Inhumanoids: Part 2 - Clearing Out the Demons - Hasbro 1986
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Michael and Matt conclude their Inhumanoids retrospective with a look at the toys from 1986 and try to figure out why they didn't succeed.
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Monsters for Your Other Toys™ needs to be a thing.
AGREED!
Bossfight should just do that as a subline.
@@retroblasting I just have to say sir, this bit at the end was sheer brilliance! I laughed so hard! I really wish you were in charge of some of these properties. Your Skeletor is spot on perfect!
I actually had Metlar, Tendril and D'Compose. They always fought my 20" Shogun Warrior Godzilla. My GI Joe and Star Wars figure were always caught in the middle. So, yes, the were MONSTERS FOR YOUR OTHER TOYS.
Imperial did that
I am so happy you are covering this underappreciated classic! 😊💓
So many good one-liners in this episode. Also, I don't think that I'm ever going to be able to look at Auger the same way ever again.
Gonna go auger some foreskin today.
I remember my friends having these as a kid, great toy line.
Thanks Retroblasting 👍
Oh man, that ending made me chuckle.
They should have made the suits open up so you can take the figures out, swap things around, maybe put in your favorite gi joe etc.
My parents never had a problem telling me no. They never protested cartoons or toy commercials.
Part one and two were amazing! Great job on the content! I was born in 81 and I remember the commercials but never seen the cartoons, but wish I did. You had me cracking up bro
I gave this a like before I even started to watch it because I love Retroblasting and I have been waiting for part 2 of this awesome toy line :)
Was Melinda's "ew!!!" Scripted, or was it her genuine reaction to reading the script?
It sounded so GENUINE didn't it? 😄
@@donmiles4581 slightly 🤣
@@talesfromthebutchside5613 I'm just guessing that nobody told Liquidator about sexual harassment! 😄
@@donmiles4581 it was the 80s, it didn't exist back then
@@ranwolf76 More like "it was socially acceptable then" kind of thing.
There's a toy line available at the moment called Raw10 that's essentially Monsters For Your Other Toys. It's got cybernetic versions of a giant gorilla, a great white shark, velociraptor and a cobra. I picked up a bunch of the cobras to take on The Joes.
The bit at the end = comedy gold. 🤣 Great voice acting. 👏
Oh, man! I was trying so hard to remember a toy-line's name: Crystarr! Thanks, Mr. Swaford! I had a coulpla figures, and a catapult, when I was a kid.
Somehow, I had Moltar, D-Compose, and Tendryll when I was a kid. And yes, they were the Big Bads that all my hero toys had to conquer. The GI Joes, Sky Commanders, Air Raiders, and the Autobots had to team up to take them down. I definitely regret giving this triad of terror away when I got into my teen years. I still have Tan Rockman, esq. and Metlar. They aren't nearly as epic as the three Big Bads.
Also, your mention of Circus World definitely brought up memories of going to the North DeKalb Mall near Decatur, Ga. and trying to find good stuff in the mark down bins.
Great work as usual!
Dude!!! You also had some Air Raiders, that is awesome. I am the only kid I knew growing up who had any of them. I had I believe one baddie vehicle (a tank with a detachable flying craft), and two hero vehicles. I also had the hero base. My friends never heard of Air Raiders but we'd always play with them when they'd come over.
Yeah! That purple tank, the Dragonwind is my favorite vehicle from the line. The flying drone was made from foam or a weak cardboard, so it got nuked real quick.
Air Raiders were more niche/easily forgotten than the Inhumanoids! Most of the ones from my kid years were from the mark-down bins. I've picked up more via ebay over the past few years since its a moderately easy toyline to get all sets. The figures scale well with the modern Transformers and are close to the Mega Construx Halo figures too.
Glad someone else remembers the Air Raiders!
Props to Matt Swafford!! I REALLY enjoyed his insights!!! So spot on!👏👏👏👏But can we talk about how we got Skeletor AND Cobra Commander.... in the same video! 😭🙌🙌 Thank you Michael!!!!😄
Thanks man!
once again great vid rb
The descriptions in the review were priceless, but the promo at the end "Monsters for Your Other Toys"... Hilarious!
I always loved INHUMANOIDS as a kid, I had DECOMPOSE, METLAR, and liquidator...I wish I still had the toys :(
I think you hit the nail on the head with the wish fulfilment theory. How many of us are trying to appease our younger selves.
Def explains my collection of Robotech toys.
Man I always felt the Inhumanoids were actually the evolution of the Adventure Team.
