Most Disappointing Toy/Comic/Game Grails
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 2023
- When the thrill of the hunt was better than the prize. Reading your comments about biggest collecting let-downs.
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I actually cannot think of a toy I had that I was disappointed in. I had Star Wars, Go Bots, Transformers, GI Joe and MASK. The main disappointment I had was my own fault, using red magic marker to paint Cobra Symbols on my Star Wars vehicles lol
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This is what a true kid does! I painted SO many Joe's.
I hope you'll recover soon Michael. And if it helps you feel better I can tell you something a friend of mine told me once. His oldest brother was a huge He-Man fan as kid back in the 80's, and whenever he got a cold/flu/fever/measels/any childhood decease he insisted on keeping his He-Man figure close to his bed so the Power of Greyskull could heal him faster. Because I didn't meet him until my late teens I don't have any way to verify if that truly worked or not. But in any case, get well soon! :)
Thank you very much. I'll put Fortress Maximus on my night stand. I should be feeling better by tomorrow.
@@MichaelMercy Be careful. Fortress Maximus may not be the best medicine. I hear he's Spiked...I'll get me coat.
Hope you feel better Michael. Keep up the great work. Love your channel.👍🏻
Thank you. Nerdmaste.
excited for this one, considering all the talk of 'Grails' i hear.
Enjoy.
We hope you feel better soon, Michael! Thanks for reading my post/rant 😅 Even though Origins didn’t give us most of the action features, it did give us some sweet WWE figures and some awesome stop motion videos that wouldn’t have been possible without the extra articulation. A worthy sacrifice.
Thank you for the well wishes, and for contributing your thoughts.
Hope you get better mike your videos keep me going everyday I atleast watch your history videos 5 times a day my daughter is only 2 she loves your intro music and your live action recreations of the dad and kid when it comes to the transfomers g1 toys. She smiles every time I turn the videos on especially when I re organize my transfomers on there shelfs and I'm so ready for you to drop the 88 transfomers history video in the future. Nerdmaste good brother.
Aw, that's so sweet. Thank you. Yes, Sean Pinchin is an incredible blues artist. Nerdmaste.
@@MichaelMercy my holy grail would be my 86 reflector and 84 megatron. Those are my holy grails
I'm happy to be in the video!! haha i liked how you tried to say my spanish name and my italian surname, you did it very well and almost like they say it in my country!
Thanks for writing in. Ciao.
Feel better brother.
Thank you kindly.
Thank u Michael Mercy I appreciate you taking time for your positive energy and warm words.Get well soon yes speedy recovery 🙏.
Thank you kindly. Cheers.
GI Joe Classified Lt. Falcon
What, you don't like the face or something? 🤔
@@MichaelMercyTo quote Articulated Chad: "Maaat Daaaammon" 😆
Even on your sick bed your still putting out content.now thats commitment.hope you feel better soon🙂
Thank you very much. Have a lovely weekend.
Thank you for this video, Mike. Hope you are feeling better soon, my friend. - Bear
Thank you, Bear. Hope you have a great weekend.
The chase is often better than finally getting your hands on the grail.
feel better brother 🙏 luckily all of my Grails more than lived up to my expectations! thank the Toy Gods💥
Thank you Jason.
Hey Michael, thanks for the shout out! Ha, I'm the person that mentioned the panosh place voltron! I still have it and it still sucks! I keep it because my parents got it for me for my birthday and they had saved long and hard back then to get it. I knew that and I always appeared to "love" it in front of them, but my God how I hated it! So if u want to get one, be warned! If you pay a lot for it, man, you may be pissed off!
lol it's always the thought that counts. Giving something with genuine love outweighs any design flaws.
i honestly wouldnt mind more episodes on this subject.
This might be a bit blasphemous of me, but my disappointing grail was the original dragon dagger. Those things were literally impossible to find locally during the height of the ranger's popularity. My family and I spent the better part of 3 years looking for one of these daggers and never saw a single one of them. We had all but given up hope of ever seeing one. But then, it finally happened. We had gone to our old stomping grounds the next town over and stopped in at the Walmart we used to frequent.
