I forgot all about muscle men. I fought them every single day when I was little. Gave them all names, gave them each a finishing move, i built my own ring with a square peice of wood, 4 nails and some rubber bands. These were my favorite toys growing up.
@Outsideville
3 жыл бұрын
Wow, I had to check to make sure I hadn't written that comment as I did the same thing. Traded them at school.
@timothybrown5999
3 жыл бұрын
Same. Had my Undisputed and Tag Team champions and more often than not I just had a massive battle royale
@MarkAS56
2 жыл бұрын
@@timothybrown5999 My tag team champs I names Spike and Pinpoint if i recall. Both were red. Pinpoint had what looked like a targeting circle or lens for a face I think. And Spike had no face, but spiked shoulder pads and forearms with chains across his chest
@simonpaquet7161
Жыл бұрын
You must have found the LJN so incredibly big... and unplayable... MUSCLE MEN were so small...
@DireHammer
3 жыл бұрын
My mother never understood why I needed all of them. Muscle men were the driving force of my grammar school economy.
@nbriez-c5914
3 жыл бұрын
The reason I still have these adorable pink "uglies" is because when I was 4 years old my grandfather would give me a pack of them everytime I came to see him before he died of cancer just before I turned 5
@ghadrackpotato960
4 жыл бұрын
When a friend of mine died several years ago he had a figure he renamed screaming baby man. My friends and I all placed our screaming baby man on his casket. Sucks when friends die but this weird thing you used to be able to buy in grocery store bubble gum machines will have a solid place in the hearts of a half dozen guys I know. By the way, we used them as miniature substitutes during D&D games, board games (monopoly I get to be screaming baby man) there's lots if ways to use little figures :)
@mikemiken1963
3 жыл бұрын
I know its years later, but im sorry for your loss.
@BansheeMilk
2 жыл бұрын
I know which one u r talking about. He was my favorite character. I'm sorry for your loss
@ourfatherswar3464
2 жыл бұрын
Sorry for your loss.
@nameless7838
6 жыл бұрын
These guys beat the crap out of my green Army men on a daily basis.
@JohnJohnson-fm7hr
5 жыл бұрын
Did you see GUTS action figures. Same size figures same company. (Mattel toy company)
@mikemikie3729
3 жыл бұрын
Dam right. Dam when life . Was young and free🥺.
@SewerTapes
3 жыл бұрын
I imagine the metal detector guy got it worse than the other Army Men.
@mikemikie3729
3 жыл бұрын
Ok. But dam . Right now it just take you back. When the world was fun . A little crazy but you. Still live . Dam take me back to the 80s. And 90s. Life was good.🥺
@SewerTapes
3 жыл бұрын
@@mikemikie3729 Indeed. Nostalgia endorphins are a helluva drug.
@YankeeMystique
4 жыл бұрын
I’m 47 and still have all my MUSCLE figures! I used to give them their own names, had that poster and played that video game. That game was so fun! I’d still love that poster.
@jamminjohn
3 жыл бұрын
44 and still have some too.
@joshuaclay3751
2 жыл бұрын
45 still have mine or some lol
@thefunnychiptuneman
2 жыл бұрын
you gotta read the kinnikuman manga or watch the anime its a fun time
@R6Dave11
Жыл бұрын
Same here bro. Just pulled to box out of the crawlspace !
@AZTLANSOLDIER13
5 ай бұрын
45 here. I have all my muscle men too. And my battle beasts. They are the only toys to make it all the way from the 80s. Transformers didn't make it Gi Joes didn't, star wars didn't. Just these two. Kinda weird
@THESNEAKERADDICT
6 жыл бұрын
I collected these as a little kid lol
@magnusvontripplehorniii
3 жыл бұрын
Me too
@mugsmctuggs1318
3 жыл бұрын
...NO WAY!!!? I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!
@ManWiThOutFEAR1982
2 жыл бұрын
Same
@velvetbear7184
3 жыл бұрын
What do you do with them? Kids of the 80s had an imagination and figured it out. Great toys
@eligebrown8998
3 жыл бұрын
Yes we did
@chrissutton6235
3 жыл бұрын
"What COULDNT you do with them?!" Is the real answer.
@sluttyfrogmagician
3 жыл бұрын
I assigned WWF character's signature finishing moves to my favorite MUSCLE men. I imagine I'm not the only one, given the timing of the two.
@mugsmctuggs1318
3 жыл бұрын
You did this thing called "playing" using said imagination. Thing of the past as well as going outside and playing with other kids.
