12 OBSCURE 1980s Toylines You Always WANTED | Lesser Known or Forgotten 80s Toys & Action Figures
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- 1980s lesser known & often forgotten toylines we still loved. We wanted these obscure and forgotten 80s toys but had so many of our favorite action figures from the most popular toy lines already, we just couldn't keep up. Spanning the 1980s so many toys tried to find their place amongst the Favorite Franchises Made Famous in the 80s, but just ended up being obscure and forgotten toys we still wanted.
Come along and revisit 12 often forgotten toys that came out throughout the decade of incredible toys and action figures.
Bionic Six was one of my favorite things when I was a kid.
Bionic Six is a 1987 animated television series. It was produced by Universal Television and animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha (now TMS Entertainment) and distributed, through first-run syndication, by MCA TV, years before the latter company became NBCUniversal Television Distribution.
Renowned Japanese animation director Osamu Dezaki was involved as chief supervising director, and his distinctive style (as seen in Golgo 13 and Cobra) is evident throughout all its episodes.
Character designs were by Nobuteru Yūki who would go on to be th character designer for anime such as Battle Angel Alita OVA, Record of Lodoss War, Space Battleship Yamato 2199, Vision of Escaflowne, as well as the video games Chrono Cross, Kaiser Knuckle, Dragon Force 2, Tail Concerto, and Seiken Densetsu 3 (Trials of Mana)
@budgiecat9039 well done, you can copy & paste from Wikipedia.
Mine too it was a pretty exciting original show
I remember wanting to collect the action figures.
It's a challenge trying to sell toys when you're competing with other toy lines that have a half-hour commercial every week/every day.
Damn right.
Video games came around to.
@@duyas1628 There already several video game consoles around...Atari, Intellivision, ColecoVision, Odyssey, before these toy lines.
@@duyas1628 Video games were always around before the toy craze of he-man gi joe and transformers etc
I remember just about all of these. Captain Power was great
My nephew was still playing with our Shogun Warriors Daimos and Raydeen up until a couple of years ago. Those things had real staying power!
They don't make them to last anymore, that is for sure.
I loved Eagle Force; I got several for my 8th birthday, but GI Joe quickly and completely overtook the line with better articulation and accessories.
Maybe they just jumped the gun. They were cool, but GI Joe knew how it was done.
I had a Goldie Hawk figure for years- can't remember if it was a gift or if I bought it myself- but I had no idea that there was a whole line or that Mego made them...
They were much more durable if I remember because they were die cast metal.
To this DAY.... i still ADORE the SUPER NATURALS. one summer my parents and myself went to the local Mall, and Sears or one store had a TON of the Super Naturals on DEEP Discount... 50 CENTS EACH for the "BIG" Super Naturals, and 25 for the Ghostlings.
my mom and dad bought me every one of em they had "I mean, no doubles, just each character" I was happier than a Pig in Shit!
mainly i got every one of the Ghostlings, and a couple of the bigger ones, but most of those had sold out. apparently the Tomb of Doom playset was on sale too, but those sold out before we got there too.
i played with those toys up until i was literally 15 years old!.. i lost them in a move, sadly.. except for one or two of em i still have to this day. i need to buy a whole new set, honestly.
This is an awesome story adn thank you for sharing. Believe me, even at my age when thy were released...at 50 cents, I would have considered doing the same thing. BOys played with toys much longer back then. And they were cool, but didn't last long. I believe you should get them all again. Thanks for watching.
I had the Thor looking guy. Absolutely loved it.
I fondly remember playing with Captain Power when I was much younger. The fantasy of being a fighter pilot was too much to resist. I also really liked the Battle Beasts and had forgotten about them. Thank you for the reminder of their existence.
That is what I am doing, just some memory love. Thanks for watching and commeting.
The _Captain Power_ live-action series was created and produced by Gary Goddard- who also directed the live-action _Masters Of The Universe_ film in 1987.
I miss all these toys, at 55 now since I turned 20 I have been collecting toy some are very expensive now you can't get them or maybe buy 1 every other month I have over 100k worth. Right now getting the whole set of visionaries. I just finished JAYCE AND THE WHEEL WARRIORS
Nice collection. Yeah, those Visionaries are certainly underappreciated.
