8 more Unproduced Toys - Gi Joe, Mighty Max, Visionaries, Sectaurs, Street Sharks - TOY HISTORY #2 

That clammando was so awesome! Holy shoot had no clue about that one! Freaking love this series Ed!

They DID make a “hover Cadillac” in the TMNT toy line. It was called: “The Footcruiser” I had it. I LOVED it. It actually stuck around longer than most of my other TMNT toys and was driven by characters like Wolverine and the X-men, Luke Skywalker (to show Han that even if it’s not nearly as fast, it can look WAY nicer..), and the Silverhawks, just to name a few off the top of my head. There weren’t many play sessions that I wouldn’t try to incorporate that car into, as long as the figures fit well enough into it that they either didn’t look like a child behind the wheel or like a full size adult riding a “Power Wheels”... Thing is, unfortunately Playmates marketed and sold it as a “enemy vehicle” and they installed a weird “eyeball missile” launcher weapon (that resembled one of those “50 cal gun mounts with a shield” that are often seen mounted in the truck beds of small rebel guerrilla armies in South America and such.) that folded out of (what I suppose could be considered) the “trunk”, so it was at least easily hidden. It also could be a good “companion vehicle” if you have a similar sized Delorian Time Machine because the wheels fold underneath in a similar fashion for “hover/flight mode” when you’re going where “you don’t need... roads...” If you don’t mind a little wear or a few missing parts, they can be found in decent shape for around $30 or less..

Honestly, initially when I heard of Mighty Max, I thought it was the lamest name ever. Then I saw the show (and how the show pointed this out) and not only was the show self aware and smart, it was just REALLY good! I became a early fan. I would bring some sets with me to school, which they were obviously PERFECT for this. Anyone that laughed at my liking MM, I would ask them if they honestly ever watched the show, of course they always said “no” and I’d ask them to give it a chance, THEN make fun of me all they wanted to. There was one kid in particular I remember that I gave him the channel and time it was going to be on and asked him to watch just one episode all the way thru and not just one minute and change the channel. He came back to school the next week with a FEW Mighty Max sets in his backpack!! It became his absolute FAVORITE show!! He was from a wealthy family and he had his mom take him on “quests” all over town trying to find EVERY Mighty Max set he wanted. He invited me over after he was able to get the Skull Mountain playset to show it off to me. He also thanked me for convincing him to watch the “greatest show ever with the absolute lamest name ever” as he described it. When the last episode aired, but we didn’t know at the time it wasn’t coming back, we were both SUPER excited to see how the next season was going to handle the story from there. When we both learned it was cancelled, I was upset, but my friend... he was REALLY upset. For a kid that hated English classes, he actually took the time to WRITE letters to every company he could find that was involved with Mighty Max, from Mattel to the TV station that it aired on, and even the animation company, BEGGING them to bring it back. We lost touch after elementary school, but at least when I knew him, he wasn’t quite the same after his favorite show ended so abruptly. At least he was able to record most of the episodes onto video tapes before they stopped airing reruns.

Not sure how many more of these you're planning, but I'm digging this series.

I had like 5 Big Boas. I don’t how we kept accumulating them. Also, I remember I had a Visionaries toy but I never knew where the hell it came from or what it was until now.

When I was little I used to borrow my brother's Mighty Max sets to expand my Polly Pocket's adventures lol I would have had so much fun with that unreleased one, it looks really cool.

Iron Mountain was actually intended to be in the *first* year of Visionaries. It was in the 1987 Toyfair catalogue, but didn't make it to retail. It was absent from the 1988 Toyfair catalogues, suggesting it had been dumped entirely. Probably because the Merklynn hologram concept it's built around is impossible to make work even now.

Skeleton Warriors were so cool. Aracula is one of my all-time favorite sculpts. Curiously, the good guys were pretty hard to come by when the figures were first released. A few years after the toyline was cancelled, they started popping up in discount stores with minor variations on accent colors and accessories compared to the original run. It wasn't until then that I got the good guys. I wonder just how many variations are out there, as there were numerous crystal colors for each figure, and the discount store variations as well.

