Action Figures That Aren't STAR WARS | Action Figures BETWEEN Han Solo & He-man: Rare Action Figures
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- Action Figures are More than Star Wars. Between the Original Star Wars Toy Line and the arrival of He-Man, a number of Action Figures and Toy Lines from Various Properties came on the scene. Trying to find the same success as Star Wars before He-Man came along and changed the whole Action Figure business, these obscure toy lines and figures had their day.
Follow this timeline of some of the rarest, some of the often forgotten, and some of the WTH Toy Lines that came between Han Solo and He-Man. Action Figures that weren't Star Wars...in The GEN Xperience.
Merry Christmas and I hope your tree has lots of Action Figures under it.
The MASH ,Love Boat and Dukes of Hazzard figures made excellent civillians for COBRA to kidnap . I eventually used Captain Stubing as an Officer on my USS FLAGG. Still have him on the bridge. Cobra also used old Fisher Price vehicles for a while. Issac from love boat made an excellent personal lackey for Destro. Daisy Duke was the Baroness in disguise. The Duke Boys did double duty as civillians AND Dreadknocks.
This is AWESOME. Such creativity, and I love the "kidnap victims" lol. Damn, you knew how to do it. Thanks for the watch and comment.
@@GENXPERIENCE Well,my mom worked at Sears (it exsisted up here in Canada )then.So when some action figures went on deep discount (Like Love Boat),we got my mom's staff discount on top of that .GI Joe's disappeared quickly ,but even I never even bothered with the " Star Trek:The Motionless Picture " figures. For some reason ,whenever I saw them (for a few YEARS) on the pegs ,I thought they looked more like the staff at McDonald's.
I remember having a playmobile sports car that my Chuckles figure would drive.
@@andrewsherwin966 my chuckles had the A-Team Corvette.
Awesome! And that's some imagination there! =D That's what it was all about back in the day.
G.I. Joe was always a Hasbro property first. When they went to the 3 3/4" designs, they asked Marvel to produce a tie in comic. However, outside of the original twelve Joes, they had very few ideas. Fortunately Marvel writer Larry Hama did and he was able to add to the mythology (and therefore toy line) and kick things off.
That comic was great and was still selling ok even as the toy line was dying. Hasbro actually ordered it cancelled.
Very true. By the time all companies were creating their own line, MOST were acvompanied by cartoons. I know Hama's part, but thank you for clarifying the WHEN the comic came into play.
I don’t remember if they were before or after Star Wars, but Micronauts were pretty popular at the time. And I agree with you, that Fischer-Price news van play set rocked!
Looks like they were right before and VERY popular by the comments.
The Kenner Indiana Jones figures' hips flared so they could ride the horse, as you theorized. They weren't 5POA, they were 7POA. Their knees were also jointed (except for Marion) so they could sit astride the Arabian Horse more naturally. These leg designs, as well as Indy's quick-draw feature, were carryovers from the earlier toy line for Butch & Sundance: the Early Years. The horse mold used to produce both Bluff and Spurs in that line was repurposed for the Arabian, so really the entire Indy line was designed around that horse.
I kept saying 5 point, even questioned myself later. Must have been on a roll. I should give credit to the 7 points. Thank you
OMG!!! i used to LOVE playing with my Fisher Price Adventure People!!! I had the Androids, the motorcycle dude, and the Space Probe. Wow! I haven't seen these toys for forty years! Thanks for mentioning them! I also had Indiana Jones, Twiki, and the LONE RANGER (not mentioned). I had the TRON yellow cycle where you could rev it up and make it move by itself. But my absolute LOVE was my Clash of the Titans toys. I always wanted a Medusa toy myself (favorite part of the movie). But GI JOE will always be my favorite. Born in '73, I was the perfect age for the best toys of all time!!!! :O)
When I see Fisher Price figures like the News Van and the translucent androids, I get teleported. Some I haven't seen in decades, but loved having them. Hours of enjoyment. I do show Lone Ranger (I think) in the show, but I thought it was before Star Wars so I didn't include, but good nonetheless. There is something about CLASH I simply fell in love with. I see GI JOE gets most love, but Medusa would have help the CLASH line, lol. Thanks for the great comment, and view.
I went to a lot of yard sales with my mom and grandma in the 80s so I was fortunate enough to get ahold of many of these, especially the Mego lines. My favorites of the ones you mentioned were probably the General Lee vehicle from Dukes of Hazzard and the Black Hole and Buck Rodgers figs. Fun stuff.
Mego did so much more than I thought, really! Love the memory of the yard sales, that is cool. If I had found them there, you can be sure I would have snagged them, too. That General Lee was a HOT car, and yes, these guys were fun stuff, fun times. Thanks for the view and the comment.
I am amazed you forgot the Butch Cassidy and Sundance kid towline from 79. Actually shared the cantina play set with Star Wars.
Hmmm, I did know of their existence, too. I did not have them, but they too have some quality and fit right in. Guess I had no emotional connection to them. I love when toylines reused other's stuff (cantina). thank you
It's hard to find new and fresh material for Gen Xers about toys, but you nailed it. Great video man!!
