One release I lament never happened were the line of unproduced Micro Machines playsets and vehicles based on the film "Aliens", which would have been released in the early 90's. There were plans to make a massive LV-426 set (complete with miniature Ripley in her power loader), the derelict ship with pull-out space jockey, and the Jorden family's mining tractor. It would have been awesome.

Damn it! Now that song will be stuck in my head all day!

"Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air, never thought I could be so hi-i-igh!"

Aaaargh!

Blue Devil and Swamp Thing were never planned for Super Powers. Might want to actually read Jason Gerver's page while you're swiping images from it....

http://www.toyotter.com/spfind/

Er, that should read Blue BEETLE, not Blue Devil, who was inexplicably going to get a figure.

I don't know what I dig more, the art on the GAH figure package or the kicking 'fro on the John Stewart figure.

I was always sad that the final figures for "The Toxic Crusaders" never came out and we all know that "Temple Of Doom" action figures get screwed over pretty good. Great list here.

That Greatest American Hero figure would be SUH-weeeeet!!

God DAMN it... I wanted a Darkwing Duck Liquidator figure so bad, I had dreams about it.

the reason the orginal version of Unicron did not happen was due to the costs the company learned it would be to make him though they offered the prototype for orders. as for the super powers line swamp thing and blue devil was found to be a legend about the fourth wave not the real ones along with catwoman and super girl and the simpsons unproduced wave. sad Maude will never join Ned on shelves

Thanks a lot for ruining my day. I didn't even know there was a wave 2 of Darkwing Duck toys. That Gizmoduck doesn't look the best, but man I would have gotten him instantly. I had wave one, and it was shitty. The weapons didn't work right, Launchpad was way off scale, Tuskerninni is a piece of shit figure to release, and releasing Gosalyn and Honker instead of Negaduck, Quacker Jack or the Liquidator is just fucking stupid.

No wonder I gave these damn figures away. They sucked so much ass.

Super Powers, wave 4 would've been awesome for Vigilante, Blue Devil, Afro Lantern, Coronado, and Shockwave, but the Creeper with the suction cups would've been an atrocity.

I still want a Blue Devil. Mattel should make it happen...and not the lame "actual demon" Blue Devil, but the 80's one.

MOTHER FUCKER!!!! Sorry, but I HAD to use that to show how PISSED off I am knowing that we were THATCLOSE to having a Series 2 Darkwing Duck series. I had EVERY SINGLE Series one figure (including the lame Tuskernini figure) and I used to play the HELL out of Megavolt and Bushroot, but I SO wanted Quackerjack, Liquidator, and Negaduck for a proper Fearsome Five. The fact that actual figures were made for advertising that I never saw UNTIL NOW makes me feel as if my inner child was deprived of love. I've not even finished this whole damn list I'm so pissed! GAH!

"remember the syndicated NightMan show?"

Of course, he was fighter of the DayMan. AH-AH-AHHHHHHHHH!

the Flash III, Blue Devil is strongly rumored to be in wave 13 of DC Universe Classics.

i forgot about that second wave of ewj toys until today :'(
DAMN YOU PLAYMATES

Really? You do a whole list of unreleased toy despair, and you forgot the second series of Skeleton Warriors? Bone Dragon anyone? My god, what crushing disappointment. You will probably get some of these characters or toys eventually - and some of them were eventually released - but Skeleton Warriors will never come back from the dead.

And the second design of Unicron was much better than that gimpy first one. Even more disappointing that it was never released. Oh well, we eventually got one.

I'm joining in on the "There was a second wave of Darkwing planned?" chorus.

*whimper*

Legendary Comic Book Heroes! Rocketeer, Nexus, Grendel Hunter Rose and Prime, Nixon from Hard Boiled, a Frost Giant Build-a-figure and more.

@kryonik off to make my custom Green Man figure. Or a Mego style Charlie figure with all his disguises.

Great. Now I wanna hit eBay and track down some old Super Powers figures. Thanks, jerks! :)

And those Sesame Street toys would have been amazing.

I couldn't agree more about the Super Powers collection. It took me years to collect all the released figures ($ and Ebay eventually helped), but it tears at my soul that the final wave never came out. Yes, I'm a nerd.

