The Kong: Skull Island Toys Have a Dirty Secret!

[@Strike-hopper]

Godzilla:you saved me why Kong:hmmmmm chai tea

[@spikezillaproductions9482]

The screw on Kong was meant to hold the figure in packaging

[@MonsterIslandBuddies]

Well that makes sense then. The fact that is asymmetrical though… me no likey

[@spikezillaproductions9482]

@@MonsterIslandBuddies honestly same

[@orinanime]

​@@MonsterIslandBuddiesyou can take it out

[@Gappasaurus]

@@orinanime Then you’re left with a random, off-center hole in Kong’s back… not sure if that’s better or worse 🫤

[@orinanime]

@@Gappasaurus MIB showed at least one pic of the other Kong toy with the tiny screw hole. It's barely visible. I'd rather have that with the other holes that are already there, than a screw sticking out of him. Plus, you can easily cover the hole with green stuff/modeling putty

[@liopleurodonthedinoman3637]

“If this were a Trendmasters toy it would all fire missiles”

[@urielgonzalez2882]

Why did i read this right when the scene arrived

[@benderchump]

Hiya toys are making articulated skullcrawlers.

[@_foxythepirateboi_168]

And better figures than S.H Monsterarts

[@CasualRonin]

Honestly, would've been pretty neat if Lanard also did the other MV toy lines. Having giant figures of Godzilla and the other Titans that would also be compatible with Lanard's other lines would be pretty dope to any young kaiju fan.

[@primezilla37]

And around 8 months later your wish came true

[@Mankey619]

I really love the King Kong giant sized toy here. The proportion and it’s details are nicely done, and the expression of his face is very nice.

[@FireworkFreddy1720]

Yes

[@godzillagaming3767]

I have since watching monster buddies a long time on KZbin EP:20 and I still miss those good old days and I still watching your videos keep it up

[@paramoosestudios]

I loved the corps toys when I was younger! I instantly recognized the figure designs as soon as I saw them in this video and it’s so crazy that this company made Kong stuff as well, I may have to get some of it now lol

[@iguanaboi3921]

Oh man The Corp. So thats what the toyline is called. I wll say this: you will never find a better line of action figures to feed to your toy dinosaurs

[@dockaiju]

I would love to see more toy companies using standardized sizes so they can all be played with together

[@thealmightyoreoking]

Boy am I looking forward to the Lanard Toys Cinematic Universe

[@wonderwaffle93]

Lanard is a pretty neat toyline. Their Alien line was pretty exciting, then they brought in Predator. Not the highest in quality but not the lowest either, just right in both quality and play value. Plus they make great accessories for other toys in that scale, seen some people make some cool builds and backdrops for photography.

[@bentonrp]

You gotta hand it to them. Modern "hyper-realistic" toys is a tall order. Taking it to the extreme that the world's been doing for 2 decades was a mistake! Toys are meant to be toys. They are best when they look a little bit like toys and feel a little bit like toys. Lanard seems to know this, and even believe it; they've bucked the trend, and sacrificed their own reputation, having been relegated to a 3rd rate toymaker. But to me, they have the right idea! 👍

[@zygoclast6047]

@@bentonrp After all, it's not as if products are directed towards different demographics or anything silly like that. Of course, when both Lanard and Neca are given the license to an intellectual property, both resultant lines will be directed towards the same buyers. Any reduction of detail in the products will, of course, be due to artistic liberty, and not any ridiculous concepts such as budgetary restrictions. It's such a relief to know that brave revolutionaries such as Lanard, Chap Mei, Jakks Pacific, and others are here to save consumers from the horrors of higher quality materials, greater subject-accuracy, and the like. Indeed, toys are "meant to be toys". That is, the height of a toy's purpose is to evoke the likeness in build and aesthetic character of a toy from the 1980s, the decade from which the loudest, most self-centered, and most infantile voices on the subject coincidentally also seem to hail. Not the 1930s, not the 1880s, and not any other age in the history of toy manufacturing, whose inhabitants would likely bear a similar disdain for your own preferences, but the 1980s. As we all know, it is a stylistically superior decision to cut corners when manufacturing your products. Despite the fact that there are no inherent problems in producing higher-quality products, it is a mistake! Producing cheaper, lower-effort products is a bold political statement! And it is the right idea! 👍

[@bentonrp]

@@zygoclast6047 ahaha! 😂 ...Okay, so it may be simplified due to budget restraints, but a accidentally or on purpose, it is the right idea to me. And for so many good reasons! So few toy lines do semi-realistic figures anymore. And though there may be different markets, over articulate hyper realism has many more problems. Not in the field of photorealistic canvasing perhaps, but in the action figure business, definitely ! Whether it be the increased cost, fragility, unnatural appearances from too many joints, variation in extreme detail, unavailability from low production run as well as from their attempt at higher standards, lower output, etc. All my point is, is that there is science to it. And the major industries has turned the market away from that median while trying to innovate. But you could choose not to believe me. Perhaps you have some vested interest in denying that reinventing the wheel is a pointless effort.

