Pound Puppies were in no way obscure. They were very popular along with Garbage Pail Kids. Hell GPK even had a movie and PP were popular enough that they were remade in the 2000s.
Yeah, if you want obscure how about Pound Purries. If they had gone the alternate route with S's instead of R's, it would have been the most awesomest toy ever.
1.Bandai Tacky Stretchoid Warriors 2. Dragon Riders of Styx 3.The Other World 4.Legions of Power 5. Spinjas 6. Tonka Steel Monsters 7. Gobots Dread Launchers Can anyone beat this? These are sorta obscure but mostly it's a list of names I forgot.
most of these were not REMOTELY obscure. half of them were paired with cartoons, one was paired with a major release movie. It bombed, but still, hardly obscure.
I has a few of the Rock Lords & the Gobots movie flopped at the box office too So that was one that killed the Gobots line Muscle Men even had a NES game too Pound Puppies had a Sat Morn toon too
Transformers being much more popular is what killed the Gobots. Ironically Hasbro bought out Tonka so owns part of the rights to Gobots now. It's MUSCLE not Musclemen (Kinnikuman in Japan, not whatever the hell he said it was), and it was revived as Ultimate MUSCLE which had GameCube and PS2 games and a Sat morn toon.
I still have a small box crammed full of M.U.S.C.L.E. figures... I love those weird things! STill mean to create a wall display for 'em someday. ALso have a tattered copy of the poster you could send away for that showed them all. Wish I had bought the little wrestling ring...
I have no idea about Fluffit, never saw it growing up, but I still have a box of MUSCLE men! I use to take old shoe boxes and make wresting rings out of them, back in the 80s. :)
I had No Idea Booglins were an 80s thing. When I saw them in the toy stores and seeing the ads on TV we were alread totally in the 90s :O I thought they were pretty cool. They had a 80s fantasy movie monster kind of look and were perfect to shoot your own movies with and making horror movies.
They brought them back around the turn of the century, but they were more like real action figures, not the little pink (later other solid colors) non articulated things. www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Muscle-Kinnikuman-Legacy-Mantaro/dp/B00470Q5MG
I remember some of these... And I was a 2000s kid ;3 I didn't have any though, it was all through VHS exposure and my own fascination with kids stuff from before I was born...
Crack-ups are another good example. These cars would become "bashed-up" if another car collided with a particular area, but then you'd just rotate the bottom half of it upwards until it clicked, and it appeared to be new again. It wasn't much more than a thin metal car with one or two strings and the "cracked-up" part on the bottom of the car where you couldn't see it. Eventually, the rotating piece wouldn't lock in place anymore, and the car would look "cracked up" all the time. The toys fizzled out after about three years, and it never re-emerged for a second round ... unless it was under a different name?
I had Pound Puppies in the 80s, and I loved them! I think I still have them in my parents' basement. They were right up there with My Little Ponies as my favorite toys as a kid. I was never into Barbies or Cabbage Patch dolls (though I did have an orphanage playset for Cabbage Patch that I played with for HOURS). If you want the really obscure, you should try Wuzzles (animal hybrids) or Popples (dolls you can roll into a ball, which have made a comeback recently). I barely remember them apart from the merchandise I think I still have.
Okay...Cool Shades could totally make a comeback. This is the first I've ever seen of them, and I could see the whole dayglow thing coming back and being accentuated with the comeback of Cool Shades.
I also had a few of the Captain Power toys, as well as the video game for Commodore 64. Those were awesome toys, and a great early side scrolling shooter game on the C64!
When I first heard about the Garbage Pail Kids, my initial reaction was that they seemed like a silly spoof on the Cabbage Patch Kids, and even then, they didn't appeal to me.
none of these were that obscure... well maybe except for the rock lords and cool shades maybe, I had not heard of those before. I remember, at least in my area, garbage pail kids and pound puppies where pretty popular with the boys in school and cousins.
