The History of Kenner Super Powers Action Figures 

The only time Jack Kirby, the King of Comics, got royalties for his Fourth World work. That alone makes it alright.

Man I loved these toys. Green Lantern and Brainiac were so cool. I also remember I got caught shoplifting these toys because my parents wouldn't buy them for me.

I absolutely loved these figures. Darkseid and his team of Steppenwolf, Tyr, Desaad, Kalibak and the Parademon were my first super villain team. God I miss the days when action figures were fun.

This line was on my list of favorite toy lines growing up right up there with G.I Joe, Transformers, M.A.S.K and Thundercats.

The Super Powers Team Galactic Guardians was my favorite of the series.

Wait. You never watched Super Friends or Happy Days?? What is wrong with you? 😕

DC Comics was the first thing I ever fell in love with and these toys felt like the ultimate collection of my favorite superheroes that could never be topped. Honestly, still my favorite toys of all time

I still have a few of these left including the mail away Clark Kent and the Hall of Justice which I gave to my daughter to play with and she loves it

As a Golden Age fan in the 80's I loved the Dr. Fate figure.

The Darkseid action figure was awesome! The light up eyes!!

I had all of them.... Unfortunately they suffered total annihilation and were cherrybombed and melted...? Against a battle with the transformer and gi joe ,gobots and star wars figuers....in a brutal,savage,apocalyptic war...in my backyard... I really regretted my childhood, toy defacing... I would have been rich off eBay right about NOW. I Fuck'd up... I need a flux capacitor?

i know not mentioning it was done intentional as a joke but the batmobile is by far the best vehicle in the line. the design,gadgets,etc were just great.

Kenner Flash was my first super hero with his kicky legs. I remember the Toy Biz versions became incredibly cheap at KB towards the end (mostly riddlers). Had Lex Luthor in purple jacket with "punch himself in the head" action and "dual umbilical cords" Mr. Freeze.

Love this channel and fantastic vid! Yeah I loved this toy line. Green Lantern was my first one I bought at Kaybee Toys :)

All the characters in DC's stable and in 30 figures they gave us who in the third wave? Who the hell is Tyr? No wonder they stopped making them. Not even a Supergirl?

They have a memory that is reluctant to leave my head. I went with my brother and father to a department store in the city of Santo André. This store called "Jumbo Eletro". From what I researched, this store still exists in Africa. And at the time the Super Powers were being launched here in Brazil by a company called "Estrela". I saw a wall with dozens of Super Powers and unfortunately at that time, my father was unable to buy them. After he bought. Man, I had the following action figures in the 80's: Batman, Superman and Robin. And I also got Batman's helicopter and Superman's ship from my father. Everything, absolutely everything, my mother donated to other children and I was very upset about that. Now I'm going to try to buy some, which were released by Macfarlane Toys. Yesterday I bought a Darkseid, I'm waiting for it to arrive! This collection is the best ever! But for us who live in Brazil it is very difficult to acquire these items.

Great video thanks for posting! I had Superman, Batman, Lex Luthor...ect, plus the vehicles you mentioned. I forgot about most of this stuff, thank you again for reminding me.

Had a bunch of these as a kid. Loved them. Glad I managed to put together a complete loose set of them for my collection. Green Arrow arrows, unbroken bow and Wonder Woman lasso to boot! :)

The 2nd Super Powers miniseries was great and the best introduction of many of the Fourth World villains to the greatest DC heroes. It used more Apokolips than DC villains and the Darkseid costume was iconic.

I love these videos and I’ve watched them multiple times at this point but damn do they make me miss my old toys.

Born in 82, by 94, I was done with toys do to the fact that 90's toys blew dog...started re collecting in early 2000's...now i have many of these again...kenner, and mattel were the best toy lines for me..

I loved the line... this is why I have a large DC Universe Classics line now. I only had 5 Superpowers figures as a kid and the same 5 I had then became the first 5 DC Classics figure I bought, in almost the exact order I got them. Flash, Firestorm, Mr. Miracle, Batman, and Superman... I kept going with the DC Classics line as an adult. I wish they'd reboot the Visionaries in modern 6 inch figures...

I love that yall keep the outtakes on the reel... lol

Once again, it was Great meeting you at Retro-Con at Valley Forge. Believe it or not, my friend Carlos has a mint carded Cyborg and a mint carded Golden Pharaoh that he had for sale a his table! They both look Fantastic!

Lol, I LOVE this channel!

I own all 35 figures including the extremely rare Riddler only released in Argentina.

Bro I just discovered you and I love these vids.

I've seen this video a few times, but these were some iconic figures back then. I grew up with the Mego lines back in the 70's. When these came out I was older and not into them anymore. I kinda wish I would have grabbed a few though.

