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12-27-2020, 04:48 PM | #71 |
dreadnok
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I'm really digging this thread. Its so cool to see old toy brands that I had completely forgotten about. I especially love the Bionic 6 and MASH figures!
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12-28-2020, 12:43 PM | #72 |
Crimson Guard
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I have at least one more set of Joe knockoffs to pull out of my closet. Working on finding a place to display them now.
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12-28-2020, 02:28 PM | #73 |
Crimson Guard
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I remember Bionic Six mostly the action figures from back then. I only had the one that had the baseball mitt and the bat
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01-02-2021, 08:06 PM | #74 |
Crimson Guard
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Here we go. From some of the furthest depths of my closet, the Galoob Unifighters!
These guys were released in 1990. Classic o-ring construction. Their gimmick was that each figure came with a bulky, oversized "backpack" that could transform into a small vehicle. Those vehicles could then merge into larger combiner vehicles (one each for Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines). If you got them all, they could make a mega-awesome Ultimate Unifighters Fighting Machine! This idea was perhaps better in concept than execution. The figures were rather generic-looking and shared lots of body parts. The backpack vehicles were awkward, flimsy, and very difficult to fit the figures into. I catalogued my collection today and appear to have all but one figure (Lt. Slammer Preston from the yellow-shirt Marines). I found one on eBay, but from a seller in the UK with expensive shipping. I think I'll wait and see if another one turns up. I have a handful of the backpacks, but most are missing parts. I don't have enough to actually form any of the combiner vehicles. They're so junky I think I'd rather display the figures without them. I also scanned the fold-out product booklet in high-res and attached it to this post. |
01-02-2021, 08:36 PM | #75 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Iowa
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Their gimmick was flawed, but Galoob figured out how to make soft plastic hands/forearms on o-ring figures before Hasbro. Not bad for a company that made those brittle 4" A-Team figures years before.
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01-02-2021, 09:35 PM | #76 |
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Here we go. From some of the furthest depths of my closet, the Galoob Unifighters!
These guys were released in 1990. Classic o-ring construction. Their gimmick was that each figure came with a bulky, oversized "backpack" that could transform into a small vehicle. Those vehicles could then merge into larger combiner vehicles (one each for Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines). If you got them all, they could make a mega-awesome Ultimate Unifighters Fighting Machine! This idea was perhaps better in concept than execution. The figures were rather generic-looking and shared lots of body parts. The backpack vehicles were awkward, flimsy, and very difficult to fit the figures into. I catalogued my collection today and appear to have all but one figure (Lt. Slammer Preston from the yellow-shirt Marines). I found one on eBay, but from a seller in the UK with expensive shipping. I think I'll wait and see if another one turns up. I have a handful of the backpacks, but most are missing parts. I don't have enough to actually form any of the combiner vehicles. They're so junky I think I'd rather display the figures without them. I also scanned the fold-out product booklet in high-res and attached it to this post. |
01-02-2021, 09:43 PM | #77 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: May 2015
Location: CT
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Very cool forgotten line there. I have seen figs on ebay and contemplated buying some just to add a new faction to my joe verse. How's the construction on those figs? Are they pretty much the same as Joes?
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01-02-2021, 11:13 PM | #78 |
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01-02-2021, 11:23 PM | #79 |
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This may be a lazy and obvious custom I did - just a Lady Jaye head planted onto a Volga body - but I think it turned out really nice. This may be my favorite version of Lady Jaye. The camo suits her better than the original bright green, IMO.
At the very least, this looks a hell of a lot better than that airbrushed mess from 1997. |
01-02-2021, 11:41 PM | #80 |
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Here we go. From some of the furthest depths of my closet, the Galoob Unifighters!
These guys were released in 1990. Classic o-ring construction. Their gimmick was that each figure came with a bulky, oversized "backpack" that could transform into a small vehicle. Those vehicles could then merge into larger combiner vehicles (one each for Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines). If you got them all, they could make a mega-awesome Ultimate Unifighters Fighting Machine! This idea was perhaps better in concept than execution. The figures were rather generic-looking and shared lots of body parts. The backpack vehicles were awkward, flimsy, and very difficult to fit the figures into. I catalogued my collection today and appear to have all but one figure (Lt. Slammer Preston from the yellow-shirt Marines). I found one on eBay, but from a seller in the UK with expensive shipping. I think I'll wait and see if another one turns up. I have a handful of the backpacks, but most are missing parts. I don't have enough to actually form any of the combiner vehicles. They're so junky I think I'd rather display the figures without them. I also scanned the fold-out product booklet in high-res and attached it to this post. |
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