Toy line rumors on the school yard

[Earth 2 Chris]

Did you ever encounter wild rumors about toylines as a kid? Young pathological liars who told you of imaginary releases that they "saw" or their cousin "had at their house?"

The Masters of the Universe line was probably the most popular toy line during my early days of grade school. After the TV show hit, anything that was on the show but wasn't in the toy aisles was fair game for little liars. One kid in particular spun a yarn about a MOTU Snake Mountain playset, a good year before the real toy was available. He said he saw it in a MOTU catalog insert. This Snake Mountain looked just like the cartoon version (which the real one did not) and the top of the mountain lifted off to reveal the meeting table of Skeletor and his goons. The same kid also said he saw Prince Adam on the shelves a good year before he was made. His mom wouldn't let him buy it he said. These tales had me haunting the toy aisles for weeks until I finally came to the realization that my "friend" was lying through his teeth.

And then there was the case of Cobra Commander. The mysterious Cobra Commander had never been seen without his mirror-plated helmet or hood. One kid in our 3rd grade class claimed he had a GI Joe coloring book that showed the face of the Enemy leader. We all begged him to bring it in. And he said he would. Then he told us his brother had destroyed it. Yeah right. Years later an entire generation of kids was scarred by "GI Joe: The Movie", and it's depiction of Cobra Commander as a multi-eyed blue guy. Ugh.

One that I got to debunk was some kid spouting off about a Super Powers Hall of Doom playset. Similar to the Snake Mountain deal, the top of the "head" lifted off, and there was the banquet hall from Hell. I told him he was full of crap. After all, if they were going to do this, I would know. After all, I had the first (and only!) issue of the SP newsletter. It said Darkseid was coming (and hinted Green Arrow would be out too), but not the Hall of Doom!!!

Anyone else ever encounter any school yard yarns about your favorite toys?

Chris

[Blackkryptonite]

LOL, although i can not recall any particular moment in my childhood where this happened, as soon as i read your post I laughed out loud because i do remember friends spreading rumors of toys that they just made up in their heads. I guess they did it for attention or maybe just to jaw jack and BS but its funny to hear someone bring this up after all these years. And you know it still happens with kids these days! Great post, I hope others have something to add to it:)

[toys2cool]

ha ha ha! as a kid I remember hearing a bunch of He-man ones,Like Adams mom or a Man at arms figure with a mustache :grin:

with Gi Joe it was the same,I had heard there was a removable helmet Cobra Commander and that the Black Basketball player from the movie was going to be released as a mail in,I'm sure they confused him with The Fridge figure

[MIB41]

That is an interesting question Chris. In the late 70's I actually fell for a joke, a friend of mine pulled on me. He "claimed" Mego had just come out with a Mr. Fantastic that actually stretched and there was also a Nova figure on the shelf next to him..truly the cruelest of jokes. I ran up to the local toy store salivating at the prospect only to find out he had pulled a fast one on me. I was so annoyed I have never let him forget it to this day. Of course, you know the irony to this...Hasbro is releasing a Mr. Fantastic (mego-style) that looks like it stretches. Not that it looks very good, but when I saw prototype shots of it, I couldn't help but smile. I should send one to my friend when it comes out...:wink_y: Also with the success of the latest Nova comic can one of him be far behind? If Hasbro actually releases a Mego-style Nova, I will buy five of those figures!!:yes:

[rcbats1]

...as a matter of fact....Back in 75' I had just picked up Green Arrow..I was in the seventh grade and I knew somehow....through a comic,christmas catalog or something I guess...that the Star Trek figures were coming out.
I had a class mate that said he had just picked up the Star Trek figures. Now I was'nt as much a Star Trek fan as I was a Mego fan...but even then I couldnt wait to see a new Mego...no matter who it was.
I badgered him about letting me see them so he said come by his Grand Mothers house after school and he would let me see them. In the meantime I asked him to describe them to me...and I remember he told me they had hard plastic heads....If I werent so niave back them I wouldnt have believed him since I knew what they were made of....so I went to his Grand Mothers house and he never came out with them...I'm sure he didnt have them after that...that and I knew what every store in my small home town of 6000 in Arkansas had at the time...and there wasnt a Trek figure in sight!

