I'm so disappointed Mattel never produced that giant Galactica. What a cool toy. Mattel did produce a giant Eagle from Space:1999 in the 70s. An amazing toy I got it for Christmas and still have it.
*I have an Eagle. As a kid, I got it second hand with two Space:1999 figures that I would interchange their legs so one would be standing and the other sitting. And the cockpit and rocket detach to make a smaller ship.* After a while I thought I might break those figures so I used Fisher Price Adventure People figures when I played with the Eagle... and my Mork figure and Egg ship. _(To that bully when I was 12, I forgive you... I now see why you made fun of me. The Star Wars socks didn't help.)_ LOL
I did watch space 1999 but I never had the Corgi or the big plastic spaceship when I used to live in Sweeny Texas we used to go to Houston Texas to the Sharpstown Mall there were stores that had models Etc
As a child who thought BSG (1978) was the BEST Sci-Fi franchise, I was devastated when the show was cancelled. The 1980 remake was disappointing except for the Starbuck episode. I remember the BSG toys from Mattel that made it to market, and I owned many of them (and still do!). Back then, with no Internet, a trip to the store was the only way you knew what was available. The Soace Alert game was my favorite toy. I never got tired of playing it, and still have it. The Lasermatic Pistol would have been better in black with a brown grip, but parts of it did superficially resemble the screen-used weapon (the ventilated top rib and the barrel). It was a good toy. The rifle never saw the light of day in my area. I snagged an incomplete one on an EBay auction (good luck getting one complete or NIB). I never saw the Verti-Bird Viper, either. I would have been all over that! The action figures were good, and the large Colonial Warrior and Cylon were must-haves as well. I also have the radio controlled Cylon Raider. Another great toy. I just don’t get Mattel’s logic. BSG lived on for years in re-runs, and in the pre-digital era you might see an episode you missed in syndication. There was no On-Demand or streaming. As kids, we still would have wanted the toys they never released. The Mattel Intellivision Space Battle game is a particular sore-point for me. They altered the box art slightly and deleted the on-screen references, but I KNEW it was supposed to be a BSG game. And then I learned years-later that I was right. Great video. Thanks.
I did an episode looking at what happened to the BSG video game (please check it out). The problem with Mattel is that they hate paying for a license! They could had easily reissued their BSG line (with new figures) in the early 2000s to take advantage of nostalgia but did not want to spend the money!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Ah, what could have been!!!! A recent ROM hack of Space Battle was produced a few years ago. A limited run of carts was made, but sold out immediately.
Store stores from the early 80's were magical places. The aisles seemed long and floor to almost ceiling filled shelves. Bix boxes of Joe, SW vehicles and transformers. A toy gun section that was like a armory. Ohhh..... the memories. Children's palace Kiddie city will be my 2nd or 3rd stop in the time machine.
I had the Space Alert game and played it so much my fingers hurt. It died in 1983. Ten years ago my brother gave me a functioning replacement for my birthday, which i still play now and then.
It's a crying shame Mattel didn't produce more CLASSIC BSG toys! I would have given one of my KIDNEYS for that GALACTICA ship with all those cool play features! Unfortunately I have almost no vintage BSG collectibles except for my vintage books. Thanks for the look at that really cool dealers catalog! I love to collect any paper items such as that from BSG & TOS Star Trek. Please keep the episodes coming because we serious Classic BSG fans & collectors can't get enough!
Mattel really dropped the ball when it came to Battlestar Galactica. Imagine if Mego had been granted the license. We would have gotten a huge line of figures, scaled ships and a playset!
Very cool to see this nostalgic catalog! I wish we had a classic Battlestar Galactic series on tv again. I own the Diamond Select BG ship and colonial vipers from the Ares game...they look amazing on display!
I remember seeing the small toys in Childrens Palace into the mid 80's No one ever bought them because the show had been long since canceled. I did have the Mattel Battlestar Galactica Space Alert game. It was the only game I had until the Atari 2600 came out. I have no idea what ever became of it.
*I had that catalog when I was a kid. When I saw that Galactica ship, I flipped. For months I would look in ever store they dragged me to but never found it.* I must've swiped it because I kept it in the closet where I would peruse it. We did have Rayden and Gaiking. Those Shoguns were metal bodied toys. Metal!
Ah yes. I had the Viper, Probe and Scarab toys. Endless fun back i those days. I also had that BSG 'Space Alert' game. Played it so much, drove my mother crazy. Wore it out in record time. RIP
Still own a few of those pieces. The mini Viper and Raider, with functional torpedoes. The Space Alert hand held game and a couple other items. Actually had the Mazinga Shogun Warrior from that catalog as well. Great time to be a kid!
I wish the Galactica would have come out. I have a few cylons, they were like the stormtroopers; a kid could have as many as his Mom would buy him. Brilliant marketing.
I begged everyone to help me accumulate six regular cylons so I could mail away for the gold cylon. And when it arrived in the mail, I was in seventh heaven.