We can now make 3D printed Wheeled Warriors figures that look like Jayce, Herc, etc. and can fit in the vehicles.
@@unlimitedrabbit that's awesome!
Battle beasts!!! Oh my god, you’re hitting every toy I’ve ever forgotten. I had a bunch of these. I remember they were really small.
They were small, but I guess that helped get a lot of them, which I think would be the best thing to do with a gimmick like theirs. Glad you liked the show. SOME of these are just passed my original PLAYTIME, but I remember them for sure as they were coming out.
Air Raiders was top tier in terms of playability and Captain Power was another level. You could play it with the show like a video game or chase your sibling around the house like laser tag. One of the best toys I ever had.
I like the multi use of Cpt Power...chasing around a sibling, lol.
It’s interesting the reference that there was no ‘controversy’ about Klinger in drag. The reason being his character purposefully and intentionally wore women’s clothes to show his superiors he was “mentally unwell”and “unfit for duty”. Quoted from the show. Interesting stuff.
I think most people understand why he dressed like that in the show, but I also know there are those out there who would create controversy over nothing, or even when it is justified. That is simply why I said it. A toy like that too, if it had more wide release or popularity, may also have had to deal with the wrath of the ignorant. Thanks for watching and the the insightful comment, too.
Definitely remember most of them. The only ones I had was the Shogun Warriors. It was primarily Star Wars until 84 when Transformers came out and it remained my focus for the rest of the 80s. I just admired some of the others mentioned in the video when I saw them on the shelves.
I was Star Wars through all the films and beyond, but added he-Man, Gi Joe, and Transformers in 82 an 84 respectively. But like you anything after 85/86 I had to admire on the shelf as well...but I was getting older.
@@GENXPERIENCE
The only Star Wars toys I owned were
Darth Vader
Wompa
R2D2
Mainly had G.I. Joe, Baron Karza from Micronauts, Mazinger Z, Transformers and some more obscure toys from Japan such as:
Daitarn 3
Gordian Warrior
Denjiman (btw this was co-produced by Marvel)
Dynaman (had a short parody dub run on USA network)
Gatchaman 2 Bird Phoenix (from the sequel show to Gatchaman aka Battle of the Planets)
Godzilla (mainly the Bandai import toy run started from 1983 with an all rubber 9 inch Godzilla, followed by the larger 12 inch plastic ones from the movies Godzilla vs Mothra, King Kong vs Godzilla, and Godzilla vs the Three Headed Monster)
Also had the 2 foot tall Imperial Godzilla toy and a knock off 2 foot Godzilla toy from Hong Kong which was all red with no scales so I took some model paint and painted him proper. Still have that one
Also had Big Trac and Armatron, and Sectaurs.
The toys I always wanted though was 1979 Alien, that giant red Rodan as well as Shogun Warriors Godzilla, Raiden, Gaiking, and Getter Dragon.
My 7th grade art teacher she actually had Gaiking in her classroom I remember asking for it and she said no 😂
I always remembered Mantech from Remco. I only had one figure, but I never forgot about the line in all these years
I only remember that name, Mantech. Looking it up now.
By the second half of the 80s video games took over and no new toy line could gain enough ground to be as big as Gi Joe/He-man/Starwars and Transformers were...... Nintendo was such a giant leap from what Atari and Colleco vision were. You just had to look at the ads in comic books to see the change happening...by 88 there were almost zero ads in comics that weren't video game related. Those big four toy lines that I mentioned needed such a massive budget to support their domination.... either box office smash movies (star wars) or shows with 64 episodes per season...so daily..... 13 episodes per season and perhaps a comic were no match for Super Mario, Zelda and other games that literally made you shut off your tv to take part in! Transformers the Movie and the Gi Joe movie seemed more like a book end rather than a line getting bigger....and the Heman movie was like vandalism of a strong line.
And in '88 that big green wave of the TMNT rolled in.
I had all the Super Naturals and the play set with the flipping coffin. One of my favorite Christmas’s.
Wow. You were lucky. Those guys just looked cool. I feel like I need one...just to have.
I had so many of these & wish I still did. Thanks for bringing back some good memories. I was on the tail end of Gen-X.
Still Gen X, you have a different perspective, but its family.
I absolutely loved Bionic Six and Sky Commanders.
I heard Bionic 6 was loved by many.
