Top 5 80's Playsets

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  • Опубликовано: 12 дек 2024

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  • @johnnymnemonic1683
    @johnnymnemonic1683 6 лет назад +5

    Had the Cobra terror drome when I was a kid- couldn't believe my parents got it for me! Then I couldn't believe a year or two later, my parents gave it ( with all my toys) to the neighbor kid :'( . I'm proud to say that the terrordrome is back (95% complete!) In my possession and I'll never get rid of it!! Your show brings me back to the happiest time of my life ( minus when my kids were born lol) thank you Michael Mercy! COBRAAAAAA!

  • @captainsteroid2454
    @captainsteroid2454 5 лет назад +3

    I had the Real Ghostbusters firehouse. THAT, my friends, was fun. It had a working fire pole, a bright-red Ecto Containment Unit for housing the smaller ghosts that came with the action figures, and a SPACIOUS garage for my Ecto-1. It also came with a plastic jar of "Ecto Plasm" slime you could pour through the roof of the firehouse and, via grates in the floors, ooze it's way through the 3-story playset. My mom threw that part out after discovering it left a permanent stain in the drive way. XD
    Sadly, it, along with most of the toys I had from the '80s, were lost in a moving accident when I was in high school. I miss my Ghostbusters collection. :-(

    • @alucard624
      @alucard624 2 года назад +1

      That firehouse is awesome.

  • @dbarrett-hl6zx
    @dbarrett-hl6zx 4 года назад +3

    I remember when my dad still had the Mobile Command Center from his child hood. It was one of my favorite play sets.

  • @dark6soldier
    @dark6soldier 6 лет назад +10

    The Gi joe Space shuttle always looked cool too

  • @Dylanio21
    @Dylanio21 5 лет назад +2

    Awesome list, I have gained a lot of love for playsets as I’ve gotten older. Now they litter my house!
    My favourite probably being the simple LJN WWF Cage with Ring...that had all the magic and adventure I could ever want with King Kong Bundy vs. Hogan and the poor referee in the middle!

    • @robodobro
      @robodobro 4 года назад

      I just got one of those rings recently again and the rehab to piece meal it together and clean it real good and apply new decals... was all worth it. it looks better then brand new now!

  • @KinkArcana
    @KinkArcana 6 лет назад +4

    Boulder Hill Bunker was the one I always dreamed of having!

  • @just_a_carl
    @just_a_carl 6 лет назад +1

    Became a Patreon today because of this upload. You put so much heart into your videos and they exude a wholesomeness I don't see much nowadays. THANK YOU!

  • @robertforester7938
    @robertforester7938 5 лет назад +5

    I was a 90s kid and my top 5 would have ben these (I added one more for good measure)
    1. The Gargoyles Castle
    2. Robin Hood Sherwood Forest
    3. Wayne Manor
    4. X-MEN Headquarters
    5. Lion King Pride Rock
    6. Spawn Alley playset

  • @SuperSWAGER101
    @SuperSWAGER101 6 лет назад +4

    i just have to say man you have one of the most clean dope collections i have ever seen

  • @javierdelgado777
    @javierdelgado777 4 года назад +1

    Flagship would definitely make a beautiful coffee table😁 . 80's nostalgia is just the best . Love your work 👍👍 GOD BLESS.

  • @darrenhood4033
    @darrenhood4033 6 лет назад

    Ones I actually had, and being I was a late 80's kid crossing into the 1990's, my no. 1 feels like it could be a contender for the no. 1 overall spot.
    1. Technodrome
    The Double Decker Mobile Fortress was the ultimate TMNT toy, with two modes of play. One was the rolling tank that looked like a cross between a golf ball an the Death Star from Star Wars on wheels, with machine guns and rock blasters, a rolling eye spy radar, and secret entrances, a spiked sewer lid and ooze pit. The second was was opening hemispheres that revealed the actual playset itself and the inner workings of the Foot Clan's headquarters. There was the Shredder's command console, with molded seat and sticker details that lined the console and targeting screens, and just below that was the torture chamber, a swivel spout would move back and forth, dripping retromutagen ooze (sold seperately) all over your trapped victim. Moving over to the next hemisphere, via the lone connector bridge, we have on the top level Krang's control room, with the interdimensional portal to Dimension X (a sticker) and an escape hatch so Krang could make quick getaways down into the weapons amory. The main base houses the jail cell complete with trap door, and manacles to hold your turtle in place. On the base was a disk, fix your prisoner in place with rubber bands, and with a wound spring action once released would spin your turtle till he puked up his Ice Cream and Peanut Butter Pizza. More gunner stations that controlled the rock blasters, and a ships wheel which would release the radar eye ball down onto the turtle attackers complete the terror this fortress had on the TMNT and their good guy mutants.

