Toy-Ventures: Top Ten 1980s Peg Warmers

[@migspit]

Another great video! I received my copy of Toy-Ventures magazine yesterday it's a brilliant read and visual treat

[@BrickMantooth]

thank you so much for saying that, really glad you dug it. More in the works.

[@migspit]

Brick Mantooth Thank you for all your hard work It certainly shows in the magazine. I eagerly await the next issue

[@MrDrokkul]

I got my Emperor Palpatine with the mail in promotion that Kenner did. I remember as a kid feeling really perturbed when he came out in stores. I felt like my slowly collecting points and waiting 6-8 weeks for delivery meant nothing.

[@alphaprobe20]

I agree- I think that’s why he sat around in stores for so long. As a kid, I missed the ESB Boba Fett mail in promotion, but I had older friends who somehow kept the card backs. That was perfect timing for me, Rotj and enough proofs of purchases to get an Emperor in the mail. At one point, I had two Emperor figures, but neither was actually purchased at a store. Enough kids had them already to waste the shopping opportunity on that one!

[@scottandrewhutchins]

Ditto.

[@EDFCentral]

You were lucky to get enough points to even get him. I got toys for birthday and Christmas. Never had enough points of anything to get a mailaway.

[@alphaprobe20]

EDF Central- I was totally in the same boat! Toys on Christmas or birthday. I was lucky because I had an older friend who was starting to grow out of the whole SW thing. He just happened to have a few card backs from ESB that he gave to me. I combined them with a few from my birthday haul to mail away. The irony is we just tossed the card backs! They weren’t in great shape, but from what I’ve seen on the collectors market, they would be worth something to somebody today....

[@scottandrewhutchins]

@@alphaprobe20 I have the card backs to most of mine, but my parents demanded that I discard the blister. :(

[@80sretrotoys31]

The Robotech masters figure was a massive peg warmer.

[@ChapMeifan]

Yup. Remember seeing lots of those sitting on shelves long after all the other characters had been sold.

[@BrickMantooth]

And I'm kicking myself for forgetting him. He was even in my notes. You are absolutely right.

[@80sretrotoys31]

You should do a part 2 with figures from the comments section ... Another one was mean gene okerlund from the ljn wrestling toyline, mossman from the Motu toyline, hagar the witch from panosh voltron, imperial dignitary from power of the force

[@hamletstragedy8988]

Lol! Was that the balding dude with the green hair in the robe?

[@ChapMeifan]

@@hamletstragedy8988 that was the guy. He didn't even have legs. Just boots that would swivel side to side on the bottom of his hard plastic robe. Hours of fun for kids.

[@The_Knifey_Moloko]

I totally bought a Secret Wars Kang and Magneto off the shelf in '96 (or '97) at a mom & pop shop in northern Michigan. They had a ton. I also grabbed one of probably 40 Snake Mountains they had then as well.

[@BrickMantooth]

Oh I miss those days...

[@jeremy355]

I wish Darkseid would have been a peg warmer in my area. I never saw him or an of New God Villains in stores. In fact in the rural part of Missouri I grew up in it was damn near impossible to find any villain figures back in the 80's. We only had Walmart, K-mart, Venture, and Kay-bee. Villains were the exclusive domain of the Christmas catalog.

[@BrickMantooth]

Yeah that's interesting, I'm just hearing about him being tough in some areas.

[@reepacheirpfirewalker8629]

I had no problem in Phoenix Arizona.

[@LannieLord]

@@reepacheirpfirewalker8629 and Kaliback !

[@Metlhd313]

The Crystar and Sgt. Rock figures were pretty notorious pegwarmers where I lived. Ditto the Transformers Throttlebots and Action Masters.

[@ronniemckinney6808]

You mentioned some figures that were definitely worth the title. I actually never thought about Kang. Along with yours, I would add these somewhere in my top 20: Marion Ravenwood (Indiana Jones), Lex Luthor (1989 DC Comics Super Heroes), the Dune toy line,1986 Inhumanoids human characters, and the Revenge of The Sith Bail Organa.

[@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860]

Kang should have know his figure would not sell. He's from the future after all.

[@BrickMantooth]

exactly!