I dig this kind of stuff so much. Though I gotta admit, I never saw Visionaries, Sectaurs, or even Skeleton Warriors back in the day. Being born in 84 puts me just barely outside of the age range for the 80's shows, but how I missed this stuff in the 90's is anyone's guess.

Those afternoons in the 90s watching streets sharks and biker mice. I really liked xtreme dinosaurs, also

Of all these, the Sectaurs toys were by far the most 'incredibly cool'. Also - they were tough! I know lost of people that have these still in great shape!

Sectaurs were awesome!!! I had a bunch of them!! They always fought along side he-man!!!

Ahoyhoy There, Fellow RU-vidrino! I like how you don't take too long to explain each franchise. Its understandable to the people like you, me, and others watching this video who have enough common sense cartoon knowledge to understand what you are explaining about how each cartoon and it's toyline works. Your words are easy to follow.

💕 i was at that fair. Got some of her art for the furbobs that was never produced and this play set. They are fairy winged not butterfly wings. But thanks so much for that. I loved fan girling over this. There was also a few other mlp items found in the toy catalogs that never made it to shelves. I hope to see more

I grew up in the 80's. I love your channel. Thank you

So deliciously good from start to finish, great job with this as always :) had this in my saved vids and finally got a chance to fully sit down with it, absolutely wonderful!

Ed Roth TMNT vehicles? Sign me up!

Skeleton Warriors looks like Army of Darkness

Oh man that skeletal dragon rocks! That would have been my favorite toy.

Rocky Balboa beating the shit out of snake terrorists sounds like the greatest thing ever.

Those TMNT Hot Rod's look incredibly 90's! It's a shame they weren't produced!

amazing video, wonderfull job as usual , thanks for sharing brother

No idea why this video popped up in my feed but I'm glad it did. I'm hooked and loving your content!

Hehe, back in the day I saw SO many (nowadays collectible and expensive) toys and playsets in the discount bins...I can still see them in front of me...there was one bin with multiple carded star wars figures for only 2 dollars, when almost nobody wanted these toys anymore. One time with my father in a toy store he offered me to pick either a star wars tie fighter (on discount for about 20 dollars) or a Lego airport playset.... It still haunts me sometimes why the heck I didnt choose the tie-fighter ;) I mean...after contructing the Lego, it all ended up as loose bricks in my Lego bin...

Can you imagine stepping on that Bone Dragon at 4am when going to the kitchen?

Loving these as per usual. Fox, smox!

11:31 this Sorta came out since it was a changed Remold of the Mega Head Skull Master play set in the last wave. A mega Head called Doom was planed also but the character did appear in the rare hard to find Shrunken Head series 2.

You should look into the end of the MOTU 80s line, and the awesome but weird things that were planned for the Pre-Eternia line, and He-Ro, the toy that was never made. You could also look at the short lived He-Man reboot series from the early 90s. I swear the toys from that are SO 90s they hurt... neon and pouches EVERYwhere

I had those visionaries. I loved the look of them, and just got a major flashback with those holographic square banners. Had completely forgotten them until now.

Very interesting video. The Mighty Max Playset would be awesome. Thanks for showing these things.

Absolutely amazing. I love the rate at which all the info is thrown at the viewer. Editing skills through the roof!

Great video brings back some cool memories of awesome toy lines.👍😎

After coming across this video, I was planning on subscribing anyway but 'The Dillinger Escape Plan' shirt pretty much sealed it. Nicely done, good sir!

Awesome informational bud! Keep em coming

Another great video!!

That second wave of Visionaries was crazy-they had 16 new figures, 4 new vehicles, a wave of small creatures, and that huge playset. Alas, none of them saw the (Magical) Light. Pun partly intended.

Amazing video..i do look forward to more episodes...you never let me down👍👍👍You should also add the extreme Ghostbusters toyline..we never had a Garrett figure 😒😒😒

Thumbs up for you Mr. Ed!