  • @stephenalexander2553
    @stephenalexander2553 4 года назад

    I know this wasn't in the 80's. In 1977 I was 10 years old and I got the Guns of Navarone playset for Christmas. It was and still is the best thing I ever got for Christmas!

  • @igotgame1621
    @igotgame1621 5 лет назад +2

    I'm not going to lie if I had your museum I would play with them , at 35 years old

  • @alfordassociatesappraisals5754
    @alfordassociatesappraisals5754 5 лет назад

    I was never lucky enough to have the USS Flagg, but I did own Castle Greyskull, Snake Mountain, Hordak's Fright Zone and a few others...but BY FAR, my favorite playset of ALL TIME was Boulder Hill from M.A.S.K.... and M.A.S.K. (in my humble opinion) is still the greatest toy line that was ever created. I was able to re-acquire nearly every M.A.S.K. piece as an adult..and then ended up selling them all during the fist boom of Ebay. But this video has me wanting to re-collect them all yet again.

  • @nadiaamin8008
    @nadiaamin8008 6 лет назад +19

    I wish i lived in your room i be playing gi joe all day going to war with my kids.

    • @MichaelMercy
      @MichaelMercy  6 лет назад +5

      The most fun kind of war; nobody gets shot and everyone parachutes to safety! :D

    • @captainsteroid2454
      @captainsteroid2454 5 лет назад +3

      Heaven is real, and it's in Canada! :D

  • @michaelpearce9582
    @michaelpearce9582 5 лет назад

    The Joes space shuttle was great. Tmnt’s technodrome and one smaller one that i always loved was police academies HQ.

  • @albertray8728
    @albertray8728 6 лет назад +7

    I wouldn't even need a top 5 list there be only one from the 1980s I would want tmnt the Technodrome playset now that was a sweet piece😄

    • @MichaelMercy
      @MichaelMercy  6 лет назад +1

      Saw one at a toy show and it was huge!

  • @conflicthorizon
    @conflicthorizon 6 лет назад

    The big play set I remember having was the big at-at looking command base thing from Go-Bots. I also had Castle Grey-Skull.

  • @scottsoltani3203
    @scottsoltani3203 3 года назад +1

    What about Filmations Ghost Command probably the rarest of all, I almost got one last year.

  • @alucard624
    @alucard624 2 года назад

    The 2 sets I had as a kid were the Super Powers Hall of Justice and 1989 Batman Batcave and I loved them both. They were heavily played with along with the figures too. Still have the figures but unfortunately had to sell the playsets.

  • @aaron9000
    @aaron9000 5 лет назад +2

    I’m not a 90s kid but I still LOVE gi joes!!

  • @Buff_Garfield
    @Buff_Garfield 3 года назад

    Whenever I talk to my dad about stuff like this he always bring up how he was the lucky one and got the castle greyskull

  • @skelleytor
    @skelleytor 5 лет назад +1

    I had Greyskull and Snake Mountain as a kid..and Omega /supreme

  • @NemesisEnforcerYT
    @NemesisEnforcerYT 4 года назад

    I was 4 when I got my first playset castle grayskull for xmas. Maybe that's why I gravitate towards the dark side. Thanks grandma.

  • @heavyassaultcollectables1731
    @heavyassaultcollectables1731 6 лет назад +2

    Wow everything is so beautifully set up. 👍

  • @seanbailey6004
    @seanbailey6004 6 лет назад +5

    Why did the joy of play sets such as these have to disappear?

  • @arcaneenigma
    @arcaneenigma 4 года назад

    Wish I still had my Castle Greyskull, Snake Mountain and Castle Eternia. Whoever got this from Goowill with all my He-Man figures please thank my aunt. Was a tough day when I got home from school that day.

