Itt: We post toy lines that deserve a reboot
>>11584935Bionicle
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ReBoot. I think the line actually lost articulation as it went along. Stupid Irwin.
>>11584942This.
>>11584935Are there any modern toy lines that have vibes like this?
>>11585175Not really. Only things based on proven IPs with movies, tv shows or video games get made now. The only unique, cool stuff being made is by small companies, and then you get stuck paying like $40-50 for a figure that would have cost you like $20 at retail by a bigger company. Companies like Boss Fight, 4Horseman, Fresh Monkey, etc.
>>11585007Staction figures were the big thing around 2000 after all. Toy Biz were the rebels going all in on articulation.
>>11584935imagine modern super-pose-able versions of The Other World figures like Star Wars Black Series or G.I.Joe Classified. it would be so epic and lol-what at the same timeot they could do bendy figures at the dollar store, too. if they want
InhumanoidsExtreme Dinosaurs
>>11585175Masters of the Universe
>>11584935This looks cool as fuck, what is it?
>>11585469Oof....thanks I feel old now
>>11585582Hologram stickers in general are long over-due for a comeback. The only people who make them now are for official authentic seals on various items.
>>11585582I had these two as a kid. Completely forgot about them until this thread.
Visionaries
>>11584935Battle BeastsMonsters in my PocketStikfas/Xevoz/SkeleflexCreepy FreaksMighty MaxMarx toys styled playsets
the Starriors snake fortress was epicand the bird thing that controlled the red disc-shooting dinosaur made the coolest click noise when you pressed it's head
>>11585469A huge nothing burger redeemed only by a so so playset which was the front of a crypt and a coffin that you could put figures in but requires a key to open
>>11584957Have the pre cartoon mini comics that came with the toys ever been scanned? I remember that they were way more interesting than the cartoon lore, as it was a 2000AD inspired apocalypse setting with square jawed military guys in the lightning league fighting the monster minds, who were vague Lovecraft type horrors driven by maggots the size of small kids
>>11584935mad science
>>11586741This line was cool, and the comic book mini-series made it cooler. It was just so short-lived.
>>11586788>Have the pre cartoon mini comics that came with the toys ever been scanned?I don't think they have been.
>>11584935Supernaturals and Visionaries both had the hologram gimmick, were both released the same year, and only lasted for a year before getting cancelled because both lines somehow failed at retail even though the popularity of MOTU and Transformers was waning.
>>11586931Hologram toys age badly though I'd like a modern revival of both, but they were still kinda lame, they didn't have the punk rock feel of MotU.
>>11586936>they didn't have the punk rock feel of MotU.im begging you to stop taking hrt and start lifting.
>>11586931Ninja Turtles were huge in 1987. They stomped all over everything. Throw in the Real Ghostbusters. Plus Nintendo NES was really going strong at that point.
>>11586936I could understand them not being able to compete with "the punk rock feel of MOTU", as you put it, if it was competing with MOTU in it's heyday. But this was 87, the year that the Dolph Lundgren movie poisoned the brand at the same time that parents couldn't find He-man and Skeletor on the shelves and didn't want to buy literal whos like Clamp Champ and Blast Attack.
>>11586950>Ninja Turtles were huge in 1987The cartoon was, but the toys weren't on the shelf until 88.
>>11586936How was MOTU punk? I am genuinely curious. And holograms eventually got cheap enough to do cereal boxes and magazine covers with. Yeah it was a gimmick but it's a cooler gimmick than anything out right now, and you have a good two generations who were never exposed to it beyond a few "seals of authenticity."
>>11586956Goddamn, I'd forgotten how rad holograms are.
>>11586741>>11586915Starriors deserved better. Next to Robotix they were the only particularly interesting TF competitors.
>>11587006They had no cartoon to help the kids get to know the characters and story, and only a short-lived comic book that depended on the kids who actually read comic books. And back then every cartoon was an infomercial for the toys to where kids grew mentaly dependent on having a cartoon to help them get into appreciating a given toy line.
>>11586915I picked these up for the cover art alone, bill sienkiewicz is dope
>>11587054Agreed. It really was a good mini-series.
-Primal Rage. Modern articulation with improved sculpts (not as in scientifically-accurate, just more screen-accurate than some of the soft-sculpts turned out to be when they made figures like Talon). Mattel has the engineering for this line down pat, but Neca could do it too given their Kong Kong and the later Kenner xenos’ engineering.-That toyline in the early/mid 90s that welded plastic parts to cars for crashing and exploding them. I always forget the name of it, but would love a modern remake with less cancerous fumes but still with the welding device’s gimmick.-Kenner Aliens, Predators, and Marines done as a crossover line with GI Joe Classified series, using toy-versions of the human characters to avoid likeness rights (especially Ripley).