You guys do very good videos. NICE VIBES.

Soooo many memories. Thank you, good sir.

I remember opening my batman and robin and batmobile on christmas morning. I lost my mind!

Interestingly, LEGO now has the rights to DC Comics characters AND brick-built action figures with action features, so one day in the future we could get the LEGO Super Powers Collection. Every other toy company wouldn't know what hit them.

I like this vid man....sweeeet!!!! I had bats the car & somone else.the b.mobiles power punch bumper broke on me & the cement glue melted it. Fun times!!!

Those Kenner figs were really cool. Sad to see what happened to them

Duuuuuuuuuuuude. I totally forgot about the Super Mobile. I had it as a kid. And Superman. I never even knew what it was called. I do remember kicking it around a lot and other figures would use it besides Supes. It wasn't a favorite toy but it did get played with.

Christmas of 86 I got the superman vehicle, the lex luthor vehicle, the motorcycle/sidecar thing from secret wars and one other vehicle. The last one was a car that traveled inside a hamster wheel. I think it was secret wars related.

I use to love these action figures. Still have a few.

I had so many of those heroes as a kid., but I remember I always wanted to get El Dorado because he was my favourite in the Super Friends show. BUT I think they never made a toy fro him until recently.

Okay, that Robin Hood poster gag was great.

1. one of the best things to me that came from this toy line wasn't a toy at all, BURGER KING CUPS. 2. Oh those plastic c clips that held on their capes, genius. 3. I had all the Robin Hood toys. :D

I still have the Batmobile, Supermobile, and Lexor 7. I still have some of the figures too! Batman, Robin, Joker, Penguin, Flash, Darkseid, Kalibak, Desaad, Mantis (all bought in the 80's), and recently purchased Steppenwolf!

Love these things

I loved the Super Powers figures! I think the Super Powers Batmobile is the 2nd best Bat ride of all time, after the Keatonmobile. It married elements from the 60s TV show and the comics, and managed to look cool despite some gimmicky play features. The rear "enemy capture claw" was silly, the pop up headlights were awesome.

This Toy Line MADE my Childhood!!! The Hall of Justice was a very cool playset!!! The only other Playset I wanted (but never owned because my Parents said "You have plenty") was Boulder Hill for the M.A.S.K. Collection.

Years after they stopped making them, I was still able to find figures at KB Toys. Some of the not popular figures that is, but still loved this line.

Wow cute bloopers. Listing the figures would have been nice.

I always used to put my Super Powers Superman and Secret Wars Iron Man on the same team. Drove my friends bats**t INSANE with that crap. I loved every moment of it.

I remember getting Superman Batman and the flash those figures for Christmas along with my He-Man transformers and GI Joe figures

id love to see a video on the 90's spiderman toy line as well as the x-men

Yep, I totally had that mail in Clark Kent, and I remember waiting what seemed like FOREVER for it to come in the mail. LOL ...and I'm also pretty sure I had almost all of those phase 3 rare figures, and like almost all the rest of the stuff I had back then, seemed to vanish after garage sales. If my parents knew then what I know now...

Man I had almost all those rare ones as well...wish I still had them!

In my top 5 favorite toys..I only had batman Robin and g.l. but g.l. was my favorite back then....but man did I adore these. How I got hal ill never know but I always dug characters that were only seen here and there.

I own the entire collection. I only owned 3 of these as a kid (Aquaman, Darkseid, and Robin), and they were incomplete. As a kid, I wanted to own them all. As an adult, I bought my first Batman, Joker, Penguin, and second Robin (all loose/complete) for around $75 in 1999. In 2001, I opened a 12-back carded Superman up and lived my childhood dream that evaded me at a Ben Franklin store in 1985.I still have this C-9+ figure today. After that, I started buying the others up until I had the complete set. I had to sell some around 4 years ago, but I got them back. I vowed never to sell them again. They cost way more than you can sell them for to get them back. If you have any (especially any of the third series), don't sell them unless you have no intentions of buying them back.

I have all of these vintage Kenner action figure's.

Fonzeid would be an epic character....grand idea sir!

I bought a Super Powers Superman at the Smithsonian gift store(why?), and his knee joints were sooooooooooooooooo loose. Never got over it.

A great toy line. I must have bought three different Superman figures because I played with it so frequently that I'd wear out the punching mechanism. The broken Superman toys would ultimately get recast and repainted as Bizzaro and Evil Superman from the Negative World .

Video was good, but I wanted more depth and secrets, most of the stuff you said I already knew from loving the figures, comics and cartoons. Heck I want a whole video on Toy Biz's super hero business all by itself.

Thank you

PLEASE PLEASE do Robotech!!!!!!