Man I'm glad I grew up in the sixties and seventies. These toys just plain suck. Back when I was a kid we get cool toys, that might possibly kill you. But at least they were fun.
Most of these were fairly well known, and especially Garbage pail kids where I doubt you'd find anyone who was a kid or parent of a kid in the 80s that hasn't heard of them.
AHHH! I had completely forgotten about Rock Lords! for some reason I don't think they were called that here in the US, but they were definitely still here. Maybe they were called that...I dunno but I remember them and how they never transformed back into their rock shape perfectly after the first time you played with them
I still have a Rock Lord somewhere about. I found it lying in the street when I was in my 20s or 30s (which would have been the 80s now I think about it). I was just staggered that someonne could come up with such a bizarre concept, a metallic green rock that opened out into some kind of pterodactyl type thing.......
yeah, Pound Puppies were insanely popular. Most kids or familiies had at least one. They even had a cartoon based on the property. Same thing with Garbage Pail Kids. If it gets a major movie in the 80's... it wasn't obscure.
Lol, what no Madballs? If you really want obscure, did you ever own any Supernaturals, or Starriors? How about a Manglor? Robotix? Ever have a rock come alive and eat a poor little mordle? Shoot desperately at Soaron to save Captain Power? Get a Dragonflyer and Dargon for Christmas? Heh, I could devote an entire channel to this.
I was one of the biggest GPK fans in the 80s. I even went to see the movie. I wouldn't call them obscure, most kids had at least a few of these cards, but probably not the 1200 or so I had.
Pound Puppies were very popular in Brazil until late 90's! Here's it was called "Cachorro Sniff" (Sniff Dog) and was imported by a very popular Brazilian company called "Estrela", the same guys who started a joint venture (Playtronic) to bring Nintendo consoles and games in the Super Nintendo era.
born in 81 I had all this stuff, though not mentioned I miss battle beasts the most. but I loved my gold rock Lord, second only to the copper kid toy from silver hawks.
You want an obscure toyline? Dinosaucers. Yes, most people remember the cartoon, but what they probably don't know about is the toys. Galoob had figures and playsets all ready for mass manufacture, but just dropped the whole thing for some reason. Some of the large figure only ever saw release in Brazil and I think there were some painted miniature figurines elsewhere, but that's about it.
I can't remember Fluffits at all. But I certainly remember Muscle Men. I wonder how many different designs there actually were, because I don't remember ever getting any repeats. A toy I used to collect which few people seem to remember were Action Jacks - cheap little figures with loads of accessories, and each figure had a different job/theme, such as police, fireman, doctor etc. The real novelty was that if you pulled his head off, the whole body fell to pieces. Bwahahaha!
My brother and I had rock lords. We usually ended up just throwing them at each other. It hurt. Probably could have sold them if we never broke them, lolz.
I vaguely remember a toyline that features soldiers wearing boxes over their bodies and that the rangers combine to form a tank while the marines combine to form a helicopter. Any idea of its name?
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I had that little golden nugget Rocklord as a kid! I can't remember where I got it, I put it in with my Transformers. It was actually better quality, had metal parts etc.
Does anyone remember Slime? It comes in a little plastic trash can with worms inside the slime. You can also put it in your hands and make fart noises with it. It was fun, disgusting yes, but still fun.
I don't remember the first thing...rock robots, or whatever. I was all about my Transformers and Voltron. I had tons of Garbage Pale Kids cards. I got really into collecting them...remove the stickers, I think not. I remember the Pound Puppies but, I'm a guy so I didn't really get into them. Now Care Bears....I mean, nope never had any of those. Never had the Care Animals from the movies either. Did I say movies...err, so I heard. Yes, yes, that will do nicely! ;)
chainsaw barbarian I think it was English.Here in the US we had "puff paint" it was in a tube with a ball point tip. You wrote,painted whatever with it and it puffed up!
dont think you know what the word obscure means. Four of these were huge. GBK even had a movie, pp had a cartoon series, and muscle had a comic book by Marvel i believe
All I kept thinking about with the shades was Hollywood Monstrose from "Mannequin". Anyone who remembers that movie will know what I'm talking about. Anyone else, google it. :)
Seriously, most of these toys were not obscure. Boglins and cool shades were stupid though so I never had them, had everything else though. Here's obscure, remember army ants??
