Top 8 Fisher Price Adventure People PLAYSETS & Their Connection to 70s Star Wars Action Figures
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- Fisher Price Adventure People and their Connection to Star Wars Action Figures. Top 8 Fisher Price Adventure People 70s Toys Playsets. Relive and Reconnect with your favorite Fisher Price Playsets and Action Figures while discovering their connection to 70s Star Wars Toys & Action Figure Collecting.
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My Adventure People lived alongside my Star Wars and G.I. Joes for many years! In fact, I remember that the scuba tanks fit on Baroness perfectly!
NICE. That's the way to play. Now the Baroness can add Frogman to her list of credits.
Actually your post reminds me of my childhood experience with the adventure people. A friend of mine received the adventure people safari set for his birthday. We had such a blast playing with the Safari set that I asked my mother to buy me a set to mix with my Star Wars figures. I remember being impressed that my Star Wars figures mixed perfectly. I wish I would have known that the X Ray adventure people existed because they're so cool looking and would have fit right into the Star Wars universe!!! I can only imagine the fun adventures that our imaginations could have created!!! Thanks for making these cool videos !!!! Rest in Peace Wesley Holbrook (you were an awesome childhood buddy with a cool imagination).
The safari set spawned a complete epic novel for me as an aspiring writer. My brother Jody was my accomplice/fellow creator--those were the days.
Great days indeed....oh,for a time machine 🥺😥
That set was a classic!
Now this wins comments so far. Inspiring writing, that is amazing. But not surprised as the imagination these things brought. Thanks for sharing.
Can we read your novel ? Is it available on line ?
Watching this I didn't realize how many of these I had as a kid. The re-released the Xray people not to long ago. They were my favorite as they remind me of The Micronauts Time Traveller.
Same thing I said to someone...I can't believe how many we had. It was awesome. They easily could play with micronauts.
What great memories of all those plastic people and their accessories!
That was perfectly put. All those Plastic People and their accessories...they brought us joy and fun times. Thank you
I loved the X-ray Man and Woman Thanks for the memory ❤❤❤❤
Great toys, great memories. That is what I am here for. Thank you
I had so many of these... I played with them for years,,, then my niece and nephew and finally my own children in the late 90's... One of the best toy lines ever made...and
They live on, don't they. Good construction, great fun.
Correction... My son tells me that my two granddaughters are STILL playing with the jeeps , trucks and tents to this very day...
My favorites included the forest ranger with the smaller hat, the northwoodsman named "Hawk", Clawtron, the X-Ray Male and Female, the blue scuba diver, and the deep sea diver that came with the octopus were amongst my favorites. I've never owned a Brainoid, but always wanted him. I still have about 40 of these figures in my collection, 4 or 5 still on card.
Nice collection. Even some on card, which I do like their card art. They are fun to have and come with memories.
The emergency helicopter and the safari set were the two greatest gifts I ever received. I was at peak toy playing age and they opened up a world of adventure. Star Wars, Action Force and GI Joe were all hits but I was a bit older. The only toy that rivaled the Adventure People for playability was Action Man and again that's due to my age. They're the toys I was crawling around in the back garden with, living the adventures with the toys.
Love hearing you crawling around in the garden with the toys. These were the kind (and Action Man) that you brought outside in the dirt and grass and played out the most exciting adventures. The copter with its blue claw underneath was a go to for me, too.
For me it was all about the deep sea diver. Loved that playset
Great Pack. You must love the depths, huh? It was just right for us all.
The shark diver set that you briefly showed at 14:09 was my favorite. As a kid I never took a bath without it.
IT was a great one. Loved that boat. I had to pick the Explorer for the show, because of how much I remember that yellow sled and the skis. But thank you for watching and sharing.
I got the shark diver set for my birthday one year. My first choice had been John Cougar's latest LP, American Fool but I think my Mom thought some of the lyrics too risque for a 9 year old and talked me into an Adventure people set instead!
Thank you for making me remember these,simple but fun toys
That's my job, my lot in life...Recall, Reminsce, Relive.
I had and Loved that Van as a kid , we bought it at a yard sale , nice to Finally know where it came from.
That is awesome. I had it and LOVED it. SO happy I could help you figure it out. Thanks for watching.
