Friday Five – Favorite Action Figures

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It’s been a very long time since I’ve actually played with action figures. Sure, I have a TON of toys now, but that’s mostly because my mother wouldn’t buy me anything with guns as a child, so I never got G.I. Joes or Transformers as a kid, so now as an adult I go buy whatever I want to fill that hole in my childhood. Most of them now are for display and I never really play with them, except for some of my starships. I’m gonna try to remember what toys I would have used as a kid.

1. Battle Damage He-Man and Cringor – I loved He-Man as a kid. I had most of the toys, including Castle Greyskull. I even went to the He-Man roller skate arena show down at the civic center. Yes, that was a thing. If you had to have a team leader, I can think of none better. And I just loved the little spin-y thing in his chest you could hit so it looked like he got hurt.

 

2. Egon Spengler – I didn’t get a lot a playsets as a child. I did get the aforementioned Castle Greyskull, and what kid didn’t have the Ewok Village? But that was about it. I don’t really know how, but somehow I conned my way into getting the big ass Ghostbusters firehouse. It was pretty sweet. If you asked me today I would have gone with Venkman for the Bill Murray connection, but I would have gone with the nerdy scientist of Egon as a kid.

 

3. Metalhead – I had just about every Ninja Turtle figure made from the start of the line in 1989 though the 1991 waves, which is like 75+ figures. And most of the vehicles too. But if I had to choose one, I’d have to go with Metalhead, mostly because he was a robot, and shiny.

 

4. Superman – It was a good time to be a kid in the 80’s. Besides the Kenner Star Wars toys, I was also around for both the Secret Wars figures from Marvel and the Super Powers line from DC. All the Super Power figures had a gimmick. For Superman, if you squeezed his legs together, he swung his arms back and forth. Didn’t make any sense, but it was awesome!

 

5. Dargon – I don’t exactly remember how I came upon this. I’m pretty sure it was christmas, but I don’t think it’s the type of thing I would have asked for. He was leader of the good Sectaurs, which basically meant he was an action figure attached to a giant bug puppet. All I remember is the motors on the wings were super excessively loud.

 
If I wanted to cheat, I would have said my Brave Fortress Maximus figure, the bootleg Korean version of Fortress Maximus, the largest Transformer ever made, standing in at nearly 3’ tall I spent $150 on on eBay, but I didn’t own that until much much later.
 

JohnScott is the proud owner of a life size replica Captain Kirk Chair. He is a hoarder of Comic Books, Transformers, and Star Trek action figures. He attended Space Camp as an adult. He has taken vacations to the closing of the Star Trek Experience and the final night Shuttle launch. He has been known to yell at his television when the kids can't put together the damn statue in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. When not writing for InsufficientScotty, he is a Software Engineer for a major healthcare communications company. You can Email or follow on Twitter @NotEnoughScotty or Facebook