The top three worst female action figures of the 1970's

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Technical difficulties prevent me from doing a forgotten TV segment today, so I bring you some truly useless knowledge and opinion in it's place:
Top three worst Female Action Figures of the 1970's
#3- Ilia (Star Trek the Motion Picture by Mego)
I want to preface by saying I like the Motion Picture and I think this figure is actually a nice sculpt. Ilia makes this list because she got a figure before Uhura, Sulu, Checkov or even Spock in his cool hippie duds at the start of the film.
Also, this figure was the worst seller in the line, I bought two at a major department store in 1987, on the shelf for 8 years, that's gotta be some sort of peg warmer record.




#2 First Version Wonder Woman (Comic Action Heroes by Mego)
Ever wondered what Alan Alda would look like as a hippie? Well now you know. I'm not sure what Mego had in mind with the figure on the right but that's a man, baby!
Somebody at DC must have been ticked because Mego quickly corrected the figure with the much cuter version on the left. Nobody seemed to notice that both figures have removable tops!
#1 Dr Russel (Mattel Space:1999)

The head is nicely sculpted but the combination of a tiny unpainted head, a mannish body with elongated arms make this a figure that creeps my kids out. Best to keep the helmet on folks.



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[Marvelmania]

The Alda looking WW has to be one of the ugliest figures EVER and not just of the 70's.!

[PCofmisfittoys]

i guess the hot lips figure was from the 80's..lol

[toys2cool]

agreed those things are horrible,although I don't think the Ilia is that bad.

[palitoy]

agreed those things are horrible,although I don't think the Ilia is that bad.

That's why I didn't bash the figure itself, just the character choice.

[ramsey37]

I love the Frankenstein pic!
George

[palitoy]

Heh, I was worried nobody would get that.

[cjefferys]

Wow, that Mattel Dr. Russell is terrible, I've never seen a closeup of it before.
At least Mattel redeemed themselves with the 9" figure of the character. That one is a rather nice sculpt in my opinion.

As for that first version WW, words escape me.

[jessica]

Oh woof! Those are horrible. Never knew anything so fugly existed. Thank you for sharing and enlightening me!

[thunderbolt]

Man, those all make Zira look hot!!

[Surfsup]

Wow! Even Frankenstein's monster is fleeing from the arms of Dr Russell...that says it all.

Classic!

[DocDrako]

I had that man-ish Wonder Woman when I was a kid. I wish I still did.

[Drain]

I still have two of them

:Scary, I had and still do have the Wonders Woman (Both Comic Action and Pocket Hero) and Dr Helen Russel (from Mattel) in my collection.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

They are really gross.