Knock Off Toys - MOTU KO, Galaxy Warriors, Speclatron, Sun Man, Monster Castle, ... TOY HISTORY #5
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- In today's toy history we take a look at the sungold, remco, Speclatron, Olmec corp 5.5 masters of the universe inspired knock off toy lines! The Lawsuit between Mattel & Remco and more...
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These knock- offs were the kind of toys you could find at fairgrounds during the 80's.
Sweet 🤘
My family would all get together for new years and exchange Christmas gifts with family that didn't live close together. When I was a kid, Voltron was huge. That year I and my cousins got a LOT of knock off Voltron toys. There was one of 5 motorcycles that combined into a robot. I got 3 or 4 of those that year. From what I remember, it was actually a decent figure when combined.
Some of the ko’s were actually really good 🤓🤘
Here in Mexico we have a massive knock offs, some of them even more “valuable” than the original piece, and so much hard to find it. I have a little collection of knock offs and they are my favorites
The stuff mad hunter show is always amazing 🤩
Ed's Retro Geek Out yeah! Rodrigo it’s a great guy, i did a few business with him, he have an amazing collection, he has some retractors here in Mexico, pretty much all of them are resellers that ask way way more than the normal price and Rodrigo put them on their place.
yeah, I remember seeing some these toys at the dollar and discount stores back when I was a kid.
Awesome 🤠
Definitely my fav toy history video so far! Keep em comin dude!
Thanks so much buddy 🤓🤘
MOTU bring good memories to me ..... congrats to the video. Stay safe
Thanks so much 🤘🤓
Holy shit, I cant front I totally didn't expect you to cover Sun-Man, I was ready to comment about that line because it was so impactful on me and my brothers/friends.
The whole Olmec corp story is pretty interesting and the sunman figures are some of the best quality and imaginative wise in the motu ko galaxy 🤓
@@EdsRetroGeekOut Well thanks for the awesome and informative video, I enjoyed it
great stories about the 5.5 figures. I loved collecting MOTU toys growing up and I'm sure I have a knock off in my collection, I'll have to take a look and send you pic ha.
This series is really awesome Ed and I can see if taking off big for you. Keep up the great work
Send me a pic dude 🤓🤘
Amazing video! Thanks
Thanks for watching 🤓 I enjoy your vids!
Love this video :) i remember birthdays where my family would buy knock-offs, and still loving it ;)
Thanks buddy 🤘🤓
I remember seeing knock off megaman X toys in Mexico which were done really nice and will changeable armor
I think the best megaman toys are ko’s 🤘🤓
Wow man. Great videos. I never knew there were so many knock offs. I really really dig the guys with the snow globe torso. Wish I had some myself.
Thanks for watching!
Sunman & his villainous enemy Pighead! 😆 that's on-brand marketing!
I like those figures 🤠
Holy schnikes...😮...It has glitter...🤯
Indeed 🤣🤣🤣
Time to sell the house so I can get a Speclatron figure.
🤔theres 2 on ebay for 1400$
@@EdsRetroGeekOut yeah my wife totally wont kill me
I had four of them as a kid. All long gone. Yet another reason I'd like to go back in time and slap my younger self in the face.
@@Kai0nTheMoon 😆 I had the swimming tmnt for Xmas their 1st year out cuz No one anywhere had the nonswimming tmnt figures. I remember being upset but still thankful for them. Today now it's a ton easier to get the tmnt figures but no one I talk to remembers the swimming tmnt figures! Lol how much would they go for now you think? My older brother and I had the swimming donatello and swimming Leonardo. (We eventually got all the figures from the first set but it took 2 years.) I bet my parents was sick of ninja turtles lmao.
This channel is the perfect toy channel love it! :)
Thanks 🤓
You are very welcome Ed. 😃
Imagine if sungold went into real estate , " house including windows to provide daytime lighting, doors for entry and exit and rooms pre hollowed out creating space inside
Vintage FOREVERRR!!!😎💙
Vintage! 🤘🤘🤘
You had me at "knock off toys"! Great stuff as always Ed.
