As a former KB manager, I can safely and assuredly tell you it wasn’t the Manimals line that led to the downfall. I didn’t hit my quota of Rayovac batteries on a Tuesday in 2006.
Ome thing that bugged me about Kay Bee is the big pile of rubber snakes right at the checkout counter. Being ophidiophobic, it was very difficult for me to apprach the counter to buy anything. Knowing they couldn't hurt me didn't help. It's a phobia.
the 1992 version of the Cobra Eel came with a metal shark he could wear as a backpack that shot a missile out of its mouth. it is kinda awesome in its dumbness.
The best things I found in the demise of Kay-Bee were the build-a-figure Universal Monsters, McFarlane Metallica figures, and the beginning of the G.I. Joe 2-packs of 25th Anniversary collection. In the very last days there were almost nothing left but metal (toy?) handcuffs.
Lobotomaxx sounds like an over the counter pill for migraine. Seriously, the real tragedy here is that Manimal only got 8 episodes, at least ManiManiManimals got toys.
Right? This guy posts up toy lines and I ask myself how could I have no memory of these things, especially since back then there were only like 13 channels on TV and things were easier to keep track of. I do remember Manimal the TV show tho.
True story; when one of my best ever dudes got married I got for him for his wedding present a carded Lobotomaxx figure. That's it. That's the whole story.
I certainly know of the Manimals. I'd seen pictures of the originals, but never imagined that I'd own any of them as they were released in very small numbers just as the line was cancelled and during the late 90's they commanded a hefty price on the secondary market. It was the high secondary market prices that no doubt convinced both Hasbro and KB Toys to release them as exclusives. Believing the high prices spoke of their desirability rather then simply their scarcity. Still, I bought the three that were released by KB, and frankly, I loved them! They were monster figures for your GI Joes to fight, far better then the Mega Marines monsters that one dinosaur. Didn't like them being aliens? So ignore it! Use them as genetically engineered Cobra creatures or as additionally members of Cobra-La, they were awesome IMHO.
@Mark Grant What? Seriously? Also what? What are you talking about? How is it against any law? Seriously are you some weird creep who assumes teenagers dating are doing something wrong? What is wrong with you?
It is actually a common misconception that some of the original 94 Manimals made it to stores. The ones that are in collectors' hands are actually all production samples, even the carded ones.
Oh crap! Dan, I go to look up Manimals on TH-cam and first result was you lol. I got them carded at Chris Con today and saw you there (met you last year at Chris con though). Dangit! I so badly wanted to come show you these today and forgot/we had to leave. Darn. Anyways, I love these things! Today i got Warwolf and Iguanus carded at ChrisCon and all 3 of series 1 loose complete at Toy Vault! Manimals Day I guess lol. Lifetime grail. So happy. Can't wait to watch this video again now lol.
man, I love these videos of oddities maybe next they talk about the unreleased "Warriors of the Forgotten Sewer" toyline from Teenage Mutant ninja turtles
Ahhh... no wonder I'd never heard of these things before; I was graduating from high school in '94 and had stopped paying attention to GI JOE figures around '90. I remember the last batch of GI JOE stuff I ever bought were figures like Night Vipers, Range Vipers with the skull helmets, HEAT Vipers, Metal Head, and a bunch of members of Destro's Iron Grenadiers group. I absolutely loved the Iron Grenadiers as a group, and especially the base IG trooper figures; so rad- all in black with a red mask, red half-cape, and even a sword on their hip! And the Annihilators with their crazy helicopter backpacks. And the IG vehicles were just as great, like the A.G.P., Destro's mini-jet thing that mounted onto the D.E.M.O.N. tank, and Destro's cousin whats's-his-name being the driver for something. It seemed like GI JOE was going all crazy sci-fi at that point and I loved it... well, more sci-fi than it always had been, anyway. Then we moved that year and I just lost track of everything and I guess that just sucked the wind out of it all for me. Too bad, too; I had been loving all the crazy stuff they'd been putting out ever since the Alley Viper with its dazzle camouflage. Ironically, as even I was losing touch with the figures I was getting really into the GI JOE comics, and I was realizing that not only were the comics a whole lot better, but Scarlett was actually hooked up with Snake Eyes in the comics, unlike the vague hints of a relationship between her and Duke in the cartoon. And most important of all I realized that Snake Eyes was THE coolest badass in GI JOE, even though they barely even used him at all in the cartoon. That may seem absurdly self-evident today, but to a kind who was only just starting to read the comics and had only ever known the story from the cartoons back in the '80s it was kind of mind blowing. I think the first issue I ever read was actually the silent issue that followed Snake Eyes as he broke into a high-security hospital to see Scarlett, who had been shot (By the Baroness I think? Maybe? I can't really remember.) At the end of the issue he finally found her in a coma hooked up to medical devices keeping her alive, and as he crumpled to the floor beside her bed the only dialogue in the whole issue was Snake Eyes forcing out a broken whisper of her name through the wreckage of his mangled vocal cords. It was the perfect issue to get a 13/14 year-old me drawn in and hooked.
