Coleco 1986 Starcom Shadowbat and Shadow Parasite Toy Review
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2014
- In this video we take a look at one of the coolest looking vehicles from the Starcom line, the Shadowbat and Shadow Parasites. I also share a little bit about the toy line's history as well. If you enjoyed the video please let me know with a like and subscribe for more content like this.
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Starcom toys are, in my opinion, the best designed toys in history.
BitVyper Strong contenders, I will admit. I'm a TF guy through and through but I have a feeling I'm on the losing side of the debate. They're certainly the most conceptually realized toy line. A begrudging but non-resentful like from me.
@@tbonbrad TFs encompass a lot of toylines. The best ones are really high quality and made for collectors, and I have a hard time counting them as toys (though they're certainly fantastic). For the ones that are meant to be played they can be all over the chart quality-wise, but the good ones are great (the bad ones should reward you with three wishes when you figure out how to transform them). I certainly can't disagree that there's a lot of really good TF figures. Starcom's whole line is all really unified and every piece works with all the other pieces rather than being individual figures. They all unfold and do their things really easily, and the magnets were a brilliant feature.
agreed
@@G1Hexatron Thankyou for taking me back. I waited for you to press the button and open the cargo bay. And you did! That sound man... so many muscle-memories from pressing buttons, detachable items, flipping cannons. Must have been more than 30 years I had those ships. Ohh man!
Yes I loved these. My best friend had the whole set. Real incentive to go play sy his house. I loved that you could load th vytucks in the shsfowbat dnd the starcom transport ship
Had this with one with 1 detachable fighter and a little grey tank. My brother had the big white shuttle. This are such cool toys. All given away...
May I had known it was gaining in value....
I had this exact toy when I was a kid and absolutely loved it!!! Thank you for taking me down memory lane and informing me on something I didn't know with it's association to NASA.
Holy crap I loved this toy when I was a kid, awesome to find it again
Lmao, 30 years later, i still remembered the sound this made when you opened the cargo bay
The Shadow Parasite did come with a pilot. I know because it was the only Starcom toy I ever had, and I still have it. The guy you had in the pilot seat of the Shadow Bat is Lt. Magg, the pilot of the Shadow Parasite.
Michael Turner that is correct
One of my favorite toys from the 80s
I got my shadowbat with 2 parasites, a bunch of figures and shadow invader. I think it was called the shadow force action set. It also had a lot more stickers than other ones I see online.
Wow, I had one of those! Loved that toy, forgot all about that!
great space toy concept! loved these toys!
My grandparents in England had these so when I'd visit I'd always get them out, they had a bunch of Starcom stuff. Really loved it and saw an anime of it once, never really knew what they were and never saw them again.. until about 25 years later with this video! Thanks dude :)
Such nostalgia! I have everything shown in this video!!! Love these toys
Simply beautiful! Never tired of these great toys
I grew up in the 80's and had no idea these existed. Amazing.
Toys in the 80s and 90s were so awesome
I had this, I just remembered it and looked it up.
Hab ich mir gestern gekauft!!! Kindheitserinnerung vom feinsten!!! StarCom 4 Eva!!!
I had the Shadowbat as a kid and 2x of the Battle Crane's, had so much fun with them they were one of my favorite toys as the battle transformations were very fun. Never had any of the Parasite ships as they didnt come with it, had i known about them at the time i would have wanted them too.
I had a few of these in the 80s. I had completely forgotten what they were called for YEARS
I remember playing with these in the early 90's. Loved playing with the magnets and 'wind up' action. I later based many of my LEGO starships on this docking triangle aesthetic without realizing its source, and even later it inspired my DAFF-Ender ships that I designed in AutoCAD 2001 in high school. I think we also had the Shadow Bandit (the flying one you hold with a handle and has a magnet to grab things below) and the little car that you have inside the Bat there.
We had these toys here in Finland in the 80's along with the animated show that was on some international channel that didn't even have subtitles. It was shows like this and Transformers where i learned my english before they started teaching it on the 5th grade. I still have one of those small triangle ships somewhere and it was one of my favourite toys along with the evil womans purple car from M.A.S.K. that turned into a flying machine.
But i can still remember how longingly i looked at the large white spaceship of the good guys from Starcom when my mother said it was too expensive and that shed only buy me one of the small ships, hence the Shadow Parasite.
Thanks for the video, it brings back memories...
With all the retro toys coming back I wish someone would recreate this line with the same gimmics but for collectors. I would sell a kidney to get a new line of Starcom toys.
Such a cool ship, one of my favourite toys, Ihad a good side vehicle that fit in perfectly, grey with double turrets (the railgunner) that sprang up on the back. Good times!