That is one of the best compliments...and you are right...I got to keep all that same old 80s content Fresh, lol. Thank you
Loved my Battlestar Galactica figures. The Cylon's and Stormtroopers joined forces in many battles. Buck Rodgers teamed up with the rebels.
I remember getting the MASH playset on clearance, but using it for my G.I. Joe's.
EXACTLY what i would have done. YES. Thanks for that.
I had more than a few adventures with Admiral Kirk sitting alongside Chewie in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, while the Dukes were sitting comfortably in the back. Tron was relegated to a tie fighter, and the target of many a space battle played out in our backyard. I'm sure my Perseus and Pegasus were there, as well. They were soon joined by GI Joes and my Matchbox Robotech figs.
Man... the 80s! What a time for toys. Even though I don't have many of these toys anymore, I have the Polaroids my parents took when we opened them up on Christmas. The expression on my childhood face is priceless.
Okay, that needs to at least be an animated special, lol. I could imagine all of that. Thanks
In the early 1980's my mother would go shopping at Venture (Target), and would leave me to look through the toys while she did her shopping. So I remember seeing a lot of these toy lines. The Fisher Price TV Van and action figures survived my generation, went to the attic and were used the next generation.
I love that it lived. So enjoyed that TV crew and van and camera. So you know what it was to be left in the toy aisle. You know the joy of dreaming of all those things, until mom came back to get you. We were safe there, we also knew how to recognize danger, but there was nothing in the toy aisle to get us. They were all there for the gettin'. Thanks for the comment.
I started with Adventure People, then SW. I had a few Battlestar Gallactica figures, didn’t like the lack of face details. Didn’t get enough allowance for anything else. Great memories!
Wonderful toys, wonderful time. That's like the same order I did...then throw in Clash of the Titans, lol
Had all the SW toys. I did get the ST ones, but I was getting into my early teens so wasn't playing with toys as much anymore, same when GIJoe came out. I really liked the Clash of the Titans figures because all the other ones had guns and they were a way to play out my Sword & Sorcery fantasies but was disappointed with the small line.
When I was in my mid twenties I worked at a bookstore and a younger customer came in and wanted to see some SW collector guides. I showed him one and when he flipped it open to the middle it was a two page picture of the original figure line from A New Hope. I commented that I had all of them when I was a kid. He said wow, you'll be rich. I laughed and emphasized that I HAD them when I was a kid. He asked what happened to them and I told him that I played with them all until they broke and the rest I passed down to my brother who finished them off. He was horrified and couldn't believe that I actually played with them instead of collecting them. I told him that they were toys and that's what you were supposed to do with them, the collectors craze wasn't that big in the 70's (or if it was I didn't know I was in elementary school), besides if I hadn't played with them the adults that bought them for me would have thought that I didn't like them so they would have stopped buying them. The memories of the good times I had playing are more valuable than the few bucks I could get for them now anyway.
These are fantastic memories, thank you. And thanks for the watch. I had so many of SO many toylines. Obviously I loved the SW most of all...but I was possibly only a few years behind you, as I did transition to He Man for a couple years. Yeah, the swords in that one, and all the Clash Figures made them even more unique. I played with them hard as a kid. I do collect today, but they are OUT of box, and it doesn't mean I don't touch them, lol. Thanks again.
Michael, this was phenomenal. Thank you for taking the time to put it together.
As a kid, I loved Star Wars AND Star Trek (still do). My figures from both series encountered each other...and characters from Battlestar Galactica, Lone Ranger, Clash of the Titans, Black Hole, etc did as well! It was all about using your imagination.
You're right about that. I mixed all mine...well, as much as my imagination action worked, lol. So many great ones.
Oh man I am grinning ear to ear! Buck Roger’s, Battlestar Galactica, and my personal favorite- Micronauts! And of course Star Wars!
I missed micronutrients, lol. Did not have connection to them, but it sounds like they were a true favorite.
Great memories! I had Dagget, a Cylon (there’s nothing inside his helmet- as a stupid kid I cracked it open to see his face), Maximillian and tons of Adventure People. They were my favorite! Wish I could get my hand on some MASH figures these days though. Thanks for the great video!
THAT IS AN INCREDIBLE STORY, thank you. Sounds like something I would do. So sad you busted it open...but very funny. Adventure People really did ROCK. I am actually collecting the whole MASH line right now. Thanks for watching and I loved the comment.
Good luck tracking those figures down!
I had some of most of these lines, but only the sci-fi or fantasy. Cylon, all Tron figures but Tron, Maximilian & sentry, multiple Crystar, a couple of GI Joe, DC Warlord's Hercules, etc. Brings back a lot of memories. I still have most of them somewhere.
Yes, the sci fi adventure were my cup of tea. So many long gone, but not the memories.
Great video, and awesome use of my photography! That's my Tomy Tron set and photo at 11:44.
Really? I hope you don't mind. Can I give you credit in anyway? Thank you
OMG it was the golden age of toys!!! KB Toys at the mall and Toys R Us were kid crack back then
Such glorious days of adventure I would dream up
I just saw a 9 year old Christmas Wish List...NO TOYS at all. Sad state we are in.
My cousin had that entire MASH camp, buildings, jeep, ambulance ... everything. Sadly, it's long gone...