The safari set was one of my favorite toys as a little kid. I remember playing out so many stories with that set. I can still hear the click-click-click the safari truck's wheels made as I drove it across the shag carpet savannah of my living room.
Like the "siren" that click is memorable and brings back some childhood moments you don't want to forget. Thanks for sharing.
Loved, loved, loved those sets.
So many great ones. So many possibilities.
i loved these growing up!! used them WITH star wars and others
Exactly. They were perfect additions or accessories to all other lines. They could wall work together, and I loved them even more for that.
I LOVED the Adventure people!! I had the helicopter/submarine playset, the camper with parachute, motorcycle, and Canoe, and the Firetruck/Emergency vehicle!! The people were PERFECT for being either secret identities for my Marvel Super Hero Secret Wars figures or DC Super Powers Figures, or as people for my super heroes to rescue!
These things were so cost effective and had so much play value. We all had them, I had so many, and yet, they are often forgotten. Thanks for writing.
My favorite was either the green van, or the big shark boat. When we were kids we just called them "men" or "guys." I don't think I knew they were actually called "Adventure People" until decades later.
Yes, another Green Van lover. Me too. I bet a lot of kids did, but I remember clearly saying, Let's play with the Adventure People, when talking to my brothers. I guess I just noticed their box, but I am sure that was not common.
Some of the most durable kids toys of the era. They are common and cheap, they slip by most Thrift stores pricing and are awesome!
Cost Effective and EFFECTIVE. So true.
Safari Set and the Plane with the boat!! Loved my Adventure People!
Thanks for watching and sharing. They were incredible. You owned some great sets.
I never realized how many sets I actually had as a kid. I guess that speaks to the ability to mix and match them.
It all felt like one giant set, but in fact we all did have so many. Thanks for watching.
Hi, born in 1970 here!
I still have my Adventure People play sets in great condition and on display at home: The Aero-Marine Search Team set, The Sea Shark set, the Rescue Team set, with no pieces or accessories missing or broken, plus a number of the individual "guys"... most with their heads down, of course 😅
Along with my Tonkas, Fisher Price's Adventure People were (and still are) my favorite toys of all time. I always took great care of them.
They were/are incredible toys. I love how yes, their heads ARE down, lol. Thank you for sharing. It makes me happy to see such love and care. Thank you for watching.
I was born in 1982. I ended up getting most of what was left of these as a kid. I still remember them fondly and talk about being built to last!
Built to last was the name of the game. So glad you had some of those two, they stuck around long after being off the shelf. Thank you for watching.
I still have all my Adventure People - The Safari, Rescue Truck, Rescue Copter, Wilderness Patrol, Sea Explorer, Northwoods Trailblazer, Daredevil Sports Van, both Super Speed Racers, Daredevil Skydiver, Mountain Climbers and Rescue Team.
Damn, that is a great collection. So happy you have them all. I wish I still had one. Thanks for sharing.
I miss toys like these. Being able to create adventures without licensed IP.
I do believe these kinds of toys were great catalysts for life. Extreme Adventuring inspired us.
Man, the Air-Sea Rescue Copter and Daredevil Van were mainstays in my bedroom. Everyone from Adventure People to GI Joes to Star Wars utilized those vehicles.
THat DD van ws the bomb, and everyone could pack in there, too.
Had a very strange amount of random figures and vehicles from this line, though I don’t remember ever seeing them in stores since I was born in ‘82. I got em all from yard sales and flea markets, but man did I have a blast with them! And of course, they integrated perfectly with my G.I. Joe and Star Wars figures!
I specifically remember having the Aeromarine submersible and the treasure chest (which doubled as the Ark of the Covenant 😂). Also had the kayak from the Daredevil set and the scuba divers’ yellow raft…both of which got a ton of play in the tub at bath time!
My favorite was probably the Alpha Probe…I just remember being super stoked by its electronic sounds.
YOu are the second to call out the Alpha Probe. And yeah, who didn't love some electronics, lol. Since 1983 they stopped the line, you may have had some hand me downs, but you had them, and they were awesome. Thank you for sharing.
Oh damn! I had a couple of those! I never knew what they were called. They use to get beat up by my G. I. Joes. Even my Star Wars figure use to get trounced by my mighty G. I. Joes, the greatest action figures of all time!
