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The History of Kenner Super Powers Action Figures
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2024
- Once Mego went out of business DC had to fill the toy void left behind. This is the history of Kenners DC Comics Super Powers line with their squeezable legs and their slightly bent arms.
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The only time Jack Kirby, the King of Comics, got royalties for his Fourth World work. That alone makes it alright.
Really I did not know that, thank you for sharing that.
Facts! Kirby was robbed by the comics industry! He was criminally underpaid considering all of the contributions he made to comics! In both Marvel and DC.
As I understand it from what I've read on the topic, even with the Superpowers Toy line, Kirby wouldn't have seen any royalties if some DC editors didn't have him redesign some of the Fourth World characters for the line!
This kind of rampant corporate profiting off of the creativity and invention of artists/writers while not allowing actual creators to profit from their art beyond a salary, or-- more likely for comics artists/writers --freelance pay. Disgusting, imo
This.
Man I loved these toys. Green Lantern and Brainiac were so cool. I also remember I got caught shoplifting these toys because my parents wouldn't buy them for me.
If you got caught shoplifting them, that means these toys are really cool!!!
I absolutely loved these figures. Darkseid and his team of Steppenwolf, Tyr, Desaad, Kalibak and the Parademon were my first super villain team. God I miss the days when action figures were fun.
Yes in my opinion I think that it is still the greatest action figure line ever made!!!
Lol, ... And still one of the toughest.
I also miss the days when action figures were under $5 each. Yikes.
@@BronzeAgeBryon Oh I totally agree. I miss when I could buy a whole line for around $30 and vehicles were more expensive but wouldn't bankrupt you. It's insanity that a figure costs $50 and a vehicle is $500. It's no wonder kids aren't interested anymore. Toy companies priced them out of the sandbox.
@@ChapMeifan it wasn't toy companies, it was adult collectors. Makers of action figures learned that they could over sculpt and over charge for figures because adult collectors will pay literally anything, and are way better customers than kids because kids don't have money. The toy companies just follow the market.
This line was on my list of favorite toy lines growing up right up there with G.I Joe, Transformers, M.A.S.K and Thundercats.
The Super Powers Team Galactic Guardians was my favorite of the series.
The Darkseid action figure was awesome! The light up eyes!!
DC Comics was the first thing I ever fell in love with and these toys felt like the ultimate collection of my favorite superheroes that could never be topped. Honestly, still my favorite toys of all time
As a Golden Age fan in the 80's I loved the Dr. Fate figure.
I'd never heard of Dr Fate (DC's answer to Doctor Strange?) until the Super Powers toy line. Based on his little profile card on the back, he sounded like an interesting character who should have gotten more attention. Needless to say I was quite thrilled to discover that not only Dr Fate, but also Hawkman, were being featured in the Black Adam movie. I still have yet to see it, but I'm looking forward to see what the good Doctor can do with that mystical magic of his.
The 2nd Super Powers miniseries was great and the best introduction of many of the Fourth World villains to the greatest DC heroes. It used more Apokolips than DC villains and the Darkseid costume was iconic.
I still have a few of these left including the mail away Clark Kent and the Hall of Justice which I gave to my daughter to play with and she loves it
They have a memory that is reluctant to leave my head. I went with my brother and father to a department store in the city of Santo André. This store called "Jumbo Eletro". From what I researched, this store still exists in Africa.
And at the time the Super Powers were being launched here in Brazil by a company called "Estrela". I saw a wall with dozens of Super Powers and unfortunately at that time, my father was unable to buy them. After he bought.
Man, I had the following action figures in the 80's: Batman, Superman and Robin. And I also got Batman's helicopter and Superman's ship from my father. Everything, absolutely everything, my mother donated to other children and I was very upset about that.
Now I'm going to try to buy some, which were released by Macfarlane Toys. Yesterday I bought a Darkseid, I'm waiting for it to arrive! This collection is the best ever! But for us who live in Brazil it is very difficult to acquire these items.
Wait. You never watched Super Friends or Happy Days?? What is wrong with you? 😕
That actually angered me,like why are you talking about this then?😜 Plus I don't believe him😉
I had all of them....
Unfortunately they suffered total annihilation and were cherrybombed and melted...?
Against a battle with the transformer and gi joe ,gobots and star wars figuers....in a brutal,savage,apocalyptic war...in my backyard...
I really regretted my childhood, toy defacing...
