Name your top five greatest action figures of all time, and why...

[johnmiic]

1970's
Star Trek Megos, (Kirk, Spock & McCoy). I had Spidey, I longed for The THING, (but never had one), but hands down the Mego Star Trek figures with their resemblances, colorful tunics, molded boots and accurate accessories of tricorders, communicators and phasers beat anything else on the market.

1980's
Kenner's Star Wars figures. Yes they started in 1978 but as The Empire Strikes Back came out we got even more impressive vehicles and started to get costume changes for regular characters beyond the initial 12 core characters released. With perhaps the exception of The Micronauts & Mego's Buck Rogers; no other figures in the 3 & 3/4 inch size interested me at that time.

1990's
Paymates classic Star Trek line; 5 inch and 9 inch. Marvel Legends were great but I love Star Trek too much. The small figures looked like Star Trek animated and the larger ones were not as posable as my beloved Megos but with a wide variety of characters never before produced they touched a nostalgic chord with me.

2000's
Art Asylum's Space Ghost. Toyfare even voted it Figure of the Year one year. Highly posable, faithful to Alex Toth's design and everything Space Ghost figure should be.

2010's
Too early for me to say.

[kingdom warrior]

Ah, I left out Big Jim, who is so cool--but I never had one as a kid, I just started collecting him 2 years ago.

Since it was pick ONE I left him out, the Lone Ranger and Steve Austin and GiJoe Adventure team....lol

[piecemaker]

Big Jim is cool,i had a Big Josh when i was a kid.I still need to reacquire him.

[PNGwynne]

Ah, I left out Big Jim, who is so cool--but I never had one as a kid, I just started collecting him 2 years ago.

[Werewolf]

60s Major Matt Mason
70s Kenner 3 3/4 inch SW Princess Leia. My first SW figure.
80s MOTU Skeletor
90s SW POTF2 Luke Skywalker. Lol, yeah, the first series was sorta 'roided out but that was the style at the time. Everything was extreme in the 90s. It was just cool to see SW figures on the shelves again.
2000s MOTUC Skeletor

[convoy357]

1. GI Joe Action Soldier
2. Johnny West
3. Mego Batman
4. Big Jim
5. 3 3/4" Darth Vader

I didn't go by decades because after the 70's I didn't mess with toys.....until the 90's when I started collecting stuff. The toys I listed here are ones that I think are iconic. They are the original prototypes of all action figure toys right up to the present day.

[megokissface]

Gee, this would include at last 4 decades of toys!
Most which I didnt own...but some I wished I owned today!
1970's
1.All the original KISS Mego dolls, Wonder Woman Lynda Carter toy line,Planet of The Apes,Six Million Dollar Man,Mego Christopher Reeves Superman and Godzilla ShoGun Warriors,Charlie's Angels
1980's: Voltron lion version,the Super Power's Collection
1990's:Most of the Spawn main character figures
2000's Did I run out of stuff besides more KISS reMegoeasque dolls? Oh, wait Dr Who Tom Baker,a davros figure and some Daleks with a Tardis....and more Elvira stuff along with more monsters (Unversal) classics stuff

[Bionicfanboy66]

1970's-Kenner's Six Million Dollar Man Steve Austin. Mego's and GI Joe were cool, but Steve Austin in the 13" scale really introduced me into the action figure hobby. Honorable mention goes to Kenner's Turbo Tower of Power Six Million Dollar Man because it was cool to have a 3" scale Steve Austin figure. The vehicle was cool too.

1980's-Really didn't collect anything during this time, but a co-worker at the time got me interested in Hasbro's GI Joe RAH line towards the end of the decade.

1990's-Despite his He Man wanna be appearance, Kenner's SW POTF 2 Luke Skywalker(red card) signaled the return of the SW line to toy isle pegs.

2000's-Any of the updated Takara Microman figures, especially the Biomachine Hack because of his name.

2010's-BBP's Six Million Dollar Man Steve Austin, despite the fact that his head sculpt looks nothing like Lee Majors.

[toys2cool]

Now now, Damien, no need to get personal. Remember, I'm the HardyGIRL. And it's Welcome Back KOTTER. And like I said, I'm not trying to be disrespectful. But I am entitled to my opinion.

yea that's why I threw that hardy boy in there I was just messing with ya, Meh...Kotter, Carter ...never cared for that crap, the only thing i remember was Travolta

you're not being disrespectful at all, it's just that you feel about the 80's how I feel about the 70's , no biggie

[HardyGirl]

Now now, Damien, no need to get personal. Remember, I'm the HardyGIRL. And it's Welcome Back KOTTER. And like I said, I'm not trying to be disrespectful. But I am entitled to my opinion.

No way, give me 80's toys all day over 70's...you're telling me welcome back carter, the hardy boys, and stuff like that were more fun then He-man and Gi joes?



you're always going to pick your childhood toys first but to say 80's suck or horrible? come on now

[toys2cool]

Honorable mention is my Starting lineup Dan Marino...that line doesn't get the credit it deserves

[SainthoodDenied]

This one took alot of thinking,

70s is a tie between Mego Batman with the Empire toys batcopter and the Lone Ranger with the solitary trapper set.

80s would be G.I. Joe Gung Ho figure.

90s Masterpiece edition Joe Action Soldier.

I just never got into the new figures after that, lots of neat stuff but my limited toy budget gets reserved for vintage stuff.

[toys2cool]

Yes, as toy figures the latest scale stuff is incredible. Perhaps the boxes are not as exciting and well presented as the ones from the 70's. Anyway, the new large scale Gene Simmons' figures says it all:





Not that I did not liked them either!

oh crap now I need me one of those Gene's

[BATMAN89]

1. Batman, Spderman, and all Megos

2. Action Jackson

3. SMDM

4. Atomic Man

5. G.I. Joes

In 1980, I was 16, so no more action figures.
I turned my attention to girls, and dirt bikes! LOL

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[PNGwynne]

'70s--Mego Penguin, narrowly edging out SMDM & Pulsar

'80s--MOTU Skeletor, jeez how I loved that character, beating out Super Powers & Remco 9" Monsters

'90s--Batman: TAS Mr. Freeze, eclipsing Sideshow Universal Monsters

'00--GI Joe 12" BAT, outrunning DCUC.

Now--Mattel Black Manta, love those ReMegos!


So many other cool things though: GIJ: AT, Fighting Furies, Shogun Warriors, Micronauts, Megabug Gladiators, Kenner Star Wars & Indiana Jones, Joe Classic Collection & 40th, Action Man revived, MOTU Classics, etc.