Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons - Vivid Imaginations 3 3/4" Action Figure Line Review! 

And now here in the US Shout Factory owns all Gerry Anderson's shows including this one. I think Shout Factory liked popular puppet shows because they also own ALF as well.

This is what other toy channels need to do instead of just showing the toys - you have a good presentation were you get the history (what i'm interested in) and see the merchandise. This makes someone like me who isn't a toy collector take the time to see the merchandise!!!

Fantastic show! YTV used to air it at night here in Canada (and Stingray), and preferred it to Thunderbirds. Just recently snagged myself a Captain Scarlet figure on eBay.

Sean Bean as Captain Scarlett - The Mysterons are coming and you know nothing John Snow! Hahaha

This was always my favourite Anderson show due to the darker tone. The die-cast SPV was a much loved childhood toy. During the re-runs I picked up a ton of figures and vehicles from the Kellogg's give away. Great video Tony.

first exposure to this show was on the SciFi Cartoon Quest as a kid before school....maaaaan, good times

That SPV is an awesome looking toy! Thanks for this one. I learned about a show and a toy line I knew nothing about. SIG!

Those kettle drums! Thanks for this great video, it's amazing that repeats of 60s shows on Friday nights in the 90s led to them being embraced by a new generation, to the point that entire new toylines were created.

Love this channel, Tony! You keep introducing me to stuff I’ve never had the pleasure knowing existed. Always turns into an internet research rabbit hole. Lol! Love it! Keep em’ coming, DR. See you on the next one!

Wow 2 in a row from Analog today!!!

Vivid Imaginations was actually created by three former employees of the Matchbox Toy Company which I read in a magazine somewhere.

Remember that bad ass RV in the movie " Stripes" with Bill Murray? The SPV kinda reminds me of that but more sleek and stealthy.

I remembering watching some this show in the 80's thanks for telling its story

I'm recently digging the old and new Captain Scarlet series. Yes I'm a new fan for this modern era. And your video has just been coincidentally, recently released and it's really good to be able to see the toys in this HD quality videos. Oh yeah I recently acquired diecast Rhino by Corgi and the "Choro Q" version of the old vehicles made by Takara (before merged/changed into Takara Tomy). Thank you for your video, and cheers from Indonesia.

I had one of those SPV's! I didn't have any Captain Scarlet figures as far as I remember but I did have quite a few Star Trek TNG figures which I would place inside and I also had the Star Trek shuttle craft with lights and sound effects. Great memories

Great video Tony! Not sure is this counts as more play-ability or not, but the Angel's engine noise is angle-dependent, so it you tilt it into a climb, the engine noise pitches up and tilt it into a dive, the engine noise pitches down :)

This was my favorite tv show as a kid In New Zealand just wished they made more, plus loved thunderbird's , stingray , Joe 90 , wich is why I liked action man figure's and other 1/6 scale and smaller ones as well 😀👍🏻

Excellent review, Tony. If I remember, this line saw an extremely limited release in Canada. Can’t remember who imported it. I have been a fan of captain scarlet since my childhood, having first encountered it in French translation. Also thank you for including that Rice Crispies commercial. Fun!

Great show, thanks Tony.

Such a cool video Tony, thanks for sharing.

I want all these toys now! I’ve always preferred his live action stuff, especially UFO, and I’ve collected some of the dinky stuff. But of course thunderbirds was my gerry Anderson gateway drug . I’m now thinking I need to give captain scarlett more of a watch. And these toys look really sweet.

The Angel Interceptor would've been a perfect vehicle for battle damage functionality in its Vivid Imaginations toy form, but a las...

Thanks for the videos on the Gerry Anderson franchise. I never even so much as saw a single pic or heard even one name from these shows (and their awesome merchandise, new or old) until maybe a few years ago thanks to your channel and one called Toy Poloy. As much as I'm envious of y'all having grown up with these (Four Feathered Falls especially), like they say, never too late, right?

