The thing I love about this channel is the walk down memory lane you do. Born in 76 this channel covers my childhood from toys to cartoons. Great video, great channel and great host!!!!
Hey me too... 76 club! No wonder the show is such a walk down memory lane. I myself was obsessed with Madballs for whatever reason and had the whole lineup. Never threw them around though.
I was lucky to work on the line when Art Asylum had design control of the line. So awesome to just say “can we make it grosser?” And have 4 people agree.
Nice! I was lucky enough to work at American Greetings in the late 90's and was one dept over from some of the people who concepted/created these toy lines. It was kinda sad how AG wasted a lot of their creative talent. The company matured and lost its vision and got top heavy, etc. There was some kickass stuff that never really saw the light of day. And, yes, i can still remember the smell of the foam used to make MadBalls. Pretty sure it was carcinogenic : p
I used to draw my own Madballs designs. Really wish I still had them! Funnily enough, I didn't even have any Madballs and still don't; just thought they were cool. :p
The more I watch these videos the more I miss the 80s, and 90s. Worth the risk to keep watching these videos. Ironically while watching this video I just happened to come across and find my oculus ball.
I sometimes force my wife to watch your videos with me. Every time we get to the end I point out my name in the Patreon credits. I encourage everyone that isn't currently a backer to become one so that you too can annoy your spouse. Great video!
Awesome as always but no mention of Mondos versions. They’re great, probably the best for sculpt and details and they’re even doing Christmas ornaments this year.
I had a lot of these as a kid, I distinctly remember the various comics and also the soccer ball but I had most of the versions of the actual balls and the action figures.
@@SecretGalaxyTV Yeah there is a Madballs game, still sold to this day on Steam, called Madballs in Babo Invasion store.steampowered.com/app/25700/Madballs_in_BaboInvasion/ which is a third person over the ball shooter with a story campaign, coop horde mode and online vs. modes. It got 79 on metacritic. How do I know this? I was the lead designer for the game :-P
this was a fun video to watch. thanks. Just last weekend I ran across the horror themed ones. Didn't know that themed existed. Horn Head is my favorite.
I love this channel. It brings back so many nostalgic memories. So far, I owned the majority of toys featured here at one point or another during my childhood. 💓
I was just gonna say man this episode was just missing that last thing to get a 10/10 then u hit the fart noise and now the video is dan larson perfection once again bravo sirs
Madballs are totally fantastic! I had a few of them as a kid and used them to cause lots of chaos and confusion. My friend Patrick had a few of them too! They were very cool. Parents didn’t like them much but they were always cool to me!
My brother bought me the Eyeball one for Christmas. It was my favorite gift that year out of all the stuff I got, and don't remember. But I remember that ball.
All I had of this line was a huge(really huge) pack of stickers that my Dad got from work. All of my elementary school years where decorated with werewolf and mummy on my books and stuff. I still have a VHS of titanic with madballs stickers covering jack and rose face.
I had a pair of Madballs sunglasses as a kid. I'm sure I had a ball or two as well, but can't remember that nearly as well. I know I played with them, but don't remember if they were mine. I still love the designs and wish I had a set of them today.
I had a few of these. I also had an English teacher in high school who, if he caught you slacking off, would throw the eyeball one at you and yell "I've got my eye on you!". Jerk.
Our Convention Fan Table at Farpoint 2018 featured some of my Battle Trolls (since Marscon 2019's theme was Faeries) and some woman picked up a flier because Trollclops reminded her of a Madball.
I had one Madballs knock-off that i wish I could find more info about. Instead of nerf-like foam, it was kind of a soft vinyl or plastic material. It was blue and red in color, and kind of a zombie-like face. One of the eyes was coming out of its socket and I believe there was exposed brain as well. I had some of the proper Madballs as well, but I always wondered what knock-off series this soft plastic one came from.
Loved MadBalls back in the day! Had a few of the balls and some of the head poppin action figures, lol. I haven't been able to grab any of the reboot stuff but might try. I seem to recall my sister having a plastic baseball bat as well with the madballs face on it.
There were a ton of "gross-out" properties out there back then. Like the Madballs knock-off Weird Ball Wrestlers, the controversial (in some parts of the world) Skateboard Smack-Ups, and possibly flying under the radar, a less freaky, more cartoony look at pro athletes called Sport Freaks.
I for some reason, oh I was 10, that's it, collected the Star Madballs comic loyally. The jokes were just fourth wall breaking enough, the art wasn't cutesy, it just hit me at the absolute right time for lines like "Let's see if they like double doses of Horrible Halitosis!" .
