The thing about Leia is her action figure changes so many times 1995-2013! Lucky Monkey Face (her worst likeness) ended in two years 1995 and 1996 before she looked really great in Slave Leia, New likeness and Hoth with Freeze Frames. Also the four 2-packs ending 1996. Then Leia Ceremony 1998 her most beautiful face! 1999-2002 less sequels but more Prequels until 2003 and on Leia got greater looks!
Same here in the UK with Asda stores (owned by Walmart) I got lucky with a full wave once, not seen a thing since, and it's not just Asda, other stores are no better here.
I didn't like how buff they made the main characters but the aliens in this line were great, and I liked the two packs of things llike Jawas, Ewoks and Ugnaughts.
Star Wars Toys in 1995. Releasing at midnight, people fighting over them. Crazy lines. Huge demand. Star Wars Toys in 2019... in the bargain bin at Dollar Stores.
I remember one shopping trip to Toys R Us. I was 20 years old and pushed a nerdy autistic kid down onto his butt. He was holding an Obi Wan Kenobi figure which i swiftly ripped out of his hands. His mom got all uppity with me for putting my hands on her 8 yr old boy. Guess she must've been really surprised when her cheek caught the back side of my hand. Somebody called the cops, but i was already pulling out of the parking lot when they arrived from the opposite side.
@@skunk12 In a way she created mine. I wasn't collecting but then all this stuff started showing up in the dollar store. Started with those die cast ships.
I still remember being so blown away when the Episode 1 toys came out. Seeing Maul's face where Vader's used to be seemed amazing to me! Too bad you can find those toys everywhere for $6.
The only toys you could really find between 1985 and 1995 were bend-ems. Oh nm, I see you covered it. Anyway. When the new figures launched, I was 21. After going through my dark, heavy metal teens, I found my happy place again. Visiting Toy R Us was like going to Disneyland. I went a few times a week. Wish I could go back in time.
The Princess Leia of 1995 or 1996 is termed Monkey Face Leia! In 1996 with Slave Leia and the 2-packs Kenner or Hasbro tried to get Carrie Fisher's better looks! The 1995-6 Monkey Leia was retooled into Princess Leia Organa of ANH in 1977 with a better looking Freeze Frame action slide Leia in 1997!
She looks like the Hungarian lunch lady I had in my junior high school. Seeing her every day set back my puberty by at least 3 years. The Leia figure was disturbing.
The only thing good about those 'Bend 'Ems' 'figures' was the free Topps Star Wars Galaxy trading card, included inside every pack, the figures were trash. As for the 1995 'The Power Of The Steroids' line of Star Wars toys it was cool just to have them back again even if they did look very pumped.
The Mail Order Exclusives 😍. You can’t imagine how exciting it was as a kid to wait and finally get B’omarr Monk or Oola. I spent a lot of allowance money on those Exclusives.
Great look back! Never saw these figures in Germany somehow, but in the mid 1990s I was anyway completely out of the action figures world. That‘s why my initial Star Wars encounter was Super Return of the Jedi on the SNES. 😂
I loved the 90s POTF. This was my drug as a kid. The buffness never really bothered me that much. To me, the 1995 Luke figure looks alot like the old Star Wars poster of Luke with his lightsaber raised high above his head. :) I started collecting in 1997 after I saw Star Wars Special Edition in theaters. I WISH I could've seen it in 77, but this was the next best thing. Once I exited the theater, I was absolutely pumped. I was HOOKED.
So how did the 1994 marketing meeting go? "Hey, let's bring back Star Wars figures, but let's make them ugly!" "Yes, ugly is good, but also let's make them look like big bulky wrestlers." "You're a genius, Roberts, a genius! But let's also give them ridiculously large weapons! Let's make Han's pistol larger than his head!" And that's how Star Wars returned in 1995.
LOL. I love these so much. We all thought they were collectible gold. I bet their are more still in the package than ones that were opened. I vow to liberate as many as I can.
I'm surprised even til this this day that the power of the force 2 line from the 90s is strong and you can still find plenty of carded figures til this day making it easy in some respects to still get like new figures from that line that still look great til this very day.
