The History of Hasbro’s Shrek 2 Action Figures
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- čas přidán 26. 05. 2024
- More information than you ever wanted to learn about a mediocre 2004 action figure line. Lean in and sniff because this video is scented with waffles. 🧇
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I'm so glad that Hasbro gave Shrek his iconic giant gun and iconic purple pants from Shrek 2.
That crossbow gun from the wave 3 "Outta My Swamp" Shrek is actually a repaint/remold of an accessory that came with an Archer figure from the Small Soldiers line in 1998.
Seems like Shrek and Archer are good Dreamworks buddies! Lol for real though, good catch!
My friend had the santa shrek which we displayed proudly in the house we lived in together. Great video, you're easily my favorite Shrekstorian!
Thank you for the kind words! 🙏 “Shrekstorian” That’s absolutely gnarly I’m stealing that one! 😂
I was just as much of a Shrek fanatic and collector as you until I had a big move and lost my collection. Keep this channel going, you're keeping all the positive spirit of Shrek alive and preserving great history. No memes just appreciation for a great franchise.
I truly think Shrek is one of the all-time fantasy greats. The fact that three of the five films are pretty much considered timeless classics easily puts the series on the same wavelength of Star Wars or even Lord of the Rings. Shrek is truly an epic and I’m happy to preserve its legacy! 😁
this is the type of content I need more of in my life, please don't stop talkin' about your collection 🙏🙏🙏
Lots more to talk about! Thanks for watching. 😊
As a kid I remember having the handsome Shrek and steed donkey, as well as the regular donkey, who I believe eventually had his upper skull removed.
Ah, I had the Fiona too
I think the 'wedding dress Fiona' goes inside the hollow ogre Fiona, so you can make her 'transform'.
I love watching your videos! I'm also a Fursuiter and a toy collector! :>
Toy collecting furries unite! 🎉
It’s interesting you bring up the small scale hasbro was trying to push with this line. When Hasbro got the marvel license they abandoned the 6 inch line for a couple of years in favor of a 4 inch toy line
Hasbro plays these weird games with scales. Marvel went from 4” to 6” to even 2.5” (Guardians and Ultron if anyone remembers those strange toys.) and then finally 6” again…I think they must get a lot of turnover in upper management. Everyone has their own “vision” of the brand. It’s a miracle Star Wars stuck to 3.75 for as long as it did. I swear Hasbro does this just to mess with collectors…🤔
keep these videos up! I love learning about shrek history in general
I actually remembered owning both the original hasbro Shrek & Donkey figures back in the day! I really wished I’ve kept some of these figures nowadays! Never knew they made a Prince Charming bowling pin figure 😅
Picked up the McFarlane 6" Shrek and Donkey on eBay for cheap because of your last video, really great figures!
Glad you’re enjoying them! They’re super fun figures.
I had (and still have) the basic Shrek figure as a kid! I always wondered why he had the smiley face on his stomach, because it’s not in the movie
These shrek figure history videos are great! love all the stuff behind you, especially the shrek plush to the left of your head
Ah the Macy’s Shrek plush! He’s cute but super annoying…he’s top heavy and WILL NOT stay on any surface without falling. Notice how I tucked his arm in the shelf itself. That’s the only way to get that dude to stand! 😅
I was born in 2004 and remember owning the donkey plush and yes he never shuts up
I think Hasbro was more focused on the Revenge of the Sith toyline and that might be why the Shrek 2 line was overlooked.
i've noticed that this bigger fiona in 8:30 has the same pose that the mini fiona that comes with the the far far away castle along with puss shrek and human fiona
and this gingy at 6:22 , is not actuall new, the gingy is from the far far away mini figures (the one where armored shrek, human fiona, 3 little pigs and donkey comes in, along this same gingy)
im only missing human shrek and horse donkey to complete the hasbro collection 🥺
That’s a good catch with the Fiona. It’s common for companies to re-use tooling so this seems to confirm the figure as being 99% official. I’m still very curious if it was officially released or not.
