarter high cast of The Black Hole, Tron and Buck Rogers chat and interact with No Arms of the Sith!
Every ep ends with Michael puzzled how figures got out of display case (yet rants at Vader!)
Never knew about these pieces. I`m very nostalgic on vintage wind-ups. Would be cool to add these to my collection.
Excellent! I was unaware of these wind-up toys. As always, a funny and educational video!
Great video Michael, I really like the new intro
i totally forgot about these thank you michael for jogging my memory time to buy them again loved them back 1984
The little animated Broken Vader on the title card cracks me up every time I see it.
What a great epidode. I never knew about these wind up toys. Thank you!
I like the new intro, well done 😊 👏
These are great! Never seen them before. Great overview!
Dude you crack me up with this one
Awesome, TWO Star Wars Follies in one day! Well, one and a half at least. Love the new intro, glad to see Aaron made it into the credits!
love this channel. i was born in 73 in Atlanta. miss those days. Toys and Hobbies at Lenox Square:)
I was standing, doing things around the house.
That intro made me take a seat.
👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
2 Star Wars follies in one day? Thank you Mike, Broken Vader, and Zuckas.
I had no idea of their existence until one of the recent livestreams, and now this episode. Good to know about the copyright dates. They're just funky enough I'm going to try and track some down now.
Wonderfully informative and quite entertaining.
Really funny mini-skits in this one. Please don't stop making these. Even without generous donations.
Always great to see Broken Vader. Thank you for your great content.
Why is Vader broken anyways? (Besides the events at the end of "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" where Obi-Wan broke Anakin as a man and Palpatine had to rescue him, thereby turning him into the Darth Vader we all know from the original Star Wars trilogy...)
LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I still have the AT AT & C3PO!!
And, I do remember buying them in a discount store called Pic n Save way back in the early 80’s.
I choked on my soda at the beginning of the video. Thanks.
I owned and built, and still have some of my MPC models, but never saw these wind-up toys! Pretty cool. The wind-up AT-ST looks close in scale to the MPC model of the AT-AT (larger well detailed with a moveable head but no wind-up legs) which in turn can go well with the micro collection battle of Hoth toys.
"ALL HAIL!!! Nathan Cloud. The generous giver of the Star Wars Follies." He achieved the impossible. Many said "It could never be done..." I'm guessing it was blackmail...… Right?!
Always learning something new on this channel. Thanks!
I remember these they were awesome
You should make a Star Wars Follies episode about how 4 Lom and Zuckass had their names mixed up!
Agreed. Showing what it would be like makes us want it even more. 😉
I don't remember these, but they are cool additions to Star Wars. Big fan of the AT-AT though. One of my favorite vehicles from Star Wars.
Action packed!!!!
New intro graphics, cool. I really like it
Cool , never knew about these! 8)
What awesome, innovative Star Wars toys, especially if you like motorized ones. This especially appeals to me because I love prepainted snap-together model kits. A short but sweet Star Wars Follies!
I never knew about these and I seen a lot of vintage star wars toys.
'4 the love of Michael' (and Melinda!) ; )
Oh man Hickory Hollow Mall that brings back memories so many of them.
Talk about Nostalgia overload. My best friend and I got dropped off at the mall every weekend from around 1983 to about 1990. It was shoulder to shoulder in that mall on Christmas time. It is but a shell off itself these days, boasting a Library, Tech School, and practice area for The Predators(hockey team not intergalactic hunters). Not to mention Sbarro's, and Pyramids Cafe, both of whom have stayed in business all this time somehow.
Love this intro
I have the windup walkers, both acquired in the 90s. Always wondered about the ATST, looks like something based on concept sketchesrather than the movies.
Still have my AT-AT frim Kay Bee Toy Store. Never saw the other two out in the wild
Very cool glad Vader is back and we get more follies
I had a wind-up r2d2 (in Canada), I seem to remember that its feet kept getting stuck while it walked, too. Didn't know they became rare later, it always seemed like a casual impulse-buy kind of thing.
Love the new intro but it needs the clip of Shipwreck getting eaten by the T Rex. Keep up the good work and we'll keep watching! Looking forward to retro toy con Greenville.
I had a feeling it was going to be a good day, THIS CONFIRMS IT!!! Thank you Nathan Cloud and thank you Retroblasting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had the wind-up artoo as a kid. (Lived in BC). It's prob the biggest of the "if I knew then..." Items I had as a kid.
Loved it.
Miss it.
Btw. Big thanks to you. Your vids are among the ones most influential in me starting my own videos. Anyone interested, can find me at atomic monsters in here. I suggest searching for Atomic Monsters Thrifting, without thrifting you will likely only find a band.
Wind-up Artoo us a grail item for me. Love to put one in my bar/set.
yay! More broken vader please. 👏 very cool video highlighting these adult collectables. Lol.
Man I wish I could find some nice, big display cabinets like those here in the UK!
Or houses with nice, big basements!
