Good to see that Funtastic logo on the card. I live here in Houston, and they have at least one store/distribution center here on a street called Harwin, which is like the bootleg everything capitol of the world. Back in my "buy all the bootleg versions of stuff" phase, it was an absolute treasure trove of non-stop goldmines. Entire shopping centers dedicated to the craft, on a street that is still thriving to this day. Sure, there's all the boring knock off perfume and handbag/purses shops, along with furniture and everything else under the sun, but the MULTITUDE of toy shops were the obvious stores of choice for this thing- though every shop seemingly had at least a corner dedicated to this crap. Nice to see that you could get a hold of that stuff up there, though I'm sure you could've got it off ebay, but that's beside the point. Thanks for bringing a smile to the ol' face.
"Alien Terminator" was also the name of a knockoff Transformers Alternators figure covered by Thew Adams, only with "Robot Car Changer" written after it's name.
Tareltonlives It very well could be, as Darth Twinkle Eyes would invade Equestria with all his army Chinese knock-offs and horrid use of cheap plastic and pointless LEDs.
+Tareltonlives wouldn't be surprised, hell I wouldn't be surprised if they get Peter caplaldi to play a character that lives in a blue house outside of ponyvillie
im not sure if you called him gavin or gavan in that ending script, but itd be pretty cool if it were the latter considering robocops ties to metal heroes gavan.
Now I'm just imagining a tiny white vader conscience and tiny black vader doppleganger on his shoulder whenever he has to make decisions "You know, Palpatine is just going to kill you and take Luke as his new apprentice, you should just kill Luke now" "But he's your son! You can't do that!"
Those figures bare more of a resemblance to Baron Karza and Force Commander. From the classic Takara Microman toy line. In North American the line was known as Micronauts and was marketed by Mego.
I bought the Gundam one and Dark Vader for $2.50 +tax yesterday I'm going back today for the white version Great review and Thanks you got me hooked on hunting bootleg toys!
Another great video, Phelan. Oh, well, at least they tried! Funtastic sells their shit at Poundland over in the UK. Please review the bootleg items Ashens reviewed. Just the ones he's reviewed that you haven't yet. You need to review more Funtastic items and more Ninja Turtles bootlegs.
The Space Defender variant card "gas masky storm trooper" is a character from the video game Killzone. I know I'm late to the game on this but I'm trying to catch up. Love your videos! I tell everyone I know about them!
After some searching through my memory and the Gundam wiki, that "Robots Lazerbot" Gundam bootleg seems to be based on the ZGMF-X56S Impulse Gundam from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (a series that started in 2004 in Japan, giving us an earliest date for that particular bootleg), but the face looks deformed or modified (probably simplified for ease of production and being less recognizable) and the torso looks slightly modified. If the size of the card is comparable to the cards yours are on, it looks bigger than the 1/144 scale High Grade models (the most common size), which in the Impulse's case (doing some division and unit conversions from the Impulse's 17.76 metre fictional height) would be about 4.8 inches tall, so it might be molded from a larger 1/100 scale Master Grade model (the first MG model of the Impulse was put out in 2008, possibly giving us an even more recent earliest date), which would be about 7 inches tall. I'm not a great judge of size or distance, though. The robot being shot on the card art looks like a composite of screen grabs (or redraws) of multiple different mobile suits, primarily the torso and left arm of what my best guess is the RX-77-2 Guncannon from the original Mobile Suit Gundam.
I do believe white armor was considered for Darth Vader at one point. I actually had a dream where a white Darth Vader was a champion of good and fought his evil counterpart.
+Tareltonlives There's a What If style comic, called Infinities, for Star Wars. In the ROTJ version, both Vader and the Emperor survive, and Vader joins the rebels and gets white armor. And they did make a toy of that.
I own the funtastic ROBOTS LAZERBOTS gundum knockoff. But I own a silver and black version. I also have ROBOTS ROBO-FORCE, which copies the autobot symbol exactly. and ROBOTS COVERTI-BOT. Which is knockoffs of random transformer figures.
