Love Boat Figures

[Spawn67]

Anyone else remember the mego Love Boat action figures? I remember seeing them all the time at BEST when I was a kid. Of course they always sat there and i imagine it wasn't a big sale. I couldn't imagine mixing my star wars and other toys with them back then. Anyway I came across this on Ebay and wanted to know if anyone here actually had them.

The Love Boat TV Show 1981 Mego Figures Full Set, NR | eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/Love-Boat-TV-Show-1981-Mego-Figures-Full-Set-NR-/180658370556?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a1013f7fc#ht_500wt_1156)

[Brue]

i watch LB but had no knowledge of the figures until i was an adult.

that is a nice set and good price for sale

[Falstaff13]

I always found this an odd line of toys and never knew anyone who had them.

[palitoy]

The playset is on Ebay too, doesn't come around much:

mego the love boat loose | eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/mego-love-boat-loose-/390309491081?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5ae0423189)

I owned one for a while and it just didn't fit. I kept my Isaac though.

[generic]

...I kept my Isaac though.
It's funny that you said that because when I saw this thread, I was thinking the only figure I would like to get from this line is Isaac! If I'm ever going to set up a 3 3/4" diorama for ANY series of figures, it needs to have Isaac standing behind a bar on the side. Star Wars, Pocket Heroes, Clash of the Titans, Buck Rogers, Remco Monsters, Raiders, GI Joe, Adventure People, Micronauts? Yep, Isaac standing at the bar would fit right in with any of those sets and make them cooler.

http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt286/genericmego/IsaacLoveBoat.gif

[MicromanZone]

These Love Boat figures are awesome! I remember seeing them as a kid and really thinking “Wow, who do they want to buy this?” I mean nowadays we have all kinds of ironic/odd adult collector figures based on TV shows. But this stuff was clearly made for and marketed to kids. Who would play with it? Why would they play with it? What is the “action.”

I’d really like to meet someone who was a kid when these came out and willfully bought them.

[turnbolt]

The playset is on Ebay too, doesn't come around much:

mego the love boat loose | eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/mego-love-boat-loose-/390309491081?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5ae0423189)

I owned one for a while and it just didn't fit. I kept my Isaac though.

I have been wanting that one for awhile. I am a playset freak and this piece is just to strange and wonderful not to own.

Sold!



Any accessory info on this sucker?

Doesn't seem like there are too many around. Anyone have the instructions?

[4NDR01D]

There's a carded "Julie" ( the young girl, I think that's her name) at a local antique shop for $9

[jwyblejr]

The boat could have a lot of uses for it. Use it for your 3 3/4" G.I. Joes for example. Let either Destro or Tomax and Xamot use it. Or just let Cobra attack it.

[bizzaro megomauler]

i remember seeing these at child world as a kid. and even back then i was like ***? yeah i was a foull mouthed kid.:yuk:

[jho2]

A few years ago ebay had the boat and all the crew for like 100-150 bucks.
kind of wished i bought it, just so I could set it up in the apt and have folks go:
"...the hell?!?!?"

but with all the other toys i have, folks do that anyways

I always wondered if i had it as a kid, what 3 3/4 figures would I have used as cruise "guest stars" that would be on board, with out being to fantastical (like Greedo, Chewbacca, Stormtroopers, Cylons)

G I Joe would blend, if they werent too military looking

I guess Alan Alda , Loretta Swit and Jamie Farr from M*A*S*H* , Dirk Benedict and Loren Greene (BSG) .
and maybe pretending they were in scuba gear Robin Williams (Mork), Martin Landau and Barbara Bain (Space 1999 Eagle)

could all get drinks from Isaac and give Julie attitude

[jwyblejr]

I say give it to Boss Hogg and tick off everyone in Hazzard. "He spent our money on WHAT?"

[turnbolt]

I think Cross dressing Klinger will be 1st guest on my new love boat.

Though your Boss Hogg idea isn't too bad....

[jho2]

^^^^ Thats right !
I forgot about the Klinger in a dress figure
and the Dk of Hzzd figures would blend in nicely

[Richard J. Fowlks]

I like the idea of a covert GI Joe operation to rescue the boat from a cobra kidnap plot, but that's just me...

[Janson]

I remember these figures vividly. They hung them in aisle 8c of Toys R Us in Huntington, all the good boys toys where one Aisle over in 7c. I did buy Gopher years later in a garage sale because his hat was awesome. Still have the hat, no Gopher.

The Star Trek movie figures especially Kirk and Bones would look good with this set.

[argent007]

I'm with you, Richard. I recall the Fisher-Price barn being the scene of some battles, but the Love Boat is a natural battlefront.

[Evel KMego]

I've got all of them carded except Gopher(still need to pick him up) I think the 70's cheesiness of these is what hooked me in.

[Jason73]

I remember seeing these in the store way back when. I was puzzled for certain, but looking at them again I can see a certain charm.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I don't remember these, but my sister had an inflatable Love Boat swim ring/life preserver. Now that makes sense.

GI Joe RAH had a ton of boats, and even that ocean base/platform thingee. The Love Boat would have been a great place for Cobra to be sneaking about on, smuggling hi-tech weaponry and such.

Chris

[Boshek]

I saw a few of them in Kaybee cast week ... Wait that was 30 years ago lol. They didn't have anyone I wanted so I didn't buy any. Yep, I was actually disappointed I couldn't get Ike or Gopher.

[starsky]

i still see them at shows for about $10 each.

[Bruce Banner]

I remember seeing them in stores as a kid, but I was never tempted by them because The Love Boat wasn't really my kind of show.

If the characters didn't have superpowers, robotic parts, or fire lasers, I just wasn't interested! :)

[LordMudd]

Upon closer inspection of what comes with the playset, which I have never seen til now, I would say this was an attempt by Mego to market the 3 3/4 scale to girls, and would be a precursor to Fisher Price and their Loving Family sets. I always saw pics of the boat, but didn't know furniture came with it. That would make it a "doll house" and by default for that time, a girls toy, but being that it was probably the first of its kind, customers and toy stores probably didn't pick up on this.

CCC.