Inhumanoids: Part 2 - Clearing Out the Demons - Hasbro 1986

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Michael and Matt conclude their Inhumanoids retrospective with a look at the toys from 1986 and try to figure out why they didn't succeed.
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[@J-T-A]

Monsters for Your Other Toys™ needs to be a thing.

[@retroblasting]

AGREED!

[@mikeisernie]

Bossfight should just do that as a subline.

[@andrewgrant2990]

@@retroblasting I just have to say sir, this bit at the end was sheer brilliance! I laughed so hard! I really wish you were in charge of some of these properties. Your Skeletor is spot on perfect!

[@a_world_made_of_cardboard]

I actually had Metlar, Tendril and D'Compose. They always fought my 20" Shogun Warrior Godzilla. My GI Joe and Star Wars figure were always caught in the middle. So, yes, the were MONSTERS FOR YOUR OTHER TOYS.

[@elgefe8092]

Imperial did that

[@MetalHendrix.]

Inhumanoids made me a better person. My parents refuse to get Metlar for me so I worked for fist time to buy It with my own money. Thank you for this couple of videos.

[@michaellefor7854]

I got him as a gift as a kid and for some reason was always in my nightmares. Lol

[@morteforte7033]

"monsters for your other toys" goes well with "wooden blocks that can be anything"

[@jonm3915]

"Discarded foreskin" was never a phrase I expected to hear Michael say.

[@cyrinix]

It's a great line. My goal is to work it into conversation sometime!

[@donmiles4581]

I died!!!!!!!😂😂😂 because now I can't UNSEE that!!

[@justinthomas7222]

Right up there with Broken Vader & his "like a used - "

[@Geek_Chorus]

Holy moly that ending was sheer GENIUS!!!!! LMAOOOOOOOOOO

[@donmiles4581]

Yes!!! I was even like "WHY didn't I ever think of getting the Inhumanoids, to use as Robeasts??? Why????😭" Hahahahaha

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

monsters for your other toys is exactly why I would want those bigger ones :-D awesome vid!

[@georgeaitken2719]

With that advert you may have single handed saved the humanoids toy range

[@CKSRichardson]

So many good one-liners in this episode. Also, I don't think that I'm ever going to be able to look at Auger the same way ever again.

[@CreepyUncleIdjit]

Gonna go auger some foreskin today.

[@RazHolly]

“You mean that he...” “MONSTERS! For your other toys!” Loved it!!

[@toddsmith9598]

Off-the-charts quality AGAIN! Thank you for all the effort and creativity put into to your content. You guys are great.

[@legendre007]

I am so happy you are covering this underappreciated classic! 😊💓

[@kristopherpreston419]

Part one and two were amazing! Great job on the content! I was born in 81 and I remember the commercials but never seen the cartoons, but wish I did. You had me cracking up bro

[@chadploof4740]

Thoroughly enjoyed this , great episode guys!!

[@Geek_Chorus]

Like the Millennium Falcon swooping into the trench at the last moment to save Luke, in swoops the Retroblasting crew to save my day! YAA-HOO!

[@Troutslayer_]

I had liquidator. I lost the helmet. I remember seeing decompose at sears and wanting it so bad. My parents wouldnt buy it because it was so expensive

[@vblogeoIntenso]

Wow!! Love every part of this video Michael did it again!! 😀

[@GregorySesma]

I remember my friends having these as a kid, great toy line. Thanks Retroblasting 👍

[@batangbatugan]

Inhumanoids as a show was awesome. The toys were, in my opinion, disappointing from a design and engineering standpoint. Auger looks biomechanical and cool but totally clashes with the other Earth Core suits. It's like he was designed by a different artist or team. Also, by late 80's standards they were bricks compared to smaller figures which at least had knees or elbows. How cool would it have been if Earth Core were GI-Joe style figures which you can place inside their suits just like in the show? Even if the suits still only had 5 points of articulation that feature alone would still be worth it.

[@Summertimeblues28]

Loved this line of toys & the cartoon series as a kid & still do! My Catholic Mom (so she wasn’t bothered too much about the whole demon monster thing) got me Metlar for Christmas 1987. Such an amazing Toy to open on Christmas morning. One of my fave Christmas mornings ever! Awesome video. Thanks for posting part 2 Retro Blasting

[@CoryTheRaven]

I find myself imagining what Inhumanoids might have been as the first spin-off of G.I.Joe... Make the team of humans a special task force and scale it all to G.I.Joe size.