As a 10 year old when these came out, I was obsessed with these! Trying to find a Princess Leia or Stormtrooper was almost impossible to find as well as a Boba Fett!
Yeah they had funky proportions, but for someone like myself who missed out during the vintage line (was just a little too young, born in '82) it was exciting to finally have some figures (the bend-ems were a disappointment, sorry not sorry) and vehicles to get. In my area at the time, the two hardest figures to find were C-3PO and Princess Leia, and felt a sense of triumph when I got my mitts on them. Good memories.
The only things in that first wave that were an upgrade over the original Kenner versions were R2 and C-3PO, and possibly the Stormtrooper since his head could finally turn, as well as the ships. Of course the ships were the same ones designed by Kenner almost 20 years prior. But the new paint jobs and slight modifications were great. The Land Speeder, for example, looks 100X better than the original. But it was hard to get the new bulky figures into the ships. I defy anyone to stick the 1995 Han and Chewbacca into the cockpit of the Falcon and close the lid.
What an awesome line. The Luke X Wing with the affixed figure is legendary!! Also the deluxe figure sets were so cool. and the battery operated R2!! I could go on forever
I remember going to the local towns independent toy shop in 1996 for new figures and they had actually found some return of the jedi figures in the back of the shop that had fallen down the back of the shelves and stayed there for the last ten years, and they were on sale, needles to say I brought them.
Theres reason why Starwars was reintroduced around 1995 was full circle beyond toys, Directors cut was shown in cinemas of the 3 films, I remember seeing New Hope in cinema in 1996 I think, one of those years
I said "around that time" 1997 would make more way more sense to see that film as I remember seeing it with my cousins. Then they got carried away soon after that around 1999 Episode 1 came out
these were the best, I still have them at my parents house, These were great to play with even though the toys dont look the part. I also loved that they made alot of expaned universe figures, Dark empire luke, kyle katarn and even Thrawn!
I was in love when the 95 line came out. I grew up watching the VHS tapes every single day after school. Thinking about it now..... I feel the boom of 90's toys/games was an attempt to get kids back on board because George finally decided to move forward (although backward chronologically) with new movies. Brilliant marketing
PLEASE tell me there will be a Part 2 (and 3 and 4 and 5 and...) of this review! I'd like to see the releases of the "green card" waves of figures as well as the respective vehicles and playsets, including the "Shadows Of The Empire" sideline (Prince Xizor, Dash Rendar, Swoop Biker, etc)!
1993-1996 was when I was a Star Wars fan. Best time to be one. You had only the original great films, minimal merchandise, no abundance of poisonous fanboys.
I had got luke with a desert standing vehicle with luke , luke in training kit ,storm trooper, vader with battle platform , somw red dude on a red speeder bike , a tie fighter pilot type dude ,c3po and the snow speeder very cool .
Remember hunting down the OST box set (still the best collection). I think I got the only copy in my city. Also got Steve Sansweets first book for Xmas. Oh, and Heir to The Empire books and Dark Empire comics, I bought all the figures and vehicles,,, good times!
I’m ungodly lucky because my local comic book store sells these figures for the same price they would’ve been back in the day so I’m able to get these amazing figures for like 5-10 dollars
Great episode! I love this toy line, I still have all my figures and ships from this line. It was so fun to collect for it as the toy line grew there were SO MANY figures to get. One of my favorite was the Swoop vehicle and pilot from the Shadows of the Empire line.
great video i was so happy that star wars toys returned in 95 because it allowed me to collect all the star wars toys i never had in the 1970's and 80's
Love this episode. i was 15 in 1995 so I went all in collecting these since I couldnt do the old toys as a kid. So many memories and i remember surfing the web just too look at Star Wars toys back in 96-98 when the internet was all new and would take like 5-10 minutes to load that one picture! Nice to see a Dan and Dan collab as well! Thanks guys!
I first became a Star Wars fan in 1995. Just a short while afterwards this brand of new toys first came out. I had a few of the action figures from the first two waves of those back then as well as the X-Wing and TIE Fighter.
