History of C.O.P.S. - COPS 'n CROOKS Toys & Cartoon Vintage Retrospective (w/ Hans Chow)

[@ToddyCeee]

Another tidbit, Peter Chung was the lead animation designer for COPS cartoon as he was for TMNT, that’s why both the intros are stylistically similar and some of his characters designs in COPs lends itself in his future work including Aeon Flux

[@WaldoBagelTopper]

wow- didnt know that. Thank you.

[@MayumiC-chan9377]

my husband has wonderful memories of COPS he stoll owns some of the toys in storage purchased from Hickam AFB Base Exchange Toyland for his 8th birthday in 1988

[@WaldoBagelTopper]

this cartoon has a very special place in my heart. I was just a VERY young boy in the early 90s and they would still play reruns of these followed by episodes of Good Times and What's Happening on daytime TV. I fell in love with how incredibly detailed the opening theme was. Animators put so much back breaking work into productions back then. I always imagined cops would have made a great live action movie, a la Michael Bay- but with that really creative 1950s mobster/futuristic cyber look. I am so happy they released the box set some years ago. I have this collected on DVD.

[@treasuresfortrigger915]

Great Job Ken and Hans! 👊👊 So many cool memories watching this

[@ToyKennections]

Thx for joining the premiere earlier! We'll add this one to the Toy Histories playlist where you've also made a few appearances 😎

[@thecementship]

Nice! Didn’t know much about this toy line. Excellent review.

[@animalchandler]

I remember being in awe of this show when I first saw it; high concept futuristic law enforcement hit exactly the right spot for me at the time. I don’t remember seeing any of the toys, but I would’ve seen the show several years after the release (born in ‘85). Longarm was my favourite. Seeing it again I’m struck with how atmospheric the music is.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Cops Bullet Proof and Streets of Rage's Adam Hunter bear a strong resemblance to each other.

[@davidallen6880]

Great job. LOVED ❤COPS

[@karna1897]

COPS were amazing figures. Colorful and very orginal. I had a lot of fun with them.

[@BradLad56]

Never had the toys but I remember watching the show. I really liked the idea of the dog being robotic, his design was quite cool imo.

[@Hum0ng0us]

GOD I love Visionaries too!! Almost as much as I love G.I.*JOE=!!

[@FranklinMcAlisterTheThird]

I have the COPS tv series on DVD and I watch it every so often. One thing the Episode where the Drug Dealer comes to town and Big Boss helps the COPS stop the dealer is because what happens is his nephew Berzerko fell into a shipping box of the drug patches and ended up in critical care at the Empire City hospital so Big Boss considered the old saying "An Enemy's enemy is a friend" He was enemies with the drug dealer and he knew the COPS were the drug dealer's enemy too so they teamed up 1 COP with 1 Crook and were able to stop the drug dealer. This show has potential to have a live action remake done just like they have done Live action remakes of Transformers and GIJOE

[@cobweb6960]

Awesome video for an awesome cartoon/toy line. Lots of great accurate information to be had here 😉

[@ToyKennections]

LOL. I should pin this to the top to counter a now deleted comment 😅🤣. Thx for watching, Jacob.

[@WraithMace]

Loved the cartoon and had a few of the figures and the cop "truck"! Awesome video Ken!

[@ToyKennections]

Thx for watching. It's crime fighting time!

[@JayBartlett1975]

Wonderful video my friend, loved it!

[@ToyKennections]

Thx man! Glad you got to watch this, my friend.

[@Brando-Lee3725]

I loved these figures as a kid!!! Great characters, articulation and details. I wish it would have lasted longer.

[@ToyKennections]

Same. The franchise is a bit underrated.

[@Chasing80sToys]

Another great episode Ken. Cool to see and hear Hans too on C.O.P.S. We did get the cartoon back in the day on this side of the ocean but none of the toystores in my area carried the toyline. So I made due with building an Empire City out of Lego with all the characters and vehicles.

[@ToyKennections]

Thats a great idea. Lego Empire City! I like it.