I would have wanted that giant Galactica soooo badly! However, I was poor growing up, and would have never gotten one, I did have that Scarab though. It was kind of fun and did indeed have the firing missiles. I remember that vividly because I had lost all of them within a week of getting it!
that 22 incn Galactica would have been a dream in 1979 I also heard years ago from a former mattel employee that aside from the chip shortage and the cancellation of the show they did not produce because of the high retail price for the time it would have been an expensive toy in 1979
Thanks for showcasing the 22” Galactica. I too was hoping to buy it as I wanted to make my own Super 8 movie with my brothers as Apollo & Starbuck. I ended up making a 5 foot ship out of foam, which didn’t look anything like it. Fun times...😊
Thanks for showing that catalog. That was an amazing series of toy lines in one year! I remember seeing the XL Shoguns and the Godzilla's gang toys at Kay Bee toys. But I was lucky that year and got a bunch of the Galactica toys. My dad had bought me the Space Alert game which he said was hard to come by. It's a shame about the scarcity of the Landram and the super Galactica toy. All we really got of the Galactica was the model kit. They should have made the small diecast vehicles like the Star Wars line or even like their Shogun Warriors line. Those would have been amazing. Still, that was a winning year for Mattel for sure! If the original season had lasted another season, maybe Mattel have released an Intellivision game. Who knows?
Cool video and a great look at the catalogue. Never knew of these living in the UK. Thank the Lords of Kobol I never knew of the 22" Galactica toy - life for my parents would have been Hell. 🤣
Are you actually telling me, that I LUSTED in my heart of hearts after the 22" Battlestar Galactica ship. And Matty Mattel just 'teased' me, and NEVER even put the TOY in PRODUCTION! OOOHHH, THAT'S IT! WHERE'S MY CYLON CENTURION SWORD? As Hogan's Heroes 'LUCKLESS', Gestapo officer, Col. Wolfgang Hochstetter would angrily scream...! "HEADS VILL ROLLL!"
@1:42 Here in the UK I had the Colonial Viper and Colonial Stella Probe Explorer Craft for Xmas in 1979, they were "modular" so you could swap parts around to create different ships.
I miss my green suckerman. He was always hanging out on the wood paneling walls of my room. And of course Imperious Leader was known as Bubblegum Head in my house.
I drove my poor mother insane the day I built a 5-foot long cardboard BattleStar Galactica inside the livingroom. There was barely room to walk around it. I made a hinge-up bridge to contain a couple of seated figures, then the viper bays were both big enough to hold one Viper each. Maybe if they'd built that 22' one I would have gotten my fix and my poor mother would have had her livingroom back a lot sooner.
The talking Daggit plush was listed for $13 in the 1979 JCPenney Christmas Catalog. It is the one piece of Battlestar Galactica merchandise I wish I had the most.
I have the Cylon Raider, Colonial Vider and Stellar Probe ... somewhere :P I recently found some of the parts when cleaning out old boxes. Found the Ovian with his robe, daggett and cylons. Wish that 22" Galactica would have come out!
Kids now a days don't know what thier missing, I can remember going through toy catalogs for hours making my Santa wish list. Sears had one of the best. Now most malls don't even have toy stores anymore. Amazon is really killing childhoods if you as me.
When I seen the thumbnail and saw that large Battlestar Galactica toy I thought I missed something because I don't remember that one in the stores.. but after watching your video I see why now😢
Look at all that time they spent coming up with incredible toys I mean all the different ideas fun time for toys I had the . I had the Shogun Warrior masinga and now I have the 3 generation one wish I had my original one to lol
until early last year I had those 2 hand held games! I was moving so they got sold with my entire video game collection! regrets? yes need to get a few back
We looked for the large BSG toy but never found it. Instead, I had one of the foam launchers. It was pretty cool, but the foam vipers were warped. I was a little disappointed about that, and their detail level at the time. The hard plastic viper toy was excellent though for the brief time I had it. As a child I really wanted more, and definitely would have asked for more had they been available. I wound up getting Star Wars stuff after that, but was always looking for BSG when going to local hobby and toy stores. IIRC anything VIPER was chronically sold out.
I’m hoping (but it does not look good. See my Star Trek Hurts BSG episode) that we get a whole new line of toys! We deserve it! Lol! Thanks for watching!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Actually I wasnt a He-Man fan like that it was cool but I only had like 3 figures. I was a big BSG, Buck Rogers, Star Wars, Transformers and GIJoe fan tho lol
Love this channel! BSG rules! I'd like to know more about those large-size action figures. The Colonial Warrior had to be some previously-released toy that was repurposed for BSG because it looks nothing like the warriors on the show.
About four years ago at the Doctor Who convention here in Los Angeles named Gallifrey one dealer had one of the original test shots of the 22 inch Battlestar Galactica toy on display prior to it going up on auction. The test shot was in a sort of chocolate brown the reason for this is that many times and they doing test shots it’s just to check and see if the mold Works and they will use whatever Plastic is already in the injection folder. It doesn’t matter for their test parts to be in the right color.
I don't understand why they have never released more figures ...... where are Apollo , Boomer , Boxy , Athena , Shiva .... and many more . I'm sure kids would love also the flying bikes.
I still have the 4 other toys that featured alongside the Landram, somewhere in my attic. All still in excellent condition hopefully (i haven't looked at them in 40 years). I loved them enormously, although the Cylon craft had a problem keeping the figure within (remedied by a tiny piece of blue tac). Also have some of the featured figures. Sadly could never get ahold of the Daggit(?), and managed to lose my Cylon- a disappointing figure with only movable shoulder joint and swivel waist. But still a prominent menacing villain in my Galactica/Star Wars x-overs. =)
The little boy with the Talking Daggitt plush toy looks a little like Noah Hathaway(Boxey) when he starred on Galactica in 1978-'79. Didn't anyone else see the resemblance to him. He does look exactly like child star Noah Hathaway. I noticed it right away soon as I saw that page in the catalog.