  • @dewaynemorgan4997
    @dewaynemorgan4997 5 лет назад

    The only player I had was a cardboard Autobot headquarters. It wouldn't hold a candle to even the honorable mentions....
    But I loved it.

  • @Jimvenice2008
    @Jimvenice2008 5 лет назад +1

    I would've loved to have seen the death star. For its time it was the biggest play set I had ever seen.

  • @tkvids1377
    @tkvids1377 6 лет назад

    You killed it again!! Great job!

  • @marshyjoejack8049
    @marshyjoejack8049 6 лет назад +1

    Good stuff. I’m sure we’ll see one on cats lair someday. I had the cobra terror drome and gray skull. Thanks!

  • @OldManTheseDays
    @OldManTheseDays 6 лет назад

    I think the Mobile Command Center is a great one- similar to the Joe space shuttle complex- it pushed the play value with the "mobile" part. The big lumbering vehicle was just as cool as the base.
    I'll add one: the only playset I had when I was a kid was the big Death Star playset. I think that's one that still holds up pretty well.

    • @MichaelMercy
      @MichaelMercy  6 лет назад

      The Defiant never did much for me, so I never think of it when discussing the greatest playsets. On a team that was all about military defence and counter-strikes, the Defiant seemed totally out of place to me, and a big representative of the sci-fi element that made my interest in GI Joe vanish in the 90s.

    • @OldManTheseDays
      @OldManTheseDays 6 лет назад

      Michael Mercy ah- see, I was (am) a big space/NASA nut :-). That was right up my alley- used to drool over pictures of it.

    • @MichaelMercy
      @MichaelMercy  6 лет назад

      I like space stuff too, but I got my space fix from Transformers thanks to Cosmos and Omega Supreme. :D

  • @miltonchamorro
    @miltonchamorro 3 года назад

    1) USS Flagg
    2) Castle Grayskull
    3) Cat's Lair
    4) Millenium Falcon
    5) Trypticon

  • @hiltwo
    @hiltwo 6 лет назад

    Nice selection! :) My personal favorites are Snake Mountain and the Turtles sewer, I was lucky enough to have those as a kid. I still have pictures of my dad putting Snake Mountain together and of me playing with the Turtles sewer :)

    • @MichaelMercy
      @MichaelMercy  6 лет назад +1

      Just recently picked up an incomplete vintage TMNT sewer playset at a local toyshop. Fun stuff! Hope to track down a few of the missing pieces before doing a video on it.

    • @hiltwo
      @hiltwo 6 лет назад

      Good luck with the hunt :) I look forward to that video!

  • @Dotherightthing4ever
    @Dotherightthing4ever 4 года назад

    What a amazing and wonderful collection but my actual question is ,"How exactly you sleep ( what dreams ) ? 🤔

  • @ia5662
    @ia5662 6 лет назад

    that laser effect on top of Castle Greyskull was worth the whole video haha! So authentic, great job man, awesome list
    I will say some missing ones though: Technodrome, Turtle's Sewer Playset, Ghostbusters Firehouse, Death Star, Ewok Village/Robin Hood Sherwood Forest, G.I. Joe The General to name a few...

    • @MichaelMercy
      @MichaelMercy  6 лет назад

      Thanks! The thing about Top 5 lists...you only get to include 5 choices. :D

  • @filmandpage1138
    @filmandpage1138 6 лет назад +1

    My top five play sets. (That I actually owned)
    1. Castle Grey Skull, although I never could get it as a kid, but got it used at the salvation army when I was in my early teens.
    2. Snake Mountain, I got it new one Christmas.
    3. Black Star's Ice Castle, I know that one gets bad reviews, but it was my first toy castle. Until one of my friends fell on it and cracked it in half.
    4. Hordak's slime pit.
    5. Eagle Island of Eagle Force. This one might be more obscure.
    My Top five play sets.( That I wish I owned.)
    1. Fort Max
    2. Eternia play set
    3. Hordak's Fright Zone
    4. U.S.S. Flagg
    5. GoBot Command center

    • @MichaelMercy
      @MichaelMercy  6 лет назад

      Loved the slime pit! So gross and fun! Never seen Black Star's Ice Castle until you mentioned it. That would make a great base for the Thundercats Snowman of Hook Mountain! :D

    • @filmandpage1138
      @filmandpage1138 6 лет назад

      I'd love to get another Ice Castle, but it was made of thin plastic. So it hard to find one that isn't damaged these days.