When I saw the advertisement in the back of a toy magazine (yes, there were a few publications) for these I was so excited! I cut out the picture and would carry it around with me so I could daydream about the time they'd be in my hands. I requested and got a TMNT Technodrome playset when I finally got these figures in hand to double as the Death Star!
I should've done the same as you. Now I'm stuck with all my potf figures and I have a lot. Now I collect the vintage collection which is far superior, I wonder if there will be better figures in the future and I'll have a hard time to get rid of the vintage collection as well.
The Leia figure in this line was rather hideous. I bought a ton of these figures at the time, as I was born during the darkest time to be a Star Wars fan and had only a few vintage ones from when I was like 1.
Good times😁 tan vest Luke. Nuff said. Hope there's a part 2. And yes this was huge for Star Wars fans. Was a perfect storm because it was right around the time the internet was taking off
Woah....I totally disagree with what was said about the POTF2 Chewie. It's *the* figure that got me into collecting. That's the one out of the initial figures (Leia wasn't apart of that) that stood out in being the sharpest and coolest of the bunch. The only other one I thought was awesome was Vader.
I was born in '89, so was at that ripe, perfect age to need something to latch onto right when the og Trilogy was released as a set on VHS and this toy series released. I lapped up as MUCH as I could lol. I actually just found my Boba Fett PotF figure last week. He's missing his Wookie skins, though :( hahaha
@@matthewpahnke2613 ... The better ones are bought up ... but still oversaturated to ever be a collector value even though people buying them think so (like the black series 3 3/4 and 6 inch many many people outside the U.S. in many nations are buying up)!
Mine didn't even have a spot for Star Wars figures when the last movie was released. Though, I did get a nice Robby the Robot and Godzilla there around that time. It's telling when characters from 65 year old movies and the third Jumanji are considered a safer choice for retailers than Star Wars.
Common mistake made when talking about 80's Star Wars figures stopping production. Kenner was on board to making TONS MORE but Lucas himself pulled the plug to give Star Wars a rest to do other things. Remember, the license with Kenner didn't really make him much money at all. He only got like $10 thouand a year guaranteed plus 5 cents for every $100 Kenner sold
I was obsessed with this line when it first came out.... fast forward to now and you can't sell any of these for more than ten bucks a piece because they are super common. even the annoying variants with the lightsabers,the full circle/half circle on boba fetts hands,The dots on leias belt etc etc.
Love the power of the force era, toy shops packed with figures, I was 8 at the time, so seeing all those toy aisles full with star wars was overwhelming, the special edition release brought star wars back to being as popular as it ever was, probably my favourite year for star wars
Another odd thing not mentioned in this video is Princess "Val Kilmer" Leia. It's notorious in the community that the face look a like a man; well, particularly Kilmer.
It's funny, the blaster for Han is "a little" oversized. I compared it one day to the Black Series and they're about the same size. I always assumed the figures were based on that 77 poster that had a buff Luke with Leia at his feet holding the Lightsaber aloft. I refuse to talk trash about this line of figures.Always assumed that the heroic proportions were inspired by that poster. Later when they said they were worried about competing with superhero figures it made even more sense. 90s POTF & 2000's Vintage Collection are my absolute favorite lines of all time.
They killed our favorite characters. Why would I buy them? There adventure is 💀 dead!?! Han shot first. But I no longer care about starwars. - I’m out. I was a die hard fan... but Ryan Jonson and Kathleen kenidiy made sure it sucks
I worked at ToyRUs during the Star Wars resurgence and it was cool. I was buying up all the figures and decking my wall out with them. I didnt care that they were buff. I remember the vehicles lining the shelf. So cool.
2:15: There is actually a mistake in that version of the Kenner logo. Someone making Kenner styled merchandise actually has modified the logo: the “K” has a weird line that joins it onto the first “E” but actually this was never used by the company in 1975-2000 when the logo was used. Not even Hasbro from its use of the Kenner logo has used this version. Hasbro still uses the original version of the 1975-2000 Kenner logo. The actual logo has the “K” stop before the “E” rather than joining onto it.