Yes yes Ed another strike buddy! The Vionairies is a great toyline I absolutely loved back in the day had a couple of good and a couple of bad guys. Me personally would straight away put the playset on my wishlist for christmas... a heck i would have put it on my brothers wishlist to 😈😈. As almost all my toys and games it was sold or lost in a couple of moves. And ar still looking for vissionaries and also wheeled warriors but you never find them in the wild! I also love your in the video displayed toysshop commercials from back in the day. Please let me go back to the 80 and 90's. Keep up the good work mate greetz Dre

Here is one you can look into. Back in the 90s I remember seeing a magazine that showed the X-men figures coming out. Two of them where the Darkriders Tusk and Gauntlet. Eventually Tusk was released but no word on what happened to Gauntlet. I remember very clearly this unproduced figure.

Still have my Sectaurs figures and a few comics too

I loved Skeleton Warriors. Wish it never got cancelled so soon.

It's nice to get a little history lesson on some of the unreleased toys from our childhood. I'm still rotted over how visionaries was treated in the 80's because I think that cartoon was too ahead of its time and it was quite dark for a kids show and it really had a lot of promise but it all comes down to money. If it's not financially viable then it's not worth doing - personally I think it just got released at the wrong time and it would of had a lot more success as a show and as a toy line but oh well.

I'm a big Visionaries fan, and I've always wondered about the second wave. Is there a list of any of the figures from the second wave, what their abilities were and so on? I've seen scans of the catalogue, but have been able to read anything on them.

Mighty Max needed some figures properly scaled and hopefully someone will make them! It'd be great to have 3.75" of Max, Norman, Virgil, his mom, Skullmaster, Warmonger and others!

My kids will never know the joy of taking a trip to toys r us

I love this series so much. Keep it up man I can’t wait to see more

On the toxic waste dumping in real life there have been cases of waste disposal companies instead of disposing of the stuff legally would sump it in river ,off docks, burying it in landfills and construction sites etc. and keeping the money. That's why there are so many origins using this premise.

Gobots had the unproduced Gobotron Fortress and Nemesis Power Warrior, plus the Rocklords Stone Head playset and Fossil Lord combiner. Nemesis and Fossil Lord were **technically** released in the pre-Gobots Machine Robo line in Japan, but with different designs (as Land Commander and Fossilsaurus). 🤓

Awesome video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼like always sr 🤟🏼🤖🤟🏼

They did have a hover caddy in the tmnt line. the wheels folded down for the hover effect. it was black and purple to fit in with the foot ninja color scheme

Never knew about the MLP set! Thanks for the info

Thanks dude. I am looking forward to the live stream tomorrow. Sectaurs was cool.

Great video man!

I wanted that Clammando toy so bad. His design was really different and I loved it. Shame he was only in 2 cartoon episodes. Also, not used to hearing g1 in reference to something other than transformers.

Visionaries was an amazing show. The humour was far above anything else airing at the time (although in some instances King Arthur and the Knights of Justice came close). They knew they were writing a toy commercial and decided to have as much fun with it as they could. The way Merklynn the Wizard would dick the knights around for no real reason other than to amuse himself, and the personalities of the Darkling lords like Mortdredd and Cindarr stuck with me. Especially the latter as Cindarr was a bad guy who wasn't actually bad, he was a kind and generous man who was doing bad things because his honour wouldn't allow him to break the oath he had given Darkstorm. That kind of character nuance was rarely seen then and is rarely if ever seen in cartoons today, either.

my favorite toys back in the day, was nr one gi joe-and star wars, my at-t from star wars was one of my all time fav toys... i just found my blue thunder helicopter in 3.75 inch serie... what in my eyes is the coolest height for action figurines.... my star wars collection in 3.75 inch are my all time fav hot toys ever made!!! and mask had some pretty cool toys, although they used a smaller figurine,

Awesome video man loved it

Love these list and channel. Glad RU-vid sent me here:-)

Another great episode Ed! I like the variety of toy lines you covered. I look forward to the livestream today!

They could’ve made Clamando at least a mail away, I’m mean who doesn’t want a Clam with 2 Uzis...

