Hi everybody! To give a little back history on the Pitch Turtle, Playmates came to us in 86 I believe and wanted us to sculpt a turtle based off the comics that would be more child friendly than the comics were. Steve sculpted Pitch Turtle Don with the orange head band because this was still the time when the turtles all had the same colored head band. Pitch Turtle Don with the orange head band is the holy grail piece which we have, one of one. Four more were made off the mold of the Don Pitch Turtle and sent to Toy Fair in 87 to show off the potential of the line, these were the Toy Fair Turtles. Those four that were sent to Toy Fair in 87 had different colored headbands which Playmates came up with to tell them apart by. Also for all you collectors out there, if you see a hardcopy for sale that's white as a piece of paper, that's a copy casting and fake. Copy Casting is when you make a mold off an original hardcopy. There are some people out there that got ahold of a few hardcopies and made molds of them and are ripping people off passing them off as real when they're not. The resin turns that yellow/brown look over decades. If anyone's interested in learning more or have any questions feel free to follow us over on instagram @varnerstudios -Tanner
Hey I got a question in this video on the top of your head what is that toy the green Godzilla or whatever it is can you please tell me I've been looking for that forever I've had one when I was a kid and if I'm not mistaken and walks by itself and you put oil on the top of his head and it blows out smoke please let me know
Can you please tell me what that Toya is in the video it's right above your head it's like the green Godzilla I'm not sure I don't think it's Godzilla but it used to walk by itself should have a yellow button on us right or left foot I have like two pieces of wood in between it and kind of make it move let me know if you know the name of it I've been looking for one of those for years
I have the Gre-gory bat. My dad made something so it would hang upside down in my room when I was a kid. It works perfect with the blood pumping down the the chest
You didn't miss anything......I was one of those kids that got everything and for some reason my mom thought I needed a 6ft platform that did nothing. I hated that thing with a passion, it took up massive amounts of space, I couldn't fit it anywhere well and it didn't do anything....I counted the days till I could throw it away.
My dad bought me so many dope toys and we didn't have much money he just worked his ass off at pan am before it was took over by wall street and run into the ground.
When I was a kid Ghostbusters 2 came out and that Christmas not only did I get the fire house play set and the figures, ghosts and Ecto 1 car but my dad actually bought 130 pots of ghostbusters slime from toys r us and used plumbing parts to build a river of slime as a play set. I will never forget that Christmas morning and I was so happy Santa had brought me this one of one play set.
I got the firehouse, the car, 2 ghostbusters and instead of the 130 cans of slime I got 3. So more of a slime puddle but my parents weren’t rich by any means and I was happy at that.
Wow, that's a cool story! Was the slime pink? Also, I had most of the figures, the firehouse, ghosts, Ecto-1, Ecto-1A, Ecto-2, the Proton Pack and the Ghost trap.
Your passion for these vintage toys is awesome. I grew up in the 80s loved every minute of it would love to go back. Need to crank up the flex capacitor! Thanks for some great content.
@KIRKHAUS 878 it is actually a common misconception that it was banned so it was an easy mistake to make. It just sold really really poorly and there was a large backlash from parents so it was pulled pretty quickly. It ended up in a lot of clearance bits and even then it didn't sell well at all.
When the first Stars movie came out in the 70's I instantly fell in love with the Wookie Chewbacca. We were very poor then and my mother got a grant type thing for children in need where she could go to a huge warehouse to toy shop for us 3 kids in my family. I being the oldest was able to come along so if she needed help I was there. I was offered a toy of my choice to keep quiet about all this to the younger two. Not to be included as a Christmas present. I looked all around and came upon a 2 foot stuffed toy of Chewbacca. It was awesome. Even had his utility belt in gray and black plastic across his body. I slept with him for years then we moved and he was gone. I would do almost anything for a almost new like original one. That is my grail.
For the longest time my holy grail was the very first non-kit Godzilla vinyl toy made by Marusan in 1966. Finally acquired one last year, but Bryan Flynn of Super 7 recently flaunted his collection of special color variants of them.... so now a new quest has begun!
The 3 things I wanted but never got was the G.I. Joe Dreadnoks Thunder Machine, the COBRA Night Raven, and the Knight Rider electronic K.I.T.T. car which talked and lit up. All of these toys were Badass!
I’m a true M.A.S.K. fan and 3 years ago I finaly find the Thunderhawk again. Now I would love to find the Manta and Condor again. Because I had them when I was a child. But my holy grails in that toys line would be the Rhino and Switchblade.
I used to have most of the MOTU figurines with all the outfits(armours), and weapons. Was definitely my favourite toys growing up. I sure wish I still had them. And I think I used to have that Krakken toy.. Or something similar! It was a fairly large monster with arms you could twist and shape however you wanted.
Scratch the cat. That goddamn TMNT Holy Grail will haunt my dreams forever. Is almost Impossible have it at human prices... heck even the weapons alone are almost 1000$...... But one day... one day.... a man can dream.... Saw his proto on ebay at 80,000$ and i was "ah.......... ohh. Oh."
Finding recalled toys is really awesome. I also collect toys that were to Dangerous for kids. Mostly 60's, 70's, 80's toys. It's an expensive hobby, but well worth it.
