Cardboard Toy Playsets from the 70s & 80s!
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The thing is that today, you can print out these playsets and custom-design them as well.
Those Mego cardboard sets were actually really good. Especially the Batcave. Oh as you predicted, gotta nitpick. The Hal Needham stunt set was mostly plastic. It was designed so you could stage movie stunt scenes, so it had activating features and spring launchers and shit. It was really cool. The only lame cardboard about it was those people, maybe part of the back wall. The actual towline was 8” figures. See that hose in the front? The camera was the activator. You plug that into various points and trigger the stunt effect.
Mego was covered with clean vinyl
@billshull9468 not all of them. Some such as that Planet of the Apes forbidden Zone and the Big Ape City one were printed cardboard. Others like the Star Trek Bridge were vinyl covered. Mattel did a lot of vinyl covered too for Barbie and Big Jim.
Robin seems to really being enjoying that Batpole. 😋
Great video junkman, I have all my playsets and display them. The bat cave is one of my favorites.
Space:1999 looks pretty cool and also elaborate. By the time I’d finish assembling everything, I probably wouldn’t want to even play with it anymore. Also, The Tigers Barracks looks like something that they’d sell for kids at a hunting store or a store like Rural King or Tractor Supply.
The 1999 playset does look cool but the Eagles are a little off.
Way to pointy cockpit. Looks more like a dart!😱😹
The Cantina Adventure Set is on my WANT LIST. I've never had one and I'm sure my parents,grandparents and Santa Claus never bought it because it looked cheap.
I'd definitely want both the Cantina backdrop and the playset.
I was so close to ordering the playset ten years ago and was a little more than $40 at the time.
I'm such a bastard for not grabbing it.
I think I had that cantina set as a kid and I sold all my toys when I was I high school.
I had one. I still have the blue snaggletooth figure that came with it. The Greedo figure was badly manufactured; the head wasn't put on right.
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I see the head issue alot w X-wing pilots figures often
The first GI Joe Cobra base was made out of cardboard, and was cheap as hell. The only saving grace is it came with three figures, which were the only three Cobra figures available in 1982 (Cobra Commander, Cobra trooper, and Cobra officer). Cobra got no vehicles or anything else until the following year.
I had that. The figures were the best part of it.
They redid it a few years ago and it sold like hotcakes on the now defunct GIJOE Fan Club!
Hey, that Kojak play set would've made an excellent stand-in for my Barney Miller action figures. All I would've needed was some Barney Miller action figures and that Kojak set, and I would've been, well, all set!
I love it... Just trying to picture my grandkids playing office with Kojak. Sitting at the desk .. pacing in front of the door.. making phone calls...
"Take your sticky fingers off my cardboard, you damn dirty human!"
I didn't think the Cantina backdrop was too bad, but I like the "Battle Station" backdrop way better.
Typically, I think kids on boxes are annoying, but that little on the Batcave box seemed cool. I think he was having a Bat-gasm. 🦇
I like that office, but I would put different figures in it.
Maybe you could pretend that's Bruce Wayne's private study right above the Batcave. 🦇
Thanks for the video
I actually had the Lone Ranger Figure. My brother had Tonto. Didn't have the set though. The kid down the street had this USS Enterprise playset. It folded into a case. It was basically vinyl covered cardboard though.
These things were completely unable to stand up against a kid's average play date, but MAN did they make those Sears Christmas Catalogs inspire some dreams!
I liked the Cantina playset, that was back when you had to ha e imagination to play.
Ivam a little older than the Junkman, but I remember a type of plastic coated cardboard that lots of playsets were made of. I had the Emergency! one, which was 3 stories and combined Station 51 & Rampart General Hospital.
Oh, and how can you pluralize Lone Rangerz?
The Airheads reference made it worth watching. 😂
When I was a kid I really wanted the Action Force base play set by Palitoy. It's the same concept as their Death Star and it had so much playability.
“I guess that’s where Meridith Baxter-Birney works”. Lol.