[@TheVileOne]

The opening theme song for this show was banging

[@derekjhoover82]

Awesome vid Ken! Love me some COPS

[@ToyKennections]

Thx for watching, Derek!

[@jerryw2460]

It was on at 6:30 am weekdays when I was in grade school, ya really really had to want to watch it to get up that early.

[@slunsford1383]

This needs a revival

[@ToyKennections]

Indeed!

[@DegeneragentX]

I watched the show, got had a few of the comic. Remember an origin story for Blitz that made me tear up (as a kid) and a (apparently) running 'joke' where Buzzbomb would constantly trashed, once right after Badvibes got done fixing him.

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

Great Channel. I have been trying to find toy line channels worth watching (opinion) and most of them are skipable. I'll be keeping up with this channel.

[@ToyKennections]

Much appreciated, and welcome to the channel.

[@paulkiefer3893]

Same guy made the tmnt and cops intros. The 2 best 80s intros imho

[@ToyKennections]

Love those intros. MASK remains my fave intro though.

[@paulkiefer3893]

@ToyKennections i agree 👍 💯

[@cfhcowboy9292]

I remember this show i still watch it from time to time i had some of the toys aswell

[@asantiago704]

Awesome series.

[@Steven-ip8xo]

Hi Ken, Great video about History of C.O.P.S 'n Crooks Toys & Cartoon Vintage Retrospective(w/Hans Chow), Keep them coming, Also your latest video was outstanding, Also C.O.P.S. is one of my best and most favorite Animated Cartoon Shows of all time, Also my best and most favorite C.O.P.S.(From Airwave to Roadblock(driver of the Squad Car Highway Interceptor), Also my best and most favorite Crooks are from(Bersko to Turbo Tu-tone(driver of the Roadster but also pilots The Roadster) and The Leader of the Crooks is the Big Boss Bersko's uncle, Also my best and most favorite C.O.P. and leader of the C.O.P.S. is Bulletproof Vess(Baldwin p. Vess) Also my best and most C.O.P.S. Vehicles are: From Air Raid(Cops Heilcopter) with Bullseye(Hugh p. Siskory) to Pursuit Jet, Also my best and most favorite Crooks vehicles from Dragster( driven and piloted by Turbo Tu-tone) to Jail Bird Air-Speeder, Also Cops Bullet Proof and Streets of Rage's Adam Hunter bear a strong resemblance to each other. Also God I love and like MASK too. Also Classified is a fantastic line, Also GOD I love and like Visionaries too!! Almost as much as I love G.I. JOE!! Also Another great episode Ken. Cool to see and hear Hans too on C.O.P.S. Also Great job Ken and Hans! 👊👊 So many cool memories watching this, Also Great video Ken, Also Awesome series, Also Photos of the third year of this line can be found on the Internets, Also thank you for sharing Ken and you too Hans keep up the good work stay safe out there in Canada have a Happy Thanksgiving have a good day It's Crime Fighting Time or should I say CASE CLOSED.🙂💪🦃🟢🇺🇲🦸👊💚🏋️👍😀😎💪💯

[@ToyKennections]

Thx for watching - some great memories for sure. Case closed!

[@DownSouthSeven7]

Great video Ken! I loved COPS, I wish Hasbro could bring them back, but they're not in a position to gamble. I'm looking forward to see what Fresh Monkey can do with them.

[@ToyKennections]

Yeah - the FMF ones should look nice with the GI Joe Classified stuff!

[@demetriharlan5887]

I hope on day Cartoon Channel picks up some of these cartoons.

[@YeldellGW]

Been binge watching C.O.P.S. since getting the series collection recently. Also had the Buttons figure (My cousin had Longarm.). Good times! Visionaries and Inhumanoids series collection when Hasbro?!

[@troykingsland3483]

Thanks for the flashback.

[@ToyKennections]

Thanks for watching.

[@victormatthews1906]

Great video Ken

[@ToyKennections]

Thx!