  • @CapitanJusticia
    @CapitanJusticia 4 года назад +1

    I have the new Castle Grayskull (MOTU Classics) and the new (Fan Toys Masterpiece) Omega Superme. Both are much more similar to their 80's cartoons versions than the original 80's toys.

    • @alucard624
      @alucard624 2 года назад

      That's precisely why I love the new retro releases that have been coming out lately as they've made a lot closer to how they actually looked in the cartoons.

  • @MrAdamJoel
    @MrAdamJoel 3 года назад

    Shipwreck is clearly a Jack Nicholson impression. Never acknowledged that till just now.

  • @davecardoza4762
    @davecardoza4762 6 лет назад +4

    #MichaelMercy, Wow!! I'm trembling like a little kid with excitement and awe just by looking at this video. See, I never owned any of the playsets that you showed here and I would just go to the toy store on my area and stare at them for hours. When it was time to go, I'd tell my mom to let me stare for a few more minutes and then, sadly I'd walk away. Good times, almost brought tears of joy to my eyes. 😂
    How did you got 'em & how much did you have to spend? Thank you, by the way and best regards.

    • @MichaelMercy
      @MichaelMercy  6 лет назад

      Thanks Dave, glad it meant that much to you. I had many visits to the toy store just like yours. I got most of my collection years ago when vintage toys weren't so expensive. I'd never be able to afford them at today's prices.

    • @davecardoza4762
      @davecardoza4762 6 лет назад

      Michael Mercy I know what you mean! I acquired a GI JOE Shipwreck action figure without any weapons. It cost me about 15 $ at ebay. Then I wanted to buy the weapons, which are almost imposible to find without the action figure, & they are pricier than Shipwreck himself. I'm waiting for someone to have a heart and sell them at a reasonable price, if possible. Lol. Have a great day friend! Btw, the Omega Supreme was a sweet playset. I'm disappointed that it took me this long to want to collect these gems now & not when they were at good prices.

  • @elcowabungahe-man6156
    @elcowabungahe-man6156 6 лет назад +1

    My favorite playsets Castle Grayskull, Gi Joe Headquarters

  • @jamespero6803
    @jamespero6803 6 лет назад

    The mcc was one I didn't see coming, seems like it gets passed over by it's bigger cousins. It's crazy you picked it cuz I'm just in talks now with my local retro toy shop about buying one of these complete

  • @igotgame1621
    @igotgame1621 5 лет назад

    Didnt have the flag but I had the sky striker , loved when the wings came out

  • @robodobro
    @robodobro 4 года назад

    Hey Michael Mercy..great video once again. Can you tell me how you got the GI Joe jet pack acrylic fire/ Boost effect add-on? That's not an original 80's accessory correct?

    • @MichaelMercy
      @MichaelMercy  4 года назад

      Thanks! It's from a Star Wars Boba Fett figure. It doesn't plug tightly into the J.U.M.P. pack but the pegs do line up with the pack thrusters so it can sit on top pretty well.

  • @mixedhairless
    @mixedhairless 6 лет назад +1

    🤯😱 amazing.
    Thanks for a great video.
    I do not have space for these, unless I remove my bed,
    and sleep in th kitchen..
    🤦‍♂️

  • @mayniac5.09
    @mayniac5.09 Год назад

    I know Mercy isnt into 80s Kenner Super Heroes/friends, but the Hall of Justice has to be in front of the Thundercats lair

  • @peteguanajuato482
    @peteguanajuato482 6 лет назад

    Great video Michael once again!!!! huge Gi joe fan thanks!!

  • @OneLovePsych
    @OneLovePsych 2 года назад

    Good list, but I would’ve swapped out omega supreme for the Ghostbusters firehouse 😎

  • @nikkcade4481
    @nikkcade4481 6 лет назад

    Where do you get your sound effects from? Anyway, amazing video with top-notch editing.

  • @Robert.Pruett
    @Robert.Pruett 6 лет назад

    Great video as usual

  • @ShaFnZAM
    @ShaFnZAM 3 года назад

    Michael, where can I get that custom base for my FLAGG?