M.

[palitoy]

My neighbour had an eight inch flash that also sparked, his shazam doll could fly with the help of a motor. These were at the cottage and he couldn't bring them home.

When I visited his cottage, they had gone missing.

Another kid I went to school with had the cast of Battle of the Planets as 8" figures, always missing at his house.

My other neighbour claimed to have a Wondergirl doll, I cried BS and his sister produced it. My mind was totally blown, what other figures were out there I didn't know about?

[saildog]

I'm sure I had some of those experiences, but I can't remember any particulars.

However, it is quite possible I dabbled in spreading a few of those rumors, myself.:grin:

[MegoScott]

In that fall of 1977 before Star Wars toys appeared this giant lug of a kid named Eddie claimed to have Star Wars figures that he described as Megos. He kept "forgetting" to bring them to school or his mom "wouldn't let him". It went on for weeks until the paper bag he kept them in was lost. I think he actually had us retrace his route to school looking for it. I still have that imaginary image in my head of an 8 inch Darth Vader and Luke in a paper bag on the side of the road. It's why I love Dave's Star Wars customs so much--those were the figures I imagined and stupid Eddie lost.

Later in high school, Eddie was the first person to tell me the Space Shuttle exploded. I didn't believe him of course, but now he's forever a part of one of those "where were you when you heard" moments.

[cjefferys]

I had a friend who would always lie about stuff. When the first 12 Star Wars figures came out, the Jawa was the last one to be released (I can't remember how long it took for him to finally appear in stores, it seemed like months and months of waiting when I was a kid). Anyway, during that wait, my friend claimed to have found one and bought it. He went on to tell me about the features he had, things like removable eyes (!!??) and a movable trigger on his laser gun (that sounds ridiculous now, but as a kid I kind of believed it). Of course after a couple days of badgering him to see it, he admitted his fib.

Funny thing, this same friend later told me that he saw KISS figures for sale (we were both huge KISS fans). I called BS, but I really wanted to believe him, I would have killed for actual KISS figures (I imagined them as 8" Megos of course!), but had a hard time believing that someone would actually make such toys. Well imagine my surprise when about a month later, I actually found them in stores (albeit in 12" scale, something my friend neglected to tell me, and I didn't think to ask). I was never so happy to find that he actually had told the truth for once. :)

Of course, there was the usual Mego Flash story too. My cousin (who was a superhero nut as much as I was) claimed to have seen one at a friend's house. I believed him for a while, and it was years of guessing and wondering before I definitively found out that Mego never made a figure of that character.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

Yeah, man I haven't thought about this stuff for ages! It seems like the Mego Flash story was a common one. I remember being told by a couple of kids that they had "seen" the Flash on the shelves at Toys R Us. I whined about it to my mom many times until finally one day she came home with....Kid Flash! Of course the kids swore that they'd seen an actual Flash, but I started to guess they were full of it. And to this day I meet people who tell me about their childhood Megos and insist they had the Flash, LOL. Was this some mass hallucination or what?!

The main fib that I heard from kids back in the day, was about how "someone they knew" actually owned a rocket firing Boba Fett. My best friend during grade school would swear up and down that his cousin got one of the rocket firing Boba Fetts in the mail during the mail-in offers. I actually wasn't sure if this was a complete lie or not until I got older and learned the whole truth behind the now legendary Rocket Firing Boba Fett story.