Bionic Six was a great cartoon. Didn't know about the toys.
The Bionic Six cartoon was great, don't know what this youtuber is smoking. He probably never saw it.
I had a couple figures from all these lines except for golden girl and shogun. I had a little bit of everything. I was obsessed with toys and I still collect…for some reason. Most of the figures on this list I picked up from the discontinued bargain bin at kaybee toys. Even bargain bin toys back then were good and they were like $1-$3. This is a good list of lines that most people forgot or never saw
Thanks. There are so many that have been lost in time. Good ones, too.
Loved Shogun warriors and Micronauts.
I don't know why my recollection of micronauts is so vague, I did have them, but Shogun...those were awesome.
The fact this video exist means that we finally have become old isn't it
Yes. Yes, that is exactly what this means. I embrace it
Bionic 6 had awesome figures & I actually watched the show..thx for putting this together for us
You are very kind. Love the comment and thanks for watching. I may have been older for Bionic 6, but I know they were loved.
I remember playing with Sgt Rock with my Gi Joe figs. Eagle force were cool too. We'll made
Very well made, but the chipping paint. That aside, they would go great with the FP toys, star wars, and GI JOe.
I had gotten the R1500 Robotix (Venturak) set for Christmas the year they came out. It was one of my favorite toys to the point I collected the other 3 sets in my adulthood and have all 4 on display in my den. Great conversation piece when people come over.
That would be an awesome conversation starter. Good for you. Nice that you have all of those. Thanks for watching and sharing.
I always wanted that 2' GaiKing....loved that, thanks for making this, bring back great memories...
That is my goal. Memory lane...Enjoy.
I remember buying the vehicle's for super naturals at a car boot sale and having no idea what toy line they were from. I loved them. ❤
I bet. I think I would like Supernatuals the best from this group, myself. Thanks for sharing.
The Shogun warriors robot toys were very well known to the children of New England in the early 1980's because we were the only region in the country that got to see the cartoons on TV that the Shogun Warriors were based on. The show was called Force Five and it was a different story depending on the day of the week monday-friday so it was 5 shows that aired for like 3 years the shows were called Grendizer, spacecateers, Gy King, Starvengers and Danguard Ace. I was 5-7 years old when I watched them and I also watched Starblazers. My dad would take me to Boston to buy me diecast Robots imported from Japan in those days. Fun times. 😁
I had read about that, the New England prevalence, and that makes sense. We had the large sized figures, but didn't know anything about them. Thank you
My mother and grandfather got me into Shogun Warriors. I had the (if I remember right) the 24” Raydeen and Japanese cast metal version that would transform from the robot into the flying “bird” type ship.
There was a Raydeen cartoon that my mother would read the subtitles for me that aired on one of the PBS channels. It was on either Saturday afternoon or Sunday afternoon.
I discovered that only some regions got those shows. We certainly didn't, but I loved the toys.
I have watched several Raideen episodes since playing the Super Robot Wars. The Robot Raideen has 2 different powerful weapons depending on the situation, the God Bird change when Akira Hibiki found the weakspot of the Youma Beast, and the God Ramuh, a sound wave weapon that can obliterate any of the Youma Empire's mooks and their MOTW to oblivion when incanting the words , the downside of this were the recoil effect and can put Akira in danger in the persistence of usage.
There was a Shogun Warriors CARTOON?
I had a couple random issues of the Marvel comic, and we had Great Mazinga coloring book, besides the toys.
(I had REIDEEN, firstborn had Godzilla, a cousin had 5” REIDEEN)
@brainlock72 yep, all of them are made in Japan but not as Shogun Warriors as a whole, but rather the robos(like Mazinger or Getter or Daimos) since the 1970s.
Several of them were made from Toei, while Raideen were made by Sunrise.
If you ever stumbled a Shogun Warrior named Leopaldon, that was Spiderman(yep, our Web slingning, Web crawler) personal robot, but in a live action(no animation, think it as a POWER RANGER lieu style of production) separate continuity, though it is currently known a Leopardon today.
@@jonecuntapay9561 I know about Leopardon, which eventually led to the Sentai/Power Rangers franchise.
Hi there thx for the flashback.I had Tuskus from the infacebles & I had Captain Power also 2 battles beast.My brother had 1 supernatural.Now i own Robotics thats i luckily found at a fleamarket.