I used to do the same thing as a kid, but instead of a ziplock bag, it was a...pillow...a pillow. Great video.👍
I once upon a time had my Dad’s “Star Bird: Space Station Playset” now all I have is a barely holding together “Star Bird: The Star Bird” (The Main Spaceship from the Star Bird Toyline), one wing is damaged, the circuit board no longer works, the wing fighters are gone, the Turret is gone, several of the gray aesthetic pieces that go in the slots all over the ship are gone, and the drone-type thing, and the buggy are gone other than that I still have everything else, and I’ve been told that the circuit board can be made to work again with a soldering gun. It’s just one of many vintage toys I have from my dad’s old collection. I also have his ViewMasters, with reels like, A Fess Parker’s Daniel Boone live action tv series story, a The Flintstones animated tv-series story, a Dennis the Menace live action tv series story, a Superman classic animated series (the one where it starts off with “look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s superman, faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a steam locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound” where they didn’t have the usual villains like Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Mr. Mxyzptlk, Metallo, Doomsday, Manchester Black, etc. instead they had generic stereotypical Asians, a volcano, a giant gorilla, etc.), I have my Dad’s old Fisher Price Farmhouse and school, my dad’s old Silver from the Lone Ranger, my dad’s old Lego Fire Department boat that actually floats, my dad’s old Star Trek #2 (Novel) by James Blish, my dad’s old Native American drum, my dad’s old Kenner Star Wars action figures, and my dad’s old Star Wars, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and Raiders of the Lost Ark record albums, along with an assortment of vintage coloring books, a Swiss Family Robinson Puzzle, an Apollo 11 Puzzle, a ball and jacks, and a bunch of old Star Wars novels
I like that detective office set.
The worse thing I did was to take my mail-away Boba Fett and encase him in carbonite (which was actually Elmer's glue). He turned into a solid block. I never was able to get the glue off of him and I don't know what ever happened to that figure. He might not have survived the age of crashing-spaceships-into-the-sand-box-and-catching-fire phase of my childhood. He just might be in the toy graveyard under the big rock in my backyard. NONE of my cardboard playsets survived.
Man! Marvel World is boss! Be fun to use it during a campaign from the old TSR Marvel Comics RPG!
Fake Fact: The Meredith Baxter Building was originally called the Meredith Baxter-Birney building, until she divorced David Birney!
Loved playsets! Mine were usually 2nd hand that my Dad found at yard sales. All the action figures came together in a playset Mish mash. Great topic...great video Junkman!
Also: @6:26 The kid on the kick-ass plastic covered Bat Cave (Which I did have, Thank you Ma & Me-Ma!) is the original "Poggers"/"Pog Champ" dude!
The Transformers base got so much play when I was a kid. I used it as the Ark. I traded my original one for a Godbomber figure in the early 90s. But I had such fond memories, I picked up another off of eBay, probably around 2010.
It WAS really great. It had three levels (I would put ALL my minicars on the top level so they could look over the top).
I don't care what you say, Junkman. The ramp was super when you have a bunch of robots that transform into cars.
(Junkman is not much of a Transformers guy). My brother and I would "scoot" all the cars down the ramp. If you had a floor without carpet, the cars would continue to move across the floor. I liked this playset a lot. It was a very inexpensive alternative to buying the city base Transformers.
I recall making a lot of my own playsets as a kid cardboard boxes and masking tape.
I was probably as excited as that kid on the Batcave box when I got mine!
I didn't even know that Kojak doll even existed, let alone an office playset. I had to take a screen cap of the door and reverse it to figure out that it actually says "SQUAD ROOM DETECTIVES" on the window.
Lol I thought this was square
The kid with the Transformers Activity Center looks just like Junkman as a kid!
When I was around 10 or so I got the moon base playset. I believe you reviewed it before it was mostly cardboard buildings you set up on a vinyl covered carboard base. This deserves a mention again. Thanks for the vides Junkman.
I never had these playsets, but I grew up poor, and while I had some great toys, some were out of reach for us. I remember taking the back of my star wars figures and cutting out the pictures of other available figures and drawing my own scenes for them to work within. Like paper dolls I guess, but for boys and much smaller lol. I did like the craft books that had these things in them where you pop them out and put the tabs into the slots. We did have a lot of great toys too, but we had to wait for them. There were places where you could get toys at a reduced price for Christmas (for people in our income bracket). Kenner's headquarters was about three blocks from where we lived, and they would donate toys to those places. So, it all worked out ok. I also got a personal tour of their facilities when I was in 12th grade. It was great. There were a lot of prototypes and quite a few wide release toys just lying around on desks and stations lol. Part of me wished I had brought a bookbag or something. J/k. I wouldn't do anything like that, but I would entertain the thought for a while lol.
