I remember an anecdote from the guy who designed that specific Street Shark: apparently he was rushed and, when time came to design the character's shoes, he looked down and just copied the Doc Martins he was wearing. Also, the rubber main body was so you could move the hard plastic fin behind the head up and down to make the toy "bite" with its ginormous maw. That was honestly my favorite part of the line, you could make them eat other action figures.
Troll dolls were a single piece of hollow plastic with the hair rooted into the head, so they would've had to do some extra work to make it into an action figure head, but that's still possible.
@@kharnifex nope I saw plenty of these figures sold in packaging back in the day at Sunday markets in the UK and various cheaper toy shops was just a variation on sungold or remco figure bodies with a troll head on and they did that a lot same bodies and would add dragon heads or snake men heads or wolf heads with same muscle body and they were cheap to buy and basically knock off Motu figures.
The first rubber figure is called a dangler and they were sold allover Blackpool and those type of places. The reason batman has the sort of furry styled skin is because the original figure was actually a Wolfman/werewolf and they reused the body for batman. You could also get a red devil dangler a werewolf and batman and skeletons
The minute I discovered Ashens was the minute I gave up normal tv. Ashens showed me a world I did not know existed a world were grown adults can still find love in toys, video games and pound shop food. Thank you Ashens for showing me that I can be myself in this crazy crazy world
Good thing you said "literally". I 'd hate for anyone to think you were speaking rhetorically. Or hyperbolically. Or ironically. Thank you for making that distinction.
Right. You joined 9 years ago, says your profile. So its great how your parents put Ashens on your LeapFrog for you to watch at age 5. You sure had some unreasonably hip parents. 🐖💨 🦨💨 🐿️💨 🐓💨 🦆💨
@@bonusflaps1749nah, it IS hyperbolically if you ask me, because their account was created only 9 years ago, so it clearly isn't literally unless they spent their whole childhood watching Stuart on their mom's iPad. So in this case "literally" means "I'm full of shit, less than half my life was spent watching Ashens"
Professor Brain would be a pisstake nickname the other truckers came up with surely. Like, they saw him reading a book one time and were like "Well look at Professor Brain over here trying to edumacate himself!"
"Troll Force" is probably one of the greatest bootleg lines. For those unfamiliar they took knock off MOTU bodies (from the "Freedom Fighters" branch of the "Galaxy Warriors" family tree) and stuck troll heads on them and themed them from various 80's pop culture things. There was a pair of wrestlers (one of them a rip off Hulk Hogan) a pair of generic ninjas, a pair of super heroes (rip off Superman and Incredible Hulk) a pair of generic soldiers, a pair of "medieval warriors" (one of which is just in a BDSM outfit) and a pair of "Future Fighters" (a cyborg and a rip off Terminator)
That rubber Unreasonably Angry Hulk figure has completely triggered a childhood memory of my sister being dressed the incredible Hulk for Halloween when we were very young (she was 5 or 6) my parents even went as far as painting her entire top half of her body green!😂😂😂 I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't wash off completely and she spent about 3 days with a green tinge to her skin 😂💚 Man oh man were the 80's an incredibly wonderful decade! (and dangerous)
@@andyrome316 I remember Shrinky-Dinks free in cereal packets in the 1970s, which were polythene plastic tablets you painted and put in the oven! A bit polluting...
In the earliest of the 90s or the end of the 80s, my mom taped balloons all over my body for Halloween, and to this day I still remember being cold and crying and scared of them when they popped, I must have been 3 or 4. For the record, I think most of them popped... But I was better at crying, than I was at counting, and all I can remember is crying and being scared and cold, also the balloons may have been blue or green. Oh, this memory is there, it's just all kinds of faulty, but I WAS crying balloon boy when I was little.
I know I got hooked on the cartoon on TV. I always just thought I missed the ending episodes . Then later in life I looked it back up and was sadly disappointed in no ending.( just like dungeons and dragons). They did put out a comic for pirates of dark water but I never did look it up to see how far they got with it.
06:10 Thats right Stu, Captain Power and the soldiers of the future. There was a line of figures, and a line of interative toy vehicles that came with a VHS tape that you could play and shoot flashing pink things on your old CRT tv screen (doesnt work with anything else of course) with your powerjet, or striker, or interlocker, whichever vehicle you had, and avoid flashing yellow things or you'd take hits, and if you ran out of powerpoints then your vehicle's pilot would eject from the vehicle to show game over. Or you could put the vehicle in 'room' mode and shoot a little shiny target instead. Hours of fun. Well, about an hour, thats how long the tape that came with my powerjet ran anyway I think.