The die-cast Voltron set.... I always had the plastic ones, a few different versions of each, but I never had, not even one lion, of the metal version... Transformers, MUSCLE men, MAD balls, Garbage Pail Kids, Micro Machines... Oh man.. It all brings me right back there. One more toy I had that I remember like it was yesterday, was this weird monster head plaster making kir. You make the head with the plaster and molds then you paint it. I made so many of these and broke all of them ahahha. After I got my first M16 BB gun, I literally used all my toys for target practice... RIP to all my GI Joe's and He-Man figures lol
Born in 74. Had Some of these. Definitely wish I still had them. Not for the value, but, the nostalgia...The trash piles all over the United States are actually worth millions if you think of what we all tossed in there. Toys, comics, cards, and on and on...
My buddy I think still has a complete set of five still in original packages for sale in his used book shop. No online presence really and is a cash only business so no electronic payments.
I'm finally getting the " unicorn" of my collection. I don't use the term "Holy grail" the og Ecto 1 from kenner. Been after it since I saw it when I was really little ❤️❤️❤️and obviously I'll make a video
Yo! Did you find an Eye of Thundera sword yet? I am heading back to my dad's house this weekend and he said he doesn't remember throwing it out from when I was a kid. I can dig through the storage and try to find it, but I played with it a ton so it won't be in great shape.
So new subscriber, I am kind of mind blown lol. I have a lot of the toys on your list, the Godzilla, the bat that pumps blood through its chest, Shogun Warriors, old school Star Wars, Masters of the Universe, the Fortress of Fangs ect. I was born in 75 so I grew up getting toys from those glorious times. It was a good time for toys, I have so many from my childhood I can't count lol. I loved the video! I got drew into the Marvel line many years ago to, its so addictive lol. It's good to see someone else loved these toys from my childhood as much as I did.
That sword was legit! The eye of thundera lit up and it was the toughest sword I ever had. I got it taken away cause my brother went mental with jealousy when he saw it. He tried to take it but when I had the sword of omens in my hand, I became Lion-O. My brother got the sword. Right upside his big ass head! And thus my time with the sword came to an end. I never saw it again...
In the mid to late 80s, my best friend had the Shogun Godzilla. It was a lot of fun to play with, especially as a kid who loved Godzilla. I don’t know what became of it; he unfortunately passed away ten years ago. We both had a bunch of cool toys, and he also was one of my Nintendo buddies. Lately, I’ve been picking up a few NES games here and there, and I find myself gravitating to the old games he used to own.
Absolutely. The games, the toys, the movies, these things all tie us to where we once were, and it’s great to be able to tap into that again once in a while. It gives us a little extra smile for the journey.
I just came past this channel, my auntie from Chicago visited us in Australia 1978 & she brought me Shogun Godzilla, I’m now 50 & it’s still in my garage boxed.
PLAYSETS!! Omg thank you!! I have been struggling for YEARS trying to come up with what their called! At one point I was searching for "dollhouse for boys" because I couldn't figure out what to call them! lol
I miss my Dino Riders collection. I had all of the original line and most of the later ones. After my parents split, I moved in with my dad and my mom sold all of my old toys because 'you're getting older, you don't need toys'.
For me, the holy grail would be that original die-cast voltron. I remember having one as a kid and now I regret loosing it. Yes nostalgic but also it's so rare it's not even funny.
It was recalled for lead based paint so you probably didn’t lose it, your parents probably just made it disappear like mine did… I loved that thing they replaced it and it was plastic and stupid…😊
Honestly as someone who grew up in the 80s and still had access to toys r us I miss the displays of the Tyco racers track that used to hang on the wall as a display if I could get one of those displays that used to hang at toys r us I would be a happy person.
All your videos are cool as heck. I do not collect most of the stuff you present in them but the way you talk about them is so damn entertaining. Keep the good work up! Saludos bro.
I had several Shoguns but decided to downsize and sold them all cheap. I regained my senses and bought a Raydeen for about 10 times what I sold him for.
I had the Remco toys, they were just as sturdy as MOTU, they also had the AWA and NWA wrestlers same size. The ring set came with the Fabulous ones vs The Road Warriors and Ric Ric Flair Vs Rick Martel with a ref that was just as buff as all the wrestlers. Remco had some solid toys.
My first Turtles figure was Usagi. I can't for the life of me remember why. Maybe all the turtles were sold out. They were insanely popular at the time as I'm sure you 80s kids remember.
I had all 4 turtles, splinter, shredder, bebop, rock steady, and the turtle van. My grandparents were the coolest. It was all in the closet at my grandfathers until about 2010, and one of my nephews disappeared the entire kit.
Does anyone remember the 80's action figures that were made of this soft sticky body exactly like the quarter machine toy you could get that would usually be a hand ✋ you could whip around and stick to walls. These sticky figures were made out of that except the head, that was hard plastic made to look like a helmet and for the body, it would come with a snap on set of armor to make the figure solid. I remember the one I had was a good guy. His head was white and his sticky body was like a orange brown color. (Edit) I found it! "Bandai’s Tacky Stretchoid Warriors" I miss being a kid
My mom took me to JC Penny’s around Christmas 1979 and I clearly remember hundreds of the terrifying Alien toys up on the top shelf - presumably so small children couldn’t get a good look and be terrified! I was captivated but at the same time I didn’t want one and actually couldn’t even believe the toy company made them.
OMG I have been using the gre-gory bat as a Halloween decoration outside for 30 plus years when I set up the yard with my dad Owl. I like to press the button on the back and make the blood juice around. Time to keep that one inside. Whoops 😬 worth $300 I saw.