[@Bear-nu8xm]

The cartoon theme song brings me right back to a 20 inch crt with an NES beside it!

[@ToyKennections]

Yes!! Love me some old school NES

[@bsimon9427]

never had the toys because they werent joe scale but i did love the cartoon. great video!

[@ToyKennections]

Thx for watching, Bart!

[@impossiblepie]

Never got into cops but grear video Ken.

[@ToyKennections]

Thx for watching Tim!

[@josiahalcorne]

Love it when Hans Chow gets involved. I wonder how things would have played out if Hasbro and Kenner had stuck with the 1/18 scale format that they had pioneered. If M.A.S.K., C.O.P.S., Inhumaniods, Ghostbusters, Batman, Superfriends, Jurrasic Park, Alien, and Predator had all been compatible with GI Joe and Star Wars how much would have that success fed into a cycle. As long as the tariff war doesn't come to pass I would prefer modern action figures collecting to be the way it is with all the small niche companies putting out product than have Hasbro, Mattel, and Playmates squeezing everyone else out with the same 4 or 5 major evergreen IPs, but I still fantasize about what it would be like if Hasbro ever put together a master 1/18 scale plan.

[@TheChadTI]

At time of release these were the best American mass market action figures any of us had ever seen.

[@JoePal-c3n]

Micro machines loves those and even the video game was fun. lol

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Classified is a fantastic line

[@tss6824]

Bringing back memories in the 80s best Toys everything was cheaper I see prices on action figures very expensive now 😆

[@hillbillyharper4008]

Great video, guys I never had the figures. (I never seen the in stores) but I liked the show. Long arm was my favorite. He reminded me of the character from the Nintendo game Bionic Comando.

[@ToyKennections]

Thx for watching. I think we all liked Longarm.

[@0u812343]

I wish I got into cops more as a kid

[@Hum0ng0us]

God I love MASK too.

[@cyberfrank-bx2nv]

good history video bro I was in gi joe then, a major mistake to make cops a dif scale though, as some figs and vehicles were tempting looking at them now, they were pretty cool, if only brought to joes s realism a little more, the proportions are all over.... but the design, style, accessories were quite cool! those new ones, 6'? the proportions look waaaay better! I ve suggested a 6' city emergency line to Hasbro, many times, and cops could be a great addition to complete and attract fans. the original idea was to have civilians to mix with legends - gi joe and a city context for scenes - dioramas, to catch the cartoon - movie look at home on mine. [5 dios] so now you know... God bless America and world peace good show bro

[@bezoticallyyours83]

I bought the box set for my boyfriend. I watched a few episodes and was reminded how goofy it was.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

This is the first time I've ever seen the toys.

[@Brando-Lee3725]

A live action movie of this franchise would be awesome!!!! Plus, I wouldn't mind seeing these figures re-done like Joe Classified figures. But I don't know how well they would sell. I would be down though!

[@ToyKennections]

Follow Fresh Monkey Fiction in the video description. They will be doing them in Classified scale 😎

[@bezoticallyyours83]

I miss sunbow and DiC

[@seankelly9541]

Photos of the third year of this line (cancelled) can be found on the Internets

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Hasbro sure loves reusing names

[@ToyKennections]

Yup!

[@manofaction1807]

Bulletproof!!!! Hell yeah!!!!!

[@ToyKennections]

Yup!

[@mathieuduval7544]

HOLY SH%T!!! we're almost in 2025 and still no news that this amazing toy line (and great cartoon show) will come back!!... and the FM stuff @ 90 bucks for one figure doesn't count!

[@princebloodgrave8097]

Bullit was also in the wave 2 bad guys/Crooks. And Nightstick, for wave 2 C.O.P.S. too

[@ToyKennections]

Yup. They're both in the video, briefly.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Fun video

[@ToyKennections]

Thx for watching!

[@bluetarantulaproductions6179]

Cops had a crossover episode with "Street Sharks"

[@PatriciaMoore-s3k]

Thank you so much for this amazing video! I have a quick question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). Could you explain how to move them to Binance?