Another one I just remembered (that really makes me feel silly for believing it at the time) was about how there was a Gene Simmons doll that actually could "breathe fire" by shooting sparks out of its mouth, haha!! Again, it was my best friend who'd told me this. Come to think of it, he had many a tall tale to tell. I can't believe I actually believed the Fire Breathing Gene doll story though! But then again when I was 5 years old, I actually believed that KISS were superheroes :embarassed:

[batmanmc]

there were several i cant remember. but the kid next to me had e very toy ever amde. we saw about 1/4 of all toys made. didnt show us teh rest.

[toys2cool]

I remember my little brother going out with his dad and coming back with the Matrix Commando figure,little liar swore he saw the Bennett and Sally figures

[Captain]

I took my Dinky Enterprise and Klingon cruiser to school one fine day (the one with the orange shuttle that drops out of the belly of the secondary hull, and fired little plastic rollaids that were suppossed to be torpedoes) where a young know it all told me he had one that you could look in the windows and see the crew inside. Even went so far as to say it was the same as the one featured on the show (Catspaw). I, in my 6 year old wisdom, believed him, and spent many a moon looking for that version of the ship. Of course, once I hit the even wiser age of seven, I realized he was full of crap!

I was no better, I remember having a couple of buddies wide eyed over the Red Skull Mego figure I swore I had seen at Tops in Toys that weekend.

[toysrus]

wow Deja Vu on the Flash mego story man! I heard that growing up so much, my friend said many times that he saw a Flash mego in the stores.

Another i remember was this kid telling me he just got the new Mego Superdog action figure. I begged him to show me, he always said oh i cant find it right now!

Also heard about a Mego Sub Mariner!



Yeah, man I haven't thought about this stuff for ages! It seems like the Mego Flash story was a common one. I remember being told by a couple of kids that they had "seen" the Flash on the shelves at Toys R Us. I whined about it to my mom many times until finally one day she came home with....Kid Flash! Of course the kids swore that they'd seen an actual Flash, but I started to guess they were full of it. And to this day I meet people who tell me about their childhood Megos and insist they had the Flash, LOL. Was this some mass hallucination or what?!

The main fib that I heard from kids back in the day, was about how "someone they knew" actually owned a rocket firing Boba Fett. My best friend during grade school would swear up and down that his cousin got one of the rocket firing Boba Fetts in the mail during the mail-in offers. I actually wasn't sure if this was a complete lie or not until I got older and learned the whole truth behind the now legendary Rocket Firing Boba Fett story.

Another one I just remembered (that really makes me feel silly for believing it at the time) was about how there was a Gene Simmons doll that actually could "breathe fire" by shooting sparks out of its mouth, haha!! Again, it was my best friend who'd told me this. Come to think of it, he had many a tall tale to tell. I can't believe I actually believed the Fire Breathing Gene doll story though! But then again when I was 5 years old, I actually believed that KISS were superheroes :embarassed:

[jwyblejr]

I'm sure I had some of those experiences, but I can't remember any particulars.

However, it is quite possible I dabbled in spreading a few of those rumors, myself.:grin:

Same here. Although not on purpose. When you've got a parent trying to hurry you through the toy aisle to reach another section of the store,you think you see toys that were made but weren't. Had that happen way back when with the Star Wars three packs. I could have sworn they had been packaged with Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.

[RussG]

Some I heard about.
Transformer of the General Lee.
Cobra Commander, Storm Shadow, Firefly, Destro, Snake Eyes all with removable masks.
Prince Adam that could turn into He-Man with a push of a button


This one kid was great at obvious BS toy stories.

One was a new X-wing fighter that had real lasers that shot, but they couldn't hurt people but could burn toys. I remember saying something like "why would someone buy a toy that would mess up other toys"

same kid talked about GI Joe figures that had working guns.

Now looking back, he must have been a violent kid, he was always wanting toys to really "kill" each other. If I could remember his last name I'd google him and see if he's in jail :grin:

[huedell]

Maybe some of the kids who were claiming they saw a "Flash", actually had
seen "Shazam" and mistook him for Flash----I know, I might have back in the day
It's that dang red suit with a lightning bolt on the chest

[megoat]

There was much talk on the playground about the game Adventure for the Atari 2600. For a while there was talk about a secret "dot" that when found and brought back to a certain part of the game would reveal the game programmer's name...this actually turned out to be true.