I see your Falcon sir. Manimal who could shift into any type of animal he chose, but only became a hawk, a panther and that's all I remember. Bravestarr was a better skinwalker than Manamal. One of the things I loved about teh 90's was when they made toys for movies, that kids were too young to watch. Robocop, Terminator and Aliens. Man this Yoututbe channel has yet to make something that i didnt know about or they reminded me or and I remembered. I love this place!
@Mr. Al eh we'll see. Yo can't f**k up Power Rangers more than it was during the Neo-Saban era so I'm guessing Hasbro might actually pullit off. MLP on the other hand is troubling in the sense that they have the option of going with the human kids of the spin-off or just going full on horse so who kmows what might happen. Hopefully they'll stay true to the spirit of all franchises and wotking everything out so it runs smoothly.
I had a Slither figure and I indeed got it at Kaybee Toys and it was one of my favorite action figures but I was always perplexed by the fact that it was somehow related to GIJOE, according to the packaging :P
Back in maybe 2001 or 2002 I found a Warwolf figure for 50¢ at an Ames department store that was closing down. I had no idea what the Manimals line was supposed to be, I just found it hilarious that a character called “Warwolf” turned into a lizard person. I’d kept it in the original blister pack and wound up selling it to a collector friend years ago, I kinda regret that but he did give me $5 for it.
Dan, cool episode as always! I love those goofy old shows like Manimal. Would it be possible to compose an episode on properties like that, that only had one or two action figures produced? I'm thinking Automan, Greatest American Hero, Mork.... And, uhh, Captain Steubing?
Having a pretty shit day. Seeing this video made it better. I needed a little nostalgia trip and a smile. Thanks Dan and Greg and anyone else involved.
I had Lobotomaxx when i was a kid (he was pretty dope) and I'm pretty sure the Manimals were featured on the back of the package as 'coming soon!' and I was pretty stoked...but then they never did(ish).
I remember seeing manimals on shelves. And I also remember animorph figures... they were transformers but I think since G.I. Joe -> Micronauts -> Transformers -> Animorphs. Then animorphs are Gi joes too in a way
if you time it just right. you can see our host holding a Hawk. and dressed like in a style straight out of the 80s. no kidding. when he says minimal, you get to hit the pause at M.
Looking at the quality of the toys, the Manimals line would have died even without the Power Rangers boom. Rather than part of a major name-brand line, the bendy arms Manimals figures look like something you'd find sold in a plastic bag stapled closed with a piece of cardboard labeled "Space Aliens".
@@KasumiKenshirou I thought the same about the gator(?) prototype. The Ghostbusters figures were already pretty lazy generic designs, and weren't they released something like 5+ years before Manimals?
Personally, the day I saw these was the day I was done playing with toys. Until I was like 30. Then, back to toys. I remember loving the theme song to that TV show tho.