Thanks so much buddy 🤘
You gotta love people who call muscular action figures dolls 😎. What are vehicles then? Space baby carriages?
🤣🤣👌
Man when I was a kid I never saw any of these knockoffs. I feel like I truly missed out.
They look pretty sweet some of them 🤓👌
Just seen the fact you only have 12K subs adn 17K views on this vid, WTF WTF WTF????? Your videos are great, high quality, good sound, likeable personality... Your gonna be big i can tell you that. I would of expected at least 100k views & subs here, most likely 250k or more. Damn.
I've liked and subbed because i want your channel to grow nice and big! Peace brother :)
Thanks i guess it will grow if i can keep it up and get better 🤓 it’s awesome that people are finding the channel more easily
Anyone here after seeing there’s gonna be some new Sun-man stuff coming announced at Power-Con?
Oh boy, the Galaxy Hole!
Just whatever you do, stay away from Baltard...
I like the snake head guys 🤘🤓
Knock offs are great
Definitely looking for starman
Awesome 🤓
NOW Officielle *You* are my absolute Favorite(International) RUclipsr! THX for that awesome content every Week👍 #LoveThat80sShit✊ #BestRetroChannel 🔝
Thanks so much 🤘🤓
They are lots of knock off toys. 😀👍
Tooo many 🤩
Great stuff!
Thanks 🤓
10:58 I still have the man with the curved sword and the chest protector with feather-ish shoulders. It has a phoenix like bird on the armor. I think I bought it or someone gave it to me as a gift around 1994 or 1995, but in those years the action figures everyone wanted was from the Conan The Adventurer's animated series so I think it wasn't just a He-Man knock off but just a generic barbarian warrior that could apply for everything in the genre. It's the first one that appears in the playset that shows on 9:57 and now that I remember it was totally a Conan knock off more than a He-Man knock off because the bad guys were based on reptiles and in Conan the bad guys were the snake men.
Edit: Investigating I just found out it's a figure from Sewco Galaxy Fighters, a Bootleg of Galaxy Warriors as it seems. The name of the character is Daton. Cool. Thanks to this video I just found out that I have a little treasure stored somewhere.
The galaxy of ko’s goes far and beyond 😅 working on a follow up and found even more bootlegged bootleg ko’s 🤪
@@EdsRetroGeekOut Well this is all new to me. I'm from Argentina, and we had a lot of this toys here but we were also more into anime, specially in the '90s. Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball were huge and opened the door to a lot more anime and of course, a lot more toys and a lot more ko's, specially in the first half of the '90s. As far as I know, and correct me if I'm wrong, anime didn't catch up in the US until a few years later. When I was 8 or 9 I spent my afternoons between Power Rangers, Ghostbusters, Saint Seiya and DBZ so now I can imagine how far it goes. It was (and still is) pretty usual find whole sets of 5 or 6 figures that had a mix of Super Sentai, DBZ, Sailor Moon and DC Comics characters.
It's interesting to me knock offs like the effort put in just to be legally different enough. You don't really see that anymore. An original toy property taking off and others wanting to jump on that bandwagon. Maybe like some obscure MLP or Barbie knock offs, I may not know about. But I kinda wish that was a thing again even if just for the novelty chuckle in the aisle looking at it.
I have a sort of related question that someone may be able to help me with. I had a play set when I was a kid in the 1980s that no one seems to be able to identify. I wanted castle grey skull but my aunt bought me something similar but it had a gold colored snake hear “truck” that you could fire out of the front of the snake like castle. I know this is vague, I can’t find anything on google searches like this or anything else. I thought it may be D&D but nothing matches. Any ideas?
