AKA Brian Heiler author of "Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings" and co-editor of "Toy-Ventures Magazine". Co-Host of the "Pod Stallions" podcast. Host of the Brick Mantooth Youtube channel, painter, designer, writer, mental health advocate, toy collector, Mego, and Mego Knock-Off enthusiast. I have large feet, ADHD and I live in Canada. Talk toys, not others.
I got these one year and loved them! Because they were knock-offs, no one I knew had them – they were like toys made just for me! Because they came in a bulk pack plain cardboard box from a catalog, I made up names and backgrounds for all of them. I still have them:
I like that green guy–looks like an alien version of The Creature From The Black Lagoon.
(The Creature From The Black Galaxy?)
There are some action figures
being sold right now at the
online Cooper-Hewitt Museum
gift shop that look like they’re
from the same planet.
3 on this webpage
and
3 more on this webpage
I got these one year and loved them! Because they were knock-offs, no one I knew had them – they were like toys made just for me! Because they came in a bulk pack plain cardboard box from a catalog, I made up names and backgrounds for all of them. I still have them:
http://fandcproductions.blogspot.com/2005/09/starroid-raiders.html