That is too bad, but pretty awesome he had it all. He must have been a fan.
I was born in 78 and had 4 older brothers. I had everything. Im not exaggerating i had 90% of everything in this episode. I ended up with all of my brothers toys being the baby. I kept everything until.......... my mother gave everything away after i left to backpack for a couple of years. About six large boxes of 70s-80s toys. I still lose sleep over it.
I would lose sleep...and dream over those boxes of lost treasures. Seriously you were fortunate. Would loved to have had more, more MORE. Thanks for commenting.
@@GENXPERIENCE it hurts more and more every year that goes by. I took incredible care of my toys. Never lost an accessory. I was one of those kids.
Awesome and informative. I loved the micronauts from Mego although they were smaller. Mego's face sculptor would've killed it had they gotten the star wars toy line
You hit that on the head. Yeah, we all thought Star wars faces were great...but lets be serious, those Celebrity Face Sculps were so well done for the time. Mego is impressive. Thank you for the comment and the view.
I love micronauts too...although they frequently encountered the lightsaber of Darth Vader since he couldn't kill Luke or Han.
@@BarrengerFynar somehow my Vader got defeated. Dad reattached his head for me. Probably the dagobah scene
The Micronauts were the greatest.
great job on these videos my friend! Well done and truly valuable memories....thank you!
Thank you sir, this is a frustrating hobby sometimes, but your comments make me keep going. I love it.
@@GENXPERIENCE most of the good things in life at this point go unnoticed and guys like you and me... Who would like to keep the memory of the good days alive..... We only do it at this point to remind ourselves what made us such quality individuals
I will be 48 in a couple months everything you bring up in your videos is a treasure..... Kind of reminds me of the narrator in The Wonder years
Played with 4 of the Indy characters (the bald guy, Indy in the German uniform, sallah Sp? and the giant with the sword) Had a couple of Clash of the Titans ones. Lots of Star Wars of course. Good memories.
Action Figures were the SH** and now it is all screens. Sigh
Don't forget the Tonka Figures that made the STTMP figures more fun. And those made great troop builder figures as well.
They did need the troop builders, so that is a great idea.
i remember back in Austin you simply couldn't find Tron ANYWHERE. Flynn was a peg warmer along with the warrior but Tron was AWOL. I did have the yellow light cycle tho. Loved it.
BUMMER! Tron must have been the ONLY one people wanted...or the distro numbers sucked, lol.
@@GENXPERIENCE a bit of both probably
I used any 3 3/4" monsters or aliens to fill out the Cantina and Jabba's palace. The only actual cross-over I did was when the Empire chased the Millennium Falcon to the "Haunted Planet," populated by Remco Monsters.
Ooooooooooooh, I love the Universal Monsters. I remember those specifically. What a great crossover. Of course you're right, any monster works at the Cantina. Sounds like a blast. Thanks for sharing.
The only BSG figure I had was Daggit. I did have the Viper launcher, which was one of my favorite toys of all time. The only Black Hole figure I had was V.I.N.CENT. GI Joe? All of them. Every last one, including the mail in ones like The Fridge. My dad had them all stored in the attic along with all the other toys that would be worth a small fortune now. He sold the house after I enlisted and didn't empty the attic. Someone got a very nice collection.
HOLY Bad News about the attic. Yes, someone did get a prize. The FRIDGE? That is too cool. I loved GI JOE, but the Black Hole, Buck Rogers, and Battlestar were all incredible. I did have the viper and Cylon ship that shot little red missiles, too. Great stuff then. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I had a sizable collection of joes and the vehicles, probably close to 80 figures, and dozens of vehicles, and they were all stolen from my storage building. Except shipwreck who had stowed away with some Star Wars toys that I had moved before the break in.
Imagine an exited youngster opening love boat figures on Christmas morning 😂
You're cracking me up. I can't imagine, no. Even if I were a girl, I would not care, lol.
I used the Fisher Price Adventure People "Safari Jim" as my pretend Indiana Jones with a basketball to recreate the rolling boulder scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Safari Jim is still one of my favorite action figures
You are the creative one. Those FP toys could be anything. I kind of miss them now. So many different themes. If you can't get the real Indy, make your own. Nice job!
My first and best ever action figures were Cyborg, Muton and Android.
50 years later I can still remember how they smelled.
And it's a good smell. I bet it's like a Time Machine, too.
I had tons of the older lines, but usually only a figure or two, like Clash of the Titans I had Perseus, Pegasus and the Kraken. I had both Chips figures, had the Evel Knievel and bike figure. Had a ton of adventure people, why don’t figures come with the stuff adventure people came with? I had the camping set and it had the coolest tent ever, plus a couple of the dirt bikes and figures, I could do an off-road motorcycle trip, man, those figures were the best to just play with, I actually miss that line, hell, I miss all those toys. All of those were outside of my favorite line of Star Wars, and later GIJoe (I think joes were the last toys I bought before girls became a lot more important). I still collect action figures except I collect the 1:12 figures and once again my favorite line (besides anime imports) is the classified line, they’re really killing it with the new line.