Do you still have him around? How does he look. I'll admit I'm thinking of getting a Supernatural because of my show, lol.
@@GENXPERIENCE I do have 2 supernatural toys yes
You have some good ones there! Great Job!!!
Love your profile, MAN OF ACTION. Thanks for watching.
Good god man, it's like memory lane
That is my intention. Good times we need to think more about. Brings a little joy
Battle Beasts were awesome! I still have that white lion somewhere
Nice. Glad they didn't get lost.
Eagle Force had one of the best ninjas in 80s toys. I only had 2 figures from this line but they were durable and the blue ninja was cool
Eagle Force was pretty awesome looking. I would have loved that playset. But I am a sucker for playsets.
I had Super Naturals, Air Raiders, Battle Beasts, and Shogun Warriors. There were a lot of great lines in the 80s. Inhumanoids, Blackstar, Sectaurs, Spiral Zone...so many.
SO MANY. I have an 80s 2nd Tier Toyline Playsets coming up on Friday
I love how She-Ra spends so much time saving the bad guy. I wouldn't do it myself, but it's the mark of a true hero!
You're right it is...but too many times. I agree, NOT something I would do, lol.
Robotix metric system. Pfft. America, Liberia and Myanmar. We're the only countries that have our shit together! 🤣🤣🤣
Great video! I grew up on Star Wars (like most boys) and never owned any of these but knew of several. I remember a neighbor had a Shogun Warrior and I thought it AMAZING!
Honorable mention for me: Crystar from Remco (1983). Because I had Crystar and Warbow but always wanted them all!
Crystar is popular, I don't remember it at all, but I do love being introduced to something new. Thank you so much.
Interesting! I never knew there were MASH toys!
THe only toys I DO NOT open, lol.
I had a few of the figures, a jeep, and a mash covered truck. My sister was a bigger fan of the show and got them. We also had Happy Days toys and Dukes of Hazzard toys.
"Late gen x-ers" ....when did my body get old?!
Adventure People. If ever a line of toys deserves a live action movie, this is it.
APril 5th is my FIRST Adventure People show. LOVED THEM>
I had Sky Commander, some of the Captain Power and Bionic Six figures. I remember the Battle Beasts, Eagle Force and Robotix. Thanks for this video. It was a great trip down memory lane. 😊
I love that. That is why I make them. Thank you
Loved the Robotix cartoon, mainly because it gave a story to the cool build sets. Bionic Six the cartoon was far more popular than the actual toys, which were seen as low rent GI Joe stuff. Both theme songs live rent free in my head all these years later.
Those theme songs were so catchy. Glad you like Robotix, I did not, but I do know there is a lot of love for BIonic 6. Thanks for watching.
Sky commanders were awesome!!! I had most if not all of those.
That is awesome. I bet they were a lot of fun.
I loved Battlebeasts and Bionic Six. I was also probably the only person who actually watched & enjoyed Bionic Six. In the late 90's/early 00's. SyFy channel used to air reruns alongside the 90's Gigantor and it was wild to see that show in all its 80's glory again.
It does seem to be at the end of The GEN Xperience, but there ARE A LOT of fans. Thanks for the view and comment.
I loved all the all these toys, and now looking to buy thema again.
Perhaps even start a playset company for them...💙👍💯
I hope you do. What a great goal. I bet that collection would look wonderful.
I found an Eagle Force revival, new figures - very cool looking. They say “preorder” so who knows
Hmmmm, that is awesome. They were loved by so many, but so short lived.
Fresh Monkey Fiction is behind the new Eagle Force, which has expanded its cast way beyond to some more familiar faces. 😉
Wow i had that Infaceables lion figure. Totally erased from my mind until i saw this lol.
Also i had Great Mazinga 5 inch toy and he was my first Halloween outfit.
YOur Halloween Costume? YOu go. That was a great era of make your own costumes. COOL.
Those giant robot toys were the best. My friend had one, and it was like the big bruiser our robots had against Megatron. We mixed a lot of toy lines.
Their show was brought over to the States as Tranzor Z, and kicked off my lifelong obsession with giant robots.
Love me some giant robots. I know only some regions and very limited got those Tranzor Z show. I had no idea about it.