I had auger and magnacore. I actually was a fan of the series. But I can't argue with what your review is saying
i loved that end skit.
I had the 3 inhumanoids, magnacore, granok and the gray tree guy as a kid. I thought they were great. I wish i still had them all. Especially all 3 of the huge inhumanoids
Only had 1 tree(dark red brown) & magnacor. And some books & coloring books. Always wanted the 3 big Inhumanoids. D’Compose was my favorite, Augor was my favorite good guy. Too bad they never got to the next wave of toys
More than three decades ago, my parents never wanted to buy me the toys from Inhumanoids and Visionaries as they thought these were just a waste of money and looked ridiculous. Now, I told them that those toys that "waste of money" are worth more than what they were before.
I never had any Inhumanoids toys back in the day, but I loved the cartoon. For those who have never heard of Inhumanoids, I usually describe the animated series as 'Lovecraft for kids - 80's style'.
Most certainly, there was plenty of stuff that seemingly wasn't fully considered or well thought of while conceiving the actual toy line, which is quite a shame in hindsight; but I guess that at that point Hasbro just didn't care, maybe GI Joe and TransFormers sales more than made up for whatever they ended up losing with the ill-conceived Inhumanoids toys.
Inhumanoids were rad. I want Hasbro to bring them back.
Never had these toys. But I did like the inhumanoids cartoon. Hope one day we get a re-release in the same scale. Maybe re-release the original molds with sturdier joints. No rubber bands. And a little tweak up in the articulations area. Slight redesigns maybe swappable hands for the human characters where they can have original weapons and also hands and hand held weapons. just so you can keep with the original to look for those who are loyal to the original design. And because it's for collectors out there have all this accompanied with a cartoon aimed at the adult audience. Having it aired on Netflix or something like that. This could actually fly with horror movie fans out there.
Then humanoids that's awesome I so forgot about those till now but I did have one of the monsters I remember it did fight my other creatures and stuff it was pretty cool
I had Auger (the purple bald dude) as a kid. I honestly had no idea who the hell he was. Just a fun weird figure.
I got Magnokor as a kid from a yard sale. I didn't know what it was so I used it as a (say it with me) Monster for my Other Toys.
Great video 😃👍🏻
They should have actually scaled the figures down from GI Joes so they would have been in proper proportion to the monster figures. I remember it pissed me off that the action figures didn't fit completely inside Decompose' ribcage like they did in the cartoon.
2:30 I legit choked after this bit. I’m not sure whether it was from amusement or horror. Lol.
Just think, you could recreate king kong with one of the inhumanoids and the skyscraper transformer from BIG
I had Metlar and used him with my MOTU figures.
El ladies....this is so true!
I never heared about this toy line. For real. And I'm 39.
There was another issue with these toys: all the non-human toys looked demonic. My mother was horrified at these things, and generally steered me clear of them whenever we were visiting the toy sections. I strongly suspect that a lot of similarly uptight parents wouldn't even consider these for their children, especially when considering that the "Satanic Panic" was still in full swing at the time these released. The weird initial 7 minute per week implementation for the cartoon didn't do the line any favours, either.
Monsters for Hire!
Trendmasters Godzilla line was ahead of its times in the 90s the best too, sorry giant monsters got me thinking that
I would think the figures would of done better treating the exo suit as a vehicle and made actual 3 3/4 inch figures. Then they would have had far more playability being automatically compatible with there G. I. Joe line. Not to mention all of the other 3 3/4 inch action figure lines that existed.
Have the Inhumanoids fight Devestator lol
Or Voltron? Maybe even Godzilla
Still want a tendril
I wanted the scientists soooooo bad when I was I kid I kinda missed them by like a year but had coloring books and a couple episodes taped on a VHS tape as a kid but the toys were gone
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Sven went to go live on a farm.
😂😂😂 😢
The biggest problem with Inhumanoids WAS the fact that the heroes were so lame! If you're going to be successful, you have to make sure your main characters will attract kids. These heroes just look....STUPID! The monster ARE cool, but they should be the afterthought characters, not the best part of the line.
Inhumanoids made me a better person. My parents refuse to get Metlar for me so I worked for fist time to buy It with my own money. Thank you for this couple of videos.