@@jcruz5050 yeah it's not a big deal. My real shrunken heads are worth the most and have a house full of horror, and even a used casket. The big deal is my father is a Bram Stoker horror award winning novelist, against the best and won best horror writer in Orlando and is up for it again this year. Your two cents aren't worth a dime.
I used to have one of every Ghostbusters toy from the 80s my mom got them at a yard sale for me and a neighbor kid stole them from me before moving I would love to have them again
I had the same experience with one of those DAMN neighborhood kids when they "borrowed" my "Tecmo Bowl" game for the NES and then moved away before I could get it back! I definitely feel your pain on that! Just to let you know: Walmart has been bringing the "Real Ghostbusters" figures back on shelves. It's wierd to see them again after some 30 plus years!
@EdsRetroGeekOut Update:I said A.W.E. STRIKER, which I did have, but I actually meant the CONQUEST X-30. As a kid, I had the W.H.A.L.E., the S.H.A.R.C., the SKYSTRIKER, and the AWE-STRIKER. Man, to have those back today.
I was 11 years old when I remember seeing the ALIEN figure on sale at SEARS for around $12 or so. I asked my father to buy it for me and he was like no way. I still remember the stack of boxes of ALIEN figures sitting on a table by the escalators. I should of gotten a paper route and bought one! Damn!
Any of the shogun warriors figures, had them when i was a kid. My aunt Reiko would bring them back from Japan & all us cousins would play for hours with those thing's, just loved it, the comics were great too
There was no PG-13 in 1979, it came about in 1984 after complaints of Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom being too violent and scary for PG.
Yeah, the beginning of the end! Now say simple words like blood, killed, murdered and get you censored on YT. Here's for progress! Nice toys man! TY for sharing
The Kenner Alien did hit regular retail release for at least a month or two. Back then there was no internet and outraged Karen's screaming "Think of the Children!" had a much harder go of it. I remember them on the shelves. I wanted one so bad. My mother refused to let one in the house.
I’m currently looking for a Sword of Omens, was awesome to have as a kid, still remember getting it for Christmas. I think MOC will be out of range though. Nostalgia does drive my collection these days, keeps me focused, takes longer to find things. Great video 👍
Just so you know - the movie Alien was rated "R", and the big Alien figure was the first toy released from an "R" rated movie. That's part of why it was pulled.
Thunderwhip Batman, Green Ranger , Krang w/Android and the OG Optimus Prime were the ones i always wanted as a kid, and despite my collection of extremely rare toys, i only ever found the cheaper, painted-on window version in the wild
That is my grail of toys. I wanted it as a kid, but I grew up poor with a single mom, so I mostly just got the figures. I remember my best friend had most of the GI stuff but also never got this one. If I remember correctly, you had to special order it through the mail, and it was never in stores. Back then, it cost something like 500 bucks.
@1sinister80 we got it at toys r us. I think they had 2 in stock. I remember it was alot of money. my bday and Christmas are close so it was a combined gift from my dad/stepmom and mom/step-dad.
My grandmother used to do a lot of garage sales back in the 80's. She brought the Flagg home once. No instructions so I had no clue how to put it together. I believe we just set the deck down and played with that. I've seen it put together on TH-cam as an adult and know I'd have nowhere to put it as a kid.
@@RisingBean wow , sound like how I was joking with my mom years ago , that she would not find a transformer in the box at the thirt store , she came back with Gen1 megatron in the box for 6.96 , the only thing that was missing was that alive part nobody used .
I don’t have a lot of grails, but the original Alien figure is definitely on the list. I love clash of the titans as well, so the Kraken figure would be sweet. Growing up one of my most wanted toys was the Technodrome. Luckily, I did receive it for Christmas one year. Finding one of those complete again would be amazing, although I’m sure it is out of my price range now.
Before realising how big toy collecting was, a few years ago I sold my Thundercat toys which included a driller, Bengali and a Catlair! Probably now worth loads sold separately. I sold them all as a bulk sale for £250!!! The driller along is worth something like £400!!! Was so gutted a few months later when I found out how big the toy community was!
Wanted Holy Grail would be the unproduced 1988 Rockin’ Romance Jem - a few in the box, possibly engineering pilots, have surfaced over the years. But anything from the unproduced 1988 would be great 👍 But I have all kinds of head molds including a Deco Guide and Paintmaster. But since Jem was about music, I’m happy to say I have some of the Jem master tapes and it’s definitely a Holy Grail of the Jem brand.
I think a lot differently now since I got into 3d printing. From what I can buy to what I can make. You seem to be holding on to nostalgia and originality. But I think you can't stay in the past. I used to buy a lot of old figures but not any more. Now they seem obsolete from bad articulation to bad scupt. Modern remake is now more my thing. If the price isn't too high.
not really the aim of the video, I do really like the super 7 ultimates tmnt but they're not hard to get a hold of. I do love when customisers start creating toys that are unproduced through 3D printing or even sculpting it themselves from scratch with pics from the prototype. I ordered a couple customs like that can't wait for them to arrive! 🤓
Hi everybody!
To give a little back history on the Pitch Turtle, Playmates came to us in 86 I believe and wanted us to sculpt a turtle based off the comics that would be more child friendly than the comics were.
Steve sculpted Pitch Turtle Don with the orange head band because this was still the time when the turtles all had the same colored head band.
