The History of Madballs: The Balls That Wouldn't Die 

I used to draw my own Madballs designs. Really wish I still had them! Funnily enough, I didn't even have any Madballs and still don't; just thought they were cool. :p

The thing I love about this channel is the walk down memory lane you do. Born in 76 this channel covers my childhood from toys to cartoons. Great video, great channel and great host!!!!

I was lucky to work on the line when Art Asylum had design control of the line. So awesome to just say “can we make it grosser?” And have 4 people agree.

Mmmmmmm that smell of paint and foam brings back memories of MADBALLS!

We used to play baseball with these. Unpredictable flight and bounce patterns made it more fun. 😆

The more I watch these videos the more I miss the 80s, and 90s. Worth the risk to keep watching these videos. Ironically while watching this video I just happened to come across and find my oculus ball.

Madballs are totally fantastic! I had a few of them as a kid and used them to cause lots of chaos and confusion. My friend Patrick had a few of them too! They were very cool. Parents didn’t like them much but they were always cool to me!

I sometimes force my wife to watch your videos with me. Every time we get to the end I point out my name in the Patreon credits. I encourage everyone that isn't currently a backer to become one so that you too can annoy your spouse. Great video!

Had forgotten about these things. Had them, watched the vhs- parents hated it. Good memories!! Thanks Dan

I am such a child. Every time Dan mentioned “balls” I started giggling!!

I had several of these! I love this walk down memory lane! Thanks :)

I thought these were a fever dream. Holy crap they actually existed in my life.

I had one as a kid and man, y'all are making me feel old here!

Awesome as always but no mention of Mondos versions. They’re great, probably the best for sculpt and details and they’re even doing Christmas ornaments this year.

had four out of the eight madballs in the first run was born in 79 in UK fookin love tthis channel!!!

I found the Mad balls movies when a child. Loved them.

this is a legendary toy, i had the 2009 racket attack and was my favorite toy at the time, im glad i remember the name

I’m just gonna give this a thumbs up before I watch it. Now I’ll go watch

I had a couple MadBalls when I was a kid. We played baseball with them.

I had a lot of these as a kid, I distinctly remember the various comics and also the soccer ball but I had most of the versions of the actual balls and the action figures.

My brother bought me the Eyeball one for Christmas. It was my favorite gift that year out of all the stuff I got, and don't remember. But I remember that ball.

Dude your content is so FUCKING GOOD! I'm not gonna lie Dan, your Charisma and personality set your content in a league of its own!!

I was just gonna say man this episode was just missing that last thing to get a 10/10 then u hit the fart noise and now the video is dan larson perfection once again bravo sirs

I had a few of these. I also had an English teacher in high school who, if he caught you slacking off, would throw the eyeball one at you and yell "I've got my eye on you!". Jerk.

This is nuts! I was thinking about Mad Balls last week.

You guys keep helping me what Toy-Line my toys came from... Like Madballs.

Thank you thank you thank you!!! Omg I had these as a kid in the 85 n never new the name of them thank you thank thank you!!!!!!!!!!

I had Oculus Orbus when I was a kid. Funny that that is one toy name that I never forgot. Such a great name!

Not my favorite toy of all time, but you get a thumbs up for working in a Death Wish 4 clip! Bronson is the man.

Holy crap. I had *completely* put these things out of my head.

I had so many of these. I remember that cyclops with the nose ring being my favourite.

this was a fun video to watch. thanks. Just last weekend I ran across the horror themed ones. Didn't know that themed existed. Horn Head is my favorite.

YES! THANK YOU for taking my Facebook suggestion!!!

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I for some reason, oh I was 10, that's it, collected the Star Madballs comic loyally. The jokes were just fourth wall breaking enough, the art wasn't cutesy, it just hit me at the absolute right time for lines like "Let's see if they like double doses of Horrible Halitosis!" .

I had the generic Ugly ball, I could always count on my parents and for some odd reason Santa to get me the off brand.