My next-door neighbor had all of the supernatural figures, I was able to get one before the line disappeared forever. I wish it was among the old action figures in a box I found at my folks’ house not long ago.
That would have been a nice surprise. Lucky kid next door.
…still have a few of them robots of those obscure Japanese anime of the late 70’s like Shogun Warriors and a larger sized Mazinger Z and a larger Voltes 5. My Father’s had an office branch in Tokyo and schlepped those back home in the Bay Area. Didn’t play with it much so they are still in their boxes.
In box and everything. SHould be worth a pretty penny. I love that your dad brought them home to you.
Apparition is definitely a word, and I had a couple of these as a kid. I remember the Viking and Native American figs vividly, and I thought they were awesome, more so than the Visionaries. Fun times were them 80s.
True, but I said APPARITIOUS, as an adjective. I think it SHOULD be a word, lol. I think I want some supernturals and VISIONARIES now.
@@GENXPERIENCE did you? I need to get my ears checked! They are mighty apparitional though, for sure 😄.
I loved Super Naturals! So cool.
Didn't have, but thought they just looked AWESOME
@@GENXPERIENCE They were really nice figures. I grew up without tv so the lack of media didn't mean anything to me. They were so unique and size wise worked well with other figures, and were natural villains, obviously. Been reselling for years and have never run into any in the wild.
It always pissed me off as a kid because they didn't make the mask figs 3 3/4 , really all the 2" figs. The always had the coolest vehicles, and I wanted to use them for my Joes.
Agreed. I know they wanted it more about the vehicles, but I think that size is just a tad too small.
Wanted GI Joe...got Eagle Force. Wanted High Top sneakers...Got K-Mart specials (Lobos)... Wanted a NES!! ...got a Atari 7800. just couldn't win back then.
Argh! I get it...sometimes parents could get the real stuff, or they just didn't understand ( they weren't paying attention) and figured it was all the same.
I'm a little too old for most of those, but I did have a couple of Shogun Warriors - Mazinga and Godzilla. They used to show English dubbed anime after school on a local UHF channel when I was a kid. The same channel also showed Ultra Man, Speed Racer, Tranzor Z, Starblazers and Voltron. Most of those toys weren't available at the time, but I could make massive space fleets with Lego that were a great analog and could blow-up into pieces in my space battles.
THank you, yes, I do stretch the GEN Xperience from the earliest Gen Xers to the later ones, lol. Yeah, I had heard that some stations did air those shows. But it was few and far between. You were fortunate.
@@GENXPERIENCE I just ran across this video again and remembered that Mazinga was Tranzor Z from the anime. ua-cam.com/video/cL9Vdu7L4Ps/v-deo.html
Sectaurs were among my favorites.
I had the Captain Power vhs tape and Starship gun game. Also Sky Commanders was one my favorites cartoons 'hotwire!!'
I was passed my ideal toy time, but these would have been awesome.
I've been a Shogun Warrior fan since the get go. The larger Machinders are cool, but the smaller diecast vehicles are so well made and creative. Top notch quality. The other toy lines I remember from this era were the Photon toys. Like Captain power the Photon figures were interactive but with the Photon laser game. The Lords of Light was another very short lived toy line.
YOu have opened a memory, Photon! Thank you
There was plenty of room for crossplay between GI Joe and MASH!
The Joes get injured and sent to MASH, who patch them up while making fun of their silly names and outlandish costumes...and then COBRA show up and massacre them all!
I had a fun childhood.
That is a perfect marriage. I would have done the same.
It's awesome he threw in battle beasts. My brother's and I probably had almost all of them. They were lots of fun. We also had captain power, but like he said, we had it with a VHS tape, so nothing really ever happened.
Having a ton of Battle Beasts would make them a lot more fun. Thanks for sharing.
I had a couple of Golden Girl figures: the baddie with pink hair and black catsuit, she was my fave for years and, and Jade with red hair and green armour. Not Golden Girl herself, I never noticed the similarity She ra had to her and GG was out first… 😮
I enjoy when I hear someone had GG. Yeah, I feel like She Ra took maybe SOME inspiration, for sure.
I loved my eagle force figures
They would be cool to have.
I was always a fan of lesser known lines. My friends would laugh at me, but I always felt like they never gave some of these lines a chance. I LOVED the Infaceables. You could get them for 99 cents in the bargain bin at Circus World, I could complete the entire set with just maybe 2 trips to the mall.