When I clicked on the video, I was expecting this to be about a line of weird animal-man hybrids I saw in the toy aisles when I was a kid. By the time the video ended, I remembered "Oh no, I'm thinking of the Cobra-La line." I don't know if you've done that one.
Manimals(like Sgt. Savage) would've been a great line(for me). The slightly larger scale was good as well. What I didn't like was the balljoint legs & the end of Orings(with the screws in the back for the possibility of changing parts). If Hasbro revamps this line with Orings, I would buy them in a heartbeat.👍
I actually had the big robot, but the drop in quality on the Star Brigade figures was a big reason my love affair with G.I. Joe was temporarily put on ice.
What were those giant monsters that came with a sort of play-doh, had casts in their gut for 'bombs', and had catapult arms? The Joe figures had casts for sort of organic armor of the same compound.
Iguanus and Spasma were Transformers names too. Hasbro actually reuses names between different names a lot. (For example Air Raid, Airwave, Barricade, Bulletproof, Checkpoint, Hardtop, Inferno, Longarm, Mainframe, Mirage, and Roadblock are all names shared between three specific lines; Transformers, G.I. Joe, and C.O.P.S.)
At him actually the Joe's of the Real American Hero era first went to space in pyramid of Darkness where they fought cute little mutant Gremlin things that turned into giant ogres with whips and Flames coming out of your mouth LOL:-)
As a former KB manager, I can safely and assuredly tell you it wasn’t the Manimals line that led to the downfall. I didn’t hit my quota of Rayovac batteries on a Tuesday in 2006.
I think all of us former KB Toys managers should have a support group. I still have singing hamster flashbacks...
Huh, I thought it was because I couldn't sell enough of those stupid crystal chess sets we had a billion of
@@kingcheerio8558 made of the sharpest glass, in cardboard boxes that were essentially held together with hope.
I worked for KB, and my managers were stealing money from the company!
Ome thing that bugged me about Kay Bee is the big pile of rubber snakes right at the checkout counter. Being ophidiophobic, it was very difficult for me to apprach the counter to buy anything. Knowing they couldn't hurt me didn't help. It's a phobia.
I remember seeing some of these on shelves, and thinking, "GI Joe has realllllly jumped the shark....", and almost literally too!
the 1992 version of the Cobra Eel came with a metal shark he could wear as a backpack that shot a missile out of its mouth. it is kinda awesome in its dumbness.
Man, looking back on it, the toy shelves of the 90s really were like the wild west. So much bizarre stuff back then.
Ha as a former kb toy employee I actually bought that warwolf figure the last day our store closed it was literally the last figure out store had
The best things I found in the demise of Kay-Bee were the build-a-figure Universal Monsters, McFarlane Metallica figures, and the beginning of the G.I. Joe 2-packs of 25th Anniversary collection. In the very last days there were almost nothing left but metal (toy?) handcuffs.
I must have never came to my senses. I still love the Manimal TV show! Then again, I thought Automan wasn't that bad either......
At least you aren't saying Turbo Teen was good.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio I have washed my memories of that Cartoon! The movie Turbo Kid is great though....
@@lsgreger2645 I was not aware of a movie, my goodness.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio no... Turbo Kid has nothing to do with the show. It is way better than that!
Super force, Captain Power, Sable
2:47 - I loved Manimal, me and my Dad use to watch it on Friday nights.
Lobotomaxx sounds like an over the counter pill for migraine.
Seriously, the real tragedy here is that Manimal only got 8 episodes, at least ManiManiManimals got toys.
Wow, we’ve officially crossed into the era of oddities so out of my wheelhouse, I genuinely wonder if I’ve slipped Mandela tracks.
Right? This guy posts up toy lines and I ask myself how could I have no memory of these things, especially since back then there were only like 13 channels on TV and things were easier to keep track of. I do remember Manimal the TV show tho.
Right
The older & further disillusioned with the world I become, the more appealing these whacked-out designs become.