Truly there's no joy quite like going to a toy show and rooting through bins of weird loose toys. Great finds! I love seeing what sorts of things catch other people's eye.
The pink Troll Warrior is Lars the Protector! He came with his trusty Battle-Axe of Justice. My older brother had Lars, and I had Fanta (tiny purple troll with bright yellow hair and a Fabulous Slingshooter for a weapon). We both had a Thorbjorg troll too (blue with bright yellow hair and a "Snappy Snapper Trapper" for a weapon)... Oh the memories! ... And of course we both had a rubbery Odd-Hairy-Snakeman. Thanks for taking me back to my childhood years.
Robin Hood: prince of thieves is one of my favorite toy lines ever *because* of all the re-used molds it’s really fun to compare and contrast everything from where it came from
Interesting fact about the Secret Wars toy line. It actually partially inspired the iconic Symbiote arc in the Spider-Man comics, on account of Mattel being a big fan of being able to sell two identical spider-men in two different colors, it convinced Marvel to keep Spidey's black costume around longer, leading to the Symbiote arc and inevitably to the creation of Venom
22 minute video of Ashens and weird old action figures? Please and thank you! These are honestly my favorite format and content of your videos as a fellow person who’s always loved action figures!
I too had one of those ‘Hairy Snake-man’ rubber Batman toys. I threw it in a river off the side of a boat in the later 80’s and my father got me.. a replacement ‘Hairy Snake-man’ 😂
I love Street Sharks-figures, have 3 of them. One of them is like the coolest action figure ever: His limbs are very solid, but his body is made of rubber; if you pull his backfin up and down, he does a biting move; if you pull his right hand back and release it, he does a big punch; he's 100% waterproof, like a real shark, so a kid can play with him even in the bathtub, without the worry of his screws rusting; and his teeth glow in the dark!
Oh man, as soon as "Hairy Snake Man" appeared and I saw the thin blue rubber cape I suddenly remembered I had one as a child as well! I wonder how many of these things snuck into homes in the 80s...
Oh man, I loved Street Sharks. Always loved how robust the figures were. I had 3 of them as a kid. Rox, Ripster and Moby Lick. Moby Lick was my favourite with his creepy long tongue, I used to carry him around.
Ashens, if you want to know more about Galaxy Warriors and the knock-offs and bootlegs thereof, Phelous has a whole subseries about the 'Galaxy Warriors black hole' or "Galaxy Hole" as he calls it in his "Bootleg Zones" video series. Maybe he could even shed more light on the 'Internet Troll' figure. I just don't recommend introducing him and Paul Gannon to each other because of the potential Ghostbusters geek-out overload.
The street shark figure with mixed hardness of plastic/rubber reminds me of the old TMNT figures where their heads were each a different shade of green and were actually of a different hardness going from very soft and rubbery to rock solid for some reason. If I remember correctly I think Donatello's head was rock hard but Raphael was super soft and squishy with the other two in between
The Pirates of Dark Water one, holy cow. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who remembers that show, so it's blowing my mind to see it had toys. I was obsessed with the show as a kid and was so upset that the storyline never got finished.
It was completely cool it even had details that were not really found for something like it was from the time. Like the "swearing" in the pirate language was able to slide by all the censorship.
Yes it was 'Captain Power and The Soldiers of the Future'. First live action series that featured fully CGI Characters, Two of Dread's henchman were fully CGI Robots. Captain Power's full name was Captain Jonathan Power
I spotted that exact street shark you’ve got there when I was toy fair. Almost picked it up but then I realised that would mean keeping it in my house, so I left it there and bought things that I like instead.
Pirates of the Dark Water wasn't exactly eco-Captain-Planety, it was a weirdass bio-punk seafaring adventure to seal what was pretty much an eldritch god; the series had a e s t h e t i c s up the wazoo and one of the hurtiest cliffhangers in animation history. I'd recommend it wholeheartedly.
Bloth had quite a distinct voice indeed, but that was because he was voiced by Brock Peters whom, among other things, voiced Dark Kat in SWAT Kats and numerous other cartoon characters over a very long career. Even those who never watched much in the ways of cartoons might still know him as the father of Benjamin Sisko, Joseph Sisko, from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
The Batman bootleg: Ben Cooper released Batman "jigglers" in 1973. The arms were up because Batman and Superman were flying. The ripoff came out the same year, and is harder to find than the Jiggler Batman. Nice collection!