The criticisms don't make sense. I mean, they do and they don't. Yeah, they're too buff, weapons too big, yadda, so what? You love the OG figures, but WHEN did Luke have a yellow lightsaber? How is Ben movie accurate with that thing on his back? Why can't Han even hold his blaster? Ah, suddenly movie accurate isn't that important to you huh? I mean, they're toys and have the expected flaws of their own context in time. Hating these over that stuff is just plain stupid.
I remember this Return. I think it was actually late 1994. I actually wanted a few of the figures after watching Star Wars for the first time that holiday season. I remember being greatly disappointed by the look figures. They were really nimble, small and unappealing.
Luke really does look like he could take on the whole Empire by himself.
Luke Schwarzenegger. I still have that toy but sadly his light sabers missing.
8:06
"Monkey face Leia"....now that's a name I've not heard in a long time, a long time.
The thing about Leia is her action figure changes so many times 1995-2013! Lucky Monkey Face (her worst likeness) ended in two years 1995 and 1996 before she looked really great in Slave Leia, New likeness and Hoth with Freeze Frames. Also the four 2-packs ending 1996. Then Leia Ceremony 1998 her most beautiful face! 1999-2002 less sequels but more Prequels until 2003 and on Leia got greater looks!
Leia's the dog faced gremlin
You know her?
I remember her being referred to as the Anthony Kiedis Leia
its was anthony kiedis leia, even in the toyfare toyguide appear like that..
I can just go to my local Wal-Mart if I wanna see a toy aisle without Star Wars.
Same here in the UK with Asda stores (owned by Walmart) I got lucky with a full wave once, not seen a thing since, and it's not just Asda, other stores are no better here.
@@markorollo. Your big superstores always had them, but those are relatively few and far between admittedly
Walmart just sells their Star Wars figures online, mostly.
I didn't like how buff they made the main characters but the aliens in this line were great, and I liked the two packs of things llike Jawas, Ewoks and Ugnaughts.
When I first seen POTF compared to the 77 line, it was like how I see Hot Toys now. This line blew me away in 1995.
What do you mean, you think theyre good or shitty?
@@Royinszki x2
They blew you away with disgust for sure, no freaking way anybody likes this ugly looking figures
@@heros670 Standards were a lot different in 1995. You must be pretty young.
Star Wars Toys in 1995. Releasing at midnight, people fighting over them. Crazy lines. Huge demand. Star Wars Toys in 2019... in the bargain bin at Dollar Stores.
Knightfall182 can't believe we have less articulation now
I remember one shopping trip to Toys R Us. I was 20 years old and pushed a nerdy autistic kid down onto his butt. He was holding an Obi Wan Kenobi figure which i swiftly ripped out of his hands.
His mom got all uppity with me for putting my hands on her 8 yr old boy. Guess she must've been really surprised when her cheek caught the back side of my hand.
Somebody called the cops, but i was already pulling out of the parking lot when they arrived from the opposite side.
Thank you Kathleen Kennedy.
@@MrM-u3h yeah, "Thanks Kathleen Kennedy" she cured me of my Star Wars addiction.
@@skunk12 In a way she created mine. I wasn't collecting but then all this stuff started showing up in the dollar store. Started with those die cast ships.
May The 4Th Be With You Pixel Dan! Also RIP Peter Mayhew!
The overly buff body types remind me of the oldschool poster art. Where Luke looks like a frazetta painting.
I'm fine with it.
Buff characters...oversized weapons...questionable likenesses...in 1995 none of that mattered to me as I yanked my wallet at lightspeed.
Me too. I should've waited 15 yrs later. The figures were a lot better.
@Robd1 replies I'll be donating those older power of the force figures to goodwill. Those suckers take up space and won't be going up in value.
Star Wars MicroMachines ships were also out in 93-94
i still have two packs of those.
Yes, MicroMachines, BendEms and Action Mastees were the only things available in the early 90s
I have a lot of the 93-97 Star Wars Micro Machines ships and vehicles
I liked the micro machine play sets that were a bust of certain characters, I still have c3po, stormtrooper and darth vader.
I had those.