Pitch Turtle Don with the orange head band is the holy grail piece which we have, one of one. Four more were made off the mold of the Don Pitch Turtle and sent to Toy Fair in 87 to show off the potential of the line, these were the Toy Fair Turtles. Those four that were sent to Toy Fair in 87 had different colored headbands which Playmates came up with to tell them apart by.
Also for all you collectors out there, if you see a hardcopy for sale that's white as a piece of paper, that's a copy casting and fake. Copy Casting is when you make a mold off an original hardcopy. There are some people out there that got ahold of a few hardcopies and made molds of them and are ripping people off passing them off as real when they're not. The resin turns that yellow/brown look over decades. If anyone's interested in learning more or have any questions feel free to follow us over on instagram @varnerstudios
-Tanner
And how easy would it be today to make fakes with a 3D printer?
🙏
Maybe it's time 4 Playmates contacting Varner for an official Collectors 1st TMNT pitch sculptt replica Nostalgia release.
Hey I got a question in this video on the top of your head what is that toy the green Godzilla or whatever it is can you please tell me I've been looking for that forever I've had one when I was a kid and if I'm not mistaken and walks by itself and you put oil on the top of his head and it blows out smoke please let me know
Can you please tell me what that Toya is in the video it's right above your head it's like the green Godzilla I'm not sure I don't think it's Godzilla but it used to walk by itself should have a yellow button on us right or left foot I have like two pieces of wood in between it and kind of make it move let me know if you know the name of it I've been looking for one of those for years
I have the Gre-gory bat. My dad made something so it would hang upside down in my room when I was a kid. It works perfect with the blood pumping down the the chest
The GIJoe aircraft carrier U.S.S Flagg was the most sought after toy when I was a kid.
Iconic playset 🙌
You didn't miss anything......I was one of those kids that got everything and for some reason my mom thought I needed a 6ft platform that did nothing. I hated that thing with a passion, it took up massive amounts of space, I couldn't fit it anywhere well and it didn't do anything....I counted the days till I could throw it away.
My mom got me the alien toy when the movie first came out I was eight years old Rest In Peace mom
Awesome toy to have growing up 🤓
Where is the Artifact Spaceman?
She sounds like an awesome lady
Respect mum
My dad bought me so many dope toys and we didn't have much money he just worked his ass off at pan am before it was took over by wall street and run into the ground.
When I was a kid Ghostbusters 2 came out and that Christmas not only did I get the fire house play set and the figures, ghosts and Ecto 1 car but my dad actually bought 130 pots of ghostbusters slime from toys r us and used plumbing parts to build a river of slime as a play set.
I will never forget that Christmas morning and I was so happy Santa had brought me this one of one play set.
130 pots 🤤🤤🤤 oh my that sounds epic!
That's awesome. It's........VIGO!
I got the firehouse, the car, 2 ghostbusters and instead of the 130 cans of slime I got 3. So more of a slime puddle but my parents weren’t rich by any means and I was happy at that.
@@Painless_H3ist3d And now the world will be mine and Vigo's. ...mainly Vigo's.
Wow, that's a cool story! Was the slime pink? Also, I had most of the figures, the firehouse, ghosts, Ecto-1, Ecto-1A, Ecto-2, the Proton Pack and the Ghost trap.
Your passion for these vintage toys is awesome. I grew up in the 80s loved every minute of it would love to go back. Need to crank up the flex capacitor! Thanks for some great content.
I had Eternia, Snake Mountain, and Castle Greyskull connected together. My mother sold it at a yard sale. I'm sure I will forgive her one day. Maybe.
The perfect setup 🤤
When my family moved back in 89 my grandfather gave all my my he-man toys away
I had Snake Mountain and Castle Greyskull, only knew one kid who had Eternia. That set was a pipe dream for me!
Can't you forgive her by now Mr Ermy? Holding on to grudges after death is dangerous
I have all three, they are epic together, trying to find the Hyve to stick next to it. (Holding breath)
The Kenner alien wasn't banned and Alien isn't PG13, it is rated R. It just didn't sell well and was pulled after poor sales and angry parents.
Yes, the PG-13 rating didn't exist yet. It was created in 1984, in response to Temple of Doom and Gremlins.
Know we know and knowing is half the battle ...
@KIRKHAUS 878 it is actually a common misconception that it was banned so it was an easy mistake to make. It just sold really really poorly and there was a large backlash from parents so it was pulled pretty quickly. It ended up in a lot of clearance bits and even then it didn't sell well at all.
Alien was Rated R and the idea of having a toy based on a horror movie was a bit out there at the time.
This was 1979 and not 2021.
The original first pics PG 13 were red dawn and dreamscape
When the first Stars movie came out in the 70's I instantly fell in love with the Wookie Chewbacca. We were very poor then and my mother got a grant type thing for children in need where she could go to a huge warehouse to toy shop for us 3 kids in my family. I being the oldest was able to come along so if she needed help I was there. I was offered a toy of my choice to keep quiet about all this to the younger two. Not to be included as a Christmas present. I looked all around and came upon a 2 foot stuffed toy of Chewbacca. It was awesome. Even had his utility belt in gray and black plastic across his body. I slept with him for years then we moved and he was gone. I would do almost anything for a almost new like original one. That is my grail.
Oh man. I’m mainly a video game collector and “had I known then what I know now” is the story of my life. I feel your pain
holy grail toys :)
For the longest time my holy grail was the very first non-kit Godzilla vinyl toy made by Marusan in 1966. Finally acquired one last year, but Bryan Flynn of Super 7 recently flaunted his collection of special color variants of them.... so now a new quest has begun!
