Your favorite action figure/doll from your youth(or now, i guess)

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We've had "list your fave toy" threads, but I wanted to narrow this one down. What was(is) your favorite action figure or doll that you had as a youngling?

Since I was born in the mid 70s, i grew up with Star Wars stuff.
Thus, my faves:

Luke Skywalker in Hoth Gear
Tie Fighter Pilot
Lego Spaceman (gold)

(post pics of it if you like)

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.micro-outpost.com/pictures/aliens/antronsmall.jpg

http://www.toyskeeper.com/pics/micronauts/pharoid.jpg

http://www.thisoldtoy.com/fisher-price/adventure-series/fpt-1121-gorilla-2.jpg

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

is that a Micronaut?

...it is!

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sover.net/~dwhitman/Images/lone2.jpg

I had a few Marx figures, but the Lone Ranger seemed to be the favorite.. I had Tonto and Silver too, and all the accoutrements.

I had the Marx Viking but for some reason I didn't like it as much, though I'd love one now.

― andy, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Han Solo, who used to often get frozen in a plastic cup of water.

Hammerhead, just because he was so freaky.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.buyoldtoys.com/forsale/slu/images/MVC-764F_JPG.jpg

Here's the Marx Viking as he might appear in a toy burial mound, with all his worldly plastic goods.

― andy, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow - that Viking had a lot of stuff. I would have liked that, I think.

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The top 2 were Micronauts - my version of the second one (Pharoid) was gray and black, though, and it doesn't show the time chamber, which was the best part (a plastic sarcophagus!). Also, for some reason, the Fisher-Price gorilla is standing on his hind legs in the third picture. Mine did that sometimes, too, when he felt like it, but then again, so did the zebra and giraffe.

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Han in ice was a popular theme. My fave was freezing my little die-cast Han-in-carbonite thing in one of those plastic containers filled with water.

in fact, i had the entire die-cast Bespin set(and my bro had die-cast Hoth) til mom threw them out.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I put my micronaut on a boat that I made out of balsa wood and floated him down the storm sewer in sacramento. the fucker never came back. I still want him!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Jem was truly, truly outrageous.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

micronauts have been reissued. didnt sell that well though. /loser

my vote isfor the GOdzilla i had on wheels who had a projectile fist

― ke[hm (kephm), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember wanting that - with the plastic retractable flame-tongue?

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.evilface.com/zarana-x/zarana-xpix/Wendy%20O%20Williams.JPG

The Wendy O. Williams action figure is the link to the "What to do with old TV's?" thread.

― andy, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

yes w/the plastic retractable flame-tongue!
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― ke[hm (kephm), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

/\ /\ /\ /\ X-post that I wish wasn't an x-post.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/toys/takavf1s_2.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.micro-outpost.com/pictures/figures/acroyear/acroyearcard.jpg
ihttp://www.micro-outpost.com/pictures/figures/acroyear/acroyearpink.jpg

I dug the weird completeness of the Star Wars line, and I'd love Transformers when I was older (well, and after I stopped thinking of them as Gobots wanna-bes), but Micronauts just plain out-cooled everything.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

also, lots of these guys:
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/zoids/zoidsoriele1c.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Zoids were fucking incredible!

http://mopock.com/ZOIDS/photos/photo90.jpg

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chibinavi.com/toy/boy/photo/0200599.jpg

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/zoids_rev_raptor.jpg

ihttp://www.16bit.com/toypics/zoids/geruder/geruder-left-full.jpg

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I had the spider, the little elephant in Spencer's picture upthread, the biped dinosaur one, and these ones:

http://www.geocities.com/sea_saurs/zoid.jpg

http://www.gizmo-guru.co.nz/anime_stuff/images/Zoids_molga.jpg

(except my maggot-zoid was only silver and purply-red)

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow.

I was partial to the Star Wars figures in Endor gear - Luke, Leia, and Han in full camo gear.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, Shredder and the Foot soldiers.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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Actually, wait - sorry! my swimming one wasn't that one at all. It didn't have a long neck; it was like a frog.