>>11586956it still blows my mind that Nintendo made a screen that had perfectly good 3D effects without the need for glasses. and... it fizzled away.how are all screens not like that yet? at least... some of them? a couple? nope? none.so yeah, it's confusing that those hologram pictures are not more common, too. good going for a toy company to see they could maybe do something fun with the tech, at least for a small moment
>>11587168>-That toyline in the early/mid 90s that welded plastic parts to cars for crashing and exploding them. I always forget the name of it, but would love a modern remake with less cancerous fumes but still with the welding device’s gimmick."Crash Test Dummies."
>>11587262>... it fizzled away.You can download 3-D wallpapers that work the same way for your phone with no mods to the phone itself. It's tech that's possible for even TV because of it, yet no one wants to touch it.
>>11587018Plenty of good points there. I tried getting in Zoids to fill the void Starriors left behind, but Zoids lore just doesnt compare. Why cant the japanese let robots be characters?
>>11587168>>11587310Playmates sort of made something like CTD in "Stuntman Stu". Stu himself doesnt blow apart but his vehicles do.
>>11587318They did a lot. Some of their earliest animes like Astro Boy were of robot characters. And it was Tomy itself who presented Starriors as living robots in spite of the human-shaped pilot inside. That got explained in the comic books as them all having human-shaped "brains" to remind them that their purpose is to seek out lost remnants of human civilization as well as humans themselves kept in cryo-stasis. The problem was no media support to go against Transformers, GI Joe, He-Man/She-Ra, GoBots, Thundercats, and MASK playing five days a week to keep kids focused on their shit. Not even Star Wars survived that era with how powerful daily infomercial cartoons had become.
>>11587322LMAO they ripped-off the STP logo!
>>11587262No one gave a fuck about the 3d effects on the 3ds and the few which made use of it was panned for giving people headaches/being gratuitous.It was an open secret that the 3d aspect of the 3ds was a Trojan horse to force people to buy a new Nintendo handheld designed to go head to head with the PSP and Vita.
>>11587331>>11587114>>11587018Starriors was super fucking dark making it doomed to fail. Especially the pack in comics >>The heroes had drill/blade weapons but had been shackled by pacifist programing that made it impossible for them to use them to fight or even defend themselves with them or defend themselves period. So they were forever running and being picked off one by one>>The main villains jailbroke themselves from their pacifist programing and COULD kill and did>>Several of the bad guys are only there because the main villain is forcing them to be evil by threatening to restore their pacifist programing and torturing them until they are begging for the sweet release of death>>The blind dinosaur and his blind/mute bird that serve as his eyes only work for the bad guys because he promised to restore their voice/hearing and sight. But he never intended to do so and the deaf mute bird get killed and the dinosaur killed when the main villain realizes how useless he was without the bird working as his eyes.>>One underling who was forced to join the bad guys against his will is forced against his will to have his mind transferred into the crippled body of a dead good guy, then forced to infiltrate the good guys. When he tries to rebel and defect to the good guys via fully embracing the identity of the hero who's body he is trapped in, the bad guys capture him and not only forcibly transfer his mind back into his old body but also has all of his memories and personality erased purely for sadism's sake, rendering the poor fucker with no identity or memory of who he is and only knowing his name due to the main villain's second in command telling him it.
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>>11587515>No one gave a fuck about the 3d effects on the 3dsobviously, that's why the tech fizzledit doesn't remove the real fact that it exists and worked.motion sickness aside from the moving images, the 3DS had a 3D camera that took 3D pictures. I still have some museum pics that are mind blowing. the Enterprise in the Smithsonian?! like you can reach in and touch it! the only place I can look at them is on my old 3DS tho...>It was an open secret that the 3d aspect of the 3ds was a ...yeah obviously it wasn't "useful" for any kind of gaming purposes. like making it 3D was going to help with the gameplay? ridiculous. but it LOOKED amazing anyway. a different sort of un-top-able graphics upgrade the competition didn't have
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>>11587534the simple wind-up functions were so creatively used in these. spinning blades was the coolestthe small cars had pull-back zoom-forward things.I fear if a modern company did these, those functions would be left out
>>11587550You just need to know what goes and than you can create easy but nice looking effects.Those functions are too mich relying on a person putting it together. And today manpower is too ecpensive.
>>11587310>>11587322Nah, these were toys that used a mini soldering iron or arc-welding device to literally melt plastic accessories onto the vehicles for a weak bond that you were intentionally supposed to cause these extra parts to break off and then re-weld back on.
>>11587628Power Spark?
