The History of Kenner 

Despite many downfalls, I still would have loved to have seen more series after '94 of Kenner's Aliens series.

Sad to see them go R.i.p kenner

Kenner's batman the animated series toys were simply amazing. Grappling hooks (that worked!), cloth capes, wings, light up pieces, and one with a working parachute. The vehicles always did 2 or 3 things as well, and sometimes had smaller figure fitting vehicles inside of them. Very imaginative, and incredibly mechanical for kids' toys. I've never seen anything else like them.

Kenner was part of my childhood for the 90s. Batman figures for life.

Kenner was a great company in its heyday . I remember the Millenium Falcon came with a mail in list of anything that may have been missing or defective on the toy. I checked every item on the list and to my surprise they sent me every single part of the Falcon except the main body. Everything !

Kenner: Greatest toy company of all time, plus I like the toy lines they produced.

Great rundown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

love it....all toys are historic and the 80s and 90s mean a lot to me..thank you

This is by far my most favorite toy company. I wasnt concious about it when i was a kid but they are responsible of 80% of my favorite toy lines and while they produce some garbage they also did some amazing pieces along the way. Is pretty sad that a company with such long history and talent got disolved soo fast

Mask was rad.

Can you also do Playmates & LJN... Really really enjoyed this!!!

Defiantly subscribing really enjoy the information and trip down memory lane.

My great grandma used to work at kenner

A little echoing, but a good video none-the-less. Thanks for the upload. I do remember the Star Wars days of 1977.

I just happened to come across your videos, I live in the U.S. and Fined your videos incredibly educational thank you for creating them, its clear you put alot of work and time into research, I would love to see a video on the history of Mattel here's hoping one day you can get to it, thanks agian keep up the great work.

i have some old kenner star wars toys from 1997 and the shadows of the empire and even got a old 1982 star wars toy as well

Liked and subscribed. Well done! I would like to mention the new "ReAction figures" which are 100% based on 70's Kenner toy style. I am collecting those currently and can not get enough of them. Again, bravo!

Kenner: the greatest toy company of all time.

I had a Steve Austin action figure, with a rocket module when I was ten! I had a Stretch Armstrong, and a Stretch Monster, too!

GENUINELY GREAT VIDEO ! THANK YOU ! The video felt very efficient with the editing highlighting the ways the company came into itself and was handed the PARASOCIAL Relationship dynamics with the unfortunate realities of how toy companies "do the math" on the cost of tried and true licences and the incoherence of making what is the best toy that can be made of the subject matter and with current available technologies . I think , they think , we think , that they think.... we know!.. 🤦‍♂️ how we are buying monuments to the Gigantopithecus of NOstalgia in miniature ... The current system is in a loop of inefficiency when it doesn't have to be because the solution is to make new worlds and peoples , places and things... Like make the best figures you can make ..or toys that can be toys .. It is kinda sad how kids don't play with toys anymore really.. I think the internet is obviously compounding this exponentially like all things in the echo chambers online ... But kids still like toys .. They just need experiences or something they can interact with other children with in real time ! Video games are fine in moderation... This is complicated stuff and I am rambling so I don't wish to contextualize government monetary systems and exploits vs the people who exploit systems & how free will or biochemical sequences chain reactions to 1 to 1 actions. ... Lol I have no clue ... But I think that you should do a long form video or live maybe on the way starwars kinda was like Halley's comet and now we have unreasonable expectations and drug dealer like practices being used to profit off of people's who had emotional connections to family and fleeting youth ALLLLLLLLLLLLL wrapped up in the most psychologically weirdd way ... Idk guys and girls I feel like I'm going to just let it rest there for now but would love to flesh some of that out in the future. Take care of your selfs guys and remember to please be kind to one another!

I got to get my hands on some of those Kenner Starwars figures.

Kenner's best toy line in my opinion was MEGA FORCE in 1989.

Great History Lesson!

your commentaries excite me about english! your sentence structure is brilliant! I love each video

Personally, I think the Super Powers Collection might be the best set of (at least) super hero figures ever made. They were so great!

The 80's and 90's toys were so mature for the time and it was so awesome being a young child walking into a toy shop like KB toy store and always finding something new. Crazy eight, swamp thing, batman, robo cop. Oh those were the days...