@grippygecko6843
3 жыл бұрын
round my end, some kids tied them with string and then threw them to wrap around the telephone wires. And no this had nothing to do with marking gang territory.
@ajkelvin
6 жыл бұрын
they also had a show on fox kids in the 00s Ultimate Muscle
@CarbyGuuGuu
4 жыл бұрын
That was a follow-up to the original Kinnikuman series, where Kid Muscle would follow his father's footsteps.
@kennethpoole5354
4 жыл бұрын
Dont forget also about mucha lucha, which was like the hispanic style acrobatic erestling
@jerome9654
3 жыл бұрын
I remember that show. It was very funny.
@misterjersey5460
3 жыл бұрын
It's actually Kinnikuman Nisei but ok
@Sanguivore
3 жыл бұрын
Ultimate Muscle was such a fun show in my childhood.
@Write-Stuff
3 жыл бұрын
I got one out of a Nesquik can back in the '80s. My friends and I never knew their names, so we just came up with them on our own.
@cbly
3 жыл бұрын
I still have mine, haha. I remember making a wrestling ring for them from a piece of wood, 4 nails and rubber bands for the ropes.
@luckyrockmore2796
3 жыл бұрын
I did the same! 👍👍
@garyhomanick6129
3 жыл бұрын
I did too... and I thought I was alone, haha!
@c0pyimitati0n
3 жыл бұрын
My cousin had that ring too! However I highly doubt he built it.. I think it was an actual product his parents bought him.
@stevencoffman
3 жыл бұрын
sweet i did the same thing with the wood and rubber bands
@andrewlowden322
3 жыл бұрын
YUP! Wasnt there a commercial for them and they did that? funny how we all did the same thing!
@welcometomybreakroom6858
5 жыл бұрын
My biggest memory of them... that distinctive Muscle smell. And my mom getting mad that they kept ending up in the washer ever week, lol.
@dagoelius
3 жыл бұрын
Lmao! So much this. That smell never faded.
@lizzkaayako2270
2 жыл бұрын
Ohhhh yeah....I remember that smell now. Thanks for reminding me of the smell of something I hadn't thought of since the 80s!
@johnm4581
Жыл бұрын
You nailed it!
@JonHuhnMedical
3 жыл бұрын
My late grandma pretty much summed it up when she asked my 11 year old self, "What do you do with them?" I didn't have an answer.
@RamManNo1
3 жыл бұрын
We used to line them up like pins on the kitchen floor and roll a ball back and forth trying to knock each others army down. Hours of fun :)
@Lazy-Monkey
3 жыл бұрын
The answer is of course 'Play with them'. ;
@xstorm_8_shadowx
3 жыл бұрын
Used to set them up and shoot them with a BB gun, miss a shot Id switch sides and if you hit you get to continue. Id did this with my army men first then moved to muscle men.
@StewartWaller
3 жыл бұрын
These were a craze at my school for a couple of years! We would fight them on the desk by flicking our muscleman against the other. Whoever knocked the opponent off the desk won their opponents muscle. Got a bit crazy - especially if you had that bridge/tunnel/stone one that was a surefire bet!
@joelcraig9803
6 жыл бұрын
I had tons of these guys and i made up powers and stories for each of them.
@5roguesaprincess987
5 жыл бұрын
Ditto, I used to have all out wars with my super powered GI Joes
@JReed7560
4 жыл бұрын
I had a lot of these and then some of the multi colored ones that came out. I got some that came in the Quick chocolate powder mix cans. I named and gave powers also.
@jeredsteadman4160
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah this is actually my first WWE 2K universe. I had like two notebooks worth of information on them lol
@michaelh1580
3 жыл бұрын
Yup! Mine had some epic sagas worthy of the Odyssey and the Iliad.
@0therun1t21
3 жыл бұрын
You guys did it right!
@hisvorpalsword
3 жыл бұрын
I loved watching my best friend play with these. He made the coolest sound effects and kept me entertained for hours.
@Will-nq3fo
6 жыл бұрын
best score ever, found a bag of 40 at good will for a buck, made my decade, was my favorite when I was a kid
@Loneman1
6 жыл бұрын
Hahaha I had the same experience at my local good will......that was an epic day.
@delta99nine
6 жыл бұрын
Will so jealous
@jf2849
5 жыл бұрын
Had I ran into them 30 years later at a good will I would have also bought them all right there on the spot.
@HamsterK37
4 жыл бұрын
Well you must have been a very slow child
@eligebrown8998
3 жыл бұрын
Thats awsome!