Well I too, collect GI Joe Classified. Just gorgeous. By the way, it would be nice to have more of those cool sets like AP. Priceless memories.
I mixed up my Star Trek, Star Wars, Dungeons and Dragons, Black Hole, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Tron, and tonka play figures! Oh the adventures!
Now that's the way to play! Thanks for watching and commenting.
Thank you so much for this video! Freaking awesome!
Glad you like it. I hope you will enjoy more of my stuff. Happy New Year.
Galoob also made 3-3/4" A-Team figures (O-ring type) in 1983.... they made a whole line - vehicles and headquarters playset.. and they made bad guys too (but they weren't O-ring, they were the Star Wars 5 points type)
You caught me...I did know that, but chose to bring them up in the bulkier line of figs (which looked awful). The smaller ones were pretty bad ass. Yes, just like Chips and Dukes, the "other" characters got 5 point. Very unique. Thanks for bringing them up.
@@GENXPERIENCE Oooops... I really wasn't trying to "catch" you.... I thought you might not have known about the line... awesome video BTW... I love the 3-3/4" figures... brings me back to my childhood... I still collect them now... between Funko, Super7/Reaction and finding some original figures on Ebay, it's still fun for me....
For me, it was Star Wars meet Buck Rogers' incredibly malleable characters meet the Micronauts with their highly versatile vehicles. The fact companies made the figures the same height meant you could mix without problems. Those were good toys times.
Those were good toy times, and we played with them hard and for many years. Yes, I always mixed my figures. I never knew Micronauts...don't know why. Weird, I guess. Thanks for the view and comment.
I on the other hand was an articulation snob... I strictly played 5 POA with 5 POA figures and 10 POA with 10 POA figures WITH THE EXCEPTION of Star Wars droids, my C3PO, Death Star Droid, R2D2, Power Droid and 8D8 and EV-9D9... oh and BG Muffet... because on screen their articulation was limited, so I imagined them fitting right in with the humans in the more articulated lines.
I got so nerd happy from this vid. The only figures I managed to get over here in the UK were a few of the black hole figures.
You bring up a good point. I've always been very interested in the US/UK Toy Availability. Even at the end of Masters of the Universe, some last figures only made it to...ITALY. I know that GI JOE had a different name in Australia (Maybe, UK?). either way I think it would be a fascinating look. Glad you nerded out. Thanks for the view and comment.
Great video@@GENXPERIENCE , yes the UK version of 12" GI Joe was called Action Man, the UK company Palitoy (Bob Brechin) re-engineered the figure to have gripping hands. The 3.75" version, Action Force, later shared some of the tooling with GI JOE figures and vehicles.
@GENXPERIENCE also we didn't get swoop of the dinobots
Ok, the G.I. Joe ARAH line that started in '82 was produced *concurrently* with the comic. Hasbro got Marvel to produce the comic to help promote the toys, and the came out at the same time.
Also - BRAH. HOW could you miss LJN's SUPERB Dungeons & Dragons action figures??!! They were BEAUTIFULLY crafted- very detailed, used real cloth, tons of accessories, even the packaging was gorgeous, with art by TSR's bullpen - Larry Elmore, Tim Truman, etc.
Otherwise, great vid - the Bea Arthur reference earned my sub 😂
I appreciate the comments, and love your passion. I thought I would save D&D for something coming up. Glad you like the BEA ARTHUR, lol.
I had Dungeons & Dragons and I loved the cartoon! I still have a couple of the figures and I have a box set of all the episodes of the DND cartoon😊
That cartoon was really one of the best of its time. Deserved more credit, too. Thank you
Re; the Star Trek figures, Decker if I recall, had one leg longer than the other, hence giving him a slightly off kilter stance, and I see the same stance in the stock image you provided too, that fecker would never stand up for long, I had all the figures and Ilia was always included in our Star Wars battles. Remember having the stunt rider from fisher price adventure people, no idea why I owned that as a kid in the 70s but I did. also, some of my fav figures were of the Micronauts line, those transparent looking figures were always included in Star Wars battles, surprised you did not include these as they were very popular in the mid to late 70s, even here in the UK.
You are not the first to mention micronauts. As I had so many AF...I sadly must have missed out. There was no emotional connection. Micronauts did not resonate with me, and perhaps there was one in there...but I failed everyone without mentioning these most beloved. Loved to hear your Ilia in Star Wars battles AND Decker had a longer leg, lol. That is awesome. Glad they made it to the UK, too. Thank you
I had the Tron figures and the light cycle, and you will never believe wherei got them, my locally owned gas station, that shows you how big figures were back in the day.
I love that Firestone and Goodyear sold Toys and Christmas Albums. That is just a riot. Well, anywhere you can get them, you got them. Thanks for watching and sharing.
Yeah I had loads of Star Wars figures (after tiny-head Han, Darth Vader and Luke in Pilot outfit, I collected ONLY some droids and aliens from the lines), Star Trek figures ( Admiral Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty... and yes they did interact with Star Wars and BG figures, with the Star Trek crew being the main heros), 6 Micronauts figures, a Metal Man Radon, the entire first wave of Battlestar Galactica, and Buck, Twiki, Black Hole VINCent & Sentry and of course quite a few GI Joes before I out grew my toys.