2:23 Did you know (or care) that Darkhorse made an alternate ending to Return of the Jedi? Vader and The Emperor survive, Han is permanently blind, and Vader now has white armor! ...Pointless.
i bought the black one from some cheap 99c store when i was a stupid kid caus i thought it was a transformers i found it in my a few years lator and the back of the torso is completly gone and he has no legs and only 1 arm DANM THESE ARE REALY THAT CHEAP
For Darth Vader knockoffs, you should have the "replacement score: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
Love that opening gag with all the different names these things were packaged under.
Me too!
Every Phelous fan does.
Yep that was pretty hilarious 🤣
We have a NEW Galaxy Hole: Star Wars bootlegs! Of which there must be a whole galaxy's worth! (Not sorry)
The cheap-sounding Star Wars theme was great.
Good to see that Funtastic logo on the card. I live here in Houston, and they have at least one store/distribution center here on a street called Harwin, which is like the bootleg everything capitol of the world. Back in my "buy all the bootleg versions of stuff" phase, it was an absolute treasure trove of non-stop goldmines. Entire shopping centers dedicated to the craft, on a street that is still thriving to this day. Sure, there's all the boring knock off perfume and handbag/purses shops, along with furniture and everything else under the sun, but the MULTITUDE of toy shops were the obvious stores of choice for this thing- though every shop seemingly had at least a corner dedicated to this crap. Nice to see that you could get a hold of that stuff up there, though I'm sure you could've got it off ebay, but that's beside the point. Thanks for bringing a smile to the ol' face.
The gas mask stormtrooper on one of the covers is a Helghast from Killzone.
Ah, so that's why the Hellghast design seemed familiar. It's a hardcore edgy teen version of Darth Vader!
IT'S THE KILL ZONE!
HE'S MR.KILLZONE!
(Two best friends reference)
+PollyGlodd I thought I recognised that from somewhere, well spotted!
+PollyGlodd Hell yeah!
+tbonevideos23 link to video?
"Alien Terminator" was also the name of a knockoff Transformers Alternators figure covered by Thew Adams, only with "Robot Car Changer" written after it's name.
8:07 - wow, that's actually kinda cool looking. It'd make a nice animated GIF desktop image.
Totally
Or maybe take those bootleg toys and put them on either a blue or green screen background. (8:21)
So, if Dark Vader's real name is Darth Vader, does that make Light Vader's real name Lithe Vader?
Look Sir, knock-offs!
Fighter Space presents, Darth Twinkle Eyes.
+CWDTrixie I hope that's the villain for next season of MLP
Tareltonlives It very well could be, as Darth Twinkle Eyes would invade Equestria with all his army Chinese knock-offs and horrid use of cheap plastic and pointless LEDs.
+Tareltonlives wouldn't be surprised, hell I wouldn't be surprised if they get Peter caplaldi to play a character that lives in a blue house outside of ponyvillie
I'm still disappointed they didn't get David Tennant to voice Time Turner :)
My three fav Brony regulars on Phelous. X3
The Space Knight? THAT LOOKS NOTHING LIKE ROM!
+Scott Sandler Lewis Lovehaugh would feel PROFOUNDLY ripped off
The gas mask storm trooper is actually a helgan soldier from kill zone holding a lightsaber
I actually have the green Space Defender, making this a special episode for me.
I remember Ashens doing a review in these, that light in their hands almost blinded him!
im not sure if you called him gavin or gavan in that ending script, but itd be pretty cool if it were the latter considering robocops ties to metal heroes gavan.
Now we need Dark and Light Vader in Kingdom Hearts 3!!
I think Stephie Love needs to be a character that you can summon
ok instead of that how about a Ducktales stage!
@@MaggieOffutt birth by sleep has something like it
Eh…..Star Wars appearing in the games….not likely😅
Bootleg Darth Vader: Also known as Kylo Ren
I fucking came across these figures in an antiques mall today and laughed my ass off
When I saw one of those toys was made by a company called "Jia Chong," my mind immediately jumped to Dynasty Warriors 8. XD
Now I want a Ashens/BZ crossover even more QQ
Fighter space! Ha haha ha! Wow that’s a weird name! Robots Lazerbot is pretty weird too! Great job on this episode!