[@robertonline6543]

Ouch lol

[@RobMcCallum99]

@@BrickMantooth im sure it's been said some where in the hundreds of comments, but Marvel finally put him in a key role - thank goodness Ive got cases of kang! Coming up Milhouse!

[@elrodimusflash9331]

I can remember being in a toys r us in 89 or 90 and the clearance isle was full of Mego Hulks 3" Chips villains and star wars B wings

[@thejellyranger7679]

“Peg warmers”....ah man I haven’t heard that phrase since the OG Toy Fair magazine days. Also, Secret Wars figs were terrific.

[@johnperry9287]

I love the 1980s.....love them!

[@BrickMantooth]

It must have been an awesome time to be a kid, so much choice.

[@grantwelsh7594]

I have a loose Isaac and carded Prune Face and Rancor Keeper. You nailed it.

[@BrickMantooth]

thanks!

[@bonesuk1898]

2:23. No way! I had this and completely forgot about it. Wasent a massive fan of the show but for some reason I saw this and picked it up with my pocket money.

[@markcoledrumteacher]

I can't believe you made a Best of the West reference! Wow!

[@BrickMantooth]

I can't believe anybody but me remembers it.

[@Desslar]

There's some very brief clips on KZbin, but don't seem to be complete episodes available anywhere. Odd to see a western-themed sitcom in the 80s. I'm sure it was a hard sell.

[@Desslar]

@Scott Stalcup Cool, thanks for the info. The clips on KZbin are so brief that it's hard to judge whether it's a series worth picking up. Is it a conventional sitcom or more a genre spoof like Police Squad and Sledge Hammer?

[@Desslar]

@Scott Stalcup Thanks. Yeah, this is probably one of those DVD titles that will disappear if not purchased quickly. Speaking of which, waiting on a full series set for the Joel Higgins/Andy Griffith adventure show Salvage 1

[@Desslar]

@Scott Stalcup Agreed 100%. I'm trying to do likewise. Unfortunately I missed a lot of series when they were released on DVD in the 2000s, and now some of the prices are outrageous. There are about ten Salvage 1 episodes available on KZbin here: kzbin.info/aero/PL9S8bms5smgT35az5eXRROJ_Yt88C7zly Strange that there are lots of vintage toy channels on KZbin, but not much for vintage TV.

[@stevebragg4256]

My first thought was The Rancor Keeper from Return of the Jedi before watching the video.

[@scottandrewhutchins]

I bought Kang for 50 cents (retail clearance, sealed) around 1990. I remember Bob the Goon being common but Collectible Toys and Values trying to puff it up as scarce or prematurely discontinued. F.L.U.F.F.I. and Darkseid were figures I really wanted but never got. I recall Darkseid being hard to find. Probably because stores in my area figured out to buy one case for every store in the region or something like that.

[@BrickMantooth]

Yeah I'm getting reports that Darkseid had some weird regional issues for people, it must be due to his case pack. It's so odd because we had so many here...

[@scottandrewhutchins]

@@BrickMantooth I was in Indianapolis. We had four Toys R Us stores, five Children's Palaces, probably five Kay Bees, some Circus Worlds, a couple of Ed Schock's, plus Target, Kmart, Zayre, and others. I only ever recall seeing Darkseid at Kay Bee or Circus World, and they never seemed to have many.

[@robertonline6543]

I remember being 7 or 8 and they were selling all the Battlestar Galactica figures for a dollar at the local five and dime pharmacy. I was in kid heaven. This was about a yr I think after the show left which I thought was still pretty current. Galactica 1980 wasn't a thing yet.

[@MrDaledark]

You mentioned Child World. You made my day.

[@BrickMantooth]

glad to hear, i miss those stores.

[@ChunkyQC]

Love superpower and secret war 👍👍👍

[@BrickMantooth]

me too

[@avnursepatrick6889]

Honorable mentions for Lobot, Wheels Willie (CHIPS), and Frankenstein from the Kenner Ghostbusters line. How about a series on shelf warmer vehicles and play sets from each decade? Battle Bones from MOTU was a notorious warmer as well as the Chewbacca bandolier strap.

[@nicholastosoni707]

Aw, bless poor Frankie. He was the first GB toy I ever had, and only because I was so fascinated by the giant Frankenstein at Haunted Trails.