But then these two twins I went to school with took these tales to a new level. They claimed that there was a "hidden" game within Adventure that you could find that was more elaborate and had better graphics and sound. According to them it was some mind blowing experience that bettered even the games that were in the arcade at the time......

[Adam West]

I really don't recall any toy rumors. I have said this many times before, I never saw the insides of a TRU or any other toy store when I was young...my parents were smart and I always picked my Christmas list from a JCPenney or Sears catalog.

But I also had a friend who seemed to have every single toy ever made. I knew which WGSH figures there were because he had every one of them along with every vehicle and set and when a knew one came out, he was always the first to get it.

I exchanged emails with him recently, hadn't talked to him for close to 20 years. We exchanged some funny stories about the Megos and our constant lame attempts of trying to be comic book writers or trying to raise money for comic books by going door to door selling pet rocks in his neighborhood that we had found just minutes before.

He had a huge Silver Age comic book collection and I distinctly remember that he had subscriptions to many different series. I asked him whatever happened to his collection and he said he sold most of it off as an adult which helped finance his law school education.

[tmthor]

Yeah, man I haven't thought about this stuff for ages! It seems like the Mego Flash story was a common one. I remember being told by a couple of kids that they had "seen" the Flash on the shelves at Toys R Us. I whined about it to my mom many times until finally one day she came home with....Kid Flash! Of course the kids swore that they'd seen an actual Flash, but I started to guess they were full of it. And to this day I meet people who tell me about their childhood Megos and insist they had the Flash, LOL. Was this some mass hallucination or what?!

The main fib that I heard from kids back in the day, was about how "someone they knew" actually owned a rocket firing Boba Fett. My best friend during grade school would swear up and down that his cousin got one of the rocket firing Boba Fetts in the mail during the mail-in offers. I actually wasn't sure if this was a complete lie or not until I got older and learned the whole truth behind the now legendary Rocket Firing Boba Fett story.

Another one I just remembered (that really makes me feel silly for believing it at the time) was about how there was a Gene Simmons doll that actually could "breathe fire" by shooting sparks out of its mouth, haha!! Again, it was my best friend who'd told me this. Come to think of it, he had many a tall tale to tell. I can't believe I actually believed the Fire Breathing Gene doll story though! But then again when I was 5 years old, I actually believed that KISS were superheroes :embarassed:

You know I still have people swear up & down that their Fett was a rocket firing one.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I always had the OPPOSITE happen:

-A friend of mine claimed to have seen Battle of the Planets figures when he went to Hawaii. I didn't believe him; but it turns out there WERE BOTP figures made at that time, in Japan, and Hawaii did a lot of importing of stuff from Japan.

-I knew a kid who claimed to have all sorts of Star Wars figures that were different from everyone elses' AND he claimed to have figures a year or so before they actually came out. I found out in high school that a lot of toy and model prototyping was done in this area in the 70's and 80's; so it COULD hav ebeen true. He always claimed his dad wouldn't let him take them out, so I'd never seen them.

Don C.

[Earth 2 Chris]

-I knew a kid who claimed to have all sorts of Star Wars figures that were different from everyone elses' AND he claimed to have figures a year or so before they actually came out. I found out in high school that a lot of toy and model prototyping was done in this area in the 70's and 80's; so it COULD hav ebeen true. He always claimed his dad wouldn't let him take them out, so I'd never seen them.

I'm surprised we didn't get that more around here. I'm only an hour from Cincinnati, then headquarters to Kenner.