I love this channel. It brings back so many nostalgic memories. So far, I owned the majority of toys featured here at one point or another during my childhood. 💓

Speaking of gross out humor and scary monsters, anybody here remember the Inhumanoids?

There were a ton of "gross-out" properties out there back then. Like the Madballs knock-off Weird Ball Wrestlers, the controversial (in some parts of the world) Skateboard Smack-Ups, and possibly flying under the radar, a less freaky, more cartoony look at pro athletes called Sport Freaks.

My cousin and I would play with these at my grandparents' house. I totally forgot about these. Thanks for this vid!

i loved the madballs animated shows so damn much

One of my favorite toys and one of my favorite RU-vid shows...holy cow what a combo

I had a pair of Madballs sunglasses as a kid. I'm sure I had a ball or two as well, but can't remember that nearly as well. I know I played with them, but don't remember if they were mine. I still love the designs and wish I had a set of them today.

All I had of this line was a huge(really huge) pack of stickers that my Dad got from work. All of my elementary school years where decorated with werewolf and mummy on my books and stuff. I still have a VHS of titanic with madballs stickers covering jack and rose face.

I loved Madballs! I bought most, if not all, of the STAR comics. I was a STAR comics fanatic back in the day. Great video!

I won Crack=Head at a Hallowe'en carnival once...that carnival had great prizes, as it was at a school where the principal's husband owned a dime store and that first year they had the carnival, they gave away a lot of older toys that they had sitting there for years, of which Mad Balls was one such example. That was a good year...

They're coming back. I've seen them where I work

Great video as always dan! I saw them in Target the other day. Brought back memories.

Our Convention Fan Table at Farpoint 2018 featured some of my Battle Trolls (since Marscon 2019's theme was Faeries) and some woman picked up a flier because Trollclops reminded her of a Madball.

And immediately after these came out they came out with mad balls action figures, as I vaguely recall the three wheeler trebuchet, that was actually fun throwing their heads at each other.

I was Mad Ball mad. I had the balls, the comics, and a couple of the action figures. The action figures were pretty awesome. I'd say throwing rates a 3 normally, but at least 9 with Mad Balls.

I LOVED these! I wish they would reboot them full size instead of little in the recent years

These are similar in concept to somethings i had growing up. The ones I had were smaller bouncy-balls my dad called UglyBalls. The weird shapes made playing fun cause you couldn't predict the next bounce.

I think I still have the comic books buried in my closet somewhere! I definitely still have two madballs still in plastic in there.

“Gross-out humor, scary monsters, and throwing things.” This made me chuckle idk why

Oh man I wish I still had these.

A childhood favorite a long with Bat Balls, Super Soakers and Tab Clear

I remember seeing similar toys that were just a bit bigger than marbles, this was in the early 2000s. I had one but I can't remember what they were. I clicked on this video hoping these were them but they only ever had these marble sized ones. It was around the same time Mighty Beanz were popular.

You should do a history of Mattels Mad Scientist toy line from the late 80's. That was one of my all time favorite toylines as a kid.

Wasn't there also a second video game released on the Xbox 360?

I always remember the mummy madball. They would always get chunks ripped out of them!

American Greetings made Ring Raiders, too? I'm impressed. Plus, can we get a History Of for Ring Raiders. I still remember the cartoon.

As a 80s kid with facial deformitys, I got the nickname Mad Ball. Bui its funny that other people outside MPS know that toy

Why is it that I can remember there actually being an animated series for this? I don't know why, but I do.

I still have a madball from my childhood, im shocked that its brains and still sealed inside after this many years

I owned a few of these as a kid, so it was interesting that as I got older and got into the hardcore music scene that I found a band called Madball. Turns out folks, in New York hardcore scene gang lingo, a mad ball is a pool ball dropped into a sock and used as a weapon. True story.