[@PixelsNcreatureS]

Ive wondered about this. I know ive seen this show have 2 different names but never understood why and no one believed me. They dubbed in "cyber" before "cops" in the theme song too.. It was like mandela effect meltdown

[@ToyKennections]

You mean with COPS and Cyber COPS?

[@PixelsNcreatureS]

@@ToyKennections yea. Same show 2 names as u mentioned

[@ToyKennections]

Interestingly... I remember them being 2 completely different shows until I did the research for this video. I think i had a mandela effect as well, but slightly different from what you had, lol.

[@PixelsNcreatureS]

@@ToyKennections I thought it happening a third time when I noticed the new figures were called, "cops, 'n crooks" but I didn't remember the original toys were called that this whole time

[@Hum0ng0us]

They were so expensive though!! I only had Bowser and Blitz and that killed me!! I had to save up 2 full weeks allowance to get 1 figure!! And I thought they were too big. 3.75 us the perfect size for me. I loved the tv show though and am still planning on getting it on dvd when I can.

[@ToyKennections]

I think I purged any memory of the original prices in my head... maybe it's better that way 😆

[@Hum0ng0us]

@ToyKennections -- Yeah, where I was in northern MB, it got very expensive. I can't remember how much but I remember having zero dollars fora long while after I got Bowser and Blitz. I wanted the whole schmear too.

[@TheBathrobeWizard]

7:17 whats funny is i always thought they used to rip off Al Capone. Or at least make Big Boss a exaggerated caricature of him. I remember everyone doing that as a kid with gangsters in cartoons and movies, that high nasally voice with alot of 'YEAH,SEE' stuff

[@mitchbray6637]

I liked COps. You know, Thomas WIlson, who played Biff Tannen in the Back To The Future franchise, would have made a great Beserko on the big screen.

[@ToyKennections]

He totally would have been perfect!

[@mitchbray6637]

@@ToyKennections There was a movie called Mannequin and the actor who played the character of Hollywood looked like VP Vess aka Bulletproof come to life. Bulletproof was my favorite character because he was the leader of the group. The leader of the group was always the one I liked best tin any show when I was a kid. By the way, I prefer Filmation's version of the Ghostbusters as far as Cartoon shows go as opposed to the Real Ghostbusters. I dunno. It felt more fun. But the love action Ghostbusters movies were awesome. I wonder if the Filmation Ghostbusters could ever see the light of day again.

[@JoePal-c3n]

Great video wish they made those figures in 3 3/4 to 4 inch just like o rings. Law and his dog order can use a cop car. lol 😂

[@ToyKennections]

Chicken Fried Toys will do 4" ones. They have a Sundown in the works.

[@JoePal-c3n]

I will have a look to see what I can find on that

[@JoePal-c3n]

You get what I am saying like modern construction doesn’t flow like the rivets and it’s put together cheaply. So the joints break faster. I was always afraid to move a Star Wars figure’s arm because it was so cheaply made. Very fragile of you use to much force it will snap an arm or leg off. lol 😂

[@JoePal-c3n]

That’s a very small run only 2000 made of that figure.

[@ToyKennections]

@@JoePal-c3n i usually try to be super careful with modern figures. Pose, display, take photo. Repeat. Lol!

[@Stygian360]

I really did like this line but it came out too late for it to get 'in there' like Joe and Transformers did due to them being early 80's when I was young and impressionable. Still have Bowser and his K-9 cyber dog!

[@ToyKennections]

Bowser and Blitz are indeed a great pair. Thx for watching, Neil!

[@JoePal-c3n]

Nice my friend had some of those. I just collected GIJoe Star Wars and ninja turtles. Also had some Heman like Beast man and skeletor Heman Fortress of fangs and some of the D&D demons and hero’s. The only thing I have left form D&D is the ladder 🪜 lol Did have some ghost busters as well. Still have a few ghosts left OG slimmer eye 👁️ ball ghost and the two in one blue ghost(only can find the bottom half). lol and Dracula. But fully focused on GI Joe Delta17 call sign longbow operation recall in the navy figures. And might get some Star Wars this year in 2025. Did buy ninja turtles for my daughter.