Love videos like this. As an American I really enjoy when you cover toys and properties that were primarily/exclusively British. (not being sarcastic, genuinely find this stuff fascinating)

I remember having some of these figures back in the 90s when I was a kid, including the SPV. I did have the space suit Captain Scarlet, but that was lost long ago through time. I remember having some of the Thunderbirds figures too & my brother had a Joe 90 figure. There was a huge boom of Gerry Anderson shows being rerun in the 90s. One odd thing I remember was an advert for Pizza Hut with Captain Scarlet, it was strange seeing that as a kid & it's stuck with me since.

I loved this line. Cheers for the video.

Brilliant review, Tony. I always thought Captain Black looked like a badass. Loved watching the show on BBC back in the 90's.

I LOVE THESE SHOWS!!!!!!

Great look at this property. I was never aware of this growing up but talking to some of my cousins in England they loved these toys and the Thunderbirds ones.

Thanks for the walk down memory lane, Tony. I have some recollection of this show in Asia too when I was much younger, but not the cool figures and toys. That Sean Bean reference, though 😂😂

I had no knowledge of this line, but that Angel Interceptor is freakin' gorgeous, and now I want it.

Very good I never know about the vehicles glad to see that they did do some

Those are pretty thicc Captains and they did Destiny Angel dirtyyyy!

Sean Bean! Perfect!

Great video Tony, captain scarlet was one of my favourite gerry Anderson shows, always surprised me that a kids show with puppets could be so dark. I remember this toy line from the 90's and being a collector it didn't interest me but after watching your video I may have to track these down, cheers mate👍

Something I never knew about, and an excellently well put together history! Loved it!

captain scarlet, thunderbolts are go and there was one other one that would air late nights on showtime here in the usa. i used to just throw in a vhs tape and let it record all of it. this was before there were dvrs. lol. the angel fighters kind of reminded me of the vipers from BSG. really good shows.

The spectrum car could be one for the creator of the 3 3/4 Battlestar Galactica vehicles.

just bought all the vehicals and figures the larger versions from captain scarlet to go with my thunderbirds and stingray vehicals very good video mate

Had the TV series Space Precinct not gone into production I think Vivid might have completed the line with at least a SPECTRUM patrol car. I would have loved a Maximum Security Vehicle too!

I had a really rare Captain Magenta figure. If I'd known it went for 300 quid on ebay, I'd have kept it in the packet.

I discovered Scarlet in the early 1990s, as he was shown on the the Sci-Fi Channel on Saturday mornings in a block. I taped the all onto vhs then, and I own them on DVD now. I love the vehicles of the Captain Scarlet tv series, but the puppets were my favorite that Anderson ever did! Love the more realistic looks of them. Great review of this '90s toy line. I do have a few of the figures from the line, but they aren't my favorite sculpts, really. For a long time though, they were the best available, and that's why I got them. I have the Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue and Captain Black figures still in the packages. I have a ton of the vintage Captain Scarlet vehicles, but not in this particular toy line. These are the smaller ones. The SPV is the one with the ejector seat. Heh. I also have the large 12" Captain Scarlet figure that Big Chief produced a few years ago. It's really a nice figure for the most part, but it has two features that bug me, and one that never worked. I'm not a fan of figures where you can remove the hair to add on a hat. I hate that so much! Hasbro did it with Lady Jaye, and I think it blows! I wound up getting a second Lady Jaye just so I could glue a hat on one, and the other I glued on the hair. If you're gonna do that, toy companies, it's better to just have two different, swappable heads. Stop dicking collectors around! Heh. I'd have preferred Big Chief to have given us two different heads. God knows we paid a gi-normous price for the large Scarlett figure already, so that SHOULD have been done instead of the cheesy hair and hat swap B.S. The second thing that I don't like is the eye moving feature. You have to get into the back of the head and flip a switch for each, INDIVIDUAL eye!! Heh Yeah, the move independently, and they're nearly impossible to realign again after you've done that. It's wasn't a feature it was actually an annoyance and hinderance! The feature that never work is that the epaulets on his shoulders are supposed to glow with light when you lower the microphone on his hat, but I could never get that to work, and no one who bought it seemed to be able to either. Despite an amazing sculpt, I only got the single figure from this larger, high price toy line because at the high price and the over a year waiting time, I expected much, much better execution. Toys shouldn't be annoying. They should just be fun! Unlike Big Chief, Vivid at least made toys that were fun, so even though the Big Chief Scarlet looks more accurate to the show, the Vivid figure wins my vote. One last add on to my giant reply. Back in the early 2000s, I was asked to draw a new CAPTAIN SCARLET comic book, but sadly the fellow who paid the license to get it produced only one SUPER CAR comic book, and one UFO comic book, and then decided not to do Scarlet just as we were getting the script together. I would have killed to have done a Captain Scarlet comic book! I only produced one, single illustration, that landed me the gig initially, but I thought you might enjoy seeing it. I turned this around in a single day. I hope you like it! www.lostonwallace.com/scarlet100.jpg

