Thanks for doing these. You're building quite a base of people who like your work, and your fans will always want to learn more about the team behind the amusing videos. Keep it up!
Awesome vid, you two. I really enjoy your take on these old toy lines. I also like how you both are fearless with "the hate mail". Your opinions are your own and you shouldn't have to change it because it may not be popular. I can't wait for your reviews of LJN's AD&D line from the very early 80's.
Congratulations!!!! Thank you to you both for helping to keep vintage toys alive. Also for making sure that everyone knows how much cooler so many of those toys are over new toys!
congratulations on 5000! in addition to your existing videos, I love this longer / conversational format - very interested in your opinions and insights, great way to convey lots of information .... cheers
congrats on 5000 subs. as a toy inthusiast for over 30 years im enjoying edicating my kids about the toys of yester year and im getting to explore modern toys threw their eyes. blind bags r amazing. and im right with u with the imadgenext line its so much fun.
Awesome start to the Q&A videos! Great answers! Especially the most influential toy question, vintage Star Wars and G.I Joe for sure. Again great job guys!
Congrats on hitting 5K! Now let's go for 10! Note the placement of dinosaurs in the background. I detect the subtle hand of Melinda at work. I approve. Tex (Clobberin' Time's Official Chronicler and Resident Dinosaur)
I'm an American living in Croatia and back when Croatia was part of Yugoslavia they had their own bootlegged line of MOTU figures. So, some countries even had some toys available even though they were the countries where they weren't actually "available."
i want to say first congrats on 5000 subs,you've earned it. i love seeing younger collectors being into the vintage versions of he man,star wars etc,cause as you said it shows the appreciation for the lines that came before the newer versions and also they may have parents who are introducing them to these old shows/toylines.whenever i see a kid wearing a SW shirt,i think that's parenting done right. the luke figure you mentioned had 2 varients,one in which the hand had a plastic tab that slotted into a hole and a bloody version of that. i see melinda's point aboot orko in the newer he man show but on the other hand if he wasn't in there ppl would ask why is he not there. i also think its interesting to think that POTF2 is almost 20 years old and for some ppl that was there version of vintage SW.
what you mentioned about the younger generation appealing to retro toys (about 16:00)...I feel compelled to share my take. I believe this is a cause of two reasons. One being that I just want to live in (what seems to me) like a simpler age. When imagination ruled the toy chest. Away from the mass overtaking of technology. As I am only 13, I really do understand and appreciate what technology has done, there is just something about 5 pts. of articulation than the minimum 13 of today. Its hard to explain, but there is just something about yesteryear that is more enjoyable than today. And like you said, I AM one of the people who wish they had been born upwards of 30 years ago! Like I said its extremely hard to explain, but some how, I wish I could. I guess what I really wanted to say is that to all of my fellow people who were born too late, I stand with you, and to all the people who fear for the future of toys, I as well as many other people will protect them after you no longer can. I am pretty sure that, that was what I was trying to say...yet remember, the 'toys' that MY generation are growing, or have grown up with are still going to have value to us, after all, they did us a huge favor, they gave us what every body needs in life, and should always and forever have in life: a child hood! Just as they gave our parents and so on.
You guys are always very constructive. :D I'm a Transformers fan, and I agree with the many short comings ( i think this is an understatement ) of the Line. :D
One last original toyline we've seen these years has been Gormiti. They made everything from minifigures to actual action figures and even a giant playset in the style of the 80s (the Volcano Mountain). And they proved to be successful too.
I had a question, if you could answer my question without question would be so cool, no question! I can't remember my question, but thanks for being open to answering my question.
Wow. 2014 - 5k 2019-53k Great listening to you guys, interesting stuff... discussing the possible decline of toys and pop culture... Looking forward to your future videos!
one change I have noticed is the lack of action figure playsets like we had in the 80's. There are some for Marvel figures like the SHIELD helicarrier but the only playsets I see now are LEGO.
