My sister was 14 and obsessed with this movie when it came out and for that Christmas my parents bought her all toys and one day my sister walked by the tree and the Supreme commander went off and my sister turned to my parents and yelled YOU BOUGHT ME THE SUPRMEM COMMANDER....Christmas ruined. The best toy was the LA attack playset, it was pretty cool.
Well, to be fair Independence Day and it's god awful 2016 sequel were both really BAD, and the human figures are another example of terrible 90s action figure styling. The aliens are okay but I agree the human figures are a joke. No wonder the toys were peg warmers for years. I saw them at Toys R Us as late as 2004, a full 8 years after the first film was released and there was absolutely NO merchandise for the crappy sequel. Oh well, that's why there has been no third Indepdenance Day film.
I loved the aliens from the ID4 line. Trendmasters is notoriously bad with human characters: Independence Day, Godzilla 1998, Lost in Space, Battlestar Galactica, Battlefield Earth, you name it. The game discs were actually ambitious at the time, considering how commonplace apps are for today's toys. BTW, Trendmasters actually made prototypes for Dr. Okun and everyone's favorite drunken crop duster Russel. When TM made a second series, they focused on the aliens and skipped the human characters. I still say Trendmasters' Battlefield Earth is horrid enough to showcase, a series that suits the movie perfectly. There's even a figure set called "Johnny in the Learning Chair". No kid wants a bunch of alien Rob Zombie knock-offs and a hippy in a "learning chair"!
That David Levinson action figure looks like a nerdy buff Elvis whom is ready to consume copious amounts of deep fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches...🍌🥜🍞
I think a lot of post 80's movie action figures stop looking like the actors in the movies because of royalties asked by actors for having their face on them. After their managers found out how much money the Star Wars action figures made. That's why a lot of 90's and 2000's action figures ended up in the bargain bin.
It was also before face scanning. Nowadays the action figures look closer to the actors. Maybe actors nowadays accept more reasonable rolties as with the 90's they got nothing when compinies would make figures that don't look like them at all.
The floppy discs were a huge deal. Given how much PC games were selling for back then (59.99-75.99) to see any kind of computer software packed in with a 5.99 toy, you looked at it as a great value. The game itself was basic, but for a 9 year old I found it fun and enjoyable. I might still have one around somewhere. The aliens were extremely well detailed for a 1990's toyline and given the mechanics of that Surpreme Commander, really fun as well. The human characters sold less than the aliens and for good reason, you wanted the aliens to combat your other figures. I cannot tell you how many times the Megazord pounded some ID4 Alien butt, or how many times the Total Justice figures were called upon to neutralize that threat. With the humans pegwarming a proposed 2nd series was cancelled.
I had one of the alien toys when the movie came out. It was one of my favorite childhood movies! The tentacles were flexible and supposed to bend, they were rubber with wire inside like a pipe cleaner. Unfortunately, the wire in those things wears out and snaps, kind of cheap.
The Aliens were all I ever picked up from this line. But to be fair I was 2 years out of high school when they came out so my use for toys were not the same as a kids.
A year late, my older brother and I had so much fun playing with alien action figures more than the humans. Sadly we play so much in the mud, dirt, up on in the tree etc that we lose the tentacles often but always hot glue them back on. For the floppy disk, we didn't had a pc in house until years later early 2000s because we had lived in a low income housing and money was tight even doing yard work around the neighborhood for extra money. Overall had fun and there are many toys still in the ground in the old house 😄😄😄😄
Junkman if that little diorama on the left of your screen is supposed to represent fellow star wars characters/actors saying goodbye to Chewie then Leia shouldn't be there as she's already passed.
Trendmasters were the NECA of their day. Their human figures were never very good but they made great aliens, monsters and robots. ID4, Mars Attacks, Godzilla, Lost In Space. All great lines for the creatures and vehicles.
I still have almost everything in this toyline. Probably my favorite toys when I was a kid. Yes, half of my alien’s tentacles broke :(. So beautiful to remember my excitement playing with my plane and my alien ship. I was so proud to have with my Independence Day toys.
Obsessed with the ID4 line. I loved my Shocktrooper Alien with the lil translucent alien dude inside his shell. Had the floppy's too but since I didn't have a PC, I never got to play the games.
As someone mentioned below, those tentacles came off too easily.I also remember the alien transferring paint to my fingers. These issues severely dented any play value and longevity. The head looked cool.
@@ThatJunkman Really? I was in high school when they came out so I thought they were kinda silly. I wanted them because, well they're Aliens, but couldn't quite get over how they looked. Guess I was really looking for something that Neca ended up producing years later. (Which I still need to get by the way.) Anyway this is fun so keep em commin Junkman.