While my mom was busy shopping, my sister and I hit the toy section. That's when I saw it. It was the only one left on the shelf and I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. It was gorgeous. Even though some of the other toys were hit with clearance stickers, this thing still cost MSRP. I think it was around 30 or 40 bucks. I knew this was probably my last chance at having one, so I went to my mom for an advance on my allowance. It took some fan-dangling but she agreed. i was the proud owner of the dragon dagger at last!
Disappointment started pretty much as soon as I got it out of the box. It looked shorter than the one in the show. I was a big kid, so I had unusually large hands for my age but even then it should have, well, fit better in my hands than it ultimately did.. the majority of the weight was in the blade, which i guess makes sense, since that is likely where most of the electronics were hidden, but even with batteries in the hilt, it felt too light in the grip. Made it imbalanced.
Second and most heartbreaking was that it was kind of cheaply made. I dropped it the thing while playing one day some 3 or 4 months past, and the middle button came right off.. broke at the bottom of the button, so it was damn near impossible to fix without taking the toy apart. I was not even 10 yet, so that wasnt gonna happen. Receipt was gone and it had to be taken back to the store i bought it from, which likely wasnt a place we'd be visiting again in the forseeable future.
I had the other ranger weapons, the axe, sword, bow, lance, saber tooth daggers. Hell, I even had the sword blaster and all of them were better than this thing quality wise. I tried to fix it by gluing it back together but i didnt get it on the button to stick where it should and it remained stuck and unusable. I wound up selling it a few years later to a kid who would go on to buy all my power rangers toys, who seemed to be absolutely thrilled with it, so, at least I could make someone else happy with it..
Oooooh, I bet the Contructicon that broke right out of the box was Scavenger! That boy has some legendarily flimsy shoulders.
Great topic, and I hope you are feeling better!!
I have one regret, not a disappointment though. The GX-100 GAIKING AND DAIKU MARYU | SOUL OF CHOGOKIN set...
I mean, when I saw it for the first time, it brought up memories of my childhood and watching a show called Force Five that included the mighty Space Dragon and Gaiking, then finding out as a kid that toys existed of not only Giaiking and the Space Dragon, but Grendizer as well blew my child mind at the time.
So when I saw this set online and heard from others how great it truly was, I thought to my self, this is a grail, but it wasn't until I saw in person that I actually thought of pulling the trigger. I didn't take it lightly. I debated on it for some time and decided to get it. Now I'm in no way disappointed with this beautiful set, but rather in myself for getting it. The price tag, though I was able to pay for it in installments which didn't hurt the budget in any way, but that at the end of it I feel it is way over priced, and if I had to do it again, I would pass on it. Worse part of it all is that the Space Dragon is so large that I can't currently display it, so I have to drag the box out and assemble it in order to play with it, but one day, it will be out standing proud over my space guarding against Darius The Great and his Dark Horror Army!!!
Great video. I am a big fan of 80's WWF, and an LJN collector. Your voice is really great. Hope you feel better, brother.
Thank you. Take care.
Very interesting video.
I had an opposite feeling when I picked up G1 Megatron. I remember thinking his arms always looked stumpy in photos but since I got him, I have never regretted it. The sword with the reissue helped. Can't believe it's 20 years since I got him.
Hope you feel better soon and a hearty hello from Ireland.
On the other hand, when I was a kid I always wanted, but was never allowed Voltron. I generally never got big things. I usually only got a GI Joe figure, not many vehicles. And MASK I only ever had the smaller vehicles.
Voltron was that one thing more than anything else I just always really wanted as a kid, but could just never get it.
After 40 years, I finally recently aquired one, even with a bit of yellowing, not in the best condition youll ever see, Its still amazing for me to look at. I dont really touch it, I dont really touch many of my collection, Its more a form of art these days, like looking at a painting. Everyones different, for me I just dont really get much out of picking them and holding. Its pretty much purely the nostalgia of seeing them.