WOW! I didn't even know manimals was a thing!!!! I do however remember the show Manimal!! lol
Yes!!!! One of my favorite segments you guys produce!!!😁😁😁. Thanks for another great episode 👍
Even a hummingbird couldn't catch -Tyler- Greg at work.
True story; when one of my best ever dudes got married I got for him for his wedding present a carded Lobotomaxx figure.
That's it. That's the whole story.
I’m inviting you to my next wedding!
.......say no more.....it’s....it’s an amazing story
Manimals in wave 2 of G I Joe Classified
Came for the mention of the 80’s Manimal TV series, was not disappointed. Well done, Dan!
You know a channel is good when even though you’re not invested in the topic you still watch the video and enjoy it.
As always Dan another great oddity! Love to see something done about the line Air Raiders!
I like the way the way Dan's top folds in the middle like a Manimal
Yes thank you! I saw these years ago in a Kaybee Toys! Especially the names Predacon and Iguanus.
I certainly know of the Manimals. I'd seen pictures of the originals, but never imagined that I'd own any of them as they were released in very small numbers just as the line was cancelled and during the late 90's they commanded a hefty price on the secondary market. It was the high secondary market prices that no doubt convinced both Hasbro and KB Toys to release them as exclusives. Believing the high prices spoke of their desirability rather then simply their scarcity. Still, I bought the three that were released by KB, and frankly, I loved them! They were monster figures for your GI Joes to fight, far better then the Mega Marines monsters that one dinosaur. Didn't like them being aliens? So ignore it! Use them as genetically engineered Cobra creatures or as additionally members of Cobra-La, they were awesome IMHO.
This is when I checked out on Joe.
I checked out when Cobra-La come out
Good Move! G. I. Joe Leaped the shark with Cobra La & the 1990s era line just played out the ARAH line with Eco Warriors/Ninja Force.
@Lassi Kinnunen Dont think so.
I checked out 92-93..
@@daemian2k I really enjoyed the movie but it also totally killed the line. Nothing that came after was worth watching,
@Mark Grant What? Seriously? Also what? What are you talking about? How is it against any law? Seriously are you some weird creep who assumes teenagers dating are doing something wrong? What is wrong with you?
I had some of them back in the day. Notice how some of them had Transformers names like Vortex, Spasma and Iguanus.
It is actually a common misconception that some of the original 94 Manimals made it to stores. The ones that are in collectors' hands are actually all production samples, even the carded ones.
I want a Manimals figure that looks like Dan and then transforms into Simon MacCorkindale 👍🏽
Oh crap! Dan, I go to look up Manimals on TH-cam and first result was you lol. I got them carded at Chris Con today and saw you there (met you last year at Chris con though).
Dangit! I so badly wanted to come show you these today and forgot/we had to leave. Darn.
Anyways, I love these things! Today i got Warwolf and Iguanus carded at ChrisCon and all 3 of series 1 loose complete at Toy Vault! Manimals Day I guess lol. Lifetime grail. So happy. Can't wait to watch this video again now lol.
man, I love these videos of oddities
maybe next they talk about the unreleased "Warriors of the Forgotten Sewer" toyline from Teenage Mutant ninja turtles
Ahhh... no wonder I'd never heard of these things before; I was graduating from high school in '94 and had stopped paying attention to GI JOE figures around '90. I remember the last batch of GI JOE stuff I ever bought were figures like Night Vipers, Range Vipers with the skull helmets, HEAT Vipers, Metal Head, and a bunch of members of Destro's Iron Grenadiers group. I absolutely loved the Iron Grenadiers as a group, and especially the base IG trooper figures; so rad- all in black with a red mask, red half-cape, and even a sword on their hip! And the Annihilators with their crazy helicopter backpacks. And the IG vehicles were just as great, like the A.G.P., Destro's mini-jet thing that mounted onto the D.E.M.O.N. tank, and Destro's cousin whats's-his-name being the driver for something. It seemed like GI JOE was going all crazy sci-fi at that point and I loved it... well, more sci-fi than it always had been, anyway.