I miss my MASK toys. I still have not found any in the wild.
They’re hard to come by in the wild and often broken 😩
My buddy has the shogun godzilla complete. His dad was cleaning the attic, found it and gave it back to my buddy. He now displays it next to his TV
The 3 things I wanted but never got was the G.I. Joe Dreadnoks Thunder Machine, the COBRA Night Raven, and the Knight Rider electronic K.I.T.T. car which talked and lit up. All of these toys were Badass!
I'm 52yrs old and I still have my Godzilla. The tongue is missing the tip but still works and the hand still shoots.
Finally someone else that acknowledges Dino-Riders💪...As a kid I watched my vhs so much it quit working
Dino riderz 🦖🤘🤘🤘
I feel like I am going crazy to find people that remember this show/toyline...
I had the Godzilla Toys back in the late 70’s “”. And I loved playing with them!!!! God bless you all today Shalom
I’m a true M.A.S.K. fan and 3 years ago I finaly find the Thunderhawk again. Now I would love to find the Manta and Condor again. Because I had them when I was a child. But my holy grails in that toys line would be the Rhino and Switchblade.
I've been after a complete-enough-to-play-with Vandal for years.
Heaps here in New Zealand .. firecracker was ultra rare here
The one toy I really wanted the most but never could get was the Star Wars B-Wing from Empire Strikes Back.
I used to have most of the MOTU figurines with all the outfits(armours), and weapons. Was definitely my favourite toys growing up. I sure wish I still had them. And I think I used to have that Krakken toy.. Or something similar! It was a fairly large monster with arms you could twist and shape however you wanted.
Scratch the cat. That goddamn TMNT Holy Grail will haunt my dreams forever. Is almost Impossible have it at human prices... heck even the weapons alone are almost 1000$...... But one day... one day.... a man can dream.... Saw his proto on ebay at 80,000$ and i was "ah.......... ohh. Oh."
I think the proto is way overpriced it will never sell for that 😅
@@EdsRetroGeekOut my same opinion XD
This one kills me, I had 2 Scratch’s and didn’t give a damn about either one...
I just want the stool pidgeon he had to complete mine.
Now we can get the super7 version scratch🔥🔥
My holy grail is a blue light cycle from the 1982 tron. Would also like a first gen snakeyes
Finding recalled toys is really awesome. I also collect toys that were to Dangerous for kids. Mostly 60's, 70's, 80's toys. It's an expensive hobby, but well worth it.
Did you go after those chemical sets
The die-cast Voltron set.... I always had the plastic ones, a few different versions of each, but I never had, not even one lion, of the metal version... Transformers, MUSCLE men, MAD balls, Garbage Pail Kids, Micro Machines... Oh man.. It all brings me right back there. One more toy I had that I remember like it was yesterday, was this weird monster head plaster making kir. You make the head with the plaster and molds then you paint it. I made so many of these and broke all of them ahahha. After I got my first M16 BB gun, I literally used all my toys for target practice... RIP to all my GI Joe's and He-Man figures lol
Voltron is great
Wow I had the Ghostbusters building play set as a kid and didn’t even know it. That brought back a lot of memories!
Born in 74. Had Some of these. Definitely wish I still had them. Not for the value, but, the nostalgia...The trash piles all over the United States are actually worth millions if you think of what we all tossed in there. Toys, comics, cards, and on and on...
😅 its true
My holy grail would be the Bart Simpson doll released in Arby's kids meals in 1990.
I bought the marge at a garage sail but it has no dress weirdly
My buddy I think still has a complete set of five still in original packages for sale in his used book shop. No online presence really and is a cash only business so no electronic payments.
Im 52,and was a "toy head". Wished I had kept those memories!
Dude. Your entire room or maybe house is the holy shrine for all those holy jewels in the background
Thanks 🤓
I had the Sword of Omens as a kid & LOVED it. 🦁 Great video Ed!
Awesome toy 🤩🦁🐯 thundercats Ho!
Me too!
I'm finally getting the " unicorn" of my collection. I don't use the term "Holy grail" the og Ecto 1 from kenner. Been after it since I saw it when I was really little ❤️❤️❤️and obviously I'll make a video
Unicorn great choice 🤘 ecto 1 is epic 🤓
@@EdsRetroGeekOut I'm definitely looking forward to finally having one. I'm kind of a big ghostbusters fangirl so this is kind of monumental for me
i got the studio cell version which is satisfied me just fine; its almost perfect
@@Diapeedjayne247 I had one as a kid. Kinda kills me my stepmom got rid of all my Ghostbusters toys. :(
I had the Ecto-1, Ecto-1A, and the Ecto-2 back in the day!..Just curious about how much you had to pay to get it.
I would love to have the original storm shadow again it's my favorite figure of all time
He is magnificent 🤘
I had a teacher confiscate him and snakes eyes in 3rd grade.
Yo! Did you find an Eye of Thundera sword yet? I am heading back to my dad's house this weekend and he said he doesn't remember throwing it out from when I was a kid. I can dig through the storage and try to find it, but I played with it a ton so it won't be in great shape.
Hi Justin, I haven't found one yet :-) the one I used to play with was also already beat up. That's one great toy :-D
@@EdsRetroGeekOut 🤞that it's still floating around somewhere - I'll let you know this weekend if it's survived!
