As always your reviews are tops in my book. Six Mill was basically neck and neck with Megos when I was a kid. But as a kid I actually never owned the repair station because my friends had one, so I played with theirs at their home while I collected the figures. In the 70's we didn't live in a culture that said parents got kids an entire line. You essentially had to pick what you considered was the cream of the crop and move on. But here's the funny part and I bet you'll get a good laugh out of this. Jump ahead some 25 years later when I'm assembling the playsets for my Six Mill collection. I got to looking at the X-ray machine and was perplexed why I never saw anyone selling the set with the graphics in the X-ray. It baffled me. I would see the graphics on kits in UK and Australia but not here in the states. I got to thinking maybe the US version just didn't have it. So I spent years thinking that way. Fast forward again to about five years ago. I come across a picture of the X-ray machine and I see this "glowing" effect around the graphic with a description stating it glowed in the dark. I initially thought to myself, " Great. The foreign graphics even glowed in the dark. Domestic Kenner sucks." So I'm sitting there thinking about it and how that graphic would look when it wasn't glowing. Then I suddenly stand up in shock. " Wait a minute!!" I go running downstairs to my collector room and go through my Repair station box and pull out the X-ray piece. I notice the surface has a reflective quality to it. So I hold it up under one of the overhang lights in the room for a minute thinking, " I swear if I'm right I'm just going to hang my head. " Sure enough, I cut off the lights and there's Steve's skull on the X-ray machine with the bionic eye graphic. " Wow!! I had it all along!" I just laughed. Here I had played with the thing as a kid. Had it as an adult and seen hundreds, if not thousands, of pics of the set and yet this ONE LONE PIC I tripped across actually mentioned the feature that honestly is understated in the commercial like a straight graphic and is never really talked about by collectors. So there you go. The great mystery of the Bionic Repair Station solved! I thought I would share that because I honestly agonized over it for years never realizing I actually had it. Sometimes your collection can teach you something new! Awesome video as always. Stay cool my friend.
I had this. 1975 or 1976? 5 or 6 years old. The Steve Austin figure that i had lifted the engine block. Used to watch this every week as a kid! Along with evil Knievel and action man i have great memories growing up in the 70's in south Wales,UK.
I have a photo of me with this in my garden, the box in the background. My parents bought it for me after a nasty trip to the dentist. We picked it up from this weird shop in 1983. Wish I'd kept it. Still got my bionic man, needs a leg repair though. I cleaned his clothes recently, came up a treat!
Bionic Transport is in great shape I still have my original was a very cool piece. Also have SMD Oscar Goldman and Maskatron. My Kenner Boba Fett also has an eye to look thru the bak of his head. The rubber arm covering on Steve Austin is disintegrating on mine. the industrial designers had fun being creative with this one for such a narrow footprint.
Great video. It really was a clever idea to make the rocket parts transform into operating table parts. Had lots of fun with mine in the 70's, and just found it in storage a few weeks ago, in good shape considering its age.
Was a brilliant idea by Kenner how they made the rocket etc..... companies today with technology in there favor can’t even come close to what Kenner did
I think the Hyperbaric Chamber section is inspired by the "The Pioneers" episode (S02E02) and the chamber with the cryogenically frozen astronauts inside the space capsule.
I recently sold a Bionic lot....Steve, Maskatron, Jamie, the white rocket thing, and some spare parts/crappy condition outfits. I'm a fan of the show, namely the Andre Bigfoot stuff, but always found the figures kind of lacking. Brittle plastic, not in scale with my Megos, and not very appealing to me. I did pass on a boxed/sealed Oscar a few years back, which I regret. They had him in an ocean of Barbies, priced at $20. Interesting video, though!
As always your reviews are tops in my book. Six Mill was basically neck and neck with Megos when I was a kid. But as a kid I actually never owned the repair station because my friends had one, so I played with theirs at their home while I collected the figures. In the 70's we didn't live in a culture that said parents got kids an entire line. You essentially had to pick what you considered was the cream of the crop and move on. But here's the funny part and I bet you'll get a good laugh out of this.
