FUGLY Celebrity ACTION FIGURES | Good, Bad, & FUGLY Action Figures of 80s & 90s Toys We Once LOVED

[@GENXPERIENCE]

What fun it was to revisit some incredibly and some wacky toylines base on Movies and the celebrities who portrayed the fiction characters that went all plastic playthings. Some did a better job than others. See the GOOD, BAD, & FUGLY Celebrity Action Figures.

[@tommylovesstuff]

6:32 the face and hair on Lewis from Robocop look like Ethel Murtz from I Love Lucy to me 🤣

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Totally. Even with those nice respectable stud earrings. Maybe she was from a Cancelled LUCY Line, lol

[@rogertemple7193]

I remember these action figures especially from the TV commercials i had a few of them at one time thanks.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Good times, great toys...serious marketing.

[@TOYBOXTHEATRE]

Great episode! I love weird looking figures! Hilarious! 🎉

[@GENXPERIENCE]

They are a lot of fun. Lots of crazy out there. Thanks for watching.

[@TerrickTerran]

Got to admit those Karate Kommados really nailed Chuck's look. Of course the reason sometimes toys don't look like the actors that played them is because the toys were needing to be made before all casting stuff is done. It's also why cartoons and toys don't always match.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Good point. They do start production long before any film is shot or everyone's contracts are even confirmed.

[@Davidgoldenswan]

Love the jelly wobbles😍😂😂😂😂

[@GENXPERIENCE]

I mean, who doesn't, lol

[@christineml1476]

The Schwarzenegger Commando action figure didn't skip arm day - or was it 'roids? Only his plastic hairdresser knows for sure.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

The plastic hairdresser comment....IT WINS!

[@jpthompson]

What a great show this week! I had no idea about some of these “interesting” looking ones.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Glad you enjoyed it. Love when you watch and comment.

[@dietrichess9997]

Yay! I got to see one more of your videos before I leave the internet (for a bit). Please look into Super Joe Commander, and his evil handsome green doppelganger, Darkon. And Luminos, and The Shield. These were a late 70s spin off series from G.I. Joe. About 10 inches tall I think. They all took AA batteries and had light-up features. I liked the Vasquez Aliens figure. Also, I loved The Baroness, from G.I. Joe, meow, even though I was a teen at that point, and shouldn't have been perving about cartoons or action figures. 🙂

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Glad you stuck around for one more. Hope you liked! That spin off sounds completely interesting...and spin offs/knock offs are great subject of a show. You're not the only one to perv to cartoons or action figures, lol.

[@timwhite5562]

I don't even remember a Chuck Norris cartoon. I had a few of the Rambo toys though.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

It is insane there was one. I remember it, but was not in my wheelhouse, you know?

[@tecpaocelotl]

I had Chuck Norris and dick Tracy.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Those really are extremes from one another, but that makes you pretty well rounded.

[@fishjones4618]

I loved how the original Kenner Star Wars Han Solo action figure’s head looked like Liza Minelli 😂

[@GENXPERIENCE]

OMG, I'll never now not see that. I'm telling everyone. Thank you!

[@fishjones4618]

@ I saw it at 10 when I saw Cabaret on tv and thought “Wait a minute…”

[@fishjones4618]

I know that they didn’t have the capabilities to do a 3D scan of the actors’ faces, but if the Steve Austin and Maskatron figures can resemble Lee Majors and John Saxon, respectively, it wouldn’t have been that hard. They finally got it right with the Return of The Jedi Endor Han Solo action figure.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

@@fishjones4618 Oh, that was lightyears better.

[@mathieuduval7544]

Cant believe you didn't include the audio when Arnie lets go of the leg of that creepy dude.... Ooh LA LA!AAA!!!! LOL! The only figure that i still have from the Rambo cartoon line is Mad Dog and i think he still looks good.... and idk what ppl dont like about the Dick Tracy movie, its GOOD!!

[@GENXPERIENCE]

I LIED is a great line, but you're right...I should have just held out longer. Mad Dog, the punk with mow hawk is actually the best looking figure in the line. Yeah, and its not just a fun movie...DT is good.

[@davedixon2167]

Right here, I had the Karate Kid toys - just Daniel and maybe Johnny, and the tournament mat set with the geometric fist logo on it. I think I tried to fit them in with my MOTU figures.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Got to be honest...these would have been up my alley, but I don't remember seeing them in my department/toy stores darn it.

[@Davidgoldenswan]

RoboCop and the ultra police 😮 cool 🎉 the big van toy was cool🎉

[@GENXPERIENCE]

There were some kick ass vehicles

[@eddierascalhaskell4954]

I had the bigger Commando figure, he came with a comic adaptation of the movie. I always had him and Rambo team up.😅

[@GENXPERIENCE]

That totally makes sense. It was like the Expendables, before the Expendables.

[@AzraelThanatos]

The Aliens one is due to their intention for going with a cartoon that never happened, with an intention for Aliens vs Predator as the thing for it. The mini-comics that came with the toys is set in that world, I think there were a couple of the Dark Horse comics set in it. Kenner did the same thing with their Jurassic Park line for the first wave since they were still getting licensing for the actors likenesses which were used for wave 2 being, largely, a reprint of the first with new heads.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

You are 100% right about the Aliens and although I bring up the cartoon treatment, I didn't get in to that. However, I did not know that Jurassic Park was in the similar vain. Perhaps that explains Nedry. It only looked like Laura Dern and Malcolm had pretty good likenesses by Series 2. I do love the way JP toyline went, and even kept it alive throughout the years. Thanks for the comment and details.