But yeah, the Voltron to me, just looks amazing, just hits the nostalgia button hard.
As a kid, snake mountain was a huge disappointment
Man, I loved Air Raiders.
It’s nice to hear that someone did.
Well...🤔...I must say, there was some interesting✨️muses of such on the topic that I found very insightful to apply to my own collecting endeavors...💯✔️
Michael, I am sorry you are sick. I hope you feel and get better soon. I am not sure if I was disappointed as a kid with toys, just loved getting them and it came from my parents, so that made it more special. But I guess the only disappointment or missing grail would be not getting the G.I.Joe Defiant (shuttle, I hope i got the name right). Either it was too expensive or we just couldn’t find it, lol. As always, thank you for the video and please take care and have a speedy recovery. Nerdmaste!
Thank you. Have a nice weekend. Nerdmaste.
Hope you get better soon 😊
Thank you, greatly appreciated.
This is a GREAT topic! For me, probably the vintage Japanese Transformers Star Convoy. Great design. Bad, expensive by rarity, toy.
Before I started collecting transformers, my holly grails were Beast Wars Transmetals 1 Optimus Primal and Megatron. I bought Optimus Primal with my first-ever salary as an adult. Unfortunately, a screw joining the canopy and cannons to the back of the figure snapped, leaving me with two halves of a figure and a shocking face. Fast forward a couple of years, I finally managed to hunt a sealed Megatron, which sadly was a victim of the plastic-gold syndrome, which pulverized him after the first transformation. Fortunately enough, the next purchases of vintage figures were very solid, to the point where I keep collecting and hunting modern and vintage Beast Wars and generations Transformers. Besides, I got a replacement for the Hasbro Optimal Optimus and got the Takara Transmetal Megatron, which had no problem at all.
11:34 There's an Air Raiders bible. Apparently, at some point, a cartoon was consdered. I dont' know how far into production it went. but this was about the time Hasbro's relatuionship with Snbow took a turn, So maybe it's not ncessarily a reflection of them giving on the product itself.
Hope youre all good bud! Thanks for powering through to give us another video
Thank you very much.
I have 3 original TMNT blimps I am currently in the process of trying to restore them they are and have always been fragile but they look so good in any collection
I remember my passing up on a Manglor but my brother got one and when he took it home opened it and pulled him apart he wouldn't piece back together and he quit the toy right there. Looking back even now I laugh at his poor choice.
Feel better my friend
Thank you very much.
Hope you feel better!
Thank you Alan.
When I was a kid, I wanted to save up the $300 for Avengers #1 that Overstreet listed for it (assuming my comic shop had it behind the counter, which it probably didn't). I've since read the issue and found it rather corny. It got better.
My grail is Classics Snake Mountain. I'll probably never be able to afford one so I don't have to worry about being disappointed. lol
I heard if USS Flagg was actually build to scale with 3 3/4 inch figures and vehicles it would be 65 feet long and 13 feet wide. The grail I always wanted as a kid was the Dino Riders Brontosaurus. After watching a RUclips video reviewing it, realized it wasn’t as cool as my children brain had imagined it was. I miss my Dino Riders thou, cool toys, remember Christmas of 1988 got almost entire first wave. Moving too much and younger siblings born lost most of my great toys.
haha I still like the Dino Riders Brontosaurus, but it does lack a lot of detail in its giant armor oval. Lots of side accoutrements, though- I love the three Rhamphorhynchus guys on the side!
Get well soon Mike! I never had any MASK growing up and if i can get only one i would love to get Condor. I have no disappointment I'm just grateful i'm able to afford to buy toys and share it with my boys.
Thank you Rai Rai.
Hope you start feeling better.
Thank you. Take care.
I used to always want a transforming Robotech/Macross Valkyrie fighter. I know they’ve been released by multiple different brands, and I may still try to get a different one. But somewhere between 5-10 years ago, I found one at a collectible thrift store in a box. Box was in rough shape but the toy looked good. I ended up buying it and was so disappointed. The joints were loose, the transformation didn’t stay in place. It would untransform itself if you moved it in the wrong direction. It may have just been because it was a 1980s toy in the 2010’s, but it didn’t change how bummed I was.