GI Joes were the TOUGH MFers, lol. The Adventure People were great fodder for any other toyline, so true.
This is one of the coolest RUclips videos I've ever seen! I'd forgotten all about these cool toys! Thanks for the fascinating history, I did not know the first wave of Star Wars figures were adapted from the Fisher-Price people! So cool! Also, those x-ray Fisher-Price people were cool beyond words! I personally had the Safari Fisher-Price people set as a kid! Well, thanks again for making this awesome cool video!
I am so glad you took from it what I hoped people would. These were just cool, we loved them, our parents liked their price, and they were the imaginations best ally. Yeah, the Star Wars connection is TOO cool.
Love your content and how you mix in other toy lines that accompanied the subject matter (we were all there and remember them. Either in a toy aisle, a friends house, or maybe we even owned them). Keep up the great work!
YOu got it exactly. Toys could mix, they did, and we loved doing it. Someone we could make it work as kids. And yeah, there were other lines we had, some were more versatile than others...like these babies.
One of my favorite toys. Hours of play. Took my wilderness adventure team up to Banff national park BC. They fit in perfectly. Everything fit into a cardboard box, so they travel on all camping trips. The video was excellent, especially all the photos of boxed sets. Thanks for the memories.
So happy you liked it. That is what it is all about. Memories. Oh, and I went to Banff...too bad I did not bring my adventure people, that sounded like fun.
Nice subversive use of the "Halloween" and "Open Water" footage 😉
Yeah, I like to keep it interesting. When I said one long shot...I thought of Halloween...when I said lost in the open sea...thought of that blink and miss it moment the shark fin shows up in open water. Just a little something extra. Thank you for noticing.
This absolutely feels like the precursor to the 90s Rescue Heroes figures.
It could be. They just evolved them younger.
X-Ray Woman was my favorite. I swear she appeared on a Bionic Woman comic book cover during the 70s
Hmmm, now I am going to have look that up.
@@GENXPERIENCE I have it…it’s issue 4 from 1978
I got the news van as a hand-me-down or yard sale purchase from mom. Just the van, no camera even, but it got so much play use with my M.A.S.K. and G.I. Joe toys. Great stuff man, thanks for the memberberries 👍😄
Even were able to use it for 2 different size figures....great job making that work.
I was born in 1994, but I'd be all over that TV van if I had it as a young lad. There's something so appealing about a mundane vehicle and making fun scenarios out of that.
I could imagine an updated version of this with the vehicles having _Brüder_ levels of detail, updated figures and accessories. 😁
I like your style, because that is exactly what is fantastic about a vehicle, a couple of figures, and few accessories. Go to Town. Would love to see more of this for today's kids. Thanks for watching.
I had the safari set and the ranger set, but my favorite was the green motorcycle and side car. These toys were tough, made it through me and my neices and nephews 50 years, and still going strong.😊😊😊
That set was a little smaller, but you got some bang for your buck. NIce set, and yeah, quality to last for years.
I remember the disappointment when a family member grabbed these for me instead of licensed characters from the movies or tv, but I miss them now.
I can see your point, not getting those licensed characters, but yeah, these guys were versatile.
Such great toys growing up! I had the medical van, motorcycle team, and scuba divers. : )
100% they were so versatile and made us more creative.
WOOOOOOOOO! I had missed this , Loved these as a kid. Thanks man you rock !
NO, YOU ROCK. Seriously. Thanks for reading a reply, and then checking out another show. Enjoy. Thanks again.
I had many of these! wow, nostalgia... I still have my green van and space ship somewhere..
That green van doesn't ever leave us, lol.
This sparked some memories. Saw a bunch of these toys at an estate sale not long ago. Toys felt familiar, but i couldn't remember what they were. This video reminded me of how many adventure people toys me and my brother had. Lol The hanging neck.
Even doing the show made me think of how many we had. A LOT! Loved them and they were so versatile.
I got the Safari set for Christmas when I was 4 years old and still have most of that set (and several others) today at 51.
NIce. Thanks for sharing, and love that you still have most of it. Way to care for toys.
It would be awesome if the Adventure People line was brought back.
They could make a come back. WE don't need a known IP.