When I was a kid I had that Giant Godzilla (0:35) and loved it to death. Some boys I knew had the Mazinga and Gaiking. I think someone had that Raydeen as well. I was 5 so memory is hazy haha I had that Varitank at 1:03 though I don't know why. Other than my Dad had a habit of buying me lots of Japanese toys. I had no idea these were Mattel til this video hahaha. I had the Cylon ship and Vyper. Mine were before they removed the spring so the did shoot the little bullet. And I had the Moffet figure but not the big talking doll. I lost everything when my parents got divorced. My mom refused to let me take most of it with me. Except Godzilla. She couldn't pry that away from me hahaha
I had a LOT of toys as a kid. I had all those large Shogun Warriors, including the Godzilla. I had a bunch of the smaller ones, though I don't recall which. I only had a few of the e BSG toys. I know I had the Daggit figure, and maybe Adama and the Cylon, and I had one of the vehicles. I think it was the one with the wheels. My mother threw out all the BSG stuff when we moved, the small Shogun warriors got left at her boyfriend's house when they broke up, and the big ones were sold at the end of the 90s to make up for debt incurred by my ex. I'd rather have that stuff back than either of those women.
We had the old cylon and vipers that kids were choking on. If you returned them Mattel would swap them with versions that would no longer shoot! Laaaame! I always remember thinking it was those slower kids that ruined it for the rest of us!!
At the time this catalog was produced, I believe the Kenner Star Wars line was really just taking off as the 3.75 inch line hit store shelves in the second and third quarter of 1978. Do you think Mattel and other toy company executives connected the success of the Star Wars line to the scale of the figures coupled with vehicles or did they see the success relating more to the specific IP license? Based on this catalog, it feels like Mattel thought anything branded with the IP would sell, which they had just seen happen with Star Wars in late 1977 with puzzles and board games and coloring books. Looking back, it seems obvious now the scale of the figures drove the long term success of the Kenner line, but would anyone in the industry in 1978 have foreseen that or was Mattel throwing every scale at the wall to see what stuck?
Right now the main stream toy industry is hurting and is very risk adverse. I’m hoping that a small company like Diamond Select toys, who has a great track record with older properties, does something with BSG. We can dream!!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 my pleasure, thanks for creating the content. Great to see the catalog and know that there were others. Love the large scale battle star, shame it never went to production.
Huh, never saw that catalog before, and that's the exact thing I loved to collect growing up! I was wondering how I had somehow missed a Battlestar toy, glad (?) to see I didn't, it just wasn't released. I wanted a Battlestar toy SO badly that I (sigh) simply held my Star Wars landspeeder *upside down* and pretended that it was one! ☺ I had the Space Alert game, always thought it looked like the bombs the characters place in a Cylon base on one of the eps...Does anyone remember the controversy of the Cylon Raiders, that so many kids were choking to death on the pellets they shot up, until they replaced them with ones that stayed connected to the ship? I had the large Shogun Warriors and the "flame breath" Godzilla! Actually found one at a collectibles store here in Michigan not so long ago, but I guess the "flame tongue" is pretty fragile, as they asked me not to use it...
Now imagine if the Powers that be decided to do a Crowd Funded, Updated, 22 inch or longer Galactica. Then if it was Produced, and I would be one of the many, they could ReTool it and do the Modern 2004 Version.
Actually I think I did it reminded me of Robotech I had two of those games when it comes to the cylons centurions I prefer the old ones add the story that they were created by reptilians
The Vaitank and Vertilift vehicles from the Shogun Warriors line, were originally released in Japan as part of the toys for Himitsu Sentai Gorenger series, which was the first series of Super Sentai which would go on to become Power Rangers
I still have a plastic shot-out laser beam stuck in my trachea to this day. I loved Battlestar Galactica yet everyone has called me Jawa since the incident.
@@battlestarcollectica7106It hurts about as much as trying to tead a Cylon’s eyes. I’ve heard a Cylon has NEVER passed a DUI test when police check their eye movements. 😂
I had a Raider, Viper, Probe & Scarab (with the interchangeable parts) (but not the Landram) from 01:43, but they were the later versions after they fixed them so the little red "torpedoes" couldn't shoot out (some stupid kid probably shot one up his nose). So I took them apart and filed the bits off that prevented them from shooting out.
Those toys sold very well for Mattel. Had the show been renewed for a second season the line would have expanded with new ships (including a new Cylon ship)!
Big fan of Battlestar Galactica, but one thing in the catalog strike me the laser pistol so we’re not going so no one has mentioned it it doesn’t look like what I think it looks mr. Johnson like I wonder if that’s one of the reason why it was canceled and never released
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Than again, with the show only having one season, taking their time for more quality products would be too big a gamble as well.
They only have Battlestar Galactica I had when I was a kid what's the Cylon Raider with one Cylon. My second youngest best friend had more than I did later in my middle school years I had a Raider and the Viper model and then in my older days I had a Cylon Centurion figure that and shoulder armor that stuck out it was cool but I was disappointed. I have three Shogun Warriors small metal size and my second youngest best friend I don't remember if you had all three large size but his family was fairly rich
Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century were two of the great shows. Some of the effects were used for both shows. I believe the Land Ram only released in Canada also was part of the Buck Rogers line. They should have produced the Giant Galactica. What I don't understand is why they did not produce Vipers and Cylon Raiders the Figures could fit in. When the TV series was brought back they could have even brought back the old figures. Mattel and Mego kind of F'd up things the Black Hole figures and the Star Trek figures from the 1st movie and not having figures for the wrath of Khan.