I got him as a gift as a kid and for some reason was always in my nightmares. Lol
Inhumanoids as a show was awesome. The toys were, in my opinion, disappointing from a design and engineering standpoint. Auger looks biomechanical and cool but totally clashes with the other Earth Core suits. It's like he was designed by a different artist or team. Also, by late 80's standards they were bricks compared to smaller figures which at least had knees or elbows. How cool would it have been if Earth Core were GI-Joe style figures which you can place inside their suits just like in the show? Even if the suits still only had 5 points of articulation that feature alone would still be worth it.
"Discarded foreskin" was never a phrase I expected to hear Michael say.
It's a great line. My goal is to work it into conversation sometime!
I died!!!!!!!😂😂😂 because now I can't UNSEE that!!
Right up there with Broken Vader & his "like a used - "
"monsters for your other toys" goes well with "wooden blocks that can be anything"
I had liquidator. I lost the helmet. I remember seeing decompose at sears and wanting it so bad. My parents wouldnt buy it because it was so expensive
Holy moly that ending was sheer GENIUS!!!!! LMAOOOOOOOOOO
Yes!!! I was even like "WHY didn't I ever think of getting the Inhumanoids, to use as Robeasts??? Why????😭" Hahahahaha
I know you said it, but I always viewed the line as being in scale with GI Joe. The 3-3/4" scale head was just the human in a BIG Exo-suit. They should have made the suits as shells that could hold a GI Joe size figure. Not doing so was just stupid.
I was kinda hoping this was a thing, since in the show they have their unarmored uniforms. You could totally have them be regular GI Joe figure sized and then place them inside these gimmick crammed exosuits.
I find myself imagining what Inhumanoids might have been as the first spin-off of G.I.Joe... Make the team of humans a special task force and scale it all to G.I.Joe size.
monsters for your other toys is exactly why I would want those bigger ones :-D awesome vid!
I loved the look of this line, but never got any as a kid. As an adult I got Tendrill and Granok(?)...Granok lost his arm due to the rubber breakage. Tendrill was my resident giant monster for 3 3/4 Marvel figures (Moleman looked dope riding on his head). I do think the humans ALMOST work as exosuits for Joe scale.....but man Auger was weird looking and Liquidators suit was dummmmmb.
I've been saying this for years. Voltron and the Megazords need Monsters in scale to fight. I would buy Monsters for your Other Toys. Case in point. McFarlane's RAW10 line are generic cybenetic creatures (besides Cygor) and you can fit them in almost any toy line.
With that advert you may have single handed saved the humanoids toy range
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Hunk: You mean Sven is actually...?
Keith in his native japanese: Shinderu, yes.
I decided to check and it's actually "Deddo".
shibou shita if you don't want to be disrespectful about it lol
@@FatherAxeKeeper
Honestly, I just looked it up on google translate, and I only know of "shinderu" because of Filthy Frank, lol.
@@collegerebel lol its fine i figured that. i love filthy frank myself.
“You mean that he...”
“MONSTERS! For your other toys!”
Loved it!!
If I was a kid then and wanted the toys, I would've been so disappointed when I found those. I would've just bought a Beast Man or another Skeletor.( My Skeletor would've been trashed in a few days with my Gi Joe team taking him out everyday time after time.)
Another thing to point out too is that the design of the Earth Corps team on the cartoon looked a lot better than the chunky crap figures themselves.
Same for the Inhumanoids imho.
I was waiting for this!!!
Strange toy line, not very popular but the monsters were awesome!
Watching this was an epiphany, I had the Bright figure as a kid but for the last 30-odd years I had no idea what it was. I also remember hating the thing because of the pin-head look it had because yep, I lost that helmet in record time.
"Monsters for your other toys" aka the reason why colorforms outer space men exist
Yep, “Inhumanoids” toys were never played “in their own universe” in my neighborhood. They were always thrown in “as monsters” for other lines
Pretty dope
I loved the Cartoon, but the toyline was terribly done, they looked really bad to me. I bet if they made the human figures ARAH scale, they would have done way better.. oh and if they made Decompose looker than he did in the cartoon, not worse.
The Tree people and rock people sucked.. Decompose (the coolest one in the cartoon - to me) looked terrible as a toy. The Vehicles sucked... Tentral sucked, Metlar sucked..
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Wow!! Love every part of this video Michael did it again!! 😀
You don't seem to get the heads are normal size. They are wearing 12 foot tall exosuits!
It's so true. As I look back on it now,
I had all of the Inhumanoids monsters
as a kid, and NONE of the Earth Corps
action figures! They just weren't very
appealing. And compared to Tendril, Metlar
and D'Compose, that's saying something!