These are similar in concept to somethings i had growing up. The ones I had were smaller bouncy-balls my dad called UglyBalls. The weird shapes made playing fun cause you couldn't predict the next bounce.
@Asmin Siza Yeah, one of the shorter Sunbow animations but what it lacked in quantity it did make up for some of the most memorable scenes I've seen as a kid. Me crying my eyes out at the toy store because my parents can't afford to buy me D'compose is one of my most embarrassing childhood experiences >.
Do you remember Dee Snider's (yes Twisted Sister!) toy line? Balzac, if I remember correctly, and they were a lot like these, only I think a little creepier and maybe stuff oozed out them, can't remember. They came out in the mid 90s and I just couldn't afford toys then but I really wanted them. If you haven't already could you please look into them? I think it would be an interesting episode.
I remember seeing similar toys that were just a bit bigger than marbles, this was in the early 2000s. I had one but I can't remember what they were. I clicked on this video hoping these were them but they only ever had these marble sized ones. It was around the same time Mighty Beanz were popular.
I won Crack=Head at a Hallowe'en carnival once...that carnival had great prizes, as it was at a school where the principal's husband owned a dime store and that first year they had the carnival, they gave away a lot of older toys that they had sitting there for years, of which Mad Balls was one such example. That was a good year...
I owned a few of these as a kid, so it was interesting that as I got older and got into the hardcore music scene that I found a band called Madball. Turns out folks, in New York hardcore scene gang lingo, a mad ball is a pool ball dropped into a sock and used as a weapon. True story.
I was Mad Ball mad. I had the balls, the comics, and a couple of the action figures. The action figures were pretty awesome. I'd say throwing rates a 3 normally, but at least 9 with Mad Balls.
And immediately after these came out they came out with mad balls action figures, as I vaguely recall the three wheeler trebuchet, that was actually fun throwing their heads at each other.
Bloody hell. I completely forgot about them. But when that "Escape from Orb" art showed up, I realised that I was seeing something that I hadn't seen in about 25 years
I had the eyeball character, it deteriorated rather quickly but the knock-off cyclops Mad Ball I got at a local fair somewhere in Illinois back in '86 was made of thick rubber and lasted a lot longer.
I remember they put me in some special class where we earned points to cash in for arcade tokens money or toys. This was my first prize and I loved it, thanks Andrea (my teachers) from shelburne vt
I had a ball like this. I'm not sure if it was a Madball or not. Anyway I left it outside somewhere in the grass and I think it decomposed or something because now I can't find it. I didn't realize that would happen.
One of my friends was really into garbage pail kids, and he of course had the Mad Ball VHS tape. He put the tape in when me and middle brother were over by his house one time. Despite being Madballs, the cartoon was typical 80s cartoons fair. It was far more goofy than gross as they wanted to make sure it would work for a wider audience if got picked up.
Anybody remember Slime Time? They were like Madballs, but they were watches. I remember the commercial so clearly and I remember seeing them at the store in the mid-80s. Maybe it was a Canadian thing, but I’ve never met anyone who knows what I’m talking about. Also, I remember having the Madballs comics, they were pretty good...
You know what would be a great video on the channel, the history of attack of the killer tomatoes, it was a movie and then animated series, kinda in the same way as toxic crusader.
I forgot akk about these things until i saw this. I have vague memories of seeing these things in the toy aisle as a kid but i never bothered with them. Weird cause they were right up my alley as i loved garbage pail kids.
I think my Cousin had two of these when I was a kid in the early 90's? I remember it felt like soft rubber and they had a vehicle/catapult of some kind... That might be another line entirely, there were so many back then.
The thing I love about this channel is the walk down memory lane you do. Born in 76 this channel covers my childhood from toys to cartoons. Great video, great channel and great host!!!!
(Also born in '76)
Me too.
@@SecretGalaxyTV We come from a great time to be kids. Again great channel
Hey me too... 76 club! No wonder the show is such a walk down memory lane. I myself was obsessed with Madballs for whatever reason and had the whole lineup. Never threw them around though.
@@SecretGalaxyTV 76 as well
We used to play baseball with these. Unpredictable flight and bounce patterns made it more fun. 😆
I was lucky to work on the line when Art Asylum had design control of the line. So awesome to just say “can we make it grosser?” And have 4 people agree.
Nice! That's insight that you can't get anywhere else.
Nice! I was lucky enough to work at American Greetings in the late 90's and was one dept over from some of the people who concepted/created these toy lines. It was kinda sad how AG wasted a lot of their creative talent. The company matured and lost its vision and got top heavy, etc.
There was some kickass stuff that never really saw the light of day.