Ok the music speeding up made me laugh 🤣
Space Knight sound interesting
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Now I'm just imagining a tiny white vader conscience and tiny black vader doppleganger on his shoulder whenever he has to make decisions "You know, Palpatine is just going to kill you and take Luke as his new apprentice, you should just kill Luke now" "But he's your son! You can't do that!"
"He's trying to lead you down the path of righteousness; I'm leading you down the path that rocks!"
11:28 You know, if you painted that breathing hose and helmet brown, light vapour would look kinda like a robot space jesus
Those figures bare more of a resemblance to Baron Karza and Force Commander. From the classic Takara Microman toy line. In North American the line was known as Micronauts and was marketed by Mego.
I just got that"fun up to fun down" is a play on "sun up to sun down"!
reminds me of my Star Invaders bootleg toy, that's essentially Darth Vader mixed with a storm trooper
+jar nvmd, this is what happens when you comment before watching. haha
1:58 I know I so can't be the first to say this but that looks like a Helghast from the Killzone games.
MCVivi Hmm. Killzone figures. I would think those do exist.
Actually that knock-off lightsaber looks more like the Revolcane form Kamen Rider Black RX which admittedly looks like a lightsaber.
I found these under the title “Space Robot” at a ShopKo store a few years back.
The gas mask One on the package for the first ones was A Helghast Solider
From Killzone
Wait, wait, wait, one of those alternate packages had a Helghast soldier with a lightsaber!
Sounds a little like they have internet in their suits... be it a little outdated, and probably realyl slow.
Haha! Nice reference with that Zelda bit.
FUN UP TO FUN DOWN
Heh heh, you should check out the Beast Wars knockoffs I found, also known as 'ANIMISM DEFENDERS'
2:01 so they put a Helghast from Killzone on a Star Wars bootleg?
Fantastic.
Oh my one the package on theses is just Darth Malak with that weird gasmask head
I swear Ashens did these, I'm not saying "He did it, therefore you can't." I'm just surprised the world is slowly running out of bootlegs.
they look more like the robots from "Yor: Hunter From the Future" starring Reb Brown
I actually have these Space Robots from Marc's, which is a grocery store in America and they actually have the bootleg lightsaber.
when white vader lights up in the dark ...he looks almost like jesus
I got one of these at a Rite Aid, it was loud and great.
I also got it for $6 the pricetag on his says $2.99 WTF!!!
The Fighter Space title sounds the space version of Fight Club
I bought the Gundam one and Dark Vader for $2.50 +tax yesterday I'm going back today for the white version Great review and Thanks you got me hooked on hunting bootleg toys!
I also thought darth vader was dark vader when i was younger
You mean you used to hear his name as Dark Vader? If yes, me too.
*TWINKLE EYES*
Oh we can't forget (shows package)
Another great video, Phelan.
Oh, well, at least they tried!
Funtastic sells their shit at Poundland over in the UK.
Please review the bootleg items Ashens reviewed.
Just the ones he's reviewed that you haven't yet.
You need to review more Funtastic items and more Ninja Turtles bootlegs.
I'm happy your.new videos are on TH-cam now, let's me stream them to my roku
Same here! I love being able to watch these videos on my TV.
Funtastic is the toy 'brand' for Poundland so I can guess you can find these in the British isles.
I saw this at my toys r us!!!
The Space Defender variant card "gas masky storm trooper" is a character from the video game Killzone. I know I'm late to the game on this but I'm trying to catch up. Love your videos! I tell everyone I know about them!
After some searching through my memory and the Gundam wiki, that "Robots Lazerbot" Gundam bootleg seems to be based on the ZGMF-X56S Impulse Gundam from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (a series that started in 2004 in Japan, giving us an earliest date for that particular bootleg), but the face looks deformed or modified (probably simplified for ease of production and being less recognizable) and the torso looks slightly modified.