Star Wars and G.I. Joe were my big two too! In the 00s I started collecting old 80s Joe action figures on eBay but so many of the groin parts snapped I gave up.
I totally agree with the licensing topic. Toy brands seem to have lost their creativity. Also, in the 80s we had a wider range of different toymakers: Kenner's style was different from that of Galoob or Remco. Today we have Hasbro, Mattel, Bandai and Lego, and that's basically it.
I know you weren't talking to me, but I'd like to address your criticism and use it to frame my special 5,000 subscriber Retroblasting fanboy gush: You obviously have not watched a lot of their videos. The balance is perfect. *1)* Here they were answering questions, not doing stand-up. *2)* And then they have a lot of AWESOME instructional videos for restoring toys. (I don't remember getting a lot of belly laughs out of an episode of This Old House.) *3)* And then, the reviews are entertaining, full of funny observations...and like, where else would you get a dramatized recreation of the trainwreck that was, the development of Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors? It is cool that they can talk seriously about old toys, but, no way are they "serious all of the time". Go watch the overviews of Rambo and Thundercats, or "Skeletor Tours Castle Grayskull" or the video where he bitches about how all the Return of the Jedi figures only had sticks for weapons, and explain to me how they're deadpan serious all of the time. To be fair, I did chuckle during this video, when they were talking about action figures dying out because kids are too busy with ipads and video games, Melinda /did/ make a face like she was a doctor telling you that you have cancer...but no way are they serious "all of the time". Still, this is the best old toy channel on youtube. It's cool to hear real people really talking about this stuff and I wouldn't want them joshin' and muggin' and yelling in clown-voice like so many youtubers do.
Huh, I really like their demeanor and I think most of their viewers do, too. They use a professional presentation style but the passion and fun are evident, even just in the fact that they do what they do. And I can only guess that you haven't seen Melinda's exclamation when she got her childhood MLP's back. ("PONIEEEEEES!!! :D ")
anyone interested in Macross/Robotech and vintage toys is really just better off tracking down a Takatoku Valkyrie (or if they don't particularly care about it being an original, one of the many Bandai reissues) than any of the Matchbox stuff. And that's not even counting modern stuff, like the Yamato/Arcadia 1/60 V2s, or the Bandai 1/100 Hi-Metals. Also, for anyone with an interest in vintage mecha toys, Takara's Dual Model toys for Armored Trooper VOTOMs are worth checking out. Unrelated question: Which Cobra Commander do you prefer? Helmeted or Hooded? (I assume you won't take a 3rd option and say the 1987 battle armor)
RetroBlasting, I am inventing a company called Energy which is gonna make the Action Figure Market/ Playsets return, plus I am one of those kids that wished I was a kid in the 1980's
Hey Michael, is Thundarr somewhere down the road? I know you mentioned Melinda likes that show and there's a vid where she opened the new figures that were made. That was a great show.
Hi. Love this video !! I especially agree about the comments made about girl's toys. The fact that it's 2015 and when you walk down a "girl's" toy aisle, you are smacked in the face with pink, rooted hair, and lolly pop headed figures with way too much make up is upsetting. My sister always played He-man with my brother and myself, because our toys were better and more fun. Sure, we were jerky big brothers and made her be Teela and Zoar and no one else, but she still had fun. I swear, Mattel, Hasbro, etc. would make a ton of money if they made a toy line targeted at girls, but were made like boy's toys.
I was born in 92, and I first saw the original trilogy around 97, so I do have a strange nostalgia for the POTF2 figures. That said, they're not really something I'd go out of my way to get.
Shogun Warriors (the giant and various miniature) toy lines could make for interesting material. There was also a giant Alien toy (from the 1979) movie. I used to hang it from my bunk bed by its curled tail. It was especially fascinating to me as a six year old considering that I could not see the movie it was from!!! (there must have been a controversy behind that)
Getting closer to being caught up. But in this video there's a rather large Red Lion over Michael's shoulder (in the Sterlite container). What is THAT from, please?