Oh, Liquidator: Alas, it shall never be.

Also, wasn't it Arnie Pye istead of Artie? You might wanna check that out.

Kenner also planned on piggybacking on the success of their Star Wars line by creating a 3 3/4 inch line of Alien figures. They had to scrap it after the uproar caused by the infamous 18 inch Alien.

Love the Jack Davis artwork on the Greatest American Hero Mego packaging.

Also, the Super Powers figures actually looked pretty good to me. I would have loved the Blue Devil figure.

Alex, those did come out. I snagged one. Had a mini Alien, the APV, and something else....I can't remember.

@MattK, kris, and Batzarro

I know your pain. I'm too angry to even think clearly right now. I'm pretty nerd knowledgeable, but to think that there was a 2nd wave of Darkwing Duck figures that would have been much better than the dumbass 1st wave with Gosalyn, Honker, and fucking Tuskerninni makes my blood boil.

This is even worse than not releasing Jenny for the Bucky O'hare line! She too was planned for the 2nd wave, but was actually ready for the 1st wave and just held off. Fucking toy companies!

I have to second Bob (which may not be his real name). 3rd wave of Legendary Heroes should not only be in this list, but be near the top. Rob is responsible this for not adding it, and I'm not sure whose responsible this for not making it. Toybiz for getting bought? I forget, but I'm sure someone here will know. Also Rob, is there any way you could add the feature that would notify me when someone posts to an article I have posted to? I would really like, as I'm sure many of my fellow readers would as well.

I am SOO looking forward to the day that DCUC comes announces a Blue Devil figure. The DC Direct/George Perez mold just didn't cut it.

And one of the great hopes I'm holding out onto with the Disney/Marvel merger is that Disney will start producing accurate action figures for all their classic movies and TV shows, including Darkwing.

...Oh, and the fact that there's never been a line of action figures for Sesame Street is a crime against humanity.

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OMG! I had the entire first wave of Earthworm Jim toys. I had regular Jim, Battle Damage Jim, Underwater Jim, Psycrow, even Princess Whats-Her-Name. Plus, Jim's "pocket rocket" which looked nothing like what it was on the show or in the games.

I can't believe they scrapped Queen Slug-for-a-butt.

Was a new series of Aliens figures ever released? I'm talking about the cartoon styled ones. I remember price guides listing Hudson and Vasquez but never saw them in stores.

I always hated QuackerJack from DarkWing Duck. I would get excited for the shows opening credits and then was disppointed whenever he showed up. It seems like the top characters were being held off for series 2. So who the hell was in series 1?

Rob,

Brian and Igor from Infinite Mindz did prototypes for a ,IF Labs, figure series based on Sailor Moon. I was trying to get the license from Irwin at the time, and the prototypes were part of the vision statement, of what we thought we could do with the property. I wonder if anyone has any pictures of that. I lost track of Brian and Igor a few years ago.

Chad Bowers
Dr. Toymangla
(IF Labs RIP)

@ Brian@Work (which may not be your real name)

Series 1 had Darkwing Duck (which is pictured in the 'copter above) Launchpad McQuack, Gosalyn Mallard, Honker Muddlefoot, Bushroot, Megavolt, Steelbeak, and Tuskerninni. There was also his vehicles: the Ratcatcher and the Thunderquack. Finally, there was a plastic DW 12" figure and his Gas Gun. It's understandable how Gosalyn and MAYBE Honker would be in the first wave, but Tuskerninni was an incredibly minor and uninspired DW villain that was a waste of a toy spot. Certainly ANY of the above villains should have been in his spot in the line-up.

Darvel (the new entity created by the Disney/Marvel merger), I expect new DW figures on the same quality as the Marvel Legends! Let's have remakes of almost all the series one figures (no amount of articulation will make me buy a new Tuskerninni), let's have all the series two figures, let's have alternate DW outfits (DarkWarrior Duck! Galvanized Negaduck! Drake Mallard...okay, maybe not that one), let's get some Ducktales figures!

For those interested, there was a Blue Devil figure released with the Justice League Unlimited line a while back...

http://www.amazon.com/Justice-League-Unlimited-Action-Figure/dp/B000SKNJDW

I snatched it up the second I saw it... It's one of my most prized nerd artifacts.