I remember they put me in some special class where we earned points to cash in for arcade tokens money or toys. This was my first prize and I loved it, thanks Andrea (my teachers) from shelburne vt

I had one Madballs knock-off that i wish I could find more info about. Instead of nerf-like foam, it was kind of a soft vinyl or plastic material. It was blue and red in color, and kind of a zombie-like face. One of the eyes was coming out of its socket and I believe there was exposed brain as well. I had some of the proper Madballs as well, but I always wondered what knock-off series this soft plastic one came from.

This has made my morning

I had the (original) eyeball. It was wedged between the center of the dashboard and windshield of my car, staring out at the road for years.

I like that hoodie. It's like a cross between Mr. Rogers and Tom Holland Spider-man. They say the suit makes the man, perhaps, in this case, it's the other way around.

Anybody remember Slime Time? They were like Madballs, but they were watches. I remember the commercial so clearly and I remember seeing them at the store in the mid-80s. Maybe it was a Canadian thing, but I’ve never met anyone who knows what I’m talking about. Also, I remember having the Madballs comics, they were pretty good...

I remember the print ad on the back of comic books from that time.

Madly rad vid!

One Christmas I received the cyclops Madball, his action figure, an action figure of the original eyeball and a vehicle-a trike with a catapult.

I actually have a tattoo of Madball Hornhead

You know what would be a great video on the channel, the history of attack of the killer tomatoes, it was a movie and then animated series, kinda in the same way as toxic crusader.

i always see these now i do remember seein em back in the day but it died out a lil before my era.

I watched that Madballs video hundreds of times when I was a kid haha

I had the touchdown terror as a kid. Wonder if I still have it kicking around at my parents house.

do Boglins

I forgot akk about these things until i saw this. I have vague memories of seeing these things in the toy aisle as a kid but i never bothered with them. Weird cause they were right up my alley as i loved garbage pail kids.

I had almost all of them back in the day.

I had the eyeball character, it deteriorated rather quickly but the knock-off cyclops Mad Ball I got at a local fair somewhere in Illinois back in '86 was made of thick rubber and lasted a lot longer.

I had Slobulus as a kid - thought he was rad. Madballs were awesome, though their paint would inevitably start chipping off and peeling away.

Madballs are dope! Horn Head was my favorite and I got the Rollercycle that came with his headpopper action figure.

Thank you

This channel need more subscriber there

Bloody hell. I completely forgot about them. But when that "Escape from Orb" art showed up, I realised that I was seeing something that I hadn't seen in about 25 years

The lawnmower got my madball collection lol

You forgot about the madballz game that was released on steam about 10 years ago

I had an original series Mad Ball, the blue, bruised, stitched-up dude. Here is something that I've never heard anyone mention about this toy, is that... it stunk. Smelled like a cross between the grossest chemical smell you've ever dealt with and a corpse. Once I got older, I thought maybe they made it stank because the idea behind the toy was that it was supposed to be disgusting. But I just think it was a super-rank (possibly poisonous?) chemical makeup of the construction material or the paint they used (or maybe both together). Whatever the case, I'll always remember it was the worst-smelling toy I ever possessed. That toy-grade slime they had back then for similar, gross products was pretty rank also, but no other toy will compare to the stench of a freshly made Mad Ball.

@ToyGalaxy You should do a video on The Rock Lords, Rainbow Bright, and for the sake of redundancy possibly Tiger Sharks. BTW Love the Videos Guys!

Love madballs!!! Had a bunch of them and played madball dodgeball all the time! If you got pelted it didn't hurt as bad lol

Come on Dan! History of Boglins!!!

This reminds me of"silly slammers" please do a history of those

I might still have 2 Madballs masks. I loved Madballs back in the day

I grew up owning the lock lips and wolf guy(can't remember his name) "action figures". Those guys were dangerous, it's like a rock wrapped in squishy rubber... Only in the 80s man

I had Screaming Mimi as a kid. I also seen the "Gross Jokes" video.

I used to love Madballs. The old ones.