I had a cousin that had all the Starwars shit and I mean all. he also had these cool robot like action figures with semi interchangeable parts, weapons and other attachments called Micronauts. obviously we played at his house a lot LOL
Obscure 80s would be stuff like Neon Leon, Crystar, and Mad Ballz. I think most of the stuff you listed was pretty popular (at least in the states)
So were the ones you listed, Crystar and Mad Ballz even had Marvel Comics adaptions.
Hell yea mad ballz miss those damn things
Pound Puppies were in no way obscure. They were very popular along with Garbage Pail Kids. Hell GPK even had a movie and PP were popular enough that they were remade in the 2000s.
Pound Puppies also had a movie
J Smith Yeah they had Legend of the Big Paw. I was referring to a live action film rather than a cartoon. But I appreciate your input.
I had all but 4 and 1. I was born in 1982 and live in america.
They are obscure now.
Yeah, if you want obscure how about Pound Purries. If they had gone the alternate route with S's instead of R's, it would have been the most awesomest toy ever.
Non of these are obscure if you grew up in the 80's.
Nope
Exactly what I said bud I had most of them I hate TH-camrs using clickbait titles like that
Was thinking the same thing. The only thing on this list I had never heard of was Fluffits
1.Bandai Tacky Stretchoid Warriors 2. Dragon Riders of Styx 3.The Other World 4.Legions of Power 5. Spinjas 6. Tonka Steel Monsters 7. Gobots Dread Launchers
Can anyone beat this? These are sorta obscure but mostly it's a list of names I forgot.
Watching this makes me feel old.
Stuff like this makes me really miss the 80's.
Also loved Rocklords, GPK stickers, Boglins, & yes, even owned a Pound puppy at one time. Thank you so much for the nostalgia.
most of these were not REMOTELY obscure. half of them were paired with cartoons, one was paired with a major release movie. It bombed, but still, hardly obscure.
army ants, barnyard commandos, battle beasts, centurions, Dino riders, my pet monsters
I has a few of the Rock Lords & the Gobots movie flopped at the box office too So that was one that killed the Gobots line
Muscle Men even had a NES game too
Pound Puppies had a Sat Morn toon too
Transformers being much more popular is what killed the Gobots. Ironically Hasbro bought out Tonka so owns part of the rights to Gobots now.
It's MUSCLE not Musclemen (Kinnikuman in Japan, not whatever the hell he said it was), and it was revived as Ultimate MUSCLE which had GameCube and PS2 games and a Sat morn toon.
I still have a small box crammed full of M.U.S.C.L.E. figures... I love those weird things! STill mean to create a wall display for 'em someday. ALso have a tattered copy of the poster you could send away for that showed them all. Wish I had bought the little wrestling ring...
I have no idea about Fluffit, never saw it growing up, but I still have a box of MUSCLE men! I use to take old shoe boxes and make wresting rings out of them, back in the 80s. :)
Still have the entire Boglin collection sitting on a few shelves in my living room to scare my landlady
Born in '89.God I love these 80's movies you talk about.
I had No Idea Booglins were an 80s thing. When I saw them in the toy stores and seeing the ads on TV we were alread totally in the 90s :O I thought they were pretty cool. They had a 80s fantasy movie monster kind of look and were perfect to shoot your own movies with and making horror movies.