They were after my time. I had no idea. Thanks posting this!
Thank you for watching. They ran 1975-1983 and they were past your time, you must have some great memories and stories of other awesome toys from your childhood. These were pretty cool, but love to hear your favorite toys when you were growing up.
Had rescue helicopter, boat and motocross bike and had my hours of play loved these figures
Hours, right? Like hours. They were remarkable.
My Adventure people had to defend the Earth from the Micronauts. But it would later be revealed that the Micronauts were merely misunderstood refugees from inner space ... and my entire "War of the Worlds" scenario would end as a lesson on not judging books by their covers. The Micronauts and the Adventure people army would even ban together to take down the rampaging giant Shogun Warriors.
Okay, this better be some fan fiction you wrote, because it is awesome.
@@GENXPERIENCE I was known for my detailed scenarios. My friends, believe it or not, would get irked at me for pointing out how they were straying from the plot when they joined in
I had most of your selections, minus the camper and helicopter/submersible. I never thought of the "TV producer" as Lou Grant but later used him as Perry White with my Super Powers Superman and Clark Kent. I never called the reporter Carol (actually I didn't remember the figures having names) but Sue, As I lived in the New York City area, there was an anchor/reporter named Sue Simmons on NBC 4 that I though looked very much like the action figure.
Thanks for sharing the memories. That is what it is all about. Yeah, some of the sets, not all, had the names of the characters on the package. Oh, he just reminded me of Lou Grant now, not as a kid, lol.
Loved this video! I had many of those sets , my favorite was the space shuttle
Thank you. Thank you for watching. The FP Adventure People were the bomb. So much fun, so much imagination, so many stories.
Brad... the gray haired one, also called Male Outdoorsman... from the Northwoods Trailblazer set... 5:55 ... seems to have been patterned a bit after Race Bannon from the Johnny Quest cartoon. Dick, from the Mountain Climber's set... also called Male Mountain Climber... 6:50 ... could possibly be used as Benton Quest.
I see the Race likeness, and that makes total sense. Looks like he and the Male Mountain Climber could be making a great Johnny Quest set. Thanks for the comment and view.
I never collected Adventure People. I did have many of their accessories I'd find at yard sales. The dirt bike, raft, and especially the parachute. Ripcord loved that chute. So did Airborne. It allowed him to be an actual paratrooper 😂. It's probably why I ended up in Jump School when I joined the Army.
Love this story, and yeah Airborne (who I just got in the Classified line) needed a real parachute, lol.
I remember these playsets, I had the rescue helicopter and the rescue truck with the cherry picker. I also had the guy with the motorcycle and parachute.
Love it. These guys were great, I had those too, and they were just a blast.
Great video. You certainly made me want to subscribe! I think the safari driver was almost certainly intended to look like Burt Reynolds, too! :)
I can't argue with that. Burt was a big deal and the look of "man" at the time...oh, and I can't argue with you subscribing, THANK YOU.
Funny you doing this. I reconstituted some of these sets on a lark, and am adding in a bunch of extra animals from Schleich
Really?! That sounds awesome. This line has great assets to use for various projects, but it is perfect for re-imagining, too. Good luck, sounds exciting.
underrated toys, fun to hunt down still, and usually still cheap….well made informative vid-
Cheap makes them even better to hunt down, lol. Thank you for watching.
Safari team brought back memories!!
They were all so much fun. All those pieces used by so many other sets, toys, etc. Loved these guys.
Had several of these like the Reporter and Space Shuttle.
THe X-Ray ones can't remember if got them from the store or a garage sale.
Sometimes I just know we had them, how....not sure, but we had them. That TV truck was just a weird anomaly that I loved. Thanks for watching.
Have you seen the upcoming Four Horsemen figure? It’s an homage to the Adventure People…Ph’shrr Ryyce is the name of the character
I have just recently heard, but you are the one who filled in the blank on the homage. Thanks for sharing the picture, it is so obviously a nod.
We had quite a few of these toys mixed in with our other toys, though I'm not sure where we even got them! I do clearly remember using one of the guys from the Air-Sea Rescue Copter as a stand-in for Lando.
Okay, your understudy LANDO is awesome. Yeah, they were everywhere. We had them all, and they seemed to just appear, lol.