Oh right new episode
I recall my dad gotten me a wind-up toy from a yard sale or something that was most likely a remolded version of this R2 it had a blue dome and a purple torso and sliver arms and this was in the 90s i wish i knew where i put this little robot maybe one day i'll find it
I never knew about that walking R2, now I want it!
I still have mine since childhood. As I live in Canada, they were available in stores here when I was young.
I had those.
I never even knew these existed. I would have grabbed an AT-AT for sure.
Jimmy was only 1 day away from retirement...
Wow these are pretty interesting pieces. I never knew about them!
That AT-AT is just standing there asking “Which one of turrets wants to get blasted first?”!
And I think the mini TIE fighter was the most accurate, I couldn’t really stand the tiny solar panels on the Action figure scale TIE!
It's like the old Transformers Rumble / Frenzy argument (blue / red). Only in this case, since one of them is a droid, clearly they have to use the droid name, hence '4-LOM' being correct!
OMG, this is absolutely hilarious!
B I G ups for using the OG 1954 Gojira roar (might be the 84/85 one, but it's still legit AF).
Dude that was awesome! You've really stepped up your game in terms of effects and quality. Kudos
I just found your channel and think is great. Have you ever done anything on the Action Fleet Star Wars of the 1990s?
You know if you painted the 3PO one black, and probably add a bit of customisation. You could probably make him a sort of Imperial enforcer Droid. Like what appears in the Force Unleashed video games.
YESSS ANOTHER STAR WARS FOLLIES!!!! I'm only 16 and this gets me excited. Keep up the great work Micheal 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Smart application of a little scalability ala Transformers style. Close is often good 'nuff at playtime.
New intro Michael. love it.
Those wind-up Walkers remind me a lot of the wind-up Zoid kits. Speaking of Zoids, will they ever find themselves on Retroblasting?
Yes, Zoids, please. I had a few of those including the big battery operated brontosaurus one. Maybe do Starriors too since they had the same little pilot figures that sat in their cockpits. Were they related somehow?
New Follies and new intro?! Awesome! Great job Retroblasting!
I just got a boxed wind up 3PO off of ebay and put it together. Is his head supposed to come off? Like I can't attach it. Also it won't really walk after winding. It's not worn out because it was never used, but I guess age took its toll.
Regarding the lack of a Micro Collection AT-AT, I always thought Kenner's intention was to use the "regular" AT-AT with your Micro Collection figures (that's what I did). It was scaled more appropriately for the Micros than for the 3 3/4" figures, anyway. I never had the Micro Collection Snowspeeder to compare how it looked under the AT-AT's foot, though! :D
Oh, this was painfully educational; I had a Takara R2 in fantastic condition because I had never played with it (I considered it a knockoff at the time I first got it in the 80s). I tossed it away like so much refuse...talk about throwing money down the drain...oh, the humanity....no, that line doesn’t fit...I just like a WKRP reference...of the Hindenburg disaster...anyways, it hurts to know the value of that wind up droid.
Jajaja excellent video.
@5:51-6:10
First time I saw the troopers really hit something...and they hit C3PO--with red optics!!
Great episode guys!👍
I do not remember these growing up but they look very cool.
maybe you can do a video about how many toys were mislabeled or painted wrong or just the wrong figure in the package
Have you ever built the models back in the day?
Also, any thoughts on the recent offerings by Bandai?
Interesting
BV IS IN THE LOGO YES
Michael I'm sending you my ashes. You killed me with laughter with that Jimmy skit.
"Nobody knows..." PRESSED LIKE
I'm pretty sure that Hasbro did the name switch thing with the Transformers Autobot Jumpstarters Topspin and Twin Twist.
I still have my Takara windup R2 from childhood, but sadly it is missing the legs. I don't know what happened to them. I was hoping to find them in my lego bin, but no luck. So like your armless Vader I seem doomed to forever have legless windup r2.
you brought back a lot of memories for me when you mentioned hickory hollow mall! i remember pretty fondly, i have heard they are trying to bring back and revitalize the area but i doubt that will happen, i dare not even go into rivergate mall and i am wary of going into opry mills but that's just the times we live in
Another Happy Landing. I don't remember those wind up toys at all.
Where'd you get your release dates from good sir?? I remember them being different, so went to look on the internet and couldn't find any authoratiive guide. Which is kinda mind blowing considering there's forums saying which factories did which microscopically different version of which blaster. Did you go by the dates stamped on the toys or am I missing something? My curiosity is piqued and my knickers are in a twist.
I don't know what you're talking about. I looked up the dates of release for MPC Structors and compared them to the dates on my childhood originals. If you're looking to get really nitpicky, I suggest you go elsewhere because I don't go in for those kinds of discussions here.
2:08 does anyone know what episode Michael fading away is from?
Super Powers Part 1
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My little brother Dan had the wind-up AT-AT. I thought it was neat enough, but I'm more into vehicles that fly. ;)
I am however, a model kit enthusiast to this day. Question: I realize that scale models are not "toys" per se, but they are a part of our childhood experience for many of us. Will there be a future SW Follies on the MPC model kits?