I loved (and still love) The Pirates of Dark Water. Dan thing got cancelled before the Prince could get all the gubbins needed to stop the evil out there. I did like the Griffin who loved pomegranates, and even played the game at one point. If any 80's/90's series that needed a live action series or movie made it would be this.
I often just buy specifically things people I know might like. Also anything I don't look at for 6 months goes back to the same opp shop. Opp shop scouting is every Saturday morning when I can manage it. 2 large "warehouse" ones on the main road near me, old furniture for $50. Old books, toys, clothes, etc.
The most consistent and entertaining channel on RUclips. Love your content, and I'd love to see more stream archives! I've watched the ones you already have enough to recite them from memory, though I do come to your Twitch from time to time. It's just that being in America it's difficult to match your schedule. Either way, happy to see a new video!
17:10 the white suit troll with red circle on chest is Troll Force ninja white from company called Toys N Things in 1992 (Google image search troll force look at card backs). The other white one I'm not sure but think is again either troll force or troll fighter by Simba but can't see another with a white body so maybe someone's painted it or it's another ko line of trolls lol
I love the thought that the best way to ever meet Ashens out and about is not at a meet and greet or convention or live event, but in fact just bumping into him browsing stalls full of random cheap tat at Norwich Market. EDIT: 9:48 OH MY GOD THOSE ARE THE RANDOM WEIRD FIGURES I HAD AS A KID?! I have no idea how I got hold of them, they must've been passed down from my cousins maybe? And I had *no* idea where they came from or what they were even called. Thank you for solving a 25-year mystery for me xD
I have a couple of those Troll Warrior figures. One is a purple troll with named Fanta and another is a hot pink troll wizard named Oddvar. They may have been targeted to boys but I like them because they're still ugly-cute like regular troll dolls, but the Battle Trolls were just plain ugly. And I don't get why they thought troll dolls were supposed to be for girls, I remember boys liking the Thomas Dam-type trolls in the 1990s as well. Although the writing on the packaging for Battle Trolls was amusing: "To make sure your Battle Troll stays happy, just follow these simple rules: DON'T feed him, DON'T be nice to him and KEEP him hidden in a dark, smelly place. With the proper neglect, your Battle Troll should stay mean, cranky, and ready to fight anyone or anything for years!"
That batman-ish figure reminds me of an odd pointless toy I had as a child. It was a plastic batman figure with arms, legs and head that didnt move, Tied with some easily knotted string to a yellow nylon 'parachute'. You were supposed to be able to wrap it up, throw it in the air, and watch it float down. It didnt work on any level.
I remember those parachute toys, the only way to get them to work was to throw them off of a very high building. Like a multi storey carpark. Twelve floors high works okay but only if you are lucky enough to manage to not tangle up the cords which is practically impossible.
Oh man, that "responding to the tv show" thing reminds me of the old Galidor LEGO sets. The Kek Powerizer toy would have difference replies to the TV based on what head was attached.
Wow i just came across this video on my recommended, i used to watch your videos throughout my elementary years, im 20 years old now and it makes me happy seeing u still doing videos, u were a big part of my childhood man 🙌
This video was great, I love when you get the nostalgia out, I remember the shark toys but biker mice from Mars were the real deal, would love to see you review the classic zoids
Hairy Snakeman almost looks like they took a mold of one of those rubber monkeys, and then carved Batman clothes into said mold. I've definitely seen this sort of thing done with other GeneriCo toys.
Back in the 90s my brother and I had military trolls with short hair like a bristle brush. His had a black ninja-ish outfit and mine had full body green camo. Arm and legs were articulated and they had the muscly superhero bodies and rubber heads.
Captain Power is from 1987...Babylon 5 is from 1995....Straczynski also wrote Spider-man One More Day/Brand New day and the only good episodes of The Real Ghostbusters before the hot garbage 3rd season and beyond....
@@lutherheggs451 This is correct. Babylon 5 was mentioned in Captain Power long before it was its own show. Presumably Stracynski either had the base of the idea even then, or he just reused the name..
I didn't realize I had that Kang figure until you mentioned the harness, and that sent memories flowing back. Weird how that happens. I am not even sure why I had a Kang action figure. I don't think I had any other Marvel figures as a kid? And while I enjoy Kang he's not like my favorite Marvel villain or anything. Probably something my parents bought at a garage sale.