WOW, when I was a little boy, I had that bat, the shogun thing, and that alien....man, I wish I still had those today
My holy grail is Eternia the only playset of the vintage line I don't have yet
I own Eternia and looking to sell it soon
@@hucklebuck99 cool 👍
Eternia 🥲 so pretty
My holy grail is an original Ripster in box from Street Sharks. I can’t find it anywhere and if I ever do, I bet it won’t be cheap.
My number one would be the Kenner Boba Fett figure
So new subscriber, I am kind of mind blown lol. I have a lot of the toys on your list, the Godzilla, the bat that pumps blood through its chest, Shogun Warriors, old school Star Wars, Masters of the Universe, the Fortress of Fangs ect. I was born in 75 so I grew up getting toys from those glorious times. It was a good time for toys, I have so many from my childhood I can't count lol. I loved the video! I got drew into the Marvel line many years ago to, its so addictive lol. It's good to see someone else loved these toys from my childhood as much as I did.
Thanks for watching 🤓
I still have Shogun Godzilla only broken is the lever that makes tongue stick out . Got it for Christmas never been willing to part with it.
Mine broke too my fiancé bought me a replacement lever from eBay .
That sword was legit! The eye of thundera lit up and it was the toughest sword I ever had. I got it taken away cause my brother went mental with jealousy when he saw it. He tried to take it but when I had the sword of omens in my hand, I became Lion-O. My brother got the sword. Right upside his big ass head! And thus my time with the sword came to an end. I never saw it again...
The three big monsters from The Inhumanoids go great with Masters of the Universe and Ninja Turtles etc also
Oh yeah I love that big green one 🤩
The Inhumanoids were awesome. Sick and dope toy line too... As brief as it was
The monsters from Inhumanoids are great but the heroes suck. I put the three heroes from Centurions against the Inhumanoids 😂
Inhumanoids are still my favorite as well. I was a spoiled kid and had them all. If only I held onto them :(
In the mid to late 80s, my best friend had the Shogun Godzilla. It was a lot of fun to play with, especially as a kid who loved Godzilla. I don’t know what became of it; he unfortunately passed away ten years ago. We both had a bunch of cool toys, and he also was one of my Nintendo buddies. Lately, I’ve been picking up a few NES games here and there, and I find myself gravitating to the old games he used to own.
Great memories playing those games 🤓
Absolutely. The games, the toys, the movies, these things all tie us to where we once were, and it’s great to be able to tap into that again once in a while. It gives us a little extra smile for the journey.
I just came past this channel, my auntie from Chicago visited us in Australia 1978 & she brought me Shogun Godzilla, I’m now 50 & it’s still in my garage boxed.
That’s a good toy to have 😁
PLAYSETS!! Omg thank you!! I have been struggling for YEARS trying to come up with what their called! At one point I was searching for "dollhouse for boys" because I couldn't figure out what to call them! lol
I miss my Dino Riders collection. I had all of the original line and most of the later ones. After my parents split, I moved in with my dad and my mom sold all of my old toys because 'you're getting older, you don't need toys'.
Dino riders should make a comeback in a live action movie 🤩
😑😑 wow thats cold, just selling your toys, sorry bud🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️ thats just not cool
When they discontinued the vibrating harry potter broom, i saw a stack at walmart marked down to 5$ each. Ive got 8 now.
And so you got about $16 bucks in value there buddy. WHY collect IF that's your only reason? You're missing out on a great hobby.
For me, the holy grail would be that original die-cast voltron. I remember having one as a kid and now I regret loosing it. Yes nostalgic but also it's so rare it's not even funny.
I wanted the metal Voltron SOOOOO bad as a kid, but I got the smaller, plastic version.
@@BangBang-hk4rg I remember loving it, o believe it's one of the reasons I loved the power rangers toys .
I had two metal ones. They just disappeared one day. My mom must have gotten rid of them and I never questioned it at that time.
me as well brother
It was recalled for lead based paint so you probably didn’t lose it, your parents probably just made it disappear like mine did… I loved that thing they replaced it and it was plastic and stupid…😊
I can’t believe you have those ghostbuster toys in the box 👀… Ghostbusters & He-Man really take me back to my very early childhood.
I started picking then up years ago just love the artwork 🤓
Damn we had that red skull one! You just reopened a memory, thx!
The roboskull 🤘
The kraken from Clash of the titans was awesome because it was both a playset and an action figure.
Honestly as someone who grew up in the 80s and still had access to toys r us I miss the displays of the Tyco racers track that used to hang on the wall as a display if I could get one of those displays that used to hang at toys r us I would be a happy person.
All your videos are cool as heck. I do not collect most of the stuff you present in them but the way you talk about them is so damn entertaining. Keep the good work up! Saludos bro.
Thanks 🤓
What do you collect?
@@42calking53 Movie props, 80´s and 90`s pre-production stuff and vintage Star Wars memorabilia.
I feel special to be the original owner of a Shogun Godzilla and Raideen. I feel extremely lucky after watching.
I had several Shoguns but decided to downsize and sold them all cheap. I regained my senses and bought a Raydeen for about 10 times what I sold him for.
I had the ice castle 😣
I had the Remco toys, they were just as sturdy as MOTU, they also had the AWA and NWA wrestlers same size. The ring set came with the Fabulous ones vs The Road Warriors and Ric Ric Flair Vs Rick Martel with a ref that was just as buff as all the wrestlers. Remco had some solid toys.
