+Albin “Albino” Sjöström what's wrong with them? I thought the only reason they don't function well is because the plastics have aged and worn out over the 30 years.
@@aborted4196 actually. I wonder...if you could 3d print a copy of the facial features like what they used to be...use latex to mold the face and stick it back on again than do some repainting....
This wraps up a mystery from my childhood. i owned War Dog. I must have got him from a carboot sale in the 90s when i was a kid and he didnt have the latex face so it always just had the white skull head. i never really knew what was going on with it until now!
These are always my favorite Ashens videos. Not because I care about eighties toys, because I really, really don't. But Stuart obviously knows and cares a lot about this kind of thing and it's always fun to watch somebody who really knows what they're talking about, especially if it's something weird like this.
...a danganronpa pfp user and a kamen rider pfp user...in the comments of a ashens video? Either i am on something or I have a worse fever than I thought.
I'm watching it in 144p to give it that extra retro feel. (And also because that's currently the only available setting, and I'm too lazy to refresh it once it's processed more.)
+A Witty Username Haha yeah, I started watching and thought "did it make it all shitty on purpose because it's retro?" Then I remembered RU-vid goes live before processing is done and hit refresh. Much better.
I have a toy that's similar in concept. It's vac-man, a stretch Armstrong villain. It's covered in a green type of latex I think and it has a little pump that lets you suck out the air to pose it. It's not quite as old (came out in 1994) but it still stretches a lot and everything. Wish I could send it to Ashens but it is my all time favorite toy and I don't think I could replace it.
+Amaranthus616 yeah, but it would cost over $50 and no guarantee he would do a video on it. Now if he told me that if I bought it and sent it to him he would do a video on it then I would.
vac-man was boss. I had the big red original one. Nothing as cool as upgrading a stretchy-guy toy concept into one that KEPT his stretched-out poses through the power of vacuum and I believe a bunch of shredded rubber (providing fun muscle texture while you're at it) only problem was the outer rubber tore easily, and vacuum seals fail eventually. But what a concept!
My cousin had those, I remember the vehicle and until you showed the degloved skeleton face I didn't realise he had the action figures to go with them. They did not make good water pistols.
I was on holiday in Japan a few weeks back, found a pub called "Pub Excellent" and it reminded me of you Ashens! Took a picture of said excellent pub sign.
As a child I loved these figures and even to this day it's hard not to see them as works of art rather than the slightly naff lumps of plastic that my rational brain tells me they really are.
someone should kickstart a new range of thexe, and make a cartoon of it! THE WORLD IS READY TO APPRECIATE THIS, AND NEED THIS!! on a slightly different note! i wish he would buy the full working collection off of ebay, or continue to try to fix the broken ones. :(
I woke up today, and for whatever reason, I started thinking about these. I couldn't remember what they were called, so I Googled action figures with changing rubber faces, and your video came up. I loved these when I was a kid. I think I might have had them all.
My older cousin bought one of these as a child on a trip to the UK. It was Iron Lion, and I remember finding a cat person with a melted face at his house when I was about eight and screaming.
These would be easy to re-engineer for today’s market; simply have both faces new hard plastic that you can reverse somehow, much like the MMPR morphing figures. Turning Sphinx into a female sounds like a plan too.
I had the blue robot one! My nan bought it for me for my birthday because she thought it was a He-Man figure. I think I played with it about twice before it was relegated to the bottom of the toy box. Also I think water balloons would be perfect for a replacement face as they are much smaller and a bit thinner than regular balloons.
+Huntereb Yes, at least in America. I think they came out in Canada first from a different company. One of my brother's friends got one from Canada when they first came out. At this point in time there it wasn't available in the US due to video game companies (e.g., Nintendo) trying to make it illegal.
Where I live there used to be an odds an ends shop called J&M supercuts where you could get a lot of these kind of toys quite cheap. In fact I had Iron Lion, Robash (thought he was a villain) and Brainor, I can't remember them having straps.. Say what you will but toy companies and fantastic imagination in the 80's.
Wow we also had those in my region back in the day,only our toy publisher called them martians not infaceables.Also i want to thank you stuart that you take one of those apart to see it how it was from beneath.I knew that something like that would be the figure from beneath.Bigest problem though after some time of playing the mechanism would ruined pretty easy not hold in time .
Brainor's armor totally looks like Many faces' from MOTU. Thanks for this review, I've been looking for these guys on youtube, but couldn't find any reviews or even old commercials.
I love how the first one makes exactly the face you would make if someone was yanking you apart I think it's amazing it took til like 2007 before action figures figured out how to hinge hips properly
Oooh, I remember these Infaceables. They were fun. I'm pretty sure those belt things were from a He-Man set; as I had a couple of those back in the day, too.
I heard a collector once say "NIB (new in box) does not always mean it's brand new." Toys like this is a perfect example, because of time, the rubber does break down.
My brother and I had the lion leader, Robash, Sphinx, and I believe one more. None of the vehicles but they were a trip for us when they came out, but the faces never lasted.
I was watching this on video were it was playing on a TV ciminama that was not real while watching on my laptop, he tried to look at the lattys room and now I am hear I do not understand anything anymore!
+UnCaged Mayhem well, I knew commenting on an ashens video I'd eventually meet one of you haters, and you know what? I don't care :> do you really think you can hurt me? do you really think you calling me scum or anything of the sort is going to stop me being a brony? no chance mate. so I shall continue to watch and comment, and no matter how many of you sad sacks come, the avatar is staying and I am staying. good day
I had the horrible hammer as a kid but never had any figures for it.... tbh I thought it was some obscure he-man thing... you have solved a 25 year mystery I never knew existed...