The rubbery heads on the street sharks figures was from a point of articulation on the dorsal fin with allowed for a "chomping" action although that one doesn't appear to have one so who knows 😂
Is the Internet Troll part of the infamous Galaxy Hole? Some of those ended up with RANDOM heads, like The Cowardly Lion, and the bodies look IDENTICAL.
I couldn’t make that toy fete the other week, they do have some great stuff there and those are definitely some interesting toys!! Hopefully catch you there next time Ashens.
I feel crazy for recognizing that lord dread figure before he even said what it was from I was like "that's captain power right?" and then ashens was like "LORD DREAD" and my brain went "LORD DREAD!!!"
Hairy Snake Man is actually Winding Road Ahead Man. They’re often mistaken for each other.
Even less people remember his arch nemesis, Vanishing Horizons-man.
Winding Road Ahead Man saved my life when I was a reckless teen driver. Been mindful of winding road signs ever since.
Bulshit don't lie dr
Not its man from ham alsume
@@ironassassin1332will you get out of here?
I remember an anecdote from the guy who designed that specific Street Shark: apparently he was rushed and, when time came to design the character's shoes, he looked down and just copied the Doc Martins he was wearing.
Also, the rubber main body was so you could move the hard plastic fin behind the head up and down to make the toy "bite" with its ginormous maw. That was honestly my favorite part of the line, you could make them eat other action figures.
I remember mine got its upper gums busted out for "biting" too many times
"it's me, the Hulk, you probably didn't recognize me because of the red arm"
It's true I didn't
Nice one mate
It's me, hi, I'm the hulk it's me
The Insecure Hulk
@@samholdsworth420.I have 1
After all these years, I'm still not convinced someone didn't just put a troll doll head on another body just to mess with people
Troll dolls were a single piece of hollow plastic with the hair rooted into the head, so they would've had to do some extra work to make it into an action figure head, but that's still possible.
Definitely was a kitbash of a troll and a he man
They did it to troll everyone
@@kharnifex nope I saw plenty of these figures sold in packaging back in the day at Sunday markets in the UK and various cheaper toy shops was just a variation on sungold or remco figure bodies with a troll head on and they did that a lot same bodies and would add dragon heads or snake men heads or wolf heads with same muscle body and they were cheap to buy and basically knock off Motu figures.
@@Rat_King_Reviewsmakes sense actually
Not to mention I think Stewart said he just found it randomly mixed in with a lot of other Toys
The first rubber figure is called a dangler and they were sold allover Blackpool and those type of places. The reason batman has the sort of furry styled skin is because the original figure was actually a Wolfman/werewolf and they reused the body for batman.
You could also get a red devil dangler a werewolf and batman and skeletons
They look like stretch marks, and I hate looking at it.
@@wumpus976 he looks like durge from the clone wars.
The minute I discovered Ashens was the minute I gave up normal tv. Ashens showed me a world I did not know existed a world were grown adults can still find love in toys, video games and pound shop food. Thank you Ashens for showing me that I can be myself in this crazy crazy world
"Don't tick me off, you won't like me when I'm slightly miffed. I'll become real passive aggressive mind you." -- British Hulk
Bri'ish Hulk when faced with intergalactic threat to the planet's very existence: *tuts, sighs deeply, shakes head and carries on with queuing*
Hulk write strongly worded letter with correct spelling and grasp of words far superior than Hulk speak!
Being able to watch Ashens for almost literally my entire life is such an awesome privilege.
I think even Ashens would agree that you are too easily impressed.
have to agree
Good thing you said "literally". I 'd hate for anyone to think you were speaking rhetorically. Or hyperbolically. Or ironically. Thank you for making that distinction.
Right. You joined 9 years ago, says your profile.
So its great how your parents put Ashens on your LeapFrog for you to watch at age 5.
You sure had some unreasonably hip parents. 🐖💨
🦨💨
🐿️💨
🐓💨
🦆💨
@@bonusflaps1749nah, it IS hyperbolically if you ask me, because their account was created only 9 years ago, so it clearly isn't literally unless they spent their whole childhood watching Stuart on their mom's iPad.
So in this case "literally" means "I'm full of shit, less than half my life was spent watching Ashens"
That Hulk's civilian identity is Bruised Banner.
Professor Brain would be a pisstake nickname the other truckers came up with surely. Like, they saw him reading a book one time and were like "Well look at Professor Brain over here trying to edumacate himself!"