Remco had awesome toys indeed
I just happened to pick up my Transformers holy grails a few months back, a Ravage X-9!
Awesome 🤩
My personal Grails hands down HOT SPOT and SCRATCH 💯👌🏼👌🏼💎💎🤘🏼💀🤘🏼
$300... later
Awesome 😏 but which one is the favorite???
The bloody bat 🦇 for sure!!!
My first Turtles figure was Usagi. I can't for the life of me remember why. Maybe all the turtles were sold out. They were insanely popular at the time as I'm sure you 80s kids remember.
I had all 4 turtles, splinter, shredder, bebop, rock steady, and the turtle van.
My grandparents were the coolest. It was all in the closet at my grandfathers until about 2010, and one of my nephews disappeared the entire kit.
Robocop and ED-209 were my absolute favorite toys. Where you loaded those caps for toy guns in their backs. All my other figures always got 'shot up'😂
The true 80s Holiest of Grails is the GI Joe Battleship 😂😂
Cobra hydrofoil and gi- joe hovercraft had both.. had!! My holy grails oh and gi-joe dragonfly 👍🏽
Does anyone remember the 80's action figures that were made of this soft sticky body exactly like the quarter machine toy you could get that would usually be a hand ✋ you could whip around and stick to walls. These sticky figures were made out of that except the head, that was hard plastic made to look like a helmet and for the body, it would come with a snap on set of armor to make the figure solid.
I remember the one I had was a good guy. His head was white and his sticky body was like a orange brown color.
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I found it! "Bandai’s Tacky Stretchoid Warriors"
I miss being a kid
Awesome i’ll have to check those out 🤩
They would walk down the window?
I had those!
My holy grail WAS Devastator from Transformers. Thankfully Walmart’s reissue satisfied my want.
Now it’s a G1 Megatron or Shockwave.
Mine is a g1 omega supreme
I had the Devastator gift set when I was a kid. Also received the G.I Joe Terror Drome the same Christmas!
@@jimreed2138 that must have been a kid’s dream christmas
I still have a G1 Shockwave. It was the last Christmas present my grandfather gave me before he died.
My mom took me to JC Penny’s around Christmas 1979 and I clearly remember hundreds of the terrifying Alien toys up on the top shelf - presumably so small children couldn’t get a good look and be terrified! I was captivated but at the same time I didn’t want one and actually couldn’t even believe the toy company made them.
I had that bat with the blood chest when I was a kid. Loved that thing, wish I still had it.
OMG I have been using the gre-gory bat as a Halloween decoration outside for 30 plus years when I set up the yard with my dad Owl. I like to press the button on the back and make the blood juice around. Time to keep that one inside. Whoops 😬 worth $300 I saw.
That’s some expensive decorating 🤣
$300? Big deal. Have fun with it! Lol
@@jcruz5050 yeah it's not a big deal. My real shrunken heads are worth the most and have a house full of horror, and even a used casket. The big deal is my father is a Bram Stoker horror award winning novelist, against the best and won best horror writer in Orlando and is up for it again this year. Your two cents aren't worth a dime.
Evil Knievel toys, was one of my favorites back in my day and The Bionicman... 😎
Awesome 🤓
I used to have one of every Ghostbusters toy from the 80s my mom got them at a yard sale for me and a neighbor kid stole them from me before moving I would love to have them again
I had the same experience with one of those DAMN neighborhood kids when they "borrowed" my "Tecmo Bowl" game for the NES and then moved away before I could get it back! I definitely feel your pain on that! Just to let you know: Walmart has been bringing the "Real Ghostbusters" figures back on shelves. It's wierd to see them again after some 30 plus years!
I have the 2003 TMNT sewer lair playset with all turtles and weapons. My daughter in law found it in Alaska. I love that thing.
That’s a huge playset 😁
I wish I still had my entire GI Joe toy collection, which was a lot.
We lost so many toys 😅
@EdsRetroGeekOut
Update:I said A.W.E. STRIKER, which I did have, but I actually meant the CONQUEST X-30.
As a kid, I had the W.H.A.L.E., the S.H.A.R.C., the SKYSTRIKER, and the AWE-STRIKER.
Man, to have those back today.
I was really into The Silverhawks, M.A.S.K and Bone Age back in the 80's
Yes..M.A.S.K. and the Silverhawks! That Really takes me back!
I was 11 years old when I remember seeing the ALIEN figure on sale at SEARS for around $12 or so. I asked my father to buy it for me and he was like no way. I still remember the stack of boxes of ALIEN figures sitting on a table by the escalators. I should of gotten a paper route and bought one! Damn!
Should have bought em all 😁
The PG-13 rating was first used in 1984, long after the Alien toys were released and thus, the movie couldn't have had a PG-13 rating.
Alien was R when released in the USA. With almost an X rating but they cut some violence
Any of the shogun warriors figures, had them when i was a kid. My aunt Reiko would bring them back from Japan & all us cousins would play for hours with those thing's, just loved it, the comics were great too
That’s awesome 🤩
Just by looking at all the stuff you got around you got me remembering things that I or friends had that I had forgotten all about
There was no PG-13 in 1979, it came about in 1984 after complaints of Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom being too violent and scary for PG.
Yeah, the beginning of the end! Now say simple words like blood, killed, murdered and get you censored on YT. Here's for progress! Nice toys man! TY for sharing
The Kenner Alien did hit regular retail release for at least a month or two. Back then there was no internet and outraged Karen's screaming "Think of the Children!" had a much harder go of it. I remember them on the shelves. I wanted one so bad. My mother refused to let one in the house.
