How I wish I had the spaceship from The Last Starfighter...

I know this probably means nothing, but there is a Revoltech Alien coming out rather soon.

Oh, how I weep for all things Man From Atlantis. That sub was SO COOL. That would have been a treasured, treasured toy for sure. I loved that show. Thankfully, I haven't seen it since 1978, so the memory hasn't been tarnished by evil reality yet.

But I still REALLY want someone to release the music from Man From Atlantis. The pilot film, by the way, is available on DVD. I babbled about some of this on my blog: http://thatneilguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/man-from-atlantis.html

Now Logan's Run toys would have been cool, too. I remember when I lived in LA in the late 80s, you could see the rotting carcass of the hovercraft from that show (as well as the Landmaster from Damnation Alley) parked behind a fence in a lot on the way in to Hollywood from the valley. I will not go into details about the costumes and props I made for myself, inspired by the TV show. And sadly, the crystal in my hand is now deep, deep black.

those particular watchmen characters in the picture have me thinking bad thoughts involving a three-way.

Does the xeno in the last picture have "Amazing light-up-head divots" resulting from the jaunty little cigarette that its smoking?

I'm personally sad the Nocturnals action figures (based on the Dan Brereton comic) never came out, but that's pretty obscure. Also, Road Warrior Wave 2 with Interceptor. Also, The Tick (TV show) Series 2. At one point, N2 Toys was just kicking me in the nuts every Toy Fair.

It's true. When I was in school all the girls were nuts over Tom Skerrit. When NKOTB hit town, everything changed.

The Ship from the Last Star Fighter would have been awesome

I have a friend who would sell his soul for a Rocket Robinhood action figure.

Those Last Starfighter figures are the bee's proverbial knees.

They did produce a 12" V figure, as I recall. It had a removable face.

On a semi-related note, someone please tell me NECA will be making a Garthim...

P.S. Zach, you actually wanted the second series of TV Tick figures? I loved the show but those figures were awful.

Sad to see that those Watchman figures due to Dc not getting it through their heads to not tick off the legend whose work the figures are based on off. thus the figures died though the prototypes are in george brewers office. as for Logan run and last star fighter a tragedy the last starfighter never even got prototypes for figures Logan's run the figures were due to the thing being a head of its time. as for Aliens. at the time Kenner did not know the movie was R. only when kds freaked over the Alien did they wind up having to kill the line.

I wanted V toys SOOOOO bad as a kid. The kids in the mini-series are even playing with (prototypes of?) them.

Jeez...has poor John Hurt EVER gotten an action figure?

I don't like the V figures much but it reminds me of another '70s comics that also had lizzard faces but I don't remember the name.

And oh man... I just had a laugh reading this:

"Thundarr was an incredibly fun and popular early-'80s cartoon that was spawned out of the minds of comic book legends Jack Kirby and Steve Gerber, among others. What sucks is about Thundarr is not one but two toy companies dropped the ball with the license. First Mego got it and planned a series of 3 ¾-inch figures, but -- in an act that made children first question the existence of God -- Mego decided to make Love Boat figures instead."

Also, check out my history of the action figure that I wrote if you will (these were really released): http://actionfiguresbuff-jon.com/the-history-of-the-action-figure/

My Dad was totally sane when he took me and my sister (we were 11 years old at the time) to see Alien and yes we freaked the fuck out but we also loved the movie! I loved so much that my university thesis was "Anti-Motherhood Idealogy in the The "Alien" Franchise". I don't remember which company it was that did put out an Alien doll which had a working mouth but if my Dad had seen it anywhhere he would have bought it for me.

why awesome toys like Maxx FX got the can while Mary "Phatass" Jane and MissFUCKINGLion got released is way beyond me.

incidentally, wouldn't it be more scarring for the kids to actually get their first glimpse of a female anatomy gone wrong instead of a monster plushie toy? the inner child-nerd rages to no end...

I would date all your moms for Dark Crystal, Last Starfighter and 3 3/4" Aliems figures.

God almighty, Maxx FX is so fucking awesome it's ridiculous. Captain Action meets Hammer Monsters + 80s Horror favorites ? It's like the blueprints to an efficent water-fueled engine. Fuck Matchbox. Fuck them with a rotten spoon.

I want Tom Skerrit, I don't want Brad Garett.
I want Tom Skerrit......
Boo! Got a ghost? Skerrit!

well, there is also the Eugene Ionesco
(in)Action Figures for 2010's
'The Bald Soprano' by Brat Productions

- though i admit that was a parody.

was there a Billy Blastoff space chick planned?
I woulda eaten that up (when i was 4).

Oh man if I could've had a plush Freddy doll when I was a kid? Fuck add some bunny ears and my childhood self would have been all fucking over that..
Best friend that never fucking was...screw it...I'll make a sock monkey/Freddy/bunny myself!