I remember these well, especially the gorilla, the lion and the cycle team. My friend still has the cycle team in a display case at his custom motorcycle shop. And yeah, the heads are flopped down. 😞 I recall even the mighty gorilla eventually got that floppy neck.
That floppy neck was a pandemic. Love that he's got that team in the case, AWESOME.
I actually had the alpha probe. You should do one doing all the Micronauts
I see everyone loves those guys. We had a couple, but I had no emotional connection to them....I guess I need to do some research first, lol.
I grew up on Adventure People
And like me, I am sure you LOVED every minute of those awesome figures and vehicles. THanks for watching.
@@GENXPERIENCE OF COURSE I DID! It was a great way for my imagination to grow
Those vehicles and most of those accessories were also useful as undercover vehicles for both Cobra and GI Joe early in the line .
So many possibilities, it really makes the sets more diverse and playtime more exciting.
You know I had that ambulance when I was a kid. It never occurred to me that that was supposed to sound like a siren. I thought it was the truck revving up makes sense though.
Maybe I was wrongs. We always thought it was intended to be the siren, but it did sound more like revving up, lol.
OMG THANK YOU.. Ihad some of these figures could never find the right name. This toy line gets no love.
You got it. Glad you enjoyed revisiting your past. These were great figures and deserve respect.
@@GENXPERIENCE I had the parachute guy and X-ray man and others
My brother and I had several of the smaller sets, and the safari set. I also remember similar toys with diecast metal cars/trucks? I had a yellow/orange diecast truck with motorcycle trailer. All of them doubled as GI Joe vehicles for Mad Max Road Warrior stuff..
Love that you made your own MM RW toys from that line. I am not sure which one that is that is diecast metal. Hmmm. I will have to look up.
@@GENXPERIENCE In my mind, I always thought they were this series of toys, but does not appear to be. I had a diecast orange indycar and the yellow/orange truck. Tonka maybe?
I had a few of these toys including, a deep sea diver with giant octopus which I had for my birthday.
They were great quality toys. Thanks for watching.
I remember having the diver and octopus.
I bet they got a lot of play.
I had a green jeep with a guy that had a hat. I’m pretty sure it’s buried in my childhood backyard with a few GI JOE
and Ewok figures.
As we did with some things, lol. Awesome pieces thank you for sharing.
Please consider making another video about the X-ray people if you discover any cool new stuff about them. Thanks!
You know what? That is a cool idea, I will see what I can find.
yeah i ditched the people whenever Star Wars came out, but the vehicles and accessories remained in use all the way through my GI Joe years
I can see that. Although we tried incorporated some of them with Star Wars and GI JOEs, I agree the vehicles had a longer life span.
they had the "Steer and Beer" hands
lol, that is one way to put it. NIce!
my brother and I had the Adventure people, the Star Wars figures, and the heroes from GI Joe, fight Cobra in their headquarters which was the old Fisher-Price little people Castle.
cross-platform toys and imaginations.
That is the way to play. Nice job, you did it with the imagination we wielded like a sword back then.
My Kid Brother and I both owned and played with these toys.
My brother's and I had a bunch, too. Loved them
This line basically took off where Adventure GI Joe and Big Jim play lines left off .
spiritual successor...I do believe that is accurate.
Awesome. I had a few of these guys. Have you done a video on Playmobil?
Not yet. But I loved having Playmobil. I had a good amount of pieces, and used to make them into all kinds of things. Thanks for mentioning them.
My Adventure People, and their gear, had long and storied lives throughout the 70z and early 80s not only on their own, but iwth Star Wars, GI Joe and any other similarly sized action figure... And when the people were no longer able to keep up with Joe, their vehicles considered to soldier on.
THis is actually...BEAUTIFUL, lol. Love it and thank you. You described how it was or at least how it should have been.
A few years ago I went to the beach, and I found the sea sled washed up on shore
NO way. I bet you recognized it right away. I would have, and probably taken it home. Great find, great memory.
I had the diver ones and the AJ Foyt racing car set
Lucky. The Racing Car Set had to be awesome.
X-ray man and woman were my two favorite figures. I don't know why. I just thought that they were the coolest thing in the world when I was a kid. Plus the shuttle is still the best vehicle in the line.
