Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors: Part 3 Vintage Toy Review 3/3
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2013
- RetroBlasting's final chapter in the Wheeled Warriors series looks at the toys left behind by a runaway cartoon.
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The show could use a reboot, with a well structured and coherent story line this time. I don't know which one it would go with, the toy line or the 80's series, but the possibility of a mash-up could be a possibility through the use of dimensional gateways or abandoned vehicles being found and rebuilt. - There are decent possibilities if you are willing to look.
This video was incredibly helpful. My friends and I started doing a live stream commentary of this show and it piqued my interest in the toys. Instantly subscribed after watching some of your videos.
always was one of my favorite toys as a kid. cartoon still holds up as well.
I honestly feel Jace was under rated
I love the Wheeled Warriors, Such fun toys.
Man, the toys seem like they were grafted onto a preexisting show. It's as if the producers had the cartoon idea first, then acquired the rights to the toys and just shoved them in there. The disconnect is really that big, innit?
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors--Probably the biggest WTF in 80s toy cartoon history.
Another GREAT video, gang!
Dammit. This video made me instantly hop on ebay and pick up a 100% complete Saw Boss for $35 (plus$5 for shipping). I swore I was going to avoid ebay today, too. Thanks a lot, Retroblasting!!
You TOTALLY nailed the loose collecting aspect of this line.
Yeah, there for awhile, less really was more when it came to toys. The other day, my neighbor and I were trying to name off all of the mini figures and vehicles we had like that. We got as far as;
MASK,
MUSCLE,
Monster in My Pocket,
Air Raiders,
Wheeled Warriors,
Sky Commanders,
Dino Riders,
Starcom,
Bone Age,
Mighty Max,
and (one of my personal favorites) Battle Beasts.
I'm sure there was another line with magnets in their feet besides Starcom, and alot of others we forgot.lol :)
Wow, that was some real toy archeology.
I'm just going to put this out there, your show has the best theme song on youtube. I'm not kidding. I had it stuck in my head for a week now! Great show!
I actually forget about some of these toys until I see them dusted off and brought to light once again in your videos. Love your channel and it's amazing content. Your friend going full on "Sonny Crockett" for the exec meeting was a nice touch!
I didn't even know there was a cartoon until your videos. I just thought the toyline was suppose to be an intergalactic demolition derby or something. I remember getting Saw Boss on sale for $4-$5 after a trip to the doctor. It may not have had "action" features like firing missles or an articulate pilot, but the detail and ability to customize more than made up for what it lacked. It became one of my most played with toys for several years. Especially against my Mask and Air Raiders toys.lol :D
Drillsergeant Hahahaha. Good one...
I just purchased a complete Saw Boss. Thanks to you help guide, I know it’s complete. Thank you Retroblasting!!!
I loved those as a kid but never tracked any down. Last I looked they were super hard to find working and complete. I had those and the original Zoids - they were somewhat compatible with each other.
The best part of watching your videos is they are both entertaining and very informative. This three part series did not make me want to go out and get the show or Mattel vehicles, but did get rid of the dust from that corner of my mind and got another theme song into my musical lexicon. Mission accomplished I'd say.
I will always be confused with Mattel. I still cannot understand why they did not follow the original story of He-Man. There was no Prince Adam, Sorceress and Orko. And Man-At-Arms did not have a mustache! He-Man got his strength from his armor dammit!!! I mean, He-Man and Skeletor both came with a half of the power sword for a reason. Trap Jaw was not a dumb ass. He was a scary kick ass bad guy!!!! Mattel should never allowed for any of their toy lines to have a cartoon that did not make sence.
This has always frustrated me! Filmation took the MOTU property and did whatever they wanted to with it AFTER DC Comics had their way with it and Mattel allowed it! The original four mini-comics were so good it was unbelievable!!
And what was with Battle Cat talking? And the Attack Trak being a minivan, while the REAL Attack Trak was called the mini-trak...AND was miscolored!!!