Sunman is super cool. I found out about it when someone gave me a Pighead figure as a gift. Olmec Toys was based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The same place as Black Wallstreet and where the race massacre happened, that's finally being talked about.
I like the colors on those figure so nicely done 🤓🤘
I use those knock off figures as jobbers aka cannon foddler for the villians use at the heroes
Awesome 🤓
Do you concider the Last Warriors figures to fit in the He Man bootleg category?
They seems to a bit pricey these days.
Hadn’t seen those before they look cool 🤘🤩
I seeing remember most of these toys at a toy store called Child World in the early to mid 80s
Sweet 🤘
Child World/Children's Palace had a weird way of rotating stock so you could buy old toys dirt cheap years after they were first marketed.
I found a galaxy rider toy. It’s a trike. Thought it looked cool, I’m guessing it is a similar knock off?
Could be 🤓
I still got a few knock offs action figures from. The Dollar bill store from back in the 90s and broo im already 34 Years and i still got em.. bad ass durability i have play with thise figures si much they berly hace loose joints they look like heman bootlegs bit men o men they are pretty heavy my dad and mom bought me those figures and i remember the whole wall was full of them from the bottom to the floor all kinds of variety of colors head sculpts and body build totally different they even came with weapons i was like ill never finishe buying these and you know what was the kicker of this they were just 1 fuc... dollar... $1 a piece with
Awesome 🤘🤓
@@EdsRetroGeekOut hell yeah awesome 😎😎😎😍😍
Great stuff mate!!
Thanks buddy 🤘🤓
I know I'm late to this video but how about knock offs of figures like Sectars.
Have you done a video on Battle Beasts yet?
No but i really like that line they had some ko’s in greece 🤩🤘
@@EdsRetroGeekOut well I'm still going to binge watch all of your videos. I was born in 1983 and your channel brings back so many memories I love it.
Great video Ed! Did you know that Remco used those 5.5" sculpts for their AWA wrestling figure line?
Yesh indeed 🤘🤓
Are you guys doing a livestream today? Couldn't see that one is happening.
Nah skipping a week but we should have 1 this week 🤘🤘
Hmm. I wonder how much it would cost to create my own toyline using knock offs...
🤔 indeed
I Have one speclatron demone cheers 🍻
Epic 🥳
You don't include the WWF Wrestling inspired in MOTU from the early 80's and the 2020's revival along the Funko's Savage World with franchises like Thundercats,Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and movie monsters also the Funko Primal Age with DC Cómics Characters whom didn't get the attention they really deserved and dissapear with only two waves and a lot of interesting ideas for Hawkman,Doomsday, Brainiac,Cheetah, Shazam and Black Adam all in a primitive, Medieval fantasy look.
There’s still a lot probably enough for a second video on the topic 🤓
@@EdsRetroGeekOut That sounds good! Hope you include the batcave funko was awesome Is like a Castle grayskull for the líne Is a giant bat in dark blue and three beast the wolf Ace, the Wargo Kripto and A Smiling purple Reptile for joker
I remember when I was five and my mom asked me what I wanted for christmas and I said I want he-man, she replied is that the buff blonde dude wearing only his underwear, I said yeah that's the one, behold I ended getting hulk hogan instead of he-man hahahaha, I suppose is a very valid confusion
I do get that tough i wouldn’t know paw patrol from other dogtype toys for my kids if i wasn’t so into toys 🤓
Ed's Retro Geek Out hahahaha i know exactly what you mean hahahaha
Sad!
Lol sounds like a good crossover.
Not a collector but growing up in the 80s and 90s my parents never really bought me toys and I find myself always watching these toy videos on RUclips all the time. This channel is by far the best in the “RUclips toys history” videos, it’s the closest thing to Netflixs show “toys that made us”. I use to work in film production and I appreciate the production value, the research, and solid writing. Good job dude, keep it up and I’m sure you’ll eventually get picked up by some network somewhere.