@surrealchemist
3 жыл бұрын
The designs on these were so cool for something just generic without stories. Hearing the backstory it explains why the design was so neat
@dannycruz5446
6 жыл бұрын
Had the 28 pack, garbage can and several 4 packs, lusted after the board game ( but never got it) and would fall asleep looking at the poster-planning out which ones I would get next. Those are my M.U.S.C.L.E. credentials.
@SecretGalaxyTV
6 жыл бұрын
I would loved to have had that poster back in the day. I would have done the same thing. Stared at it all the time building the collection in my head.
@katenunyabizness9221
6 жыл бұрын
I did not know about the poster. I have the board game still only it is packed with all the figures I got. I don't recall if I got the game at our local Target or at a Kay Bee Toys clearance outlet (long gone).
@JimCornetteIsMyDad
6 жыл бұрын
Had the poster. Never had the garbage can. But. BUT.....did you have the wrestling ring? I did, but this was after they lost a lot of their popularity.
@skolldogg
6 жыл бұрын
I had hundreds of these things. I remember losing my mind when they started coming in different colors.
@edrice2621
6 жыл бұрын
Joe Dirt Yeah, I remember Inhumanoids. Didn't have any of them, but I did like the animated series.
@ChristopherLaHaise
3 жыл бұрын
When I was in high school, I suffered a suplex in Phys Ed which knocked the wind out of me. That Christmas, my Phys Ed teacher, dressed as Santa, called me down during assembly, and told me 'I hear you need some bodyguards'. He gave me this HUGE pack of MUSCLE figures. I have to admit, I laughed. Then wrote a TTRPG for it within the week. First full roleplaying game I ever wrote, and when I moved to another province, I sold it for $10, along with all the figures.
@jaysato
6 жыл бұрын
oh man. this is an interesting thing to know from a japanese perspective. i remember when i lived in the US and when i mentioned Kinnikuman some of my friends knew the Kinkeshi yet they never really knew what the manga or anime it originally came from. to simply put it, kinnikuman was dragonball z before dragon ball existed and it was huge in japan. so americans just buying the Kinkeshi and not knowing the coolness of the story and characters just feels left out to me. its like collecting Pokemon without knowing anything about Pokemon at all. Kinnikuman wa great and i still loved it. it was one of the few mangas that came out in the 70s and 80s where the reader could send a drawing of a wrestler they drew and the actual artist would use it in the story. in the end of each book, there were pages of fan letters and drawing the kids sent out. and it was awesome to see a character come to life drawn by the kids.
@Psiros
5 жыл бұрын
My parents bought me these toys in the 80's and I had no clue about who they were until I moved to Japan. Who knew a bunch of rubber toys bought in a container made to look like a trashcan (at least that's what I remember it looking like) had such a big backstory. lol
@PotatoMcFry
5 жыл бұрын
It's crazy to think that some of the most important characters in the series were fan submissions. I wonder if anyone has ever tracked the creators down for an interview.
@OscillatorCollective
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I had to go back and read up on the mythos when the internet became a thing, super cool and interesting, watched the show, both of them. Gave me a huge appreciation of the toy line.
@KC-Shinobi
3 жыл бұрын
One of my earliest memories was receiving the big flat box of these figures when i was like 3 in Japan before moving to America. A year or so ago i picked up a handful of these Muscle Men from some local comic/toy store for somw power nostalgia. As a kid I watched the VHS of Kinnikuman till it stopped working, still cant find that movie.
@gfan1972
3 жыл бұрын
I curse the day my mom sold them all at a garage sale, well over a hundred of them! Sad face for sure.
@mugsmctuggs1318
3 жыл бұрын
My mom did the same kind of thing with all my old He-Man and Real Ghostbusters toys, was so pissed.
@RamManNo1
3 жыл бұрын
I can’t believe they only ran for 2 years considering how much of my childhood they consumed 😳
@galedribble9535
3 жыл бұрын
2 years is like a huuuuge chunk of childhood That’s almost like 20% of childhood
@RamManNo1
3 жыл бұрын
Dale Gribble I’m 40 and still feel like a child sometimes :/
@erl7466
3 жыл бұрын
holy balls! at one time in my childhood i collected boxes of these; thirty five years later and i’ve forgotten all about them! i recognize so many of these and that’s... sad. but also AMAZING!! just wow man.
@VarangianVigilante
6 жыл бұрын
how about "History of Monsters in my Pocket"?
@SAVAGEAMERIKA
6 жыл бұрын
Those were cool too you took me back with that one
@RockandrollNegro
6 жыл бұрын
I never got into MUSCLE for some reason but I was really into MIMP.