And, yes, i can still remember the smell of the foam used to make MadBalls. Pretty sure it was carcinogenic : p
Energy Fitness it absolutely was toxic. Lol
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I used to draw my own Madballs designs. Really wish I still had them! Funnily enough, I didn't even have any Madballs and still don't; just thought they were cool. :p
The more I watch these videos the more I miss the 80s, and 90s. Worth the risk to keep watching these videos. Ironically while watching this video I just happened to come across and find my oculus ball.
I had several of these! I love this walk down memory lane! Thanks :)
I sometimes force my wife to watch your videos with me. Every time we get to the end I point out my name in the Patreon credits. I encourage everyone that isn't currently a backer to become one so that you too can annoy your spouse.
Great video!
OnitsukaLion funny- I noted my patreon support once and I got a lecture about how I spend my money 😂
That's a testimonial we can put on the box!
I did the same with my cats.
They weren't impressed.
Put it on the back of the blu-ray!
Had forgotten about these things. Had them, watched the vhs- parents hated it. Good memories!! Thanks Dan
Mmmmmmm that smell of paint and foam brings back memories of MADBALLS!
To this day I still love that horribly toxic new toy paint smell.
That smell will never leave me lol.
I had one as a kid and man, y'all are making me feel old here!
Awesome as always but no mention of Mondos versions. They’re great, probably the best for sculpt and details and they’re even doing Christmas ornaments this year.
I am such a child. Every time Dan mentioned “balls” I started giggling!!
I had a lot of these as a kid, I distinctly remember the various comics and also the soccer ball but I had most of the versions of the actual balls and the action figures.
We had cool toys back in the 80s
This is nuts! I was thinking about Mad Balls last week.
Dude your content is so FUCKING GOOD! I'm not gonna lie Dan, your Charisma and personality set your content in a league of its own!!
Thank you very much.
Wasn't there also a second video game released on the Xbox 360?
I believe so. I've never played it but a few people in the comments seemed to like it.
Larry Bundy Jr! Hello you!
@@SecretGalaxyTV Yeah there is a Madballs game, still sold to this day on Steam, called Madballs in Babo Invasion store.steampowered.com/app/25700/Madballs_in_BaboInvasion/ which is a third person over the ball shooter with a story campaign, coop horde mode and online vs. modes. It got 79 on metacritic. How do I know this? I was the lead designer for the game :-P
@@DemoEvolvedGaming Was a pretty fun game, thanks for developing/designing it :D
@@MeowTheMouse thanks! We put a lot of creativity into it, in particular the multiplayer
this was a fun video to watch. thanks. Just last weekend I ran across the horror themed ones. Didn't know that themed existed. Horn Head is my favorite.
I love this channel. It brings back so many nostalgic memories. So far, I owned the majority of toys featured here at one point or another during my childhood. 💓
I was just gonna say man this episode was just missing that last thing to get a 10/10 then u hit the fart noise and now the video is dan larson perfection once again bravo sirs
Great video as always dan! I saw them in Target the other day. Brought back memories.
I had so many of these. I remember that cyclops with the nose ring being my favourite.
Madballs are totally fantastic! I had a few of them as a kid and used them to cause lots of chaos and confusion. My friend Patrick had a few of them too! They were very cool. Parents didn’t like them much but they were always cool to me!
I had Oculus Orbus when I was a kid. Funny that that is one toy name that I never forgot. Such a great name!
Me too! Occulus Orbus was fantastic. Didn't bounce, though!
Yeah! I still have mine on the shelf, but i wish i'd collected more. Only had him and the Dust Brain figure.
On my death bed I'll still know what "Screamin Meemie" was
I loved Madballs! I bought most, if not all, of the STAR comics. I was a STAR comics fanatic back in the day. Great video!
My brother bought me the Eyeball one for Christmas. It was my favorite gift that year out of all the stuff I got, and don't remember. But I remember that ball.
One of my favorite toys and one of my favorite TH-cam shows...holy cow what a combo
had four out of the eight madballs in the first run was born in 79 in UK fookin love tthis channel!!!
I thought these were a fever dream. Holy crap they actually existed in my life.
All I had of this line was a huge(really huge) pack of stickers that my Dad got from work. All of my elementary school years where decorated with werewolf and mummy on my books and stuff. I still have a VHS of titanic with madballs stickers covering jack and rose face.
Thank you thank you thank you!!! Omg I had these as a kid in the 85 n never new the name of them thank you thank thank you!!!!!!!!!!
this is a legendary toy, i had the 2009 racket attack and was my favorite toy at the time, im glad i remember the name
I had a pair of Madballs sunglasses as a kid. I'm sure I had a ball or two as well, but can't remember that nearly as well. I know I played with them, but don't remember if they were mine.