Woah thanks so much 🤓 there’s a couple channels that do it way better than me like the toys that made us but also justice cury’s amazon show “plastic Crack”, pixel dan, toy galaxy, retroblasting and laura legends are all such great content creators i look up to
That is sad 😢
Never would I have guessed that the cheesy skull headed guy with a glitter filled torso my aunt got me for christmas one year would have been considered collectible...
It’s the holy grail for motu ko collectors 😅🤘
i really want that mecha thomas the tank engine
james brooking who doesn’t want the mecha Thomas
I have one, think I got it on ebay or aliexpress, paid like $25 a few years ago. Plastics really cheap on it, it's exactly as bad as you would expect it to be... but at the same time its awesome
It looks so bad its gotta ve good!
It’s an awesome figure for KO collectors 👍🏽 It’s a bootleg of the “Loco Squad Commander” train combiner by Leader Shine (aka Champion Crown) who made all of those generic transforming robot dinosaurs, animals, insects, reptiles, etc in the 2000’s that kinda **looked** like Beast Wars but weren’t 😅 Aside from the Loco Squad, one of their best figures was the Appliance Robo combiner 😄 No lie, it was a refrigerator, TV, stereo, etc that combined into a big robot 😆 Some of my favorite KOs of my collection 😎
It's one of those figures which is so shitty you have to have it if you collect retro toys. Just like that 'Sense of right alliance' pack of superhero figures, which i think has Superman, Spiderman, 2 Power Rangers, Shreck and the car from Disney Cars. Fucking epppiiiccc
doll, action figure. same thing really. if you are being shamed for "playing with dolls" own it.
In Mexico they were everywhere in the late 80s and early 90s.....I remember buying huge 12 inch plastic figures
Yet another interesting and educational Toy History lesson Ed! The only Knock Off toy I remember getting and still have is a Shockwave G1 Transformers that I got in Hungary back in the day. Looks exactly like the original apart from the slight colour difference and different packaging of course that has nothing to do with Transformers, but in both robot and gun mode has the same light and sound effects. And I still have this in my collection and it still works! Funny enough I never ended up getting an "original" G1 Shockwave. Maybe time to add the "real one" to the collection...?
Thanks buddy 🤘
Grab a beer, throw yourself in the couch, Ed's here with some Toy History. Just when I thought 'the toys that made us' was cool...
Fantastic series. Again amazing research. And that Castle looked really weird and cool!
I love that castle 🤣
I came her for Sun-Man. A cool vintage line with a heartwarming origin story, just a shame that 4 of the figures never made it passed the prototype phase. But thanks to Olmec Toys partnering up with Mattel to add Rulers of the Sun Characters to the Masters of the Universe Origins toy line, Kikto, Duplico, Hypno, and Zap-Man finally have the presence on toy collectors' shelves that they deserve.
Would love the get the vintage bad guy
I remember my mom got me a 5 pack of knockoff Power Rangers when i was a kid. They sucked haha
I remember being in store and getting to choose between 5 ko’s or the real power ranger i chose badly and went for the ko’😅
My mom once brought me a He-Guy when you pull back the string it said "MEh"
🤣🤣🤣🤣
What about She-Gal did you had that???
lmao heguy lol
THANK YOU! I've been trying to educate these heathens about the differences between KOs and bootlegs and that they are NOT THE SAME THING!
I had to learn myself 🤓 so i think it was fun to kind of open the video this way by example of the court case 🤘 thanks for watching
I'm a transformer collector...but as a kid. He-Man, G.I.Joe and Star Wars were my toy box filler. I never got into collecting He-Man, just because of this reason. So many knockoffs and very little info due to no internet back then. I just bought most of the Mega Construx motu figures and sets. Gotta be honest it's rekindled that flame a little that I might try and collect motu, but some of these KOs are looking cool too. Thanks for giving me a little insight on ko world of the masters.