@thingfish000
5 жыл бұрын
If a weird dude approaches you and says he has a monster in his pocket, turn around and run!
@marcwarner5853
4 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@MeximidgeComedy
4 жыл бұрын
Pokemon...
@TheHowlComics
3 жыл бұрын
Using our Muscle collection, my brother and i would build LEGO forts and ship/vehicles and have full scale wars using rubber band guns as well. Hours of priceless childhood.
@Getwright-
6 жыл бұрын
My older brother would paint his like little warhammer miniatures and have battles. When I started collecting monster in my pocket it changed the whole theater of war
@SecretGalaxyTV
6 жыл бұрын
Superhero wrestlers v. Monsters. Glorious.
@Getwright-
6 жыл бұрын
Jinzo Clash I think it was mostly nail polish from our mom. I could be wrong...
@djdubuque3369
6 жыл бұрын
My grandma use to buy me model paint when I was 6 years old and I would paint them too.
@hthrun
6 жыл бұрын
I tried using markers on them. It didn't work very well...
@daviddeleon6149
5 жыл бұрын
HaHa! Monster-In-My-Pocket was the best! I got lucky and got a Tyranosaurus in my pack!
@matthewpalmer2350
3 жыл бұрын
I spent all of my pocket money and used all of my birthday and xmas requests on these guys while they were being sold. Loved and played with them for years. Most had names. I attached Medic to a plastic parachute and lost him in a wall-trained shrub. Rockman was my favourite because he was almost invincible (obviously not against the likes of Hammerhead or Drillbit). Had a 5 litre plastic tub full of them (mostly pinkies). Gave them all away to a neighbour's kid when I was a "cool" teenager. Miss them Terribully now.
@minimoe2807
11 ай бұрын
I feel you man. I sold Sondwave and Starscream for like $1.50 at garage sale! I was too "cool" to have "toys" anymore.
@DrGonzo-jl9wq
3 жыл бұрын
I can still remember their smell
@westrueblood8178
3 жыл бұрын
YES! Was just thinking the same.
@jackalope2302
4 жыл бұрын
MUSCLE was awesome back in the day. The Figures were so random that you could make up all kind of backstory about them.
@Mindcrime80
4 жыл бұрын
In Italy they were konwn as “Exogini” and each One of them was given a name. They were sold in pyramid shaped boxes containing 20 or 50 pieces.
@remc0s
3 жыл бұрын
I had one!
@truefanforum3273
3 жыл бұрын
Honestly, these sound like a great creative activity for kids. Without back stories or even names, kids are free to come up with anything they want. And they do look like a lot of fun.
@RedfishCarolina
3 жыл бұрын
Part of the appeal of these to kids like me was that they were so futbuck strange that there HAD to be a backstory to them all. But it's always left up to our imagination, which we eagerly did. Cool to know that there was a backstory to these things in Japan
@rickevans7941
Жыл бұрын
Lmao futbuck rofl they indeed were strange and we LOVED weird strange shit in the 80's: My pet monster, GPK, etc
@therexbellator
11 ай бұрын
Spot on. When I was a kid I loved to draw especially like comic book style characters but instead of drawing superman or Batman I was drawing my MUSCLE figures and giving them backstories. One of my favorites was that Tank-character you can see on the far right @ 7:10. Good times. My generation didn't have Pokemon but would have loved a proper Pokemon-esque gotta catch them all MUSCLE game.
@davidparslow8255
3 жыл бұрын
These were one of my favs as a kid I had an eye injury that had me going to see doctors for two years weekly. I looked forward to my mom picking me up muscles every weekly trip. I had all but about 17 or 18 of em before she passed away and I stopped caring about toys. Good times....
@osamuikeda3953
3 жыл бұрын
They still make new "kinkeshi" figures in Japan and you can see them from time to time. Also, there is a second generation of the manga/anime called Kinniku Man Nisei. Nisei means "second generation" Also-also, you can buy much more advanced/expensive action figures that are marketed to collectors here in Japan. I personally have a painted and articulated one in my closet.
@BillRalens
Жыл бұрын
Otaku desu ka?
@Sporkmaker5150
3 жыл бұрын
A friend and I melted the Hulk Hogan looking one with a magnifying glass on a sunny day while chanting "Burn Hulkster Burn". I never would have dredged up that little tidbit of childhood memory without stumbling across this video.
@nintruendo6411
3 жыл бұрын
I only had about a dozen of these guys. It's crazy how I instantly recognize those specific figures over 30 years later.