How about the fact that it only took the toy companies about 20 years to finally put out "Big Trouble In Little China" action figures?

We have a 5 foot tall picture of Tom Skerrit my wife got at a garage sale 5 years ago. It's awesome. People always comment on it, don't think we'll ever get rid of it.

Does that Dark Crystal line have the first ever Build-a-Figured?

During it's short and troubled time, N2 Toys showed a lot of great lines of "toys that never were" including their FIFTH ELEMENT figures.

I nearly wept when I saw the Black-on-Black V8 Interceptor at N2's room at Toy Fair back in 2000. My dream brought to plastic-y flesh!

I hold N2 Toys president Ron Hayes promise: the second Interception off the line or the prototype version.

I'm still waiting, Ron...

Doesn't that Logan's Run action figure look strangely like (the late, great) Henry Gibson as a younger man?

The guy on the right in the Watchmen picture looks like J. Jonah Jameson on steroids.

I LOVED The Last Starfighter! I used to smile like a little goon at the end when they kiss. I was such a goober.

When I saw the word Maxx at #3, I thrilled at the thought someone would try to render Sam Keith art in three dimensions. Yeah, I know there's a figure of the big purple guy, but so what? There's lots of hyperpituitary mooks on the market. I want Sarah and her dad and a bunch of issses.

I was in second grade when Dark Crystal was released but I really don't remember any parent backlash about it. I saw it in it's first run, I think at a drive-in. I do know that for a year or two following it's release all the girls in my classes were nuts over it. And on a somewhat disturbing note, a pair of them look entirely too much like the gelflings.

I would have loved to be in on the meeting where Love Boat figures became a good idea.

I actually have the Maxx FX Freddy Kruger set and a 12" "V" alien from LJN. Complete with removable human mask and flicking tongue

I can't get over how incredibly detailed those Maxx pieces would've been, especially at that time in history.

Say, were any Max Headroom figures ever planned?

You'd like to be in the meeting where Love Boat figures became a good idea?

Shit dude...I'd have loved to be in the meeting where THE LOVE BOAT became a good idea....

"First Mego got it and planned a series of 3 ¾-inch figures, but -- in an act that made children first question the existence of God -- Mego decided to make Love Boat figures instead."

Is justly followed by...

" After Mego's demise,"

Becuase, whether it is related or not, making Love Boat action figures leads only to failiure and death.

http://www.onesixthwarriors.com/forum/sixth-scale-action-figure-news-reviews-discussion/249224-tony-robinson-private-baldrick-blackadder-figure.html

I'm almost positive the Alien toys ended up in the 1979 or '80 JC Penny Wish Book, although they were sadly never produced (could'a been Sears or some other catalog from a now-defunct department store. Whatever). I pined for those for nearly a year before concluding they were never going to be made available. God-damned market economics.

Years later I went nuts when McFarlane got the license and bought wayyyy more xenomorphs than I'll ever need.

If you want to see more of the Man from Atlantis there are detailed pics at plaidstallions.com

...Two points:

1) DC should have released those Watchmen figures years ago and told Alan Moore to ether a) shut the fuck up and take the check to donate to a charity, or b) shut the fuck up anyway and get the fuck lost. The photos of the prototypes we saw floating around as early as 1998 were much better than a Mego or anything else on the market at that time, and Moore did a major disservice to his fans by putting the nix on their production and release. They're probably top on my list for reasons someone should kick the shit out of Alan Moore and shave him bald, just so they can hang his beard and ragmop over someone's mantle like the ears, tail and horns off a bull.

2) The 18" Alien was a mascot around the Daily Texan entertainment offices for several years, after one of the editors left it behind as a going-away gift to the entertainment writers when he graduated. We had a lot of fun coming up with new ways to pose the damn thing so that it would shake up the faculty advisors who'd drop down to bitch at us for printing "Fuck" and "bullshit" in our reviews and articles. I think posing it with this giant medical emergency Fleet suppository took the award for the most suggestive pose.

Wish I had one of those, but if I wouldn't spend $65.00 USD for a marked-down "Clover" from Cloverfield, I'm damn not willing to spend several hundred dollars for one...

Hey rob, how bout a list of the rarest, sought-after, and most awesome nerd toys ever made? 40-year-old virgin stuff. I'd nominate the 1979 kenner 18" alien figure.

Strange, but I do have a strange Alien figure with that "cool" mechanism that raises a mohawk of big fucking spikes when you lower its head and looks like it was built to run on all fours. It's bigger than 3 3/4", though, and if I remember correctly, there was a whole series of those things - a winged "Alien King", a bog-standard Alien and some others.

Hello,

I too have always wanted V Action figures..

So what did I do? I learned how to make custom figures AND MADE MY OWN..

For your viewing pleasure:
http://s656.photobucket.com/albums/uu281/fschalk/The%20Visitor%20Collection%20Custom%20V%20Action%20Figures/

Frank