The Toys That Made US

[Mr.Marion]

Please tell me the bionic toys will be getting their own episode. A travesty if not.

Amen to that.

[Valor]

Please tell me the bionic toys will be getting their own episode. A travesty if not.

[pmwasson]

Saw this today:

Season 3's subjects are due to be announced at the The Toys That Made Us panel at SDCC on Thursday, July 19th at 4PM EST. Just a few short hours after the Hasbro panel!

[jacoblb]

I finished season two last week. I'm hoping Netflix are happy with the interest and subscriber viewership to keep the show going. I would like to think there's a Mego episode for the next season and while I enjoyed the Star Trek one I wanted more focus on Mego.

[Klosterheim]

I watched the Lego and Transformers episodes. I enjoyed Transformers a little more than Lego, (because of the other toys mentioned), but The System was a highlight. It went by fast, I can't remember if the mentioned the wonderful Lego videogames, because it was only them that inspired me to return to Lego toys.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I watched the Lego episode with my Lego-obsessed daughter, and it was very well done. "The System" sounds like it may be the next new age religion, ala Scientology. ;-)

The Trek episode was great, and I feel like a dope for never realizing that toy companies missed making figures for the truly popular, more toyetic, even-numbered films, and instead produced figures of the more reviled odd-numbered ones (although Star Trek III is great and doesn't deserve to be lumped in with I and V).


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I'm not sure how Mr. Abrams feels about being animated in a Trek uniform and put in prison, however....

[melstapler]

In your opinion. It was a sad day when the 12 inch joe went away and came back a few years later as a sawed off little runt with a lot of the play value lost. Your little Joe would not even exist if it weren't for the original. I doubt a lot of things after 1964 would have even came about, Captain Action, Johnny West, WGSH... etc may have never seen the light of day if not for GI Joe

Definitely. Not just the enjoyable original 12 inch GI Joe figures, but also the vehicles in that scale had an incredible sense of realism and the quality was far superior to the 3 inch Joes from the 1980s and beyond.

[comicmike]

I especially loved the Star Trek one: The Mego content was very well done, IMO.

[Klosterheim]

I watched the Star Trek episode and really enjoyed it.


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It's good that they included Mission to Gama VI. I guess they would not pass that up.

I don't think that I ever encountered the Star Trek: The Next Generation toy commercials on television before. Maybe they were fast-forwarded since I watched many episodes on tape. It was weird having no memory of the toys on TV, when the show originally played on the air. Saw them in magazines and paper catalogs, but they went right by me on TV.

Some toys I really loved on there.

I liked when they talked about the Gorn. One feature was there that I never knew was a part of the Mego Gorn! I had a loose Gorn too, just didn't know all about it.

[Falstaff13]

I've watched this new season. I appreciated the Hello Kitty installment since that's not a toy I've ever had more than a passing acquaintance with, and the Transformers one was fine (although I never really got into them). Both LEGO and Star Trek ones were more up my alley in terms of personal interest. Star Trek had a different nature, since that was more a case of fitting toys to an entity than following the creation and development of a license. It would be like doing an episode on superheroes that touched on Captain Action and Mego then Super Powers and Secret Wars, all with quick nods. The result for it was that I felt like I followed it because I already knew the larger context. I do hope this series continues, but I think I enjoyed the initial quartet a little more.

[rykerw1701]

"Hello Kitty" might be a tough pill to swallow, but I see why they did it. But I'll probably watch it, I actually enjoyed the "Barbie" episode and they aren't really my thing, either.

[comicmike]

Great news, can't wait

[Iron Mego]

So they're calling it season 2 now? Thought these were supposed to be the second batch of episodes of season 1? Guess that's neither here nor there, but I confuse easily.

[MRP]

Apparently the 4 episodes in season 2 are Transformers, LEGO, Hello Kitty and Star Trek...



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[Klosterheim]

I'm looking forward to season 2!

Star Trek!