@yobubo
3 жыл бұрын
We played "Thump Wars" with these as children, and I had tons of them (and won a bunch from thump war matches). Basic gist of the game was to draw 2 chalk circles on the ground (about 2 foot dia) touching each other. Stand opposing armies of muscle up in both circles facing each other in whatever layout you want. Players choose a "thumper" from one of their figures and sets it up anywhere inside the circle but behind their army. They then use a finger to hit (flick, aka thump) their "thumper" figure into the other army. The thumper is then recovered and placed in your ranks of muscle men that you felt was fairly protected. The goal was to knock down all the other army's men. Any that were knocked outside the circle were given to the other player to be used in the next game (and kept). Knocking down the "thumper" muscle man constituted an automatic victory (which is why you try to protect it). Many a sore bleeding finger did i have playing this game every chance we got, and i loved it. I still have and cherish my bag of hard won muscle men.
@THEAnimeHERO
6 жыл бұрын
Any chance of doing a follow up video with Ultimate Muscle? It's the sequel series of Kinnikuman starring Muscleman's son Kid Muscle.
@SecretGalaxyTV
6 жыл бұрын
At some point probably.
@evilmidget
5 жыл бұрын
This action figures for Ultimate Muscle were EPIC
@DaFunk14
5 жыл бұрын
Big bad boys from outer space..
@thinkpositivemaya992
5 жыл бұрын
"UL-TI-MATE MUSCLE"
@DaFunk14
5 жыл бұрын
ThinkPositiveMaya Here to bodyslam-the human race
@billythepigeon7345
3 жыл бұрын
I've still got a bunch of these from my childhood, I knew nothing about them until I saw this vid, didn't even know what they were about when I got them.
@berner
5 жыл бұрын
I loved these toys because of their character designs. They were so awesome. I had both the pink ones and the blue ones. Sadly I did not have very many. But that's the joy of having friends with them.
@DR4WZ
5 жыл бұрын
I absolutely loved the smell of a newly opened pack of M.U.S.C.L.E. action figures!!!
@jahmanelion2713
4 жыл бұрын
Just pulled out a box of all of my muscle men as I'm typing this.... The nostalgia is flowing.. 80s baby✌️
@citizengar
6 жыл бұрын
Who's got the time to name all those figures? Action figure collectors, that's who!
@SecretGalaxyTV
6 жыл бұрын
I got nothin' better to do. Let's start at the beginning...
@michaelsierra9
6 жыл бұрын
Toy Galaxy I named a couple of the one’s i liked the most like fishface, snakeman, pythor (the human/python w jetpack, one of my faves at the time), and a lot of others, lol
@HeliasDeNappo
5 жыл бұрын
The dude with 'ICBM' on his chest was 'Icebeam', as we had no idea what ICBM stood for.
@HeliasDeNappo
5 жыл бұрын
The lizard with the jetpack was 'Bicep'. No idea why.
@TabletopJason
4 жыл бұрын
I just found this channel a couple of days ago and can't stop watching. Anyhow, these are probably my favorite childhood toys. We basically ran an indy league with them when we were kids. Kept titles, records, booked lots of complex stories. Haha. Good times and awesome toys.
@trademark310
6 жыл бұрын
My homie had that poster growing up. It was fun just to look at it and see which guys we liked.
@OpaqueVisions47
6 жыл бұрын
blah i had it too, used to do the same thing.
@Mcmacladdie
4 жыл бұрын
Watching these videos has made me realize just how many toys I had as a kid... and now I wonder how I and my parents found space for them all.
@MapesT
6 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah! I remember these and collected a bunch. A buddy of mine and I made our own wrestling ring with a block of wood , 4 nails and 3 rubber bands👍
@roqueadeleon
3 жыл бұрын
I had the Ultimate Muscle figures from the 2000s they printed them very similarly with the solid colors but also had painted ones and some gold ones. I loved all the designs and making them "fight" as a kid.
@damonsantori8817
6 жыл бұрын
Wish i kept my old 80s toys
@vincentharris9702
5 жыл бұрын
I do too
@e-cuauhtemoc
5 жыл бұрын
😢😢😢 ME TOO.
@lonewolffang
5 жыл бұрын
😞 it's so sad I can't even remember how I lost them. Put them in one box and next thing you know, they're gone. I wonder if they're sold on Ebay or Amazon?