[@EternalRoman]

Let's remember that even NECA produced the "Kenner Tribute" Figures of the 90s ALIENS (and PREDATOR) action figures line. In the creatures, they sculpted them to be more movie accurate with their signal host attributes. In the human characters like Ripley and Vasquez, they were repaints of the ALIENS movie character figures into the Kenner colors. As for some of the other humans like Sgt. Apone and Drake, they were original sculpts that didn't resemble the actors and had the Kenner coloring.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

We can't forget those. I was looking through them last week and did appreciate NECA's work/homage. I do like what they did...better sculpts, 90s colors. Thanks for the added detail.

[@pantheonvideo]

I'll always have a soft spot for the Dick Tracy movie and the fugly toyline. And I had that John Conner figure (with dirt bike included!) from the T2 line, so at least one person wanted it.

[@behindthescenesphotos5133]

Playmates wasn't bothering with the actor's likenesses at all for Dick Tracy and they used the same body types that worked for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Well, because I like the movie so much I was always interested, but I found them so unattractive, lol. Did you have some of those little DT guys? I love T2 the movie, so I would probably need to have John, even if he was a little annoying. Thanks for watching.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Interesting take that they could easily move in the TMNT world. Cool!

[@pantheonvideo]

@@GENXPERIENCE I think I still have a Steve the Tramp I acquired later on while thrift shopping, but as for my originals... They're possibly at my mother's house.

[@pantheonvideo]

@@GENXPERIENCE The DT and TMNT toys were the right size to go toe to toe with the Hasbro WWF figures of the time as well. Lots of weird matches were held in the ring I made out of Duplo blocks.

[@ScoutDave]

I forgot how awful looking the Dick Tracy line was 😂

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Right? Its no wonder they sold horribly.

[@thomasgoree7976]

The Kenner Batman 89 and Batman Returns figures are more movie accurate then the Toy Biz one's you didn't mention those

[@GENXPERIENCE]

The ones I showed are also TOY BIZ, though.

[@thomasgoree7976]

@GENXPERIENCE I'm sorry I was talking about the kenner one's

[@GENXPERIENCE]

@ GOtcha...and OH< YEAH

[@behindthescenesphotos5133]

There are a LOT of Schwarzenegger movies less popular than Commando

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Perhaps

[@AvengerII]

NOTHING tops the "Ham Salad" (HARDWARE WARS -- look it up, kiddies!) production variant of Han Solo (Star Wars, Kenner, action figure line late 1970s)! I had one of those. It has a "potato" head to put it kindly! Why they changed the original head sculpt with THIS ONE and marketed it as Han Solo I don't know! If Harrison Ford cared more -- and he doesn't(!) -- he would have been insulted by the non-likeness to him!

[@GENXPERIENCE]

I would watch Hardware Wars every single year during a festival at our school. LOVED It. Watched it last year, too. We had both versions, I HATED big head.

[@mikenichols9234]

this has me chuckling fugly .and older gen x had those huge action figures yall got the more streamlined toys and action figures. toys over the years have gotten smaller and by the 80's i was done with toys so never really looked at them unless i was playing with my cousin's who were 10 years younger and had all those wwe figures and the ring and the he man stuff . kids i dont think much cared if it really looked like the person as long as it was close because they still had imagination back then . i mean older gen x had the large action figures and those dolls didnt look like the people they were close but still course evil knievel had a helmet to cover his face G.I. Joe had the beard and six million dollar man he was in a accident and so didnt look like himself yeah hahahaha

[@GENXPERIENCE]

I get what you're saying...we didn't care that the LUke Figure didn't look like Mark Hamill. But in the later 80s there were toys marketed as those movie/action stars...and some looked the part and some didnt. However, I will disagree that in the 70s when the 6 Million Dollar Man came out (and Bionic Woman), they actually did look like Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner. I am from the middle of GEN X (directly) and loved my figures...and they all ran one extreme to another...I still just loved having them. Thanks for the comment.

[@mikenichols9234]

@@GENXPERIENCE hahaha ok they were close i never saw the bionic woman action figure /doll in person but the lee majors action figure it was close . and we did love our toys thats true i do enjoy your vids so keep them coming . oh great now i got bet midler singing memories in my head hahahaha

[@GENXPERIENCE]

@@mikenichols9234 Thanks man, and not trying to argue, AT ALL. I appreciate your watch AND comment.

[@mikenichols9234]

@@GENXPERIENCE oh i know i pictured us like two kids in the school play ground is not is to is not is too no worries and yes im smiling every time i write ya . i enjoy talking with folks who remember how things were

[@GENXPERIENCE]

@@mikenichols9234 Hmmm, now I'm thinking about a Bette Midler doll/toy...never gonna happen, lol

[@cheddarcheese7928]

The absolute worst figures I’ve ever seen as far as likeness are the 2008 12” Indiana Jones Figures from Hasbro..They all look like their stunt doubles stunt double and nothing like Harrison Ford.Its totally distracting when looking at them

[@GENXPERIENCE]

I am looking at it right now. HOLY ****, that was worse than I expected. Sometimes they get it and sometimes they don't. YIKES

[@Davidgoldenswan]

Who cares about aliens figs😂 the alien was the star😂

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Good thing there was a lot of those...and they looked good.

[@Garch-the-Great]

They recalled Steve the Tramp from the Dick Tracy line due to a bio write-up on his packaging that was offensive to homeless persons. I snagged 2 (at full retail price that are now worthless), but I never saw a Blank. And there was a line of beautiful Dick Tracy dolls with plastic heads and cloth bodies that were ultimately dumped in 99 cent bins.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Yes, on all of this. Now I am thinking DT would be a great subject as a whole. I remember something about Steve the Tramp, that no one could find teh Blank...and I think I remember those soft body versions with better heads. I really was a fan of that film. Thanks for watching.