I am an enlightened one, I'm 16 but I wish I was around in the 60s for the original GI Joe and the 80s for transformers, star wars, and gijoe American hero.
I see the Land Before Time, Pizza Hut hand puppets in the back there, which reminds me, you might have an answer to this: why has the ORIGINAL Land Before Time NEVER been released on DVD? Was it because of the Don Bluths scary ass style?
Hasbro tested the water a few years ago by releasing a Matt Tracker-esque G.I. Joe figure. It got the hopes up of M.A.S.K. fans for a comeback which has still yet to happen. If we petition Hasbro hard enough do you think they'd give it a second chance?
I have a millennium falcon. Problem with the back cover not siting right seems warped how to safely soften plastic to fix the problem hair dryer not working. Can I boil it in hot water to mold it to sit correctly
I have seen her in several videos and shes really cute. He's lucky too; She has a pretty face, nice boobs (ok better than nice) and she is into toy collecting -which this kind of nerd mentality is extremely rare with girls. I've never met a girl like her before. As for the old 80's stuff I will agree that the toys back then were a lot better in play value for the most part. Then again, don't make me compare G1 Transformers with everything we're getting now because its no contest at all. G1 Ironhide didn't have a head! haha I too am noticing how kids today are focused on TH-cam videos and flash games and little else. Its sad to think that as these kids get older and time passes that their attention spans will get so short they will have no time for imaginary play. I do see that happening though. By the way, I got my 3 year old nephew all the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures (well almost all of em) in the Imaginext line. Its like Half Shell Heroes or something like that... They are pretty awesome and tomorrow is his birthday party and I got him the Shell Raiser for his figures. :)
mmmm . . what you said about hasbro and MASK might explain hasbro's stupidity when it comes to what they're doing or not doing with ROM spaceknight who they also own.
for a property that could be interpreted well back in the 70's and 80's......would Power Rangers count? Given that they did air that hilarious Dynaman parody dub on the USA Network and Nickelodeon in the 80's and the camp of shows like that would be accepted in the 70's and 80's (shows like The Space Giants, Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot, Spectreman and Ultraman for example). Just saying
I'd love to see your take on LJN's Dungeons and Dragons line though I think it's unfair to label it derivative of He-man since the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game predates Masters of the Universe by four or five years and was itself predated by original Dungeons & Dragons going back to the mid 70s.
Super late in making this comment but what the hell....my major complaint of "vintage" vs. "modern" is the death of invention, innovation and creativity. The toy industry stopped caring about putting out new and fun things. Developing new gimmicks, technology or oddities. TV stations stopped caring about financing the same in intricate and well done cartoons. You get new cartoons but my god they look and sound horrid. It's as lazy as you can get. The toy aisle is a joke, Saturday Morning is dead...it's just sad they gave up working hard to hit a home run and sat back to collect whatever easy money they can....and then wonder why their industry continues to decline. The only thing I can think of that reminds me of the glory days is The Ugglys. Those little half puppet, half electronic toys stopped me dead in my tracks and were finally something NEW (and weird in a good way). Any toy with a molded butthole can't be bad.
Join the Energy Club!! Energy Products' plans will blow the world!! By the 2020's a toy company: Energy Products, one big goal is to: Re-introduce The Action Figure/Play sets market and we will bring Retro back and knock Nintendo out of the air! Wait tI'll 2027!!!
While you guys bring up a good point about modern toy companies and not taking risks waiting for licenses. Or hasbro being a bit stubborn in not reviving M.A.S.K. I still find your views to brutally nihilistic towards modern toys. But its your opinion. I see some merits to modern toy design and the people that grew up with these properties being able to work on them with modern engineering. I think they should probably revive it under the Transformers or Gijoe name. Maybe the next gijoe design team could push for it. As currently Hasbro has no active gijoe design team after retailiations delay and financial loss had them cut.