"Troll Force" is probably one of the greatest bootleg lines. For those unfamiliar they took knock off MOTU bodies (from the "Freedom Fighters" branch of the "Galaxy Warriors" family tree) and stuck troll heads on them and themed them from various 80's pop culture things. There was a pair of wrestlers (one of them a rip off Hulk Hogan) a pair of generic ninjas, a pair of super heroes (rip off Superman and Incredible Hulk) a pair of generic soldiers, a pair of "medieval warriors" (one of which is just in a BDSM outfit) and a pair of "Future Fighters" (a cyborg and a rip off Terminator)
Well this is informative.
@@themarlboromandalorian MOTU bootlegs/knock offs is a very deep rabbit hole to fall into.
That rubber Unreasonably Angry Hulk figure has completely triggered a childhood memory of my sister being dressed the incredible Hulk for Halloween when we were very young (she was 5 or 6) my parents even went as far as painting her entire top half of her body green!😂😂😂 I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't wash off completely and she spent about 3 days with a green tinge to her skin 😂💚
Man oh man were the 80's an incredibly wonderful decade! (and dangerous)
The 50s is where it's at (look up the Austin Magic Pistol or the U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, which contained uranium).
Remember those toys you used to dissolve in the sink and there was a toy in the middle? Well my mates mum used to put them in the bath with him😬
@@andyrome316 I remember Shrinky-Dinks free in cereal packets in the 1970s, which were polythene plastic tablets you painted and put in the oven! A bit polluting...
In the earliest of the 90s or the end of the 80s, my mom taped balloons all over my body for Halloween, and to this day I still remember being cold and crying and scared of them when they popped, I must have been 3 or 4.
For the record, I think most of them popped... But I was better at crying, than I was at counting, and all I can remember is crying and being scared and cold, also the balloons may have been blue or green. Oh, this memory is there, it's just all kinds of faulty, but I WAS crying balloon boy when I was little.
@@galloe8933 Your mom must have really hated you.
Yay. New ashens. Such an rare occurrence, it has only happened thousands of times for the last 15 years or so!
Dont jinx it
I can't do this forever.
I’m gonna be mad as hell if I just jinxed this. Didn’t even cross my mind when writing the original comment 😠
That Bloth figure has two accessory grips so he can steal the good guys' sword in the middle of a fight. Very good attention to detail.
The less said about the character Bloth wearing a strapless and sleeveless dress as a shirt the better.
I loved the Pirates of Darkwater. It was brilliant. Then they cancelled it before ever finishing the storyline. Tim Curry voiced Bloth!
There is also a tabletop roleplaying game of Pirates of Dark water!
Curry actually voiced Bloth's right hand man.
I know I got hooked on the cartoon on TV. I always just thought I missed the ending episodes . Then later in life I looked it back up and was sadly disappointed in no ending.( just like dungeons and dragons). They did put out a comic for pirates of dark water but I never did look it up to see how far they got with it.
06:10 Thats right Stu, Captain Power and the soldiers of the future. There was a line of figures, and a line of interative toy vehicles that came with a VHS tape that you could play and shoot flashing pink things on your old CRT tv screen (doesnt work with anything else of course) with your powerjet, or striker, or interlocker, whichever vehicle you had, and avoid flashing yellow things or you'd take hits, and if you ran out of powerpoints then your vehicle's pilot would eject from the vehicle to show game over. Or you could put the vehicle in 'room' mode and shoot a little shiny target instead. Hours of fun. Well, about an hour, thats how long the tape that came with my powerjet ran anyway I think.
Truly there's no joy quite like going to a toy show and rooting through bins of weird loose toys. Great finds! I love seeing what sorts of things catch other people's eye.
The pink Troll Warrior is Lars the Protector! He came with his trusty Battle-Axe of Justice. My older brother had Lars, and I had Fanta (tiny purple troll with bright yellow hair and a Fabulous Slingshooter for a weapon). We both had a Thorbjorg troll too (blue with bright yellow hair and a "Snappy Snapper Trapper" for a weapon)... Oh the memories!
... And of course we both had a rubbery Odd-Hairy-Snakeman.
Thanks for taking me back to my childhood years.
Lars? No way! 😆
Thought these dudes were a bit of old guff! Pleased they have actual names and weapons. Can't imagine the stories they'd tell!