I loved origins when it first came out, then they whored it in to the ground🤬
Happens to most toys...comics...movies...tv shows...
Good video topic, I really can’t think of a toy that let me down. Not off the top of my head anyway.
Feel better Michael!
Thank you James, greatly appreciated.
I have that voltron. Got it for Christmas one year and i still have/love it
For me, it's easily classics Stroud Collection Skeletor! I have always loved the design. Always loved the movie. Everything about. Got the figure. Opened it. Thought it looked great. More happy with the cosmic key.
It's been sat on a shelf for years not touched or looked at.
To be honest, I'm almost never happy with what I buy once I have it. Probably due to my dower Irish heritage. However, I do look at my Fisher Price Castle and G1 Jetfire with joy. Doesn't happen often.
I agree with you I hope they re-release the slim pit and maybe Horde fright zone one day!🤞🤞 I never had a grail i was disappointed when I finally got it But I did want from Storm Collectibles a Shao Kahn & Goro but price wise they wwway too expensive!! I am glad SC is releasing newer, better versions of both!😁
Hope you’re able rest and feel better, Michael!…for me it was G1 Monstructor. The fragile gold plastic means I can’t really Transform or decombine it, so it’s display only…and to top it off, I find it doesn’t have a lot of presence among other bots. In the very least it’s an interesting piece of history so I still own it. Happy Collecting everyone!
Thank you. I had some Monstructor parts. The gold one crumbled to bits. The shells got sticky too.
Defiant is absolutely worthy of owning a complete collection. I’m pretty sure Plasm was the best comic being published at the time.
Yes! The slime pit
Mine is definitely the Transformers Takara Legends Super Ginrai and God Bomber. The full combined mode had shitty feet. And Bomber was just a pain. I was so disappointed.
Hope you feel better soon Mike!
Thank you kindly!
I remember the Dragon Ball GT playstation game. It was the only game I remember that actually had beam struggles as part of the game mechanic. If your characters were far enough away, doing a special move would trigger a little cut scene of the character charging up and yelling their attack. for the briefest moment during that cut scene, depending on the opponents input, your opponent would either use a ki sheild, bat the energy blast away, or would activate their own special move cut scene and at the end of it you would be locked into a beam struggle. Not the best game but the inclusion of that gimmick allows it to hold a special place in my memory.
I had the Flagg and the Cobra base, but I thought they were awesome.
I had the same experience with G1 Devastator. Got the Walmart Reissue and was so disappointed with it. Felt like cheap dollar tree plastic. And the Head broke off after Dev took a stumble. Returned it right after opening it.
The Combiner Wars Devastator was reissued a year later and was a whole lot better. And the price wasn’t a whole lot more.
The Walmart reissues are a far cry from the originals.
Feel better soon!
Thank you.
I think my biggest disappointments was almost all of the Titans returns headmasters except Hardhead, Chromedome and Legends Brainstorm. The rest was just a bunch of qc issues. I also have to mention all of the combined forms from Combiner wars. The could barely stand on their own, and lastly Takara Legends Godbomber. It's just a big mess that doesn't hold together
Hope you get well soon Michael, I can't think many toy disappoints, look forward to your next video, get some rest👍 Nerdmaste
Thank you. Nerdmaste.
Origins and vintage go together great so you shouldn’t have to choose between them!
14:27 OMG! That reminds me of the Matchbox Robotech figures. Those have to be the worst figures I have ever seen. Most of the faces were mangled and deformed. There was only 1 good figure in that entire line, the Bioroid Terminator because it was a cool looking robot & didn't have a F'ed up human face.
