100% true. They were commercials...and they were awesome. They also beat the shows for kids on TV today hands down! It's not even a contest.

Hell...It STILL DOES!! As I've NEVER Stopped Collrcting MOST Of These, Along with #TMNT, PowerRangers, #ThunderCats & Silverhawks!

That moment you realize that, in spite of Kevin Smiths (and other influencers) best efforts to jade us about the cartoons being 30 minute toy commercials, you just don’t care because they were awesome and the childhood memories are irreplaceable!

Definitely

I never really cared if the were commercials for me they were just entertainment like the looney tunes or scooby doo the flintstones. But boy we had great and cool show back then

He clearly got his cards mixed up. MOTU was/is the best toy line!

Agreed Motu was my favourite toyline when I was at school I loved the whole toyline and the best toys I liked in the late 80s Tonka super naturals

I had so many MotU toys, I have forgotten some of them. My favorite thing was my Attak Trak. I also had Castle Grayskull, and the far cooler, Snake Mountain with the voice changing mic. Then Nintendo comes out, and me and my brothers hatched a plan to only ask for Nintendo stuff for Christmas and birthdays that year. It worked. On Christmas of 1986, one of my Aunts had bought me Family Fun Fitness, Stadium Events, after searching tirelessly for a sold out everywhere, The Legend of Zelda game. Christmas Eve, she gets a call from a friend who bought her son one, not knowing that his dad already bought it. So she bought me that one and I got both games for Christmas. Well, we played Zelda and played and played and played. Stadium Events remained unopened. It got packed up and sent home with me. I had fully intended to open it and play it, but after going back to school and talking to some friends, enemies, and random other kids, I was told that it sucked and was fully convinced that it did. So I was going to trade it in for the upcoming Contra game. My mother goes in and cleans up my room and takes a bunch of stuff to Goodwill, and puts a bunch of stuff away in an old trunk and puts it in the attic. For years, I thought she had taken it to Goodwill. Well, I got my Contra game anyway and didn't give the unopened Stadium Events another thought. Until my mother cleaned out the attic to have a yard sale 25 years later. I found my game in the yard sale for 50¢ and reclaimed it immediately. I wiped it off with a wet wipe. Good as new. I knew it had to be worth something, so I looked it up. It turned out that it was indeed worth thousands of dollars. But still not enough to make me do something impulsive. Sitting in a protective case on a shelf in my room, is an original release unopened copy of Family Fun Fitness: Stadium Events, waiting until the value surpasses $1,000,000.

When They Brought Them Back Out, I Stupidly Bought EVERY Ghostbutser👻Toy... INSTEAD OF MOTU Ones? As THEY Seemed To Be #PegWarmees, Due To Turds On SocialMedia Telling Folks That THEY Easily Brake?? (Got A Few & Found Out That They're Head, Arns, Hands, Waist & Calves Are MEANT To Detach To Swap!)

Best Batman cartoon line " let's pray this works "".

Connan the barbarian and heeman was my shit

I forgot about Eagle Force thanks for bringing them up. I remember the paint didn't last long on them.

I like playsets now that am not a kid anymore, but I have to say that Kenner really did a few lousy playsets for Star Wars but that was ok, because at that time no kid that I knew of was asking for playsets...we wanted action figures and vehicles!:) though castle grey skull was for me the best playset of the 80s!

@@Pemechan76 The Kenner playset that I liked was the Death Star Station. That one was a lot of fun for me as a kid. It had a lot going for it. I certainly enjoyed the vehicles more though. I still play around with that AT-ST walking chicken. lol

@@lostonwallace1396 I agree, the Death Star space station was the best of the line for me, the cantina Bar I kind of also liked...interesting that for me Kenner produced really amazing toys for a new hope, while as a market leader in the toy industry, they couldn’t really make it for empire strikes back (Bespin) and return of the Jedi (Jabba’s palace)...wonder why Kenner didn’t reproduce the Death Star for return of the Jedi, just use the same concept and replace the trash compactor with a hangar Bay and the laser Canon with a throne room, connectable to the old Death Star...I would buy it:)

I agree and I really think that for adult collectors Hasbro should come up with some cool dioramas for these action figures.

Much appreciated!

Thanks man, I spent far longer working on the intro than I spent working on the rest of the video!

Used to watch western movies with my dad at the age of 3 😉

Action Force is enough of “it’s own thing” to get it’s own slot I think. I had the Action Force figure with the red beret, but had no idea who he was. I thought it was a character from the movie Taps, which was playing on HBO a lot at the time

Thank you!

They will all be on the list of the best 70s toy lines!

@@AnalogToys Ah brilliant, I look forward to that, thanks mate!

The basic Indiana Jones figure was nigh impossible to find back in the day. And Marion Ravenwood, too.

Hey LioConvoy! Quite simply the concept of "Mass shifting" was a cop out to explain why the toys were out of scale with each other and it always bothered me.