@Psychof1st
5 жыл бұрын
@@lonewolffang I feel you! I've lost some of the toys I intended to keep forever. Losing track or events/incidents like moving and my mom letting random kids get into my collection then putting them into the daycare toy box for every kid she babysat. Or, probably carelessly letting them go home with some brat! 20 year old toys that are still in good condition don't belong in the dirty, gross, destructive hands of children. They should be preserved! I kept my hands clean when I was a child. And I must have experienced a toy breaking, devastating me, before I could even remember, is why I remember always being so careful with my toys. The toys I still have are nearly 40 years old now. I'm still bitter.
@buzzsawgr81
3 жыл бұрын
my neighbor's grandson had a bunch of these and we'd play with them all the time. I also recently watched the anime, ultimate muscle, which is a must watch for any anime loving wrestling fan (I just wish it got a complete series release).
@mikehunt4797
3 жыл бұрын
i remember these as a kid in the 80's
@tyrranos9688
6 жыл бұрын
I really wish there were more figures out there today that didn’t prescribe who everyone was and what you were supposed to do with them. That’s part of imagination. That’s part of playing with toys. The Muscle figures were imaginative, and seeing all the crazy designs was part of the fun.
@nategibbons172
3 жыл бұрын
This really made me miss my childhood...
@Kai0nTheMoon
4 жыл бұрын
I had that Mega-Match Game, which I now remember was the "battle arena" for all of my M.U.S.C.L.E. figures. I have not even thought of these toys in years until stumbling upon this video, with images sparking memories I'd forgotten were there. Looking back, it's amazing how many of them my mother and grandmother bought me. Despite growing up relatively poor, these videos resurface memories that make me realize in hindsight just how lucky and spoiled I was as a child of the 80's.
@cavotiscomics3423
6 жыл бұрын
I still have a couple those figures my kid loves them, Dan please make a monster in my pocket video
@cavotiscomics3423
6 жыл бұрын
Behemoth was my favorite MIMP which was yours?
@ntr10me
3 жыл бұрын
I wish I could go back to when I was ...yes... 14years old and loved the hell out of these
@alankozak288
6 жыл бұрын
My mom use to put them every year on my birthday cake as cake topers.lol I loved them lil figures.☺☺☺
@SecretGalaxyTV
6 жыл бұрын
That's a great mom!
@jasonjohnson3424
4 жыл бұрын
Now...the cancer. Jk. I hope.
@OpaqueVisions47
6 жыл бұрын
I had a lot of these as a kid, they were some of my favorite toys. So much that as an adult I just had to fill out my collection. I can proudly say my collection is now complete.
@zeldafreak1975
5 жыл бұрын
Even satan cross??
@riseofloganxlogan4230
6 жыл бұрын
i had two cans i would make them fight my army ants... what are army ants?!?!?! Well that's another story.
@nickdriscoll6131
6 жыл бұрын
RiseOFloganX Logan I loved Army Ants!
@madg620
6 жыл бұрын
I collected army ants from hasbro and had them fight air raiders💗💗💗💗👍👍👍
@jackalope2302
4 жыл бұрын
I remember the Army Ants.
@VooDeux66
3 жыл бұрын
Army Ants!!!!
@tobiasvosh3878
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this video!!!. I loved these (in)action figures as a kid. Was recently dropped a box on my head for my birthday and it was several hundred of these beautiful pink bastards!!!!! At 42 years old I was transported to 1986........ thank you for caring.
@edrice2621
6 жыл бұрын
I seem to recall a variation of M.U.S.C.L.E. figures that were marketed to girls. They were called C.U.T.I.E., or something like that. Anyways, I was into pen and paper roleplaying games when I got interested in M U.S.L.E. and had a notebook where I'd write down names and statistics for my guys, just like an RPG character.
@Theomite
4 жыл бұрын
I was obsessed with collecting every variation of these guys as a kid. I had no strategy or process, so I failed miserably, but the fixation was there.
@j.t.d9882
6 жыл бұрын
I know my brother and I had plenty of these growing up. Loved the video, but where was the brief mention of Ultimate MUSCLE relaunch from the early 2000's? It had the American cartoon, video game, and 6" figures to boot!
@5804Sko
6 жыл бұрын
AHHH yes I remember that show on the FOX box or 4kidsTV. I remember that game for gamecube too
@Bcast64
6 жыл бұрын
J.T. D i remember that show too. It had a pretty cool theme song
@SecretGalaxyTV
6 жыл бұрын
We'll hit it in Volume 2. Eventually.
@5804Sko
6 жыл бұрын
2020
@joeydziedzic7466
3 жыл бұрын
What a blast from the past! I loved these little guys when I was a kid!