Hasbro tested the water a few years ago by releasing a Matt Tracker-esque G.I. Joe figure. It got the hopes up of M.A.S.K. fans for a comeback which has still yet to happen. If we petition Hasbro hard enough do you think they'd give it a second chance?
Thanks for doing these. You're building quite a base of people who like your work, and your fans will always want to learn more about the team behind the amusing videos. Keep it up!
Awesome vid, you two. I really enjoy your take on these old toy lines. I also like how you both are fearless with "the hate mail". Your opinions are your own and you shouldn't have to change it because it may not be popular. I can't wait for your reviews of LJN's AD&D line from the very early 80's.
Congratulations!!!! Thank you to you both for helping to keep vintage toys alive. Also for making sure that everyone knows how much cooler so many of those toys are over new toys!
congratulations on 5000! in addition to your existing videos, I love this longer / conversational format - very interested in your opinions and insights, great way to convey lots of information .... cheers
Congratulations. I couldn't think of a channel that is more deserving.
congrats on 5000 subs. as a toy inthusiast for over 30 years im enjoying edicating my kids about the toys of yester year and im getting to explore modern toys threw their eyes. blind bags r amazing. and im right with u with the imadgenext line its so much fun.
Awesome start to the Q&A videos! Great answers! Especially the most influential toy question, vintage Star Wars and G.I Joe for sure. Again great job guys!
Excellent!!
Thank you.
congratulations !
Congrats on hitting 5K! Now let's go for 10!
Note the placement of dinosaurs in the background. I detect the subtle hand of Melinda at work.
I approve.
Tex
(Clobberin' Time's Official Chronicler and Resident Dinosaur)
Just wanted to say congratulation! Keep up the great work and im looking forward to your next vids!
Congratulations! now you guys have more than 13.000 subscribers!!! keep with the Nice videos! .
As kid i really loved the imaginext dinosaurs line from 2005, i still have my collection!
Great questions and answers. Certainly will be interesting as time goes on to see the future of the toy lines of interest.
I'm an American living in Croatia and back when Croatia was part of Yugoslavia they had their own bootlegged line of MOTU figures. So, some countries even had some toys available even though they were the countries where they weren't actually "available."
i want to say first congrats on 5000 subs,you've earned it. i love seeing younger collectors being into the vintage versions of he man,star wars etc,cause as you said it shows the appreciation for the lines that came before the newer versions and also they may have parents who are introducing them to these old shows/toylines.whenever i see a kid wearing a SW shirt,i think that's parenting done right. the luke figure you mentioned had 2 varients,one in which the hand had a plastic tab that slotted into a hole and a bloody version of that. i see melinda's point aboot orko in the newer he man show but on the other hand if he wasn't in there ppl would ask why is he not there. i also think its interesting to think that POTF2 is almost 20 years old and for some ppl that was there version of vintage SW.
Congrats you two, love the channel!!!
what you mentioned about the younger generation appealing to retro toys (about 16:00)...I feel compelled to share my take. I believe this is a cause of two reasons. One being that I just want to live in (what seems to me) like a simpler age. When imagination ruled the toy chest. Away from the mass overtaking of technology. As I am only 13, I really do understand and appreciate what technology has done, there is just something about 5 pts. of articulation than the minimum 13 of today. Its hard to explain, but there is just something about yesteryear that is more enjoyable than today. And like you said, I AM one of the people who wish they had been born upwards of 30 years ago! Like I said its extremely hard to explain, but some how, I wish I could. I guess what I really wanted to say is that to all of my fellow people who were born too late, I stand with you, and to all the people who fear for the future of toys, I as well as many other people will protect them after you no longer can. I am pretty sure that, that was what I was trying to say...yet remember, the 'toys' that MY generation are growing, or have grown up with are still going to have value to us, after all, they did us a huge favor, they gave us what every body needs in life, and should always and forever have in life: a child hood! Just as they gave our parents and so on.
cool you two have taught me a lot about retro toy lines thanks
Congrats on the 5,000 subs guys.