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The snail Zoid was amazing, but I can't find a picture of that one.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i had kimber from jem and the holograms.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.actionfigures.zoids.org.uk/HoverCargo01.jpg

― ke[hm (kephm), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i had only one zoid but it was the GIANT ZRK.

my favorite toy was a wind-up plastic motorcyclist, about 9" tall. he sat in a base with a hand-crank. you'd crank the thing for about a minute and then hit some sort of button on the base and the motorcyclist would zoom off. he had some sort of gyroscope that kept him standing. we'd launch him off the top of the stairs, off ramps, into walls, and so on. poor mf took a lot of abuse.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

favorite action figure proper

http://www.wheelon.com/swfigures/tesb/bossk.jpg

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

No, that's not it. The one I was thinking about is pic no. 4 here:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=snail+zoids&btnG=Search

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― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.planetforce.com/SECWARSLSE.JPG

And of course:

http://www.planetforce.com/SOUNDWAVEMIB.JPG

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/celebrity/images/TV/bg-imperious.JPG

― ke[hm (kephm), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooooo

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone remember the mossy he-man figure? or the skunk guy?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I totally remember the Skunk guy. He basically had a scratch and sniff sticker on his back as I recall.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Doesn't ring a bell for me, but my brother had most of these:

http://hometown.aol.com/sunyday76/MOTU/inof.jpg

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

found 'em:

http://www.wheelon.com/swfigures/tesb/luke-hot.jpg
http://www.thelogbook.com/toy/es-wave2/tiepilot.jpg

note that the AT-AT pilot is a re-spray of the TIE pilot:
http://www.thelogbook.com/toy/es-wave2/atat.jpg

shit. can't find a pic of the gold/yellow lego spaceman. They had red & white for years, and that was cool, then GOLD came out, and we were like wo

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i had secret wars wolverine! my cousin tried to explain the popping-claws gimmick, but wasn't too clear on the origin.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, my X-Men fan friend was really pissed that Wolverine had snap-on claws, and the rest of us (who hadn't really started to read X-Men yet) were just like, dude, he is beige, he has bigger concerns than the claws.

Although he looks orange and magenta in that photo.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i like how almost all action figure lines have the "standard-issue blaster". like all the Imperials had a stormtrooper gun, all the Rebels had Han Solo's.

even GI Joes had a stock rifle, i think...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

hah-i've got that TIE pilot right here on my desk
and a um_probe droid(newer)

― ke[hm (kephm), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

My brother had Mossman, he really did smell like a bog. My favorite was Leia in white battle gear. And SheRa and horse.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.toysrgus.com/images-carde/trilogo-lukebespin.jpg

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The Zoids box upthread has the caption "The Pre-Hysterical Monster-Machines". They look cool and all, and you could probably do funny things with them as a boy, but hysterical? Is that a pun for pun's sake? I don't even know what 'pre-hysterical' would mean - is it the suspense of waiting for someone to sit on a whoopee cushion?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

These types of thread always make me gasp. I wish I still had my old Marvel Superhero toys. But to answer the thread, any toy that had a hat/helmet that you could take off would always please me immensely.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, I'd completely forgotten about Zoids. I had this one and it ROCKED:
http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~ku-sou/zoidsfot/redhorn.jpg

The read snail one was pretty cool as well - it had hidden weapons in the shell!

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

red snail

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

woo, i had that Lone Ranger and Tonto stuff above. had forgotten about it for over 25 years. i remember Tonto's clothes being suede or some kind of fuzzy material. wonder where they are now?

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Snake Eyes
ihttp://www.yojoe.com/action/82/82card/snakeeyes-sw.jpg

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

the later snake eyes was better

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Storm Shadow kicks his ass.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.evilface.com/evilscustoms/figurepix/Murdock.JPG

It was rubbish then. and it was rubbish now. I was never keen on action figures - I'd make my own playsets, action figures and cool low-ride cars from Lego.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

clearly zoids were amazing, it is a sign of how beloved they were that even after a year or two of rambunctiose play they were a. still in tact b. still had their little gold dude in the drivers seat. They just don't make them like that any more.

― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

stormshadow was bad ass, but i couldn't find a picture to post.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I had the whole collection: Gene, Peter, Ace, Paul
http://www.bagofdonuts.com/ding/Gene%20web.jpg

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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