I love that he keeps the blubs and mistakes. Human

I was fortunate to have both Superman figures from the Super Powers and DC Super Heroes. The Super Powers Superman was slimmer than the DC Superheroes one.

I vividly remember the line of figures that came out after the 1989 batman movie line and how impossible it was to find a superman figure that I wanted but never was able to get batman and Robin were so much easier to get that I had them

I always wanted those Super Powers action figures but I never got them cause I was at a stage at the time thinking I was too old for them boy was I dumb even though I didn't get the toys, I did get the next best thing, All three volumes of the Super Powers comic- books I still have then today but if I ever get the chance to get the Super Powers Action Figures, you can bet your bottom dollar I would.

Had the Darkseid Destroyer as a kid, that thing was wild.

The new McFarlane line is super cool!

We had just a few figures, but I had no idea about the vehicles and other accessories.

BEST TOYS EVER!!!!!

Superman would drop dead again if he had a backpack full of kryptonite on his back. I had these as well as secrete wars I got to admit SW was my favorite.

Love the embedded bloopers. So funny. So what would happen if Hasbro absorbed Mattel? Or would it be the other way around? Thoughts: Hasttel or Matsbro?!?!

Handily my all time favorite

I had a mail in Clark Kent. I remember walking to different mail boxes because supposedly you couldn't put all the letters in one box like Kenner could tell. I was four at the time.

Can’t believe you didn’t mention the batmobile as one of the coolest ever made.especially at that time

Oddly, I thought this was going to be about how the DC superheroes' powers changed over time.

that dark side vechile looks very similar to the triad fighter from the action force line by palitoy.

Orion was the only one I had as a kid! LOL. If only I'd known...

The Darkseid Destroyer reminds me of the ThunderStrike vehicle from Thundercats.

This was after my time but man did I make sure to check all these out (least the first wave or two) to see who they had. It brought back memories of Pocket Heroes and the 8" Megoes (for variety). Still the best superhero line I've ever seen (including modern, IMHO). But Justice Jogger? And no Invisible Jet? And shame that if they were going to update (unsuccessfulky for my taste) the super mobile that they'd leave out it key feature, those awesom mechanical hands. Least we finally got to see it with that McFarlan line (even if it seems to stacked high in clearance aisles for some reason). I just wish the line had gone on one or two waves longer (orskip Cyclone and Golden Pharoah so we could see some others (Kid Flash, Aqualad, jay Garrick-Flash, did they do Zatanna or Supergirl?).

This was indeed a great, great figure line, so much so that, despite not knowing who half the secondary and back-up characters were (I was a Marvel kid), I still bought them. The Toy Biz figures were so blatantly rip-offs, and poor ones at that, I never actually opened any of them -- and I ALWAYS opened my toys! They remain somewhere in the abandoned toy room of my mom's house, no doubt yellowing on their cards in the darkness.

Love your shows, love the history and the nostalgia of the old toy brands. Keep it up. Makes me realize how simpler times were and not all this nonsense of today. Of course, it hurts my wallet trying to reconnect with a time long gone. Cheers

still have the batmobil with batman and robin in it.. the superman ship i have to but in pieces

I had Superman, Batman, and a few others. Also had the Superman ship and the Batmobile

Today it lives on through Tweeterhead and their 1/6 scale DC Super Power statues.

The vehicles drawn up and unreleased look like they would have been awesome.

The closest I still have to Kenner's Super Powers line aside from Police Academy's Mahoney, are Toy Biz's Sabretooth, Dragon Man, Triton and Vulture.

What in the name of BAJOR, was that a DS9 reference? MY MAN!

Yes

I still have my green lantern but man I lost my wonder woman at a flea market and I was one sad little five year old for like a month. I still to this day want to get another wonder woman.

As an 80s kid, my favorite line of all time.

have you seen super hero art...Im buying the new backing cards...theyre so perfectly matched

I have Darkseid (2 really), Green Lantern, and Superman from Super Powers and Flash from DC Comics Super Heroes

Love the fonz

There were two versions of the Cyborg action figure, the gray looking one and the even rare shiny metallic version.

I had/have almost the entire line. Missed the Justice Jogger and Captain Marvel.

What's the ending theme?

Retired Superman needs Justice Jogger to race retired Flash's Whippin' Walker.

As a kid I never got my hands on any figure from this line 😢 as an adult...”adult” I cringed at the price every time I find one 😖

Super powers and secret wars, the best action figure line and bestt anime series EVER! Pure breed HERO not other types of bullshit 👍💪

I can't believe there was the Justice Jogger but no Invisible Jet? I mean, all they would've had to do was have a clear plastic seat and tell us the rest was there and we'd have bought it.

I’m here from the future and I’m a bit freaked out by the lack of beard! 😮