[@hamletstragedy8988]

I loved the Clash of the Titans action figure line! Was never able to find the Kraken and now he's waaaay to expensive. I was very disappointed there was no Medusa, too.

[@kibagami74]

As a kid, I loved that toy line (and movie), I had all of it but there wasn't that much to get. The Kraken was awesome, like almost all my old great toys, I either threw it away or gave it away....sigh... of course Kraken and Godzilla had some fights. Very much agree about Medusa, I thought she was the coolest monster and scene in the movie but no toy. The Scorpions and the 2 headed wolf beast would have been cool too. And Charon made a god stand in for the Emperor when I was in a Star Wars mood.

[@hamletstragedy8988]

I had the Shogun Warriors Godzilla and had plans for a fight between him and the Kraken. I imagine they didn’t make Medusa for financial censorship reasons. To me Medusa was an epic monster; sadly, the average toy designer and parent probably only noticed her physical appearance (boobs out) and final fate in the film and probably opted to leave her out. I’ve seen customizers online “add” to the line by making characters in the same style as the originals!

[@samanthaadams619]

Interesting that you mention the Clash of the Titan figures, as I used their grim reaper-y "Boat Man" as Palpatine. At my local K-Mart, I remember seeing lots of Squid Head and the Rancor Keeper on clearance circa 1985 or 86. Think they were as low as 50 cents before they disappeared.

[@BrickMantooth]

He's a great Palpatine substitute.

[@cyborgroxx]

Great video! I was born in 1980. I follow your channel because I'm a fan of 70's toys. I started to collect action figures again in the summer of 2000. The goal was to finish off my old lines. While I was doing that I discovered the brilliance of 70's figures. I never knew about Mego. My mindset was there was only G.I. Joe and then Star Wars came along. I honestly thought that kids in the 70's only had that and matchbox toys. Once I finished the lines of my youth, I dove into the 70's pool. You 70's kids would be very impressed with my collection of your era. Anyways, yes, you have hit the target with these figures. Darkseid, I last seen him in the stores in 1994. The Emperor, I want to say 1989 for me. The store down the street from me had a racks of Power Of The Force figures still in '89. Really cool video. Great job as always.

[@BrickMantooth]

thanks, I'm really glad you enjoyed it.

[@carlosescobar6973]

Thank you very much for bring back those lovely memories.

[@BrickMantooth]

glad you enjoyed it!

[@carlosescobar6973]

All of them 🔥

[@tavraney3289]

Man I haven't thought of Best in the West in years . Love that short lived comedy western

[@BrickMantooth]

me too!

[@Dinosaurprince]

Who the heck hates the 80s? Best generation.

[@DavidBDavis-lz7bt]

Wow, I honestly don't remember The Love Boat figures. I was in my late teens/early 20s during the early-to-mid '80s and I still loved action figures. They might be collector's item among Love Boat fans today.

[@bluek1773]

I had kang and the imperious leader as a kid along with the cycle racer from fp adventure people,those figures where my favorite,I would make the imperious leader the evil brain,and kang was kind of a black panther type hero in my mind,to this day those two figures hold a special place in my heart

[@BrickMantooth]

that's awesome, glad they were appreciated.

[@JAbell1966]

I would've killed for a Frog action figure back in the day...

[@futuramayeah]

we mailed away for the Emperor and Admiral Ackbar and Nien Numb and 4-Lom from the backs of the boards . I am surprised that Star Wars figures were still available from the 1980s in the 1990s. I would have loved to have perused that store in the 90s

[@BrickMantooth]

I had several places to find them when I was in college in the early 90s, all the good characters were gone mind you.

[@BlakeGildaphish76]

Oh my gosh! i had that toilet and i LOVED it!! "A drawing of a uterus on the inside of it's flap"?? 😆

[@chrissawyer1484]

Agree 100% with Kang and Toht. Where I lived, Martian Manhunter was the Super Powers peg warmer. In fact, our Woolworths had what appeared to be two or three cases worth of just him. I would have put the Robotech Master as one. Our Kaybee was selling him for ten cents (yes, 10¢!!) and still had three or four of them when they finally closed the store. As far as Joe's, no one beat Colonel Courage as a peg warmer. The Sgt Savage figures sold before he did. Not sure why that was. (Edit: I liked the Sgt Savage line, so I'm not hating!)