But I was an articulation snob... I strictly played 5 POA with 5 POA figures and 10 POA with 10 POA figures WITH THE EXCEPTION of Star Wars droids, my C3PO, Death Star Droid, R2D2, Power Droid and 8D8 and EV-9D9... oh and BG Muffet... because on screen their articulation was limited, so I imagined them fitting right in with the humans in the more articulated lines.
Admiral. You got me there. That's right. I love ST being main heroes in your world. Awesome. You knew what you liked. Thanks for sharing
The Lone Ranger 3-3/4” line was great … cool horses.
I knew it was around, but had no connection....which is odd, i watched the old B&W show/movies as a kid.
Good video covering a range of figure lines, thanks.
Thank you. I tried to be all over the board. Thanks for the watch.
@@GENXPERIENCE Thanks! Cool that you're a Tron figure fan also. The Tron figures, light cycle, reissues, newer movie versions are great, but my favorite are the 7" Diamond Select Translucent Sark, Tron and Flynn in the red, purple and aqua blue colors released in the past few years.
Haven't got the new Disneyworld versions though. Thanks, subscribed.
I had no idea that there were Love Boat figures! Now, I feel the need to search for a Julie!
And a SHIP. You can find her...her face mold is a bit on the YIKES side, but you know.
We also had the short lived CB McHaul line that cashed in on the trucking craze.
I've heard of them. I think they were the molds used for the Chips collection's bad guys. A commentary pointed that out.
That’s what the MASH set was from! I had it, but I bought it at a flea market second hand for a GI Joe base.
I love that you had it not knowing anything about. Great find
I had Imperious Leader and the Cylon. For the Black Hole, I also had Vincent. And the dumb, random mustache guy from Buck Rogers. I'd have loved Buck and Wilma. Pegasus was great, and his wings ended up rubber banded to other figures to make the Angel.
I had the M*A*S*H* playset as a child but none of the figures. I was aware that they existed however the playset made a good base for my heroes and villains and came with a ton of pieces. I believe my mother bought it on clearance from Johnny's Toys.
Best way to get something. CLEARANCE. I'm like you, figures or not, and playset is useful for the rest of the gang. You made it work. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I remember getting General lee for a gift. I collected Star Wars. I had Micronauts and Gi Joe. I had one Buck Rogers figure
I would have loved the General Lee. And all those guys working/fighting together must have been a blast.
I bought every figure from every collection that you mentioned here that was available in the United States at the time they were in the stores, except for the MASH generic soldiers that came with the vehicles, which I didn't run across at the time. I still have them all today. Did you know that The Love Boat figures were put in the girls' section of the stores, making them hard to find for boys? I loved every minute of this video!
What? No, I didn't know that, but now that you say it, LOVE would probably make sense on girl's aisle. You had so many figures, and probably had so many adventures. Thanks for the view and for the comment.
It took me way too many years to notice it but that Mork from Ork figure was, from the neck down, a retooling of the Adama/Starbuck body.
You have made me look again...and I was today years old, lol, when I noticed. Nice eyes
@@GENXPERIENCE I usually collected only the robots and aliens from the non-Star Wars lines. I won an Ovion in a drawing at school, got the tan-colored Daggit at some point, and a Cylon. And Mork whenever he came out. But it was decades before I expanded the Battlestar Galactica collection with a gold Cylon, brown Daggit, etc. I still went even longer before I bought any humans like the Starbuck, and even then it took me a good while longer to recognize the similarities to the Mork body. In the last few years I wrote an essay about the BSG toys for a book by Sequart publishing. I included a comparison photo with fun word balloons inspired by an old Mork & Mindy videonovel. To my surprise they ran the mockup photo with my hand-lettered speech bubbles, which I'd only intended as a guide for the layout artists. You can see the book and the original photo in this video about Mork collectibles which I shot last year. czcams.com/video/siTamOikFiQ/video.htmlsi=nwkCRjwbverQMRs9&t=552
I had the MASH playset, my dad bought it for me when we found it at a Church flea market it wasn't complete but we got it. This was sometime in the 80's sadly I no longer have it.
Thank you for sharing. I have some of the figures, but I can only imagine how that playset may not make it through the years.
@@GENXPERIENCE One of the drawbacks was the amount of space it took up, So I could only put it on the living room floor and it had so many parts, that by the time it was all set up, there was a short amount of play time before it had to be put away again. I don't have figures from the set, The base didn't come with any of the vehicles, but it fit so well with my Gi Joes or Secret Wars figures. I still have the Secret wars figures!
I really wanted the Black Hole Maximilian, but in the uk at least, he was nowhere to be found. Weird when you consider he was the only BH figure most kids wanted, it was a bit weird how he was so rare.
Yeah, who wanted Harry Booth figure, lol. Loved Max. It is strange about toy distribution...then and now. Thanks for watching.
@@GENXPERIENCE great video btw. Maybe now as then, nobody bothered asking kids what they wanted. Remember the miscolouring of the Dinky Thunderbird 4, Eagle Transporter, lack of Tarkin in the original Star Wars action figure line up? My two pennies anyway. Have a good one.