One of my most disappointing toy purchases has to be Dark of the Moon Jolt not because the figure was badly designed in anyway it like most early TF movie toys is really well made, but the one I got was a factory defect and his arm came off all the time to the point were it couldn't go back on. Now I have the Studio Series version which is shocking good for an early Studio Series cease as good as the modern ones are I felt the start of the line was a step down for the quality of movie toys, but I still wish my Dark of the Moon one just worked right.
When I bought the Fanstoys version of Jetfire or Skyfire however you want to call him I was disappointed in it.
Sorry to hear that. That's quite an expensive disappointment.
Feel better, it sounds like you need some good solid sleep.
Thank you.
9:28 I'm sure that this is just a image that you captured off of the internet from someone
who has a great knowledge of taking brilliant pictures,
but who has poor knowledge of the subject of which he is taking pictures of...........
Scrapper (top center) is transformed incorrectly --- his legs are still "stuck" in vehicle mode;
he looks so much shorter than the others --- it's almost laughable.
Hook (Bottom left --- our left) also has his legs "stuck" in vehicle mode, but he "still"
looks the same size as the others --- fascinating.
13:16 fixed on the Retro re-release apparently.
A grail that I did not think that I need I got anyway one is the Cobra Terror drone and the g I jpe flag the one I got at a great price and the other one was at book price .With what g I joburg did with the flag makes it all more playable .And I am still hunting for parts and pieces of .y collection and enjoying it
I've been thinking about this for a while now, and honestly, I don't think I have any big disappointments. There have been some letdowns, both as a kid (the GI Joe Silver Mirage comes to mind), and as an adult (of note, the Hasbro Pulse Cobra Officer/Soldier 2 pack). The Mirage was just so flimsy and the HP 2 pack, well, lets just say that it isn't a good value for the money.
Manglors was a huge disappointment.
I was soo disappointed back in the day with the kenner DC super heroes. I hated the forced gimmick features. I just wanted a green lantern and flash to fight wolverine and captain america on my castle grayskull, but no they had to put the squeeze-me feature on them! Arrgh!
All these years later it still makes me mad.
Also why didnt cap not have a real shield on the secret war figure?? I mean come on!
See you tomorrow Indiana Jones.
The first Bayverse toys. They kept making so many different versions and sizes of each figure. they tried to make a line last very long with 8 figures. I think back then the figure they should have only sold were the Bestbuy exclusive versions of the figures. I know they started that trend probably with beast machines but ever since the live action movies then they've been kinda doing the same for every line. Making all these different sizes and simpler versions of one figure in my opinion has kinda ruined the line. for a long time it was hard to find a figure i truly thought wasn't cheap looking. I understand the simpler ones are cheaper and probably more accessible for kids of poorer families. It just makes more junk in the world.
I searched for the Pandora’s box mekbuda an upgrade kit to fall of cybertron Optimus prime got the only one on the internet and when it got to my house the feel of the kit felt cheap and not sturdy
Hope you get better.
Thanks.
I agree with tracks, he’s meh at best
Get well bro. Any of Indiana Jones figures of the 80's sucks. Now the new líne of Hasbro are great in comparison!
Hi Micheal, I hope you'll recover soon Micheal,Also great video about The Most Disappointing Toy/Comic/Game Grails keep them coming,Also my most disappointing Toy Line was WWF Superstars with real Wrestling Action & Action Figures from Hasbro, especially The Late Great Legendary Big Boss Man Action Figure one problem he's missing his nightstick,Despite that I've kept him all the way to 2023, Also thank you Micheal.I really appreciate you taking time for your positive energy and warm words. also as for your previous video about the Transformers Headmaster Cerebros/Hannibal, I'll watch the video tomorrow afternoon, Also I hope you not only get well soon but also hope you feel better Micheal.All I can say is keep up the great work have a goodnight and Nerdmaste.🙂🟢👍🏋️💪🇨🇦💚✌️💯🤩
Thank you Steven. Nerdmaste!
I hope you feel better soon. Nerdmaste! 🫖🍯
Thank you Stephanie. Have a great weekend!
Thank you for this video, Mike. Hope you are feeling better soon, my friend. - Bear