[@bentonrp]

@@zygoclast6047 ... ...Oh, and another reason why you're wrong about these companies with low sculpt realism being beneath you is because sculpt is the easy part; Its working in the functional joints that really runs up the R&D budget. But, keep lying to yourself that they only produce toys that look like toys on accident, because they're too cheap and dumb to know how to sculpt. 👍

[@masonfaraday9020]

That mystery screw was to hold Kong in his packaging to make it harder to steal from his box. Not sure why people kept it, it doesn’t hold him together, lol.

[@Former_Employee]

Why would someone steal any Kong toys ?

[@dubuyajay9964]

​@@Former_EmployeeNever underestimate a flipper or a bored teen.

[@capybara455]

How Is my question

[@Maytheforcebewithyou007]

The kong also fits with the jacks, Pacific 24 inch Godzilla those look good together

[@OldSchoolCurt]

Those rampage toys look bad ass! That movie is underrated! That’s bad add you got a smog monster toy that now has articulation!

[@stevermacsoucher1625]

The Core is actually such a sick play line. I had so many as a kid. The articulation was great, and they had a bunch of real-world guns. And super affordable so I could get a set each time we went to Walmart.

[@MonsterKidCory]

Honestly, it almost makes me want to pick my way through various Lanard collections and custom make a 1933 King Kong set 😆

[@dubuyajay9964]

Is George Son of Kong?

[@CraZyJSpades]

I agree! The Monsters Exist scene is the best moment in the monsterverse. John Goodman really delivers the seriousness of the world we too are learning exists. His tone when talking about the USS Lawton adds so much weight and mystery to who or what it was he saw. Never fails to Send Chills

[@samwill7259]

I have a friend who will go absolutely FERAL at any mention of Skull Island. Loves it to death. If I could afford to ship things to Argentina I'd send him one of those big Kongs just to listen to his head explode.

[@alexperales9993]

The screw is part of the packaging which holds kong in place.

[@WHOOOSHXDOfficial]

I kinda wish Lanard could get the license to make some the toys for the Godzilla Vs Kong sequel so we can get a giant 18 inch modern day Kong and a giant 18 inch of Scar King (the alleged name for the Kong we see in the GxK teaser. We mostly likely 99.999% won’t though as Playmates does not like competition apparently.

[@bretbuckley704]

If Playmates doesn't like competition then maybe they should make toys that are actually competitive instead of making cheap, low effort dollar store quality garbage. Some of their Gvk & GxK toys are decent, but a lot of them are very hollow and lifeless, especially their Godzillas. I can tell Kong is their specialty..but man they do Godzilla dirty A LOT. I have no clue why they insist on putting him in all these awkward poses and put no detail on his body. But I also heard a rumor that NECA apparently lost the Godzilla license because Playmates didn't want to compete with them in the Godzilla market like they did in the ninja turtles market.

[@godzillagmkfan]

The best Godzilla KZbinr

[@ooeygooeygoodra3068]

I’ll admit I have a soft spot for the Skull Crawler (damn you scalpers and all the good shit being Walmart exclusive) but whats even funnier is the controversy on that particular fella and some other toys that were flat out traced in a few Monsterverse comics!

[@Legendary_Goji]

I named a skull crawler “bonesworth”

[@Waffle_cones]

If this kong figure was perfectly scaled with the humans, he would be 4ft 8.4in Edit: yes, i did the math The figures of the people are 3.25 inches tall so you do 18 ÷ 3.25 = 5.5, then you multiply by around the average human height so 6ft, so 6×5.5=33, so monke is 33ft tall. For him to be 104 ft you add 71, then you reverse the math, so you do: 104 ÷ 6 = 17.3 then multiply by 3.25 so that would be 56.3 inches. Then divide by 12. So: 56.3 ÷ 12 = 4.69, round to the nearest tenth and thats 4.7, which is 4ft 8.4in so if scaled accurately, kong would be the size of an eight year old. And the helicopter would almost fit in his hand. Why did i waste my time no ones gonna read this.

[@Nostalgic80s-nd3qb]

I read it, so your comment wasn’t completely wasted.