Beautiful video
You missed quite a few.:
-Crystar - Really wild line with loads of accessories that came with most figures (e.g., a campfire, racks of weapons, etc). It managed to be a blend of LotR fantasy that looked like Tron's figures or the Adventure People androids.
-Lone Ranger - The 3.75" answer to the Marx cowboy toys. This was by Kenner and was even advertised alongside the Star Wars toys in the product inserts.
-Micronauts - These predated Star Wars and is often credited with originating the 3.75" scale.
-Universal Monsters figures from Remco (Sources say 1980) - Not a lot of figures and probably only one playset, but that puts it on the same tier as some of the aborted lines mentioned in the video.
-Dungeons & Dragons - May be after your cut-off date, but that line seemed to be the culmination of the Sword & Sorcery boom following Conan, Beast Master, etc. minus the sci-fi or post-apocalyptic futuristic elements of He-Man, Thundarr, Blackstar (who had a line of toys worth checking out, though they were 5", I think). (Personal anecdote: I came out the movie theater after seeing Beast Master, and I went into Children's Palace in the same shopping center and saw He-Man toys for the first time. There was a blond muscled guy with a sword and a pet tiger, and I assumed it was merchandise from Beast Master, albeit with some artistic license taken to make the tiger green and all that.)
-Other World - This one is a bit of a deep cut, but these seemed to borrow from Edgar RIce Burroughs' "Warlord of Mars" aesthetic mixed with perhaps the illustration style of the earliest editions of TSR's D&D books. They are worth looking up just for how much weirdness they threw at the line: Glow-in-the-dark accessories, beasts the characters rode that incorporated friction motors, bendy rubber bodies (and 4 arms or 2 heads even!) that went against the 5-points-of-articulation standard.
I wasn't planning to get them all. That would be too much, but I appreciate the reminder of some of these.
Super7's ReAction toyline recreates these "what if" scenarios nicely 😑
they've done a line for The Black Hole, as well as shows like Parks and Recreations
They have done a great job on dozens of toylines. And tes, they work together really well.
Remember during the 80s. Looking into those thick phones book store Catalogs book! Looking for toy section. Seeing what cool toys coming out.
Memory unlocked. Calling a story seeing if they have a certain toy. So many stores carried the toys we loved back then...not just Target and Walmart.
I must be a perfect gen-x because I'm fairly certain that I had at least a few from every single 3 3/4" line you mentioned, except MAYBE Love Boat.
Actually, probably FEW had love boat. Well, you are probably right there on the edge. As most of these 3 and 3/4 inch were fading in the early 80s, but you could still find them, or someone had them around, for certain. GI Joe kept them going successfully, but it did seem with He Man came the BIG GUYS, lol. Thanks for the comment, and the view.
Great video, but you missed two lines that really need to be included in the video. First, along with whatever Fisher Price did, Mego created the first-ever licensed 3.75 inch figures in 1975 with COMIC ACTION HEORES that featured superheroes form both the DC. and Marvel lines, plus some great packaging and great playlets. The other one is the Mattel one for the FLASH GORDON animated TV show Filmation made a few years before the 1980 feature film, the line that, despite how good some of the competing likes of BUCK ROGERS, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and THE BLACK HOLE were (Micronauts included, though not always 3.75 inch) was the best of the non--STAR WARS space opera lines. The figures were amazing and so where some o fate accessories. Also, they just looked so good. Thanks!
Well, TBH I did not think of the COmic Line. I did see a Wonder Woman from there, but was not impressed, lol. As for Flash, it is true he was based on the Saturday Morning Cartoon, so he could have fit into my strict timeline, but perhaps since I am a huge fan of the campy movie, I just didn't want him on the list. I am not sure. Yes, Micronauts are a favorite here, I guess I did not have a connection with. But I appreciate your comments and your appreciation for AF. Thank you
Great mini documentary, thanks ❤
Thank you. That's my goal, just getting off the ground.
I used Star Wars action figure and vehicles with my gi joe collection when I was younger
Makes sense, right? And it just makes your figures GROW in numbers. Thanks for the view.
Mork was made by Mattel, his body was the Adama/ Starbuck body molded in red and painted in silver and black.
You cab see the top detail is the same. Very cost effective, it worked. Thank you
Fisher Price Stunt Cyclist was my rebel pilot forever...
Wow, I totally see that. I like the way you think.
The cyclist was the best. Better than anything else available.
...ironically...
...those MASH and Love Boat figures are probably worth MORE than a lot of Star Wars figures nowadays...
You aren't kidding. SW is oversaturated.
So after Star Wars came out, I desperately wanted SW toys (of course) so I asked for SW stuff for Christmas. I was super excited, was planning battles leading up to Christmas, there were a bunch of SW sized boxes under the tree for me. So Christmas morning comes along, I open my presents and my Parents had bought me a bunch of Buck Rogers figures, vehicles etc. instead of Star Wars, I was crushed. Eventually I got a bunch of SW toys, but to this day I’m still pissed at my mom for screwing that up, it ruined that Christmas for me (at like 7 or 8 years old). I don’t know if she just bought the wrong thing, or she thought maybe I liked Buck Rogers more (I truly disliked that show, which made the present thing even worse), or they were cheaper and she was trying to save a buck (probably the latter, cheap ass parents haha)
Oh, what an awesome story. Thank you. I did like Buck, but getting something you hated along with what you didn't ask for...PISSED, LOL. Thanks for watching and commenting
I never mixed my figures, for some reason. Chewie and Han never let the Duke boys fly the Falcon, Muffy the Dagget never hung out with R2-d2, the joes totally snubbed everyone else, and Mork was all alone in his egg. These days I realize that I deprived myself of some awesome playtime experiences because of my rigid toy segregation.
