I love the 80s! AKA more of my weird crap.

[Earth 2 Chris]

The 80s had some very inventive action figure lines. I never had any of these, but I had a friend who had the Other World castle and many of the figures. I always liked the really wild garish colors they used. And I remember squishing the heads of those little pygmie dudes over and over.

I remember seeing Crystar figures in Marvel ads, but I don't think they got a lot of distribution in this area.

Supernaturals came out right as I was officially pulling out of playing with toys.
I remember those and Visionaries (which also used holograms) came out around the same time. I too thought the lack of a face and chest on Supernaturals was cheating, but they do look pretty cool now.

I never saw the TigerSharks cartoon. Seems like they came at the end of the heyday of the syndicated cartoon/toyline push. I think by that point Disney started taking up most of their timeslots with their Disney Afternoon package (Ducktales, etc.). I didn't even know about a toyline until years later.

Chris

[ctc]

NEAT!

"The Other World" was fantastic! I had tons of 'em (they were pretty cheap) and have been resisting the urge to recreate them in 8" Mego. Then Tigersharks cartoon was pretty bad, but the figures seem to be super-rare.

Two 80's lines I really liked but never had ('cos any time I found them I was broke) were the Bugmen from Planet Insecta, and Max Steel's RoboForce.

Don C.

[Werewolf]

Remco's attempt to tap into the MOTU craze. I posted these a while back in another thread.



Lost World of the Warlord. These are actually really nice quality by Remco standards. They lack the punching feature MOTU figures had but I feel the head sculpts are on par to MOTU at the time. Deimos, in particular, has a fantastic sculpt. Reminds me a lot of Mego's Klingon.



Conan, what is best in life? To copy Mattel, flood the stores with look a likes and trick kids into thinking these lower quality toys are actually He-man figures! Remco's Conan figures are more obscure and weren't as popular or as nicely sculpted as their Warlords figures. Quality of sculptwise they are probably on par with their Warrior Beasts. The two Conan figures being the nicest in the set.

[toys2cool]

those are awesome! i had all that and still have some...80's toys were the best

[kennermike]

Remco's attempt to tap into the MOTU craze. I posted these a while back in another thread.

http://megomuseum.com/mmgallery/files/5/2/warlord.JPG

Lost World of the Warlord. These actually really nice quality by Remco standards. They lack the punching feature MOTU figures had but I feel the head sculpts are on par to MOTU at the time. Deimos, in particular, has a fantastic sculpt. Reminds me a lot of Mego's Klingon.

http://megomuseum.com/mmgallery/files/5/2/remcoconan.JPG

Conan, what is best in life? To copy Mattel, flood the stores with look a likes and trick kids into thinking these lower quality toys are actually He-man figures! Remco's Conan figures are more obscure and weren't as popular or as nicely sculpted as their Warlords figures. Quality of sculptwise they are probably on par with their Warrior Beasts. The two Conan figures being the nicest in the set.

The Lost World of the Warlord Line Remco 82-84 kicked arse! in many ways I liked it better then Motu line.I was never a fan of the Conan Line

[Captain]

Dont forget Remcos awful Mighty Crusaders line!!!

I loved Crystar as a concept and started collecting the figures until I read the comic. I didnt like the direction it took, much preferring to make my own story line up.
the toys were everywhere in Canada. Zellers and KMart both had huge stocks of this line.

I do like Remcos MOTU clone lines now, especially the DC tie ins, but just never got into them at the time. Not a big MOTU fan. Liked the initial story book story line, but didnt care for the cartoon or the goofy nature the line took after the first wave.

I was (and am ) a big Eagle force fan. Really wish that line had survived (and Mego too of course!). I still hope it gets revived somehow. Apparently Marty owns the rights (according to the designer artist whos name escapes me right now) maybe EMCE or somebody will consider it someday?

[RG]

awesome stuff!! I had some of the super naturals as a kid ... got them on clearance for like .50 each ... they were the smaller ones that had no legs but arms on a rubber robe thing that could come off then they'd look like s crystal or soemthing. and had cool glow in the dark swords.

there's one toy I had from the mid 80's that was a robot/car/plain ... lots of blue and white parts that you could take him apart and make a robot or a car or jet etc. sort of like Voltron but for sure wasn't related to voltron

[TrueDave]

Graet stuff! Where a toy is a FUN toy. I baby sat some kids with teh Other World line.
If I can hunt them down and afford them I hope to get Food Fighters some day.

[Sandman9580]

You have the He-Man Slime Pit thing!!! My best friend had that. God I loved that thing.