[@Waffle_cones]

​@Nostalgic80s-nd3qb its late to say this but thanks

[@foldabotZ]

I'm a 3.75"-scale G.I. Joe collector and nowadays it's difficult to get G.I. Joe vehicles anymore. Hasbro has discontinued the 1/18th scale and revamped into the 1/12th scale, so very few vehicles. Vehicles from the 1/18th lines are now on after market with crazy prices. These "generic and realistic" military vehicles by Lanard could be my best option: Get ones that resemble the actual G.I. Joe vehicles, slap on some G.I. Joe sticker markings, and good to go. They're cheaper, too! Vehicles for Cobra may still be harder, though, having more fantastical vehicles than the Joes.

[@dubuyajay9964]

I use the Corps and other knock-off lines to pad out my forces too. You watch GI Joburg by chance?

[@ventureworld8046]

What would've been cool is a giant SkullCrawler action figure with articulated legs and a bendable tail so it could coil around Kong

[@thegodzillacollector6226]

Absolutely loved these figures when they came out!

[@paolomongon6616]

I bought the two actor figures for my GI Joe set up back in the day. Scaled well and gave me a nice little playset. Lanard has come a long way.

[@Thunderninja124]

13:14 I will use that idea! I’m defiantly making a big skull island!

[@keyztroke]

i've had a toy raft that looked similar, could float in the bath. i lost it, and i used to use it when i was a kid. it is one of my childhood memories, thanks for letting me remember that.

[@thealmightyoreoking]

1:26 YOU DONT FUCK WITH THE JAGUARS!!!

[@dubuyajay9964]

Why dey mad at me? 😞

[@Parrotfrog]

​@@dubuyajay9964?

[@thisisplusharama1743]

Hey MIB I like you’re work it was kinda Perfect that you uploaded this video today because ma and my dad are marathoning every monsterverse movie and today me and my dad are watching kong skull island with Mac and cheese.

[@Tochi_playz]

I saw the pink jet jaguar at G fest

[@tallmex7183]

The first 3 monsterverse movies just had giant toys of the main monster and small enemies

[@PlasticGeek]

Those elbows on Kong are actually double jointed

[@NightBladeSpearichu]

Great now my head is filled with the thought of just taking pictures of Lanard's toy army fighting Kong with the G.I.Joe theme song playing over it.

[@the_collector_of_different_toy]

As someone who got the giant jakks Pacific Godzilla when it came out. I was very excited about this Kong to go with him

[@Fearlessfigs]

The helicopter is to scale with the massive kong figure

[@onemariobro]

Kinda reminds me of when he man figures ended up having 3rd party accessories for figures like animals and other characters that use the base mold

[@Cyklopz007]

I was not expecting much with this video but I am in stitches lol. Awesome vid!!! I'm new to this channel and I'm loving it. Keep up the great work! Also, that is a freakin sweet mask.

[@lolailo2199]

Man, you just unlocked a memory with those corps toys. They are durable af I don't think I ever broke any as a kid.

[@Gappasaurus]

Oh Lanard… 😌 The original o-ring Corps! line that competed with the 80s/90s Joes had soooo many cool figures, vehicles & accessories, plus tons of spinoff lines, from astronauts to police & firemen to an all-girl adventure series to knockoff Power Rangers to Road Warrior rejects on rollerblades (not a joke 😆). I bowed out when they switched to the T-crotch figures, but they _are_ still cool 😎

[@travishosey2291]

The Jakks Pacific toy line for King of the Monsters made some really strange decisions; a 6" King Ghidorah and Rodan but no Godzilla to go with them? Just the 12" Godzilla all by his lonesome! At least they released the little "vs." battle packs to make up for it, but I do wonder if the King Ghidorah/Rodan figures would have sold better if there was a 6" Godzilla to go with them.

[@lucapatten4218]

I still have all those Kong Skull Island toys for my brother when he was 9 years old. And Yes even the Rampage Toys too. I did a play time of Kong fighting George & All the other Rampage Monster.......There really fun to play with too.

[@redseaweedcupcakes4837]

Honestly, I feel like playmates saw the complaints people had with the skull island toyline and made an articulated kong and skullcrawler

[@liamkalfayan9770]

Kong multiverse of monkes

[@CloakingArbiter.]

I saw my Muto Prime custom in the background of the beginning of the video. Love it.

