Action Figures From the 70s Through the 90s
The Zeroid robot action figure line was introduced by Ideal in 1967 and remained in production for nearly a decade. They were touted as Moving across the landscape, overrunning all obstacles as inexorably as the Future itself, these amazing, efficient and powerful automatons have but one purpose – to serve their masters at work and play! Initially the Zeroids consisted of three robots, Zerak, Zintar and Zobor. The robots were …
The Lords of Light was a 3 1/2 inch short lived action figure line from the mind of Joe Ruzzi and PAC toys. PAC (Packaging and Assembly Corporation) developed the line using the Micronaut molds from the former Mego Corp which PAC had essentially bought out during their bankrupcty in 1982. PAC’s marketing showed the Lords of Light as Izzurians who were in constant battle with the Evilites. Note that …
The Major Matt Mason toy line is a fascinating set of well-crafted and artistically-rich novel items. While not nearly as popular as GI Joe or Archie comics at the time, it’s place in American culture is a fascinating view of mankind’s idea of life in the space. This concept lives on and has even influenced Tom Hanks, who plans to co-write a Major Matt Mason movie, with a hundred million …
Mattel wanted to make some large action figures for the kids in 1976. This one was named Pulsar The Ultimate Man of Adventure. He was a towering thirteen and a half inches tall, which was two inches taller then the competition. He had some interesting aspects to those who liked biology, as his internal organs were all visible under his shirt. Get the story here on the Ultimate Man of …
The action figure Elektroman from Ideal is a fairly rare action figure with a red and yellow uniform. His only enemy was named Zogg the Terrible. The Ideal Elektroman was released in 1977 and was bigger than many action figures of the day. He was 16 inches tall while most were just eight inches tall. Read on to learn more on the Elektroman figure here in this informative article. With …
Hasbro sensed that the public was losing interest in military action figures in the late 60’s due to the Vietnam war so they transformed the GI Joe line from a military man into an adventure man, hence the Adventure team line. Part of that line in the early 70’s was the 12″ talking Adventure Team line that included the Talking Astronaut, Talking Adventure Team Commander, and the Talking Man of …