I had the missed firing ships before they were stopped some of the all metal shogun figures but if they had made the Battlestar galactica I would have gotten it
I would have put it right next to the space 1999 eagle plus I think more then a million. How come ships dont have sound effects anymore like they use to hate the new ones
I'm so disappointed Mattel never produced that giant Galactica. What a cool toy. Mattel did produce a giant Eagle from Space:1999 in the 70s. An amazing toy I got it for Christmas and still have it.
That Eagle is a holy grail!! What a great toy!!
*I have an Eagle. As a kid, I got it second hand with two Space:1999 figures that I would interchange their legs so one would be standing and the other sitting. And the cockpit and rocket detach to make a smaller ship.* After a while I thought I might break those figures so I used Fisher Price Adventure People figures when I played with the Eagle... and my Mork figure and Egg ship. _(To that bully when I was 12, I forgive you... I now see why you made fun of me. The Star Wars socks didn't help.)_ LOL
Maybe they'll crowdfund it someday?
That 1999 eagle came in handy when the millennium falcon wasn't available.
I did watch space 1999 but I never had the Corgi or the big plastic spaceship when I used to live in Sweeny Texas we used to go to Houston Texas to the Sharpstown Mall there were stores that had models Etc
Wow this is amazing, I would've drooled over this as a kid 😲 I never knew about that 22" Galactica as well...
Mattel blew it! It would have been a best seller!!
Yeah, that thing looked pretty cool
Same here. I would have stabbed someone in the eye to get that Galactica.
As a child who thought BSG (1978) was the BEST Sci-Fi franchise, I was devastated when the show was cancelled. The 1980 remake was disappointing except for the Starbuck episode.
I remember the BSG toys from Mattel that made it to market, and I owned many of them (and still do!). Back then, with no Internet, a trip to the store was the only way you knew what was available. The Soace Alert game was my favorite toy. I never got tired of playing it, and still have it. The Lasermatic Pistol would have been better in black with a brown grip, but parts of it did superficially resemble the screen-used weapon (the ventilated top rib and the barrel). It was a good toy. The rifle never saw the light of day in my area. I snagged an incomplete one on an EBay auction (good luck getting one complete or NIB). I never saw the Verti-Bird Viper, either. I would have been all over that! The action figures were good, and the large Colonial Warrior and Cylon were must-haves as well. I also have the radio controlled Cylon Raider. Another great toy.
I just don’t get Mattel’s logic. BSG lived on for years in re-runs, and in the pre-digital era you might see an episode you missed in syndication. There was no On-Demand or streaming. As kids, we still would have wanted the toys they never released. The Mattel Intellivision Space Battle game is a particular sore-point for me. They altered the box art slightly and deleted the on-screen references, but I KNEW it was supposed to be a BSG game. And then I learned years-later that I was right.
Great video. Thanks.
I did an episode looking at what happened to the BSG video game (please check it out). The problem with Mattel is that they hate paying for a license! They could had easily reissued their BSG line (with new figures) in the early 2000s to take advantage of nostalgia but did not want to spend the money!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Ah, what could have been!!!! A recent ROM hack of Space Battle was produced a few years ago. A limited run of carts was made, but sold out immediately.
Store stores from the early 80's were magical places. The aisles seemed long and floor to almost ceiling filled shelves. Bix boxes of Joe, SW vehicles and transformers. A toy gun section that was like a armory. Ohhh..... the memories. Children's palace Kiddie city will be my 2nd or 3rd stop in the time machine.
I had the Space Alert game and played it so much my fingers hurt. It died in 1983. Ten years ago my brother gave me a functioning replacement for my birthday, which i still play now and then.
Great story and very cool brother!!
It's a crying shame Mattel didn't produce more CLASSIC BSG toys! I would have given one of my KIDNEYS for that GALACTICA ship with all those cool play features! Unfortunately I have almost no vintage BSG collectibles except for my vintage books. Thanks for the look at that really cool dealers catalog! I love to collect any paper items such as that from BSG & TOS Star Trek. Please keep the episodes coming because we serious Classic BSG fans & collectors can't get enough!
Mattel really dropped the ball when it came to Battlestar Galactica. Imagine if Mego had been granted the license. We would have gotten a huge line of figures, scaled ships and a playset!
Very cool to see this nostalgic catalog! I wish we had a classic Battlestar Galactic series on tv again. I own the Diamond Select BG ship and colonial vipers from the Ares game...they look amazing on display!
Those pieces are nice! Thanks for watching!
Oh man...I wanted that Sir Galaxy robot so bad!! I forgot all about that until seeing it on this video!!
I’ve never seen one in person but it looks amazing!
I remember seeing the small toys in Childrens Palace into the mid 80's No one ever bought them because the show had been long since canceled. I did have the Mattel Battlestar Galactica Space Alert game. It was the only game I had until the Atari 2600 came out. I have no idea what ever became of it.
It’s a classic today and collected by not only BG fans but classic video gamers. Simple but very fun!
Wow! That's incredible. I would have loved to have that Galactica. I'm sure a lot of people would have wanted it. Thanks for the information.
Let’s hope someone (maybe Diamond Select who has a lot of experience with electronic Star Trek ships) decides to issue it. We can dream!
*I had that catalog when I was a kid. When I saw that Galactica ship, I flipped. For months I would look in ever store they dragged me to but never found it.* I must've swiped it because I kept it in the closet where I would peruse it.
We did have Rayden and Gaiking. Those Shoguns were metal bodied toys. Metal!
Thanks for sharing that great memory!!!