I would have been rich off eBay right about NOW.
I Fuck'd up...
I need a flux capacitor?
Kenner Flash was my first super hero with his kicky legs. I remember the Toy Biz versions became incredibly cheap at KB towards the end (mostly riddlers). Had Lex Luthor in purple jacket with "punch himself in the head" action and "dual umbilical cords" Mr. Freeze.
Yeah the Toy Biz versions were NOT the same quality. Everyone was kind of puffy looking.
I still have the Batmobile, Supermobile, and Lexor 7. I still have some of the figures too! Batman, Robin, Joker, Penguin, Flash, Darkseid, Kalibak, Desaad, Mantis (all bought in the 80's), and recently purchased Steppenwolf!
I own all 35 figures including the extremely rare Riddler only released in Argentina.
Okay, that Robin Hood poster gag was great.
I like this vid man....sweeeet!!!!
I had bats the car & somone else.the b.mobiles power punch bumper broke on me & the cement glue melted it.
Fun times!!!
All the characters in DC's stable and in 30 figures they gave us who in the third wave? Who the hell is Tyr? No wonder they stopped making them. Not even a Supergirl?
I use to love these action figures. Still have a few.
i know not mentioning it was done intentional as a joke but the batmobile is by far the best vehicle in the line. the design,gadgets,etc were just great.
No doubt on both counts: as a joke and THE best vehicle.
No doubt. My vote for 2nd or 3rd best Batmobile of all time, with the 90s Animated Series car being the other. We all know the Keatonmobile is #1, right?
Born in 82, by 94, I was done with toys do to the fact that 90's toys blew dog...started re collecting in early 2000's...now i have many of these again...kenner, and mattel were the best toy lines for me..
I remember opening my batman and robin and batmobile on christmas morning. I lost my mind!
I always used to put my Super Powers Superman and Secret Wars Iron Man on the same team. Drove my friends bats**t INSANE with that crap. I loved every moment of it.
Duuuuuuuuuuuude. I totally forgot about the Super Mobile. I had it as a kid. And Superman. I never even knew what it was called. I do remember kicking it around a lot and other figures would use it besides Supes. It wasn't a favorite toy but it did get played with.
Christmas of 86 I got the superman vehicle, the lex luthor vehicle, the motorcycle/sidecar thing from secret wars and one other vehicle. The last one was a car that traveled inside a hamster wheel. I think it was secret wars related.
I had so many of those heroes as a kid., but I remember I always wanted to get El Dorado because he was my favourite in the Super Friends show. BUT I think they never made a toy fro him until recently.
Love this channel and fantastic vid! Yeah I loved this toy line. Green Lantern was my first one I bought at Kaybee Toys :)
I remember getting Superman Batman and the flash those figures for Christmas along with my He-Man transformers and GI Joe figures
id love to see a video on the 90's spiderman toy line as well as the x-men
In my top 5 favorite toys..I only had batman Robin and g.l. but g.l. was my favorite back then....but man did I adore these. How I got hal ill never know but I always dug characters that were only seen here and there.
I loved the line... this is why I have a large DC Universe Classics line now. I only had 5 Superpowers figures as a kid and the same 5 I had then became the first 5 DC Classics figure I bought, in almost the exact order I got them. Flash, Firestorm, Mr. Miracle, Batman, and Superman... I kept going with the DC Classics line as an adult. I wish they'd reboot the Visionaries in modern 6 inch figures...
I was really happy when DCUC went all in on representing even the late figure from Super Powers.
I'd buy 'em. Even if they skipped the holograms.
I've seen this video a few times, but these were some iconic figures back then. I grew up with the Mego lines back in the 70's. When these came out I was older and not into them anymore. I kinda wish I would have grabbed a few though.
Great video thanks for posting! I had Superman, Batman, Lex Luthor...ect, plus the vehicles you mentioned. I forgot about most of this stuff, thank you again for reminding me.
Had a bunch of these as a kid. Loved them. Glad I managed to put together a complete loose set of them for my collection. Green Arrow arrows, unbroken bow and Wonder Woman lasso to boot! :)
I love these videos and I’ve watched them multiple times at this point but damn do they make me miss my old toys.
I have all of these vintage Kenner action figure's.
Those Kenner figs were really cool. Sad to see what happened to them
Soooo many memories. Thank you, good sir.
Had the Darkseid Destroyer as a kid, that thing was wild.