[@robertonline6543]

Wow I would've love those clash of the Titans figures all they had was the horse and Perseus where I was.

[@jasonesler2716]

Lol...number one, the love boat....all of them! Lol!!!! 😎 Lol...lol...who the hell is Kang! Omg this has to be your funniest video yet. Love the topic and respect to the peg warmers.

[@mem1701movies]

I remember seeing the MEGO STAR TREK CHERON figure on the shelf of a store for years (around 1990) thinking “who wants that guy?” Yeah... now scarce and worth some money. Also saw a Lt. UHURA for years at the same RITE AID. Should’ve bought them. I did pick up a TRANSFORMERS SHOCKWAVE that had sat on the shelf for 10 years.

[@BrickMantooth]

In 1984 I bought three Uhuras from a cigar store near my grandparents shop.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

C C so I guess Nomad finally got her. That’s sad to hear. At least we have all of the movies.

[@WyldstaarStudios]

I remember Two-Face from the Toy Biz Super Powers line warming pegs at Kay-Bee Toys well into the 90's. I suspect it was for the same reason Kang did, since I'd never heard of Two-Face until his appearance in Batman: The Animated Series.

[@BrickMantooth]

I hated that giant coin in his hand.

[@dannycruz5446]

Tune in to see if Kang the Conqueror takes the #1 spot.

[@BrickMantooth]

Oh Kang's mentioned.

[@Clay3613]

I love my Fearsome Flush! I have Darksied and Kang, handed down to me by a friend.

[@DJManiakNYC]

I'm still looking for that Isaac Love Boat figure. And there were Matchbox Robotech Master action figures on Kay Bee Toys pegs up until the late 90's.

[@BrickMantooth]

Yeah not mentioning Robotech was my secret shame in all of this.

[@johnwyblejr6460]

Yeah, that guy couldn't even sell for 25 cents.

[@TheNightBadger]

Love this series! Jedi: Ree Yees, Squid Head, Madine, Emperor's Guard, Lando Skiff, Leia Boushh, Chief Chirpa, Logray... on and on - peg warmed for aaaages. Apart from those, I don't recall any pegwarmers for any cool lines. Maybe because my eyes skimmed over them at the toy aisle...

[@mws755]

Leia Boushh was very hard for me to find. Didn't find her until 1986

[@mws755]

I remember Darkseid being a pegwarmer. I also remember "the fat guy that cried" being one

[@BrickMantooth]

what line was that from?

[@asurlybarber3620]

@@BrickMantooth I think he's referring to the Rancor Keeper.

[@williamburns5233]

I remember all of these. Great show once again! Good stuff.

[@BrickMantooth]

thank you, it was fun.

[@Chris.Mc83]

I had Cobra-La, and I remember Bob the Goon inhabiting many a clearance bin! 🤣 As for Return of the Jedi figures, they weren't peg warmers when I was a kid. They all got snapped up and when they were gone, they were gone!

[@johnwyblejr6460]

Quite a few of the Ghostbusters stuff wound up at Dollar Tree. Not the main figures, just stuff like what made the list plus the football player and the old lady one.

[@BrickMantooth]

Yeah those were close seconds but that toilet amused me.

[@nicholastosoni707]

I found an ECTO-2, Mint in Box, at a dollar store in Gurnee Mills once.

[@jamespero6803]

I thought for sure the matchbox robotech master was gonna be on the list

[@BrickMantooth]

It was and I screwed it up.

[@deparimeg]

That was cool! But now I have the Best of the West theme song in my head.

[@BrickMantooth]

you're welcome?

[@DavidBDavis-lz7bt]

It's a fun song, so you'll probably be all right!😊

[@carlorjj]

Great Video and Toys, Congratulations on the 10k subscribers!!! Although i loved love boat tv show, Action Figures for that?! Unbelievable !

[@BrickMantooth]

Yeah, I watched Love Boat religiously, didn't want the figures.

[@jartladder15]

Oh man...I remember always searching for Luke Skywalkers only to find an endless supply of Bib Fotrunas, Bespin Security Guards, et al. You just really need those heroes.

[@scottmefford6917]

Clash of the Titans is one of my favorite films. I wish I'd known there was a toy line.

