Chase HOT figures of days gone by . . . .

[mazinz]

I remember having trouble finding Scarlett from the first GI JOE 3/34 line

and I also recall that finding the 2-1B surgical droid from the Empire strikes back took me a long while as well


AHHH then again neither of them were chase figures

[samurainoir]

April o'neill (yellow)
Pink Cannonball
Malebolgia
Ice man (the 1st one you had to put in the freezer)

[tay666]

Oh yeah. That 2-1B.
IG-88 was also hard as heck to find around here as well.

Then again, we didn't (still don't) have much to choose from.
One small K-mart in town. Back in the day, we also had a Fisher's Big Wheel.
And I think Western Auto might have had some figures as well. But that was it in town.
2 or 3 times a year, we might go a few towns over to the nearest Hill's. They had a better selection. But, as I said, we only went occasionally.

I still remember the SW overload, the first time I ever went to the mall.
I saw soooo much stuff. Most of it, I never even knew existed.
I think the first time we were ever taken to the mall was about 78 or 79.
It was about 35 miles away, and back then, that was a huge trip.
I never even saw a TRU or a Children's Palace until I was about 20, when I had a license and a car of my own to go there.

[ddgaff1132]

April o'neill (yellow)
Pink Cannonball
Malebolgia
Ice man (the 1st one you had to put in the freezer)

I second the April O'neill. Wasnt my cup o tea but a friend was in need. After searching all toy stores in my area. I believed the fig to be a myth.

[Bruce Banner]

I also lived in a small town, and although we had a local independent toy store plus a Zellers (which always had a good toy department), it was always an event when we went to the bigger cities to a big mall or a larger department store.

It was during one of those trips that I got my vinyl cape Jawa.

[Earth 2 Chris]

This was during my college years, but I found a brown-vested Jedi Luke from the POTF2 line for a buddy of mine. I was hugged by a large, grown man in public because of this.

It's probably worth like $2 now.

Chris

[tay666]

Trying to remember which wrestlers I was always looking for for my son.
I know there were a couple he wanted that never seemed to be on the pegs anywhere around here.

Then of course there was the early hunt for Power Rangers stuff.
But all that became pretty common within a year or so.

[Blue Meanie]

This just showed up on Ebay...I thought that they never existed:

Rare Ultraforce Action Figure Unopened Case. 504 Made! | eBay

In fact the same seller had all of the "504" figures in cases. The ones I really want though are the Prototypes from the 2nd series villains that never made it out of that stage...Lord Pumpkin, Sludge, Rune.

By the way, is the person that has this site a Museum Member:

Galoob Ultraforce Asst. 75596