[@IrishPython]

Ah yes Lannard, I collected the Alien ones and it blew my mind the WeYu scientists/Mercs and supposed Marines were just the Corps figures 😆 it came full circle cause I actually had some Corps figures as a kid. Just was not as savvy about company names and practices back then

[@mightyfilm]

Kong: Skull Island was my favorite of the Monsterverse movies because it was able to just have a bizarre premise and embrace all the cheese and camp along the way while the others were trying to be more serious. It's like someone slammed together a kaiju movie, a 1970's indie war movie, and a big freaking 90's style summer blockbuster. Though, as someone who once had to school around there, I did appreciate King of The Monster how Godzilla was rampaging through Boston and stomping his way through Fenway Park. Makes me wish I saw it at the movie theater that's actually near said park. Anyway I don't exactly remember the Skull Island toys, but the Rampage ones rang a bell. Maybe because it wasn't as well received as a movie no one was scalping the toys. I really don't thinK Wal*Mart can properly handle and exclusive line. Took me forever to get the endtire Scoob! 2-pack figure line, and all I really wanted was Dastardly and Muttley.

[@jeebus2313]

I don't know if I'd say it's my favorite Monsterverse movie but Skull Island is a lot of fun and I almost always find myself watching it for a bit if I catch it airing on TV.

[@alihadi1076]

Woah this is a cool toy line

[@Righgt]

I thought the King Kong that was tall, didn’t have a figure with it until I saw this video and I looked through my old toys

[@mgthesixth]

I think that small skull crawler is the juvenile one

[@crashman27]

11:30 Holy crappola!! I had that helicopter as a kid and completely forgot about it. I don't think I even knew it was from that godzilla line, even though I had other toys from it.

[@nickdriscoll6131]

My fave Monsterverse film is the dumbness of Godzilla vs. Kong. I really enjoyed that sucker, gleefully vibing with its nutty monster flavor. Also, I fully support the multi-ape Lanard shared universe, and I want to see Samjack and the Rock duke it out!

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

I’d like to imagine if they ever expanded upon this line, we could get sets like: Chapman with a Spore Mantis, Mason Weaver and Slivko with a Sker Buffalo, and the best of all: A giant Skullcrawler (the big one) with a rubber tail you can curl around Kong so you can reenact the fight in the movie while accompanied by Hank Marlow with his Katana.

[@brycevo]

I just wish they weren't exclusive to Walmart when they released.

[@user-m1687]

and the cray thing is that the skullcrawler from the godzilla vs kong toyline looks so much better

[@tf2redpie]

I can remember having a lot of the corp toys growing up

[@damienbastings]

Actually surprisingly no, Pterodactylus is a real animal and partly the reason the whole Pterodactyl thing started which pisses off paleontologists, but still related to Pteranodon. But Lanard is dead wrong, that is absolutely a Leafwing but with the wrongest face they could give it, like holy crap. It might as well be an original monster, which I guess it is cause of it's given name Edit: Oh and I do mean partly, Pterodactyl was a name used for the pterosaur family but commonly confused with Pteranodon. When you say Pterodactyl, you really mean Pteranodon, but that informal name is now no longer valid as pterosaurs is the preferred term, and the name Pterodactyl is pretty much hated, especially by dino nerds like me

[@milesfoster8190]

There’s also the pterodactyloids, a group of pterosaurs which include pterodactylus and pteranodon

[@damienbastings]

@@milesfoster8190 Yes, I forgot about that, thank you

[@1stCallipostle]

Ah yes, paleontology. The field that is halfway about fixing the mistakes some goober made 50 years ago that have since spread

[@damienbastings]

@@1stCallipostle And it will still spread

[@VanguardEndeavor]

You may be the last to cover them, but you’re my favorite KZbinr who covered them

[@dazzen3897]

I swear this guy has the coolest room ive seen in a youtube video.

[@JantjeHoekstra-u5o]

The best thing is that the new Movies has multiple apes

[@angusmacfrankenstein7227]

That screw holding the Kong figure in package is typical of Lanard Toys-many other of their products have the same feature…

[@Blakewyattdunfee]

you could use the playmates movie monsters series (the equivalent to the bandai movie monster series figures) skull island kong figure as the lanard kong figure. on a side note, you could use the battle roar skarr king GVK battle roar kong figures as an gorlla and orangutan figures for the lanard jumanji animal toyline since most of them have voice boxes making them roar. Or instead you could use GVK battle roar kong and battle roar skarr king as animals for your beast man figure to control along side the rest of the lanard jumanji animal figures.

[@VictorHugo-Al]

Amazing Review! Lanard is a very underestimated toy company.