You almost made me spit out my drink. TOY SEGREGATION. I should do a whole show on that, lol. Yeah, some are hard to mix, but you were very strict. Thanks for sharing...and viewing.
I totally get ya dude... I was an articulation snob too... I strictly played 5 POA with 5 POA figures and 10 POA with 10 POA figures WITH THE EXCEPTION of Star Wars droids, my C3PO, Death Star Droid, R2D2, Power Droid and 8D8 and EV-9D9... oh and BG Muffet... because on screen their articulation was limited, so I imagined them fitting right in with the humans in the more articulated lines.
I'm so glad to know that I wasn't the only one.
I had so many of these lines. One that want mentioned was Flash Gordon. Those were pretty cool. I mixed those with Star Wars. Also mixed some of the smaller MEGO superheroes that they had made with those.
Yeah, people mention Flash, and slthough I enjoyed the campy movie, I don't really have a connection to the Sat Morning cartoon. Mego did an amazing job. Thanks for sharing
Yeah, CHiPs and Dukes of Hazzard, the tv show leads got o-ring figures, the supporting cast and villains were 5 or 6 point articulated figures. In CHiPS case it was because the baddies were retooled from their 70's CB McHaul line. I think Roscoe reused the cop tooling from CB McHaul, too.
I'm not sure what the CHiPs villains were supposed to do. Steal cars from other toy lines? They sure couldn't steal the highway patrol motorcycles.
GI JOE the toys technically came first. The Marvel comic existed because Hasbro couldn't make a cartoon due to laws at the time regarding animation based on children's toys (a law which would change not long after). But they could advertise a comic on tv using animation. So they went to Marvel, where NONE of the Marvel writers wanted to lower themselves to work on a licensed comic. So artist Larry Hama was asked, took the job and fleshed out the characters, wrote most of a 155 issue run from 1982-1994.
This is ALL awesome information. Funny, I did see the THUGS for CHIPS and you are right, they were NOT O Ring. Fantastic to know that they were repurposed from other lines. I LOVE That kind of information. Like when Big Jim stuff went to He Man. Great knowledge. Thanks for sharing and for watching.
@@GENXPERIENCE You're welcome! And I had no idea C.B. McHaul even existed until the internet. Some versions of Dukes of Hazzard's Roscoe's Police Chase cop car are from that trucker toy series, too. My older brother had that version. I wondered way back when why Roscoe's car looked like it was from the 1950's! Not like the show at all. Later versions of Roscoe's cruiser used a more current cop car.
I had several figures, the police car, and one 18-wheeler from the C.B. McHaul line. Loved them! But kinda wished I had the Dukes; they would've went so well together!
I remember a bunch of those.
If only the Love Boat line had taken off...we might have Ethel Merman, Ernest Borgnine, Leslie Neilsen guest action figures.
OMG, you win. That sounds like it would have been an excellent idea.
You missed Flash Gordon. They had the cool lizard woman.
I thought about them, too, but didn't. However, you're so right about lizard woman. Great figure
GREAT VIDEO!!!
I appreciate that as the channel is just coming into its own and although I do it seriously, it is not my full gig. It is a lot of fun to Recall, Reminisce and Relive for sure. Thank you for the confidence.
7:05 I thought the old man always looked like Harry Reasoner.
That cycle toy was engineered by the best. Durable and roomy enough to accommodate Joes or stormtroopers. Launched that thing countless times down a flight of stairs.
Now that's a great vehicle. And just cool!
I had that news crew and you could look through the camera and see a reflection of what the camera had in frame. These days they could make it really record video. 😂
And you could download your own News Broadcast, lol. I had forgotten that you could look through it. I used to go around just holding that like I was making movies. Cool, thanks for watch and comment.
Great video
Thanks for the visit
You forgot the Micronauts line?
Micronauts (Microman) proved that 3.75 inch figures could have extreme possibility well before Star Wars hit the shelves.
Although they did appear before Star Wars, they didn't have that TV or Movie license to really give them the big break I was talking about. However there is so much love for them, I am glad people bring them up. I know who they are, but did not have any (which is surprising) and have no real connection. OBviously they were loved.
Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rodgers should've lasted longer! 2 of my favorites
I was totally in on their shows (maybe Buck's 2nd season was weird), so AGREE.
Of these figures I had Buck Rogers and Twiggy, I also had from BSG, the basic Cylon, two Daggets (brown and blond), the Imperious Leader, and that green big guy. I also had the two large electronic figures, the Cylon and Adams. I had a few of the FP Adventure People too.
It's hard to remember being 40-odd years ago.