Then we moved that year and I just lost track of everything and I guess that just sucked the wind out of it all for me. Too bad, too; I had been loving all the crazy stuff they'd been putting out ever since the Alley Viper with its dazzle camouflage.
Ironically, as even I was losing touch with the figures I was getting really into the GI JOE comics, and I was realizing that not only were the comics a whole lot better, but Scarlett was actually hooked up with Snake Eyes in the comics, unlike the vague hints of a relationship between her and Duke in the cartoon. And most important of all I realized that Snake Eyes was THE coolest badass in GI JOE, even though they barely even used him at all in the cartoon. That may seem absurdly self-evident today, but to a kind who was only just starting to read the comics and had only ever known the story from the cartoons back in the '80s it was kind of mind blowing.
I think the first issue I ever read was actually the silent issue that followed Snake Eyes as he broke into a high-security hospital to see Scarlett, who had been shot (By the Baroness I think? Maybe? I can't really remember.) At the end of the issue he finally found her in a coma hooked up to medical devices keeping her alive, and as he crumpled to the floor beside her bed the only dialogue in the whole issue was Snake Eyes forcing out a broken whisper of her name through the wreckage of his mangled vocal cords. It was the perfect issue to get a 13/14 year-old me drawn in and hooked.
Darklon's Evader.
@@markirizarry4851 That's it! :)
You were pretty sneaky, but I captured that falcon Dan picture. :D
I bought two of the three back when they released! Slythor and Iguanas. They were so weird I had to get them. I still have them in my spare closet.
Great vid! Love that the prototype was Headhunter from the RoboCop line, lol.
I see your Falcon sir. Manimal who could shift into any type of animal he chose, but only became a hawk, a panther and that's all I remember. Bravestarr was a better skinwalker than Manamal. One of the things I loved about teh 90's was when they made toys for movies, that kids were too young to watch. Robocop, Terminator and Aliens. Man this Yoututbe channel has yet to make something that i didnt know about or they reminded me or and I remembered. I love this place!
Wow! I never knew there were variants of the Space Brigade figures! Here in Mexico, Carcass was released in a badass all black colour.
Cant wait for the Hasbro Cinematic universe.
@Mr. Al eh we'll see. Yo can't f**k up Power Rangers more than it was during the Neo-Saban era so I'm guessing Hasbro might actually pullit off. MLP on the other hand is troubling in the sense that they have the option of going with the human kids of the spin-off or just going full on horse so who kmows what might happen. Hopefully they'll stay true to the spirit of all franchises and wotking everything out so it runs smoothly.
I slowed down the vid to see Dan with a hawk which was great but gotta admit, hearing Dan sounding drunk was hilarious!
Carcass reminds me of the Zando-Zan from the Last Starfighter.
Thank you! I knew he reminded me of someone. I was thinking someone off of V- the 80's TV show that is.
Speaking of which, where is our TLS toy line? It's been 36 years. Come on Super 7.
Every toy line seems to have their "jump the shark" moment where as a collector (or kid) you furrow your brow and sadly realize... it's over.
Mark my words, LEGO will never survive the introduction of the L piece
I had a Slither figure and I indeed got it at Kaybee Toys and it was one of my favorite action figures but I was always perplexed by the fact that it was somehow related to GIJOE, according to the packaging :P
Let’s face it, “Spasma” isn’t a threatening villain name.
😂
Great for a Spaceballs follow-up though. Rise of the First Odor or some ****. Silver stormtrooper Captain Spasma.
... unless your a chiropractor . 🤭
The next time one of my coworkers screws up I'm going to say "Way to go, Spasma!"
Spoken like someone who's never eaten a bowl of soup in the nude
Sounds like a spasm while having asthma attack.
