As someone who was really into Robocop (mainly due to the arcade game and animated series) even though I hadn't seen the movie, I can't begin to tell you how excited I was when I first saw the Robocop figure in Kay-Bee Toys as a little boy. Really great detail for an 80s action figure. Finally saw the TV edit of the movie on March 3, 1991. I don't think I yet believed that they edited movies for TV at the time, so I didn't find it terribly violent and wondered why my cousins said it was such a gory movie. I don't ever remember seeing the Anne Lewis or Sgt. Reed figures. I had Robocop, Birdman Barnes, Ace Jackson, Dr. McNamara, Headhunter, Chainsaw, Nitro, the Nightfighter Robocop, ED-260, the Robo 1, the Robocycle, and the Vandal cycle. I still have 2 of the basic Robocop figures (one, I scuffed up as a little boy to emulate the damage he took when he fought ED-209 in the movie) and ED-260. The one thing I hated about the figure was that cumbersome and unsightly cap-firing mechanism on the back. Such a stupid gimmick that didn't even work very well. I wish I knew of that Gatling Blaster Robocop figure as a little boy (don't ever remember seeing it). It appears to be the exact same figure but without the stupid cap pack on the back.
Toy Island made a ton of Robocop toys after Kenner lost the license. They made ones based on the TV series but they also made Robocop with his jetpack from 3, even though they didn't market it as a Robocop 3 toy (but I'm pretty sure that has more to do with the weird limbo that movie was trapped in for two years than them just being that ashamed of it) I like the fact that they actually made a car that looks like the one from the show, but I'm not sure if they made one in the actual action figure scale because the one I've seen is like MASK size or something and comes with it's own figure
Toy Island also got the Terminator 2 license at some point in the late ‘90s. They made exactly two toys; an Endo-Skeleton, and an all silver T-1000 in the motorcycle cop outfit
Mom and Dad took me to see Robocop in the theater…I was either almost 5 or had just turned 5 and I clearly remember Mom voicing her concerns about the R-rating of the movie…as we walked in a little late, shortly before Murphy’s murder. 😂. I also vividly remember my Grandmother buying me the first Robocop figure at a Laneco! Never actually watched the cartoon, but loved the first two movies and had quite a few of the figures and vehicles.
I just had the normal kenner robocop figure and recently got a Wheels Wilson. This always seemed like an amazing line flipping through those little kenner catalogs. It is an easy enough concept for play scenarios even if you had not seen the movie as a kid. I would just slam the fireing hammer without any caps and its still intense enough. Thanks for covering this line its always been a curiosity. The packaging design with the grid also reminds me of Captain Power.
This was my only robocop action figure as a kid. That ugly gun he came with amazingly didn't get lost for a long time but eventually it did. I never saw the cartoon.
@@hosomi1833 Punisher's cap trigger fell off so his guns were silenced. Would only fight Robo, directly, if I had his family hostage and he was infected with a virus. Never eff with Francis Castle...
I had these toys. One day I was playing with them with the caps and my Lewis figure shot out a steady flame like a cigarette lighter. I said NOTHING. I didn't want my folks taking these away. Also, Dr. McNamara is actually in the movie. He's the guy operating ED-209 when it goes haywire. Ronny Cox calls him by name.
15:03 I wanted that ed-260 so bad as a kid. He was on sale at target for like $3 back in the day but my mom wouldn't shell out for it. I still think that one looks cool.
Tony and I had a similar experience. I saw this movie WAY too young. I was born in 1988. My dad was a cop. I legit thought this movie is what it was like for him going into work every day.
I don't own any Toybiz era ML. They are cool, but sometimes to skinny. I have a fair amount of DCUC, mostly BAT Family from the tail end. I'm actually downsizing my superhero collections.
Serious question: if someone made a scented candle that smelled like the aftermath of using the obligatory late 80s/early 90s action figure caps, would you buy one? I would.
26:55 WHO SAID THAT?! Are you sure this person wasn't being sarcastic? Prime Directives *IS* the worst thing that ever came out on screen based on a Robocop license. It's criminally cheap, terminally dumb and suffocatingly boring. You can make six hours loop of a Korean fried chicken commercial, where Robo steal a fridge from a single mother household, and watch it without skipping a bit, and this will be more enjoyable than Prime Directives.