I miss the Muscles the most out of all these toys...they were awesome! They should bring them back, too. 💪
They brought them back around the turn of the century, but they were more like real action figures, not the little pink (later other solid colors) non articulated things.
www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Muscle-Kinnikuman-Legacy-Mantaro/dp/B00470Q5MG
Were any of these really obscure? I had them all and I was born in 1990.
I was given a hand me down Rock Lord as a young child. 25 years later I finally know what the darn thing was.
omfg those sunglasses reminded me of how at the end of the 80's you could NOT find any sunglasses without neon shit on the sides
Garbage Pail Kids were far from obscure, as were Pound Puppies here in New England.
I had a Pound Puppy and my sister had a Pound Purry. My mother still has the pound puppy. I can't believe its 30+ years old.
I remember some of these... And I was a 2000s kid ;3
I didn't have any though, it was all through VHS exposure and my own fascination with kids stuff from before I was born...
What no Battle Beasts or Army Ants?
Drunk Savage YES!!! I loved both of those as well.
I was expecting Army Ants too.
Or Food Fighters?
Food Fighters were awesome
Ya those were great and were more obscure than what's mentioned in the video
I still have my Boglin - Drool - on my shelf of awesomeness! Great vid mate!
Crack-ups are another good example. These cars would become "bashed-up" if another car collided with a particular area, but then you'd just rotate the bottom half of it upwards until it clicked, and it appeared to be new again. It wasn't much more than a thin metal car with one or two strings and the "cracked-up" part on the bottom of the car where you couldn't see it. Eventually, the rotating piece wouldn't lock in place anymore, and the car would look "cracked up" all the time. The toys fizzled out after about three years, and it never re-emerged for a second round ... unless it was under a different name?
I had Pound Puppies in the 80s, and I loved them! I think I still have them in my parents' basement. They were right up there with My Little Ponies as my favorite toys as a kid. I was never into Barbies or Cabbage Patch dolls (though I did have an orphanage playset for Cabbage Patch that I played with for HOURS). If you want the really obscure, you should try Wuzzles (animal hybrids) or Popples (dolls you can roll into a ball, which have made a comeback recently). I barely remember them apart from the merchandise I think I still have.
Okay...Cool Shades could totally make a comeback. This is the first I've ever seen of them, and I could see the whole dayglow thing coming back and being accentuated with the comeback of Cool Shades.
I also had a few of the Captain Power toys, as well as the video game for Commodore 64. Those were awesome toys, and a great early side scrolling shooter game on the C64!
Pound puppies and garbage pail kids were popular as hell.
I totally had a Rock Lord and one of those Boglin things. I remember they came in a little box with bars on it, similar to the Pound Puppy actually.
When I first heard about the Garbage Pail Kids, my initial reaction was that they seemed like a silly spoof on the Cabbage Patch Kids, and even then, they didn't appeal to me.
I remember throwing a the toy rock form at a kid and been told on, to which I said "But teacher, we were played in rock Lords!"
I had Musclemen, a Rocklord toy, and Garbage Pale Kids cards which my mom threw in the garbage.
Fluffits is the only one I didn't recognize. Ah, the 80s! How I miss thee!
I had a bunch of M.U.S.C.L.E figures and Garbage Pail Kids cards.
other than whatever fluffits are, I had all of these.
Rock lords were my fav toys at the time. Awesome concept.
Random fun fact: None of these, except for Boglins and Pound Puppies, were present in 80s Germany
none of these were that obscure... well maybe except for the rock lords and cool shades maybe, I had not heard of those before.
I remember, at least in my area, garbage pail kids and pound puppies where pretty popular with the boys in school and cousins.
Pound Puppies and Garbage Pail Kits were roughly as obscure as wet water in the ocean.
Man I'm glad I grew up in the sixties and seventies. These toys just plain suck. Back when I was a kid we get cool toys, that might possibly kill you. But at least they were fun.
You could find most of this stuff at any halfway decent toy shop in the 80's and early 90's.