These are some great stories guys. Sounds like everyone knew at least one kid who was full of crap. :biggrin:

Chris

[Surfsup]

I always remember my cousin telling me he saw a Palitoy Green Goblin whose glider really flew. A Torch that had tiny little lights that looked like flames, a Mr Fantastic that really stretched, a clear Invisible Girl and a Daredevil with a working billy club! I took the whole lot in of course and searched for them, I was so disappointed when I saw the FF figures :grin:

I always remember the time I was ready to swap my entire comic collection for what I was told was Kryptonite (turned out it was only mint sauce)! Those were the days!

[pooper_prez]

New guy here, but this seems like good place to join in. I remember a kid telling me he'd seen a model kit for sale of the Close Encounters mothership. He even named the hobby store where he saw it.

[txteach]

A hot wheels mechanic, dang Buk that's priceless.

[dogman67]

I remember some kid told me back in 77-78 era after Star Wars came out, that he had the Falcon, which had the chess game, and the training ball where Luke used his light sabor on it. He told me his lit up. I freaked out of course, but later found out it was all BS...

[Sweep Secondhand]

Wow what memories! I had a Star Wars liar in my school too. His name was Anthony S. and he claimed to have the caped Jawa and a figure of Grand Moff Tarkin (SP?). This turned out to be a Jawa with a cut down cape from Obi Wan Kenobi and the Death Star Commander! He also claimed to have 12 inch figures of Darth Vader, C3PO, and R2D2. These turned out to be the ideal Starhawks figures! He claimed his cousin had a scale full sized Death Star that you sat inside to play with! This little liar even claimed to have gone on a tour of the Kenner toy factory with his mom and been able to buy prototype figures! Needless to say he got beat up a lot and eventually no one would belive anything he said!

I actually did see a Darth Vader Tie Fighter on the shelves months before it finally came out. It was at a Playland store in the mall and they only had one. I begged my mom all through the mall to buy it for me and when she finally agreed we went back and it was already gone! I called that store every day for weeks after that asking if they had another but it took a long time for any more to show up. I was branded a liar over that one but I swear it was true!

[DocDrako]

I heard various toy rumors as a kid. A kid told me he had a removable mask Cobra Commander, another kid claimed to have a real lightsaber, and one kid had the Star Wars figures whose lightsabers really worked. I believed the Cobra Commander lie, but not the lightsaber fibs.

My cousin Donald, who some might remember threw my other cousin Cliff's Mego Fonzie onto the roof, was a big time liar, although his lies weren't just centered around toys. His lies encompassed the entire universe. I still remember one of the lies he told about this motorcyle he rode that didn't have a battery installed but that it "still had enough power left in the wires" to run. He also lied big time about my Empire Strikes Back trading cards, telling me about the scenes pictured before I had actually seen the movie. Turns out none of the lies he told were even remotely true. The one I remember most vividly was about the card with the heroes standing around the carbon freezing pit. He told me that it was a hole that opened up into space and that they were all forced to jump in to their deaths. "They all die" was his remark. Liar.

Fun Thread!

Oh, by the way, when I was a kid I had a removable mask rocket firing sarlaac pit screaming Boba Fett with an actual working jetpack and blaster rifle. I also had his Slave 1 which really flew and fired real lasers that wouldn't harm people but would only blow up other Star Wars spaceships. Cool, huh? :wink:

:grin:

[Cosmicman]

I remember this little weaselly kid everyone called, "Worm". He used to tell us that he had a Green Lantern mego doll. I was so ****ed off, I kept dragging my grandmother into Woolworth's trying to find this Green Lantern Mego. Everytime I would go over to "Worms" house he conveniently didn't want to play megos when I asked about his Green Lantern mego.
It wasn't until years later I learned "Worm" was full of crap and Mego never made a Green Lantern.