[@JuraassicLucas]

8:25 what date is it so I can do the paper craft Kong and Conrad

[@UJEvans]

Oh, yeah. I remember my local store ended up having giant Kongs sitting right next to the Rampage's George on the toy shelves and I thought it was funny since they were obviously made off the same mold

[@marcacosta7594]

New subscriber. You had me a Kong👍

[@davishayden429]

14:07 I think I've seen Da Rock make a similar face during a promo on RAW once.

[@EmonWBKstudios]

I wholeheartedly agree that Kong: Skull Island was the best Monsterverse film, and I'm a HUGE Godzilla fan.

[@JDPlaysMoth]

I have a big chunky Predator from Lanard, it's genuinely excellent. Great sculpting, good little action features, and now I know why their Alien toyline had so many random humans 😂

[@zacharyflanders2116]

Lanard's 18" Kong fits in really nicely with the 18" and 14" Mezco Kongs. And while it is significantly taller, it doesn't look bad paired with the X-PLUS Skull Island Kong or the Mcfarlane King Kong. Fingers crossed, Lanard at least continues with more kaiju focused toys.

[@diorraices9013]

It also scales well with the jakks pacific Godzilla

[@SessileSubba]

Hey monster Island buddies the part where you said getting back to Kong the star monster he has nothing to fight. You can just make him fight 11 inch Kong beast glove and 11 inch evolved Godzilla

[@MXF_0712]

Gotta agree with your choice of favorite monsterverse movie

[@dubuyajay9964]

14:41. That's on purpose as Lannard has been doing GI Joe knockoffs since the 80's.

[@brianyaeger8209]

I too think Skull Island is the best of the legendary series (though I do like all of the entries)

[@magicalpictures9626]

These toys remind me so much of the whacky over the top action toys from the 90s and early 20s. Had I had these as a kid, i would have played the hell out of them :D

[@omegagodzillaX]

That's some quality content MIB

[@strangerthingsworld3881]

At 050: why does it say ummm sus

[@tomthespaceknerd5396]

I have the 18 inch kong on my shelf next to Lanard's large George, Lizzie, and Ralph from the Rampage movie (pretty decent G.I. Joe-esque Rock, The Dwayne, Johnson figure also comes with it). They use The Corps! figures as their "space marines" for their Aliens line too. In fairness it does help keep the price reasonable for collectors on a budget or... er... kids, I guess.

[@bentonrp]

This is a cool channel ! Lanard Corps is some o.g. bootleg! I was a kid in 1993, I was always picking up Corps at K-Mart (during the old design for figs). That puts these suckers at 3 decades! Ahahha!

[@Batfan103]

I absolutely ADORE these Play Time videos. So fun!

[@s.lenderjay8607]

12:42 heck you can make this cm punk looking guy fight the rock rampage figure 😂

[@jessemaynard1136]

I still have the Lanard giant Kong figure 6 years later.

[@DeanIrvine]

Forget fighting, use the George figure as a modern day son of kong. There we go the scale now works.

[@DogMan-u9n]

I have that kong toy though I did not know it was a Walmart exclusive I just randomly found it at a walmart

[@Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee-t7l]

0:49 why is nobody talking about the “sexiest KZbinrs” in the search bar

[@Great_Getter]

Rock's character from Rampage meeting Packard would only end one way. With the Rock choking out Sam Jackson.

[@gojiprime6775]

Mine also had a screw.

[@RockinRhinox]

As soon as I saw the figures on the boat this was the first thing I thought of: "You know there's lots of things you expect in war: carnage, sleepless nights but what they don't prepare you for is the incessant use of Fortunate Son".

[@GhostSpider1995]

I didn't even know all these other toys besides the big Kong even existed. But then again the only Skull Island merch I currently own are the Playmates Kong that my wife snagged for me and the Funko Pop with the helicopter.

[@genesismultiverse4896]

Ok now we need gi joe kong and cobra skullcrawler pack

[@TLMPictures101]

I like to see how the 18 inch tall Kong compares to the 24 inch long head to tail NECA GODZILLA!

[@leandraferesthogar7249]

This is a really good Lanard viedo that I know have the urge to go and buy some Thank You MiB

[@UnicronHound]

Lanard Corps toys have been going since 1986. They started off as identical construction to GI Joes, then switched to their current looks when GI Joes ditched their O-Rings.

[@thatoneguy2816]

Honestly if I had this as a kid...I'd pretend this is some alternate history as strike force was there during Vietnam for monarch for special missions and such as one of the characters repainted for this line also has technically an old version as if he's a veteran

[@TheJurassicSquadYT]

I agree. Skull Island is my personal favorite

[@TheGodofShades]

I think Mattel should have the License to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. What do u think?