Speaking of old toys/cartoons...

I'm fairly sure all of the following had toys and cartoons except for the ones which I'll mark. I believe these all came from the early to mid 90s.

Who remembers the following, and what memories do you have of each:

-Biker Mice From Mars

-Street Sharks

-Creepy Crawlers

-Toxic Crusaders

-Swamp Thing

-Trash Bag Bunch (toy only, early 90s, if you remember this YOU ARE HARDCORE!!!)

-Snailiens (toy only)

-Stone Protectors

-Monster In My Pocket (toy only... kinda the 90s version of Battle Beast/MUSCLE)

-Little Dracula (toy only I think)

-Mighty Mini Military Men (Went in, went out, but cool premise, think in the BB/MUSCLE vain)

-Z-Bots (I thought they were SOOO cool when I first saw them, but later felt they were 2nd tier to BB/MUSCLE)

-Some obscure Skeleton toy lineup I can't remember the name. No, not Skeleton Warriors. These toys were like 3 and a half inches tall, 2 skeletons per pack, circa 95/96...

I'll put down what I remember/liked:

-Biker Mice from Mars
Ha, that was a cool cartoon series. I'm sure they had toys and games based on it, but I only liked watching it. More attitude than the 'Turtles, in my opinion. One thing I didn't get though; why would they mix in humans with the rest of cast? Maybe for realism, I guess.

-Creepy Crawlers
Never much cared for the "oven" based toys, but when I was young I owned an older variant which used wax instead of plastic. It was messy, but making your own monsters from a mold was fun! The easy bake ovens on the other hand... drool

-Toxic Crusaders
I vaguely remember this, I believe it was a crew of superheroes with toxic mutation superpowers? I think there was a correlation with Toxie, the Toxic Avenger, the one I liked. The Toxic Avenger movies by Troma films are classics! buttrock

-Swamp Thing
Who doesn't remember Swamp Thing? I owned a couple of figures of the green hero at one time, all I can remember was that it was furry... The movie was great, I loved the comics done by everyone, and I always watched the show. Unlike Toxie, though, the Swamp Thing was a "serious" hero.

-Snailiens
Ah, that was a cool toy. I remember seeing the commercials and I really wanted one of those rubber dropper-popper toys that were on the back of the figures. Everyone at (Elementary)School had those, we used to pop those caps during lunch and recess everywhere! I still like dropper poppers, I heard there are stores around that specialize in them... Oh yeah, and I remember the toys came with the "Snailien Oath". Those were great!

That's about all I know from your list...

Do you remember the cartoon "Bots Master"? I really liked that show, right along with "Mighty Max".

Also, I remember watching the first Teknoman series on the upn kids network when I was little. Its called Tekkaman Blade now, and for some reason its hard to find the first series now, the sequel is more popular...

<small>[ January 28, 2003, 11:24 PM: Message edited by: Cnidarian ]</small>

Trash Bag Bunch were a toy IDEA ripoff of Garbage Pail Kids

some more fond memories :

1) Mad Scientist toys :
such as ;
Dissect an Alien

2)MAD BALLS

3)Hot Wheels CRASH UPS ! the ones that would have a flipping panel for a damaged effect

4)Army ants

5)Laser Tag

6)POGO BALL

7)Tyco Turbo Hopper

8)Micro Machines !

they made a (what I undestand to be) awful NES game out of Monster in my Pocket

how could I forget .......

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Retrogamer:
how could I forget .......

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I can't put my finger on it but for some reason that pic makes me think of that 80s toy lineup SUPERNATURALS! Yeah -- remember those? I loved them. The figures with the hologram upper bodies. I used to own the SuperNaturals Castle. Man...

Retrogamer:
how could I forget .......

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DUDE!!! I used to have that exact same toy too...

I played around with toy called Star Master in the mid 80s. I rented it once (my fave video rental used to have it), it came with some kind of mini gun mounted on a ground plate and a video tape with a strange movie on it. You saw enemy soldiers with bright triangles on their chest and you could aim trough the mini gun and shoot them, and a little counter on the gun scored your kills. Kinda crude light gun if you will.

And no, it wasn't fun.

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Retrogamer:
how could I forget .......

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DUDE!!! I used to have that exact same toy too...

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Damn, me too!

What about Battle Beasts(i think that was what they were called)? Miniature figures of warrior animals. They wore armor and had this little sticker thing on their chest that would change color when you held your finger on it. I found one recently, it has become my Ferret's favorite chew toy.


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Manufactured by HASBRO. Has a copyright of 1987.

No one mentioned the show/toys Mighty Max.

You know, the one where some kid found a magic hat that can transport him to different worlds. And he had two friends that went with him, a chicken-man and a giant swordsman.

The toys were also quite cool.

They were whole playsets that fit in the palm of your hand.

Many of them were like skull heads, monsters, etc..

And when you opened them up there were a bunch of little figures and gadgets that you could play with.

I remember I had pretty much all of the toys, gave them away to charity long ago though.

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I remember I used to watch Mighty Max all the time with my little brother. He had a lot of the toys, I didn't have any MM toys. He also had one of the biker mice, the mouse with the robot arm.