  • @gutz1981
    @gutz1981 6 лет назад +1

    Interesting now that I can reflect, but one of, if not the biggest toy lines of the 80s DIDN'T get a playset of its own. I am referring to G1 Transformers. One could argue that Metroplex or Fortress Maximas or Tripticon is a playset as well as a transformer, but we never got a decpticon base, or The Ark or teletran 1 (Though they are both the same I guess) or Cybertron. Size was not perhaps the issue as the figures were not much bigger than MOTU. Who knows, maybe it was just not in the cards.

    • @MichaelMercy
      @MichaelMercy  6 лет назад +1

      I guess they thought it would have been a waste of a release, so have a base that didn't transform into something. We all saw how successful transformers that don't transform were in 1990 with Action Masters. :D

  • @judgevenom8686
    @judgevenom8686 6 лет назад

    All classics in my eyes

  • @Ravenstar001
    @Ravenstar001 4 года назад

    great intro and music

  • @kennethdelgado2550
    @kennethdelgado2550 6 лет назад

    I would like that presents for example the 1992 headquarters or Attack to CObra moauntain. To me those playset are awsomes .

  • @edwardjacobs4042
    @edwardjacobs4042 6 лет назад +1

    I like your list

  • @davecardoza4762
    @davecardoza4762 6 лет назад

    Top 5 play sets for me are: Castle Grayskull, Snake mountain, ThunderCats Lair, M.A.S.K Boulder Hill, Cobra Terror Dome and GI JOE headquarters.

  • @chevelle4x4
    @chevelle4x4 6 лет назад

    The Flag was like an urban legend when I was growing up lol we "heard" about it but no one ever saw one, except that 1 kid that lied about everything. Ya know that 1 kid that "talked" to santaclaus and caught the Easter bunny lol

  • @maxschaeffer3154
    @maxschaeffer3154 2 года назад

    D and D castle would be on my list.

  • @jordel2010
    @jordel2010 6 лет назад

    Nothing beats the Flagg! Hope you can get soon the Cats' Lair.

    • @MichaelMercy
      @MichaelMercy  6 лет назад

      It would be cool to even borrow one just to make a video on it. :D

  • @nicoraidho5380
    @nicoraidho5380 4 года назад

    It's about the spirit 😁👍 I was dreaming in catalouges, too😅
    Now its 3:40 at night and I'm still dreaming 😁
    He check out TOMY RACING COCKPIT🤩💎😁

  • @geewdanger
    @geewdanger 6 лет назад

    I had Castle Grayskull and trust me I miss it and I'll do anything to get it back only thing I never had was Snake Mountain I had every action figure every vehicle every weapon consistent from He-Man and GI Joe and they really got in GI Joe but I really wish I did have some figures of it but that flag GI Joe

  • @adamsheridan7888
    @adamsheridan7888 6 лет назад

    That was a great video very cool

  • @ryangiron9623
    @ryangiron9623 6 лет назад +1

    how come no one build replicas of these gigantic Flagg and shuttle, kinda like Transformers toys where replicas where made into better articulation and build?

  • @johnr7279
    @johnr7279 6 лет назад

    Castle Grayskull did seem like it should've been Skeletor's HQs. It was creepy looking but so was Skeletor with that damned ram skull staff of his right in the heart of the Satanic Panic in the US. It was pretty damend cool though! He-Man stuff was also kind of cool because, kind of like Thundarr the Barbarian, there was this cool and odd combo of technology and magic.
    My brother had an Omega Supreme. Kind of cool but really just a battery powered train toy. They added enough features and lore (the cartoon story of Omega Supreme which was a particular episode) to make it really cool. Quite a unique toy; train-like but it was built as an entire defense system.

  • @TheRmm1976
    @TheRmm1976 6 лет назад

    Secret Wars Tower of Doom was great!

  • @lauramyers4989
    @lauramyers4989 2 года назад

    I want them all

  • @nickgruber2593
    @nickgruber2593 2 года назад

    Nothing is better then the flag! #1 all time

  • @elcowabungahe-man6156
    @elcowabungahe-man6156 6 лет назад

    Wheeled Warriors my third favorite I use that for Joe's Gobots ect

  • @rcmjc9072
    @rcmjc9072 6 лет назад

    OMG i miss my old gijoes now

  • @MarcelosToyRoom
    @MarcelosToyRoom 6 лет назад

    Sweet video bro :D I wish I had the Ewok village from the 80s :D :D :D other than that your list is the bomb

    • @MichaelMercy
      @MichaelMercy  6 лет назад +1

      Thanks! I wasn't into Star Wars in the 80s so it doesn't usually show up in my top lists for that decade.