Me too, it honestly was almost too big to play with, it was like half the size of me, and I had the hall of justice and lex's cool jet thing, with it's dope grabber claw. I didnt get Superman's. It was a worse version of Lex Luthors and even at like 7-8 I was like why tf does supes need a jet?
@@damendred1 That supes line gave me a good laugh, thanks.
I always wanted those Super Powers action figures but I never got them cause I was at a stage at the time thinking I was too old for them boy was I dumb even though I didn't get the toys, I did get the next best thing, All three volumes of the Super Powers comic- books I still have then today but if I ever get the chance to get the Super Powers Action Figures, you can bet your bottom dollar I would.
This was after my time but man did I make sure to check all these out (least the first wave or two) to see who they had. It brought back memories of Pocket Heroes and the 8" Megoes (for variety). Still the best superhero line I've ever seen (including modern, IMHO). But Justice Jogger? And no Invisible Jet? And shame that if they were going to update (unsuccessfulky for my taste) the super mobile that they'd leave out it key feature, those awesom mechanical hands. Least we finally got to see it with that McFarlan line (even if it seems to stacked high in clearance aisles for some reason). I just wish the line had gone on one or two waves longer (orskip Cyclone and Golden Pharoah so we could see some others (Kid Flash, Aqualad, jay Garrick-Flash, did they do Zatanna or Supergirl?).
Yep, I totally had that mail in Clark Kent, and I remember waiting what seemed like FOREVER for it to come in the mail. LOL ...and I'm also pretty sure I had almost all of those phase 3 rare figures, and like almost all the rest of the stuff I had back then, seemed to vanish after garage sales. If my parents knew then what I know now...
I missed out on Cyborg and Clark Kent. Had most vehicles, but no playsets.
Such was most of my collections - so close to completion but just falling short.
I love that yall keep the outtakes on the reel... lol
This Toy Line MADE my Childhood!!! The Hall of Justice was a very cool playset!!! The only other Playset I wanted (but never owned because my Parents said "You have plenty") was Boulder Hill for the M.A.S.K. Collection.
Once again, it was Great meeting you at Retro-Con at Valley Forge. Believe it or not, my friend Carlos has a mint carded Cyborg and a mint carded Golden Pharaoh that he had for sale a his table! They both look Fantastic!
I was fortunate to have both Superman figures from the Super Powers and DC Super Heroes. The Super Powers Superman was slimmer than the DC Superheroes one.
Fonzeid would be an epic character....grand idea sir!
A nice "AYYYY!" from Darkseid would certainly throw the Justice League off their game.
Also he should have a space jukebox and an office in the men's room.
I picture the sharks being jumped are friends of Aquaman.
Bro I just discovered you and I love these vids.
Handily my all time favorite
The new McFarlane line is super cool!
Wow cute bloopers. Listing the figures would have been nice.
The Darkseid Destroyer reminds me of the ThunderStrike vehicle from Thundercats.
Can’t believe you didn’t mention the batmobile as one of the coolest ever made.especially at that time
You guys do very good videos. NICE VIBES.
I loved the Super Powers figures! I think the Super Powers Batmobile is the 2nd best Bat ride of all time, after the Keatonmobile. It married elements from the 60s TV show and the comics, and managed to look cool despite some gimmicky play features. The rear "enemy capture claw" was silly, the pop up headlights were awesome.
Interestingly, LEGO now has the rights to DC Comics characters AND brick-built action figures with action features, so one day in the future we could get the LEGO Super Powers Collection. Every other toy company wouldn't know what hit them.
I had Superman, Batman, and a few others. Also had the Superman ship and the Batmobile
We had just a few figures, but I had no idea about the vehicles and other accessories.
BEST TOYS EVER!!!!!
1. one of the best things to me that came from this toy line wasn't a toy at all, BURGER KING CUPS. 2. Oh those plastic c clips that held on their capes, genius. 3. I had all the Robin Hood toys. :D
Years after they stopped making them, I was still able to find figures at KB Toys. Some of the not popular figures that is, but still loved this line.
Lol, I LOVE this channel!
Man I had almost all those rare ones as well...wish I still had them!
A great toy line. I must have bought three different Superman figures because I played with it so frequently that I'd wear out the punching mechanism. The broken Superman toys would ultimately get recast and repainted as Bizzaro and Evil Superman from the Negative World .
