Only thing I don't like about the He-man toys is the posability.

hehe yeah, they had some pretty druddy articulation back then, the ninja turtles weren't much better lol

yea,
but wow, have you seen the NEW He-Man figures
they've made, they're expensive as hell but wow,
I have a few and they are awesome.

articulation and craft, quality of these things are amazing,
but they're next to impossible to find outside of the internet.

I collect the Marvel Universe stuff myself.

I like those too,
but for some reason they are a pinch smaller then justice league and
MOTU figures.

but I actually have one,
the cheetah girl, I think it's Cheetara but I hate calling her that since
she is no affiliation with the Thundercats.

I mean the GI Joe sized ones.

Yeah the Playmates figures in the 1990s to early 2000s hit that sweet spot of articulation, sculpting, and price. Now it really is just out of control, as if every figure needs to be fit for collectors.

yea, as much as I love he-man figures I don't understand why they cost up in the $30
range per character yet all the justice league characters usually most expensive characters
are usually about $20, I don't really get it, the demand for he-man doesn't seem high
enough to price them like that.

They charge that much because they, usually the retailers, know you (or at least a lot pf very dumb parents) will pay that much.

An action figure used to be $0.75-$1.50 per inch height. So a MOTU figure would typically cost $5.00-$6.00 each. Some competing brands, some actually better than MOTU figures cost about the same, maybe less. GIJoe, Star Wars, and figure about that size, would be $3.00-$5.00 each. Usually $2.50-$3.50 each.

I can understand devaluation of the dollar and inflation, but not to the tune of $10.00 for ONE GIJoe and that don't even look as durable and the ones "back in the day". I was going to get a few HALO figures, because I'm a HALO fan, but at $15+ each... Uhm no. As detailed as they are, I'm not paying that much for figures I'm never going to play with nor give to kids to play with.

I like Halo guys too,
I'm too afraid to buy them because of the
price too, however I gotta admit I came pretty
close to getting the pink gal and calling it caboose.

no shame in that. I didn't really have action figures, I had legos and hot wheels. I was all about the bionicles oh man the older ones were cooler than the ones out now.

I loved legos too,
I had all sorts of variations of toys growing up,
I was an only child plus I had very few friends
around my neighborhood so I always grew up
with a toy fascination.

nice pic neokat, I've actually got a rather nice collection of he-man figures myself, I've even got castle greyskull and snake mountain, I'm such a nerd but I love collecting toys and stuff *blushes and shoves a box on TMNT figures under the desk*

lol,
I pray I never find castle grey skull for cheap at a flea market,
I don't have room in my house for things like that, but it is awesome.

I've been trying to reduce my toy collecting, but I always find more
stuff, however about every year at the comic convention I do love
to find particular he-man figures that I do put a little money aside for.

way too much for an average toy purchase which is why when I buy
one the appreciation I have for it feels so much sweeter when enjoying.

these things are so cool, but not for an average collector it would seem. lol.

the funny thing is that's exactly where I found my castle gs, it was like 30 buck and it's nearly complete, it even has the original instruction booklet that came with it and the guy also threw in the first 3 issues of the original masters of the universe marvel comic books hehe

but yeah, that's where I got most of my collection was from garage and yard sales, and to think it all started because I remembered playing with my brother's leech figure on the sliding glass door at my uncles house back when we were little, now here it is nearly ten years after I started hunting those bad boys down and I have well over 50 of those guys plus the castles, some vehicles, book and record sets battle bones, thermos.....etc.

sorry for the long message but it's been a LONG time since I've geeked out like this, I was so into these things that I even made a short animation using some of the figures from my collection

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI8yV84TO_A

I know it's terrible but I still had fun making it

this reminds me of my extensive collection of teenage mutant ninja turtles action figures i had growing up XD

i never really had a big love for turtles,
I must've been the only one it seems, I had a few turtles
I specifically loved, one of which was metal head
and the other of course Donatello but other then that I never
really had a huge love for turtles, however X-men......I love
my X-men too. lol.

*cat noises*

no, it's Skeletor noises:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FPFCpth6no

but the way it's written looks like skeletor as a cat

yea, I realized i spelled it differently. lol.

or maybe it's just the way I pronounce that sound effect
he makes, lol.

still funneh~

The only toys from my toddler days I still remember fondly are

a.) my Donald Duck comics that I still have or bought again,

and

b.) my circa a hundred cassettes with audio plays on them.

Oh, and then there was that tiny orange plastic hand-cranked Super8 projector. I had two silent b/w Disney reels that I watched over and over on my own in our dark bathroom: One had a Donald & Chip'n'Dale cartoon, the other was Disney's 1937 short cartoon Little Hiawatha.

I don't know why, but I'd always have He-Man and Skeletor fight in the center of a ring (WWF/E Style) with Man-at-Arms as the special guest referee.

Probably because the idea of men who look like genetically-monstrous steroid-fueled colossi of muscles suplexing each other through wooden tables was an awesome idea at the time.

of course,
and whats also funny is almost everytime
I find these little guys at flea markets or thrift shops,
or yard sells were ever they are usually set up with
WWF/WWE/WCW guys, so you're not the only one
to think that.

Lol I do this too sometimes, I play with gundam 1/144 models xD I remove their armor as if it destroyed while battling, the fun ends when I try to remove a part and it break for real

Havn't done that for quite time <_< I realy miss my childhood...

But Action Man (90s models) are the best toys I ever had, still keeping them :)

yea, I think my GF has one,
mainly because he looks like Guts from Berserk.

that's why she kept him.