[kryptosmaster]

Oh, I have a good one.
There was this kid in my village that sounds a lot like the kids in the stories listed here already. One that just needed to lie to impress or gain friends or nobody would play with him.
Well, my sister and my best friend and I always kind of hung out together and one day this kid comes by and starts telling his fibs.
This was just after the original Star Wars figures came out in 1977.
Well, all 3 of us wanted them so this kid, Brian Wagner, told us that his brother worked at the factory where they made them and for us to tell him which figures we wanted and he would have his brother get them for us FOR FREE!
So we were all excited and waited....and waited....and waited....
Well one day we confronted Brian; "Where are our Star Wars figures you promised us?".
This is the good part...LOL
Well, it seems that the plane that the Star Wars figures were on crashed and he couldn't get them for us now!
We knew he was full of spit at that point and figured him for a fabricator after that. We didn't really play with him too much, especially after that.
Of course maybe had we been a little more in-the-know, we would have realized that these figures were probably made in Hong Kong or somewhere like that and of course his brother (if he even HAD a brother??LOL) couldn't possibly have worked there. But the plane crash story was just so classic! LOL
My sister and I still laugh about that to this day.

Rich

[toysrus]

Mego Superdog! There was a kid in my neighborhood who swore he had a Superdog Mego toy. He was wrong right?

And another kid telling me Shogun warriors made a "Mecha Kong"

[Tothiro]

One that I got to debunk was some kid spouting off about a Super Powers Hall of Doom playset. Similar to the Snake Mountain deal, the top of the "head" lifted off, and there was the banquet hall from Hell. I told him he was full of crap. After all, if they were going to do this, I would know. After all, I had the first (and only!) issue of the SP newsletter. It said Darkseid was coming (and hinted Green Arrow would be out too), but not the Hall of Doom!!!
Chris

Maybe like this (http://toyotter.com/sp/tod.html)? I remember it was photographed on later release vehicle boxes. I first saw the image of it on a box in the toy store and spent quite a bit of time trying to find one myself.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Maybe like this? I remember it was photographed on later release vehicle boxes. I first saw the image of it on a box in the toy store and spent quite a bit of time trying to find one myself.

Oh yeah, the Tower of Darkness. I remember hunting for that too! No, it wasn't that the kid was talking about. This was during series 1, and it was definitely the Hall of Doom from Challenge of the Super Friends he was lying about.

It's kind of funny that you resurrected this thread Tothiro. I was going to post a new "legend". My son came home a few weeks ago and said a kid at school had Alien X figure from Ben 10:Alien Force, and he was going to bring it to school and give it to my son. As some of you may know, Alien x was the final of the 10 new aliens from this season of Ben 10. Cartoon Network made a big ta-do about the episode where he debuted, running constant commercials for it. I told Andrew that the figure wasn't out yet, and to not believe everything that kids tell you. As the weeks have went on, I think he's starting to see through the other kids tall tales about why Alien X hasn't made it to school yet.

Chris

[palitoy]

I heard legend of a kid who had a machine to make Star Wars figures, I remember crying BS on the story and my friend turned to me and said "Why would he have a whole box of Storm Troopers then? I've seeeeeeeeen them!"

He had this really wide eyed stare that I used to bug him about when we were teenagers.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I heard legend of a kid who had a machine to make Star Wars figures, I remember crying BS on the story and my friend turned to me and said "Why would he have a whole box of Storm Troopers then? I've seeeeeeeeen them!"

He had this really wide eyed stare that I used to bug him about when we were teenagers.

I'm guessing he was the first "army builder" and had VERY indulgent parents. :biggrin:

Star Wars figure machine, huh? Why not just a money machine then?:crazy:

Chris

[cjefferys]

And another kid telling me Shogun warriors made a "Mecha Kong"

If he was talking about the 24" Shoguns, definitely not, but god I wish they did!

