Mattel Secret Wars Catalog

[jds1911a1]

I was one of those kids both enamored and flustered by Secret Wars. I'd much rather had a straight Marvel Super Heroes line with no gimmicks, but even my beloved Super Powers line got gimmicky by stressing the New Gods characters. It seems obvious now, but at the time, only the Super Friends/Super Powers toon and the toys made Darkseid the big baddie of the DCU.

The Cap shield offense was unforgivable. Doom did wear a suit like that toward the end of the comic series, if I remember right.

Hulk was an insanely glaring omission for sure.

Chris

That had to come from the DC creative side the new gods were by far second string comapred to other characters in the line expecially the villains(and the Superpowers/superfriend only characters the 3rd string).
Unless the Kenner team was headed by a devotee of jack Kirby. At the time I was much more anoyed that the line had mantis, darkseid, dessad and steppenwolf but no sinestro, riddler (till argentina made him). sivanna, black manta, bizarro or grundy all of whom I knew about and had a follwoing thanks to superfriends

[samsallspark]

Wow, a superb writeup about a toyline that's close to my heart. I own most of the Secret wars collection, and what you have to understand is that this line hit in 1984, and the fact we had a Wolverine and a Hobgoblin was super! (sure ol hobgoblin wsn't part of the comic), but he was so cool that you just didn't care.

I didn't see it mentioned but there were also 3 packs and a glider that came with a figure (the heroes glider came with black and white costume spiderman), and the villians glider came with Kang.

There were also special packs of the cycles that came with figures as well.

[samsallspark]

And I should note that 25 years later that HASBRO has released SECRET WARS COMIC figure packs! (While not part of the mattel line, it's a nice tip of the hat to the Secret Wars line).

[bizzaro megomauler]

That should be the new slang for a peg warmer. "Oh man, that character is such an Ogeode, mark it down!".

NO JOKE i went to an old pharmacy in 2006, and there were 3 of them still on the shelf! at 8.99 a pop.

[Mego Superboy Prime]

I remember getting the black clawed Wolverine figure and then putting it back on the shelve for the silver claw (more common) version at an Osco Drug.

Damn!!

[nvmbrsdoom5]

I too was one of those kids who was both enamored and frustrated with Secret Wars. I thought the little shields were cool enough and fun (for five minutes) but quickly became disappointed that Cap had no proper shield. Getting a Wolverine figure at the height of my Wolvie-fan mania was definitely a plus. This wound up being the last toy line that I really bought into and played with before I got too old for toys (actually I was already a bit old for 'em), so I do have strong nostalgia for these. One of those lines that I've tried numerous times to start seriously collecting and then wind up laying off 'em. Ironically the only Secret Wars toy I currently own is a loose complete Wolvie with black claws.

[B-Lister]

Doctor Doom's mechanical body was explained in story.

as for the rights separation, it seems that SO MANY have longed for the same toymaker to hold the rights to both ever since MEGO went away.

It'd be cool, but with the interested parties being sworn enemies (Disney and Time Warner) it's not likely to ever occur again.

or, for that matter, an inter company crossover.

[boynightwing]

What about Hero Clix? They hold the Marvel and DC rights to make those little plastic gaming figures. It's actually a lot of fun. I often make teams from characters on both sides. I just wish I had more people to play it with.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I remember Kang and Super Powers Darkseid clogging the shelves forever. Darkseid disappeared eventually, but Kang remained...for all time!

Chris

[The Toyroom]

I only had Magneto from this line....

[bizzaro megomauler]

everyone seems to forget TOYBIZ HAD BOTH LISCENCES IN THE 90's! if they made better DC figs instead of rehashed super powers figs (and marvels based in the same vein) they could have still had both. Then Kenner took the Batman license...ouch!

[bizzaro megomauler]

I remember Kang and Super Powers Darkseid clogging the shelves forever. Darkseid disappeared eventually, but Kang remained...for all time!

Chris

He only SEEMED to, he was just time travelling to the future pegs looking to see if they outlasted the super-powers line....

[SexySkottie]

This line was awesome...very basic figures, and it worked well. The comic story was good and still holds up well.

i was So happy to get a DD figure...and the Black Spidey figure is still one of the best marvel figures ever, if only he stood up a bit better.
The vehicles and doom base were pretty lame.

Anyone remeber the cheese ball mail away 6 figure case? No one seems to, but I have one...as soon as I figure out how to post pics on this thread, i will post one!

[MIB41]

I picked up the black suit Spidey from that series because it was something of a novelty. If memory serves, he was the first black suit depiction made. Still have it and the card.

[SexySkottie]

yep, this is the 1st figure of black spidey!