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Hey dude ... Your awesome ... "Let tell you of the days of" ... Lol

supried you didnt do Starcom

There is also great Drizzt miniature in Army Painter: Dungeons & Dragons Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments - Underdark Paint Set.

Thanks for the memories! I still remember the joy I had playing with the BigTrak and Star Bird toys as a young child. They were truly great toys!

Flash Gordon, BSG and Mork all used the same basic body. Also BSG had three more vehicles in the smaller scale with pilots - the car like Scarab, the Stellar Probe (which is a souped up viper) and the extremely rare Land Ram. FWI you can get 3 3;/4" scale versions of all these vehicles and more done by small creators now.

wow i complain about 80$ a game now. no complaints back then because everything was gold.

I'm 48 years old, and I'm not going to lie. That Sears Wish Book was THE BOMB! Coming home from school just to find it in the mailbox (or sitting on the doorstep because the gosh darn thing was too big to fit inside the mailbox), looking through it, and marking off my Christmas wishes in it was always so exciting! I tell you; kids today don't have a clue what they're missing! Online shopping just isn't the same as flipping through the pages and checking off the toys you wanted!

Your videos are great source of toy history! Thank you. You don't do new ones anymore?

Loved Buck Rogers, would've bought the toys, but they were poorly constructed and the figures had no guns and there weren't a variety of them. That was a great series with a lot of cool characters and there were no figures of them. I like the plot to kill a city episode, but we didn't get the legion of death figures. I still hope some toy company will do a retreatment of this series, but doubt it.

I remember when my mom buy Dinosaur Toys for me when i was a kid in the 90s

Dinosaurs Brontosaurus Stegosaurus Triceratops Tyrannosaurus Rex Anatosaurus

The bad thing about the Buck Rogers figurines is that their thumbs would break. I had some of these.

I can't help but equate Baltard with libtard😂

I was more of an early 90's kid so none of these look familiar but they have got me super excited because I would have loved these playsets, I'm guessing its pointless to look on ebay for some of these as they are probably hundreds of dollars lol Thank you for the video.

This is great music for this theme of toys.

There is a big monster toy from this time you didn't mention. It went with an action figure guy I can't remember the name so I can't find an image of it. Anyway it had a circle on its chest and when hit it would fall down. Please if anyone can remember this It would be greatly appreciated. I thought it was part of the pulsar line but it's similar to that.

I was 4 months old.

Hello there! Maybe someone can help me... I have a memory of a toy line from the late 70s. Some articulated action figures, with helmets equipped with masks, gold and silver and a kind of bodice that resembled that of Captain Future. The helmets and weapons were also child-sized...

Great video series. The Starriors and Robotix lines, which make brief cameos at the end of the video as examples of post-Transformers-era sci-fi toys, still feel aesthetically grounded in Star Wars to me. Robotix in particular is the Jawa Droid Factory but bigger, motorized, and a whole extensive toy line unto itself.

I sure miss the Wish Book. This is the next best thing!

wow!! This takes me back! Thanks for the upload!!

I had a Big Tracks toy ,and it's trailer.

I used to love the Adventure People. I would always use the space shuttle to fight against my Cylons

Hello. I remember that I had a black plastic dragon from one of the sets.

One can acquire these playsets and even play with them again. However what is impossible to replicate is the life, times, and mind of that young 10 year old "YOU"!

I remember seeing some of these items at the ole KayBee toys in malls. Dont remember the year, (early 80's probably) but Sears had an after Christmas sale on large Star wars ships and other related items. Like 75% off of 1980's prices.

I had a Big Trak toy & the trailer.

15:16 that isn't an X-wing inspired spaceship, that's modeled after the General Dynamics F16 Fighting Falcon.

I was on vacation in Spain in the summer of 1981 and every other beachside souvenir shop had small Starbird knockoffs for sale loose in bins.

9:08 I never had any of the toys in this video, but I did have that exact Marvel comic book. Rom: Spaceknight #1. Might still have it.

6:56 That Space Fighter is clearly a Battlestar Galactica Viper knock-off with 2 extra wings.

wow one of the most fascinating videos ive seen in a very long time! Loved it!

As a child of that generation, I never once thought the Big Trak was aimed at or came from the Star Wars ecosystem. The Big Trak is advanced even by todays standards.

Im just a Star Wars kid, but i forgot how big Garfield, Smurfs, Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake were back then. Gonna make my wish list for Santa early this year

18:51 you introduce Space Invaders arcade video game with Galaga opening tune.

I think a lot about how important Star Wars toys were to my and my brother's childhoods. It wasn't Christmas in the 80's unless Kenner was under the tree. I think about how significant SW was to cinema and culture, but I wonder now... How much of Star Wars impact on culture was related to the advent of cheap foreign plastic products, easily made and marketed to Boomers with the little extra income to indulge their boys... Yes, I said boys. Dont tell me girls had any interest in any of this. Boys and their Toys. Great book title

I remember the SPACEWAR figures. I never imbibed. I remember Barlowe's guide, but the power lords are fuzzy to me.

Since I watched Buster Crabbe's Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon on KTLA channel 5 in LA, I knew these characters well. I have the Saturday morning Flash Gordon animation DVDs. They animation was VERY well made. The live action "disco" flash gordon and twiki rogers made me very ... sad, so I had no interest in their toys. *Sigh*, maybe I was already a jaded Star Wars snob, or getting too old for these toys. The TRON video arcade game was visually cool, but hard to play for me.

Man that Starbird…

What I love about the Star Bird Avenger is that it also echos the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am hood livery. Perfection! I still have and love my Rascal Robot. I also got a Big Trak when my Dad guilt-forgot my birthday. HOWEVER, I also felt bad about guilt-gifting and returned it. Stupid Conscious. Damn you crime and punishment! I still have my Space Raiders erasers. I melted mine with a match to look damaged. If you stick wires in their arms and legs you can articulate them. The "brainiac" in the top left reminded me of the "This Island Earth" drone monster.

Thank you for making these videos ❤

Another item that was loosely in the Roboforce line...Erector did a remote control (wired remote, not RC) set that among other things let you put together a version of MAXX, with a gripper arm and one with a magnet on it.

Hmm, I wonder if that 'Knight of Darkness' was an inspiration for the humanoid security bots from the movie 'The Black Hole'...that figure reminds me a lot of the head security bot, who went by the name S.T.A.R. (and blew a fuse when Vincent beat him at the shooting range).

Great trip down memory lane

I had mercion and melkor the evil wizard as a kid. I loved those figures. I recently reacquired mercion and she looks great on my shelf! You make some really nice videos! Keep up the good work!

What a blast from the past. I had the Big Trak, ROM, and the Star Rider. The Big Trak wasn’t very impressive even back then. The Star Rider on the other hand, was good for many imaginary intergalactic battles.

The "Spyzor The Adam Crusher" figure and his vehicle kind of reminds me of the Chitauri from Avengers.

I shared both the BigTrak/Transport and the Starbird/Base combos. So many hours of fun.

Fun fact: 18:17 The Land Speed Racer (note “speed” and not “speeder”) is not a sci-fi vehicle at all, which is why it was part of the Adventure series and not the Space series, and why the “pilot” is a race-car driver instead of an astronaut. It’s based on real-world jet- or rocket-powered land vehicles designed and built specifically for setting land speed (hence the name) records, usually in places like the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. _That said,_ i’m pretty sure most kids still used it for space dogfights with the Firestar-1, and that’s cool too 😄

The green robot eraser is very clearly based on Getter Robo, and the ships, especially the orange one, reminded me of early 30s Buck ROgers ships, the rivets in them suggested old time or retro style.