[@ToyKennections]

Some great toy lines for sure. Thx for watching, Joey!

[@JoePal-c3n]

I leave out my Lego I still have a huge box of it. lol from Star Wars sets to a wide range of sets. Even robinhood Vikings soldiers knights I think there was some type of ogres I have those.

[@JoePal-c3n]

I always enjoy watching your vids they do bring out some great memories and yes one of my friends did have some visionary’s so I did get a chance to play with a wide range of toys in the 1980s and 1990s. Someone always got something that the other didn’t have or someone you knew got it. Adventure people hot wheels trains. I just get my neighbour My old train set. I had 7 engines. Plus we had tones of those plastic toys to Soldiers cowboys and natives and space plastic toys. Even there was knights and demons like d&d cause I was like 4 when I got that set. Plus fisher price great to use the castle for the knights so we had so many different toys even snuffs. lol 😂 I also had the 12 inch bionic man he had a Crome arm and there was the million dollar man you could look through his eye. lol 😂 and Tonka had a nice black jeep for 12” figures. I did have one GIJoe with a beard that was 12”. And that 6 wheeled car. lol 😂 so much and some much fun. Inside and outside.

[@ToyKennections]

@JoePal-c3n i watched your video from earlier today too but had to leave the house before i could comment. . As an update - the D17 weapons pack will have 12 accessories.

[@dennisrounds1996]

C.O.P.S. Worked it was defeated one of the better cartoons of the 80s and toy lines. As you said it was the right show at the right time, airing just after Robocop was in theaters; that cartoon spin off however..:meh. Visionaries and Inhumanoids were both amazing in their own right, especially the latter. That said, without a series with a high episode count that is accessible (meaning it airs regularly and at a decent time) many franchises (Insectaurs anyone) got lost among the plethora of 80s toylines/cartoons. Those others were still competing while GI Joe, Transformers and He-Man still dominated airwaves. In order for anything to really take hold, we would have to wait for those big three to lose interest with viewers. Some did grab a piece of their own like Ghostbusters and M.A.S.K. But again, without a well numbered tv series to showcase the characters, many of those toylines were sadly overlooked.

[@ToyKennections]

Very well said. Reflects a lot of my thoughts here.

[@JoePal-c3n]

Also Eagle 🦅 force I think that was 1980 I had the Eagle Force Island base and a few of those I think the scale was 2 inch or close to that all diecast and a battery powered tank and jeep. Buck Rodgers Battlestar Galactica captain power toys I almost forgot that one. I have some parts for captain power. lol

[@ToyKennections]

I mostly watched the 2000s Battlestar Galactica revival.

[@JoePal-c3n]

I don’t think I seen that and there was also Tron deadly disk figures only 5 poa but translucent. So many good memories

[@kevnoxious]

I had the helicopter for a little while my Aunt bought it for me

[@ToyKennections]

I did too. I miss it!

[@christopherpara6183]

You skipped over "Rock Krusher" in series 1...

[@ToyKennections]

He's there at 7:40 😎

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Too bad hasbro didn't do more crossovers with their own lines for their tf toys.

[@ToyKennections]

Yeah, they mostly stick to Transformers / GI Joe crossovers, but I'd love to see more.

[@charlesrobinson7469]

The figures were way too big, & only a few Characters were interesting to me. I think they would've done better at 3 3/4 scale. I know that because I'm a 3 3/4 O Ring Collector, and I would've bought ALL of them.👍🏾

[@dendostar5436]

Mainframe and Nightshade not having figures is fucking wrong.

[@BainesMkII]

As with other toy lines of the time, I was annoyed by the lack of female figures. I know the justification that is always given is that female characters didn't sell, but it was still annoying. (And it wasn't like every male character was going to be a sales superstar either.)

[@ToyKennections]

Well said!