In my opinion, the play sets, vehicles and the electronic supreme commander and the best toys of the line to own. The supreme commander is really detailed and it’s awesome that’ll can open its head with the motion sensor on its chin. The Los Angeles playset is a fairly large size playset packed with a bunch of fun. With the included alien Attacker you can use the spring loaded missiles and shoot at the bases of the buildings, making it explode with surprise! And the vehicles, while they’re a bit too big to handle, they’re swishable to maneuver and the sounds that they emit from the buttons are really amusing. Some of the smaller alien figures are good, you get an action feature to manually open its head and reveal the host, although like you said, the tentacles do and will wear out over time, especially the hard plastic ones that stand up the figure. They will warp and make the figure stand uneven. Also when you open the head, you’ll want the host to stay in. Nope! They fall out. Also they’re too big to fit in the head so you have to ball them up. The human figures…. OH MY GOD!!! Don’t get me started on those toys. They are the worst, cheap looking figures ever! Will Smith’s character lols like Kanye West, Jeff Goldblum’s looks like Clark Kent, and Bill Pullman’s looks like a skinny John Goodman with straight hair. Overall the toys in the line is fairly alright with some expectations. I think the giant supreme commander toy is the best one out of all the toys.
Ik demolition man is next but do you think you can do treadmasters Godzilla line based on the 1998 movie? The human and vehicle toys do actually kinda blend with kenners lost world figures from a year before, they also made a bank that was like a big moving diorama when you put the coins in.
The ID4 aliens were and still are awesome af. I have four boxed ones. I prefer those 90s toys compared to now. Quality was a thing back then Look at Jurassic Park toys back then to now. Big difference
I've still got my Attacker Pilot displayed on one of my shelves and yes the tentacles had to be glued in and one of the support tentacles snapped..but it still looks cool the rest of the line was a joke.
I personally had the alien figures and I can agree the aliens were what I noticed first in stores. Yes, the aliens tentacles were notorious for falling out and had to be glued back in, and the wire in the small alien and tentacles would break when bent around too much.
Did anyone catch Han ,Luke , Leia and Lando mourning Chewbacca on the table , while Boba Fett disrespectfully plays a video game with his back turned ? Bounty hunters , we don't need their scum !
Ah I can't get past the spelling mistakes, Vaule(@7.20) and Packageing (@10.07). I loved the episode all the same. Must go check out previous episodes. 👍🏻
Wasn't this an r-rated movie, for violence? I remember seeing the figures in the store weeks before the movie came out, and wondered how they thought this movie was appropriate for making toys.
DON'T Forget the BEST figures ever, My Dinner With Andre action figures!!!! type in on TH-cam search engine "Waiting For Guffman - My Dinner with Andre action figures." You can have an hour of fun with them!!!!
"Trademasters"? I think you mean TRENDmasters. Wee bit of advice - if you're going to review a product or anything, put in enough research to know what company made the product, or at least learn how to pronounce the company's name properly so you actually seem credible as a reviewer.
For those series you nixed that only had one or two figures, you should consider doing a special showcasing a bunch of them. I would watch that. Great vid!
I still have my alien attack ship. It was in my opinion the best out of the collection along with my screaming alien.
Fancy selling it Cap'??
My sister was 14 and obsessed with this movie when it came out and for that Christmas my parents bought her all toys and one day my sister walked by the tree and the Supreme commander went off and my sister turned to my parents and yelled YOU BOUGHT ME THE SUPRMEM COMMANDER....Christmas ruined.
The best toy was the LA attack playset, it was pretty cool.
I still got talking alien
Well, to be fair Independence Day and it's god awful 2016 sequel were both really BAD, and the human figures are another example of terrible 90s action figure styling. The aliens are okay but I agree the human figures are a joke. No wonder the toys were peg warmers for years. I saw them at Toys R Us as late as 2004, a full 8 years after the first film was released and there was absolutely NO merchandise for the crappy sequel. Oh well, that's why there has been no third Indepdenance Day film.
I loved the aliens from the ID4 line. Trendmasters is notoriously bad with human characters: Independence Day, Godzilla 1998, Lost in Space, Battlestar Galactica, Battlefield Earth, you name it.
The game discs were actually ambitious at the time, considering how commonplace apps are for today's toys. BTW, Trendmasters actually made prototypes for Dr. Okun and everyone's favorite drunken crop duster Russel. When TM made a second series, they focused on the aliens and skipped the human characters.
I still say Trendmasters' Battlefield Earth is horrid enough to showcase, a series that suits the movie perfectly. There's even a figure set called "Johnny in the Learning Chair". No kid wants a bunch of alien Rob Zombie knock-offs and a hippy in a "learning chair"!