The Buck Rogers set was also cardboard. Yeah I'm gonna launch my Starfighter off of that!!!
"It looks like something good to shoot your BB gun at". That is a great statement. Lol 😆
These all look amazingly cool
I had the transformer base. I loved it!
I used to make playsets out of old cardboard boxes. I tried to use the templates from the Woman's Day magazine with the plans for the Empire Strikes Back playsets. Styrofoam inserts were great for starships and scenery - I had one that was a gladiatorial arena with places for the figures to place their weapons and accessories.
3 3/4 Lone Ranger could quick draw pretty well. Had the figure for a bit as a kid.
I had that Batcave. The cardboard was sealed in plastic and so awesome with the Mego Batmobile . Figures Toy Co. Re-released it a few years ago. They also released an updated version which I picked up. They are impossible to find now.
The Junk man always fun to listen to.
Cardboard play sets... The toy from our childhoods that was both a blessing and a cruel, cruel CURSE! Here's why...
Anything could be printed on them, so, in theory, they could make anything conceivable into a play set. On the other hand, no matter how carefully you tried to punch out the piece(s) you would always manage to tear a corner and/or an edge!
And then you always ran into a fitting problem. This piece fits perfectly into that piece, until you reach that spot where you either come up short, and don't have enough room to connect them properly, or they just didn't [string of swear words] fit!
And while fidgeting around with those pieces, a corner and/or edge would ALWAYS, without exception, start to come un-layered, making the corner or edge too thick and puffed out so _that_ part wouldn't fit right either!
So, finally, after all that frustration, you'd just had to bite the bullet and get the tape out. What's that, Mom? We're OUT of tape? We only have _electrical_ tape and that isn't clear so you can see what you're taping over?! [STRING OF SWEAR WORDS!!!]
I had 2 of cardboard playsets both Star Wars. The AT-AT playset which was okay however to small. The real AT-AT dropped after that. The second one I had was the half oval Death Star playset. Man that thing was cool! It's worth a whole lotta money if you still have it. It took up too much space as my dad got tired of looking at it. He threw it out! Big mistake 😢
Cobra's Sear cardboard base playset would have gone well with that episode of the cartoon where Cobra ran to of money and had to use cardboard troops.
Kudos to you, BTW. I watch a number of toy channels (like most of us probably). Yours is the only one that makes my wife look up from her book and say "I like this guy. He has a funny sense of humor."
Yeah, some others were Wayne Foundation, Gabriel 9" Lone Ranger Western Town, Marx Best of West playsets, Witches Wizard of Oz castle, Star Trek bridge. Mego had several great ones.
Junkman, there is NO ONE and I mean NO ONE who played with Marvel World who thinks that The Marvels is the greatest movie ever made. I know you weren't being serious, but just putting those words together is a sin in some way or another.
I grew up in the 1960s, all of ours were plastic. Pretty much Western sets. I had Fort Apace and a Western town. I still have all the Cowboys etc. Ah, I seem to recall a cheap plastic castle too. I was going through a box and I still have a bunch of Knights too.
If you combine all those cardboard play sets you could have one huge play set city. Or at least combine the cobra rocket base with the 1999 base and the transformers one……one epic battle base play set.
That Bat Cave looks dope.
6:11
hey bars are great for keeping things in too
I had the "Space 1999" ship (not sure what happened to it) but never had the Adventure Playset.
I had the Star Bird Command Base
I did too, was hoping it was in the video. Still an informative video for me though. You have a new subscriber Junkman!
One of the best parts about owning a toy store "tossing toys" Is seeing all the fun random items come in. Just got a vintage 1975 Kenner girder and panel set.. The stuff you never expect to see again.
An Elsinore Beer shirt is the coolest ever.