MrJon76.Check out Spector Creative here on youtube for all of those answers and more.Scott really pulls back the curtain on Motu as well as the toy industry in general.
I always forget there’s a part three when I comment. But I’ve watched this a hundred plus times too bro
Just discovered your video series. WW was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid, but unlike G.I.*JOE or Transformers, it's not easy to come by old episodes to watch, so I haven't seen it since it aired. You're right about the theme song, it and MASK were my two favorites. As far a disconnect between the toy line and cartoon, I guess that's one of those things I never paid attention to as a kid, much like I never realized things like Cobra-La being the downfall of the G.I.*JOE. Good reviews, I look forward to watching more of them.
Cool video. I remember having Saw Boss and the Hero's leader vehicle when I was a kid. I'm looking through your library of vids and am trying to find anything on the Stariors(?). Do you remember them and did you ever collect any?
Starriors was a cool toyline with potential that was run over by the TransFormers, Voltron, Go Bots and Robotech! Other victims of these robot themed properties' success include Robotix and MASK!
OMG -All they had to do was add screwy little red hats to the top of the figures' heads, and they would've had the first and only DEVO TOY LINE!! Absolutely awesome! I can totally see Mothersbaugh and company driving around in these vehicles, sitting things right through out the galaxy! The opening theme of the cartoon would've taken a different direction though.
Its great to see a video about the toys and cartoon, because to this day, when I mention this show and these toys, noone has any idea what Im talking about!!! I never understood why the figures that came with the vehicles (original lightning league soldiers) were never mentioned in a "flashback" concept episode for the show.. Seems like it would have helped the plot move along better
Great Episode, a line I knew nothing of, really enjoyed. Cheers Fuzz.
Great episode! As a kid, I loved the cartoon and had all the villains.
It's always a good day when a new Retroblasting video is uploaded.
This toy line really seemed like a hot mess! lol Thanks for another great video, Mike and Melinda!!
Thumbs up on this one and i can't wait to see what you will have for us all next. : )
This is the first time I've stumbled across your videos, and they are awesome! I'm going to make it a mission to watch all of the others you've done. The one thing I'd say about Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors though, is that although everything you've said is indeed completely accurate, watching it through a child's eyes and an adult's eyes is a different experience. As a child in the UK, I used to get up at 6am just to watch that cartoon, and loved it so much I did a school project on it. I never even gave a thought to the continuity issues, which now you've pointed out are laughably obvious, but as a 6-8 year old you just don't bother about those things. I thought it was an awesome cartoon from start to finish. Just a personal opinion of course. :-)
Ah, I'm much further north in Scotland, though I do work in London a few times a year. Watched your real Ghostbusters videos now - deciding which to have a look at next! :-)
Working on Robotech/Macross. Its a complex series of vids we have to make.
Sure thing! Yes, I've written scripts for the vids for two of the four planned Robotech vids.
The toys do looked very good and probably that's just it.
You guys should definitely do a video on the sheer number of "vehicle with minifigure" toys that came out in the 80's/early 90's. Just off the top of my head I can recall Jayce, Shadow Strikers, MASK, Starcom, and Air Raiders. I'm sure there's way more than that.
Awesome, man. These were some of the toys I first scoured ebay for back in the 90's. Oddly enough I got most of them from France and Canada. I have the whole set, and for a while I had the whole lightning league MIB, but as you know, money talks. I still have a nice loose minty set though.
good info.
loved the show as acid but had never seen the toys here in the netherlands.
lucky me..
they should have made a pack white al the cartoon characters.
man i never even knew they made toys for this, ill have too see what you mean by pricey! XD
Maybe you can talk about less popular toys like Ideal' "Robo Force". "Starriors" by Tomy or even "Robotix"... great job as always guys! Super fun stuff!
I came across an auction a few years back that had the entire run of wheeled warriors for 150 bucks all told with shipping. It was a pretty good price at the time especially how they have gone up to nearly 60 + bucks for loose vehicles. I'll have to shoot you some pics on the fb page of the group of them.