I still remember being so blown away when the Episode 1 toys came out. Seeing Maul's face where Vader's used to be seemed amazing to me! Too bad you can find those toys everywhere for $6.
At least this release gave us our long over due Rebel Fleet Trooper.
Hahahaha im surprised they didn’t make a he-man looking R2D2
well he got a big third leg... that's something!! hahahaha
Even 3PO was jacked.
They did ram man 🤣🤣🤣
More like the Power Of Grayskull! Those early 95-96 figures were jacked! Lando was so buff his puffy blue shirt had abs sculpted on it!
The only toys you could really find between 1985 and 1995 were bend-ems. Oh nm, I see you covered it. Anyway. When the new figures launched, I was 21. After going through my dark, heavy metal teens, I found my happy place again. Visiting Toy R Us was like going to Disneyland. I went a few times a week. Wish I could go back in time.
The Leia figure without the robe...is just SCARY!!!
The Princess Leia of 1995 or 1996 is termed Monkey Face Leia! In 1996 with Slave Leia and the 2-packs Kenner or Hasbro tried to get Carrie Fisher's better looks! The 1995-6 Monkey Leia was retooled into Princess Leia Organa of ANH in 1977 with a better looking Freeze Frame action slide Leia in 1997!
She looks like the Hungarian lunch lady I had in my junior high school. Seeing her every day set back my puberty by at least 3 years. The Leia figure was disturbing.
@@RansomeStoddard :D :D
The figures looked like the common action figure in the mid 90s, thats why they are so big, it was what was selling the most at the time.
Kenner lol that was Hasbro with a Kenner sticker ;)
The only thing good about those 'Bend 'Ems' 'figures' was the free Topps Star Wars Galaxy trading card, included inside every pack, the figures were trash. As for the 1995 'The Power Of The Steroids' line of Star Wars toys it was cool just to have them back again even if they did look very pumped.
The Mail Order Exclusives 😍. You can’t imagine how exciting it was as a kid to wait and finally get B’omarr Monk or Oola. I spent a lot of allowance money on those Exclusives.
I went crazy and bought too many of these back in the day.
Great look back! Never saw these figures in Germany somehow, but in the mid 1990s I was anyway completely out of the action figures world. That‘s why my initial Star Wars encounter was Super Return of the Jedi on the SNES. 😂
While i did not experience it myself my father and brothers bought a ton of Potf star wars stuff so it must have been available somewhere!
I bought the whole line at vedes back then but they were harder to find in regular stores
I loved the 90s POTF.
This was my drug as a kid.
The buffness never really bothered me that much.
To me, the 1995 Luke figure looks alot like the old Star Wars poster of Luke with his lightsaber raised high above his head. :)
I started collecting in 1997 after I saw Star Wars Special Edition in theaters.
I WISH I could've seen it in 77, but this was the next best thing.
Once I exited the theater, I was absolutely pumped.
I was HOOKED.
I can accept that buff physique was a bit much, but the head sculpts were dead on. They looked great
So how did the 1994 marketing meeting go?
"Hey, let's bring back Star Wars figures, but let's make them ugly!"
"Yes, ugly is good, but also let's make them look like big bulky wrestlers."
"You're a genius, Roberts, a genius! But let's also give them ridiculously large weapons! Let's make Han's pistol larger than his head!"
And that's how Star Wars returned in 1995.
LOL. I love these so much. We all thought they were collectible gold. I bet their are more still in the package than ones that were opened. I vow to liberate as many as I can.
Probably so. Everyone wanted to keep theirs MIB for resale later. I am one of them!
The stormtroopers particularly the sand troopers in this line were the greatest thing ever!!!!!
I scarfed up everything I could from this line! So much fun peg hunting these toys🤘 Toysplosion is awesome!
They were the final peg hunting days.. that was the end of store magic.. I believe
I'm surprised even til this this day that the power of the force 2 line from the 90s is strong and you can still find plenty of carded figures til this day making it easy in some respects to still get like new figures from that line that still look great til this very day.
Leia looks like Han with cinnamon buns attached!
As a 10 year old when these came out, I was obsessed with these! Trying to find a Princess Leia or Stormtrooper was almost impossible to find as well as a Boba Fett!