If the size of the card is comparable to the cards yours are on, it looks bigger than the 1/144 scale High Grade models (the most common size), which in the Impulse's case (doing some division and unit conversions from the Impulse's 17.76 metre fictional height) would be about 4.8 inches tall, so it might be molded from a larger 1/100 scale Master Grade model (the first MG model of the Impulse was put out in 2008, possibly giving us an even more recent earliest date), which would be about 7 inches tall. I'm not a great judge of size or distance, though.
The robot being shot on the card art looks like a composite of screen grabs (or redraws) of multiple different mobile suits, primarily the torso and left arm of what my best guess is the RX-77-2 Guncannon from the original Mobile Suit Gundam.
I do believe white armor was considered for Darth Vader at one point.
I actually had a dream where a white Darth Vader was a champion of good and fought his evil counterpart.
Ligthth fender
+Tareltonlives There's a What If style comic, called Infinities, for Star Wars. In the ROTJ version, both Vader and the Emperor survive, and Vader joins the rebels and gets white armor. And they did make a toy of that.
Also known as Space Robot because I bought them at my local Rite-Aid.
It Stings The Ears
"maybe it's just his loser cousin." oh, you mean Chad Vader?
fighter space looks much more like a bioman to me than vader
+Otaking Mikohani The chest wire things totally gave me a Bioman or Space Sheriff vibe.
Does anyone know when these came out? Says vintage on ebay but no date ever shown
I feel like Robots Spacebot missed a good catchphrase in "Till all are fun."
"Fun up to fun down." is still pretty goofy though.
Is it just me, or do those sound effects sort of sound like dialing up into the internet circa 1997; with just a little more lasers?
So...Vader has Twinkle Eyes? He might want to get that checked.
He should've gone to Specsavers.
@@RichardWatt Yeah...also, I checked, and White Darth Vader...is actually a thing.
6:22 Can confirm this w/ my own figures.
I've seen 2 more names these are being packaged under now. Space Robot and Space Invaders
Oh hai Chef Yoda.
I have the Space Robot toys I got from Marc's.
Also, Space Robot.
Light vader
I own the funtastic ROBOTS LAZERBOTS gundum knockoff. But I own a silver and black version. I also have ROBOTS ROBO-FORCE, which copies the autobot symbol exactly. and ROBOTS COVERTI-BOT. Which is knockoffs of random transformer figures.
Check out the bootleg classic tmnt bebop and rocksteady figures from China showing up on ebay.
I love you Phelaous
(No homo)
wheres future hero white metal soldier?
2:00 that's a hellghast from kill zone weird huh?
dark Vader and Light Vader what I thought all the time but I only watched Star Wars episode 3
9:27 Cyborg Jesus??
I thought Jesus was a God, not a cyborg.
I have one of those
0:29 what do you mean medevil, it's just rom
I got one named Space Robot
Bootleg Darth Vader voice. (4:17, 5:30, 5:54, 11:16, 11:29, 11:41, 11:59, 12:04, 12:22)
Darth Vader's loser cousin. Sweet! XD
7:26
2:23 Did you know (or care) that Darkhorse made an alternate ending to Return of the Jedi? Vader and The Emperor survive, Han is permanently blind, and Vader now has white armor! ...Pointless.
That's a photoshopped picture of darth Malak from kotor. They photoshopped a mask on his face
i bought the black one from some cheap 99c store when i was a stupid kid caus i thought it was a transformers
i found it in my a few years lator and the back of the torso is completly gone and he has no legs and only 1 arm DANM THESE ARE REALY THAT CHEAP
+abdal meqbel also i always thought thouse dots on not vaders face was his teeth .....
ArE yOu AcCePtInG GUeStS?
If So Can I And HMG (He Is My "Alter Ego" So We Are The Same Person) Be On Here?
If Not...That's Okay!
FUN UP TO FUN DOWN
I saw this at my toys r us!!!
Me too! Was it under party favors/gifts?