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  • sprytel
    Talkative Member
    • Jun 26, 2009
    • 6539

    Biggest Action Figure without a Cartoon/TV/Movie Tie-in?

    I got to thinking about this the other day... what is the biggest action figure line that has never had a tie-in from a cartoon/TV show/movie etc.? Or if not the biggest, at least one that you really love? So anything from a licensed property would be out. Something like GI Joe or Barbie certainly made it big before the animated tie-ins... but they still came eventually, so they are out too.
  • RonnyG
    Career Member
    • Apr 23, 2014
    • 909

    #2
    Big Jim?

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    • msenger76
      Veteran Member
      • Nov 3, 2009
      • 291

      #3
      Mattel Secret Wars technically didn't have a specific tie-in.

      M.U.S.C.L.E. wrestlers perhaps. not specifically tied to any US based wrestling during the 80s boom.

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      • LonnieFisher
        Eloquent Member
        • Jan 19, 2008
        • 10814

        #4
        The original G.I. Joe adventure team.

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        • LonnieFisher
          Eloquent Member
          • Jan 19, 2008
          • 10814

          #5
          Originally posted by msenger76
          Mattel Secret Wars technically didn't have a specific tie-in.

          M.U.S.C.L.E. wrestlers perhaps. not specifically tied to any US based wrestling during the 80s boom.
          Secret Wars was a huge comic book event.

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          • KingKickass1983
            Career Member
            • Jan 19, 2019
            • 583

            #6
            Mine is Big Jim.
            Wanted:

            Diamond select Spider-man hands. Long shot, I know...but ya never know..

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            • MRP
              Persistent Member
              • Jul 19, 2016
              • 2035

              #7
              Micronauts? There was a comic that came later but nothing on film.

              Adventure People?

              If we're including girls toys and not just boys toys, the obvious answer is Barbie (without trying to open the dolls/action figure can of worms for early lines like G.i. Joe AT, Big Jim and Mego World's Greatest Super-Heroes and such).

              -M
              "Opinion is the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding." -Plato

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              • J.B.
                Guild Navigator
                • Jun 23, 2010
                • 2881

                #8
                Does Stretch Armstrong count?
                You are transparent; I see many things... I see plans within plans.

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                • Megotastrophe
                  Permanent Member
                  • Jun 29, 2018
                  • 2693

                  #9
                  Johnny West was huge and had no specific tie in being more of a generic western theme.
                  Pulsar was quite popular as well and no media at all behind him.
                  Action Jackson and Dinah Mite certainly come to mind but I cannot confirm they were considered very big by most people who don't come here.
                  Matt Mason...Big Jim...Zeroids...

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                  • MRP
                    Persistent Member
                    • Jul 19, 2016
                    • 2035

                    #10
                    Originally posted by J.B.
                    Does Stretch Armstrong count?
                    There's a modern Stretch Armstrong animated series, but I am not sure that disqualifies it in context of the original question...


                    -M
                    "Opinion is the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding." -Plato

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                    • drquest
                      ~~/\~~\o/~~/\~~Shark!
                      • Apr 17, 2012
                      • 3741

                      #11
                      Matt Mason was quite popular
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                      • enyawd72
                        Maker of Monsters!
                        • Oct 1, 2009
                        • 7904

                        #12
                        I'd have to give it to Tonka's Super Naturals. Those are some awesome toys.

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                        • KingKickass1983
                          Career Member
                          • Jan 19, 2019
                          • 583

                          #13
                          Originally posted by enyawd72
                          I'd have to give it to Tonka's Super Naturals. Those are some awesome toys.
                          Or the Steel Monsters...even though it was kinda banking off the Mad Max franchise... does that count though?
                          Wanted:

                          Diamond select Spider-man hands. Long shot, I know...but ya never know..

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                          • Megotastrophe
                            Permanent Member
                            • Jun 29, 2018
                            • 2693

                            #14
                            I think the question was not what was the best or coolest house line without supporting media...but which was the best selling.
                            Matt Mason and Big Jim seem all over that wheelhouse. And Johnny West built it.

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                            • tatsunokofan
                              Member
                              • Dec 5, 2019
                              • 79

                              #15
                              I'd have to go with the 12" G.I. Joes, both military and Adventure Team. And no, the stuff for the 3 3/4" Joes doesn't count, since that was a vastly different toy line that happened to use the same name and appeared years after the fact.

                              Captain Action, Matt Mason, Sea Devils, Big Jim, and Johnny West would all be fighting for second place in that race, though Captain Action might be disqualified by his 5-issue comic book run. Before someone asks, the Sea Devils toys had no connection to the DC comic of the same name, and the comic had ended with issue #35, cover dated May, 1967, a few years before the Mattel Sea Devils toy line launched.

                              James

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