Hasbro needs to get the rights for Inhumanoids back ASAP, because Inhumanoids is to Hasbro what Darkstalkers is to Capcom and that is a horror cult classic.
Thoroughly enjoyed this , great episode guys!!
So interesting!
The thing about Inhumanoids is that they were just too odd for kids. The monsters were probably expensive too.
Watched that ad at the end twice.
Great video very funny. But I disagree the characters in inhumanoids were scaled with gijoe cause there in mech suits. Still great job.
"Monsters for Your Other Toys" is such a good idea for a toy line I'm surprised no one in the 80s ever did it.
I remember seeing some off-brand generic figures at my local toy store labelled "Bad Guys" with the card suggesting they face off against GI Joe, Sgt Rock and others.
Your right, I think I remember that too.
@@damianstellabott1952 Imagine the Inhumanoids fighting the Karate Kommandos! 😎
My husband was talking about this toy. I do not remember this toy at all.
The human characters in that toy line should have been the same size as the mask figures to be the correct scale with the inhumanoids figures
I had D'compose and the Trappeur vehicle and much like you said... I used both with my other toys. For the longest time, the last thing remaining I had from Inhumanoids was the grappler hook side-attachment on the vehicle and D'composes head (it totally popped off and I could never get it back on and his skull still looked cool).
Love this show. A show that had balls like boulders
Objective, great production & interview, hilarious, classic RetroBlasting! Thanks y'all, congratulations (a little late), & Happy Thanksgiving!
I used to love the cartoon but i never had the figures either.
You know what would had helped these toys if they only had made the four main scientist hero into the basic 3 3/4″ figures like any GIJoe figure mold in plain color jumpsuits and had the huge armors being detachable and hey have them be interchangeable parts like arms and legs to each other THAT would had be 1000% better and a must have that Collect Them All range. Such a missed opportunity.
I alway wanted the inhumanoids toys as a kid... alas my parents wouldn’t allow it. 🤷🏼♂️
It is what it is....Enjoy It!
Off-the-charts quality AGAIN! Thank you for all the effort and creativity put into to your content. You guys are great.
Ok. I feel like if Hasbro made the main 4 characters come out of their power suits and where just GIJOE style figures that would have been a big help.
As for calling them monsters for your other toys, BRILLIANT! If I had the main monsters when I was a kid they would have been used constantly fighting ninja turtles/masters of the universe (in my childhood mind those toy lines went together) or terrorizing people (people being what I called all 3 3/4 inch figures regardless of the toy line)
"People", yeah. For us it was "guys". "My friend's coming over to play guys."
Ray?
I loved the monsters but you're right about the line as a whole. I used the monsters against my other figures and it was AWESOME. Just like your buddy here not having this line as a kid and that is why he collects them now, I am the same with MOTU. Never got any as a kid but I sure do now. LOL Cool stuff man.
As a kid I only ever wanted the giant monster Inhumanoids. The human characters were awful to me as well. Those pin heads looked silly and disgusted me. Also revisiting the TV has been amazing. It is insane that it aired during the 80's and flew under the radar for sure considering its adult themes of horror and politics. One glaring issue is that the heroes remind of Spiderman from his 90's toon. The heroes never actually win, the villains are always defeated by happenstance. Earth core just facilitates the situation but are mostly never integral to the actual defeat of the Inhumanoids. Also it was bizarre that in the first few episodes the heroes learn how to defeat Meltar but never upgrade their useless weapons. Great show, cool monsters and horrible heroes.
I got the orange redwood for Christmas one year when I was a kid. I loved it, and it is one of the few toys that survived my childhood. I still have him to this day. He is on display on my shelf now, and the Monsters for your other toys is right. My He-Man, and Lion-O would team up to take on that redwood. I have the comics as well.
You could find smaller companies making extra vehicles and monsters compatible with other toylines. For example my Skeletor didn't ride Panthor (because I didn't have one), but he did ride a two-headed wingless dragon monster that was taller than Battlecat.
As a Voltron fan, the Vorltron bit made me suddenly laugh till my sides hurt. That small joke has SO many layers and shows you know your stuff. 🤣🤣🤣 Bravo sir 👏🏾 BRAVO!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
this is your best video ever XD Liquidator is the worst pervert guy of all toylines XDDDDDD
Hasbro was trying to cash in on star wars and motu by making what kids loved about those. MONSTERS.
The average figure was 2.95-4.95 in humanoids were expensive...
The scale and price made it suffer the same fate as other big and expensive toys Centurions, Bravestarr and Sectaurs.