And we have NAFTA to thank for Cincinnati's plant closing down...as well as many others. :(

Great video but I'm amazed at how little recognition Beast Wars received here. There were some innovative and amazing toys made for that line under the Kenner name.

As a kid of the 70s i remember Palitoy being one of the most prominent names then, with action man and star wars toys also . Did they go bust or get bought out in the end?

Kenner also made the Strawberry Shortcake figures based off the greeting card line along with the Care Bears with their plush toys.

My only favorite Kenner toyline is the Super Powers Collection 1984-86

;) thanks, glad you like it

Great vid

Nice documentary

Beast wars isn't forgotten

Will do @Clouse

5:34 VR TROOPERS!

Hey man you forgot jurassic park chaos effect.One of the many reasons hasbro closed kenner

:P Thanks CJ, there will be a lot more of this style videos to come

who is that dude that looks like a human Gamorrean Guard??

What was the name of the toy line where the figures literally looked like they were riding on circuit boards?

you forgot about the nerf that made 1994. to 1998

Kenner had the license for VR Troopers and not Bandai? That's surprising

man , we could have had kenner for Jurassic world , kenner in dominus Rex , AWESOME

Very interesting!

I wish you would've spent more than just a few seconds of passing reference on how the Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves line recycled molds from the Return Of The Jedi line...

Do you own the JurassicCollectables channel?

Very nice video! The same can be said about comic books, lots of junk out there but old .10 .12 .15 cents cover MARVEL/DC still fetch good prices and can sometimes be acquired for cheap ;)

I'm new to this market so I'm learning

What, was beast wars really forgotten. I know I wasn't around in the 90's, but it doesn't seem to be forgotten to me? Maybe that's why I think it's not forgotten?

why haven't you mentioned action man from the 90s since when it was starting out in the early 90s its was packaged with the kenner logo on the packaging but the figure had hasbro branded on theme and after 1994 the packaging changed to be branded by hasbro

The Best Company

Did Hasbro buy out Kenner?

Beast Wars was produced by Kenner?

you forgot to mention the visionaries

I was searching for Littlest Pet Shop. Good video nonetheless.

Best Kenner toy line: star wars and Batman the animated series

Was the Gamorrean ward of the thumbnail clickbait?

Fischer Price Adventure People started the 3 3/4 trend.

um so are Hasbro and kenner the same

Yeah I used to hate it when a line of toys didn’t stick with original characters. They always had to make versions with crap outfits never seen in the cartoons with wacky features that often times broke over a short period of time. Also limiting certain characters for greed pigs to sell for a profit. 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

:O MY NAME!

Kenner was the best

l am 9 and I have Ole ove the star wars toys from1977 to1985

Wait a minute they made a toy line out of steel?

Why can't Hasbro get the memo that everybody hates them and want Kenner back

so, do they still make toys?

For me kenner best toys are jurassic park ones.

It’s pronounced ken-ER

you forgot superman and superman the animated series

Great video

"Transformers' forgotten step brother Beast Wars"? Uh, no. Beast Wars revitalized the Transformers brand after it had been all but abandoned at retail. The line produced over 100 figures. The show ran for 3 seasons, and likely would have run for more had it not proved so popular that Fox bough the rights to air a TF series and forced the creators to end the show earlier than they had planned. And Hasbro did NOT try to return to the tried and true car vs. plane set up of the original. Instead, they continued on the beast legacy with Beast Machines--albeit an inferior series. Additionally, Beast Wars spawned two Japanese only series, (Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo). To this day, Takara and Hasbro continue to create updates to classic BW characters, including in their premium Masterpiece line. IDW also uses BW characters in its numerous TF comic lines. So, please give the property its due respect.

WTF??? You didnt even go into WHY Kenner went under.. Thats what i wanted to know... How the fuck can a company be making hundreds of millions of dollars need to be bought out???? why were THEY not buying hasbro... how the fuck did they lose their grip on the toy world???

Wtf lol Chuck Norris..chuck Norris will never die he just killed Death..

4:20 "Definitely aimed at children and not collectors." Um, yeah dude. They're TOYS!

instead HASBRO had to ruin everything for us Jurassic park fans , WHY!!!!!!

so much garbage created...