Robin Hood: prince of thieves is one of my favorite toy lines ever *because* of all the re-used molds it’s really fun to compare and contrast everything from where it came from
Interesting fact about the Secret Wars toy line. It actually partially inspired the iconic Symbiote arc in the Spider-Man comics, on account of Mattel being a big fan of being able to sell two identical spider-men in two different colors, it convinced Marvel to keep Spidey's black costume around longer, leading to the Symbiote arc and inevitably to the creation of Venom
22 minute video of Ashens and weird old action figures? Please and thank you! These are honestly my favorite format and content of your videos as a fellow person who’s always loved action figures!
Do me?
Agreed.
word
I too had one of those ‘Hairy Snake-man’ rubber Batman toys. I threw it in a river off the side of a boat in the later 80’s and my father got me.. a replacement ‘Hairy Snake-man’ 😂
I love Street Sharks-figures, have 3 of them. One of them is like the coolest action figure ever: His limbs are very solid, but his body is made of rubber; if you pull his backfin up and down, he does a biting move; if you pull his right hand back and release it, he does a big punch; he's 100% waterproof, like a real shark, so a kid can play with him even in the bathtub, without the worry of his screws rusting; and his teeth glow in the dark!
@Latest Obssesion Okay, I give you that🤭
Oh man, as soon as "Hairy Snake Man" appeared and I saw the thin blue rubber cape I suddenly remembered I had one as a child as well! I wonder how many of these things snuck into homes in the 80s...
Oh man, I loved Street Sharks. Always loved how robust the figures were. I had 3 of them as a kid. Rox, Ripster and Moby Lick. Moby Lick was my favourite with his creepy long tongue, I used to carry him around.
5:55 Holy crap Ashens! Captain Power and the Soldiers of Tomorrow was insane for it's time.
I loved it, never knew there was toys for it.
I remember having this big rubberized Street Shark hand puppet my parents bought me from Kmart. Ah the memories loll
I'm glad the internet troll has some family now, warms my heart
That weird troll doll was doing the "Are you not entertained" from Gladiator ha
Ashens, if you want to know more about Galaxy Warriors and the knock-offs and bootlegs thereof, Phelous has a whole subseries about the 'Galaxy Warriors black hole' or "Galaxy Hole" as he calls it in his "Bootleg Zones" video series.
Maybe he could even shed more light on the 'Internet Troll' figure.
I just don't recommend introducing him and Paul Gannon to each other because of the potential Ghostbusters geek-out overload.
I am herr Waboo
The street shark figure with mixed hardness of plastic/rubber reminds me of the old TMNT figures where their heads were each a different shade of green and were actually of a different hardness going from very soft and rubbery to rock solid for some reason. If I remember correctly I think Donatello's head was rock hard but Raphael was super soft and squishy with the other two in between
The Pirates of Dark Water one, holy cow. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who remembers that show, so it's blowing my mind to see it had toys. I was obsessed with the show as a kid and was so upset that the storyline never got finished.
It was completely cool it even had details that were not really found for something like it was from the time. Like the "swearing" in the pirate language was able to slide by all the censorship.
Yes it was 'Captain Power and The Soldiers of the Future'. First live action series that featured fully CGI Characters, Two of Dread's henchman were fully CGI Robots. Captain Power's full name was Captain Jonathan Power
Oooh, an Ashens video release time that I'm not ashamed to be awake for!
i havent slept in 5 days. i feel like dying
@@bitterlemonboy hehehe yeah Ashens is funny
That first Troll Warrior gave me Noseybonk flashbacks, which is something no-one needs.
I spotted that exact street shark you’ve got there when I was toy fair. Almost picked it up but then I realised that would mean keeping it in my house, so I left it there and bought things that I like instead.
Pirates of the Dark Water wasn't exactly eco-Captain-Planety, it was a weirdass bio-punk seafaring adventure to seal what was pretty much an eldritch god; the series had a e s t h e t i c s up the wazoo and one of the hurtiest cliffhangers in animation history. I'd recommend it wholeheartedly.
I hope you can do a brown couch session with the legendary toy man Tim, Dr. Ashens.
i legitamitely smiled seeing the internet troll
it was like seeing an old friend again
It was the last thing you'd see at the end of a video, right before you went to sleep. 😳
Bloth had quite a distinct voice indeed, but that was because he was voiced by Brock Peters whom, among other things, voiced Dark Kat in SWAT Kats and numerous other cartoon characters over a very long career. Even those who never watched much in the ways of cartoons might still know him as the father of Benjamin Sisko, Joseph Sisko, from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
13:15 - lol
You gotta have a system.
