Vintage Collectibles Thread

[MANDO]

Here's another one very few people seem to recall. Sky Commanders. They were always more my brother's thing though.

And what is possibly my best vintage toy pickup I found a moc Sorceress just hanging out on the pegs in back of my lcs. The best part is she only cost me $12.

 

[frodo]

thanks guys glad you like my collection

Sweet collection, Frodo! I thought nobody but me would ever remember Pirates of Dark Water! Love those Centurions figures and nice to see some love for New Adventures of He-Man too!

back when i was young we used have saturday morning cartoons where they showed toons like blackstar,go-bots, galtar, pirates of dark water, gi joe to name e few in one chanenel. while the other aired silverhawks, centurions, sky commanders etc.as for new adventures well the toon really wasn't the best but the toys were awesome w/c i owned a few of including that loose he-man in one of the pics.

 

[Skiman]

Just a random question here guys but do you think the 80's era of vintage cartoons was really that great or is it just because we have those found memories of growing up with this nostalgic stuff.

I have this debate with my wife about cartoons and music and her take of the argument is always that "we grew up in that era therefore it's bias that we think it was the best era for these types of subects"

I disagree btw, I really don't think that today's generation doesn't have the same opportunity of characters that we had to choose or be entertained from being a 80's kid.

 

[karamazov80]

I think it depends on the cartoon and episode. Attempting to look at them with reasonably objective eyes, some episodes of GI Joe and to a lesser extent Transformers are pretty good on their own merits from an adult perspective IMO. Some others. . .less so. I think Thundercats and He-Man, on balance, just fail to hold up. Same goes for Superfriends and Spidey and His Amazing Friends, though I can still enjoy watching those.

The truth is that those types of cartoons were typically written for kids, often in order to sell toys, though. So from that perspective, they're necessarily gonna be a bit less sophisticated than shows like Batman: the Animated Series that were written with both kids and adults truly in mind. In that sense, I think some of today's cartoons are better because they treat the characters and stories more seriously and with a bit more respect (though there was some of that in the '80s). I'm not familiar with Pokemon/Digimon and that kind of junk, so I can't comment on that.

 

[frodo]

i think these are the oldest figures in my collection

flash gordon & ming the merciless

 

[karamazov80]

I had a Ming figure from the Defenders of the Earth cartoon.

 

[MANDO]

thanks guys glad you like my collection





back when i was young we used have saturday morning cartoons where they showed toons like blackstar,go-bots, galtar, pirates of dark water, gi joe to name e few in one chanenel. while the other aired silverhawks, centurions, sky commanders etc.as for new adventures well the toon really wasn't the best but the toys were awesome w/c i owned a few of including that loose he-man in one of the pics.

I feel on the cartoon! I've only seen bits and pieces but its pretty bad. Very poor animation. But the toys were great. Loved the ball-joint hips and knees. From a toy standpoint its one of Mattel's best action figure lines.

Just a random question here guys but do you think the 80's era of vintage cartoons was really that great or is it just because we have those found memories of growing up with this nostalgic stuff.

I have this debate with my wife about cartoons and music and her take of the argument is always that "we grew up in that era therefore it's bias that we think it was the best era for these types of subects"

I disagree btw, I really don't think that today's generation doesn't have the same opportunity of characters that we had to choose or be entertained from being a 80's kid.

Its a matter of perspective. Twenty years from now there will definitely be guys talking about the good old days of Ben 10 or Bakugon (sp?). At heart I'll always be an 80's nerd but I couldn't explain why I love things from that era the way I do except to say that its purely nostalgia and its hard to not feel a connection with things that were out when I was a kid. Some people don't feel that, or don't seem to. My brother doesn't really but he was always more into what was new where if I found a dusty old Lion-o sitting in a clearance isle in '95 I would've snatched it up and been happy as a pig in mud. Different strokes.
That said I can't honestly say that the cartoons were the best stuff ever and nothing else came close. All in all most of it was glorified toy commercials and very few shows had any kind of continuity and were pretty much self contained storylines. 90% of the time these days I can't sit through GI Joe or MOTU mostly because of the storylines and because Filmation (animation on MOTU) is just stomach-churning awful.

 

[frodo]

heres whats left of my go-bots & rock lords

leader1

scooter

magmar, boulder, nuggit

stone heart

narlizard and narliphant

 

[Skiman]

I still have "nugget" somewhere!!!!

 

[MANDO]

Reminds me of those He-Man guys that turned into rocks. WTF are they in classics!?!?

 

[karamazov80]

I had a couple of Rock Lords myself WTF were they thinking? I also had some transforming McDonald's food from Happy Meals. . .and Go-Bots, though that's one of my dark secrets.

 

[MANDO]

I had a couple of Rock Lords myself WTF were they thinking? I also had some transforming McDonald's food from Happy Meals. . .and Go-Bots, though that's one of my dark secrets.

You mean the milkshake and french fries, etc. that turned into dinosaurs? I loved those, but looking back what the hell was that all about?

Cy-Kill was the poo in Go-Bots!

 

[Dollmanron]

In my opinion the old cartoons of the 70's and 80's (GI Joe, ThunderCats, MOTU) were better because in the mid 90's American cartoons started to look too Anima. We lost our originality and fell in with Digimon, Pokemon, You-gi-o, and all that other stuff. Instead of leaders, we became followers and it's even worse today.

 

[karamazov80]

You mean the milkshake and french fries, etc. that turned into dinosaurs? I loved those, but looking back what the hell was that all about?

I had french fries and a chicken nuggets "styrofoam" container, but they actually transformed into robots:

 

[MANDO]

Thats really funny. Those weren't the ones I'd thought of though. Apparantly they did it twice!

 

[karamazov80]

Huh, I've never seen those before. Very weird.

 

[MANDO]

Those are actually from the early 90's circa Jurrassic Park dino craze.

 

[frodo]

heres mine

missing the milk shake

we only got 4 locally we didnt get rest of them like you guys did

 

[Skiman]

I had french fries and a chicken nuggets "styrofoam" container, but they actually transformed into robots:

Yea those are the ones I remember as well.

Thats really funny. Those weren't the ones I'd thought of though. Apparantly they did it twice!

MANDO must of been on the other side of the earth McDonalds, I've never seen these either...

 

[galactiboy]

Holy ____, really? Small world.

Yep, Slade and I go way back and we have pretty similar taste in collectibles... he's just a bit crazier than I am

I too had some of those transforming McDonalds toys... I kind of remember the dinosaurs, but I think they were from after I was past the Happy Meal age