Forgotten Toys: Remco's Saga of Crystar

[@jeremygregorio7472]

A re-crystalizing chamber is a chamber where if you were crystallized and got un-crystallized you can go to be re-crystalized. They're super convenient if you're in need of re-crystalization.

[@Zan_Jayna]

It’s Trace-Buster Buster, yo!

[@scottandrewhutchins]

Probably. I read the first issue, and Crystar and Moltar were initially human, but they had the same names before they were turned crystalline and molten because of lazy writing (Mary Jo Duffy wrote the issue).

[@jeremy4375]

lmao

[@Rowebot15]

I'll use one for my Mr. Dylithium figure

[@Vadermods]

40 years later and marvel is finally making a new crystar figure!

[@badape3620]

The fact Junkman brought up the Robot chicken episode had me laughing! I remember this toy line, sort of. My step cousin, a weird home schooled kid, had the castle. He wasn't allowed to watch TV and neither of us knew what it was from

[@alexnejako777]

Crystar, Moltar, and friends are available in Heroclix format for pretty cheap. You can get Crystar and Moltar in Heroclix form for not very much and the sculpts are faithful to the comics. Crystar has clear plastic and Moltar looks fiery. They are from about 4 years ago or so - so just a fun thing to have, not vintage.

[@rhettgenung1223]

I love this 1982 toy line Junkman. Tuff stuff to find in the wild these days! The Gordons Fisherman comment had me in stitches!! Well done as always!

[@Vexer-rl9fq]

I remember these! I don't know if I had one though. That blue crystal color is hard to forget.

[@lt.danicecream]

I had Crystar and a 2 or 3 more. I dont remember playing with them for long, but would often integrate them into my D&D toys

[@christiancampagna2229]

Great video, Junkman. Crystar is an old favorite of mine. I still have many of the comic books.

[@edfivedownunderplasticplanet]

Nothing beats a transluced figure. Never thought I would see these again.🤯

[@opuscrap4322]

I had most of the Crystar figures. My Brother & I found them in the $1 bin @ the local drug store in 1985. They were a lot of fun & just the right size to play with star wars figures. I'd totally forgotten about them. Thanks JM. Great video.

[@rusalexander1757]

Had Warbow. LOVED that dude. Wish I had gotten more of this line. I still would have stupidly sold them at the garage sale we had where I dumped all of my original vintage Star Wars and GI Joes, though. Those were my 2 main lines. Never did He Man, Transformers, or other big lines in the 80s.

[@pauljoyner4338]

Sorry Rus and I feel your pain. I did something similar with my Star Wars and GI Joe's also.

[@bobbyarchaic9649]

Yeah. Warbow was great. I used to play with him a lot. He'd be in whatever assemblage of figures I put together of Star Wars and G.I. Joe characters for years. He was actually pretty hard to find in a store even back when he was new. I had him at the top of my list of figures I would ask for a while before I lucked into spotting one at Children's Palace with my grandmother. He was really difficult to explain because I had only ever seen a picture of him and there was no other reference material from any comic or cartoon I could use to explain who or even what he was. I drew a rough sketch of him from memory. Plus I didn't really know what the packaging for him was and the Krystar toys were really uncommon anyway.

[@ronniemckinney6808]

I remember the Crystar toys in the store. I never owned them. I think the artwork on the packages were neat.

[@jdsrcs8061]

I had a couple of these. I do remember seeing these on shelves for a long time almost 89

[@billybobbills]

I loved this line. It was cool to see Crystar show up in comics again a few years back.

[@Conflict_Boardgaming]

Oh shit! I remember those! I even had some! Thanks again Junkman for bringing back those memories!

[@cyborgroxx]

I was too young to get these back in the day. I stumbled on them years back and I picked them up (thanks ebay!). Cool video. You've been kicking a lot of ass lately.

[@gemini_man66]

I still have Feldspar but lost his accessories a looong time ago. Damn, time does fly!

[@adamrandorson7686]

Say what you want about remco, they made some damn good toy lines.

[@jeremy4375]

Junkman has shown me that, in fact, they did not. RipCo ripped off more companies than Disney, and Crystar was a huge loss for the company (the execs just couldn't stop smoking their own product) blue persuasion and all that jazz 🎷😎

[@bashiirabdulmumin71]

Damn, I loved these action figures so much.

[@benb3316]

They did use "Weirdworld" in the latest re-re-re-re "Secret Wars" as a catch-all to save Marvel's crazy bronze age to 80s oddball properties (unique experiments, toy franchises still owned, short turn comic books) - the first Weirdworld arc a few years back had Crystar (in a form that doubtless inspired that Robot Chicken parody) and his friends. I guess better than IDW doing a pointless re-boot that erased all those decades of fond memories for "Meh" and with Rom/Micronauts tear jerkingly painful to try to read.