[@kandijaimz]

I wish I could say Thallo was a peg warmer in the UK, I wasn't even aware that figure existed!

[@BrickMantooth]

Did you guys even get the Clash of the Titans range there?

[@kandijaimz]

@@BrickMantooth I remember having the other three figures as a kid though never came across any other figures or playsets

[@leighjohnson3720]

As kids we used the 'Doc' figure from Loveboat as a Cantina bartender in our Star Wars figure games - Hans Reinhardt was a regular there too....:D

[@antonmassopust568]

I have the kage I got a bunch of them for my birthday I still have them including all the including all the ones that hang around including Daredevil which I thought was pretty cool from The Secret Wars line I never had any of the Clash of Titans figures except for purses I really wanted the Kraken growing up I remember seeing him at my two guys they at everything in there

[@goldenage]

Childworld was my Toys R Us

[@johngeraci3887]

One of ur best I’ve watched. Great job as always

[@GenerationX-WingPodcast]

Not 80s. but I STILL see Warriors of Virtue figures in our London Drugs stores here in Vancouver

[@BrickMantooth]

Yeah, those things magically appeared in Dollaramas a while back too.

[@butterflykatana]

Found the TROTJ Emperor Palpatine and SP Wonder Woman in 1988 at a hardware store for $1.99 each. So spent a good bit of the weekend trip, with Palpatine shooting lightning at a tied-up Wonder Woman. That was before her action feature freed her to throw him off my aunt's sofa to his doom.

[@BrickMantooth]

Yeah SP Wonder Woman was easy to find too.

[@RogerTaftIV]

I remember an entire endcap of nothing but General Madine, and Admiral Akbar for 50 cents each at Newberry's in Roseburg, Oregon.

[@SHABBYGEEK22]

Great video. So glad I subscribed to this channel!

[@BrickMantooth]

Thanks for subscribing, appreciate it.

[@steverino6954]

The biggest peg warmer right now is probably the Marvel Legends Wasp figure from the Ant Man and the Wasp movie.

[@thegillmanedits]

Rocky Python exists.

[@deeconstruction8163]

9/3/20 - "C'mon Marvel, make a movie with this guy and raise his profile somehow." 9/14/20 Marvel announces casting of Kang role in Ant-Man 3.

[@georgeaitken2719]

The action force peg warmer was the muton it came out in 1983 and to this day you can still get the figure carded on eBay

[@futuramayeah]

i don't think i saw those Secret Wars figures when they came out and I wasn't into comics yet but they seem cool

[@BrickMantooth]

I think they made some good character choices in the beginning but the line itself didn't have much mojo.

[@futuramayeah]

I got Darkseid with most of the villains and heroes from the SuperPowers line

[@BrickMantooth]

He's the top villain.

[@reepacheirpfirewalker8629]

I can't remember the store I got my Super Powers figures from but it was very low on the cost it would have had to have been like a dollar or so for each figure and Darkseid was one of the ones I HAD to have alongside the other villains and heroes. For me those were what I thought of as being comic heroes even before Spiderman and other Marvel ones.

[@reepacheirpfirewalker8629]

I don't know anyone who was fighting to get the Love Boat figures Cobra La for example I would say the same about them.

[@LannieLord]

My "dollar store" sold Kang , Iron Man , Doctor Octopus, Captain America and one time -- a SINGLE Daredevil ! Score that day!

[@ivane5110]

The only one here who really surprised me when I first found out about his unpopularity was Thallo. I personally used him to be Marvel's Hercules in all sorts of fantasy, superhero and modern adventures. Ah, well. Guess he was too late for the George Reeves generation and too early for the Kevin Sorbo one.

[@BrickMantooth]

I had a tall as a kid and I liked him.

[@dereklarner6298]

I wish they had made masked army builders for the other troops that accompanied Perseus.

[@walker1984]

Poor Kang! He made you totally lose yourself with his peg warmer status.

[@Pjoseph23]

The Batman line reignited my interest in toys after a brief pause for a couple of years. Bob the Goon was everywhere for such a long time. Did anyone actually own one?

[@BrickMantooth]

i bought one, he was terribly designed.

[@iamnostalgic9567]

I did. In 1989, I wanted the other two but, all our Hills Department Store had was Bob for the longest time.