[@a_world_made_of_cardboard]

I know you said it, but I always viewed the line as being in scale with GI Joe. The 3-3/4" scale head was just the human in a BIG Exo-suit. They should have made the suits as shells that could hold a GI Joe size figure. Not doing so was just stupid.

[@HORRIOR1]

I was kinda hoping this was a thing, since in the show they have their unarmored uniforms. You could totally have them be regular GI Joe figure sized and then place them inside these gimmick crammed exosuits.

[@justinthomas7222]

Objective, great production & interview, hilarious, classic RetroBlasting! Thanks y'all, congratulations (a little late), & Happy Thanksgiving!

[@kaijujohnny]

The bit at the end = comedy gold. 🤣 Great voice acting. 👏

[@stainshield]

Hasbro needs to get the rights for Inhumanoids back ASAP, because Inhumanoids is to Hasbro what Darkstalkers is to Capcom and that is a horror cult classic.

[@funkmastaC]

Oh man, that ending made me chuckle.

[@vagtav310]

I was waiting for this!!! Strange toy line, not very popular but the monsters were awesome!

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

Oh, man! I was trying so hard to remember a toy-line's name: Crystarr! Thanks, Mr. Swaford! I had a coulpla figures, and a catapult, when I was a kid.

[@codymcclainbrown7494]

Well done! I remember wanting some of the monsters for exactly that purpose.

[@pjschroeder76]

I couldn't remember what these were all about until another great video from you guys. I received the big demon and my little bro. received the big skull head. Scared the crap out of my little cousins that Christmas. We also had Auger. Good Stuff.

[@chrisworsley8836]

The descriptions in the review were priceless, but the promo at the end "Monsters for Your Other Toys"... Hilarious!

[@scottknudsen6611]

"Monsters for Your Other Toys" is such a good idea for a toy line I'm surprised no one in the 80s ever did it.

[@damianstellabott1952]

I remember seeing some off-brand generic figures at my local toy store labelled "Bad Guys" with the card suggesting they face off against GI Joe, Sgt Rock and others.

[@a_world_made_of_cardboard]

Your right, I think I remember that too.

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@damianstellabott1952 Imagine the Inhumanoids fighting the Karate Kommandos! 😎

[@FatherAxeKeeper]

They should have made the suits open up so you can take the figures out, swap things around, maybe put in your favorite gi joe etc.

[@ohmyjanitor]

Monsters for Other Toys was exactly what I did with my Inhumaniod monsters. I was 8 when the Inhumaniods series came out. I loved it. We were at a toy store when I found Liquidator and my parents bought him for me. It wasn't much longer until I had the other heroes of that series. For my 9th birthday I got Decompose, the following Christmas I got Metlar and Magnacore. We moved to Alaska where they didn't show Inhumanoids, none of my friends knew about the series but they loved the monsters. Now I completely forgot what made Magnacore special. I thought he was a lava monster and when he cooled down he froze and died, thus the rock shell over the front of his body. The four heroes were almost never played with. The monsters, however, could fit into any of my other toys. Playing with my Hotwheels cars, there is a traffic jam on I-95 due to Metlar and Decompose. The Rebel Alliance is defending Castle Greyskull with some G.I. Joes against Metlar and Decompose. Captain Picard, Geordi LaForge, and Commander Riker are in a losing battle against...those giant monsters. When my parents told me to go play with my little sister. She pulled out her Barbies and I pulled out Metlar (Fun Time Barbie didn't have a fun time when Decompose imprisoned her in his ribcage and zombified Skipper. My sister also enjoyed Inhumaniods so this wasn't a big no for her). Now I had another toy line called "Air Raiders", I had some hero and bad guy vehicles and the hero base. The toyline was based upon a pneumatic gimmick. The hero base had guns and pneumatic missiles that actually fired. My Air Raiders were the only ones who could take down Metlar and Decompose.