The Gizmoduck breaks my heart. It always irritated me that the only DuckTales toys were Cereal prize PVCs. And I think I only got fucking Webigail Vanderquack.

I'm surprised the comic style Watchmen weren't number 1, or on the list at all, athough they never broke my heart.

It's worth pointing out that the unreleased Super Powers in that photo are all customs, except for a couple digitally colored photos of early prototypes

I'd say one of the worst, and most recent, is the cancelled Indiana Jones wave. They got cancelled right when the qualit started getting good! It was bad enough that the Temple of Doom wave was practically nixed and is hard to find, but the final wave had more Raiders guys, including Toht. With an interchangeable MELTING FACE!!!

If someone is buying Sesame Street action figures and hoping to re-enact their favorite episodes, they need help.

@kryonik, if I had been drinking coffee, it would be all over my monitor at this point.

...Actually, what should have not only been on the list, but at the top, were the Watchmen figures that DC was about to release in the early 90's, but were scrapped at the last minute when Alan Moore let that corncob up his hairy butt do the thinking for him, and he vetoed the idea. I've seen the prototypes for Night Owl, Rorshach and Ozymandias, and they were several years in quality ahead of their time. They wouldn't have been cheap figures, but they would have been worth the buy. The failure to release this line is one of the reasons I'd love to see a rabid pack of Fanwanks grab Moore, hold him down, and shave him bald.

And then take a sharpie and write "This Space For Rent!" on his bald head...

That Ghostbusters 2 Slime Blower pack actually DID come out. It was called the Ecto Charger, and it was purple.

Darkwing Duck wave.....2?!

A part of me just died.

I wanted a Negaduck so bad that I actually bought a second DW, some paint and made my own. Of course it was a hideous paint job, but at least it was something.

Damn. Robair beat me to it.

But yes, he's correct. The Slime Blower did make it to stores. I distinctly remember passing it by several dozen times on my trips through Dakota Square Mall, prominently displayed with the Proton Packs, Traps and various other GBII merch, such as the GBII Ecto-1A.

That was the one RP toy I never picked up. Much as I like GBII, I prefer the Proton Pack. Badass, practical and functional.

Mego Connie Selleca? Sign me up.

Damn, now I am ready to sign an interweb petition to demand that MacFarlane do an Always Sunny series. Just imagine the stomach-turning detail on the McPoyles.

I was at the 2007 Florida FX Show in Orlando...and they had a limited run of those Greatest American Hero Figs...500 pcs...My buddy and I looked at each other and said..."Who really wants a $40 GAH figure these days"
These days...You rarely see one go for less than $100 bucks on ebay...

No love for unmade Tailspin series 2? I wanted Wildcat!

Lol @ proto unicron... He is a GD planet. Too big to make a toy out of. Scale just makes it too hard to do. Unless they wanteded to make a good smale scale version of him, like the size of the old Jetfire toy. Could've been nice. But to make unicron look like a transformer with a beer gut is just plain wrong.

Sigh, if only ever single picture from that Museum site didn't have giant water marks on them. Gotta keep feeding that ego I guess. lol

Darkwing Duck series 2 huh....HOW COULD THEY NOT RELEASE THOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE NEGA DUCK AND I WOULD PAY ANYTHING TO HAVE THAT SERIES. I HAVE A DARKWING DUCK TATTOO FOR FUCK SAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PISSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

esta buenisimo los juguetes de earthworm jim y los super herues
estan reee kpos jajajaja

:D

You pissed off some people by hotlinking.

Lotta love here for Darkwing Duck.

But I was bummed that the OTHER Disney animated show at the time, TaleSpin, got shafted too. I loved the Shere Khan in business suit that was to be produced in the second series by Playmates!

But Playmates is the king of products shown and then never released... Like the ST-TNG Phaser Rifle shown for two years at Toy Fair!

Being a geek can be hell, huh? Egon's lab will never see the light of day... Or of basement fluorescence even. How will any of us ever go on without a teen Titan figure or an iron man armor? Wow.

In other good news your hotlinking has landed you in nerd jail apparently.