Ah yes. I had the Viper, Probe and Scarab toys. Endless fun back i those days.
I also had that BSG 'Space Alert' game. Played it so much, drove my mother crazy. Wore it out in record time. RIP
Lol! Thanks for sharing your memories!!
I still have my viper in an unopened box, my mom forgot it for Christmas and found it many years later in an old dresser
Now that’s a great story!! Thanks for sharing it!
The Galactica looks fantastic! I still have my Colonial Scarab, which I loved playing with as a child.
The Scarab is a great toy! Thanks for watching!
The scarab is the one I didn’t get. My mother said that I was too old for it. I was 12.
Still own a few of those pieces. The mini Viper and Raider, with functional torpedoes. The Space Alert hand held game and a couple other items.
Actually had the Mazinga Shogun Warrior from that catalog as well.
Great time to be a kid!
1979 was a GREAT toy year! Thanks for sharing!
I had the Raydeen Shogun and a big ass Galactica
I also had a toybox FULL of Star Wars toys, from figures, to ships etc.
Nice! Thanks for watching!
I had the big 24 inch Godzilla with shooting claw growing up. I believe my brother still has it.
Classic toy that is in demand today!
I knew a couple kids that had it. One of them even had the Rodan.
I still have that Godzilla board game too. My son and I play it every Sunday after we play Godzilla Tokyo Clash.
I never saw that game as a kid but it looks cool!!!
I wish the Galactica would have come out. I have a few cylons, they were like the stormtroopers; a kid could have as many as his Mom would buy him. Brilliant marketing.
If Mattel would issue it today it would sell great! There is a huge demand for classic BG! Thanks for watching!
I begged everyone to help me accumulate six regular cylons so I could mail away for the gold cylon. And when it arrived in the mail, I was in seventh heaven.
I got the Galactica viper launcher set for Christmas 1979. It was a cool set. I doubled up the rubber bands for really long flights.
Did not know that would work! Great idea!! 😀
I would have wanted that giant Galactica soooo badly! However, I was poor growing up, and would have never gotten one, I did have that Scarab though. It was kind of fun and did indeed have the firing missiles. I remember that vividly because I had lost all of them within a week of getting it!
I agree with you! I think many of us would have had a hard time getting one as it would have been very expensive. Thanks for watching!
that 22 incn Galactica would have been a dream in 1979 I also heard years ago from a former mattel employee that aside from the chip shortage and the cancellation of the show they did not produce because of the high retail price for the time it would have been an expensive toy in 1979
That makes sense. Thanks for the info!
Thanks for showcasing the 22” Galactica. I too was hoping to buy it as I wanted to make my own Super 8 movie with my brothers as Apollo & Starbuck. I ended up making a 5 foot ship out of foam, which didn’t look anything like it. Fun times...😊
What a great story! Thanks for sharing!!!
awesome. as kid i always whantet a huge dinorider playset. i even got pictures of me standing in front of it 34 years ago. well i never got.
Nice!!!
That catalogue is freaking awesome! Growing up in the UK I don't remember seeing any of these toys. Thanks for sharing 👍 😊
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for showing that catalog. That was an amazing series of toy lines in one year! I remember seeing the XL Shoguns and the Godzilla's gang toys at Kay Bee toys. But I was lucky that year and got a bunch of the Galactica toys. My dad had bought me the Space Alert game which he said was hard to come by. It's a shame about the scarcity of the Landram and the super Galactica toy. All we really got of the Galactica was the model kit. They should have made the small diecast vehicles like the Star Wars line or even like their Shogun Warriors line. Those would have been amazing. Still, that was a winning year for Mattel for sure! If the original season had lasted another season, maybe Mattel have released an Intellivision game. Who knows?
I agree with you! Thanks for watching!
I was just watching the office and Dwight had a battle star Galactica model in his office he was painting 😆
Very cool! Did not know that!!
Having a model of the Galactica with vipers would be awesomeness
Let’s hope that it happens someday!
Cool video and a great look at the catalogue. Never knew of these living in the UK.
Thank the Lords of Kobol I never knew of the 22" Galactica toy - life for my parents would have been Hell. 🤣
Now that would have been fun for all of us kids! Lol! Thanks for watching!
Are you actually telling me, that I LUSTED in my heart of hearts after the 22" Battlestar Galactica ship.
And Matty Mattel just 'teased' me, and NEVER even put the TOY in PRODUCTION!
OOOHHH, THAT'S IT!
WHERE'S MY CYLON CENTURION SWORD?
As Hogan's Heroes 'LUCKLESS', Gestapo officer, Col. Wolfgang Hochstetter would angrily scream...!
"HEADS VILL ROLLL!"
Lol!🤣🤣🤣🤣
I had the Viper launch station, it seemed big when I was a kid, but looks small today. Good stuff.
I know what you mean! Thanks for watching.
Wow i would have jumped on that battlestar. That would have been a great toy. Its a shame they never made it.
Ever notice that the cool stuff never gets made! Lol!
I had that verti bird, that was one of my all time favorite toys. I still miss that thing from time to time.
Great toy that still would sell well today! I wish Mattel would reissue it!!
I had both the BSG handheld and the race car handheld, but the one everybody wanted was the football one.
Lol! Your right!!!
all drool pieces. would love to have had more toys.
I agree. Thanks for watching!
As a fan of the original 78 BSG, I always wanted this.
Instant hit if Mattel had issued it!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 The fans are going to have to replicate this. Make it better with more sophisticated electronics and sounds and lights.
