Mail-away Toys - GI Joe,WWF, Super Powers,Transformers, Street Sharks, Star Wars - Toy History #20 

He was part of chef boyardee points in the pasta not as a playmates offering 🤓

Thanks 🤓 any mail aways you had as a kid? 📭

@@EdsRetroGeekOut Sadly no I’m only 12 but am very cultured and a big fan of stuff from the past And the turtles are my favorite!

This is a true statement Video games as well don’t forget that

Word!!!!

That could be thanks for pointing it out ;-)

It really is a long time in comparison to modern shipping times of a few days or less. But yeah, 8-12 weeks was an almost unbearable length of time as a kid.

Right? I remember winning some little prize from solving a riddle on the back of a cereal box. By the time it came in the mail, I'd forgotten about it lol

@@mike91mdk45 heck, even 4-6 weeks was an insane amount of time to my 7 or 8 year old mind. Now it seems to pass like little time at all. Remember how long it took to get to X-Mas or your birthday? Now as an adult it's here again before you know it.

@@stevebragg4256 so true. Time flies now. Back then we thought we had an eternity

The mummra one said 2 to 6 months that’s insane 🤣

Thanks for watching Gene! Mummra wants to rock n roll all night!

That's an epic find! :-O awesome dude thanks for watching!

The manta! ⚡️🙌

I gotta check those out for a follow up video that's awesome!

@@EdsRetroGeekOut Toyfare also had several Star Trek mail-ins.

I forgot about those! I have the glow-in-the-dark radioactive Homer Simpson somewhere.

Awesome didn't know about that one yet! 🤩

Whaaaat 🤯🐢🤯🥲 damn capt crunch!

Awesome i didn’t know about that 😯

Yeah the toll booth took forever to arrive, but it was very cool.

Awesome 🤓

I had that ring too! I thought The Shadow was such a cool character.

Thanks buddy did you get any mail away toys back in the day? 🤓

@@EdsRetroGeekOut oh yeah from Star Wars!

He looks do cool 🤩 i’ll have to feature him in a follow up on this topic

He was presented by Marvel. Robocop was a marvel cartoon.

Awesome 🤓

That’s awesome 🤩 it was like a backcatalog the mailaway for those toys. I wish i had done more stuff like that 😅 order mail aways

Action man you say 🤔🤔🤔 he did come out before 2000 so perhaps 😁

😜 all those 80’s kids are like sure now he can shoot ... i had to buy crap figures to get a regular bobaaaaaaaaaaaaa 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

That's awesome I wish I did that back in the day as a kid :-D

Extra books 😜 sounds like a Venice thing

Total justice superman batman i hadn’t heard about that should be cool for a follow up video 🤩

@@EdsRetroGeekOut yes they were translucent type figures which were also give away with so much of a purchase in store near the end of that line. Batman was 25 or more purchase from kb toys and superman was 25 with purchase or more from toys r us

Aw yeah 🤓🤘

Awesome! Yeah i’ll be doing a second one on this topic 🤓

Epic 🤩

I’m gonna talk about that one in the next mail away vid that sounds amazing 🤩

Thanks buddy did you save up any points for mail aways! 📭

Awesome I'll have to look into that one :-D

​@@EdsRetroGeekOut That B' Omarr Monk one is an interesting one. It was initially offered as a mail-in offer that came with another mail-in offer. In 1997 Lay's potato chips had a mail-in offer for a Spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi figure. You had to send in proofs of purchase off of original and/or pizza flavored chips along with a money order. In Canada I believe other flavors of chips were allowed. There were six possible variants of the Spirit figure could receive in the mail. Five of the variants pertained to coming with one of five possible purple coupons (the final variant was getting the Spirit Kenobi figure with no coupon). Of those five coupons only two of them are noteworthy for mail-in purposes. One was for a free mail-in cardboard diorama playset of Mos Eisley Cantina for so many Power of the Force proofs. This diorama would also later be offered as a mail-in with a money order and Power of the Force proofs through the official Star Wars magazine. In Japan you could get the diorama in a seven pack of figures that was exclusive to Toys R Us. The diorama would eventually get a wide retail release packed with white pauldron Sandtrooper and small flying patrol droid. The other notable coupon was a mail-in offer for a free B'Omarr Monk with Power of the Force proofs. Later that year Kenner/Hasbro held a contest on their official Star Wars website where you could win the B'Omarr Monk for free. After the contest was over they put up on their website a printable mail-in order form where you could just buy an unlimited number of B'Omarr Monk figures for about $8 per figure. There were two variants to the B'Omarr Monk figure pertaining to the instruction sheet that came with the figure. The .00 instruction sheet had no choking hazard warning while the .01 sheet did. A slightly more screen accurate repaint of the Monk figure would get a retail release during the 2002 Saga Star Wars line in multi-pack known as the Jabba's Denizens. As for the Spirit of Obi-Wan figure, there is more to say there. In the United Kingdom you could get the Spirit figure in special packaging with a mail-in offer that came with the Special Edition Trilogy VHS tapes. Here in the US the Spirit figure was so overproduced that the leftover stock was purchased by Meijer stores and sold on their store shelves in unofficial exclusive third party packaging they made themselves. If bought from Meijer the Spirit figure could be packed two ways. First was just the Spirit figure by itself, second was the Spirit figure bundled with the golden mail-in Action Masters C-3PO (which Meijer also bought the excess of after that mail-in offer was over). Incidentally in case you are wondering, Meijer also sold the golden mail-in Action Master C-3PO just by itself in their unofficial third party packaging.