Nice Harry Hill reference. :)
Dark Waters was great I loved watching it as a child
The Batman bootleg: Ben Cooper released Batman "jigglers" in 1973. The arms were up because Batman and Superman were flying. The ripoff came out the same year, and is harder to find than the Jiggler Batman. Nice collection!
"Roscoe" looks like a great start to making that "Benny Hill" figure you always wanted!
I thought the exact same ! 😂
I loved (and still love) The Pirates of Dark Water. Dan thing got cancelled before the Prince could get all the gubbins needed to stop the evil out there. I did like the Griffin who loved pomegranates, and even played the game at one point. If any 80's/90's series that needed a live action series or movie made it would be this.
"I'm Peter by the way"
"I'm Captain Power."
"Oh we're using made up names, I'm Spider Man then."
Man I can’t wait for the Christmas videos!
How will Ashens attempt to murder nerd cubed this year?? Can't wait to find out
7:59 more like 'Kang the Impossibru guy'
I often just buy specifically things people I know might like. Also anything I don't look at for 6 months goes back to the same opp shop. Opp shop scouting is every Saturday morning when I can manage it. 2 large "warehouse" ones on the main road near me, old furniture for $50. Old books, toys, clothes, etc.
The most consistent and entertaining channel on RUclips. Love your content, and I'd love to see more stream archives! I've watched the ones you already have enough to recite them from memory, though I do come to your Twitch from time to time. It's just that being in America it's difficult to match your schedule. Either way, happy to see a new video!
Rox is one of the few Street Sharks I don't have, but I always loved his design! I still have all my old collection in storage!
Love me some Ashen and weird old action figures.
17:10 the white suit troll with red circle on chest is Troll Force ninja white from company called Toys N Things in 1992 (Google image search troll force look at card backs).
The other white one I'm not sure but think is again either troll force or troll fighter by Simba but can't see another with a white body so maybe someone's painted it or it's another ko line of trolls lol
I love the thought that the best way to ever meet Ashens out and about is not at a meet and greet or convention or live event, but in fact just bumping into him browsing stalls full of random cheap tat at Norwich Market.
EDIT: 9:48 OH MY GOD THOSE ARE THE RANDOM WEIRD FIGURES I HAD AS A KID?! I have no idea how I got hold of them, they must've been passed down from my cousins maybe? And I had *no* idea where they came from or what they were even called. Thank you for solving a 25-year mystery for me xD
Do you think they saw him coming and went ‘quick, put all of the weird figures to the front!’
I'd love to see an Ashens X Grand Illusions crossover.
Ben Cooper made those weird plastic Halloween masks. Like the 82 He Man mask
If that troll offered tea, it’s likely shroom tea!
That thing about Captain Power toys listening to a frequency from the TV show sounds way too much like Halloween 3 for my liking.
I have a couple of those Troll Warrior figures. One is a purple troll with named Fanta and another is a hot pink troll wizard named Oddvar. They may have been targeted to boys but I like them because they're still ugly-cute like regular troll dolls, but the Battle Trolls were just plain ugly. And I don't get why they thought troll dolls were supposed to be for girls, I remember boys liking the Thomas Dam-type trolls in the 1990s as well. Although the writing on the packaging for Battle Trolls was amusing: "To make sure your Battle Troll stays happy, just follow these simple rules: DON'T feed him, DON'T be nice to him and KEEP him hidden in a dark, smelly place. With the proper neglect, your Battle Troll should stay mean, cranky, and ready to fight anyone or anything for years!"
Bullseye Troll comes with a speedboat and a caravan. Smashing.
My gosh! I freaking missed Street Sharks! I loved that show and all the toys! I loved Street Sharks and Ninja Turtles ^^
That lord dread guy is pretty dope. The chrome is really pleasing.
Am I the only one who sees it or does Bloth almost look like one of those human flesh eating giants from the animation movie 'The BFG'.
I had so many street sharks as a kid, I’m so happy to see one here!
Lars the Protector looks like someone you'd be completely demolished by in dark souls PvP
Today is December 1st; I've been checking extraashens for this year's advent calendars! I hope you do them again this year! 🎅
I had the bullseye troll!! Probably still in a box somewhere in the loft!!
Bullseye looks like something they let out of a cave after Lars fails to save the trolls from invaders
That batman-ish figure reminds me of an odd pointless toy I had as a child. It was a plastic batman figure with arms, legs and head that didnt move, Tied with some easily knotted string to a yellow nylon 'parachute'. You were supposed to be able to wrap it up, throw it in the air, and watch it float down. It didnt work on any level.