@1:42 Here in the UK I had the Colonial Viper and Colonial Stella Probe Explorer Craft for Xmas in 1979, they were "modular" so you could swap parts around to create different ships.
Very cool toys!! If the show lasted longer we would have seen more similar craft!
I wonder what happened to the prototype 22 inch Galactica? It would be awesome to see even a 3D printed version of it.
A few prototypes are floating around. Very cool to know that they exist!
I'm 54 now, I had sooo many of these toys! The Viper launcher was a fav
Very cool toy!! Thanks for watching!
I got the handheld video game for Christmas in '79 or '80. Played the snot out of the thing.
Classic toy! Still fun to play today!!!
Man, I would have killed to have that Galactica!
Mattel really messed up! It should have been issued!
I had the Battlestar Galactica vehicles and the Space Alert handheld video game.
Very cool stuff. I’m sure you had some great adventures with them!
I miss my green suckerman. He was always hanging out on the wood paneling walls of my room.
And of course Imperious Leader was known as Bubblegum Head in my house.
Lol! Your right about the IL!!!
That giant Galactica reminds me of the Mattel 1976 Space 1999 Eagle ship Playset..Even similar in size to what would of been..Would have been amazing!
I agree!
I drove my poor mother insane the day I built a 5-foot long cardboard BattleStar Galactica inside the livingroom. There was barely room to walk around it. I made a hinge-up bridge to contain a couple of seated figures, then the viper bays were both big enough to hold one Viper each. Maybe if they'd built that 22' one I would have gotten my fix and my poor mother would have had her livingroom back a lot sooner.
Ok, that is cool!! I hope you have some photos of it!!
I was 10 in 79 and a huge fan. I started to say I dont remember that Galactica. I had that pistol. may still have it not sure.
The Galactica command ship was never issued. Big mistake on Mattel’s part! It would have been a hit with kids!
The talking Daggit plush was listed for $13 in the 1979 JCPenney Christmas Catalog.
It is the one piece of Battlestar Galactica merchandise I wish I had the most.
It’s a great toy. Not hard to find today but can be a little pricey. I wish it was still that old price!
I have the Cylon Raider, Colonial Vider and Stellar Probe ... somewhere :P I recently found some of the parts when cleaning out old boxes. Found the Ovian with his robe, daggett and cylons.
Wish that 22" Galactica would have come out!
There is always hope that a company like Diamond Select will issue an electronic BSG. There is demand!!
Kids now a days don't know what thier missing, I can remember going through toy catalogs for hours making my Santa wish list. Sears had one of the best.
Now most malls don't even have toy stores anymore. Amazon is really killing childhoods if you as me.
I know. When those catalogs would arrive I spent hours staring at each page. Fun memories!
When I seen the thumbnail and saw that large Battlestar Galactica toy I thought I missed something because I don't remember that one in the stores.. but after watching your video I see why now😢
I know! It hurts!!! 🥹
That's a very high quality brochure
A lot of money went into it! Mattel was well known for their high quality catalogs!
That was so cool thay should make them now..that slime game would fly off the shelf now lol
I agree!
Look at all that time they spent coming up with incredible toys I mean all the different ideas fun time for toys I had the . I had the Shogun Warrior masinga and now I have the 3 generation one wish I had my original one to lol
until early last year I had those 2 hand held games!
I was moving so they got sold with my entire video game collection!
regrets? yes need to get a few back
Still fun to play! Thanks for watching!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 I agree Will be lookiting for them at garage/yard sales this year
We looked for the large BSG toy but never found it. Instead, I had one of the foam launchers. It was pretty cool, but the foam vipers were warped. I was a little disappointed about that, and their detail level at the time.
The hard plastic viper toy was excellent though for the brief time I had it.
As a child I really wanted more, and definitely would have asked for more had they been available. I wound up getting Star Wars stuff after that, but was always looking for BSG when going to local hobby and toy stores. IIRC anything VIPER was chronically sold out.
I’m hoping (but it does not look good. See my Star Trek Hurts BSG episode) that we get a whole new line of toys! We deserve it! Lol! Thanks for watching!
I still have the Space Alert game. Still works!
That is a great game! Mattel should reissue it for BSG anniversary!
Interesting, I’m not sure where I saw it, but I do remember seeing something about that 22” Galactica as a kid. Of course I never got one lol.
It was all over the media for a while. Starlog magazine even showed it off! Why Mattel really canceled it is a true toy mystery!!
Now THIS is the Galactica I want!
I know! Mattel dropped the ball!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 And dropped it BIG TIME. I wonder if any heads rolled at Mattel back in the day. We can only wonder.
DAMN I miss being a kid lol (was in the 1st grade during that time)
Lol! You must have been the perfect age for MOTU!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Actually I wasnt a He-Man fan like that it was cool but I only had like 3 figures. I was a big BSG, Buck Rogers, Star Wars, Transformers and GIJoe fan tho lol
Mattel must still have the mold for that 22' Galactica model, and I'm sure that someone has the prototype in an attic somewhere.
I would buy 10 for a whole fleet! Lol!
Love this channel! BSG rules! I'd like to know more about those large-size action figures. The Colonial Warrior had to be some previously-released toy that was repurposed for BSG because it looks nothing like the warriors on the show.
Will be taking a look at all of the Mattel toys soon. Thanks for watching!