[@hgc7000]

Somehow, I had Moltar, D-Compose, and Tendryll when I was a kid. And yes, they were the Big Bads that all my hero toys had to conquer. The GI Joes, Sky Commanders, Air Raiders, and the Autobots had to team up to take them down. I definitely regret giving this triad of terror away when I got into my teen years. I still have Tan Rockman, esq. and Metlar. They aren't nearly as epic as the three Big Bads. Also, your mention of Circus World definitely brought up memories of going to the North DeKalb Mall near Decatur, Ga. and trying to find good stuff in the mark down bins. Great work as usual!

[@ohmyjanitor]

Dude!!! You also had some Air Raiders, that is awesome. I am the only kid I knew growing up who had any of them. I had I believe one baddie vehicle (a tank with a detachable flying craft), and two hero vehicles. I also had the hero base. My friends never heard of Air Raiders but we'd always play with them when they'd come over.

[@hgc7000]

Yeah! That purple tank, the Dragonwind is my favorite vehicle from the line. The flying drone was made from foam or a weak cardboard, so it got nuked real quick. Air Raiders were more niche/easily forgotten than the Inhumanoids! Most of the ones from my kid years were from the mark-down bins. I've picked up more via ebay over the past few years since its a moderately easy toyline to get all sets. The figures scale well with the modern Transformers and are close to the Mega Construx Halo figures too. Glad someone else remembers the Air Raiders!

[@filmandpage1138]

I got the orange redwood for Christmas one year when I was a kid. I loved it, and it is one of the few toys that survived my childhood. I still have him to this day. He is on display on my shelf now, and the Monsters for your other toys is right. My He-Man, and Lion-O would team up to take on that redwood. I have the comics as well.

[@80sfreak42]

Thank you guys for this....thumbs up

[@WeHaveExplosive]

Watching this was an epiphany, I had the Bright figure as a kid but for the last 30-odd years I had no idea what it was. I also remember hating the thing because of the pin-head look it had because yep, I lost that helmet in record time.

[@HolidayJodoKast]

I had D'compose and the Trappeur vehicle and much like you said... I used both with my other toys. For the longest time, the last thing remaining I had from Inhumanoids was the grappler hook side-attachment on the vehicle and D'composes head (it totally popped off and I could never get it back on and his skull still looked cool).

[@joeriveracomedy]

My parents never had a problem telling me no. They never protested cartoons or toy commercials.

[@WyldstaarStudios]

There's a toy line available at the moment called Raw10 that's essentially Monsters For Your Other Toys. It's got cybernetic versions of a giant gorilla, a great white shark, velociraptor and a cobra. I picked up a bunch of the cobras to take on The Joes.

[@keithhomesley1946]

I Loved this video! Great comic relief as well!

[@mikesmith2718]

Been waiting for this one I love inhumanoids

[@impossiblepie]

Great video, love giant monsters! My other toys would love them!!!!

[@dominiquedevereux7205]

LMAP. That ending skit had me on the floor!! "Do U need help fighting the good guys?? Cobra: YEEEEESSS!!" Me: *DEAD*

[@theronmitchell3073]

Oh yeah, was just thinking about when michael would release this video, been waiting on this one

[@troyskeete8372]

As a Voltron fan, the Vorltron bit made me suddenly laugh till my sides hurt. That small joke has SO many layers and shows you know your stuff. 🤣🤣🤣 Bravo sir 👏🏾 BRAVO!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@mikeisernie]

I loved the look of this line, but never got any as a kid. As an adult I got Tendrill and Granok(?)...Granok lost his arm due to the rubber breakage. Tendrill was my resident giant monster for 3 3/4 Marvel figures (Moleman looked dope riding on his head). I do think the humans ALMOST work as exosuits for Joe scale.....but man Auger was weird looking and Liquidators suit was dummmmmb.

[@camcordernonsense5264]

Love this show and the toys. I get excited when I see any I humanoids items. or hearing the theme or commercials, I still get excited by that music.. Only had 1 toy coming up and it wasn't mine. It was my brothers and i thought it was great..I'd say inhumanoids still holds value for me.

[@collegerebel]

Hunk: You mean Sven is actually...? Keith in his native japanese: Shinderu, yes.

[@collegerebel]

I decided to check and it's actually "Deddo".

[@FatherAxeKeeper]

shibou shita if you don't want to be disrespectful about it lol

[@collegerebel]

@@FatherAxeKeeper Honestly, I just looked it up on google translate, and I only know of "shinderu" because of Filthy Frank, lol.

