Comments on: Cyborg VS Muton

By: ranger67

ranger67 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:44:56 +0000

I had one of those Cyborg figures, wow talk about taking me back!lol

From my jaded memories of the time i'm thinking it must've been around 74 or 75 I had it. My auntie got me it and the see through novelty factor held my interest for a week I think. But it was a strange sort of inbetween size as I recall, too big to join in with Little big man and too small to campaign with my band of Action men(G I Joe to our american chums) I think it met a quite ignominious end at the hands of my kid brother in some form of childhood autopsy!lol

Brilliant just to see the little guy again though.

By: John III

John III — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:12:28 +0000

I think you're right Rob. Since Star Wars, GI Joe and Transformers hit the market, a toy pretty much had to have another market tie-in to work. Whether it be a movie, TV show or comic book. The 70's didn't require this, but the 80's sure did.

By: rob!

rob! — Wed, 19 May 2010 03:27:21 +0000

This post makes me think about something--Brian, do you think a toy/action figure could even make it nowadays unless its a movie/cartoon tie-in?

All these posts you have of these 70s toys that are "just" robots or aliens or monsters makes me realize you just don't see stuff like this anymore--its all IronMan, Toy Story, Ben10, etc.

I'm not criticizing, per se, its just something that occurred to me about how toy aisles have changed over the decades.