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I had a couple of the omnibots. They were too small to sell as regular autobot cars, but too big to sell as minibots, so since there was only three of them, Hasbro just sold them as mail-order toys.

Battle Beasts were awesome! I still have that white lion somewhere

I had all three of the mask vehicles. 😢 I don't have them anymore I wish I did

I still have stinkor and moss man. They both still have their scents

Zodiac was my least favorite but most played with character. Who was this guy? He was neither good nor bad? A cosmic enforcer? Okay. With that amount of anonymity he fit in to almost any storyline. Actually the only thing that bugged me about him was they used the same clawed feet as skeletor, but they left them flesh colored and it did not look right.

I had the Go-Bots Oddball toy from Wendy's!

Man I hd those terror claws and was one of my favs

I didn't know about the Jem and Wendy's Gobots. But then we didn't have a Wendy's over here to begin with. That MLP cloud shower set doesn't seem like a deep cut to me tough. I saw it several times during my childhood. I always tought it looked like would fit better with the Carebears tough.

🙂awesome, i love 80s toys.....especially he-man and the masters of the universe

Brother, you are the only person I have seen on CZcams mention the Great Space Coaster, "No news is good news, with Gary Ganews".

Some really fun choices. Laser light stuff invaded a lot of toylines including MASK. I've seen advertisements for the various Transformers, GI Joe and even My Little Pony mail-ins.

Any chance you will be at JoeLanta this month? Love to meet you in person.

12:12 Mask might have something to do with why I like certain grown up “gear” activities now. 😂😂😂

I had Arkus from Power Lords as a kid...i had no idea what line he came from till i was grown 😂

*anxiously awaiting Part 2*

Your page is such a gem for us who were the right age to enjoy all of the amazing toys the 80’s had to offer. Seeing the Power Lords and Beast Machines unlocked memories of toys that I completely forgot I’d owned

Really brings back some long forgotten memories. Nothing was like the 1980s when it comes to marketing toys to kids. Never came close to owning everything but I did have transformers, GIJoe, Voltron and he-man before my childhood ended and I got interested in girls.

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 really enjoyed seeing the He Man and Power Lords they were really awesome thanks.☕👋🇺🇲

Great video...I definitely can relate. Makes me think maybe somethings from the past might be better in today's time. Keep up the great work Fam.❤️

My new non-for profit: tops for bottoms

Super girl was just too sexy 😍

I remember how massive cabbage patch kids where here in the UK and the garbage pale kids bubble gum cards 😂👍

Now its horrific artificial limbs in meat trays its disgusting and obviously satanic especially here in the UK

No reboot needed. Leave it alone.

Dude, Dragstor is in the Evil Horde, not Evil Warriors, sure u know, just said several times, sorry to bitch

Do Any of you know who that female figure with the red bathing suit and gold spiked/shark-fin helmet shown at the end is? If she was mentioned in the video, I missed it

I adore Supergirl. It’d bad fun. Guilty pleasure campy. “Because WE OWWWN THE MATCHES!” 😂😂😂

You missed quite a few. Archie's TV Funnies featured Dick Tracy, Moon Mullins, Smokey Stover, Nancy (& Sluggo), Broom Hilda, Emmy Lou, The Dropouts and The Captain & The Kids (The Katzenjammer Kids) in 1971 and later included Alley Oop and Tumbleweeds (for one episode) on The Fabulous Funnies in 1978. Dennis The Menace, The Wizard Of ID and Miss Peach were animated segments on The Curiosity Shop in 1971. Fred Basset had an animated series in the UK in 1976. Morrie Turner's Wee Pals became Kid Power in 1972 on ABC. ABC's Saturday Superstar Movie featured an episode called "Popeye Meets The Man Who Hated Laughter" which featured other King Features characters (Blondie & Dagwood, Barney Google & Snuffy Smith, Beetle Bailey, Jiggs & Maggie from Bringing Up Father, Henry, Hi & Lois, The Katzenjammer Kids, Little Iodine, The Little King, Quincy, Steve Canyon, Tiger, Tim Tyler of Tim Tyler's Luck. Prince Valiant and the very first appearance of The Defenders Of The Earth with Flash Gordon, Mandrake The Magician, Lothar and The Phantom). Plus: Ripley's Believe It Or Not! (1998) King Features Trilogy with Beetle Bailey, Snuffy Smith & Krazy Kat (1963) Animal Crackers (1997) Baby Blues (2000) Dilbert (1999) For Better Or For Worse (2000) Mother Goose & Grimm / Grimmy (1991) The Legend of Prince Valiant (1991) Phantom 2040 (1994) Flash Gordon (1996) The Boondocks (2005) Other comic strip characters have had animated primetime specials like: Cathy (1987, 1988 & 1989) Beetle Bailey (1989) Blondie & Dagwood (1987 & 1989) Hagar The Horrible (1989) The Far Side (1994 & 1997) Doonesbury (1977) Marvin (1989) B.C. (1973 & 1981) The Family Circus (1978, 1979 & 1982) Ziggy (1982) Little Orphan Annie (1995) Pogo (1969) Dennis The Menace (1981) The Fantastic Funnies (1980), hosted by Loni Anderson featured animated shorts of Dennis The Menace, Barney Google, B.C., Andy Capp, Blondie & Dagwood, Doonesbury, Momma, Hagar The Horrible, Cathy, Broom Hilda, Tumbleweeds, Marmaduke (before his 1981 series with Heathcliff), a clip from the "I Go Pogo" movie and the very first Garfield animated short voiced by the late Scott Beach, who was the original voice of Garfield in 1980 before Lorenzo Music first voiced him in "Here Comes Garfield" in 1982. Fun Facts: Lil Abner appeared in a series of animated cartoons beginning in 1944 before The New Shmoo first appeared on NBC's Fred & Barney Meet The Shmoo (previously Fred & Barney Meet The Thing in 1979). Little Orphan Annie appeared in two live action movies starring Mitzi Green (1932) and Ann Gillis (1938) before Aileen Quinn played "Annie" in 1982. The Peanuts gang appeared in animated commercials for The Ford Motor Company before they got their first animated Christmas Special in 1965.