I had Fiona, Puss in Boots, and Donkey as the Stallion as a kid. I didn’t get the Shrek and Donkey from this line because I had the McFarlane Shrek and Donkey, and 8 year old me didn’t see the point of having two of those characters.
NEVER saw the human Shrek figure, and didn’t know it even existed until today.
I was just born the year Shrek 2 came out so I was never able to get these unfortunately. I can’t wait for you to talk about shrek 3 though, as those toys are the ones I grew up with
Yes I am definitely going to talk about the Shrek the Third figures. They’re actually pretty solid and underrated.
I never heard of Shrek toys at all despite loving the movies when they came out, until I found your channel. I love videos that go over the history of the lines in depth. Great job!
Thanks for watching! Stay tuned as we still have two more Shrek films to cover. (And let’s hope for a fifth film with a great toyline!)
I remember these. I think I still have Puss n Boots in a box somewhere
I definitely had football donkey as a kid and I live in upstate ny. I remember using the blue football for my nfl figures/statues. I also remember the towel on donkeys back being made of this material that would rub off on my fingertips.
I also have the kicking donkey, and can confirm is does NOT smell like waffles anymore (same comic store and same story as the Farquad mascot)
I would love to find one that still smells. I swear I remember that smell so fondly. 😂
I bought my daughter the first wave at Toy Federation. We opened them, and we could smell the scents.
@@laneneely1077 I’m glad to hear there are still “fresh” scented figures out there!
Love your videos! And hey! Slime can be fun, especially with Nina turtles
Wow just yesterday I saw your Shrek 1 figure history and was wishing for a breakdown of the Shrek 2 figures and well here it is less than 24 hours later for me, dude your awesome. Hope to see more videos like these for the rest of the DreamWorks Shrek movies.
Yes I plan on doing all four! Even if the other lines are sadly not as comprehensive…..but interesting nonetheless! 👍
Have been waiting for this! Would also love you to do a video/short on the doll of Fiona from MGA you have
Next episode! The MGA Shrek the Third line…
YOOO you should cover the McDonald's and fast food Shrek toys too!! they were literally my childhood
Definitely. The later films had some really nice kids’ meal toys. Heck McDonald’s gave us our only real action figures for the Puss in Boots film.
MGA Next??? i’m so interested
Yep! Even the strange fashion doll line will be included…
3:18 At least burger king got it right.......mongo legs are normal while gingy's legs are broken
Tfw the kids’ meal toys are better than the premium action figures. Actually this happened with most of the Shrek toylines 😅 (Shrek 4 definitely has better Happy Meal figures than Playmates sad offering.)
@@austin_the_brimstone i mean burger king,mcdonalds do better shrek toys than the other shrek toys (but Hasbro did their job and todd mcfarlane did alot of work with these sculps)
Speaking on that mongo from burger king kids meal.....it was an inflatable which can also float on underwater......ironic considering that mongo drown in one of the epic scenes in shrek 2.
(God i love that scene..)
I remember the dragon definitely smelled like smokey bacon or something
I actually found the shrek from the first wave at a yard sale today
Trolls 2016 having the Shrek 2 marketing princples is probably why I like that era the most. Also thank you for taking documentation of this era of Shrek
Trolls has definitely had the best merch for any Dreamworks movie. Great variety of dolls, figures, playsets and even LEGO. Makes sense since the Trolls movies are based off a toy license.
I have zero shreck toys growing up. I was born in 2007 when Shrek the third came out. I love your videos please make more
@@austin_the_brimstone World Tour was a weak era but Band Togther by Mattel while flawed it was much better than Hasbro World Tour
The only time I saw any of these in a store was like one time at Dollar General and while I kind of wanted them, I didn't end up getting them because even as a 9 yr old, I could tell these looked significantly cheaper than the first movies toys. I believe they at least had Donkey, I think Fiona as well.