On the OTHER extreme... Micronauts had these intensely complicated and nearly impossible (for small hands) playsets to put together...MICROPOLIS! Very, very cool looking on the box and I bet they'd be super fun put together since they functioned so well with the figures. But the utter EXHAUSTION of manual assembly seemed more like revenge from the Third World! As if some poor kid in Malaysia earning 3 cents a month was saying "I've spent my youth putting together your precious Death Star and Malibu Funhouse! Now YOU suffer as I have suffered, you entitled American 8 year old!
The POTA Forbidden Zone Trap is now a very high dollar item. It goes for like $400-600! I have them all except this one.
I remember having paper civil war soldiers
10:14 I never had the Hal Needham Western Movie Stunt Set, but it looks to me like it's really 2 play sets in 1. You could use it all as the movie stunt set it is, or leave out the spotlights, camera and stuff and use it as a saloon play set for your Lone Ranger, "Big Jim" or other cowboy toys.
Tommy if you want your puppy back, you better smile!
Imagine if someone did an updated 3d printed set for these figures, they would look epic. Great video Junkman
If I’d seen that MEGO Batcave in 1976 I’d have lost my shit !!!! 😮 I had the 8” figures but never saw that play set here in Australia 🇦🇺
my buzz was to make big bases with big appliances s boxes like stoves or fridges.
I had Joes, and it could store vehicles, prisons, command centre, cafeteria, ect.
next to a 3' fig, fridge boxes looked like sky scrapers, lol.
good show bro.
I actually had the Hal Needham playset just sold it a few years ago
I prefer it to always be 4:20PM somewhere...🤘🏼💯✔️
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2:01 Had this. Was awesome.
There's a cool one done by Colorforms, the Turtles' busy builder playset, a corner of New York City complete with sewers and Mirage Studios office in perfect scale with the action figures... (we reviewed it a few months ago)
I never had one but one of my cousin's had a cardboard set that was a western town in the mid 1970s.
I own the Marvel World playset, I have a few videos on this, and I even made a commercial. 💪😉
I'd like to I'd probably put the Planet of the Apes playset with the Tiger Barracks playset close together and use the 3 3/4 in. G.I.JIMs.
I had the Marvel World playset. Mine had Peter Parker's pad
I can remember a Transformers train set that really tricked me. I thought the train was big and would work. It was tiny and you had to push it around the track (a track that was MAYBE 2 feet in diameter). I also thought the transformers would come with it. And they did. But they were like an inch tall, and solid plastic--like something you'd get in a Happy Meal. They certainly didn't transform.
I remember seeing the Star Wars one in Kmart, it looked like a mini movie set
I know Hasbro/Kenner tried this again with the cantina playset from the POTF 2 line in the 90's, maybe i'm wrong.
I know for me, I only bought that cardboard piece of 💩 to get the Imperial Patrol Droid. It was so cool that it clipped into the Sandtrooper's backpack so it looked like it was hovering.
@@jediknightjairinaiki560 Sadly I don't want to admit it but it's true, we would have been better off with the boxed playset they also had for the POTF 2 , At least they were made of good hard plastic.
@@jediknightjairinaiki560 I bought two of those, cut the back off of one and taped them together, face to face, (With only one bar counter, obviously) in order to double the size. I then added a stage for the band on one side and turned the second bar counter into an awning/light fixture above the bar, supported by a couple of poles in the front.
In Canada you could get both Death Stars, the cardboard “hemisphere” and the tall plastic one. I had the cardboard one and I honestly thought it was way better than the plastic one that some of my friends had. It was just way cooler.
Great video, Junkman! And I'm happy for you see this video taking off on RUclips! Congrats! Say, any chance you might do a Part 2? I'd love to see more of this!
Maybe so :)
Maybe so? How about, Make It So! Sorry, I had to quote Star Trek to make this happen. LOL
I've got both the cardboard Palitoy Death Star and the plastic Kenner version, as a kid I would've killed for the Kenner version but now I'd pick the Palitoy version any day of the week, you can keep the Kenner one.
The Turbo lift was pretty cool though, I'll give you that! 😂👍
Interesting video Junkman lots of cool memories I remember the cardboard cantina and the cardboard death star (we had both versions of the death star here in Canada)
O.K no outdoor play on rain, anyway what a Charm they have !! to the 80's cardboard set was always proposed...I like this vision of kids world behind this conception ! and wow what colorful drawings on each ! you've right somes are not vey enjoyable ! Kojak OMG what a boring office day, let's go to bar...no, we are kids, we couldn't speak like that... So, all of this is just Nostalgia Bro....Take care : )
Great video. Thank you!