OMG I totally forgot about Mantisaur. Lol. Yeah. A dragon was needed.

Infaceables, thanks I hate it!

I always used Faker as Skeletors failed experiment to make his own He-Man. He wasn't AS powerful as He-Man, but still strong enough to be a henchman. He kind of became my Starscream, plotting against Skeletor because a part of him was kind of like He-Man, he wanted to defeat him, but only to take his place and then beat He-Man.

I was raised in the 80s and I've only heard of very few of those. Never even wanted them. The only toys I really wanted were the original Voltron and Transformers.

My cousin had a coleco while i had the Atari. Never knew anyone who had the flagg but i remember seeing moms in the store fighting over cabbage patch dolls, saying they must be super rich.

Interesting and wonderful that all the primetime Superheroes of the 70s are still with us. The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk!

I remember the Navarone Giant Play Set. I didn't have one, but a friend did. The Family Tree House was cool also. My cousin had the Death Star Space Station. I always wanted that one for the obvious Star Wars fanboy reasons!

I had the Bionic Man Mission Control Center! And, of course, Steve Austin! So Cool!!

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!

0:45 There were only 72 vintage MOTU figures? Not as many as I expected. I had just three. I was born a little too late for MOTU. They were present on the playground, but were just about to be supplanted by the next big thing, my main nostalgic childhood franchise; The Transformers. The Filmation style of the MOTU cartoon already seemed dated to me back then, when compared to other sci-fi fantasy series like Thundercats, Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, or The Mighty Orbots. I do have enough fondness for the characters to have a small MOTU collection though. 5 Origins figures, plus the main cast from the Club Greyskull Ultimates (cartoon style) line. Just missing Evil-Lyn. 😬

I've seen those Tops characters in toy shops and shows, i never knew they were MotU.. crazy. I kinda drifted away from MotU after the movie. Not because of the movie, lol, i was just getting into new things

A grown man that collects toys: I TOTALLY get that. It’s cool. A grown man that says “that’s fire”: NOT cool. Totally NOT tubular. So UNradical

the patchouly oil was actually used as a portion of the oil in the plastic of the arms and legs, mine is still pungent 40 years later

I worked at the Moline, IL Holidome from '92-'96. Some of the greatest memories of my life happened there. Sadly, it became a Ramada in the early 2000's and was torn down around 2015. 329 rooms, restaurant, lounge, airport convention center, two indoor pools, hot tub, finess room, arcade, mini basketball court, nine hole put-put golf, ping pong tables, and seven hot-tub suites. Never to be equaled or replaced, in my opinion. "Thank you for calling the Moline, IL Holiday Inn Airport Convention Center. How may I direct your call?"

11:48 That was the whole appeal of Kenner's speeder bike from ROTJ. Just to keep crashing into stuff and blowing it up, via button press.

They were “tops”

I lost interest in MOTU when Hordak came along. The figures kinda went off the rails into silly territory and felt like a desperate attempt to stay relevant.

I had Barbie's, and it would make me mad that most of the Mego figures were much shorter, meaning she had very few options for a date that looked right, lol

I was a lucky kid, lol, i had the Fonze garage & hotrod, the pop up family tree house, and the McDonald's.

The amount of these I had...I could never remember the names of the Super Naturals or the Infaceables.

You pretty much covered every figure that eventually turned me away from Motu, it all ended up looking like a cash grab