Super Great Review👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽I had/still do have alot of Big Jim figures/playsets as a kid and let me tell you it's nice to see reviews done on him. You broke it down perfectly and the slow mo karate chop was AWESOME. This toy line is a 4 gotten one and I dont understand why.
Yeah I don't know if it's the rapid release of toy lines in North America that toy lines like this get forgotten. Overseas saw more expansion on Big Jim from what I found in research. Thanks Anthony for watching and comment!👍
Big Jim was the favored toy amongst me and my friends. Between us we had a lot of gear. I had the racing motorcycle, the jungle truck and the camp set; another friend had the camper; two brothers had the plane, kung fu studio and rescue rig. Those were the days.
Born in 68.... here in the U.K it was rebranded as Mark Strong... i had one with a few different outfits...Soccer Player , Skier and Karate outfit.... loved this toy as a 5 or 6 year old....even have a couple of Photo of me playing with it back in the Yonder years.....anyone ever seen a soccer player wearing ski's? lol
i love Big Jim. i was fortunate enough to grab 2 in a lot years ago. They're in great condition, but now thanks to you, i know how to clean them properly.
@@ToyTinkerTim We thought the toys would be safe in the drawers but they climbed the dresser from underneath and build nests among the toys. Biggest Losses were the Big Jim, Masters of the Universe figures, and Thundercats, they got chewed up and peed on. Thanks for the sentiment.
Merci pour votre super vidéo, qui me rappelle mon Big Jim de 1976 ! Au début des années 70, Big Jim avait été importé en France par Mattel sous le nom "Mark Strong"! (pour éviter une confusion avec d'autres jouets existants) Je me souviens que Big Jim avait une médaille d'or olympique dans sa boîte. Il n'y avait pas la petite planche que l'on voit dans votre vidéo, qu'il brise en deux d'une manchette de karaté.
C'est bon d'entendre que même s'il s'agissait d'une version différente de votre personnage, Mark Strong, vous avez apprécié l'épisode. Merci d'avoir regardé!
@@ToyTinkerTim De rien, Tim ! C'est moi qui vous remercie d'avoir gardé la magie de cette époque et de nous faire revivre l'aventure avec Big Jim!!! J'espère que vous nous offrirez d'autres aventures miniatures mettant en scène le héros de notre enfance ! Amicalement
J’avais deux Big Jim avec lesquels j’ai beaucoup joué dans les années 1970. Achetez aux USA et ramene en France. Perdu quand ma mère a déménagé il y a 2 ans.
Nice video! I just started reacquiring the Big Jim stuff that I had as a kid. Big Jim, Big Jeff, the plane, the camper, as well as some stuff I didn't have back then. The Elsinore Dirt bike, the Rescue Rig (which my next door neighbor friend had) as well as Big Jack and Big Josh. In '78 I had moved on to Star Wars and I didn't even know all that great European stuff existed. I also didn't know, until doing my ebay searches, about the camper and plane being repurposed from Barbie lines. I'm not too sure how happy I would've been, as a kid, about that.
Very cool! 👍 Same with about the toy lines, when Star Wars came out all attention shifted that way. There are so many cool figures and sets from the Big Jim Mattel line, the dirt bikes and vehicles are pretty awesome. Thanks for watching!
I love my Big Jim as a kid I bought a couple that need the head fixed a whole back but everything else works great. Thank you do much for this review and I hope there is more too come
Thank you for making this great review. Living in the UK I don't recall Big Jim from back in the day but I have heard the name since I started to collect vintage toys. Well now I know a bit more about him, Thank you.
My brother and I each got one of these for Christmas one year. I think we lost the baseballs in the first 5 minutes of playing with them. We also got the Sports Camper at the same time. I got several other figures in the series later. The biggest problem I had was that the ball joints would break off. That was definitely the weak point of the toy. So, until I got some superglue, I had Double-Leg-Amputee Big Jim. The other problem was his arm muscle mechanism would eventually rip through the rubber skin.
You're right. I think I went through 3 before I gave up on them. NEVER attempt to spread his legs or one will fall off. This WAS during the Nixon administration so this was probably a deliberate conservative design.
Yeah even if if you don't add Big Jim to your collection it's always interesting to find out the background on these figures, I learned quite a bit researching for this episode. Thanks for watching Robert!
How many memories and how many Big Jim did I have! And I broke them all ... 😢Of Sandokan with the gorilla, karateka, soccer player, the one in the video ... 🇪🇦
Great informative vid 👍 however in your timeline you didn’t include Mego’s entry into to boys action figure market with Action Jackson. Btw I had no idea about the baseball accessory. I have a boxed original Jim - now I’d better check 😉
Collectors probably would get into that. When Mattel pulled the plug in 1985, fans of the toy line overseas were quite disappointed by Mattel's decision. Thanks for checking out the episode!
Hello great video and information. Does anyone have the instructions sheet and images of the triangular mark strong box for uk. I have made up a draft carboard box but need scans of the three sides top and bottom to be able to finish the box
When you got to 1984 on your timeline you should have mentioned A Real American Hero which was widely popular and is probably what finally killed big jim.
I had a couple of these and I don't remember any muscle band. My dad (who didn't want me playing with dolls) probably swiped it as he saw some potential use for it in his garage. It was so disappointing to bend that arm and see a bi-cep bulge yet bend that leg and ... ... nothin'
I'm sure it was a agreement like with Hasbro and Plaitoy making their line overseas. Some of the Kid Acero figures are really awesome! I think the Invisible Man and Bionic version figures are very cool, just way out of my financial means however.
It's definitely stamped '71, Mattel like other toymakers file patents before the toys are released (Kenner Star Wars figures C 1977, first figures released in 1978). Got to protect your work🙂👍 Thanks for watching -