[@thestrongcollectors]

With Marvel Legends doing a new Crystar soon I finally realized I had a couple of these as a kid. Looks like the prices for these have gone up in the past few years.

[@korydoe4813]

I had Moltar, just Moltar and I used him alot as a bad guy along with other toy lines

[@pauljoyner4338]

I had Ogedoe or whatever the good wizard was named. The purple robed dude and just him.

[@korydoe4813]

@@pauljoyner4338 I remember seeing him in like a bargin bin and kinda wanted to buy him but I did know what he was from lol

[@uglyewok6715]

I just played with my grandma’s geode collection and had just as much fun.

[@BoshiYoshi]

Always been a sucker for transparent toys and figures, so I think these are pretty cool. I'd love to have that crystal dragon but it seems very rare. I only see a few ones selling for $60 and they're all missing the wings.

[@mrspeigel3593]

The wings were made out of a pretty brittle plastic. I wasn't a big breaker of toys but those wings didn't make it too long.

[@saltrisha1]

Dang i never thought i would see these again!!

[@mrspeigel3593]

I've got real soft spot for old Crystar and friends

[@Plantation_Filtration]

Poor Saga of Crystar.😢. There were too many😊 peg warmers; clearance priced on end caps at Children's Palace. Brave Ogeode, I saluted you everytime I passed through the aisles.

[@treyjohnson82]

My rich cousin one,brand new and already lost the accessories, that translucent ice blue was so cool then, still is!

[@raulcoronado6024]

You done good Sir👍

[@shoplift6362]

Can't believe in the first to say this. worth mentioning The infamous Danzig skull logo, was just a skull on the cover of a crystal comic

[@superpaul79]

If I'm not mistaken, Marvel still owns the rights to Crystar. I'd love to see some of these as Marvel Legends figures. I doubt it will happen, but I'd pick up the entire wave.

[@scottandrewhutchins]

They do.

[@tonyjackson4078]

Crystar and his co-stars and Villains inhabit a dimension called Weird World, where magic is the primary force. Alongside Marvel characters Thundra, Arkon, and Skull the Slayer.

[@ogrekrause]

The catapults did not come with figures, and there was a battle pack that came with a articulated dragon rider “stalax. The green crystal warriors were Crystar captains. There was 2 “magma man” figures released with different weapons as well; one came with the whip the yellow magma dragon rider came with. Remco reused several weapons and pieces with other toy lines. The ladder, and winch that came with the castle were even released in different colors.

[@eabcool]

i don't know how much of the stuff i still have, but the box the crystal castle came in is still up in the garage!

[@perceivedvelocity9914]

I wanted the Crystar figures when I was a kid. Never got any though. To this day I love see through plastic.

[@MezTZO]

0:45 Correction: It was DC, not Marvel, that made the mini-comics that came with the Masters of the Universe toys in the line's second year in 1982, and made full-sized comics of MotU before Marvel did. Marvel didn't pick up the license for Masters of the Universe until 1986, well into the later years of the toy line.

[@jameslynch5701]

I vaguely remember this. JM, you provide me with IRL fever dreams 😂 Rr

[@Zan_Jayna]

Stores only ever had Zardoz the Sean Connery g-string figure and Molesto the creepy wizard. Kids literally couldn’t collect them. One of the Crystar covers was swiped for a Danzig album cover. I saw a couple of complete crystal castles on evilbay a few months ago, they were like $500

[@thegeorgiealityshow359]

I had that castle 🏰 with 1 green figure and that small half crystal half lava figure.

[@Cuddy75]

I had two of these action figures. Crystar and Moltar.

[@05xrunner]

i definitely had that blue crystal dragon as a kid

[@ciscodeer9094]

These toys were way before my time

[@chadputnam1101]

I loved the Crystar figures....I would pick them up at Roses

[@edwardbeaty8899]

Ah, there was a very obscure Marvel Hero called the 'Blue Diamond', I think that's who I was saying Crystar was.

[@necron99.aka-sammyboy92]

With all do respect to The Junkman; I'd like to make 1 quick correction: Feldspar ( the half lava/fire half crystal guy) was NOT " order of Chaos " .....he was Neutral. Being Brimstone legs n waist and Crystal torso. He was both, tried to bring about balance. Fascinating toy line! When I was about 9-10 I remember seeing these at Fred Myers's on clearance. With like 8 accessories each and $2.99 or whatever at da time, mom bought what was left,- Crystar, Zard, green crystal dude, wizard dude. My buddy gave me Feldspar later when line died. I would play these vs Go-Bots or my Misc army line: in humanoids, knock off GI bots & TF , Starriors, etc etc. Starriors was bad ass. Dead eye remote control shoots discs, big snake temple that drives and opens up to base...but without corny jail and trap doors n stuff.

[@ThatJunkman]

Sell his card says force of chaos ;)

[@devoncrestway338]

the front of my closet was batman and ghostbusters. the back was... wait for it... star wars.

