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02-09-2012, 05:31 PM
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Super Freak
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Outer Space Men review
I'm checking out a very cool, very retro set of toys tonight - the Outer Space Men from the Four Horsemen! Others have reviewed these as well...but I'm betting I'm the only one so far that actually played with the originals in 1968. Check out just how cool the marriage of retro and Glyos is at the usual:
http://www.mwctoys.com
Thanks for reading, and have a great weekend!
Michael
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02-09-2012, 06:14 PM
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Freakazoid
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Re: Outer Space Men review
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Originally Posted by Michael Crawford
I'm checking out a very cool, very retro set of toys tonight - the Outer Space Men from the Four Horsemen! Others have reviewed these as well...but I'm betting I'm the only one so far that actually played with the originals in 1968. Check out just how cool the marriage of retro and Glyos is at the usual:
http://www.mwctoys.com
Thanks for reading, and have a great weekend!
Michael
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You're not the only old man around here. I remember having at least Astro Nautilus. I bought Four Horseman's series 1 & 2 of these. I got to pick up the series 3 & 4.
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02-09-2012, 08:15 PM
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Vader's HOT on a KP02
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Re: Outer Space Men review
what is GLYOS?
Michael -- I did the same thing you did; Matt Mason villains. Loved those characters. The squid guy was my favorite. You just took me down a path on memory lane I had forgotten for many, many years. Man, I loved those bendy figures.
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02-10-2012, 05:41 AM
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Super Freak
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Re: Outer Space Men review
Yea, they were so damn cool -wish I still had mine.
Glyos are these cool little figures being done in all sorts of funky designs by Onell. Check them out here:
http://www.onelldesign.com/
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02-10-2012, 05:55 AM
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Super Freak
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Re: Outer Space Men review
was this like a TV show ?
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02-10-2012, 06:01 AM
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Super Freak
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Re: Outer Space Men review
You mean the original toys? No. Licensed action figures for anything, let alone tv shows, was pretty much unheard of in 1968. There was some comic book stuff like Captain Action, but serious licensing across the board including figures didn't really start til the release of Planet of the Apes.
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02-10-2012, 06:11 AM
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Super Freak
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Re: Outer Space Men review
thanks nice job with the site
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02-10-2012, 06:29 AM
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Super Freak
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Re: Outer Space Men review
Love these so much! Though my Alpha has a hard time standing up. Well, at least it has a hard time staying standing up.
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02-10-2012, 09:34 AM
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SO BE IT
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Re: Outer Space Men review
Wow! I had Colossus Rex and Orbitron [who reminded me of the Metaluna Mutant].
Sure wish these were 1:6.
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02-10-2012, 10:03 AM
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Sorry about the mess
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Los Angeles
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Re: Outer Space Men review
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Originally Posted by hydrobud
was this like a TV show ?
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Not everything in the toy world was a TV show or movie back in the 60s and early 70s, the way it is today. Back then you bought toys and used imagination to play with them, which is something I think is lacking today in toys, due to the preordained story lines of TV shows and movies and corporate desires to only make toys that have TV/movie tie ins.
The biggest toys, like the original GI Joe, Major Matt Mason, Zeroids, Hot Wheels, Johnny West, etc, had no comic books, no TV shows, no movies. Just imagination.
Sean
Last edited by SpaceCrawler; 02-10-2012 at 11:10 AM.
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