Some other lines I loved that were considered lesser known.....Dragon Riders of the Styx, Starriors, Power Lords, Crystar, Remco Warrior Beasts, Remco World of the Warlord, Blackstar.
This is a great share, thank you. Starriors didn't top any list of mine, or Power Lords, but you have some other great ones there and I am so happy you gave the lesser known some love.
I was born in 1978, was spoiled by my parents, and had at least one example of almost every one of the toy lines mentioned in this video 😂 I didn't even remember many of them. Some are still in my parents' attic. Even had the Super Naturals Tomb of Doom playset.
The Tomb of Doom, huh? And I thought anyone who owned it was a myth, lol. That is pretty awesome. You were showered with some great toys.
I loved Visionaries. I want a new wave so bad ughhhh!
They had such a great style and design.
was there a Darren McGavin action figure?!?!
Battle Beasts was probably my 3rd favourite figures.
I had all the Captain Power figures, vehicles, and the video cassettes!!!
INFACEABLES!!!! I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT NAME FOREVER!
Night Stalker, Christmas Story Dad? I am not sure. I would have to search. CP seemed pretty awesome to me. Ha, that name is so strange, right? Infaceables.
Yes-there-are-Christmas-Story-figures-by-NECA.....His-figure-is-called-"The-Old-Man"-and-comes-with-the-leg-lamp.
@@GENXPERIENCE Darren flashed on the screen early in the video, I thought maybe he was in one of these you lines!
Right after I got my first summer job as a lifeguard, a local Department Store went out of business and had the entire Air Raiders line on clearance. Even though I was aged out of playing with toys by then- something compelled me to buy up as many as I could.
Should have kept these toys like I did my Transformers...
YOu got them all, even after "playtime" was over, and you still don't have them? That would have been gold. But I love you sharing your story. Thank you
I still have several on-card Eagle Force figures! 🙌🏼
oooooh, now those sound priceless.
Nice vid. I'm pretty sure I had Shogun Warriors before '79.
I seem to remember having a wearable Battle Beasts play set that was a purple chest plate, purple eye patch, and either a gold- or silver-coloured crab claw-like weapon when I was a kid. I had no idea it was from any toy line, but remember that the chest armour had a dial that you could switch to either fire, wood, or water. Battle Beasts must have had other costume-like items in addition to the figures and vehicles.
I feel like there was some sort of bandoleer for the BB. Perhaps there was other merch. Diversifying was a good idea.
Didnt know if I wanted to watch this video... Bro got me with Battle beasts in the first 30 seconds
Well, I am glad something caught you, lol. I am so glad you watched AND that you are a fan of BB. Maybe not my favs, but that doesn't matter. YOu like them. Thank you
@@GENXPERIENCE No this video was a great throwback down memory lane. Thank YOU! Bionic 6, Robotix, oh man. My kids are watching it like... you played with toys? Oh the sorrow of this internet generation
Love my skycommders lol great memories
I had a bunch of Sky Commanders toys. They were awesome.
Sounds like people really enjoyed those.
I have Klunk from the bionic six and those action figures were almost entirely die-cast metal. It was great quality for its time.
I miss Die Cast Metal in toys. Certainly was a better toy with it. Thanks for the comment.
Hasbro must have made huge money mid 80s. There were so many Joes and Transformers coming out, and both cartoons played back to back after school. I didn’t have time or an allowance big enough to afford any other lines although my buddy had some MASK that I thought were totally rad!
It truly sounds like we had a very similar experience in our youth. I did buy a few pieces myself, but it was scraping to do so. Outside of birthdays and Christmas new toys were few and far between. But yeah, some kids had it good! Thanks for sharing. I loved it.
Loved Robotech, toys were hard to find, I understand why now.
There were such little Robotech stuff on the shelves as I remember. But it was a crowded marketplace.
I remember getting Robotix and Capsula both for Christmas. My parents were big into the construction-type toys. My brother and I made a lot of different things with those and hauled them around in our Big Track and trailer. I don't remember the MASH line and at that age didn't care for the show, but now I would buy them just to set them up in my cubicle at work (I work at a VA Hospital). I think my co-workers and patients would appreciate it.