Thanks for watching 🤓 there’s a lot more ko’s so might be able to do a follow up on motu ko’s 👌
I love knock-off toys, especially the really crazy ones.
The transformers ones that are like "Ultimate robot with questionable power, equipped with laser sword and man."
@@yellowvegtables454 accurate
2:30 Skull Man! My favourite! I miss him!
2:34 Guana! My first ever MOTU-like figure!
5:22 Kobra! I still (barely) have him in one piece!
9:30 I had a very similar skull with clear chest filled w/water and glitters - or was that one? Water finally leaked out.
Yeah the speclatrons had the glitter
I wish I could collect the Galaxy Warriors/Galaxy Fighters and Galaxy Adventure Girl figures.
I also kinda liked “Defenders of the Planets”.
Defenders of the planets were high quality i added some since this video 🤓
Im trying to find one of the greatest knock offs of all time.... RobertCop! The furniture of law enforcement!.... Yes that would be FURNITURE not future....
Robertcop is the best one out there still can’t believe it ain’t an obvious plant 🤣
When a company known for its rubber snakes tries to make action figures and markets them side by side...
Who made the hard rubber Winged Lion Man action figure that smelled like a car air freshener ?
🤔not sure but i wanna kno! 🤠
Ed's Retro Geek Out : I recall that when My Uncle returned home to Texas from Baltimore, He brought this magnificent beast to Me along with a Gold colored 3 headed dragon and a Battle Rhino; both wearing saddles and bearing the same straw berry air freshener scent as the Winged Lion Man . It was 1985 : Video game graphics had not evolved well enough to replace the artistic construction of Our beloved action figures.
Toy history!!! Cool series of videos!!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🤘🏼
That was pretty cool. It would be awesome if you do something similar with tmnt and its "inspired" lines like the fighting frogs, the Street sharks, the samurai pizza Cats,...
Or a video of Ed about his knock-off James McAvoy 😁😁😁
Thanks 🤓
You really should do GI Joe and Transformers. So many knock offs of both of those.
Also I think it is funny that some people still think Go Bots was a knock off of transformers. HAHAHA.
They did have a lotta good ones 🤠
Could you do a video on Transformers knockoffs? There are so many that I feel like I find a new one every few days...
There are indeed 🤠
Ahoyhoy There, Fellow RUclipsrino! Please help me identify the following:I had a Red Toy Dragon . The pieces I was given along with the bundle were from Playmobil , like flags and shields. The Dragon seemed to be , from what I can remember, the same mould as the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Gold Dragon, but in red. There was a blue one , as well, that they also sold me , same mould. They came apart like the wings and maybe the heads. I'd sure like to see one again. Please, if ANY one has ANY info about the Dragon I described, please reply to this comment.
As a kid i had many of these Knock-off Figures,actually i connect them with The Masters of the Universe 😂and i had the TMNT knock-offs😂
Awesome 🤘🤠
Spot on🤗..i remember in mid 80's here where i am MOTU used to be only 7 bucks and what a great price..but alas i am still in junior school and can only afford to save money to buy a He-Man...Sungold Galaxy Warriors were only 3 bucks and sold side by side with Motu..needless to say mum only bought for us those GW..😊
Knock off Transformers! And I don't mean the original line! When the first Michael Bay film came out you couldn't move for these bright unusual knockoffs that were trying to grab kid's attention
Knock offs we're always more imaginative
Some of them really are 🤓👌
I remember the Warlord figures.
@@EdsRetroGeekOut Ahoyhoy There, Fellow RUclipsrino! They are! Like the Knock-off Light-Up giant Pokemon, or The Harry Potter/Sonic/Obama backpack. I have a Homer Simpson Etch a Sketch if that doesn't sound kind of bootleg, well, actually , it's a real toy. It's really cool.
Another great video, Ed. Olmec also made G.I. Joe knock-offs called Bronze Bombers.