While the McFarlane toys are the clear winner, I do really appreciate how unique these are and the surprising amount of features they put into these. Nowadays, toy companies are far too busy trying to make figures as accurate and articulated as possible, that they forget to actually make kids toys. I think the closest toys out there that even slightly resembles toys like this are from Jakks and even those are nowhere near as creative and unique as these here. Shrek is a franchise whose toy line started out way too good and got increasingly worse with each movie.
I 100% agree with everything you said here! I really hope a company likes Jakks or Jazwares gets the Shrek license. All we’ve had since 2010 are various Funko figure lines. Purely collector focused and zero toy fun.
@12:39 That "figure" could have been too heavy so the extra plastic might be to add more surface area for the adhesion to the back card.
Possibly! I imagine the slime also would’ve added some weight.
Cant wait for the third installment this has all been really interesting. Went down the rabbit hole over my own nostalgia with the mcfarlane line
Soon! 😉
All I have is the dragon. If I had seen the Noble Steed figure, I definitely would have bought it, but I don't recall seeing it.
After all the trouble I had trying to find the McFarlane dragon, I bought the Hasbro dragon as soon as I saw it.
That Handsome Shrek, what the heck? It can't ride Noble Steed properly? He's going to be awfully sore if he has to to ride standing in the stirrups the whole time lol!
Bwhaha That’s definitely classic “Hasbro Riding” Most Star Wars figures “air chair” on their speeder bikes. I have no idea what’s up with the Handsome Shrek figure especially since he’s much larger than the other figures. It’s honestly like somebody made a mistake in the sculpting department.
10:06 good to see the human shrek action figure.
I'm convinced the whole "figures in different scales" thing tanked the Thundercats reboot (and I was p!$$3d). Anyway, love your videos (and Shrek)!
I agree it’s sooo frustrating especially when certain characters are only in one scale. One that frustrated me as a kid was TRON Legacy. All the fun characters and vehicles were only in the small scale. I also remember that Thundercats reboot being at my local TRU around the same time I was collecting TRON. It looked like an amazing line of toys. Shame it didn’t catch on.
There's currently a listing for some of the prototypes to this line, including "SHREK"
Great vid as usual
26:33 this shrek plush is popular than donkey and puss since....he was use more in Supermariologan (now known as SML due to nintendo suing their asses).
It's like the mario party plush of luigi having the most value because his inclution in cute mario bros
Very interesting. I remember when the Kellytoy Luigi was just a vintage plush. Then it skyrocketed in value due to that channel. Same thing happened with Littlest Pet Shop toys. All those figures’ prices are controlled by CZcamsrs. Fascinating stuff!
Hi mate, i´m obsessed with your content. Can you please make a video about all the happy meal collections of Shrek? I trully believe Shrek the third had the best one by far, we even got the baby ogres. 🙌
OMG I have this football Donkey! the ears are a little messed up and I lost... most of the accessories but I still have the donkey figure and the babies donkey/dragons
Fuck! I should have keep the slime donkey one, I didn't know it was rare back in 05
Also, I still remember how dronkey stinks... good memories
I have that Boots plush doll gifted by my uncle.
I hope you will review the upcoming Shrek merch (if any). Your videos are pretty entertaining
My friend, I'm going to buy ALL the new Shrek merch. God help me.
@@austin_the_brimstone I'll wait for you new videos, haha.
You got some collection of shrek toys
Shrek 2 toys action figures in history
Shrek must be eternal
I love Shrek soooooo much
10 dollars expensive? I grew up when the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the hit then and the figures sold for 5 dollars.
Hi friend, not a huge shrek fan as much as I am just an action figure fan and collector, but I enjoyed hearing you talk about your collection! Gotta ask, what is the name of the black shelves directly behind you? Would love to get some of that type for my collection!