@robertdanker6193
6 жыл бұрын
Another great video!!! I had a bunch of them back in the day!! I had 50 or so and got the battle ring (which was lame). I only learned it was part of a manga when they did Ultimate Muscle in the early 2000s.
@tyrranos9688
6 жыл бұрын
Nah, I thought the ring was cool. It gave me and my friends something to do with the figures, namely try to knock each other’s figure out of the clip and win. There was some skill involved both in the selecting of the figure and the play.
@festushaggen2563
4 жыл бұрын
I had Star Wars, He-Man, G.I. Joe and Transformers figures when I was a kid in the 80's but MUSCLE were the only figures I felt compelled to collect. I remember searching through toy stores for new ones and the joy of finding one I didn't have. That joy was also followed by the itch to go find more. There was something about them. Ah memories.
@comcheck4217
6 жыл бұрын
I had a ton of muscle figures.
@swanson2830
3 жыл бұрын
Had 2 of these as a kid. Then got introduced to the ultimate muscle anime before I ever knew the figures were connected to the franchise. Good video!
@roscoerockwell9342
3 жыл бұрын
They actually came in a clear plastic container. My vivid imagination remembers a trash can looking package. I also had WWF thumb wrestlers in the 80's. An tons of garbage pail kids stuck to my trapper keeper.
@jaquecousteau2976
3 жыл бұрын
The hand was my fave , I had every single one and the poster that showed each one.
@adanolmeda4413
6 жыл бұрын
Had a good bunch of them and the wrestling ring. The ring was great until one of the clamps broke. After that it was pretty much over.
@sneezyrider1
Жыл бұрын
This channel is great. I remember so many of these things from my childhood and this guy is like a walking 80's toy and show encyclopedia.
@Chris_Eatz
4 жыл бұрын
I remember having a bucket full and not knowing who's good or bad
@miguel_ian
3 жыл бұрын
I loved these guys. Thank you for taking me here KZitem Algo.
@brennonr
6 жыл бұрын
I had about 80 different ones AND the wrestling... arena? I hated the ones that were just walls or bricks or pyramids and the weird potato looking guy. I thought these were really cool post He-Man craze (for me at least)
@calumryan6328
6 жыл бұрын
That brick guy is Sunshine, it's all the same character he can change shape. he's actually my favorite
@brennonr
6 жыл бұрын
Well that makes him more interesting! I was just a kid. I now have no hatred of any piece of injection molded plastics :)
@ironmaster6496
5 жыл бұрын
@@brennonr Yeah he Is actually a pretty good and interesting Villain, he Is a Sandmonster or Devil who can change forms. Also im gonna take i wild Guess and say that the Weird potato Looking one Is "The Mountain" (who Is exactly that XD, a potato with Arms legs and a Kimono)
@BusterGuts572
3 жыл бұрын
I used to get all my toys from garage sales in the early 90's. My mom got me a shoe box full of these when I was little. Never knew what the were from but I loved them.
@ToyBro
6 жыл бұрын
As a kid I never came across MUSCLE, but I loved Monsters in my Pocket which are basically the same thing. And of course like any self respecting toy collector, I came to appreciate MUSCLE later on anyway.
@dariusq8894
6 жыл бұрын
No. Monster in my Pocket was way better. =)
@ToyBro
6 жыл бұрын
Haha I won't argue that point.
@darthpaul99
6 жыл бұрын
I may have had a few. Think I certainly had some Monster in my Pocket figures too. They also had a similar line for girls called Cuties.
@c.glazercrush3994
6 жыл бұрын
Toy Bro Wasn't this rebranded ultamate muscle.
@user-lg2jm9zg6l
3 жыл бұрын
I'd forgotten all about these, but I had a bunch - what a blast from the past!
@AlmostAnimixers
6 жыл бұрын
Revisiting MUSCLE with different licensed franchises is a brilliant idea. Why am I only just hearing about this now? Might need to go scope out that He-Man set a bit...
@SecretGalaxyTV
6 жыл бұрын
They even make it affordable by not randomizing the packs. You buy each pack, you have the whole collection without doubles.
@AlmostAnimixers
6 жыл бұрын
It's every collector's dream. Now if only they could find a way to put all the real He-Man toys in one big set and sell it for a reasonable price.
@DAMac-lq2dl
Жыл бұрын
I had these all back in the day. I made a small wrestling ring out of wood with rubber band ropes. My friends and I would have huge wrestling tournaments and lots of trades. I had a huge amount of fun with these as a kid. I still have about 50 that I was able to hold on to. They are now in a large clear glass jar on my dresser. Thanks for the video!