If he was talking about the smaller diecast Shoguns, well, the Japanese company Ark did make a diecast King Kong in the 70's, that kind of looked like Mechanikong, and it did receive limited distribution in some US stores (probably mostly in import stores in various Chinatowns, etc) so maybe he saw that? (probably not, but you never know)

[kryptosmaster]

It's kind of funny that you resurrected this thread Tothiro. I was going to post a new "legend".
Chris

Actually I was the one scanning through the pages and posted to it thereby "resurrecting" it.
All this stuff is new to me as I've only been a member a few months.

Rich

[Action Martin]

Mego Superdog! There was a kid in my neighborhood who swore he had a Superdog Mego toy. He was wrong right?

I had a Krypto from Ideal's Captain Action Superman or Superboy set that I used with my Megos. Maybe that was the same thing your friend was doing.

[Action Martin]

Yeah, it seemed that everyone owned a rocket-firing Boba Fett but they were never allowed to bring it school because it could hurt someone or they might lose the rocket.

My older neighbor friend, Gordon G., claimed to have Megos of Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Barry Allen (despite there not being a Mego Flash), and Steve Rogers. And, no, he didn't own Montgomery Ward's AE figures. Heck, I never even saw a MW until 1993. His Steve Rogers was Alan Verdon's head on a Captain America body.

Another childhood friend, Mike H., claimed to have Mego Flash and Mego Dr. Doom. I believed him because he had every freakin' toy ever made in the 70s (and later in the 80s) in his house.

I've heard tale of the Mego Gene Simmons that dripped blood out of his mouth.

The worst rumor/lie was from my own brother. He claimed that while at a KayBee with my mother he saw James Bond 3 3/4" action figures. The packages were labelled "Octopussy", which had just been released in theaters, but it featured characters from all of the 007 movies. I was ecstatic and went to the only KayBee in our area and they didn't have them. My brother said that they must have sold out because they were "selling like hotcakes" when he was in the store. My mother didn't recall seeing them at all. He even added to the story that on the back of the blister card were toy versions of the Aston Martin and a volcano base (You Only Live Twice). He carried on with this lie forever and claimed he even saw them at a K-Mart in Pennsylvania. When I asked him why he didn't have mom buy them for me, he said he never thought to ask her. These days I still mock him about the lie but he still claims it was true. Of course, it wasn't.

[fallensaviour]

Back when we were kids a friend of mine said he had an 8 inch mego Banner that when you shook him he changed green an turned into the hulk.I had no choice but to believe him because he was one of these kids that had every WGSH there was.He could never show me though cause he didn't like the hulk so he made his mom take it back and trade it for another one.Yeah right!!!

[goldenryan]

Oh, I have a good one.
There was this kid in my village that sounds a lot like the kids in the stories listed here already. One that just needed to lie to impress or gain friends or nobody would play with him.
Well, my sister and my best friend and I always kind of hung out together and one day this kid comes by and starts telling his fibs.
This was just after the original Star Wars figures came out in 1977.
Well, all 3 of us wanted them so this kid, Brian Wagner, told us that his brother worked at the factory where they made them and for us to tell him which figures we wanted and he would have his brother get them for us FOR FREE!
So we were all excited and waited....and waited....and waited....
Well one day we confronted Brian; "Where are our Star Wars figures you promised us?".
This is the good part...LOL
Well, it seems that the plane that the Star Wars figures were on crashed and he couldn't get them for us now!
We knew he was full of spit at that point and figured him for a fabricator after that. We didn't really play with him too much, especially after that.
Of course maybe had we been a little more in-the-know, we would have realized that these figures were probably made in Hong Kong or somewhere like that and of course his brother (if he even HAD a brother??LOL) couldn't possibly have worked there. But the plane crash story was just so classic! LOL
My sister and I still laugh about that to this day.

Rich

i hope no one died in that plane crash.:wink_y:

[Sweep Secondhand]

Reading these again brings back great memories. It's amazing that almost all of us had these liars as schoolmates and neighbors as kids.

Another guy, Mike N., claimed to not only have a Mego Green Lantern but that it talked! He said he recited his oath if you put his power ring in the lantern battery that was also included.