At least 4 Stellara's have been found and are of factory production quality. Two of them showing up in random figure lots on ebay UK. Coleco sold the remaining stock of Sectaurs to their UK division, so its by my understanding at least a case of Stellara's were produced and sold at discount in the UK. Theres also the super rare Black Dargon that was only sold in Brazil.

Great video friend

Skeleton Warriors also had a massive unproduced play set. There is a RU-vid video of it at that years toyfare. The video isn't marked skeleton warriors, just search through old vids of 90s toy fair and you'll find it I'm sure. Same uploaded has TONS of videos. There like his home movies and i think he use to work in toys or advertising.

There’s also information on the doom zones that would have come out as series 4 for Mighty Max. Including a mummy themed version with an older Max.

Clammando and the Mighty Max set would of been awesome.

Wow, that bone dragon from Skeleton Warriors isn't just cool, it's bad to the bone! I have no regrets.

Love your videos Ed! Subbed and notified

Love this content

The Rambo range was great

Cool Video, Ed. Nice that you picked up Rocky. I liked the Visionaries Cartoon, but sadly in Germany the Figures were not released.

Does anyone remember the 90's cartoon Dinosaucers? Did they ever make toys of that? Remember exo squad (1990's) and M.A.S.K ? (1980's) Awesome toys! Awesome channel!

I love his video about toys

This is a great list. I expect that there will be more.

They also had Tentakill and El Swordo in that last street shark catalog.

I would kill for that visionaries playset. They even had a whole second series of figs and vehicles in prototype stages and they were in a catalog for hasbro

Some toys I think of that never got released were the Palitoy Action Force vehicle prototypes for Z Force and Q Force, that could have been repurposed as Red Shadow vehicles. Or the Space Force troop transport.

Awesome stuff to see what never came out

I wish I still had the Hyve. Biggest playset I ever had. I had all the Sectaurs. Loved those toys.

Great video!

I had that envisionary playset. I didn't know what tf it was being so young, but I def had it. We got it from a thrift store where we got most our toys. It after a few plays got left in the toy box. Which was a actual cardboard box lol

Thank goodness Sectaurs are being made by Zica Toys now! At least now we might get some of those.

Surely Rambo would have made far more sense to join G.I Joe rather than Rocky.

Thanks Ed, wonderful job! Where I live Skeleton Warriors, Insectors and Inhumanoids, got censored after the 2-3 episode...So we didn’t even have any chance to get the toys..l

Wonder if there was any unproduced figures from the TICK. Enjoying this series of videos.

Great band shirt!

newest sub just because of this "series" so far. love me anything 80s and early 90s toy stuff. even more so, unreleased stuff. I hope you do a few more. got to check a few of your other vids out. I got a few things I need to shot videos of too I keep putting off. I'm gonna do an opening of a Ronin Warrior figure, as well as a Chinese knock off of Super Sentai Jetman Great Icarus/Bird Guardra

I had big boa AND I STILL have my visionaries!

The My Little Pony toy I desperately wanted that was never produced was in the Petite Ponies line. They had micro ponies that came with various houses and playsets and advertised a snowcone maker. As a child, I kept looking for it, then, when I got back into collecting as an adult, was resolved to pay ANY price for this thing. I FINALLY found info on this thing at the now defunct Dream Valley site in the early 2000s, before the re-release and it was sad for me lol. More info on the petites line that talks about this a little can be found here: mylittleponyaccessories.weebly.com/petite-ponies.html It's the 'Ice Delight' cottage for anyone interested.

I've long wondered how the merlyn hologram would have functioned on the visionaries play set.

Unproduced Super Powers. Wonder Woman's invisible jet and Darkseid's fortress.

i still got the Street shark guy that has roller skates on

Ik heb op je geabonneerd. Keep on the good work. Groeten uit NL!

You should do something on all the dragon ball z toys between the Japanese ones too the American ones and all throughout the 90s up to the 2000s

cool series... s/o Dillinger escape plan!

Nice video

Another figure that was ever made was spitter from the extreme dinosaurs

Dillinger Escape Plan!!

Weather or wetter? Lol I'm glad I'm not the only one that pronounces ma t's like dat!

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