Congratulations! From Portugal.
You guys are always very constructive. :D
I'm a Transformers fan, and I agree with the many short comings ( i think this is an understatement ) of the Line. :D
One last original toyline we've seen these years has been Gormiti. They made everything from minifigures to actual action figures and even a giant playset in the style of the 80s (the Volcano Mountain). And they proved to be successful too.
I love that you mention the vintage Indiana Jones toy line from Kenner 1982! It could be my ultimate favorite toy line!
Oh man! I remember getting a few Starcoms for Xmas when I was a kid.
I never saw the show but loved the toys.
Yeah more power to the toys
I had a question, if you could answer my question without question would be so cool, no question! I can't remember my question, but thanks for being open to answering my question.
As I continue to watch this episode.....that Imaginext dragon is AWESOME. Wish I had room to display that.
WishItWas1984 It's so cool, we decided to heck with it, and used it in our recent G.I. Joe Fast Draw video!
+RetroBlasting Which was a great video by the way. :)
Wow.
2014 - 5k
2019-53k
Great listening to you guys, interesting stuff... discussing the possible decline of toys and pop culture... Looking forward to your future videos!
congrats!
Great channel! Will you or have you done a review of the Power Lords toy line? The Adam Power action figure always weirded me out a bit.
Good job guys I love your channel I subbed!!!
one change I have noticed is the lack of action figure playsets like we had in the 80's. There are some for Marvel figures like the SHIELD helicarrier but the only playsets I see now are LEGO.
That Ghostbusters proton pack in the corner is awesome!
im a kid and i love the older toys more than the new ones . They were way better .
Great channel. Keep it up :)
Star Wars and G.I. Joe were my big two too! In the 00s I started collecting old 80s Joe action figures on eBay but so many of the groin parts snapped I gave up.
I totally agree with the licensing topic. Toy brands seem to have lost their creativity. Also, in the 80s we had a wider range of different toymakers: Kenner's style was different from that of Galoob or Remco. Today we have Hasbro, Mattel, Bandai and Lego, and that's basically it.
Good to see the Pizza Hut Land Before Time 'puppets' again. Man I was obsessed with getting all of them!
Good points Michael.
Love STARCOM & Robotech!!!!! What about Exo-Squad and Ronin Warriors?
I love the 80's and I'm a teenager... I guess I'm "enlightened" now... Cool.
These 2 are soo deadpan serious all the time. You're talkin about toys, not politics. "Why soo seious?"
I know you weren't talking to me, but I'd like to address your criticism and use it to frame my special 5,000 subscriber Retroblasting fanboy gush:
You obviously have not watched a lot of their videos.
The balance is perfect.
*1)* Here they were answering questions, not doing stand-up.
*2)* And then they have a lot of AWESOME instructional videos for restoring toys.
(I don't remember getting a lot of belly laughs out of an episode of This Old House.)
*3)* And then, the reviews are entertaining, full of funny observations...and like, where else would you get a dramatized recreation of the trainwreck that was, the development of Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors?
It is cool that they can talk seriously about old toys, but, no way are they "serious all of the time".
Go watch the overviews of Rambo and Thundercats, or "Skeletor Tours Castle Grayskull" or the video where he bitches about how all the Return of the Jedi figures only had sticks for weapons, and explain to me how they're deadpan serious all of the time.
To be fair, I did chuckle during this video, when they were talking about action figures dying out because kids are too busy with ipads and video games, Melinda /did/ make a face like she was a doctor telling you that you have cancer...but no way are they serious "all of the time".
Still, this is the best old toy channel on youtube. It's cool to hear real people really talking about this stuff and I wouldn't want them joshin' and muggin' and yelling in clown-voice like so many youtubers do.