I had the Empire Strikes Back card board set it was the Be spin one. It was cheap lasted a few days . I loved it for the figures that came with it though. I would have loved the Marvel World .
I'd like to get the plans for many of these, and make them out of plywood or something.
I don't have the time, skill or tools to do it though.
Brilliant concept video o great Junkman.Reminds me of my and my brother’s cardboard outer space base playset!🚀🛸We were so poor no way we could buy a store playset.Instead we built our own space base of discarded shoe boxes and the ever useful toilet cardboard inner rolls(only after the tissues were used up)to make space rockets🚀🚀🚀!We even had a few plastic Marx space men and some repulsive alien figures who would attack the space base.We had our space base play set downstairs where it was so cold the windows frosted up!Mighty battles were fought until our 😸cat jumped on the table during the night and tore the space base to pieces knocking our aliens and astronauts on to the floor!Just no respect that cat😸!
Space 1999 was awesome
I had the Transformers one, and the Transformers S.T.A.R.S. base too. I wish someone had high res scans of them so I could print 'em out for my current collection 😆
The Hazzard County playset for the matchbox cars was all cardboard
Hey I remember having a couple above 🏊♀️🏊♀️swimming🏊♀️pools🏊♂️🏊♀️ back in the 70's. 4 feet high/deep whatever....LOL. All jokes aside however, when it hit🌡85-100°🌡every kid on the block loved our pool. Granted, diving boards, big slides weren't possible, but was had a slide. No it wasn't as great as a in-ground pool, but again, in the mid 70's it worked. Another great video sir. Love your content and ideas.
I had the Hal Needham toy but never saw the playset. I think it was bought at a lumberyard around Christmas.
we just had regular cardboard boxes that my dad would cut windows in to make trucks for our stuffed animals / =
I also own the Starbird playset and that's made out of Cardboard. 💪😎
The Eagle spaceships in the Space 1999 set looked quite innacurate with those pointy nose cones.
Burger 🍔 King had a refrigerator cardboard box; drive thru window playset!😅
Had Marvel World (yes, it was a lotta fun....And a Pain in the ass to assemble), POA Garage and the Batcave.
Great video Junkman love all of them except Kojak
First off, Love the Elsinore Brewery shirt you hoser. Also, I had a metropolis playset as a kid that was fold out cardboard wrapped in plastic. Were there more of those?
Awesome
At first I thought: if accidentally step on the base of any of these playsets then it's done for. Then I realised if you did the same with a plastic playset it would crack anyway.
Most pointless plastic playset was the buck Rogers console.
I think that is you as a kid on the Transformers box
Wow!!! I do not remember that transformers playset!!!
Can anybody answer this question I’m 51 years old. I remember a toy that you kind of sat in and look through some weird binoculars, and like the bottom part moved around and you were like dropping bombs on them probably little marbles or something the name of that was ?
No Star Bird Command Base? :(
Yup i rember
I wish that Transformers base would be reissued.
How bout a video on a paint a figurine kits?
Had the transformers playset it was ok. I also had that lone ranger but never saw the playset.
I think at least kenner's star wars playset had the figures inside? I don't know for sure because i never had a playset from those thank god for that,and i would probably never buy them either to be honest with you! Except if they had the kind heart to put a figurine or two inside for those that is.Also in some cases i see the so called "playsets" weren't from the official companies like hasbro etc,so they probably couldn't put inside official licensed figures i imagine,talking about a poor man's toy! Kinda bringing in my mind those cheap ass official toys today from mattel or hasbro with those plain plastic figures like barbie or DC heroes,which they don't have on them clothes or accessories that i call them the poor man's toys! 😅But i kinda also admire their effort & dedication put in those to help also some ppl that could not afford a more expensive toy even back then! If by accident they have brought those in greece when i was 10 would be really shame because i couldn't find some other cooler playsets even back then in my region,and i would not wanted to had someone bringing me something like that as a gift instead the good thing!