What a great idea about the MASH. Yeah, I watched with my family, but didn't care too much. Surprised there was a line at all. But they do look great.
I remember loving the Bionic Six cartoon, but the toys were too expensive. I had enough allowance money to buy almost any action figures, but Bionic 6 was always priced outside my range. I remember only the rich kid in the neighborhood had them.
I know the feeling. That is too bad. I tried to use my money to buy figures, it was always certain ones. Just outside of the realm of what I COULD get. Darn it.
I had a few of the Super Naturals. I don’t know if I necessarily played with them, but really enjoyed the holographic aspect. They were a lot of fun!
THat would have been me...especially as I was older. I would still want them...JUST FOR THAT. Thanks for watching.
Brilliant vid, enjoyed this more than anything disney has put out in the last 5 years, boom!!
Oh my....but THANKS
Anyone else’s brain combine sky commanders with air raiders? I was absolutely sure that the string/grapple play pattern was air raiders. Huh. Weird. Great video by the way! Some fantastic deep cuts here & very well presented.
I can imagine that for sure. It was hard to keep track of when doing the research for the show.
Captain power did a hell of a job on advertising. They had a commercial on every 1/2 hr back then.
Maybe that is why I remember it so well. Thanks for watching.
I was just at Dollar General and the old Eagle Force figures live on as really chintzy figures with BAD paint jobs.
I had Mazinger too, in the big size. Also Godzilla. The first exposure I had to Mazinger was the Spanish version of the cartoon. When it was released in English as Tranzor Z, I wanted to pluck out my eardrums. The voice acting made Speed Racer sound like Batman The Animated Series. The only 4 inch that I could find was Grandizer, who I could follow on early cable TV - I want to say Spectrum cable, but it could have been ONTV.
I wouldn't mind getting myself a new large Size Mazinga. I did really enjoy that big guy. Cool to know about Eagle Force, but like everything today...CHEAP
I had Battlebeasts and knew of Golden girl, the Infaceables and Robotix. I watched Captain Power but never had any of the toys.
Pretty much the same here. I saw the robotix cartoon (just missed the opening) and spent the next 25 years wondering what that one cartoon was, before I finally found it.
Don't remember any of these hitting the shops in the UK, but I was 20 in 1987... They all look appropriate for the era
Yeah, it may have been too too late for your to notice, but you are ABSOLUTELY right as their aesthetic is UNMISTAKABLE.
Captain Power was amazing. For a kid's show, it had some pretty mature themes... not sexual, but just about humanity.
Right. Post Apocalyptic (very 80s) kids show. Loved the premise.
Wow...I didn't know there was a MASH toy line. The favorite of the bunch is Captain Power. I still have some of the Captain Power toys, and VHS Tapes that the vehicles shot at on screen. But, they're useless, since the TV tech doesn't work after the switch to digital broadcasting. I was in my 30s in the 80s', but still interested in the toylines, since I worked on some popular TV animation series, like Galaxy Rangers, Thundercats, and later Gargoyles, Nascar Racers, and more. Well, I still bought toys, comics, and games, but I'm a not a collector, just a "Serial Accumulator" of fun stuff. Thanks for the video.
I like the term SERIAL ACCUMULATOR....I might be on the edge of that and collector. Thank you for sharing, and the view, too.
Funny story: when my Mother went out to buy my Brother and I GI Joes, she didn't know they were 3 3/4. She was looking for 12in dolls like her Brother had when they were kids. Lol
Funny, AND makes sense. Since I had brothers who had the 12 inch, too. Shrinkage, lol
I missed most of these I remember the hologram people, but I never really cared about them...
I think I owned 2 out of the bunch. But I did love Holograms.
Sky Commanders were awesome. Still the only line I was able to collect all of. Threw them out in high school. though.
What an awesome feat to get them all. Thanks for sharing. Sad you threw them out. But that happened often.
I had 4 of the 24 inch Shogun Warriors. After Eagle Force tanked, I ended up with Eagle Island, which Santa obviously purchased from a clearance rack. Never had any figures, but we made it work for Star Wars and GIJoe. As a teen, I got a few of the Battle Beasts just because they were cheap and interesting. I never played with the, just stood them on my shelf. I also had 1 Robotix set.