Jump ahead some 25 years later when I'm assembling the playsets for my Six Mill collection. I got to looking at the X-ray machine and was perplexed why I never saw anyone selling the set with the graphics in the X-ray. It baffled me. I would see the graphics on kits in UK and Australia but not here in the states. I got to thinking maybe the US version just didn't have it. So I spent years thinking that way. Fast forward again to about five years ago. I come across a picture of the X-ray machine and I see this "glowing" effect around the graphic with a description stating it glowed in the dark. I initially thought to myself, " Great. The foreign graphics even glowed in the dark. Domestic Kenner sucks."
So I'm sitting there thinking about it and how that graphic would look when it wasn't glowing. Then I suddenly stand up in shock. " Wait a minute!!" I go running downstairs to my collector room and go through my Repair station box and pull out the X-ray piece. I notice the surface has a reflective quality to it. So I hold it up under one of the overhang lights in the room for a minute thinking, " I swear if I'm right I'm just going to hang my head. " Sure enough, I cut off the lights and there's Steve's skull on the X-ray machine with the bionic eye graphic. " Wow!! I had it all along!" I just laughed. Here I had played with the thing as a kid. Had it as an adult and seen hundreds, if not thousands, of pics of the set and yet this ONE LONE PIC I tripped across actually mentioned the feature that honestly is understated in the commercial like a straight graphic and is never really talked about by collectors. So there you go.
The great mystery of the Bionic Repair Station solved! I thought I would share that because I honestly agonized over it for years never realizing I actually had it. Sometimes your collection can teach you something new! Awesome video as always. Stay cool my friend.
I had this. 1975 or 1976? 5 or 6 years old. The Steve Austin figure that i had lifted the engine block. Used to watch this every week as a kid! Along with evil Knievel and action man i have great memories growing up in the 70's in south Wales,UK.
Again, wonderfully produced and full of interesting content. I'll have to share, thank you for your great work!
I have a photo of me with this in my garden, the box in the background. My parents bought it for me after a nasty trip to the dentist. We picked it up from this weird shop in 1983. Wish I'd kept it. Still got my bionic man, needs a leg repair though. I cleaned his clothes recently, came up a treat!
Bionic Transport is in great shape I still have my original was a very cool piece. Also have SMD Oscar Goldman and Maskatron. My Kenner Boba Fett also has an eye to look thru the bak of his head. The rubber arm covering on Steve Austin is disintegrating on mine. the industrial designers had fun being creative with this one for such a narrow footprint.
very good.
Great video. It really was a clever idea to make the rocket parts transform into operating table parts. Had lots of fun with mine in the 70's, and just found it in storage a few weeks ago, in good shape considering its age.
Was a brilliant idea by Kenner how they made the rocket etc..... companies today with technology in there favor can’t even come close to what Kenner did
Nice Tee !
I had this as a kid.
I think the Hyperbaric Chamber section is inspired by the "The Pioneers" episode (S02E02) and the chamber with the cryogenically frozen astronauts inside the space capsule.
ah the memories, if u have done this u have to do evil knievel!
where did you buy that t-shirt ? So cool
Purchased it from Amazon.com about 10 years ago!
I recently sold a Bionic lot....Steve, Maskatron, Jamie, the white rocket thing, and some spare parts/crappy condition outfits. I'm a fan of the show, namely the Andre Bigfoot stuff, but always found the figures kind of lacking. Brittle plastic, not in scale with my Megos, and not very appealing to me.
I did pass on a boxed/sealed Oscar a few years back, which I regret. They had him in an ocean of Barbies, priced at $20.
Interesting video, though!
big foot and starbird!
Bigfoot is on his way me, as soon as he arrives I'll do the review.
but not complete, wheres the space ship to mars rocket and mars outfit.