I still love the designs and wish I had a set of them today.
My cousin and I would play with these at my grandparents' house. I totally forgot about these. Thanks for this vid!
You're welcome!
I had a few of these. I also had an English teacher in high school who, if he caught you slacking off, would throw the eyeball one at you and yell "I've got my eye on you!". Jerk.
Our Convention Fan Table at Farpoint 2018 featured some of my Battle Trolls (since Marscon 2019's theme was Faeries) and some woman picked up a flier because Trollclops reminded her of a Madball.
I had one Madballs knock-off that i wish I could find more info about. Instead of nerf-like foam, it was kind of a soft vinyl or plastic material. It was blue and red in color, and kind of a zombie-like face. One of the eyes was coming out of its socket and I believe there was exposed brain as well. I had some of the proper Madballs as well, but I always wondered what knock-off series this soft plastic one came from.
Loved MadBalls back in the day! Had a few of the balls and some of the head poppin action figures, lol. I haven't been able to grab any of the reboot stuff but might try. I seem to recall my sister having a plastic baseball bat as well with the madballs face on it.
There were a ton of "gross-out" properties out there back then. Like the Madballs knock-off Weird Ball Wrestlers, the controversial (in some parts of the world) Skateboard Smack-Ups, and possibly flying under the radar, a less freaky, more cartoony look at pro athletes called Sport Freaks.
Not sure how you left out garbage pail kids
I had a couple MadBalls when I was a kid. We played baseball with them.
I for some reason, oh I was 10, that's it, collected the Star Madballs comic loyally. The jokes were just fourth wall breaking enough, the art wasn't cutesy, it just hit me at the absolute right time for lines like "Let's see if they like double doses of Horrible Halitosis!" .
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I LOVED these! I wish they would reboot them full size instead of little in the recent years
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Madballs are dope! Horn Head was my favorite and I got the Rollercycle that came with his headpopper action figure.
I found the Mad balls movies when a child. Loved them.
i always see these now i do remember seein em back in the day but it died out a lil before my era.
What movie is the clip at 4:14 originally from, BTW?
You guys keep helping me what Toy-Line my toys came from...
Like Madballs.
I had the generic Ugly ball, I could always count on my parents and for some odd reason Santa to get me the off brand.
If you enjoyed them than it don’t matter.
Mad balls were so cool back in the 80s. Thanks for the video! Could you do Blackstar next?
I’m just gonna give this a thumbs up before I watch it. Now I’ll go watch
These are similar in concept to somethings i had growing up. The ones I had were smaller bouncy-balls my dad called UglyBalls. The weird shapes made playing fun cause you couldn't predict the next bounce.
Speaking of gross out humor and scary monsters, anybody here remember the Inhumanoids?
Lipstick Zombie yes, and Dan posted a video sometime ago on In The Photo Booth segment, I don’t remember exactly but he got one 🤔
Yes I do, shame the cartoon didn't last long.
@Asmin Siza Yeah, one of the shorter Sunbow animations but what it lacked in quantity it did make up for some of the most memorable scenes I've seen as a kid. Me crying my eyes out at the toy store because my parents can't afford to buy me D'compose is one of my most embarrassing childhood experiences >.
We'll cover it at some point.
I still have my VHS copies, but unfortunately I don't own a VCR anymore!
This has made my morning
You should do a history of Mattels Mad Scientist toy line from the late 80's. That was one of my all time favorite toylines as a kid.
Do you remember Dee Snider's (yes Twisted Sister!) toy line? Balzac, if I remember correctly, and they were a lot like these, only I think a little creepier and maybe stuff oozed out them, can't remember. They came out in the mid 90s and I just couldn't afford toys then but I really wanted them. If you haven't already could you please look into them? I think it would be an interesting episode.
They're coming back. I've seen them where I work
These always reminded me of "barnyard commando" toys as well. Have done a video on them already?
“Gross-out humor, scary monsters, and throwing things.”
This made me chuckle idk why
Not my favorite toy of all time, but you get a thumbs up for working in a Death Wish 4 clip! Bronson is the man.
I remember seeing similar toys that were just a bit bigger than marbles, this was in the early 2000s. I had one but I can't remember what they were. I clicked on this video hoping these were them but they only ever had these marble sized ones. It was around the same time Mighty Beanz were popular.
I think I had one do these, it was the action figure type and the head was just an eye ball.
I won Crack=Head at a Hallowe'en carnival once...that carnival had great prizes, as it was at a school where the principal's husband owned a dime store and that first year they had the carnival, they gave away a lot of older toys that they had sitting there for years, of which Mad Balls was one such example. That was a good year...