I can totally understand that, but you did well remembering. I love that you had BOTH colored Daggits. Thanks for the comment...and the view.
Talking about obscure, I had a Custer figure from "The Legend of the Lone Ranger", the early '80s bomb.
There's a lot of people loving that line...but I am with you, BOMB. Mom! Get me General Custer
Had yellow suit Captian Kirk and rocket launcher Indiana Jones in my childhood collection. Got BO Duke in the mail as a kid. Ended up with a few Boss hogg figures (actually much sturdier than Bo) back in the 90s from my friends were into exploring an old factory.
I loved the idea of mail away figures, had a couple. That time was huge on exploring. And even with my toys and action figures, siblings and neighborhood friends and I would explore everywhere. Abandoned places were one of the coolest. So right there with ya. Thanks for watching.
#1 They are dolls. They have always been dolls and they will always be dolls. #2 You should cover the older and larger dolls that Gen X boys played with ... like Evel Knievel, GI Joe and the Six million dollar man. I also remember large star wars and star trek dolls too.
You may be technically correct, but no one ever called them dolls. It sounds like you have some reason to say that, like maybe you teased kids for playing with them. Are you trying to justify some behavior or is it just what you grew up calling them?
@@eyeprod3101 - I am from the middle of the Gen X group ... and yes, the male dolls were called dolls. The term "action figure" was the way they marketed GI Joe at Hasbro ... but they were still commonly called dolls. The term action figure didn't really stick until the toys shrank. At least that's the way it was around my neighborhood. I think what bothers me about the avoidance of calling them dolls is the way boys and grown men use the word to be dismissive of the female dolls. Compare how an adult woman is thought of if she has a doll collection to a man of the same age and his "action figures" Why are men so indignant when their toys are called dolls in the first place?
I had the mash camp play set.I think my mom got it for me at a yard sale.I used it for my joes lol😊
That is awesome. Perfect Joe playset, really. Expanded your universe. Thank you
I remember having a Cylon and Daggit from Battlestar Galactica and Calibos from Clash of the Titans.
Me too. My Calibos tail came off...I don't think it was suppose to turn, lol. My mother stuck a strong pin through it and his butt, and that worked. Thanks for the comment.
@@GENXPERIENCE LOL, so did mine! My dad had to glue it back on.
U forgot flash Gordon by Mattel had a couple
I know there were a few more, and I thought about Flash. But I didn't remember it based on the film, but possibly a Saturday Morning Cartoon. That one I am not so well versed it. Thanks for the comment and the watch.
It was cartoon figures
I love BSG and Buck Rogers, his ship is incredible
Agreed. Great designs.
Don't forget the adventure people action figures that came out in the 70s with playsets
Oh, I mention the Adventure People right in the middle of the show. I even mention my favorite playset of their.
I wanted the Clash Of The Titans Kraken SO VERY MUCH but I only ever saw one or two figures from the entire line over here in the UK at all. :(
That is always tough when living in another country trying to rely on toy supply and demand. Well, I didn't have him either.
Feb 2024, the love boat figures on card go from $20 & up to $300 for the set on card.
The dukes of hazzard command even higher prices. If you have a general lee with the confederate flag on the roof, you have a valuable item.
The issue with the 6th point of articulation was that the rubber band holding the figure together would become brittle and eventually break.
Gi Joe was the best because they lasted the longest and they had the best looking toys.
They were awesome. Each so different, and they're the ones who ended up lasting. Thanks
I got some micronauts
I really liked those micronauts
They seem to be one of the most popular in the comments. I did not have any, so I guess did not resonate. Thank you
Joe has been the title of comic strips and comic books in every decade since 1942. AS A LICENSED PROPERTY BY HASBRO, G.I. Joe comics have been released from 1967 to present. As a team fighting Cobra since 1982.
I often used my He-Man figures to terrorize my Star Wars figures
As giant gods, right!
Something like that. The Empire and Rebellion had to join forces but usually lost against the MOTU. Its in their name.@@GENXPERIENCE
i had a lot of fun with metal men and micronauts and a huge matchbox mobile action command or mac men collection
Hmmm. I had only heard of micronutrients, but don't have any recollection of having any. Thanks for sharing.
forgot the 'flash gordon' line , and even a Mork figure ... both of which i had....
purposely didn't put those in due to the parameters I set in the show.
Ah... the messy Mego TV / Movie licences. You didn't mention the horrifically easy to break thumbs on non-Joe o-ring figures. Mego ones were constantly breaking. My holy grail is 'The Greatest American Hero' figures (unmentioned). Also worth mentioning the Knickerbocker Lord of the Rings toys and the Kenner Glamour Gals mini Barbie-ish toyline.
Yes, they were all over the place, lol. Well, I didn't mention Happy Days or GAH by design...but not much thought. I had LOTR in it, but decided they weren't much of a line (my opinion) and saved Glamor Gals for my next video...1983 Christmas Gifts. Hope you watch that one, too. THank you
Was the only kid who affixed Pegasus' wings to Perseus's back to make an Icarus?
Holy Crap, that is EXCELLENT
I had that MASH playset.
That is amazing. I can't believe I never knew about it until much later. What an odd but fascinating toy line.