Action figures top....

almeidapusmc · Forum Member Joined: Nov 07, 2004 Posts: 28

I haven't seen an action figure post here in a bit so here we go
Top Ten Action (Super hero) Figures

Top Ten Most wanted (Super hero) Figures

Top Ten in my book (in no particular order)

Jim Lee Nightwing
Infinite Crisis Power Girl
Superman (and I think every one knows which one)
Deathstroke
Alex Ross Black Canary
Alex Ross Black Adam
Kindom Come Wonder Woman (1st one)
JLA Flash
Raven
Kid Flash (Bart)

Top Ten Wanted
Trigon
Raven with four eyes (Evil)
A good Starfire (the last and only one sucked, Blackfire looked better)
Black Lightning in the costume he is wearing on JLA covers now
Jade ( a young one before she died)
Atom Smasher (too bad DC doesn't do the put together a hero thing that would have been perfect for the upcoming JSA wave)
Timber Wolf
Kid Quantum of LOSH (female)
Validus (same thing with my Atom Smasher above)
Dr. Fate (Hector Hall...this I would pay 30 bucks for easily and still take him out the package)

I see another post coming on...sorry I can't render right now, so I'm full of un expressed ideas.

Hasdrubal · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:47 pm Post subject: Re: Action figures top....

I'd like to see another attempt at re-releasing the Ideal Toy Company's 12 inch Captain Action sets from the late 60's. A company called Playing Mantis tried marketing a reproduction figure a couple years ago, but they couldn't get the rights to any of the major DC or Marvel characters again. Each different Captain Action hero costume set came with a different rubber face to pull over the figure's built-in face.

Mom thought they were too expensive when I was a youngster. The collector's value of original sets is at an obscene level these days.

I'd like a reproduction of the WWII Japanese GI Joe figure that was only produced in 1967. He was part of a special set of 6 foreign soldiers. Hasbro did release the reproduction Australian Jungle Fighter from the series last year. After waiting so long for the Aussie, he isn't too satisfying to have. It reminds me how old I am in an uncomfortable way.

invader · Forum Member Joined: Jun 02, 2002 Posts: 38 Location: USA

Wow!! I can't believe there is someone else that remembers Captain Action. I thought (think) he was (is) the coolest thing going, the concept was and still great. If you don't know who he is, you should do some research on him.

Hasdrubal · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject: Re: Action figures top....

Here's a link to click on, so the young whipper-snappers can see what the different sets looked like. The sculpting of the figures wasn't as perfect as today, but they were making toys to play with instead of collector's items. One must credit the Ideal Company with putting a better set of hands on their figure than Hasbro's original GI Joe.

http://members.aol.com/actnboy/castory.html

I was very pleased to find one of the Captain Action reproductions before Playing Mantis stopped making them.

I vaguely remember advertisements showing Ideal Toy's Action Boy figure for Robin and a female figure for the Batgirl, Supergirl, and Wonder Woman sets.

Since Ideal was the first company to make a line of super-hero characters, I'm surprised that most collectors are so interested in the later Mego figures (which frankly just aren't as cool).

GhostofMacbeth · Forum Member Joined: Sep 21, 2001 Posts: 611

I always liked the Big Jim Wolfpack action figures but they were very hard to find growing up (only one store carried them) but I had all of them at one point. Or at least most. Think they got stolen by movers along wih a pile of other stuff a number of years ago. Looking at them on ebay their cool flexible arms with muscles didn't hold up as well color wise but they are still interesting.

I am a big Animated Batman fan and have a pile of those figures. I also just have piles and piles of figures all around my house.

Hasdrubal · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 5:24 pm Post subject: Re: Action figures top....

Here's an old commercial for one of Mattel's Big Jim toy characters showing the sports camper. Click on the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Tov5h-5gg

GhostofMacbeth · Forum Member Joined: Sep 21, 2001 Posts: 611

That is sooooo not the same one I used to like. :lol:

Well it is but I liked the cooler, mercenary group wolf pack (or just pack) that were a bit later than that version.

Hasdrubal · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:47 pm Post subject: Re: Action figures top....

I've seen drawn illustrated ads in the comics from back then with the tougher looking Wolf Pack characters. I never saw the real figures in any store. Did they really look tougher or do you just remember imagining them tougher?

I look at my bearded flocked hair GI Joe Adventure Team men today, and they appear to be Village People rejects. Although, when I was a kid they were capable of burning down every Vietnamese village I could imagine.

The part of the Viet Cong was usually played by the Marx Toy Company's Best of the West, Chief Cherokee figure for lack of anything else.

Here's a link to a toy commercial showing my favorite Indian Chief in action. I still have him, and his horse Thunderbolt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48QHfG5BDXA

GhostofMacbeth · Forum Member Joined: Sep 21, 2001 Posts: 611

It is definately a little bit of both

Here are a couple links but the pictures don't do justice to the bicep flexing, wolf booted coolness :lol:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mattel-Big-Jim-three-boxed-PACK-figures-All-Original_W0QQitemZ320034038110QQihZ011QQcategoryZ31391QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-BIG-JIM-Dr-Steel-W-O-L-F-Pack-action-figure_W0QQitemZ270040779636QQihZ017QQcategoryZ31391QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Hasdrubal · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject: Re: Action figures top....

The Whip looks like a close copy of the "Secret Mission to Spy Island" GI Joe set.

I shudder to think what sort of adventures he could have had with his bull whip, and the branding iron from the Jane and Johnny West figures. :whipitgood:

Sitting here, I remembered another line of vintage action figures that were cool, but are largely forgotten today, Mattel's Major Matt Mason astronaut figures. They're rare because the material the bodies were made of tended to deteriorate after a few years. My older brother was fond of the big space crawler vehicle. Here's a link to click on to see a fairly complete Matt Mason collection.
http://wildtoys.com/MMMPage/index.asp

Hasdrubal · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:25 pm Post subject: Re: Action figures top....

Here's a link to an old TV commercial showing Major Matt Mason's space crawler vehicle in action. It's swell, It's Mattel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ma-BxGA52I

invader · Forum Member Joined: Jun 02, 2002 Posts: 38 Location: USA

Don't forget his underling Sgt Storm, or the alien giant Captain Lazer and Callisto.

Look here:

http://www.buyoldtoys.com/forsale/mmm/

Hasdrubal · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject: Re: Action figures top....

I had one Matt Mason item which probably isn't on the internet.

There was a coloring book. I was a wee little kid, but I remember the cover art on that book. It was a beautiful painting of the different characters standing and kneeling on a bluish rocky moonscape with a yellow sun overhead. It was probably the first science fiction art painting I ever saw. The artist managed to convey a sense of dangerous anticipation on the faces of the characters. For a cheesy-sleezy coloring book cover, it was a great work of artistic composition.

The book also was a sly marketing ploy to familiarize the different toys in that line to children who weren't yet capable of reading the names of the different toys in the stores.

There's no doubt, toy designers were far more imaginative before the practice of copying licenced TV and movie characters took over the industry. George Lucas is largely to blame. (Matt Mason shot first!)

invader · Forum Member Joined: Jun 02, 2002 Posts: 38 Location: USA

could this be what your talking about?

http://www.majormattmason.net/color.htm

almeidapusmc · Forum Member Joined: Nov 07, 2004 Posts: 28

Now you all have me thinking about the old Saturday Night Live skit with the action figure that spills blood all over the place. lol