Anyone collecting 80's/90's action figures?

[Predseda]

I bought my first own computer in 1990, it was 2nd handed C64. A year later I bought A600, which was new and individually imported by someone from Germany. I think in 1990 or 1991 computers started to be officially on sale by czechoslovakian shops.
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[Rekrul]

I have the first couple series of Star Wars figures, but they're not still in the packaging. I think Bossk was the latest figure I had. I do (did?) still have all their guns as well. Beyond that, the only only figures I have are a Mego Spock, two Cylons and an Ovion from Battlestar Galactica. At one point I had the whole set of Mego Star Trek figures and the bridge playset, but it was given away long ago.

I still have my large Mattel Space 1999 Eagle toy, although I lost most of the little accessories that came with it, and all the figures got broken. They made the legs interchangeable so that you could swap the sitting/standing legs between figures, but they were only held together by a tiny snap that would break if you dropped them more than a foot or so.

I've bought a few figures in more recent years though. I have all of the Universal Monsters 8" series from Sideshow Collectibles before someone at the company noticed the word "Collectibles" in their name and decided to switch to making high-priced collectors' items rather than affordable toys.

I also have all of the first 3-4 series of MacFarlane's Movie Maniacs. I stopped around the time that they started using the line for Aliens & Predator figures exclusively. I never did get the Hicks figure, or The Sarah Connor one (three different hair variations? Really?). I'm also missing the rare Tooth Fairy version with the closed mouth. Naturally, since that's the better looking figure, it was the rare one, selling out at every store before I could get there.

Beyond that, I have a couple of the Kenner Alien figures and some Terminator endoskeleton figures from different companies. Oh, and my classic Lost in Space robot toys in various sizes (10" Trendmasters in normal and silver, Christmas ornament, keychain, 4" windup...), Robby the Robot, etc.

[Lord_Maletoth]

Thank you for sharing your collector's info, Rekrul.

I currently started to dig G.I. Joe again, especially after some friend provided the original cartoon series with Italian dubbing. It was a real archeological discovery, since the dubbing in our language is not available anymore on TV or the web since ages, nor any DVD was ever released.

Many figures from the original toy line were never imported to Italy, and were available just in a couple of other European countries under the "Action Force" insigna. Once again, bless eBay.
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[Rekrul]

[Lord_Maletoth]

[MIK UK]

Only thing I have left really from the 70's are full sets of the original Starwars Bubble gum cards. Blue, Red, Yellow, Green, and Orange sets.

1 Planet of the Apes annual.
1 Black Hole poster which back then you could buy in newsagents.

I had tones of starwars figures, even a Blue Snaggletooth but sold up in the 1990's and moved on to collect the new Starwars stuff.

Most valuable thing I have from the new Starwars stuff is the 25th Anniversary Luke Skywalker Jedi Knight which comes on the thin card. It was handed out to kids in the USA when Starwars Return of the Jedi Special Edition released on it's opening night. For any to of survived without being open is very rare and I have one here in the UK.

I have loads and loads of items from the Special Edition era of Starwars when they released, all boxed and sealed. We were too young to collect back in the 70's so this was why I sold up to collect the new.

When the last 3 starwars movies came out I gave up collecting Starwars as it was becoming stupid with the amount of stuff that was coming out.

Everything is stashed away in our bedroom in dark storage boxes. I guess I will hand it down to our kids some day.
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[Rekrul]

[MIK UK]

Rekrul,

Your right with body shapes with the later stuff and I recall Princes Leia was held back or stopped because Carrie Fisher had legal proceedings against Kenner because it looked so ugly.

It quickly disappeared - if at all it ever was released in the UK in the first place... I hunted high and low for it, pictures on the back of the boxes of other figures but it was about a year or so later when there was a small release of her. There was something different about it, I think the original had 3 lines on her waist belt but the new one had 5 lines even tho they looked the same...
In the end I managed to get a couple with the 3 lines on the waist belt and as soon as I found more with the 5 lines I snapped them up. She was hard to get hold off any way lol.


I just dug one out quickly, but if you can remember this lot there are THX video adverts inside some as you can see in C3PO below, Long Light Saber versions which were the 1st issue before they became short, early USA version with red backing cards and a whole host of other stupid things.
But yeah this is the Princes Leia that went missing.


Spot the Death Star upside down on the bubble gum card.
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[Bebokus]

In the mid 90's I had some G.I Joe action figures. Destroyed them all with a crossbow that my dad sent me from U.S.

Groovy stuff! I mean the crossbow

To be serious. I was never a big fan of action figures, but I used to collect those tiny soldiers. How we call them?

[Predseda]

[Lord_Maletoth]

Destroying G.I. Joe figures with a crossbow?

Oh dear, oh dear, would C3-P0 say
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