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.
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Mine is Big Jim.Wanted:
Diamond select Spider-man hands. Long shot, I know...but ya never know..Comment
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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).
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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...Comment
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Matt Mason was quite popularComment
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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.Comment
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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.
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