About four years ago at the Doctor Who convention here in Los Angeles named Gallifrey one dealer had one of the original test shots of the 22 inch Battlestar Galactica toy on display prior to it going up on auction. The test shot was in a sort of chocolate brown the reason for this is that many times and they doing test shots it’s just to check and see if the mold Works and they will use whatever Plastic is already in the injection folder. It doesn’t matter for their test parts to be in the right color.
Very cool! I wish that I could have seen that!!
I don't understand why they have never released more figures ...... where are Apollo , Boomer , Boxy , Athena , Shiva .... and many more . I'm sure kids would love also the flying bikes.
Mattel had no faith in BG. That is why their product line was so small.
i never bought the humans, but i find it odd that Apollo wasn't made, but his dad was. As a kid i'd rather play with Apollo than an old man.
My latest episode talks about what happened to the Apollo figure that was supposed to be made. Hint: He became Adama!
I miss the 80s where vehicle and players where nothing was not allowed. Gijoe had some huge vehicles
The Hasbro line was amazing! I remember being blown away when I first saw that huge aircraft carrier ship in Toys R Us!
I still have the 4 other toys that featured alongside the Landram, somewhere in my attic. All still in excellent condition hopefully (i haven't looked at them in 40 years). I loved them enormously, although the Cylon craft had a problem keeping the figure within (remedied by a tiny piece of blue tac). Also have some of the featured figures. Sadly could never get ahold of the Daggit(?), and managed to lose my Cylon- a disappointing figure with only movable shoulder joint and swivel waist. But still a prominent menacing villain in my Galactica/Star Wars x-overs. =)
It really was hit or miss with early Mattel BSG. Had the show been renewed we would have seen some better toys.
The little boy with the Talking Daggitt plush toy looks a little like Noah Hathaway(Boxey) when he starred on Galactica in 1978-'79. Didn't anyone else see the resemblance to him. He does look exactly like child star Noah Hathaway. I noticed it right away soon as I saw that page in the catalog.
Your right! It could be him!
I still have my Battlestar Galactica Space Alert game. It might even still work, just need a battery for it.
Classic game that is still challenging to play!!
I still have Space Alert. Battery cover is missing but it still works.
It’s classic! What’s your best score?
When I was a kid I had that Giant Godzilla (0:35) and loved it to death.
Some boys I knew had the Mazinga and Gaiking. I think someone had that
Raydeen as well. I was 5 so memory is hazy haha
I had that Varitank at 1:03 though I don't know why. Other than my Dad had
a habit of buying me lots of Japanese toys. I had no idea these were Mattel
til this video hahaha. I had the Cylon ship and Vyper. Mine were before they
removed the spring so the did shoot the little bullet. And I had the Moffet
figure but not the big talking doll. I lost everything when my parents got
divorced. My mom refused to let me take most of it with me.
Except Godzilla. She couldn't pry that away from me hahaha
Great story! I never had Godzilla but he looked amazing!!
HOLY CRAP I REMEMBER THAT!
Thanks for watching! Hope the memories are good!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Each and EVERY single one!
I had a LOT of toys as a kid. I had all those large Shogun Warriors, including the Godzilla. I had a bunch of the smaller ones, though I don't recall which. I only had a few of the e BSG toys. I know I had the Daggit figure, and maybe Adama and the Cylon, and I had one of the vehicles. I think it was the one with the wheels. My mother threw out all the BSG stuff when we moved, the small Shogun warriors got left at her boyfriend's house when they broke up, and the big ones were sold at the end of the 90s to make up for debt incurred by my ex. I'd rather have that stuff back than either of those women.
Lol! Thanks for sharing your story!!
They could had made the Galactica the size of the The G.I Joe USS Flagg and sold a ton I bet. I want one now! 🍻
Now that would have been cool!!!
We had the old cylon and vipers that kids were choking on. If you returned them Mattel would swap them with versions that would no longer shoot! Laaaame! I always remember thinking it was those slower kids that ruined it for the rest of us!!
It was a major design flaw. It was bound to happen as the same type of projectiles were also used in many other toys.
I still have that Shogun Godzilla. I don't remember the Godzilla Gang line. I wish I did.
I don’t remember them as well but I wish I had them now!!
At the time this catalog was produced, I believe the Kenner Star Wars line was really just taking off as the 3.75 inch line hit store shelves in the second and third quarter of 1978. Do you think Mattel and other toy company executives connected the success of the Star Wars line to the scale of the figures coupled with vehicles or did they see the success relating more to the specific IP license? Based on this catalog, it feels like Mattel thought anything branded with the IP would sell, which they had just seen happen with Star Wars in late 1977 with puzzles and board games and coloring books. Looking back, it seems obvious now the scale of the figures drove the long term success of the Kenner line, but would anyone in the industry in 1978 have foreseen that or was Mattel throwing every scale at the wall to see what stuck?
Mattel basically gave up on the boys action figure category during the 1970s. When they picked up the license to BG did not know what to do!
That Shogun toy line-up
Amazing toys!! Super7 is coming close but still can’t match the originals!
Well in my opinion...it's still not too late for someone to build one. Maybe a die-cast one.
Right now the main stream toy industry is hurting and is very risk adverse. I’m hoping that a small company like Diamond Select toys, who has a great track record with older properties, does something with BSG. We can dream!!
I had a few of these items.
Great toys! Thanks for watching!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 my pleasure, thanks for creating the content. Great to see the catalog and know that there were others.
Love the large scale battle star, shame it never went to production.
Man i wish I could get my hands on one of them you f up mattel but who the hell would have none this was to be so big
I agree! What a blunder!
I had a baiking giant shogun guy too
Those giant robot figures were so cool!!!
