Neon colors were on everything back then, "neon green, pink, blue, yellow," Neon pink was also called hot pink. I never heard it be called 90s pink before. I bought a neon pink zippo recently and my friends treated me like I bought a girly lighter.
I remember as a kid doing a mail away for Boba Fett and then Cobra Commander and Duke the anticipation running to the mail box everyday hoping for it to come and when it did 4 to 6 weeks later you thought you won the lottery, good times.
Its crazy to think that some of these give aways were so fly by night that the companies sometimes have no record or barely a record of them like the toy formerly known as wonderbread he-man. That's gotta be one of the biggest toy mysteries solved ever.
Great toy history lesson! The only mail aways I remember getting were Disney PVC figurines from Kellog cereal boxes. Rescue Rangers, and Ducktails. I still have my Gizmoduck, the rest are lost to time. Also subscribed to Star Wars Insider magazine and used to order exlusive toys through that with my mom, but I think that was pretty much just mail order, not some promotion. Memories!
My Mom was all about getting me all the mail aways for g.i joe. The only mail in figure I have from childhood is the Kelloggs/Kenner Starwars Power of the Force Han Solo in Stormtrooper armor. This is a wonderful series to trigger that nostalgia feeling 🤘
I'm glad you're back, Ed! Thanks for a History Lesson of Mail Away Toys: G.I.Joe, Ghostbusters, Mighty Max, Starcom, Action Man, Star Wars, Etc. The 60s 70s 80s through 90s has the Best Vintage Toys and Toys History Ever. Excellent Video as always! And keep your Channel Growing, my Friend! 😎 🙌 👌👍👍
I love this, You really do Great toy history videos, I could watch these all day long, me and my brother used to have star com toys they are brilliant. Also we had Glow bugs like the glow pals on here. 🇬🇧
In the 90's Fruit Loops did a mail away for a Han Solo Stormtrooper. I did it but that 6-8 weeks came and went, then this little white box showed up, it was awesome. AND THEN... there was a 3 pack, Han/Luke/Chewy. Lol
I'd like to see mail away exculsives return. I see current toy companies make exclusives for cons claiming they are a thank you to the fans of the line. When in truth they usually are more a punishment for the fans between people not being able to go to the con and then having to pay through the nose to buy them in the resale market. I know sometimes they make enough for some to be available on their website. But that limits them again. I'd much rather do mail away stuff like this. But I really don't think we'll ever see them again. Oh well, thanks for the memories dude.
I feel like newer toys are just too pricey compared to 30 years ago it’d be 3-8$ now it’s 20-40$ for a toy how can they really justify giving one away for free … well you know 😅
Oh that 6-8 weeks. Be it from cereal boxes or especially the Joes, and Star Wars, we got so many. It was fun. I like Action Force is bringing that back a little ❤
4-LOM was the mailaway I remember most. Apparently the Toltoys Nien Nunb 65-back mailaway is a white whale of MOCs, nearly impossible to find. There was some quirk where the Nien Nunb 48-back was released in Australia with the Nien Nunb mailaway offer. Pretty weird lol
I had the hooded cobra commander, one of those steel brigade troops, and I think I got others but can't remember... Oh yeah I also got (and still have) the star wars ROTJ poster with the film characters on one side and a picture of all the star wars action figures on the other.
That was a fun episode. I remember getting both Dengar and the Emperor mail-order from Palitoy. There was another mail-away where you got a little box of star wars accessories. A grappling hook, oxygen masks, back packs. Very cool mail days! The other one I remember were Ghostbusters puffy glow stickers from a crisp promotion
Ghostbusters had a crazy amount of premiums and yes I remember that weapon pack for star wars. I covered it in a previous episode, i feel like that one was cheap for the company but added a lot of playability for the kids that got them
@@EdsRetroGeekOut thanks. Do you remember those Kelloggs floating toys inside the cereal boxes in the mid to late 80s, and wundarr he-man figure mail in toys
I'm not sure about America, but here in the U.K. Kelloggs seemed to have a long-standing deal with Matchbox toys. I must have eaten truck loads of corn flakes, collecting tokens, for various promotions such as die-cast Ford Model A vans & Spitfires. My personal favourite was a R.A.F. Red Arrows Hawk aeroplane and its transporter truck in matching red paint scheme.
As a kid I had loads of those Action Man mail aways from collecting stars of the packaging. I had the Action Man figure and the Mounty. I also sent for the Sentry box but remember receiving a German version complete with German signs as they were out of stock of the advertised version .