I love that he keeps the blubs and mistakes. Human
I bought a Super Powers Superman at the Smithsonian gift store(why?), and his knee joints were sooooooooooooooooo loose. Never got over it.
Video was good, but I wanted more depth and secrets, most of the stuff you said I already knew from loving the figures, comics and cartoons. Heck I want a whole video on Toy Biz's super hero business all by itself.
I own the entire collection. I only owned 3 of these as a kid (Aquaman, Darkseid, and Robin), and they were incomplete. As a kid, I wanted to own them all. As an adult, I bought my first Batman, Joker, Penguin, and second Robin (all loose/complete) for around $75 in 1999. In 2001, I opened a 12-back carded Superman up and lived my childhood dream that evaded me at a Ben Franklin store in 1985.I still have this C-9+ figure today. After that, I started buying the others up until I had the complete set. I had to sell some around 4 years ago, but I got them back. I vowed never to sell them again. They cost way more than you can sell them for to get them back. If you have any (especially any of the third series), don't sell them unless you have no intentions of buying them back.
Love these things
still have the batmobil with batman and robin in it.. the superman ship i have to but in pieces
I had/have almost the entire line. Missed the Justice Jogger and Captain Marvel.
Thank you
PLEASE PLEASE do Robotech!!!!!!
I vividly remember the line of figures that came out after the 1989 batman movie line and how impossible it was to find a superman figure that I wanted but never was able to get batman and Robin were so much easier to get that I had them
I still have my green lantern but man I lost my wonder woman at a flea market and I was one sad little five year old for like a month. I still to this day want to get another wonder woman.
Superman would drop dead again if he had a backpack full of kryptonite on his back. I had these as well as secrete wars I got to admit SW was my favorite.
have you seen super hero art...Im buying the new backing cards...theyre so perfectly matched
I have Darkseid (2 really), Green Lantern, and Superman from Super Powers and Flash from DC Comics Super Heroes
that dark side vechile looks very similar to the triad fighter from the action force line by palitoy.
I had a mail in Clark Kent. I remember walking to different mail boxes because supposedly you couldn't put all the letters in one box like Kenner could tell. I was four at the time.
Yes
As an 80s kid, my favorite line of all time.
Orion was the only one I had as a kid! LOL. If only I'd known...
Love your shows, love the history and the nostalgia of the old toy brands. Keep it up. Makes me realize how simpler times were and not all this nonsense of today. Of course, it hurts my wallet trying to reconnect with a time long gone. Cheers
I can't believe there was the Justice Jogger but no Invisible Jet? I mean, all they would've had to do was have a clear plastic seat and tell us the rest was there and we'd have bought it.
Oddly, I thought this was going to be about how the DC superheroes' powers changed over time.
Today it lives on through Tweeterhead and their 1/6 scale DC Super Power statues.
I’m here from the future and I’m a bit freaked out by the lack of beard! 😮
I love super hero’s!!!
I miss Kenner.
The vehicles drawn up and unreleased look like they would have been awesome.
This was indeed a great, great figure line, so much so that, despite not knowing who half the secondary and back-up characters were (I was a Marvel kid), I still bought them.
The Toy Biz figures were so blatantly rip-offs, and poor ones at that, I never actually opened any of them -- and I ALWAYS opened my toys! They remain somewhere in the abandoned toy room of my mom's house, no doubt yellowing on their cards in the darkness.
A rare action figure in this collection was the Released-In-Argentina-Only figure of The Riddler. Cuick S.A. was the Argentinean manufacturer that got the license from Kenner to make these, and sold it as "Super Amigos" (Super Friends) instead of Super Powers. The Riddler action figure was cast from a Green Lantern mold, but painted with the Riddler's iconic bright green, purple, and question marks. czcams.com/video/g5etrjifUyc/video.html
Love the fonz
Love the embedded bloopers. So funny. So what would happen if Hasbro absorbed Mattel? Or would it be the other way around? Thoughts: Hasttel or Matsbro?!?!
I like Mattsbro.
What in the name of BAJOR, was that a DS9 reference? MY MAN!
There were two versions of the Cyborg action figure, the gray looking one and the even rare shiny metallic version.
No, there was only one version for the US, you might be thinking of the Amigos versions
Super powers and secret wars, the best action figure line and bestt anime series EVER! Pure breed HERO not other types of bullshit 👍💪
I still wish I own my Super powers Joker figure.