[@nicholastosoni707]

His actor does!

[@ChapMeifan]

In the 80's there was always a Silverhawks villain somewhere pegwarming. Whether that bull guy or Buzz Saw, I always remember seeing at least one at any toy shop discount bin. For some reason I never bought one even though they were marked down to .50 cents at one point. They just didn't interest me.

[@ronniemckinney6808]

There are so many 80's figures to rank in the top 10 peg warmers. Some of them actually became the holy grail of their collections. I think a great deal of them are female characters or overproduced secondary characters.

[@BrickMantooth]

I probably could have done a top 20.

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

Burger Kang have It Yo Way.

[@BrickMantooth]

Ha!

[@Scotty-Z70]

Thallo was the ONLY figure i didn't have of that line. My Kalibak lost his tail, and it didn't grow back

[@superveryman]

I actually have the vintage Rankor Keeping on a damaged card.

[@StillABigKid]

You're not wrong about return of the jedi. After the film was out shops were virtually giving the figures away. My irish cousin got a Obi Wan by collecting 8 tokens from a Irish brand of milk.

[@BrickMantooth]

Blue milk?

[@StillABigKid]

@@BrickMantooth It would be now

[@justanotherghost62]

Bob the goon and Kang were the top 2 I recall but Lex Luthor with self punch himself from the toy biz dc line with Batman in 89 in the head action should have had a second runner up mention.

[@BrickMantooth]

Yeah I swear that figure came out in 1990 but wow, was he a dud.

[@chrissawyer1484]

Oh, that Lex Luthor. Good night, that was a bad figure.

[@klavetsca]

Love how Kang is number one and you are asking for a movie for him. And he gets named as the Villian in Antman 3 Lol.

[@shoresean1237]

1 - Kang was in the first Secret Wars comics - barely. He betrayed Doom and Doom had Ultron whack him early on; he then casually brought him back when he stole the Beyonder's power, just to show that he could, and then sent him back to his future timeline in one motion - so yeah, he was an odd choice. 2 - The 1989 Batman novelization had a great closer for Bob: 'Good Old Bob. Good Old Dead Old Bob'. IIRC, some fans thought Joker did this so he could have his other goons dress Bob up as him so he could fake his death at the end. Bob made a semi-return in the reference-rich Lego DC games, in the Super-Villain game, wherein Joker and another baddie get chased by a mutated creature sent after them that Joker identifies with surprise as "Robert!?" and is in fact supposed to be Good Old Bob.

[@BrickMantooth]

Wow the context in Secret Wars makes it even more strange that they chose Kang but I believe that Constrictor was in one panel!

[@ryanlemay6296]

ay Oh my gosh! My cousin had Kang...And until this video, I always thought it was a Doctor Doom figure

[@hiddenhistoryny129]

Good top 10 ... Yea Kang was around 4 Ever....

[@josephnicolino8529]

Hate the 80s? How could anyone?

[@kibagami74]

While I loved my Toht, Thallo and Kang figures, I can't deny they warmed some pegs. I sometimes made Toht my sinister Cobra middle man. Still baffling that Secret Wars made Kang and Baron Zemo, so many more obvious villains to make. Didn't they watch the cartoons on the air at the time? Must be a dozen Spiderman villains every kid knew, but Zemo and Kang...?

[@kibagami74]

Green goblin, Rhino, Electro, Scorpion, Kingpin, Mysterio, Kraven, Shocker, Juggernaut, Beetle, Sandman, Lizard, Vulture. See? And that's just Spidey villains, X-Men had Juggernaut, Captain America had Red Skull. If only they made Videoman and Swarm. "SwaRrrm sWarRm SwArrM" Ok, those last 2 might have been peg warmers.

[@BrickMantooth]

Yeah I was always perplexed by the household names the secret wars excluded.

[@Desslar]

Kang at least was in the Secret Wars comic series. No idea why they chose Zemo.

[@TreadwellJay]

Very fun!

[@BrickMantooth]

thanks!