Well the one to the left is a basic walmart tool shelf. They're made of plastic and usually sell fior $20-30. As for the nice wooden one...I wish I knew myself! My family has had it for years and I've always wanted to buy another.
I love these Shrek restrospectives even though I have never bought any of them( I just love merchandise history even fron things I don't personally buy), but I do have some opinions on some of your points.
1.Carded toys: Has someone that unboxes his figures and keeps them loose, Hasbro toys are generally the one you should keep in box, some of the new figures break the moment you unbox them and some old figures had the unfortunate fate of being made with cheap plastic( gold plastic being the most common) which makes the figures disentigrate over the slightest touch which means carding them is the only option for them.
2. The villain problem: This was the toylines biggest weakness in both cases. The first movie only had Farquaad, which the whole joke is that he is pathetic, which for a kid does not make him into a cool villain to fight or buy and the second movie skimmed over both of it's villains for different reasons: Prince Charming similar to Farquaad was too pathetic for a child to have interest in and Fairy godmother...well she was a girl and we both know that those never sell in the boy toy isle so Hasbro skipped on her due to that, which sucked because she was the only compotent bad guy that your figures could fight. Dragon as cool has a figure she is, sadly could not fill that role either cause she is part of the good guys, which meant that most kids would not see her has a villain or make their figures fight her cause she is the heroes friend and in donkey's case his wife. This problem was not in other toylines at the time, Spiderman had the green goblin and Doc Ok and Star Wars had the separatist forces, including General Griveous, who was so popular that his figures used to be sold out everywhere due to the demand for him. Strangely, the one movie that 100% could have made it has a toyline was the movie that never got one. Puss in boots 2, whose villains were incredibly imposing and great to have your heroes fight, especially death who most kids would have bought just by how cool and epic he is.
You make some very good points here. Hasbro makes cheap CHEAP toys and I hope that if we ever get another Shrek figure like that another company gets the license. Shrek as an IP will always be a hard sell for action figures because it’s a flat-comedy. You’re right, villains are usually pretty goofy. There’s definitely exceptions, like Death, Jack and Jill and even the witches from Forever After but for the most part all the iconic classic Shrek figures are pretty ridiculous.
I’ll likely make a video on this soon but if I were designing a new 6” Shrek figure line, I’d do Death as a “Build a Figure”. He’s a really enticing character that would help sell some of those “dud” figures. (I.e. Looking at you, Fairy Godmother. 👀 )
@@austin_the_brimstone That is actually a pretty brilliant idea. Build a figures are the perfect reason to complete a line, especially if the final figure is a very desirable character like death and it also prevents store excluives on some figures....not a fan of store exclusive due to some stores( target) not existing where I live making my only option scalper prices.....
You should do the poly and the pocket ones
I think you missed out that there’s a Prince Charming figure by Hasbro in this line
That was actually for Shrek the Third. MGA made those figure. Although they are definitely compatible with the Hasbro figures.
@@austin_the_brimstone ahhic. My mistake
I have a Prince Charming figure in armor, don't know what brand it is but it's a pretty bad figure imo, the pose he has is pretty weird and the articulation doesn't really work. The sword he has however, is one of my favorites, I use it on other figures all the time!
Ah that's the Shrek the Third Charming. I don't think it's a necessarily horrible figure, but I will agree that the pose isn't perfect. Defintiely an "action-oriented" figure for sure. I'm more so just glad he exists...to date our only real action figure of one of Shrek's greatest villians.
Will you ever cover the videogames?
Hasbro recién estaba empezando a tener las licencias de Shrek por eso no lo hacía muy bien
Me hubiera encantado ver un segundo año de juguetes adecuados.
Random question have you ever considered renaming the buck Tyrone?
Opinions on the ogre sized m&m's?
Good but nowhere near the PEAK Sinbad M & M's from '03!
How did you get that?😮
Shrek 2 is the Best Sequel!
this is witewawy so cwool
How old are you
What does it matter ?
It's SHREK not SCHWECK