YOU had Eagle Island? That is pretty awesome. I love playsets. It works perfectly for other AFs, so nice job. I think the BB may have started a lot of people's "real collecting" habits. Thank you for sharing.
I had the Skull Knight from Super Naturals, I loved that toy. I just made up my own storylines
Why not, right? I have to say I love the gimmick.
Battle beasts were awesome I loved the shark and lion
There were cool designs, no denying.
I was perfectly happy with Star Wars, Legos, Atari and Transformers. Between those and playing sports and riding bikes, I never got into any other toy lines.
I had the huge Sky Commander Tower set and a bunch of the guys. I had a couple of Ghostlings from Super Naturals. Oh man did I have a bunch of Battle Beasts and like 3 of their vehicle playset, loved Battle Beasts. Battle Beasts were the perfect roadtrip toy.
I love your memory of BB as Road Trip Toys. I had some Road Trip Toys, too. SOunds like you had a lot of fun, and some great ones. Thank you for sharing.
I was lucky enough to have at least one or two things from most of these lines, even if the Shogun Warriors and Robotix came from a garage sale or thrift store.
I ove that. I could never have all from all of them, but some from each was just as fun. Sadly, I didn't have any from a few, either. Thanks for commenting.
I had a few Supernaturals and the red car..loved them as a kid. Didn't really fit in with anything else though lol 😆
You know I did like it when toys could play with others, but that would be difficult.
I was more of a 70s kid but I did like going into Kay-Bee toys to see what messed up new MOTU characters were on the pegs . I often wished I was still a kid because so many cool tools came out when I was a teen .
I am split between the 2 pretty well. After having to GROW UP, I remember always walking toy aisles to see what was still being made. Didn't buy, but loved to still look through them, too.
@@GENXPERIENCE Yup . I bought a reproduction 1970’s era Kung Fu Grip GI Joe just on a whim once . Haven’t ever seen them again.
Air raiders were awesome. I enjoyed the smaller scale.
I did like the small scale of MASK, so I am sure Air Raiders would have been neat. I had just passed my Playtime years (well my first ones, lol) when they came out.
My favorite toys were the japanese import die cast robots that shot fists and rockets etc. There was a stationary store around the corner from my house that kept all sorts of really cool and very expensive J/import die cast robots and all sorts of stuff never seen here in the states. I used to go there, pump a few quarters into the dig dug game they had there and stare at the die cast toys when there were no customers. I would pick up cans and bottles or the deposit money until i had enough to buy whatever I wanted at the time. Stars wars and gi joe's were also on my fun list, had a bunch of them and when i cashed out my childhood on ebay a few years back, i did very well on them all. some of my J/import die cast stuff went back to Japan.
Projectiles are just fun, right? That doesn't surprise me that you sold some of the Japan Imports back to Japan. Thanks for watching and sharing.
What state did you live in?
@@mperezmcfinn2511 at that time i lived on long island ny
@billwilliamson9842 I didn't know they had returnables in NY back then.
They were a life saver in Michigan. Getting 10 cents on cans and bottles in the early 80s was amazing. One shopping bag of cans could get you 3 comics.
One summer, I returned enough cans and bottles to buy an At-At.
@@mperezmcfinn2511 yea it was a nice way for a poor kid to hustle some funds. I lived in N mich after we left ny, and that 10 cent deposit was nice but you sure didn't see many cans on the roads lol when I left Mich and went back to md, when i'd go back on vacation i'd fill the bed of my truck with cans and bottles. It would pay for my whole trip, fuel, food and i still had money left over when i went back home. lol
I admit to being born the very last year of Gen-X, but I was poor and I got all my He-Man and GI Joe at garage sales of the late 80’s. I loved them though! Kinda like my first game console, regular Nintendo 😂
My family got a bit better every year, working hard to try and be in better places. Eventually I was a huge gamer, even stood outside a store over night for a new console! I’m talking northern Midwest in the winter over night lol 😅
Anyway thanks for the memories and keep rocking bro!
No, thank you for sharing. There is nothing wrong with that story. I always find that people with humble beginnings often apprecited their toys and their time with the fun and games they loved so much more than those who got them all. I had a couple of mismatched toys from who knows where, too. But I am glad you enjoyed and it sounds like you went all VG...especially standing in BLIZZARD conditions. Thank you for the watch.