Huh, I really like their demeanor and I think most of their viewers do, too. They use a professional presentation style but the passion and fun are evident, even just in the fact that they do what they do. And I can only guess that you haven't seen Melinda's exclamation when she got her childhood MLP's back. ("PONIEEEEEES!!! :D ")
I'd really love to have that Ghostbuster proton pack behind Melinda,may I know where to buy one?
Oh,before I forget...bring back M.A.S.K.,Hasbro!!!
See? There you go. A little bit of anger coming out for that vid on Habro you owe us :)...M.A.S.K.
anyone interested in Macross/Robotech and vintage toys is really just better off tracking down a Takatoku Valkyrie (or if they don't particularly care about it being an original, one of the many Bandai reissues) than any of the Matchbox stuff. And that's not even counting modern stuff, like the Yamato/Arcadia 1/60 V2s, or the Bandai 1/100 Hi-Metals. Also, for anyone with an interest in vintage mecha toys, Takara's Dual Model toys for Armored Trooper VOTOMs are worth checking out.
Unrelated question: Which Cobra Commander do you prefer? Helmeted or Hooded? (I assume you won't take a 3rd option and say the 1987 battle armor)
RetroBlasting, I am inventing a company called Energy which is gonna make the Action Figure Market/ Playsets return, plus I am one of those kids that wished I was a kid in the 1980's
Hey Michael, is Thundarr somewhere down the road? I know you mentioned Melinda likes that show and there's a vid where she opened the new figures that were made. That was a great show.
Hi. Love this video !! I especially agree about the comments made about girl's toys. The fact that it's 2015 and when you walk down a "girl's" toy aisle, you are smacked in the face with pink, rooted hair, and lolly pop headed figures with way too much make up is upsetting. My sister always played He-man with my brother and myself, because our toys were better and more fun. Sure, we were jerky big brothers and made her be Teela and Zoar and no one else, but she still had fun.
I swear, Mattel, Hasbro, etc. would make a ton of money if they made a toy line targeted at girls, but were made like boy's toys.
I was born in 92, and I first saw the original trilogy around 97, so I do have a strange nostalgia for the POTF2 figures. That said, they're not really something I'd go out of my way to get.
awesome video i am 17 and love retro toys
Shogun Warriors (the giant and various miniature) toy lines could make for interesting material. There was also a giant Alien toy (from the 1979) movie. I used to hang it from my bunk bed by its curled tail. It was especially fascinating to me as a six year old considering that I could not see the movie it was from!!! (there must have been a controversy behind that)
Getting closer to being caught up. But in this video there's a rather large Red Lion over Michael's shoulder (in the Sterlite container). What is THAT from, please?
+Scott Beerbohm looks like the Mattel Voltron Red Lion
I am an enlightened one, I'm 16 but I wish I was around in the 60s for the original GI Joe and the 80s for transformers, star wars, and gijoe American hero.
brett roblez I'm so glad I'm not the only 16 year old who feels like that
Will you guys do a review like superpowers and toybiz
5000? Wow that's a lot of subscribers
I see the Land Before Time, Pizza Hut hand puppets in the back there, which reminds me, you might have an answer to this: why has the ORIGINAL Land Before Time NEVER been released on DVD? Was it because of the Don Bluths scary ass style?
Hasbro tested the water a few years ago by releasing a Matt Tracker-esque G.I. Joe figure. It got the hopes up of M.A.S.K. fans for a comeback which has still yet to happen. If we petition Hasbro hard enough do you think they'd give it a second chance?
i like the inmagex rocketship
Same.feel like I was born in wrong decade
And there's your proton pack on the chair against the wall.
Modern properties? Articulation would have been great.
Um. This question is for Miranda. "Hey. How u doin?"