Me too. Like I just needed them in all my play, lol. Oh, glad you like the shuttle. It is pretty awesome.
I feel I had more of these than Star wars and Gi Joe sets
You aren't alone. I know I had more of these than GI JOe, but NOT SURE about Star Wars. I had a lot of those, lol.
I’m amazed they don’t put these toys on the market again.
Exactly, what is going on? They should have already been there and expanded on. I am sure they are, but in little person form since getting and playing with toys seems to be for the even younger now.
FYI, the helmets on the astronauts ARE NOT supposed to be removeable!! You'll find a lot of them with missing helmets, but that's because kids broke them.
I heard that. I thought they were, but we probably broke them. Now all I can think of is HEADLESS figures.
I had the wilderness patrol and I still have the collie scout.
WHAT? You got Lassie, lol. Great piece and love that you have that one part left.
A little repaint on the safari guy and you get Burt Reynolds as The Bandit.
You got that right. I am sure there was some pretend banditing going on!
They don't make toys like this anymore.... but I wish they did. I still have a few of my sets, just not enough of them.
Not enough...I feel you. No, they do not. But yes, they should make them for kids today.
I had quite a few of these and I thought they were cool.
They did their job, and very well. Thanks for watching.
@@GENXPERIENCE Indeed they did. I really liked the deep sea diver with the octopus.
The start of a lifetime of addiction. Thanks
lol. I know what you mean. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Got mine second hand after an older relative got bored with his, and yea, the sport van set was the star. Only vehicle i got though, the rest were just all the sci fi figs.
Still, you had the best. Most of mine were my brothers right above me. We had a few, and I loved them. Thanks for sharing.
I had the Alpha Probe space shuttle. I was in fifth grade probably around ten years old. I would say it was around 1981 or 1982.
Nice piece. Were you like me and brought those things to Show & Tell?
@@GENXPERIENCE I sure did. I even tied it to a string so I could pull it around the classroom.
My first set was the emergency vehicle, a few years later, the safari set allowed me to disappear for hours!! These were extremely happy times when I had no real worries.
No worries. If only that were today. Thank you for sharing.
Hands down the red and the white race cars…. I still have 2 of each
Nice. You must have loved them.
@@GENXPERIENCE so much so that now my 2 year old granddaughter plays with them… now THAT is a toy worth the purchase price.
i had forgotten the name of this line, i do vividly remember owning the shark boat one, i kept the shark for years after losing the figures and boat.
Awesome. Glad I helped you remember and maybe even relive some nice childhood memories. Thanks for watching.
I never had any of these but some of them are nonetheless familiar. Was that octopus and mini-sub in a cousin's bathroom? Was that rescue helicopter part of the local toy library? Was that weird orange slab of a robot hanging out with a friend's Star Wars figures? Probably yes.
These things found themeselves everywhere, with everyone...even if we don't remember getting them, lol.
I wish I had hung onto mine.
Some of them would have been absolutely worth hanging on to. Thanks for watching.
Now I know why I had a race car driver but no race car - 45 year old mystery solved! Cheap ass parents! 🏎️😂
lol...well, yeah, it was costs effective. Glad I could be some EDUTAINMENT for you, and hope you enjoyed while learning!
The jaws boat was the best
I did like the SHARK (I think it was called) and the rubber shark. These sets were awesome.
So was there an official character backstory (who they were, what were their abilities and purpose) on X Ray Man and Woman? They were easily the coolest thing to come out of the line, but they are also the only one that kinda require an explanation.
Not that I am aware of. Clawtron, Brainoid, and others were like X Ray Man and Woman...no explanation. With all the space sets and figures coming out from 80 to 83, I think they just hoped to make some spacey fantasy characters...but no description. Just leaving it up to us, I guess.
Did you see the Four Horsemen tribute figure Cosmic Legions The Shadow Circle ?
I did! And now I see the resemblance. Very very cool. I don't know if they intended that or not, it had to inspire them. Did it?
Like many of the commenters as a kid, I had quite a few of these, and even sort of two of some due to a younger brother having to have everything I had.
They were popular and cost effective. Funny about your brother, if you had convinced him to have different ones, your collection could have been so much bigger/diverse. Thanks for sharing.
This line needs a revamp and release.
I second that.