I'm outside of the SPECTRUM of Gerry Anderson fans, in that I like Stingray best of all the Supermarionation programs. And My favorite live action Gerry Anderson shows were Space 1999, and Space Precinct. I do like most of the other shows, except 🎼"Supah 🎶Caaaah🎵".

I'd never heard of Captain Scarlet. I'll have to give it a look. As a kid I use to love the reruns of Thunderbirds on BBC America.

I miss watching shows about marrionettes and puppets...they don't make these kinds of show like they used to.

Amazing !

Excellent video tony. Never got the toys, but they look cool.

We need an SPV for the Classified Joes!!!!

Great video! I really enjoyed it.

Captain Scarlet was terrifying

Brilliant ! 👏

Hey Tony, oh man, I love captain scarlet! I honestly couldn't not stand other gerry Anderson shows, especially the one with that kid that has that special brain super power machine thing and he solves crimes! But man, captain scarlet, the characters, sets, and vehicles looked wonderful!

0:42 The thing that got me was... it was totally the human astronaut's fault. They had no business destroying the Mysteron's city. Because of their stupidity, I found myself rooting for the Mysterons!

I was a HUGE fan of Captain Scarlet as a kid in the early 70's sans TV program so I would just stumble across on-air eps vs Thunderbirds as broadcast every morning at 6:30am (on Ch 9 here in Sydney) which I'd watch before school. I bought these Vivid figures (+ the 12inch) but missed on the SPV, which is a unique piece even tohugh a "deformed" version. A pity no company has made an updated FULLY articulated 1/18th range of figures and tru scale vehicles. I felt Vivid took shorcuts eg: those terrible chunky swivel joints. I thought that Destiny Angel was UGLIER than the Star Wars POTF "Ape-Face" Leia !

Great video 📹

So why did they blow up the alien city in the first place?

I bet that is an awesome show!

Too bad we never got this kind of revival for Space 1999. Imagine if we'd gotten an Eagle for 3.75" figures in the 1990s.

Thunderbirds under appriciated brother. I adore this series and thanks man for your work to bring this wonderful series to greater awareness. Especially with our american brothers in tpys and pop culture.

Such a crazy and instantly recognisable era in entertainment.

I enjoy your videos. Never even heard of CS before until now. Very cool man...Thx for sharing and making the videos so enjoyable. P.s. Have you watched "Shill Islands" New " State of the Union" crybaby episode yet 😆 What a tool that boy is....I feel bad for his son more so that he has such a shill poppa. How shameful. Anyway...... On a more positive NOTE LOL!!!! Thanks for being real & genuine mate. Keep up the elite work brother.

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Loose they're always missing the antennas. I wish they'd done an MSV too.

I always wonder if super Mario got his name from supermarionation

Honestly? I always preferred Captain Scarlett to Thunderbirds.

S.I.G

Austin Powers see the Destiny Angel figure: It's a man baby!😉