I Looooved Starcom growing up, transformers was the more popular toy line / cartoon, i was more of a M.A.S.K. / starcom guy, eventhough i only got the lazer rat back then, kinda on the lookout for starcom pieces at the moment.. still have my rat, and still looking good.. never had any of the bigger pieces like the bomber and the bat.. but always liked the magnetic feature and spring louded action, that was implimented in the show aswell.. still great memories on the line and show.. you are right on the smaller pieces, i misplaced the dude that came with the rat, but i remember my guy missed his visor on the helmet,, one of the first things to go.
i'm kinda glad it died out though, but seeing what happend with transformers, those movies really fucked up my love for transformers, eventhough it has nothing on the cartoon nor the toyline... i pray to god nothing will ever happend to starcom, and i'm praying even harder that the rumor of a mask movie coming out, will fall flat and it wil never happen.. i do own my childhood mask toys, and love rewatching the show.. if that movie comes out, i will avoid it like the plague, even the gi joe movie was weak.. can't imagine that a mask movie will grant respect in it's production of the people behind it, other than wanting to make a quik buck with low effort..
so i'm glad starcom is unknown to the masses.
Wow now its all about phones and hand held games. I'm glad I grew up in the 80's and 90's the last generation to appreciate creative toys I guess.
me too. loved starcom, mask, heman damn good time
What about the little Muscle Men figures??!
I got one this morning for a dollar. Awesome!
Only a dollar!? Lucky!
Very cool man. I vaguely remember these things. Nice toys, surprised they didn't do better back in the day. 'Course around '86 everything was about Laser Tag, and '87 was the NES, lots of toys fell in the wake of those two. Those Parasites are cooler than the Shadowbat, IMO. You should defiantly do more reviews on these guys.
Loved these!
Best fucking toys ever... they don't make 'em like this anymore. I spent countless hours using my parental house as a universe for my stories and annoying my folks with the pew pews.
Great toys , I used to have one figure plus the parasite but I am sure they came together here in the uk, it was so long ago. My cousin had the larger white cruiser as well
I'd love to see more reviews of them.
I had this one as well..... but lost it to a friend in a pokergame when i was 9... haha...... 4 weeks later... i won ut back together with all my friends starcom toys
Shadow Parasite was the awesomest!
Think the wind up feature is pretty cool, we need people that think more outside the box on new toys. Like how the magnets keep them still.
Awesome vehicle 🔥
looks like a NightHawk stealth bomber with a spade design
I loved the show and still have the shadowbat in working order
True, we had it here in France. Nice review.
Right, and the missing parts are exactly the same. But mine has just 1 black mustache pilote for the shadowbat.
These are GREAT!
woah this is awesome
Matell did well selling these in the uk I was 10 so got to enjoy a few
Cool!
I want transformers of all of these. Thankfully Universe Skywarp is a shoe in after some blue touch ups.
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i had these and they really were awesome, lots of playability. i had these when they first came out so thats dating me a bit, lol
yet the remake of yesteryears toys are made even better with better color, paint and articulation. i still miss the 80's toys tho.
my fav toys next to heman
also, the bad guys ofstarcom just had the better looking toys
badguys spacecrafts and vehicles are more futuristic & scifi. Whereas the goodguys are more of NASA space shuttle, concept spaceraft and rover/vehicle based.
This toys and Zoïds were ahead of its time , they don't make toys like that anymore . Nowadays all is so expensive for stupid licensed stuff but the content doesn't exist . Back then toy industries worked hand in hand and had many intellectual creators even that has been lost today , everything has became greedy to its worst and emotionless.
That is weird because I had one of those bad guy tirangle ships I got at the store and it came the the pilot you have in the cockpit. The guy in the dark outfit. He also had his visor and it was blue, but of course the visor got broke off one day.
There could be a reason. I saw the ship as a little kid loose at the store. It was not boxed. It had 1 gun broken off too in its transformed state. It had the pilot in the ship though. My mom was able to buy it at the store for a discount price because it was broken. I had no clue this was a cartoon either and thought this was a good guy ship my whole life. I do not have it anymore though...I still thought these guys were so dang cool and my friend had some other ships too. We were into this stuff and GI Joe and MASK and things.
G1Hexatron Yeah I've been watching the episodes on RUclips. I think the toys look cooler than the cartoon, but the cartoon looks cool too.
The Triforce symbol. They were made in Hyrule.
Starmax was awesome
I remember that was made in Macau
No wondered the US make this toyline that what will happened in the future.
- Canada 1986
lol. I think these toys were made in Macau.
Anyone remember the cartoon?
Red no I don't . strange I remember all the others.
I remember having the parasite as my go to favorite toy and i put it away and it dissappeared.
Macau is pronounced "Ma-cow".
macau 😂
xD StarCom xD
I remember black colored ships being the villains. LOL, the racism.... I loved these toys back in the day
starcom>>>>air raiders.