I have a millennium falcon. Problem with the back cover not siting right seems warped how to safely soften plastic to fix the problem hair dryer not working. Can I boil it in hot water to mold it to sit correctly
you mentioned legos lol. ty
starcom had a show
I must be slow. I just realized what the early 0ts are. derrr.
Fisher Price had Adventure People when I was growing up.
I just found two of the vans that went to them at a thrift store.
I have seen her in several videos and shes really cute. He's lucky too; She has a pretty face, nice boobs (ok better than nice) and she is into toy collecting -which this kind of nerd mentality is extremely rare with girls. I've never met a girl like her before. As for the old 80's stuff I will agree that the toys back then were a lot better in play value for the most part. Then again, don't make me compare G1 Transformers with everything we're getting now because its no contest at all. G1 Ironhide didn't have a head! haha I too am noticing how kids today are focused on TH-cam videos and flash games and little else. Its sad to think that as these kids get older and time passes that their attention spans will get so short they will have no time for imaginary play. I do see that happening though. By the way, I got my 3 year old nephew all the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures (well almost all of em) in the Imaginext line. Its like Half Shell Heroes or something like that... They are pretty awesome and tomorrow is his birthday party and I got him the Shell Raiser for his figures. :)
mmmm . . what you said about hasbro and MASK might explain hasbro's stupidity when it comes to what they're doing or not doing with ROM spaceknight who they also own.
for a property that could be interpreted well back in the 70's and 80's......would Power Rangers count? Given that they did air that hilarious Dynaman parody dub on the USA Network and Nickelodeon in the 80's and the camp of shows like that would be accepted in the 70's and 80's (shows like The Space Giants, Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot, Spectreman and Ultraman for example). Just saying
I'd love to see your take on LJN's Dungeons and Dragons line though I think it's unfair to label it derivative of He-man since the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game predates Masters of the Universe by four or five years and was itself predated by original Dungeons & Dragons going back to the mid 70s.
I'm 24, born in 1990, and I collect 80s stuff. I guess I'm just a weirdo.
I have that metal luke
WHo is the beautiful woman in the videos?
Super late in making this comment but what the hell....my major complaint of "vintage" vs. "modern" is the death of invention, innovation and creativity. The toy industry stopped caring about putting out new and fun things. Developing new gimmicks, technology or oddities. TV stations stopped caring about financing the same in intricate and well done cartoons. You get new cartoons but my god they look and sound horrid.
It's as lazy as you can get. The toy aisle is a joke, Saturday Morning is dead...it's just sad they gave up working hard to hit a home run and sat back to collect whatever easy money they can....and then wonder why their industry continues to decline.
The only thing I can think of that reminds me of the glory days is The Ugglys. Those little half puppet, half electronic toys stopped me dead in my tracks and were finally something NEW (and weird in a good way). Any toy with a molded butthole can't be bad.
Join the Energy Club!! Energy Products' plans will blow the world!! By the 2020's a toy company: Energy Products, one big goal is to: Re-introduce The Action Figure/Play sets market and we will bring Retro back and knock Nintendo out of the air! Wait tI'll 2027!!!
While you guys bring up a good point about modern toy companies and not taking risks waiting for licenses. Or hasbro being a bit stubborn in not reviving M.A.S.K.
I still find your views to brutally nihilistic towards modern toys. But its your opinion.
I see some merits to modern toy design and the people that grew up with these properties being able to work on them with modern engineering.
I think they should probably revive it under the Transformers or Gijoe name.
Maybe the next gijoe design team could push for it. As currently Hasbro has no active gijoe design team after retailiations delay and financial loss had them cut.
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Why y'all look so sad? :(
Michael always looks sad. The genius weighs heavily on him.
I'm with you! Transformers sucks.
Hasbro tested the water a few years ago by releasing a Matt Tracker-esque G.I. Joe figure. It got the hopes up of M.A.S.K. fans for a comeback which has still yet to happen. If we petition Hasbro hard enough do you think they'd give it a second chance?