[@tzgaming207]

"who the heck is kang?" god, i know this feeling... it's hard to want a figure when you have no familiarity/connection to the character.. i experienced this many times, passing by figures of characters i wasn't familiar with, only to watch a series years later & _then_ wanting the figure, only to learn how expensive they've become... if only i knew then what i know now 😅

[@robertonline6543]

Wow it actually hurt hearing you say...who the heck is Kang? Lol ...poor Kang lol. I could hear him now....IM KANG!!! KANGGGGGGG! LOL

[@CoriolanusQuince]

He's probably the Avengers' most frequently recurring antogonist...every Avengers writer has to do a Kang story at some point. Constrictor was a more baffling choice!!

[@tzgaming207]

@@CoriolanusQuince ok that explains it, i wasn't into most team based comics back when i read them (x-men & jla being the exceptions, & i still dropped those eventually)... that aside, i didn't mean so much about kang specifically, but just about leaving a toy on the shelf because i wasn't familiar with them & then wanting the figure years later

[@loganjorgensen]

I had F.L.U.F.F.I. and enjoyed it thoroughly, I don't think I even saw the cartoon but his bargain price must have made him attractive to a kid. ;)

[@thunderlipz]

Awesome video

[@robertonline6543]

The cobra la figures were interesting but just weird.... Yea I saw them

[@robertonline6543]

The one I hated was the hypno guy he was all over.

[@BrickMantooth]

He was.

[@juanplate]

Toad was the shining star of "Best of The West."

[@BrickMantooth]

agreed.

[@chucksousa4575]

Oh and I gotta go get a Kang!

[@BrickMantooth]

Prepare to be amazed at your choice!

[@KJ-tz7vc]

If I came across The Love Boat toyline back in the day, I totally would have bought an Isaac. He could have worked the bar at the Mos Eisley Cantina.

[@BrickMantooth]

I think everyone should own an Isaac.

[@bio1656]

the gi joe movie was good . A little different though .

[@DavidMedina-ou2kf]

Brick, Marvel might have been listening ... Kang might be the next big Villian for the MCU

[@BrickMantooth]

If they are listening please work with Hasbro on a Micronauts movie, with ROM Spaceknight and Bug in it. Pretty please Kevin Fiege.

[@justinplayfair4638]

So what news do I read this morning? That Jonathan Majors has apparently been cast as...wait for it...*Kang the Conqueror* in Ant Man 3...

[@doctorgoodguy1]

In the Super Powers line, does anyone remember Robin and Wonder Woman being pretty hard to find? I couldn't find them anywhere.

[@mathieu4204]

Wonder Woman wasn't popular in my area and I remember that she was one of the few figures still available after Christmas. Back then, the pegs were pretty bare after the Holidays and the stores didn't restock for a while. We didn't have Boxing Day yet.

[@BrickMantooth]

I remember my friend bought several hundred wonder woman from a toy distributor in 1991, it was all they had.

[@Pjoseph23]

I had both. I don’t recall any of the first couple of waves being too tough to find. Although now that I think about it, I had Green Arrow but don’t think my best friend even found one. He had Firestorm, and I never ran across one for me. We were in high school, so were actually going to different stores around town to seek out figures.

[@Cameroo]

Feel like Plastic Man from the Super Powers line should be on this list.

[@CoriolanusQuince]

Really? I only saw him once in a Pathmark on Long Island.

[@BronzeAgeBryon]

Kang is lurking in the shadows waiting for that movie appearance. Then he will use his time travel technology to retrieve all of those peg warmers and case fresh figures and sell them on eBay and at Cons to fund his plans for universe domination.

[@BrickMantooth]

diabolical!

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

"Gun Bob." "Never rub another man's rhubarb Bob." - The Artist Formerly known as The Joker. Keep Bustin.

[@BrickMantooth]

Ah 1989....

[@therackstar]

Had the ghostbusters toilet!

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

NEMESIS ENFORCER!

[@garyshaller8294]

Dear Sir, I wish to complain bitterly about my exclusion from this list. My frumpy lavender dress, limited articulation, and complete lack of accessories made me quite the warmer of pegs. Good day! Yours etc., the Robotech Master.

[@BrickMantooth]

I know, I know, he should have been in there and I deserve a drubbing. I even had him written down, I have no excuses.

[@garyshaller8294]

Brick Mantooth great video! No drubbing required!

[@Scotty-Z70]

i hvae LOVE F.L.U.F.F.I.!!!! Bionic Six was AMAZING