Holy crap. I had *completely* put these things out of my head.
I have two from a handful of years ago. I got them in a box subscription thing that went out of business.
I owned a few of these as a kid, so it was interesting that as I got older and got into the hardcore music scene that I found a band called Madball. Turns out folks, in New York hardcore scene gang lingo, a mad ball is a pool ball dropped into a sock and used as a weapon. True story.
I didn't know they were that old. I remember having the baseball one in like 2000/2001.
I was Mad Ball mad. I had the balls, the comics, and a couple of the action figures. The action figures were pretty awesome.
I'd say throwing rates a 3 normally, but at least 9 with Mad Balls.
Time was unkind to mine, they eventually turned to dust
Why is it that I can remember there actually being an animated series for this? I don't know why, but I do.
Sounds like a case of the Mandela effect.
I had the touchdown terror as a kid. Wonder if I still have it kicking around at my parents house.
And immediately after these came out they came out with mad balls action figures, as I vaguely recall the three wheeler trebuchet, that was actually fun throwing their heads at each other.
Bloody hell. I completely forgot about them. But when that "Escape from Orb" art showed up, I realised that I was seeing something that I hadn't seen in about 25 years
I had the eyeball character, it deteriorated rather quickly but the knock-off cyclops Mad Ball I got at a local fair somewhere in Illinois back in '86 was made of thick rubber and lasted a lot longer.
American Greetings made Ring Raiders, too? I'm impressed. Plus, can we get a History Of for Ring Raiders. I still remember the cartoon.
I think I still have the comic books buried in my closet somewhere! I definitely still have two madballs still in plastic in there.
I had almost all of them back in the day.
I had the (original) eyeball. It was wedged between the center of the dashboard and windshield of my car, staring out at the road for years.
One Christmas I received the cyclops Madball, his action figure, an action figure of the original eyeball and a vehicle-a trike with a catapult.
I remember they put me in some special class where we earned points to cash in for arcade tokens money or toys. This was my first prize and I loved it, thanks Andrea (my teachers) from shelburne vt
I might still have 2 Madballs masks. I loved Madballs back in the day
I just remembered Food Fighters this past weekend. Any chance of those getting a "History of" video?
@ToyGalaxy You should do a video on The Rock Lords, Rainbow Bright, and for the sake of redundancy possibly Tiger Sharks. BTW Love the Videos Guys!
I always remember the mummy madball. They would always get chunks ripped out of them!
I had a ball like this. I'm not sure if it was a Madball or not. Anyway I left it outside somewhere in the grass and I think it decomposed or something because now I can't find it. I didn't realize that would happen.
One of my friends was really into garbage pail kids, and he of course had the Mad Ball VHS tape. He put the tape in when me and middle brother were over by his house one time. Despite being Madballs, the cartoon was typical 80s cartoons fair. It was far more goofy than gross as they wanted to make sure it would work for a wider audience if got picked up.
Omg I forgot about the comics from Star/Marvel. Snobulous was always my favorite.
i loved the madballs animated shows so damn much
I still have a madball from my childhood, im shocked that its brains and still sealed inside after this many years
Anybody remember Slime Time? They were like Madballs, but they were watches. I remember the commercial so clearly and I remember seeing them at the store in the mid-80s. Maybe it was a Canadian thing, but I’ve never met anyone who knows what I’m talking about.
Also, I remember having the Madballs comics, they were pretty good...
Oh man I wish I still had these.
You know what would be a great video on the channel, the history of attack of the killer tomatoes, it was a movie and then animated series, kinda in the same way as toxic crusader.
I had Screaming Mimi as a kid. I also seen the "Gross Jokes" video.
Love madballs!!! Had a bunch of them and played madball dodgeball all the time! If you got pelted it didn't hurt as bad lol
I forgot akk about these things until i saw this. I have vague memories of seeing these things in the toy aisle as a kid but i never bothered with them. Weird cause they were right up my alley as i loved garbage pail kids.
I remember the print ad on the back of comic books from that time.
A childhood favorite a long with Bat Balls, Super Soakers and Tab Clear
This reminds me of"silly slammers" please do a history of those
Awesome toy line, reminded me of Garbage Pail Kids in ball form. Maybe you could cover Bogglins in a future video.
I think my Cousin had two of these when I was a kid in the early 90's? I remember it felt like soft rubber and they had a vehicle/catapult of some kind... That might be another line entirely, there were so many back then.
I had Slobulus as a kid - thought he was rad.
Madballs were awesome, though their paint would inevitably start chipping off and peeling away.