Huh, never saw that catalog before, and that's the exact thing I loved to collect growing up! I was wondering how I had somehow missed a Battlestar toy, glad (?) to see I didn't, it just wasn't released. I wanted a Battlestar toy SO badly that I (sigh) simply held my Star Wars landspeeder *upside down* and pretended that it was one! ☺
I had the Space Alert game, always thought it looked like the bombs the characters place in a Cylon base on one of the eps...Does anyone remember the controversy of the Cylon Raiders, that so many kids were choking to death on the pellets they shot up, until they replaced them with ones that stayed connected to the ship?
I had the large Shogun Warriors and the "flame breath" Godzilla! Actually found one at a collectibles store here in Michigan not so long ago, but I guess the "flame tongue" is pretty fragile, as they asked me not to use it...
That Godzilla is amazing and has been reissued by Super7! Thanks for sharing your memories!
Now imagine if the Powers that be decided to do a Crowd Funded, Updated, 22 inch or longer Galactica.
Then if it was Produced, and I would be one of the many, they could ReTool it and do the Modern 2004 Version.
That would be a dream for so many collectors! How about one for each show!
I had the Lasermatic pistol!
It was a cool piece. I just wish that it looked like a blaster from the show!
Probably one of the coolest things I had was the Xbox video game Battlestar Galactica the dealt with a Adama being a pilot
That game was HARD! I could never finish it. Did you? If so you are a true warrior!! 😊
Actually I think I did it reminded me of Robotech I had two of those games when it comes to the cylons centurions I prefer the old ones add the story that they were created by reptilians
its too bad they don't produce these items now.. There are so many toys from the past that would be a great seller now.
I agree!
The Vaitank and Vertilift vehicles from the Shogun Warriors line, were originally released in Japan as part of the toys for Himitsu Sentai Gorenger series, which was the first series of Super Sentai which would go on to become Power Rangers
Wow! Had no idea. Thanks for info!
I wished they would have been issued for purchase
Maybe Mattel will issue it someday as part of their collector series of toys. We can only hope!
I still have a plastic shot-out laser beam stuck in my trachea to this day. I loved Battlestar Galactica yet everyone has called me Jawa since the incident.
I bet it hurts! 😂
@@battlestarcollectica7106It hurts about as much as trying to tead a Cylon’s eyes. I’ve heard a Cylon has NEVER passed a DUI test when police check their eye movements. 😂
I had a Raider, Viper, Probe & Scarab (with the interchangeable parts) (but not the Landram) from 01:43, but they were the later versions after they fixed them so the little red "torpedoes" couldn't shoot out (some stupid kid probably shot one up his nose). So I took them apart and filed the bits off that prevented them from shooting out.
Those toys sold very well for Mattel. Had the show been renewed for a second season the line would have expanded with new ships (including a new Cylon ship)!
Wasn’t there also a Gold colored version of the Cylon Centurian? I vaguely remember that.
Yes, the Cylon Commander! He was produced a little latter on and is very hard to find!
I would have sold my parents for that Galactica
Lol!!!
LOL - I am right there with you Susi.
Big fan of Battlestar Galactica, but one thing in the catalog strike me the laser pistol so we’re not going so no one has mentioned it it doesn’t look like what I think it looks mr. Johnson like I wonder if that’s one of the reason why it was canceled and never released
Maybe.. very good point!
Do you ever remember a diecast metal stock the way to go ship about maybe 3 inches long
I don’t recall that.. Was it BSG?
Wow. I subbed...Wish they would reissue those and make that huge ship maybe a gofund me type thing?
Now that is a great idea!!
Man was Mattel desperate to make up their missed opportunity with Star Wars.
I agree! They rushed BSG which resulted in some less-than-stellar toys! Thanks for watching!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Than again, with the show only having one season, taking their time for more quality products would be too big a gamble as well.
They only have Battlestar Galactica I had when I was a kid what's the Cylon Raider with one Cylon. My second youngest best friend had more than I did later in my middle school years I had a Raider and the Viper model and then in my older days I had a Cylon Centurion figure that and shoulder armor that stuck out it was cool but I was disappointed. I have three Shogun Warriors small metal size and my second youngest best friend I don't remember if you had all three large size but his family was fairly rich
Great memories! Thanks for sharing!!
Black kid on the cover, "racism" wasn't quite as bad as some people make it out now in the 1970's. I was there.
Mattel has always had a very good track record when making toys that appealed to every kid!
Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century were two of the great shows. Some of the effects were used for both shows. I believe the Land Ram only released in Canada also was part of the Buck Rogers line. They should have produced the Giant Galactica. What I don't understand is why they did not produce Vipers and Cylon Raiders the Figures could fit in. When the TV series was brought back they could have even brought back the old figures. Mattel and Mego kind of F'd up things the Black Hole figures and the Star Trek figures from the 1st movie and not having figures for the wrath of Khan.
Imagine if Mego had obtained the BSG license. They would have nailed it!!
I had the missed firing ships before they were stopped some of the all metal shogun figures but if they had made the Battlestar galactica I would have gotten it
They could have sold a million world wide!
I would have put it right next to the space 1999 eagle plus I think more then a million. How come ships dont have sound effects anymore like they use to hate the new ones
Man I wish we could go back to 79! Toys suck now.
I agree! Thanks for watching!
Hello! I already subscribe your channel! Do you have the V collection?
V? You mean the Arco toys?
@@battlestarcollectica7106 yes. V is a show about motherships on Earth 🛸🛸🛸🛸