Back in maybe 2001 or 2002 I found a Warwolf figure for 50¢ at an Ames department store that was closing down. I had no idea what the Manimals line was supposed to be, I just found it hilarious that a character called “Warwolf” turned into a lizard person. I’d kept it in the original blister pack and wound up selling it to a collector friend years ago, I kinda regret that but he did give me $5 for it.
I love my joes but barely remember these! I was 14 at the time so maybe that explains it somewhat. great video! learned a lot. RIP KB toys
If only the modern Dino Showdown GI Joe/ Jurassic Park was more widely released
Dan, cool episode as always! I love those goofy old shows like Manimal. Would it be possible to compose an episode on properties like that, that only had one or two action figures produced? I'm thinking Automan, Greatest American Hero, Mork.... And, uhh, Captain Steubing?
Someone had the prototypes at the GI JOE convention in Providence, RI years ago. I wish I had the funds back then.
That theme music sounds so familiar. Strange that i can't recognize the doggone thing. Like some Mike Myers Halloween or Freddy eerie vibe!
I've heard stranger things.
@@ILoooooveCamels i was rewatching The Shining. You could listen to the score without seeing a single frame of the movie and still get freaked out!
Having a pretty shit day. Seeing this video made it better. I needed a little nostalgia trip and a smile. Thanks Dan and Greg and anyone else involved.
Hugs stranger. Almost the weekend!
@@snipexd4964 Thanks, buddy. I appreciate it.
Ditto that, Paul. Work today was like getting a rectal exam from a Dr. w/cacti for hands. I needed some old school toy goodness as salve.
I had Lobotomaxx when i was a kid (he was pretty dope) and I'm pretty sure the Manimals were featured on the back of the package as 'coming soon!' and I was pretty stoked...but then they never did(ish).
Whatever illness spawned Raptor back in '86 had advanced aggressively by '95, finally killing the host.
As always, RIP KB
Ugh... the 90's. Almost every popular 80's toy line received an "extreeeme, brightly hot-colored and/or ecologically-themed upgrade".
And now, I love it
I worked at KB,we had Manimals up until the last day the store was open.
I remember seeing manimals on shelves. And I also remember animorph figures... they were transformers but I think since G.I. Joe -> Micronauts -> Transformers -> Animorphs. Then animorphs are Gi joes too in a way
Wasn't the idea of the Manimals used to create the Beast Wars Transformers?
Isn't iguanas a pretender?
if you time it just right. you can see our host holding a Hawk. and dressed like in a style straight out of the 80s. no kidding. when he says minimal, you get to hit the pause at M.
Looking at the quality of the toys, the Manimals line would have died even without the Power Rangers boom. Rather than part of a major name-brand line, the bendy arms Manimals figures look like something you'd find sold in a plastic bag stapled closed with a piece of cardboard labeled "Space Aliens".
@@KasumiKenshirou I thought the same about the gator(?) prototype. The Ghostbusters figures were already pretty lazy generic designs, and weren't they released something like 5+ years before Manimals?
R.I.P KB TOYS, you are def. missed in Cali
I'm so glad I missed out on this garbage.
Thank you for reporting this.....stuff.
Hope you recover soon!
The #1 oddity. Lifeline and the Desert eagle pistol he came with.
War....War never changes... These figures would be ideal to have a Fallout inspired GI JOE setup/play session.
"Cough" The Decepticons "Cough"
This was the jumping the shark moment for G.I.Joe, thank god the Marvel comic had ended its run before they integrated these atrocities.
Personally, the day I saw these was the day I was done playing with toys. Until I was like 30. Then, back to toys. I remember loving the theme song to that TV show tho.
Reminds me of those Ghostbusters toys that transformed from person to weird ghost monster person
Star brigade package art is sick
When I clicked on the video, I was expecting this to be about a line of weird animal-man hybrids I saw in the toy aisles when I was a kid. By the time the video ended, I remembered "Oh no, I'm thinking of the Cobra-La line." I don't know if you've done that one.
Manimal was great.