[@FatherAxeKeeper]

@@collegerebel lol its fine i figured that. i love filthy frank myself.

[@timothytangemann8870]

That was freaking funny!! “Monsters for your other toys”. 😂😂😂

[@Sladeonslade]

I really enjoyed this video. The ending was super funny.

[@separate_entity001]

So interesting!

[@mechamanblade8465]

I've been saying this for years. Voltron and the Megazords need Monsters in scale to fight. I would buy Monsters for your Other Toys. Case in point. McFarlane's RAW10 line are generic cybenetic creatures (besides Cygor) and you can fit them in almost any toy line.

[@talesfromthebutchside5613]

Was Melinda's "ew!!!" Scripted, or was it her genuine reaction to reading the script?

[@donmiles4581]

It sounded so GENUINE didn't it? 😄

[@talesfromthebutchside5613]

@@donmiles4581 slightly 🤣

[@donmiles4581]

@@talesfromthebutchside5613 I'm just guessing that nobody told Liquidator about sexual harassment! 😄

[@ranwolf76]

@@donmiles4581 it was the 80s, it didn't exist back then

[@jordel2010]

@@ranwolf76 More like "it was socially acceptable then" kind of thing.

[@JSteplyk]

Loved the voiceovers, especially Shipwreck!

[@junrosamura645]

The keith voice impression was spot on and not to mention a funny skit! As for the toys, I loved the cartoon but never bought the toys. I did inherit one of those rock monsters from a kid giving away his toys. Its purpose in the "Monsters for your other toys" group was nicely fulfilled.

[@TheAtariCreep]

I loved the monsters but you're right about the line as a whole. I used the monsters against my other figures and it was AWESOME. Just like your buddy here not having this line as a kid and that is why he collects them now, I am the same with MOTU. Never got any as a kid but I sure do now. LOL Cool stuff man.

[@Cibo-1]

I never ear about inhumanoids in my 40 year but now I can see the toys are awesone, I like the concept that this guys in a rare Battlesuit. I need that toys

[@alexrain1188]

Love this show. A show that had balls like boulders

[@raulzavala9061]

Another thing to point out too is that the design of the Earth Corps team on the cartoon looked a lot better than the chunky crap figures themselves.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Same for the Inhumanoids imho.

[@riderbuzz2606]

once again great vid rb

[@donmiles4581]

Props to Matt Swafford!! I REALLY enjoyed his insights!!! So spot on!👏👏👏👏But can we talk about how we got Skeletor AND Cobra Commander.... in the same video! 😭🙌🙌 Thank you Michael!!!!😄

[@Babyboomerangutan]

Thanks man!

[@wyllyamjohnson3561]

Another awesome video!

[@AyaC]

There is no Hospital Planet!

[@rhettgenung1223]

It is what it is....Enjoy It!

[@aaronstepien2363]

Yep, “Inhumanoids” toys were never played “in their own universe” in my neighborhood. They were always thrown in “as monsters” for other lines

[@turtleanton6539]

Pretty dope

[@darthmaul33]

Watched that ad at the end twice.

[@lanuhsislehswolfchild146]

I'm a huge fan of the show. It was like nothing that was on. It was like the older brother of Dungeons & Dragons. But set contemporary. The toys were shit. But the concepts and body horror and awesome demonic violence in the show was fucking awesome! It's one of the greatest shows that no one knows about. Now there are animated shows that are violent and bloody from Japan that anyone can access. There's not a bunch of parent groups freaking out about them or if they are no one cares at this point. But these are rare gems from the '80s who have a very special place in animation lore. I always thought the voices were cool because they were recognizable from other Sunbow titles. But your friend Matthews insights were awesome. And I love that you talked about how maybe Hasbro should have just marketed them as monsters for your other toys to fight; that was brilliant! Your creative team is great. Keep up the great work, I really like watching your channel.

[@awesomefanger]

Exactly what I needed today! I was ready for the hospital planet. 🏥 🌎

[@MidwestCombatServicesLLC]

You nailed my 1989 thoughts of this line.

[@josephzanabria9369]

great video pal !

[@skabcat242]

LOL That ending was awesome.

[@PrimeMystique]

I loved this cartoon and the toys as a kid. Still have some members of Earth Corps I Will be trying to buy the big three next year at 47 years old.