Yeah they had funky proportions, but for someone like myself who missed out during the vintage line (was just a little too young, born in '82) it was exciting to finally have some figures (the bend-ems were a disappointment, sorry not sorry) and vehicles to get. In my area at the time, the two hardest figures to find were C-3PO and Princess Leia, and felt a sense of triumph when I got my mitts on them. Good memories.
Nice video Dan , but that collecion is ugly!
The only things in that first wave that were an upgrade over the original Kenner versions were R2 and C-3PO, and possibly the Stormtrooper since his head could finally turn, as well as the ships. Of course the ships were the same ones designed by Kenner almost 20 years prior. But the new paint jobs and slight modifications were great. The Land Speeder, for example, looks 100X better than the original. But it was hard to get the new bulky figures into the ships. I defy anyone to stick the 1995 Han and Chewbacca into the cockpit of the Falcon and close the lid.
What an awesome line. The Luke X Wing with the affixed figure is legendary!! Also the deluxe figure sets were so cool. and the battery operated R2!! I could go on forever
I remember going to the local towns independent toy shop in 1996 for new figures and they had actually found some return of the jedi figures in the back of the shop that had fallen down the back of the shelves and stayed there for the last ten years, and they were on sale, needles to say I brought them.
Theres reason why Starwars was reintroduced around 1995 was full circle beyond toys, Directors cut was shown in cinemas of the 3 films, I remember seeing New Hope in cinema in 1996 I think, one of those years
Those were released in 1997.
I said "around that time" 1997 would make more way more sense to see that film as I remember seeing it with my cousins. Then they got carried away soon after that around 1999 Episode 1 came out
@@RetroBusker it was the special edition
YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! SO GOOD! I'll always have a love for these particular Star Wars toys.
these were the best, I still have them at my parents house,
These were great to play with even though the toys dont look the part.
I also loved that they made alot of expaned universe figures,
Dark empire luke, kyle katarn and even Thrawn!
I love these, and i will always have a special place in my heart for their simple, durable designs and the sheer amount of characters we got
I was in love when the 95 line came out. I grew up watching the VHS tapes every single day after school. Thinking about it now..... I feel the boom of 90's toys/games was an attempt to get kids back on board because George finally decided to move forward (although backward chronologically) with new movies. Brilliant marketing
PLEASE tell me there will be a Part 2 (and 3 and 4 and 5 and...) of this review!
I'd like to see the releases of the "green card" waves of figures as well as the respective vehicles and playsets, including the "Shadows Of The Empire" sideline (Prince Xizor, Dash Rendar, Swoop Biker, etc)!
1993-1996 was when I was a Star Wars fan. Best time to be one. You had only the original great films, minimal merchandise, no abundance of poisonous fanboys.
I had got luke with a desert standing vehicle with luke , luke in training kit ,storm trooper, vader with battle platform , somw red dude on a red speeder bike , a tie fighter pilot type dude ,c3po and the snow speeder very cool .
Remember hunting down the OST box set (still the best collection). I think I got the only copy in my city. Also got Steve Sansweets first book for Xmas. Oh, and Heir to The Empire books and Dark Empire comics, I bought all the figures and vehicles,,, good times!
YAY more toy splosions I haven't seen another episode in a while you should make more of these on a constant basis
I’m ungodly lucky because my local comic book store sells these figures for the same price they would’ve been back in the day so I’m able to get these amazing figures for like 5-10 dollars
Absolutely amazing! Thank you so much!
The physiques on these characters are kinda like the very early Star Wars Marvel comics. Luke looked pretty jacked in those too!
I loved the return of the Star Wars toys. Contributed to make also the 1990s to be a good decade.
Even Luke's xwing was ripped.
😂😂😂
Great episode! I love this toy line, I still have all my figures and ships from this line. It was so fun to collect for it as the toy line grew there were SO MANY figures to get. One of my favorite was the Swoop vehicle and pilot from the Shadows of the Empire line.
YES!