That David Levinson action figure looks like a nerdy buff Elvis whom is ready to consume copious amounts of deep fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches...🍌🥜🍞
I think a lot of post 80's movie action figures stop looking like the actors in the movies because of royalties asked by actors for having their face on them.
After their managers found out how much money the Star Wars action figures made. That's why a lot of 90's and 2000's action figures ended up in the bargain bin.
It was also before face scanning. Nowadays the action figures look closer to the actors. Maybe actors nowadays accept more reasonable rolties as with the 90's they got nothing when compinies would make figures that don't look like them at all.
They re-released the Jet Fighter as part of the Godzilla line.
Great episode! Love this series about failed movie-based figures. Can’t wait for the next one!
I saw this movie 7 times in the theater and still have it on VHS.
I had no idea they made ID4 figures
Actually strike that
I forgot they made figures
The floppy discs were a huge deal. Given how much PC games were selling for back then (59.99-75.99) to see any kind of computer software packed in with a 5.99 toy, you looked at it as a great value. The game itself was basic, but for a 9 year old I found it fun and enjoyable. I might still have one around somewhere. The aliens were extremely well detailed for a 1990's toyline and given the mechanics of that Surpreme Commander, really fun as well. The human characters sold less than the aliens and for good reason, you wanted the aliens to combat your other figures. I cannot tell you how many times the Megazord pounded some ID4 Alien butt, or how many times the Total Justice figures were called upon to neutralize that threat. With the humans pegwarming a proposed 2nd series was cancelled.
Hah that's nothing in the summer of 98 roland tembo fought Godzilla and the Mars attacks aliens teamed up with the ones from independence day xD
I could never get the smaller alien to fit in the larger body.
I had one of the alien toys when the movie came out. It was one of my favorite childhood movies! The tentacles were flexible and supposed to bend, they were rubber with wire inside like a pipe cleaner. Unfortunately, the wire in those things wears out and snaps, kind of cheap.
The Aliens were all I ever picked up from this line. But to be fair I was 2 years out of high school when they came out so my use for toys were not the same as a kids.
A year late, my older brother and I had so much fun playing with alien action figures more than the humans. Sadly we play so much in the mud, dirt, up on in the tree etc that we lose the tentacles often but always hot glue them back on. For the floppy disk, we didn't had a pc in house until years later early 2000s because we had lived in a low income housing and money was tight even doing yard work around the neighborhood for extra money. Overall had fun and there are many toys still in the ground in the old house 😄😄😄😄
Junkman if that little diorama on the left of your screen is supposed to represent fellow star wars characters/actors saying goodbye to Chewie then Leia shouldn't be there as she's already passed.
Trendmasters were the NECA of their day. Their human figures were never very good but they made great aliens, monsters and robots. ID4, Mars Attacks, Godzilla, Lost In Space. All great lines for the creatures and vehicles.
Another great entry into this very enjoyable series.
I remember I always wanted one of those aliens with the suit!
It's awesome that the Giant Alien Commander or whatever figure basically inspired it to make its debut in ID2
Junkman...Where do you rate the Robin Hood 1991 figure line? I like them because I did like that movie but LOVE Kenner. Great video series!
Love them and to be they are the end of the old era
i didn't know they made toys from this film. In 1996 I was done with toys but never saw these avertised or on shelves
I still have almost everything in this toyline. Probably my favorite toys when I was a kid. Yes, half of my alien’s tentacles broke :(. So beautiful to remember my excitement playing with my plane and my alien ship. I was so proud to have with my Independence Day toys.
Obsessed with the ID4 line. I loved my Shocktrooper Alien with the lil translucent alien dude inside his shell. Had the floppy's too but since I didn't have a PC, I never got to play the games.
As someone mentioned below, those tentacles came off too easily.I also remember the alien transferring paint to my fingers. These issues severely dented any play value and longevity. The head looked cool.
Do the 90's Aliens toys.
Why? They are great :)
@@ThatJunkman Really? I was in high school when they came out so I thought they were kinda silly. I wanted them because, well they're Aliens, but couldn't quite get over how they looked. Guess I was really looking for something that Neca ended up producing years later. (Which I still need to get by the way.)
Anyway this is fun so keep em commin Junkman.
In my opinion, the play sets, vehicles and the electronic supreme commander and the best toys of the line to own. The supreme commander is really detailed and it’s awesome that’ll can open its head with the motion sensor on its chin. The Los Angeles playset is a fairly large size playset packed with a bunch of fun. With the included alien Attacker you can use the spring loaded missiles and shoot at the bases of the buildings, making it explode with surprise! And the vehicles, while they’re a bit too big to handle, they’re swishable to maneuver and the sounds that they emit from the buttons are really amusing.