  • @wheeljack0
    @wheeljack0 3 года назад

    Heaven is your toy room.

  • @dinosoid2000
    @dinosoid2000 6 лет назад

    Sectaurs huh!? I think I had that playset as a kid but the toys kinda freaked young me out so I think it got sold in a yard sale or something. Never knew what the franchise was till now.

  • @videostudios6042
    @videostudios6042 5 лет назад

    Nice cat camio

  • @Kenzibot26
    @Kenzibot26 3 года назад

    Me: a kid from the 21 century wanting to be in the 1980s god

  • @dark6soldier
    @dark6soldier 6 лет назад

    I want the cats lair right now 😢

  • @welshmaniacs16
    @welshmaniacs16 3 года назад

    home is where i hang my lucille bat and proton pack 👌🏻

  • @pukki34
    @pukki34 6 лет назад

    Thaat USS flag was only 110usd at the time. Many new big toy sets cost a lot more and not really look that cool :) I would buy that carrier in a heart beat (for my kids :D )

  • @Pikminer-5087
    @Pikminer-5087 6 лет назад

    Would fort max count?

    • @MichaelMercy
      @MichaelMercy  6 лет назад

      I mentioned in the video why I he didn't make the cut.

    • @Pikminer-5087
      @Pikminer-5087 6 лет назад

      Michael Mercy ok

  • @williamchowdhury5111
    @williamchowdhury5111 6 лет назад

    Thunderbirds Tracy Island playset

  • @miltonchamorrosota5943
    @miltonchamorrosota5943 3 года назад

    SDF 1 playset?

  • @edwardjacobs4042
    @edwardjacobs4042 6 лет назад

    I see what you mean about cat's lair

  • @jkaegomd
    @jkaegomd 3 года назад

    Where are my favorite characters of all time oh boy the metroplex came out was not a fan is robot body city mode perfect and all my God I love at

  • @jkaegomd
    @jkaegomd 3 года назад

    Omega and metroplex

  • @elcowabungahe-man6156
    @elcowabungahe-man6156 6 лет назад

    4 and 5 that would be Snake Mountain and Fright Zone has you can see by my list I am MOTU GUY😁

  • @MrDman21
    @MrDman21 2 года назад

    Wait until you see the Eternia playset. 😏

  • @vmcinerneyvm
    @vmcinerneyvm 6 лет назад

    Lovin that blue light in the uss flag

    • @MichaelMercy
      @MichaelMercy  6 лет назад

      Thanks! It's a colour-changing light from Ikea.

  • @Samridh_art
    @Samridh_art 6 лет назад

    If anyone has an extra motuc fisto or shadow weaver pls let me know because these are the two figures I really want 👍🙃

  • @kathytalanges8462
    @kathytalanges8462 6 лет назад

    Ill give you my thundercats lair

  • @SWalker71
    @SWalker71 4 года назад

    Vote cast for the Star Wars Death Star playset.

  • @kuntryhaveingfun7161
    @kuntryhaveingfun7161 5 лет назад

    I'm looking for dusty an a shipwreck

  • @jedi69outcast
    @jedi69outcast 6 лет назад

    DEFIANT rules

  • @timelord19631
    @timelord19631 4 года назад

    Cool

  • @darthlobo1213
    @darthlobo1213 6 лет назад

    Teenage mutant ninja turtles teknodrome in the 80s

  • @alapaianderson5071
    @alapaianderson5071 6 лет назад

    I’m still dreaming one day my wife will let me get a cats lair😁

  • @PaulMcGillTV
    @PaulMcGillTV 4 года назад

    May I move in with you?😁😁😁😁😁😁

  • @2224addy
    @2224addy 2 года назад

    I thought it was a top gun playset

  • @user-gerigeruge
    @user-gerigeruge 4 года назад

    😄👍👍👍✨‼️

  • @mrgreenfingaz1
    @mrgreenfingaz1 3 года назад

    In my house it would have been it's the uss flag or a bed, you can't have both.........