SOTE was one of my favorites. Loved the book, but I never had the video game. I wanted to track down the soundtrack at some point
Or as I commonly call them. Beef cake Figures! lol
Star Wars meets He-Man xD I dont like these figures haha
great video i was so happy that star wars toys returned in 95 because it allowed me to collect all the star wars toys i never had in the 1970's and 80's
Love this episode. i was 15 in 1995 so I went all in collecting these since I couldnt do the old toys as a kid. So many memories and i remember surfing the web just too look at Star Wars toys back in 96-98 when the internet was all new and would take like 5-10 minutes to load that one picture! Nice to see a Dan and Dan collab as well! Thanks guys!
I was the same age 15 in 95, but I still had all my original vintage.
I first became a Star Wars fan in 1995. Just a short while afterwards this brand of new toys first came out. I had a few of the action figures from the first two waves of those back then as well as the X-Wing and TIE Fighter.
The mid 90s were my Era for star wars toys. Had several storm troopers to make up a unit . Cheers for the memories
Hard to believe this potf line is 24 yrs already. When released in 95 the original kenner line was only 17 yrs old. Crazy
And the POTF figures aren't worth much like the originals are.
Luke “He-Man” Skywalker. Lol.
Who are your favourite Star Wars characters? I have three: Han Solo,Ashoka Tano and Darth Bane.
The Galoob Micromachines packs from around this time were an obsession for me and my friends.
Star Wars is forever!
Great vid! You should do one on the first wave of 200x heman figures in the same vain as well
I love the POTF2 line have about the entire collection of them
We need to thank the bend ems or we would have no star wars figures today !
When I saw the advertisement in the back of a toy magazine (yes, there were a few publications) for these I was so excited! I cut out the picture and would carry it around with me so I could daydream about the time they'd be in my hands. I requested and got a TMNT Technodrome playset when I finally got these figures in hand to double as the Death Star!
..these are everywhere on ebay! I sold all of mine when they got better sculpts with the PotJ line..saga..trilogy and Legacy lines!
Good to know I can go buy a Luke-He-Man figurine easily.
I should've done the same as you. Now I'm stuck with all my potf figures and I have a lot. Now I collect the vintage collection which is far superior, I wonder if there will be better figures in the future and I'll have a hard time to get rid of the vintage collection as well.
That first run Leia looks like a German au pair.
The world desperately needs buff 3po
Those steroid figs! Man I hunted those down back then. Now they’re all stuffed away in boxes in our barn, carded ..and hardly worth a dime..
A lot of us got carried away and bought more than we should've and now they're taking up space since we can't get rid of them.
Princess (Fatima Whitbread) Leia
I would have loved to have seen a buff R2-D2
May the Fourth be with you
The Leia figure in this line was rather hideous.
I bought a ton of these figures at the time, as I was born during the darkest time to be a Star Wars fan and had only a few vintage ones from when I was like 1.
These figures can hardly fit into the ships! Too much muscles. Not accurate with the real characters. I do not like them.
you never could get Han and Chew in the cockpit of the Falcon
Good times😁 tan vest Luke. Nuff said. Hope there's a part 2. And yes this was huge for Star Wars fans. Was a perfect storm because it was right around the time the internet was taking off
Those figures had too many muscles
Folks forget during this time Dark Horse Comics brought back the interest as well. With its old and new stories from years before Luke and the gang
Woah....I totally disagree with what was said about the POTF2 Chewie. It's *the* figure that got me into collecting. That's the one out of the initial figures (Leia wasn't apart of that) that stood out in being the sharpest and coolest of the bunch. The only other one I thought was awesome was Vader.
Please just talk normally.
Great toys I have them too good memories
I still have a big bag of my original figures from this line! My daughter plays with them now.
Same, except a small bag :)
I was into these figures from 1996-1999, but then I stopped collecting them. However I did like the vehicles.
I started collecting Star Wars figures in 1979, when I was 2. I never knew about these other lines.
I was born in '89, so was at that ripe, perfect age to need something to latch onto right when the og Trilogy was released as a set on VHS and this toy series released. I lapped up as MUCH as I could lol. I actually just found my Boba Fett PotF figure last week. He's missing his Wookie skins, though :( hahaha
My cousin used to own these figures way back in the day
I don't have to imagine what Toy aisles would look like without Star Wars.