Some of the smaller alien figures are good, you get an action feature to manually open its head and reveal the host, although like you said, the tentacles do and will wear out over time, especially the hard plastic ones that stand up the figure. They will warp and make the figure stand uneven. Also when you open the head, you’ll want the host to stay in. Nope! They fall out. Also they’re too big to fit in the head so you have to ball them up.
The human figures…. OH MY GOD!!! Don’t get me started on those toys. They are the worst, cheap looking figures ever! Will Smith’s character lols like Kanye West, Jeff Goldblum’s looks like Clark Kent, and Bill Pullman’s looks like a skinny John Goodman with straight hair.
Overall the toys in the line is fairly alright with some expectations. I think the giant supreme commander toy is the best one out of all the toys.
Virus or Congo
Using the theme from The Rock at the end of the trailer footage.... I never realised that before.
The tentacles are supposed to bend. They have a wire inside so they can be posed all around.
There were some good figures like the aliens, the ships and even some of the humans like Thomas Withmore and David Levinson.
Ik demolition man is next but do you think you can do treadmasters Godzilla line based on the 1998 movie? The human and vehicle toys do actually kinda blend with kenners lost world figures from a year before, they also made a bank that was like a big moving diorama when you put the coins in.
It could be. It is a bad line but wouldn’t call it a good movie :)
ID4 goes down in the bottom of the barrel with attack of the clones. I love the supreme alien commander figure.
The ID4 aliens were and still are awesome af. I have four boxed ones.
I prefer those 90s toys compared to now. Quality was a thing back then
Look at Jurassic Park toys back then to now. Big difference
I've still got my Attacker Pilot displayed on one of my shelves and yes the tentacles had to be glued in and one of the support tentacles snapped..but it still looks cool the rest of the line was a joke.
I personally had the alien figures and I can agree the aliens were what I noticed first in stores. Yes, the aliens tentacles were notorious for falling out and had to be glued back in, and the wire in the small alien and tentacles would break when bent around too much.
It’s not the worst.
I thought the toys came from Kenner.
I had the alien fighter ship with lights and sounds.
I have the fa18 the detail is pretty decent
Did anyone catch Han ,Luke , Leia and Lando mourning Chewbacca on the table , while Boba Fett disrespectfully plays a video game with his back turned ?
Bounty hunters , we don't need their scum !
I still have my Supreme Commander In The Box and it still still works and I have the model version of the attacker
NNoooooo. Just Star Wars... More Star Wars....
Ah I can't get past the spelling mistakes, Vaule(@7.20) and Packageing (@10.07).
I loved the episode all the same. Must go check out previous episodes. 👍🏻
You should go with the van Hellsing toy line
i am keeping it pre-2000 but that is a bad one
@@ThatJunkman okay, I'll keep thinking about it.
They kinda look like some Jurrasic Park toys. Well the human action figure
have you ever seen the f 18 hornet ? is it the same scale as skystriker gi joe ?
Yes I believe so
@@ThatJunkman thanks that Can be a great diorama addition !
These were really bad. The floppy disk would be the most interesting aspect. Still not as lame as a Rose Tico character though!!
I reccomend you the action figures for The Flintstones live action movie for the 90s, it was a succesfull movie with toys even worse that Battle Earth
yes that was a bad one for sure
Again, the film may be worse than the toys.
Wasn't this an r-rated movie, for violence? I remember seeing the figures in the store weeks before the movie came out, and wondered how they thought this movie was appropriate for making toys.
PG-13 not R
What the hell are you doing to Chewie?
I still have one of aliens
I had that huge alien
Presentation 5 out of 5
Analysis of the toys 5 out of 5
Spelling 1 out of 5
Demolition Man , LOL
DON'T Forget the BEST figures ever, My Dinner With Andre action figures!!!!
type in on TH-cam search engine "Waiting For Guffman - My Dinner with Andre action figures."
You can have an hour of fun with them!!!!
Don't forget the Philadelphia action figures!
www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/philadelphia-action-figures/2868164
God that was a pimpin movie and time!
I remember wanting will smith and the alien battle playset
I heard the PC game they all came with super buggy and glitchy
"vaule"
The Playstation 1 game sucked too lol
Those are bad. Take a look at xfiles the movie toy line... sweet baby geebus they are bad
Junkman 😁
"Trademasters"? I think you mean TRENDmasters. Wee bit of advice - if you're going to review a product or anything, put in enough research to know what company made the product, or at least learn how to pronounce the company's name properly so you actually seem credible as a reviewer.
For those series you nixed that only had one or two figures, you should consider doing a special showcasing a bunch of them. I would watch that. Great vid!
Good idea!