Another kid, Kyle K., claimed to have a superhero figure called The Cobra that had all sorts of cool weapons. This turned out to be more of an exageration than a lie. What he really had was a Marx Sam Cobra figure that he pretended was a superhero!

We also had a kid who claimed to have a motorized version of the Batmobile he could ride in and that fired smoke and missles! Some of us showed up at his house one day after school and gave him a practicle demonstration of why it's bad to lie when he couldn't produce it. Our methods were much more effective than Fat Albert's songs!

[kryptosmaster]

i hope no one died in that plane crash.:wink_y:

Well, also I'm sure the toy companies weren't in the habit of flying their cargo from Hong kong either.
:smiley1:

Rich

[goldenryan]

i remember when x-men around 1992? first came out havok was on the package but they never made a figure of him of course they didn't stop people from saying they had him.

[Action Martin]

But we eventually got him as a Toyfare exclusive in the late 90s.

[Iron_fox85]

cousin said they had 'james and the giant peach' toys... -.o that lil fibber.

[60'schild]

Reading these again brings back great memories. It's amazing that almost all of us had these liars as schoolmates and neighbors as kids.

Another guy, Mike N., claimed to not only have a Mego Green Lantern but that it talked! He said he recited his oath if you put his power ring in the lantern battery that was also included...

That's my favorite part of the thread! (Being a GL fan, I'd love to have my Mego do that, LOL! :yes: (as long as it wasn't taken over by Parallex, and promptly begins to decimate the other members of the Green Lantern Corps!! :no::terror::no:

[livingdead70]

I still meet people today that claim they had a rocket firing Fett.
I was talking to some guy a few years ago that was swearing up and down that that Vader and Obi Wan had cloth capes at first too. Even after being shown evidence that it wasnt true.
Where I live there is an army base nearby, so we had alot of kids that had lived in Germany, Korea etc.. back in the 70s, I dont know how many times I heard Well they had star wars over there before here and the toys were better.......... anyone else ever get that one?
trey

[mazinz]

What an amazing thread!

The scary part is that before I even read this, earlier today I told a friend of mine a story that happened that would fit in here perfectly

Back in the 80's a friend of mine (Eric C) was swearing up and down that he had an articulated black spiderman (outfit) toy figure and went on to tell me he bought it at Zayres. I think I made my mom drive down there and we checked with no results. About two weeks later I went over to his house and asked to see the figure. Eric had the figure set up in his room hanging on a makeshift web (string) from his celing. It turns out he took one of the very early G.I Joe Snakeyes figures and added in decals (or it was paint) and made himself black spiderman

I do know most kids would lie about odd giant size Shogun Warriors that did not exist (recall someone saying they made a Mothra as well as Angillas that went with the toyline) and especially Star wars figures they had or had seen somewhere other than our area (yup, rocket firing boba was one). The one I do remember was when the figures had the 12 back and that it was the deathstar squad commander but with a regular square helmet and not a round one (or it was that the helmet was removable)

Shortly after the Godzilla vs Tricephalon monster playset came out from HG toys. I was told by numorous people that they made other similar sets with Godzilla fighting some other monster from Toho. The other was that pictures of the set HG toys used on the box were much nicer in detail and slightly different than the actual toy itself. Others claimed to have these nicer (prob prototype) versions. Both of these lies kept me searching until the cows came home

Another story is where I tried to call the kid out and he came through. In third grade this one kid named Adam claimed his dad worked for Matchbox and he could get you literally any toy car you wanted for free. Back then I had a green volkswagon/funny car and I am pretty sure the top lifted up to see the inside. At that point in time the car was long gone off the shelves (that being the early 80's). So I asked him if he can get me the green volkswagon. He said "I will have it for you". Sure enough within one day he came into school and gave me a mint version inside the old square boxes they used to sell them in!!! Imagine if more BS stories like that were actually true ended up like this one--