I remember those parachute toys, the only way to get them to work was to throw them off of a very high building. Like a multi storey carpark. Twelve floors high works okay but only if you are lucky enough to manage to not tangle up the cords which is practically impossible.
@@witchwaynow7572 yep
Oh man, that "responding to the tv show" thing reminds me of the old Galidor LEGO sets. The Kek Powerizer toy would have difference replies to the TV based on what head was attached.
I used to give trolls to my mum, and after seeing these I really need to find a few that look like those!
This was beautiful, can't wait to hear about the Robin Hood figures.
Roscooooe P. Coltrane FTW!
The Mego Museum's website is quite a ride down memory lane btw lol
I remember Lord Dredd and Pirates of Darkwater!!!
Wow i just came across this video on my recommended, i used to watch your videos throughout my elementary years, im 20 years old now and it makes me happy seeing u still doing videos, u were a big part of my childhood man 🙌
This video was great, I love when you get the nostalgia out, I remember the shark toys but biker mice from Mars were the real deal, would love to see you review the classic zoids
OH, I had that same Street Shark toy as a kid. They never bought me Ken dolls, so he was always the male character in my games haha.
Hairy Snakeman almost looks like they took a mold of one of those rubber monkeys, and then carved Batman clothes into said mold. I've definitely seen this sort of thing done with other GeneriCo toys.
Being acknowledged as an "identical cousin" just brings up more questions than explanations.
Back in the 90s my brother and I had military trolls with short hair like a bristle brush. His had a black ninja-ish outfit and mine had full body green camo. Arm and legs were articulated and they had the muscly superhero bodies and rubber heads.
Ashens needs to team up with Phelous to finally track down the origin of the Internet Troll.
Stuart, those Rustlers bbq rib things are 1.65 at Sainsburys right now!
Whip round for some Tessco gin and I believe you're on to something there.
Creased at how Lars looks like he's waving his fist in a certain way to call someone a certain swearword.
Fun fact about Captain Power, it’s actually the first place to mention Babylon 5. One of the heroes says he got his cyborg bits there.
Captain Power is from 1987...Babylon 5 is from 1995....Straczynski also wrote Spider-man One More Day/Brand New day and the only good episodes of The Real Ghostbusters before the hot garbage 3rd season and beyond....
@@lutherheggs451 This is correct. Babylon 5 was mentioned in Captain Power long before it was its own show. Presumably Stracynski either had the base of the idea even then, or he just reused the name..
Hairy Snake Man’s face actually looks like Adam West.
I didn't realize I had that Kang figure until you mentioned the harness, and that sent memories flowing back. Weird how that happens. I am not even sure why I had a Kang action figure. I don't think I had any other Marvel figures as a kid? And while I enjoy Kang he's not like my favorite Marvel villain or anything. Probably something my parents bought at a garage sale.
3:58 This toy was used in alot of promos for the Boomeraction block on Boomerang. And for years I never knew where it was from until now.
The rubbery heads on the street sharks figures was from a point of articulation on the dorsal fin with allowed for a "chomping" action although that one doesn't appear to have one so who knows 😂
lmao "Hulk unreasonably angry about all things" this is the funniest sentence I've heard in months.
Troll Ninja....blimey I thought it was Howard Jones!😂
the street sharks were MINT!! Blades was always my favourite.
21:02 Dukes of Hazzard, not CHPS. Two of my favourite shows growing up.😂
That thumbnail is Ashens' true form.
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Loved Pirates of Dark Water great early Saturday morning cartoon. Captain power and the soilders of the future. Wow got some great figures there
STREET SHARKS!!! Wow haven’t seen those since the actual 90s
Same!!! I remember those back in the day :)
Is the Internet Troll part of the infamous Galaxy Hole? Some of those ended up with RANDOM heads, like The Cowardly Lion, and the bodies look IDENTICAL.
I forgot that I liked Ashens. I’ve been binging his old food videos, some of my favorite videos from the old RUclips.
I couldn’t make that toy fete the other week, they do have some great stuff there and those are definitely some interesting toys!! Hopefully catch you there next time Ashens.
I feel crazy for recognizing that lord dread figure before he even said what it was from I was like "that's captain power right?" and then ashens was like "LORD DREAD" and my brain went "LORD DREAD!!!"
Pirates of Dark Water, that's unlocked some core memories for me