All I have to do is go to Walmart...
Yup. This is the new 1985. Even stores with product have the smallest about of racks of figures I've ever seen.
@@matthewpahnke2613 ... The better ones are bought up ... but still oversaturated to ever be a collector value even though people buying them think so (like the black series 3 3/4 and 6 inch many many people outside the U.S. in many nations are buying up)!
hard to keep them in stock?
Mine didn't even have a spot for Star Wars figures when the last movie was released. Though, I did get a nice Robby the Robot and Godzilla there around that time. It's telling when characters from 65 year old movies and the third Jumanji are considered a safer choice for retailers than Star Wars.
Common mistake made when talking about 80's Star Wars figures stopping production. Kenner was on board to making TONS MORE but Lucas himself pulled the plug to give Star Wars a rest to do other things. Remember, the license with Kenner didn't really make him much money at all. He only got like $10 thouand a year guaranteed plus 5 cents for every $100 Kenner sold
I was obsessed with this line when it first came out.... fast forward to now and you can't sell any of these for more than ten bucks a piece because they are super common. even the annoying variants with the lightsabers,the full circle/half circle on boba fetts hands,The dots on leias belt etc etc.
Love the power of the force era, toy shops packed with figures, I was 8 at the time, so seeing all those toy aisles full with star wars was overwhelming, the special edition release brought star wars back to being as popular as it ever was, probably my favourite year for star wars
Another odd thing not mentioned in this video is Princess "Val Kilmer" Leia.
It's notorious in the community that the face look a like a man; well, particularly Kilmer.
It's funny, the blaster for Han is "a little" oversized. I compared it one day to the Black Series and they're about the same size. I always assumed the figures were based on that 77 poster that had a buff Luke with Leia at his feet holding the Lightsaber aloft. I refuse to talk trash about this line of figures.Always assumed that the heroic proportions were inspired by that poster. Later when they said they were worried about competing with superhero figures it made even more sense. 90s POTF & 2000's Vintage Collection are my absolute favorite lines of all time.
Buffness and packaging ruins this line.
Truer words were never spoken.
Man I absolutely loved these toys. Jedi Luke was my favorite thing for so long.
They killed our favorite characters. Why would I buy them? There adventure is 💀 dead!?! Han shot first. But I no longer care about starwars. - I’m out. I was a die hard fan... but Ryan Jonson and Kathleen kenidiy made sure it sucks
The 90s run was clunky odd sculpted bad
I worked at ToyRUs during the Star Wars resurgence and it was cool. I was buying up all the figures and decking my wall out with them. I didnt care that they were buff. I remember the vehicles lining the shelf. So cool.
2:15: There is actually a mistake in that version of the Kenner logo. Someone making Kenner styled merchandise actually has modified the logo: the “K” has a weird line that joins it onto the first “E” but actually this was never used by the company in 1975-2000 when the logo was used. Not even Hasbro from its use of the Kenner logo has used this version. Hasbro still uses the original version of the 1975-2000 Kenner logo. The actual logo has the “K” stop before the “E” rather than joining onto it.
The criticisms don't make sense. I mean, they do and they don't. Yeah, they're too buff, weapons too big, yadda, so what? You love the OG figures, but WHEN did Luke have a yellow lightsaber? How is Ben movie accurate with that thing on his back? Why can't Han even hold his blaster? Ah, suddenly movie accurate isn't that important to you huh?
I mean, they're toys and have the expected flaws of their own context in time. Hating these over that stuff is just plain stupid.
Awesome video Dan!!! 😍
Great 👍🏻 information, fun for the whole family to watch together - thanks for keeping it G rated.
Didn't miss much, a lot of Kiss masks, army figures, cowboys/indians, Evel Knievel and the awesome Micronauts. ...and a whole lotta rubber skeletons.
I remember this Return. I think it was actually late 1994. I actually wanted a few of the figures after watching Star Wars for the first time that holiday season. I remember being greatly disappointed by the look figures. They were really nimble, small and unappealing.