[@treyjohnson82]

Besides the monsters,these are neato

[@johnscott7210]

I loved the Crystar I had but I only had one of them.

[@scottandrewhutchins]

Have you dedicated a whole video to The Warrior Beasts yet? I always wanted the one that looked like a triceratops.

[@Degro76]

I remember and loved them but being that the 80s were the golden age of action figs I had to keep it to 2 lines. Motu and GI Joe with a few Blackstar figs and Sgt rock mixed in when I mowed the neighbors lawn for 5 bucks. LOL.

[@grendel0013]

Feldspar embodies good vs evil 0:53

[@jediknightjairinaiki560]

I remember the toy line but paid it no nevermind.

[@phantomvmfa122]

I wonder could you do a video on Remco's military action figure series such as Sgt Rock, U.S. Military and so on?

[@huskydad72]

Good video. But Feldspar wasn't one of the forces of chaos. He was neutral. That's why he was made from crystal and magma. Never chose a side.

[@MorganMcGinnis]

i LOVED Crystar..... i have Issue #1 of the Comics

[@JackieWohlenhaus]

I always wanted some of these but never saw any.

[@shanecole4613]

This video is awesome I just found one of these action figures in England no accessories 😥 paid £1 for it and this video was so awesome to help identify it going to binge watch the channel now

[@KaosandRiot]

Actually picked up Crystar at Walmart when they released. Didn’t have a clue about them, just thought they were cool. Got the comic book not long after. Was definitely cool and added to my action figure mega wars 😂

[@KaosandRiot]

Yeah I had wars in the backyard dirt pile with GIJoe Crystar Brave star Thundercats Silverhawks Wheeled warriors Transformers Star Wars Battlestar galactica Buck Roger’s Secret wars marvel characters Some gi joe knock off Some space warrior knock offs Robotech DC characters and probably a few others. All the play sets, vehicles, bases, and characters built into a 20 foot high dirt pile using smoke bombs and fire crackers for effects 😂 Those were days of unlimited imagination and high adventure

[@RetroActionUK]

Take a trip to the saga of the back of the closet… ©️1981 Remco

[@Rowebot15]

Dr. Evil was BFFs with Magmaman

[@edwardbeaty8899]

I had Crystar, but lost him in my move from California to Missouri.

[@SICMetal74]

I had mortar, magma man and Crystar

[@tombowling8646]

I remember the comic and the toy line. I opted for ROM the Space Knight though. When will they bring him back?

[@Th3Xp3rt]

2016 SDCC exclusive, I believe. Complete BS.

[@DCofEarth2]

I had a crystar figure and I lost his helmet so I used him as iceman for my secret wars figures.

[@greycloudyday5980]

Had the lava dude. Had a Mace.

[@bgab2211]

Haaaaa. Gorton Fisherman. Always trust him.

[@jasonking3182]

I always confused this line with Blackstar

[@avaranabraham8507]

Crystar should be in the mcu

[@machineman6498]

Shattapult

[@alfeocayabyab8233]

Marvel legends just made them. Opened mine today

[@greycloudyday5980]

You look like Zard.

[@danielnagle9751]

He Man was DC Comics.

[@necron99.aka-sammyboy92]

BS! Soup's was from Darkhorse comics.

[@danielnagle9751]

@@necron99.aka-sammyboy92 Masters of the Universe was from DC Comics. I have the first issue. DH did not exist yet.

[@ThatJunkman]

True.

[@jonahrains7483]

Isn't Feldspar supposed to be neutral?

[@ThatJunkman]

I don’t know. I was going by what his package said ;)

[@jamespeters2859]

Don’t think we had these in the UK. They look totally cool, top quality. Sadly, in poverty stricken Britain back then, I had to settle for a crocodile made out of an old toilet roll tube. And an ‘egg carton’ alligator, my mom was so poor. ...You Americans, with ya extra large super big gulp cups, make me sick! 😂

[@jamesmurray8558]

He got broke into pieces and was smoked. Did I laugh.

[@alexrodriguez9441]

The clear action figures were really cool. Not “micronauts” cool, but still cool. I never read the comic or knew the story, but hearing your synopsis, it sounds like a ripoff of Michael Moorcock’s “Elric” saga for kids.

[@leemiller7165]

The clear figures were cool. Problem was only Crystar and Warbow were clear, Feldspar was only half clear. So out a line of 7 figures, only 2 were all in on the gimmick. Combine that with the ass backwards put the toys out first and it was doomed to fail. If you had the toys when they first came out you had to imagine your own backstory, rather than play based on an established backstory. The established backstory on other toys act as a jumping off point that established who were the heroes and who were the bad guys (more than just because it said so on the card). Imagine if they had done that with Star Wars and you friend insisted that C-3PO was a bad ass terminator style robot. Or Darth Vader was a good guy. You would’ve gotten frustrated and not wanted to play with your weirdo friend that had it all backwards.