The Simpson's, Reverend Lovejoy's wife!! Such a prophetic show, back in the day anyway!
I remember seeing a 7 ft. stack of them for $5 a piece.
PG-13 didn't exist as an MPAA rating at the time of release for the movie "Alien."
I’m currently looking for a Sword of Omens, was awesome to have as a kid, still remember getting it for Christmas. I think MOC will be out of range though. Nostalgia does drive my collection these days, keeps me focused, takes longer to find things. Great video 👍
Great sword indeed 😁
I had the DinoRiders T-Rex back in the 80’s as a kid, should still somewhere in the attic of my parents :)
Awesome 🦖
I HAD JETFIRE back in the day until I sold all my Transformers. Should never have sold it.
Just so you know - the movie Alien was rated "R", and the big Alien figure was the first toy released from an "R" rated movie. That's part of why it was pulled.
Damn robo skull That's on my list now
Yeah it looks cool doesn’t it 🤪
I still have the Kraken, Godzilla, Alien, GI Joe HQ, Rodan, and the SDF-1. Such cool memories.
Thunderwhip Batman, Green Ranger , Krang w/Android and the OG Optimus Prime were the ones i always wanted as a kid, and despite my collection of extremely rare toys, i only ever found the cheaper, painted-on window version in the wild
Nice 😁
I'm 43 and still have my G.I.Joe aircraft carrier
Awesome 🤩
That is my grail of toys. I wanted it as a kid, but I grew up poor with a single mom, so I mostly just got the figures. I remember my best friend had most of the GI stuff but also never got this one. If I remember correctly, you had to special order it through the mail, and it was never in stores. Back then, it cost something like 500 bucks.
@1sinister80 we got it at toys r us. I think they had 2 in stock. I remember it was alot of money. my bday and Christmas are close so it was a combined gift from my dad/stepmom and mom/step-dad.
My white whale is the U.S.S. Flag from GI Joe.
The space shuttle was kickazz too
I would have thought the Shogun Warriors' Rodan would have been more grail-able than Godzilla.
He’s real rare indeed but not on my list 🤓
I've been seeing your channel for a couple years now and finally clicked on this vid. really great style! subbed.
Thank you 🤓
Wow, I had that Godzilla! I had totally forgotten it until I saw it in your video. Crazy what we forget as we get older. Thanks for reminding me. :)
I had a chance to get the USS flag back in the day for dirt cheap, but its was just too damn big .
My grandmother used to do a lot of garage sales back in the 80's. She brought the Flagg home once. No instructions so I had no clue how to put it together. I believe we just set the deck down and played with that. I've seen it put together on TH-cam as an adult and know I'd have nowhere to put it as a kid.
@@RisingBean wow , sound like how I was joking with my mom years ago , that she would not find a transformer in the box at the thirt store , she came back with Gen1 megatron in the box for 6.96 , the only thing that was missing was that alive part nobody used .
Cool stories 🤩
@@EdsRetroGeekOut when she got it in the house , she told me I should left it in the damn store because you had no faith in me lol.
Geez I had ALL of these as a kid. Wish I knew how much they’d b worth...smh
Dude, no you didn't. If you are serious, you were the rich kid no one liked.
I don’t have a lot of grails, but the original Alien figure is definitely on the list. I love clash of the titans as well, so the Kraken figure would be sweet. Growing up one of my most wanted toys was the Technodrome. Luckily, I did receive it for Christmas one year. Finding one of those complete again would be amazing, although I’m sure it is out of my price range now.
they're out there just gotta wait for the right price to pop up 🤓
Found this channel thanks to Iconicon, think I will stick around! Good work dude!
Before realising how big toy collecting was, a few years ago I sold my Thundercat toys which included a driller, Bengali and a Catlair! Probably now worth loads sold separately. I sold them all as a bulk sale for £250!!!
The driller along is worth something like £400!!! Was so gutted a few months later when I found out how big the toy community was!
Yeah driller, stinger, tongue o saurus all those are quite sought after 🤓 such a good toyline
I love the tongue action - definitely what she said
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haha .
Wanted Holy Grail would be the unproduced 1988 Rockin’ Romance Jem - a few in the box, possibly engineering pilots, have surfaced over the years. But anything from the unproduced 1988 would be great 👍 But I have all kinds of head molds including a Deco Guide and Paintmaster. But since Jem was about music, I’m happy to say I have some of the Jem master tapes and it’s definitely a Holy Grail of the Jem brand.
I think a lot differently now since I got into 3d printing. From what I can buy to what I can make.
You seem to be holding on to nostalgia and originality. But I think you can't stay in the past.
I used to buy a lot of old figures but not any more. Now they seem obsolete from bad articulation to bad scupt. Modern remake is now more my thing. If the price isn't too high.
not really the aim of the video, I do really like the super 7 ultimates tmnt but they're not hard to get a hold of. I do love when customisers start creating toys that are unproduced through 3D printing or even sculpting it themselves from scratch with pics from the prototype. I ordered a couple customs like that can't wait for them to arrive! 🤓
Star Wars Dar t h Vader was my most coveted toy, Mom suprised me at Christmas with one. Thank you Mom, rest in peace, love and joy.
Most of those are from my generation, Gen-X. My holy grail as a kid was the Kenner Death Star playset. I really wanted the Shogun Warriors too.