It's items like this which keep our hobby interesting, personally, I like these type of items.
Trying to piece together everything correctly & having to put the footwork into researching your collection, otherwise life would be too easy, you feel like you've achieved something special when it's complete
I miss galtar and the golden lance.
Very, very cool. Just discovered your channel while searching for the theme song. Pretty sure I owned every toy you guys show in the intro, so I'm pretty drunk on nostalgia right now. For those interested, the premise/story for this show was written by J. Michael Straczynski (He-Man, She-Ra, Spiral Zone, Babylon-5) and he originally intended for there to be a feature-length movie, which he even wrote a script for, but flagging ratings/toy sales as well as editorial interference drove him to abandon the project, and so we never got to see Audric & Jayce reunite and finish the Monster Minds. Still, the original ideas were ambitious and creative, and as mentioned in the video, the designs were pretty cool and unique. Shame it never reached its potential.
vzbatman I would love to see that script be adapted into a comic.
Noticed in the 80's & 90's they also made cartoons based on movies like the "Ghostbusters", "Beetlejuice", and "Back From The Future". Cartoons are based on what kids love the most whatever it's a comic strip like "Garfield and Friends", board games like "Dungeons & Dragons", popular toys "The Transformers", or comic books like "X-Men" they are just made to be entertaining nothing political about it.
...and that's why Gen X is so nostalgic over it. We miss the more innocent and naive parts of the 80s. Even though we know about the pick up in drug use, the emergence of AIDS, and all the other bad things that happened in the 80s... It's still one of the more "upbeat" and optimistic decades.
...nothing “political” about X-Men. X-Men. Bigotry is Bad: The Comic Book.
That's one nice looking Saw Boss in the box ;)
For toys like this, usually the toy company designed the toys, then send them off to a cartoon house. The cartoon house was responsible for only vaguely following the toy line's themes. Of course you could blame the toy company for not forcing them to follow the official story.
Man I had Saw Boss, Armed Force, and the Monster Mind pick-up sitting in storage for decades until I finally just said, why do I still have these? They were cool in that they were so interchangeable (Centurions, anyone?) but there was just not enough to the toy line. They are probably so rare because yeah, they were just not memorable. Plus, I think the toy line had been out for quite awhile before the cartoon came out and by then, the stores stopped carrying them. I only saw them at department stores who were notorious for over-pricing their toys so that would be the only reason you would see them on the shelves. The toys were well-made,though. A lot sturdier than what passes today. The timing was right but the execution flopped. Especially when G.I.Joe and Transformers were taking our money. Still, one of THE best title songs ever. Right there with M.A.S.K. and Thundercats 🤓😎
Holy crap thats so weird. I would think the inventory would be better recorded.
Man I should take a picture of the collection I have.
I still have the box. and put everything back in it's bubble packaging.
I have to agree the lack of correlation between the cartoon's characters to the toy line did hurt it somewhat.
Terror Tank is my Holy Grail!
Very nice!
+Variety Store Productions Thanks!
I got an Armed Force back in 2005. Just to add to my 80s collection. Now that I've seen your video I think mine might be incomplete as well. Still want a Saw Boss eventually.
And as for disconnect between a toy and show, how about Robotix?
They actually did plan to include figures of cartoo characters, thrir are pictures online of planned catalog pictures, vut i gues the toyline got cancelled before they could be delivered
Well gun grinner was my fave.
Key bit of missing info the toy was out a good while before the cartoon the cartoon was made to save the toyline
This series could do with a movie treatment or new show which deals with the myriad of plotholes. I have to admit though I did love the show and if I could have just gotten a toy of armed force & saw boss in the late 80s I would have got it.
Also I did find somewhere there was an unreleased 2nd year line of toys which includes figures of Jayce & co. A bit likew how there was the War Planets toyline which was then made into the WarPlanets/ShadowRaiders tv series, which then had an action figure line made from that.