I was crazy about garbage pail kids!! Man I miss the 80's
Most of these were fairly well known, and especially Garbage pail kids where I doubt you'd find anyone who was a kid or parent of a kid in the 80s that hasn't heard of them.
If Garbage Pail Kids "Were everywhere" they weren't obscure then were they.
I loved the muscle toys, I had the champion belt that doubled as a ring too. And the boglins were amazing toys.
These were not obscure. I had all of these except for "cool shades" and "fluffits"
I had a ton of Garbage Pail Kids when I was a kid. I had whole series of them. I don't recall any of them having any kind of certificate though.
AHHH! I had completely forgotten about Rock Lords! for some reason I don't think they were called that here in the US, but they were definitely still here. Maybe they were called that...I dunno but I remember them and how they never transformed back into their rock shape perfectly after the first time you played with them
I still have a Rock Lord somewhere about. I found it lying in the street when I was in my 20s or 30s (which would have been the 80s now I think about it). I was just staggered that someonne could come up with such a bizarre concept, a metallic green rock that opened out into some kind of pterodactyl type thing.......
yeah, Pound Puppies were insanely popular. Most kids or familiies had at least one. They even had a cartoon based on the property. Same thing with Garbage Pail Kids. If it gets a major movie in the 80's... it wasn't obscure.
Lol, what no Madballs? If you really want obscure, did you ever own any Supernaturals, or Starriors? How about a Manglor? Robotix?
Ever have a rock come alive and eat a poor little mordle? Shoot desperately at Soaron to save Captain Power? Get a Dragonflyer and Dargon for Christmas?
Heh, I could devote an entire channel to this.
Not one single toy in that list is obscure! If you grew up in the 80’s, those toys were very common...what a terrible list
I loved most of these toys as a kid and still do. Still have a huge collection of muscle men & would like to complete it someday.
I was one of the biggest GPK fans in the 80s. I even went to see the movie. I wouldn't call them obscure, most kids had at least a few of these cards, but probably not the 1200 or so I had.
Pound Puppies were very popular in Brazil until late 90's! Here's it was called "Cachorro Sniff" (Sniff Dog) and was imported by a very popular Brazilian company called "Estrela", the same guys who started a joint venture (Playtronic) to bring Nintendo consoles and games in the Super Nintendo era.
born in 81 I had all this stuff, though not mentioned I miss battle beasts the most. but I loved my gold rock Lord, second only to the copper kid toy from silver hawks.
I find the most obscure 80's toy was "Contrux". I was obsessed with them and I have yet to meet anyone who's even heard if them
Kneon Knight Oh WOW! Cool, thanks
You want an obscure toyline? Dinosaucers. Yes, most people remember the cartoon, but what they probably don't know about is the toys. Galoob had figures and playsets all ready for mass manufacture, but just dropped the whole thing for some reason. Some of the large figure only ever saw release in Brazil and I think there were some painted miniature figurines elsewhere, but that's about it.
None of those were obscure. EVERYONE had shitloads of muscle men
I can't remember Fluffits at all. But I certainly remember Muscle Men. I wonder how many different designs there actually were, because I don't remember ever getting any repeats.
A toy I used to collect which few people seem to remember were Action Jacks - cheap little figures with loads of accessories, and each figure had a different job/theme, such as police, fireman, doctor etc. The real novelty was that if you pulled his head off, the whole body fell to pieces. Bwahahaha!
My brother and I had rock lords. We usually ended up just throwing them at each other. It hurt. Probably could have sold them if we never broke them, lolz.
I vaguely remember a toyline that features soldiers wearing boxes over their bodies and that the rangers combine to form a tank while the marines combine to form a helicopter. Any idea of its name?
So the only real toys in this video we're not obscure at all. And the two non toy items were super random.
Pound Puppies used to be Bully's prize board! Listen to Tony, settle in...
Most of these are totally not obscure. I recognize most of them and owned some of them.