[@derektorres6260]

Excellent video

[@davidmarsh6656]

I think you hit the nail on the head with the wish fulfilment theory. How many of us are trying to appease our younger selves.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

Def explains my collection of Robotech toys.

[@GreenLanternPrime01]

I bought Tendril brand new and I still have it. He always was the "Monster for my other Toys".

[@generalobiwankenobi9327]

*"Hello There my friends! This very intriguing and fascinating! May the Force be with you always!"*

[@HikeHuntHaul]

Great video 😃👍🏻

[@dougjames4972]

Monsters for your Other Toys!!!!! Brilliant!!!!!

[@jommysalami227]

"Monsters for your other toys" aka the reason why colorforms outer space men exist

[@mephosto]

"getting the thing you never got", how many of us got into collecting for that reason.

[@billrules8716]

That ending was classic!! LOL

[@betaraybob]

The skit at the end was great.

[@hunteremison524]

I felt the same way about the red rex from the original Jurassic park line. I wanted it for Xmas ‘93 but got the young rex instead. I finally achieved that life long goal at age 34 and now have a pristine example standing on my mantle with the rest of my original Kenner JP stuff!

[@MonkeyboysToys]

"A suit made from discarded foreskin" Bwahahahaha I laughed so hard 🤣🤣

[@steelcurtain187]

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a series where the monsters/ villains outshined the hero figures to the degree of this one. Much like you said, these monsters would work with a lot of other series, especially given their scale. I hope to get these one day without having to sell a kidney

[@everetmason7793]

I recall these toys in the 80’s and me and my friends looked and looked for them.. no where to be found.

[@ShadowWingTronix]

You could find smaller companies making extra vehicles and monsters compatible with other toylines. For example my Skeletor didn't ride Panthor (because I didn't have one), but he did ride a two-headed wingless dragon monster that was taller than Battlecat.

[@captaincid6488]

Your Keith voice is spot on!

[@AL-ws5yi]

2:30 I legit choked after this bit. I’m not sure whether it was from amusement or horror. Lol.

[@Merylstreep1949]

Omfg the monsters for other toys bit was especially funny on an Archeresque level

[@05xrunner]

I had the 3 inhumanoids, magnacore, granok and the gray tree guy as a kid. I thought they were great. I wish i still had them all. Especially all 3 of the huge inhumanoids

[@bioarmor79]

I always loved INHUMANOIDS as a kid, I had DECOMPOSE, METLAR, and liquidator...I wish I still had the toys :(

[@thejacquio771]

Had a VHS tape with about 4 episodes of the cartoon as a kid. If you've never watched the cartoon, there are going to be things that don't make sense with the action figures. Decompose was always my favorite.

[@skunkworksstudios]

Man I always felt the Inhumanoids were actually the evolution of the Adventure Team.

[@badape3620]

Ok. I feel like if Hasbro made the main 4 characters come out of their power suits and where just GIJOE style figures that would have been a big help. As for calling them monsters for your other toys, BRILLIANT! If I had the main monsters when I was a kid they would have been used constantly fighting ninja turtles/masters of the universe (in my childhood mind those toy lines went together) or terrorizing people (people being what I called all 3 3/4 inch figures regardless of the toy line)

[@TitularHeroine]

"People", yeah. For us it was "guys". "My friend's coming over to play guys."

[@ron8675309]

"A suit made from discarded foreskin," I die

[@theronmitchell3073]

I had auger and magnacore. I actually was a fan of the series. But I can't argue with what your review is saying

[@matthewstoneback9]

It's so true. As I look back on it now, I had all of the Inhumanoids monsters as a kid, and NONE of the Earth Corps action figures! They just weren't very appealing. And compared to Tendril, Metlar and D'Compose, that's saying something!

[@NiskRanThawll]

The skeletor voice raised an eyebrow... Cobra commander had me crack a wry smile. The shipwreck killed me 😂😂😂 I remember having the yellow dude at some point in the late 80s... Maybe the purple foreskin dude too. I never knew what they were other than odd toys that looked like action force (yes I'm British) rip offs at a weird scale. I never saw the cartoon or the ads (I'm in he UK if that matters?), and the monsters I NEVER saw in shops or being owned be friends.