🥲 where did your trauma start? It all started with the not honoring of a mail away promo with rocket firing action ...

Keep the faith. It will arrive one day 😆

Thanks buddy 🤓

Thanks buddy did you get any mail aways back in the day? 🤩

That’s awesome 🤩 I don’t think I ever saved up for a mail away

I don’t remember the process to be honest. Just getting him one morning haha. I’m sure the box lasted about 30 secs before Lion-o and the gang got him! Haha

Awesome 🤘😁

That’s awesome 🤩

Brainstormer 🤩 awesome name! Dr brainbender’s evil cousin

Awesome 🤩

Tmnt didn’t have figures but merchandise witht he pizza points 🤓

The wait was so long for these you probably forgot about it when it came in :'D

@@EdsRetroGeekOut Well my mother gave up and thought it would never come. Then one day it came in the mail.

I've been hearing this over and over kids mailing away and getting nothing :'(

@@EdsRetroGeekOut Yeah I was very disappointed. But shit happens lol

Me too, I miss it.

Lifeline I got him as well :-D not the most exiting toy but still fun to get

Interesting i will look it up 🤩 power of the force?

@@EdsRetroGeekOut It was around 1994, so not sure which line it was apart of.

It’s the 90’s POTF. Dirt cheap, but a good figure. Needs a blaster.

I still have him

@@williamthompson5504 don't we all?

I never had the patience to save them i probably forgot about the option right away 😅

That’s a long wait 6 months!!! i’ll have to look that up 🤓 you mean syklone? The one that also got a retail release? Thanks for watching

There were mail aways in 94 & 95 😅 but why what was wrong with the predator one??!

@@EdsRetroGeekOut I remember the Ghost Obi-Wan and Stormtrooper Han mail-aways early in the line, but I don't remember any "Star Wars" offers past about 2008. Never said there was anything wrong with the Ambush Predator mail-away, mate. Pretty darned cool, actually. Still have it!

@@Beedo_Sookcool I think he looks awesome :-D

Thanks buddy 📭 which one did you get in the mail? 😁

I didn’t get any 😔but if I could choose one it would be the 12” street shark mail away 🦈🤘🏼

Me too dude 😍🦈

I have a couple similar figures not sure if they came from the mail away or were retail releases i have seen the big street shark before but didn’t buy him now i wish i had 🤣

Awesome idea I'll check that out :-D

That street shark is awesome 🦈

Same here I was so excited when he finally showed up, in all his chrome glory 🤣

Chrome glory indeed 😁

Yeah the rocky balboa 🥲

Awesome 🤩

That’s awesome 😎

So many indeed missing that piece 😪

Awesome 🙌

🚀 starrr warrrrssssss

Thanks buddy did you get any mail aways as a kid? 🤓📭

Cool 😏 and you got lots of cereal!

Ooh movie stubs as extra proof of purchase that's awesome :-D

Was it an exclusive tough? :-p

Awesome

Awesome 🙌

But a cool one!!

De super trooper is niet echt een favoriet van me 😅 maar wel cool dat we in nl en be zoveel mail aways ook kregen die belt buckle voor 3 figuren etc Yo Joe! Welke joes kreeg jij in je brievenbus?? 📭

Should have mentioned G.I Joe's first mail away figure for the newly christened team Major Bludd

Correction...second G.I. Joe mail away figure. Forgot the first was Cobra Commander.

Awesome 🤘

I used him to make a point on how they would confuse collectors and since many toy channels already did their videos on them I assumed everyone knew 😅 Spectre Creative has some vids with mattel correspondences talking about what seems to be savage he man and he just released another one. Vintagetoys_de on insta mentioned the 3 for 1 free thing and battleramblog did a whole article on it. Pixel dan recently got his savage heman and that story seems to support what has been said by those previous 🤓

@@EdsRetroGeekOut Spectre Creative is a great up and coming channel. But I like yours of course also

It’s awesome to hear his perspective on things cuz he actually worked in it 🤓

Yeah turtles had merchandise for the pieza points but no figures you could order 🥲 but will cover pizza points in another video 🤓

😅 ruining the boxes for collectors! 🤣

That’s a nice story 🤓 lifeline was part of a kellogs promotion right?

@@EdsRetroGeekOut It was long time, but I think it was. Best nematodes with that Joe. Thats what toys gives us, great memories.

Talked about boyardee shredder in the food video so it wasn't really connected to the toyline pizza points no toys in the classic line I think. Ah man didn't know about the Bigfoot that thing looks awesome :-D

@@EdsRetroGeekOut ..maybe i'll throw that thing on the flickr for you at some point when i can make the time.

Awesome your collection is amazing dude 🐢🥳

@@EdsRetroGeekOut awwe..thx 🍕🍕🍕🍕

Awesome name 🤣🤘

Awesome 🤓

Thanks for watching :-D

It’s chaos like ian malcom would say. 🤣

Aw yeah 🤘