@_fig.8
6 жыл бұрын
points for "hobo teeth"
@SecretGalaxyTV
6 жыл бұрын
"Hobo teeth" was funnier than "slime."
@_fig.8
6 жыл бұрын
always follow the funny
@NitroNEXT
3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the 90s so I didn't ever see any of these figures but I did play the NES game at a friends house. Years later when 4Kids dubbed the Ultimate Muscle anime I remember instantly recognizing the classic characters despite never seeing the original anime.
@ABR928
5 жыл бұрын
How about the history of micromachines
@JeffSayYes
4 жыл бұрын
Gotta be done by that speed talking guy
@BanjoBrown
3 жыл бұрын
My dad made me a small wrestling ring for these guys using a square piece of wood, four screws for the turnbuckles, and then three rubber bands stretched across the whole thing for the ring ropes. I would pile them all into the ring at once, and have a battle royal by shaking the ring until they started falling out and the last guy left in the ring was the winner.
@hugopulido9446
6 жыл бұрын
Collected muscle, played the Nintendo game... Damb I'm old.
@DadaPoopoo
6 жыл бұрын
Eddie Munster still haven't learned to spell though. Keep going.
@keithwebb9839
6 жыл бұрын
DAMBs are old. They are archaeological mounds in the middle east.
@DrtyBrd0027
3 жыл бұрын
My buddy and I had hundreds... We made a ring, out of wood, dow rods, and essentially paracord... We had a system for move selections, and impartial decisions using dice, during the matches... We had our own federations, champions, and contender lists... When we got together, we had inter-federation pay per views... We had so much fun with these odd little things... Don't know what happened to my original collection, but I have been collecting them again, just to have them... Easily one of my favorite toy lines growing up!
@SamuraiChris78
4 жыл бұрын
I had maybe 40 or 50 off the list back in the day. Man, this brought back so many memories!
@birdy9922
5 жыл бұрын
Forgot all about these til I just saw the video. Wow... I got a wee bit more giddy about the memories. I made mine wrestle each other but mainly, my horde was set up around the living room to be gunned down by my spring-loaded, suction-tipped dart gun. Ah. Thanks for the memories!
@hijodechago
3 жыл бұрын
Its ridiculous how many hours i put into playing with the 40 of these i had. Tournaments, royal rumbles, tag matches, long reigns, upsets, grudges, backstabbing. This all came from watching wwf, cartoons and the soap operas that would play in the background. I still have them stashed somewhere if i find them i'll set up my favorites on a shelf.
@barrymantelli8011
3 жыл бұрын
KZitem algorithm knows all my old toy choices. HoW! I had hundreds of these, and I have no idea where they went.
@SlashManEXE
3 жыл бұрын
I vividly remember the toys still circulating during my time in elementary school, but didn’t know any of the story. I’m surprised that the line was discontinued in the late 80s, but I remember them still being a popular toy at school in the early 2000s
@JTheTeach
3 жыл бұрын
These were one of my favorite things as a kid
@brushstroke3733
3 жыл бұрын
They were my favorite toy at the after school program where I had to stay for 2 - 3 hours every day. I loved them!
@zacharyhill4742
3 жыл бұрын
These were some of my most favorite toys in the late 80's when I was 7-10 years old. Great vid!!!!!
@6maniac6metal6
6 жыл бұрын
Im 31 now but wheni was a young kid around 93' I found one of these figures buried in our backyard and it instantly became my favorite toy. Eventually it disappeared again but it stuck in my mind and now all these years later I finally know what it was. Im pretty sure i had the guy that has "ICBM" across his chest. Too cool, thanks for the vid!
@deviantaffinity1626
6 жыл бұрын
I had forgotten completley about these guys. Thanks for the recall. Now I miss my garbage can.
@stevewest5397
3 жыл бұрын
I had a bunch of these as a kid. I even managed to get the wrestling ring. It was awesome. They were a blast to collect. I collected a few in my mid-20s too and painted up some of them. I've sold them since though. Only so much room to store things I don't actually need.
@tringalij
6 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a coincidence that I run across this video a few days after reorganizing my storage area and finding a box of these guys. I collected them with other kids back in the early 80s, and I put them in a Tupperware box where apparently they survived unharmed for 30 years. :)
@SecretGalaxyTV
6 жыл бұрын
Your computer is watching you.
@Ktigress
3 жыл бұрын
I remember playing with mine under the front porch and leaving them there when we moved. I always wondered if they were still there. 🤔
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