Netflix did great reboots of Voltron and She-Ra, so I’d love to see them tackle this.
They had storybooks for Wheeled Warriors and guess what? They used the cartoon characters, not the little guys in brown overalls, AND they just called the books the Wheeled Warriors series, not "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors."
All I can think is that maybe Mattel changed leadership for this project and was just trying to shovel these toys out the door and the Jayce stuff was a sop to DIC and the children's book publishers.
So.....how long until you make a "Starriors" series like this
it seems what is wrong with this toy line/cartoon,really out wieghs what is right with it if anything.another great vid as usual.
I miss my figs. I had saw boss and a couple others.
you can watch filmation's ghostbusters on youtube...I JUST DID A SEARCH!
I just barely remember these being on shelves. I was not impressed with the figures that came with the vehicles. I did not even tie this in my mind to the show even though I did see a little bit of the show here and there. In this case I think they would have benefited to having the vehicles slightly bigger, maybe 3 3/4 scale? Are the figures the size of the MASK characters? Without the characters from the show represented at all I totally understand this series failure. - Dan
when ya gonna review the real ghost busters vs filmation's ghostbusters?
Hi retro gamers I'm from the UK. I really like your show, but you just totally tore my child hood cartoon apart yes it had its flaws, but it was done in the 80s. The only issue I have is they don't release cartoon classics like this over here even though there's a large market
That's true. I guess with He-Man I could have chosen not to watch the cartoon!
Loved the toys, but couldn't be bothered to watch the cartoon.
I think the show was trying too hard to have a lore like star wars,
but disregarding the toy line, this show could have a successful reboot today, assuming that plot of root separation was written to make sense.
The toys are beautiful, but they suffer from a lack of spring loaded missiles. That would have instantly made them more desirable for kids. The cartoon show didn’t even make them look any cooler, so what’s the point?
03:11 TFW2005 cameo
The Wheeled Warriors animated series was not accurate, the Monster Minds were VEHICLES NOT MONSTERS THAT TRANSFORM INTO VEHICLES! The Lightning League were warrior drivers there was no Jayce, his sister Flora, Gilligan, Hurke and Oon DIC Enterprise created the characters for the series Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, the series hurt the toy line.
Making cartoons based on toys were the reality shows of the 80's & early 90's, since the popularity of hit cartoons like "The Transformers", "G.I. Joe", and "He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe" all 3 already had toys out years before the cartoons and all 3 became highly rated hit TV shows since then every TV channel want their own hit cartoons so they followed with "Thundercats", "Gobots", "Silverhawks", "Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors", "My Little Pony", "MASK" etc.. The cartoons were not selling anything, they're just made to be fun, enjoyable & entertaining to watch so they can draw in TV ratings, if a cartoon isn't entertaining enough it won't stay on the air for long. TV channels can careless how much money Hasbro or Mattel is making they simply put out cartoons for the kids to watch on TV, shows like "Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors" once shared time slots with cartoons that haven't made toys for like Scooby Doo, Heathcliff and "Inceptor Gadget", that's all they cartoons did was entertain.
The Go Bots toyline debuted a full year plus before the TransFormers! The TransFormers cartoon, comic book and toys all debuted in 1984! And G.I. Joe:A Real American Hero and Masters of the Universe only had a year to a year and a half wait between the toylines and the premieres of the animated series!
Also, Inspector Gadget had dolls!
As an 80s kid this was a show and cartoon I had no interest in. Thanks for reminding me why I didn't.
Wheeled Warriors was probably the only time when the cartoon was better than the toy line.
ThunderCats?
@@MrJon76 I don't remember watching thundercats but i'll take your word for it :)
Toy line failed 😞
Collecting limbo
These are not Steam punk!!!!!
Do you like technology or are you someone like me that hates Nintendo and will make a Toy Company to close Nintendo forever!
.....Wha?