I think it'd be cool if you did the toy history on the toy rejects as part of your toy history. Almost like the kind of toys that really didn't get a chance to make it as big as some of the bigger toys did like TM and t and stuff like that. Almost like the toys that went straight to the bargain bins. Or if you could just make a straight up toy history on the bargain bin itself. That'll be cool Amber. All the toys lost to history there. That'll be cool course. That'd be a big, huge one, never mind. That might not be the best way to go about this😅
The Heroic Three Pack for LAH was a JC Penney offering from their catalog if I'm not mistaken. So you were actually on point with it being simlilar to the MOTU offering that JCP did. Side note: those Incredible Crash Dummies Crack-Ups are epic. Only the real ones know those gems. Lol.
Toatally did the mailaway Might Max Dino set, was a bit smaller than I expected but still was cool in the collection. I still have my Mighty Max style TMNT sets.
I mailed away for the LGN Sergeant Slaughter figure and received it. I was so stoked. For some reason I had 40% of my G.I. Joe still left over from when I was a kid. When i started collecting again. He was gone and sold off at yard sales from my childhood collection. I was very bummed. I have two Steel Brigade Variants in my collection. I mailed away for a few different G.I. Joe Mailaways when I was a kid. My first ever mail away was He-Man’s MOTU Mumm-Ra from 1985!
Love your content sir. You have a great demeanor and your videos are well researched and produced, thank you. Btw , Starcom toys were amazingly produced and looked wonderful. I love smaller scales like that of it, M.AS.K. And Jayce & Wheeled Warriors
Loved the glow worms when I was little, and Mom saved up for the special one and sent off for it- And since I live in the US it definitely wasn't a Canadian exclusive.
Love this video along with all your other toy history videos but honestly man, I miss the days of mail away figures and even toys that came in cereal boxes, you just don't see any of it nowadays. Lol 😂 not even a cheap ring or prize in a cracker jack box anymore.
as a kid of the 80s. remember the mail away points on the transformer's toys. what piss me of that you can't buy reflector in the stores. in order to get him you have to buy a mess load of transformers to get the points off the boxes & send away an x number of points & $10, i think. plus, shipping & handling.
Very cool video and enjoyable new old information, I had the palitoy mail away dog so yes I am an older collector and to be clear still collecting and not planning on stopping anytime soon as indeed I hope your channel isn't.
My comment seems to have disappeared. 2nd try in 2 parts 😒: Thanks for putting always so much effort in your Toy History videos (and in all others as well 😉). And thanks for not shying away of showing some girls toys 😜👌. I did not know about the Polly Pocket mail aways of the regular compacts. I only knew about the crystal one. Cool~ but agreed~ color variants would have been a good idea 😂
@@EdsRetroGeekOut Yes, I will😁 I even have a table. Unfortunately they don't list me under my RU-vid name... but under my real name 🙄(Laura Stolle 😂) and they also don't list me under "special guests" 🤷🏼♀️ whatever 😝 Yup~ makes sence with Bluebird being UK excl. ✌
As you're doing these kind of videos, I noticed that there's a crash test dummies back behind you I wonder were there ever any crash test dummy mailways? I'd love to hear if there were😊😊😊
I'll be truly honest the only mail away that I truly think I liked of these ones even though it's kind of like not much is the mighty Max. I I just had a thing for the mighty Max. Kind of stuff bib fortuna was even cool. Everything else I don't think I would have really gotten into because it wasn't my kind of tea
You forgot the Colonel Duke Mail Away for G.I. Joe. I remember I sent in 5 proofs of purchase and I think $7.50 plus $1.50 for shipping and awhile later you were able to buy it in the store but by then the G.I. Joe craze had died down. And the Mail Away version was far more popular than the Sgt.Slaughter
There's one other LAH gift set, Benedict with his car, they were all exclusive to one of those mail order giants like Sears or something. I see them on ebay all the time. Does that still count as a mailaway if it's just from a catalog??
I wish we had mail away figure type of deals in my country when I was a kid, such a great marketing gimmick. EDIT: Also, what band(?) shirt you're wearing?
I always wondered if there was tthere special mail order toy warehouse that was a secret locattion and what ever happened to the toys no one claimed. My mail orders included (and werent limited to) : Sgt Slaughter camera ttransformer thing my wife several gi joes