>>11587318>I tried getting in Zoids to fill the void Starriors left behind, but Zoids lore just doesnt compare.look up the Marvel UK Zoids comics for something that might be more your style
>>11587331>Not even Star Wars survived that era with how powerful daily infomercial cartoons had become.that's more because George Lucas more or less forced Kenner to kill the line as he wouldn't give approval for new toys because he was "done with Star Wars" which in truth was him being butthurt about how good a deal Kenner had gotten before the first Star Wars and he wanted more of the money the toys were making so he let Star Wars as an IP run fallow for the rest of the 80's through the beginning of the 90's(aside from the West End RPG and some of the earliest EU novels), and of course within a year or so of Kenner's original contract expiring in the early 90's, George suddenly announces that he's ready to do the prequels(he'd claim its because he was waiting for computer graphics to catch up with what he'd wanted but that's a pile of BS), resulting in Hasbro(who'd recently purchased Kenner) having to negotiate a whole new contract that gave a lot more money to George(which is why Hasbro flooded the market with product so much for Phantom Menace, which of course hideously backfired)>>11587515>It was an open secret that the 3d aspect of the 3ds was a Trojan horse to force people to buy a new Nintendo handheldthat's been the case for basically every gimmick that Nintendo adds to their consoles, pretty much only the Wii motion controls and the Switch Joycons really managed to avoid that to any meaningful degree
>>11587788That's not true. Kenner was set to produce all-new toys including new figures as well as new vehicles such as the blockade runner, a modified AT-AT, and other stuff. But they cancelled it after SW got beaten so bad by GI Joe and Transformers that most kids didn't hardly notice that Star Wars was still in stores. Kenner then coughed up MASK as a last-minute "save our asses" toy line, and it worked.
>>11587788>that's more because George Lucas more or less forced Kenner to kill the line as he wouldn't give approval for new toys because he was "done with Star Wars" which in truth was him being butthurt about how good a deal Kenner had gotten before the first Star Wars and he wanted more of the money the toys were makingThis might be the most insanely wrong thing I've ever read on this entire website. You aren't even worth correcting.
>>11587915To be more exact, Kenner pitched a Clone Wars toy line reset for the franchise back when the Clone Wars was about evil Clones vs Jedi not Clones and Jedi vs Space Confederates, Robots, and. Palpatine. With the added plot point that Han Solo would volunteer his DNA so the New Republic could create their own clone army.Lucas rejected it because he didn't like Kenner making their own SW lore combined with Kenner throwing their hands up afterwards to cancel the line because of He-Man, TF, and GI Joes kicking Star Wars asses and both Ewoks and Droids (ucas's counter proposals) flopping.
>>11588126>Lucas rejected it because he didn't like Kenner making their own SW loreYet he allowed book publishers to do it all the time with books like "Han Solo's Revenge" and "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" as well as Marvel Comics running their own SW lore.
>>11588126Why are people so confidently wrong about what Kenner had planned? This shit is well known, with the only point of contention being what actually happened in the pitch meeting and why it was rejected.It was going to be set after RotJ, and it's connection to the Clone Wars was the main antagonist named Atha Prime being a geneticist that was one of the architects of the Clone Wars.Also, somehow Grand Moff Tarkin returned.https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Epic_Continues>With the added plot point that Han Solo would volunteer his DNA so the New Republic could create their own clone army.I don't remember hearing that ever being a potential plot point. Got a source?
>>11586915>>11587018>>11587114>>11587331I love this guys cover art.Id enjoy a spiral zone reboot. I think it could be done, but itd probably end up costing far more than id imagine if you tried to recreate the og versions. And ill forever wait for a damn micronauts/micro man/henshin cyborg reboot.
>>11587761YES. That’s the one.
>>11587761Whatever happened to sparking as an action figure accessory anyway? I used to love my Megavolt.
>>11588250I heard it was banned sometime in the early aughts for being a fire hazard. A similar situation applies to cap guns.
>>11588241You're welcome anon
>>115882501991 Flicker and Flash Rollerblade Barbie. I can't find if there was actual incident that caused it to be banned (there was an urban myth that a girl set her younger sibling alight accidentally), but it was proven that a kid could potentially start a fire with her.
>>11588240Takara redid in the late 90s/early 00s. Their 2005 line ended up being copied by Hasbro for the ultra-articulated Joe bodies shortly afterwards.
>>11587534It's no Starrior, but 30MM Forestieri looks like Hot Shot. I thought I'd say it here in case it strikes a starriorfag's fancy. Forestieri is modular, what with being a kit that you put together, so you may be able to customize it further.
>>11588400Starriors is most likely an abandoned brand with expired copyrights at this point, so if Takara/Tomy don't want to revisit it then hopefully someone else will.