Part of the Star Brigade line. Who knew Kaybee would snag these, and be worse than Lobotomaxx.
love your Oddities sir :)
Manimals(like Sgt. Savage) would've been a great line(for me). The slightly larger scale was good as well. What I didn't like was the balljoint legs & the end of Orings(with the screws in the back for the possibility of changing parts). If Hasbro revamps this line with Orings, I would buy them in a heartbeat.👍
I actually had the big robot, but the drop in quality on the Star Brigade figures was a big reason my love affair with G.I. Joe was temporarily put on ice.
What were those giant monsters that came with a sort of play-doh, had casts in their gut for 'bombs', and had catapult arms? The Joe figures had casts for sort of organic armor of the same compound.
Weird cool G.I. Joe toy line.
However, they are not as cool weird as the warriors of Cobra-La.
Now you know...
And knowing is half the battle!
Pork chop sandwiches!
Zigzag was the only one that had papers.... *RIMSHOT!*
Wow, this is even incredibly weirder than when Hasbro reinvented GI Joe as Super Joe in the late 70s.
Vortex, Spasma, Iguanus, Predacon... are murderous aliens just big Transformers fans?
Id love to see a video on the gijoe mutants subline with all the play doh gimmicks
3:27 That's HeadHunter from Robocop!
I would love to see a video on the rise and fall of Lionel Kiddy City 🦘
I wished they'd released Vortex he looked really cool
Lobotamax is the best villain name of all time.
‘Spasma’? ‘Predacon’? So Hasbro were plundering their Transformers back catalogue for character names? No, ta.
Ninja Force/Eco Warriors/the Dreadnoks & Cobra La/DEF all undermined the ARAH line, and Manimals just made it Worst.
At minute 1:31 there is a new pic hiding in there lol, nice one.
I guarantee, any Joe on the team would shit himself in screaming maniacal fear, if Spasma came running at him. XD
So they named one of them after a subspecies of Decepticons. This must have been when G.I. Joe and Transformers were running out of ideas for names.
Iguanus and Spasma were Transformers names too.
Hasbro actually reuses names between different names a lot. (For example Air Raid, Airwave, Barricade, Bulletproof, Checkpoint, Hardtop, Inferno, Longarm, Mainframe, Mirage, and Roadblock are all names shared between three specific lines; Transformers, G.I. Joe, and C.O.P.S.)
Ahh Manimals. The series that killed the entire G.I. Joe line. It figures.
underrated pun!
Wait wait wait... who named a character Spasma; you're fired!
At him actually the Joe's of the Real American Hero era first went to space in pyramid of Darkness where they fought cute little mutant Gremlin things that turned into giant ogres with whips and Flames coming out of your mouth LOL:-)
I wish those other 3 had gotten released I think I've only seen them on ebay maybe once in prototype form ..
These are radical!!!! I want them All
I use to have to shuttle! Was huge! I got one mamanal figures still unopened. Wasn’t too crazy but looked interesting
Space war. Got the GI Joe robot unopen and open. Few others. That’s life
Sure, you've covered GI Joe Manimals, but what about GI Joe Automans or GI Joe The Phoenixes or even GI Joe Misfits Of Sciences?
I bought the KB Toys wave 1 Manimals for CHEAP when they were all discounted and piled into a bin. They were so weird, I figured, why not?
kaybee toys sigh , how i miss those stores
I get so excited when I get this notification. I feel like a kid again as I watch . Thank you
Same!
Lobotomax is easily the coolest name for anything ever.
I see your GI Joe Manimals Lobotomaxx and raise you a Xevoz Hemogoblin.
Oh.
Oh wow. Star Brigade is much better than Space Force.
I'm not a huge fan of the 90's Joes but these guys were pretty cool!
What? No mention of G.I. Joes answer to the Manimals called the Replicators?
I had a few of these toys. Always wondered what the story behind them was.
I have no memory of this. Also, I thought this was going to be the TV show.