Ooh i’ll look into those i just found some remco gijoe scale toys 🤓🤘
what about lanard corps figures
Really cool bro dam c this is why 1 of the big reasons I want to forever b like 9 years old hahaha I'd definitely go back and start a fantastic action figures hobby collection man all those toys I'd b n my own real heaven.peeeice
What's that knockoff character with a skull face, black motorcycle helmet with white horns, and a black torso with an abstracted ribcage on it?
In the uk we collected action force which started off as 5 poa in its second year palitoy licensed gi joe figures and vehicles people who have never heard of this toy line call them knock offs due to the recolouring of the toys
I had the AWA Wrestling figures....CLEARLY knockoffs from Master of the universe action figures (NOT DOLLS!) LOL!
Wrestle dolls would never work🤣🤣 thanks for watching
Powergized?
😏 glitterfied would have worked too
He-Man meets Mythic Legions: ruclips.net/video/euQnMBzlf4M/видео.html
🤣🤣🤣👌
exist other 2 or 3 line made in argentina and spain , the T force or fuerza t in spanish , and star warrior a mixe of motu toy and a little zize then the motu figure , this last justice curry have in the casttle at the end of this video , good video broth
There’s so many 🤣👌
i had almost all of the warrior beast back in the day from the bargain bin... i think they were better built than motu. wonder where they are now
Well done informative, me and my puppets enjoyed all the great pics!
Where's go-bots and the chick Norris figures? The Rambo line?
As a kid I had that toy C-2132 from your video @ 10:02 I was probably in the 1st or 2nd grade. I was a happy kid, still am 😄
Wow id love to have that dragon looks so cool!
How come you didn't mention that the MOTU mold was based on my physical proportions? Do your research!
😏 so now you tell me!
I want that Thomas the steam engine\Voltron bootleg real fucking bad lol
My favorites are TURLY GANG which were TURTLE action figures in the MOTU style.
Indeed 🤠🤘
Oh sh...nap. I forgot a lot of these even figures existed until seeing them in this video. I had a ton of those Warlord figures. Probably all 600 feet underground in a landfill by now. Would really suck if the premise behind 'Toy Story' was real...
You now have another subscriber BTW.
Thanks 🤓
Wholly Shyt! I completely forgot that I used to have that All red guy and the cobra head guy from Galaxy Warriors.
Awesome 🤠
last time I check dolls aim main primarily to girls boys are welcome to buy dolls
Thanks ,nice post.I love hearing about these figs.I collect boots , k/o,s , and shoddy look-alikes.Mostly DC/Marvel stuff.
Thznks for watching 🤓🤘
I saw a Sun-Man on card the other day. It goes for about $990.00. It made me think about race representation in MOTU. I posted a video about it on my channel.
They’re pretty hard to come by but some of the best ko’s out there quality wise 🤓
Knock offs were great for army building and world building
I use to have those remco Warlords dolls cause we was so poor I begged for He Man but my parents couldnt afford the 7$ for the He-Man he would get us the 3$ war lords
Some of those looked really cool 🤠
We had a couple Warlords, they fit in with our MOTU figures no problem! Still not sure if parents bought them accidentally, or on purpose cause they were cheaper...😒
Second
My all-time favorite KOs are of the Transformers dinobots, specifically this one of Sludge but he’s a brontosaurus with an alligator head and wings, marketed as “Prehistory Animal #3: Prontosaurus”.
www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Knockoffs/Sludge1.html
He is freakin awesome! 🤩🤘
Great review!! I just realized that I used to have a couple of Gallaxy Warriors figures as a kid. Thanks for sharing!!!
Thanks for watching 🤓🤠
Galaxy warrior line is bad but phelous has done a whole series of videos on it. Also it’s insane ripoffs shown in videos are only start. They even ripped off she-ra. You have to see it to believe it. It’s crazy. I mean goes so far to include ripoffs of ninja turtles
Some of them are really bad indeed 🤓