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-The Trusty Butter Knife
I had 5 of these. The Fluffit T-Shirt thing and Pound Puppy's I didn't own
I still have 2 of my Pound Puppies, the large and small ones.
I had that little golden nugget Rocklord as a kid! I can't remember where I got it, I put it in with my Transformers. It was actually better quality, had metal parts etc.
I had a Boglin. It was awesome.
Those Boglins looked great though.
I am pretty sure that Muscle had an anime adaptation in the 2000's called Ultimate Muscle.
These are kind of well known toys. I notice that Bogglin collecting is mostly something TH-camrs do. Weird.
Does anyone remember Slime? It comes in a little plastic trash can with worms inside the slime. You can also put it in your hands and make fart noises with it. It was fun, disgusting yes, but still fun.
MUSCLE had a 10 pack of random figures that came in the same exact trash can! no slime tho
ah so thats what my silver rock toy thing is
I don't remember the first thing...rock robots, or whatever. I was all about my Transformers and Voltron. I had tons of Garbage Pale Kids cards. I got really into collecting them...remove the stickers, I think not. I remember the Pound Puppies but, I'm a guy so I didn't really get into them. Now Care Bears....I mean, nope never had any of those. Never had the Care Animals from the movies either. Did I say movies...err, so I heard. Yes, yes, that will do nicely! ;)
fun...but these were not obscure in the least. they were all extremely popular. maybe that Fluffit thing is kind if ibscure,ha!. i dont know that one
chainsaw barbarian I Agree on both points
chainsaw barbarian I think it was English.Here in the US we had "puff paint" it was in a tube with a ball point tip. You wrote,painted whatever with it and it puffed up!
Yeah, total clickbait title. Everyone had one or two of these, except for the Fluffits.
I had the Musclemen and garbage pail kids..I remember pounď puppies were huge!
MUSCLE was the fucking SHIT. They were so cool. I have a few somewhere...
Garbage Pail Kids are STILL in stores. Just Saiyan.
dont think you know what the word obscure means. Four of these were huge. GBK even had a movie, pp had a cartoon series, and muscle had a comic book by Marvel i believe
Awesome nostalgia trip mate.
Nowaday’s ,these things are obscure,haha.
Never heard of these. but I wish I'd had Boglins!. I just wish! That would have been great!
Oh Pound Puppies! That's the term we use for......wait......never mind.
Thanks for the video. I forgot about Musclemen.
I had all apart from fluffits and pound puppies!
I had Fluffits - they never really worked.
A great blast from the past
Jesus I had em all except the shirt markers and sunglasses .
I use to pester my mom to buy me muscle men not knowing about Ultimate muscle
These has to be some brittish things, i can't remember single one of these.
Cool Shades would only be considered "cool" if you were some weirdo disc jockey in a quasi futuristic jumpsuit.
Also, you forgot about Barnyard Commandoes.
All I kept thinking about with the shades was Hollywood Monstrose from "Mannequin". Anyone who remembers that movie will know what I'm talking about. Anyone else, google it. :)
Chris McWilliams You beat me to it. I was going to mention that movie too.
Opaque Visions Yeah, I used to love that movie. Had it on VHS and watched it so much I wore it out. :)
FLuffits and Cool Shades are the only remotely obscure things. Do your research unless you want to be click bait like Buzzfeed.
A Welsh ad before to feature nice I remember all that makes me old
Still got my garbage pail kids in the closet
The background music is really familiar but i cant remember what it is and it's driving me crazy
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.
Seriously, most of these toys were not obscure. Boglins and cool shades were stupid though so I never had them, had everything else though. Here's obscure, remember army ants??
I had a cousin that had all the Starwars shit and I mean all. he also had these cool robot like action figures with semi interchangeable parts, weapons and other attachments called Micronauts. obviously we played at his house a lot LOL
Yep we walk the toy isle now and the toys are so lame.. we haven't had any new action figure lines in years..