Now that Crow and Tom Servo figures have been created, what action figures from the MSTed movies would you like to have or create? I’m talking primarily about characters from the movies themselves (i.e. Trumpy, Mr. B, Zap Rowsdower), and maybe for a separate list characters BBI came up with themselves (Auntie McFrank, Timmy, Toaster Pastry Servo).
I myself would probably start with the “Lame Action-Heroes 3-pack”, Puma Man, Zap Rowsdower, and The Paper Chase Guy.
I think this maybe the only ACTUAL action figure from a MSTed movie…
How about Dave “Big McHugelarge” Ryder from “Space Mutiny?”
What figures would YOU like to see?
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No talk of Johnny Longbone from Track of the Moon Beast? How about Johnny Paul from Code Name: Diamond Head?
Hey! How about some love for the characters from the “Fugitive Alien” compilations? Who wouldn’t want a drunken, cigar-smoking space captain whose catch-phrase would be “YOU’RE STUCK HERE!”?
Or how about Van Cleef and Van Patten figures from “Master Ninja”? Gerbil sold separately.
Turkey volume geussing man! junior samples and buisness boy from prince of space.
Cherokee Jack
Pull the string and it says, “I’m Cherokee Jack”. Comes with a ‘Petey the Plane’
ben murphy as lazy rider when he is invisible!
Henry Krasker, boardinghouse tenant! Accessories include cigar, crossbow+sharpened curtain rod, radio to communicate with the dead and Action Seance Pack.
That was my first idea but I see a lot of better ones above. :???:
Oh, and The Screaming Skull!
It may not be an action figure, but I’d give up a digit for a remote controlled Enforcer.
Yeah, this thread should have started with a more comprehensive list of MST related action figures that have already been made, but it’s not like I knew all of them either: I’m a BBTS regular and never heard of that Horror of Party Beach limited edition!
The neat thing about the Sideshow Universal monsters is that most of them came in colorized and B&W variants. I never got the Creature, but do have the chroma Mole Person. The 2 coolest things about it are that it does double duty as a figure for The Wild Wild World of Batwoman as well, and actually comes with a tiny burlap sack and several sizes of plastic mushrooms to put in it!
I’m not sure Zigra ever got a toy, but every other MSTed Gamera monster has (well, I haven’t seen those eps yet, but I’m pretty sure). I have Gaos and Guiron, but let Snapper from Beast Wars pass for Gamera. He may not have the tusks, but the bio on his package mentions his “hidden quad-thrusters” giving him super speed, indicating someone who worked on him at Hasbro/Kenner had Gamera in mind.
And yes, as for Godzilla, just take your pick! I have him and Mothra from the American line in the 90’s. But the most interesting take on him recently came from Microman/-nauts: you know, the first 3 3/4″ action figures that set the standard for Star Wars and G.I.Joe toys. In Japan they tackled a lot of licensed characters this past decade, including generic versions of the actors playing the monsters: Swap out heads and appendages and squeeze them into their rubber costumes, and you’ve got wonderfully detailed Disaster Monsters…who have The The Eye Creatures’ problem of keeping parts of the suit from falling off. The human figures have amazing articulation, which is totally hampered by their rubber suits, and that has to be THE funniest toy concept possible for MSTie-minded kaiju fans. I bought the Megalon vs. Jet Jaguar pack, so I could have JJ interact with C3P0 and tell the Joes how to stop the Seatopian invasion, then get dismembered by Guiron.
And despite discussion of Art Clokey’s recent passing, has no one mentioned that Gumby toys count too? Kubrick, a Japanese block-figure line that mostly does licenced characters, did a set of Gumby + friends, sister, and Blockheads about 8 years ago, but sadly not his parents; I’m not sure if they’ve ever gotten toys. Of course, that’d be the easiest line to just make ourselves…
Also around that time, Stan Winston did a Toys ‘R’ Us exclusive line of monster figures based almost entirely on MSTed movies, but sadly, these were just his own gruesome designs, based on whatever the names “She Creature”, “Colossal Beast” and the like made spring to mind. If he’d just made a big bald guy in a diaper instead, he’d a’ had a lot of loyal customers in us, but that’s marketing for ya’.
As for hijacking figures from other properties, there was a Barbie-sized Gilligan’s Island line in the ’90s with only 3 figures, but one was naturally the Skipper.
There’s also a Star Wars figure of “Long Snoot” that I bought because he looked so much like Trumpy undercover. For that matter, any Battlestar Galactica fightercraft could be the start a beautiful Space Mutiny toy line…
As for the best custom figures I’ve seen any MSTie produce, here’s a PUMAMAN line I stumbled across:
http://www.figuronomy.com/customcon4/puma-man/index1.php
On this guy’s site (elsewhere), he says Tony is a Hannibal Smith head on a Fisher Price Loving Family Dad body, with baby-rocking action becoming puma-claw-motion action. As perfect as that is, I’d have gone with an equally lame hero for my PM base figure: Adam Power from Power Lords:
http://www.toybender.com/toy-ads-that-time-forgot-the-power-lords/
Has no one in the vast flavo-syntho-identi-web done customs of every single General Hospital character? Ah well, this post is long enough.
The Guy from Paper Chase! And Megaweapon! And Persis Khambatta (RWORR!)!
Oh. Nevermind.
How about an Eye Creature, with zippered removable suit to reveal black jumpsuit and sneakers.
What about a Gypsy action figure? Let’s not leave the lovely lady out. :razz:
I’m pretty sure all of my problems could be solved if I had a Lembeck action figure.
http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/villageoftheg/E13.html
I once formulated some dolls based on the girls from ‘Village of the Giants.’
One thing I was amazed at was when I was able to contact actress Gail Gerber (she played Elsa, who I made in doll form), and she thought these were actually made test-dolls. I guess I should be glad she didn’t read the ‘with clothes-bursting action’ underneath her character’s name. :oops:
The Solarite, and Crow in Solarite costume. Joel with Aliens-style powerloader drum kit. Trumpy with high-beam light-up eyes (activated the same way Mum-Ra from Thundercats was, stick this battery-powered thing into his back and his eyes glowed red). Megaweapon would be fairly easy, repaint a dump truck, add the spikes and flamethrower, and voila-Megaweapon. This may have been done already-Gumby and Pokey with rogue robots. The evil toy monkey-probably a toy that the prop guy bought from store anyway. The Projected Man action figure, or the Great Vorelli with butt-lady assistant.
How about an actual Sampo? I’m not sure what it looks like though. The Incredible Melting Man, the one-time use action figure! The Crawling Eye, Killer Shrews, the Death Ray from Danger! Death Ray, El Santo (as Samson, vampire-killer), The Blood Beast, The Moon Beast, Gorgo, and finally Hobgoblin puppets-buy Frankie, Sniffles, Bounce-Bounce and The Claw in a 4-pack!
Easy, the Pantheon of Oily Guys. You got to get them all and become a Oily Guy Master.
Start with Ortega
The two doughy peeping cops and the creepy nightshirt guy from, what else but “ATTACK OF THE THE EYE CREATURES”. Maybe Douglas and his space capsule from Monster-A-Go-Go?
Not really interested in characters from movies until we’ve gotten the mads the the rest of the SOL crew. Especially looking forward to Cambot with his nameplate written backwards.
Action figures were all the vogue after Star Wars so in that tradition ala ’70s, I nominate Billy Joe Bob or whatever that country bumpkin name was from “Riding With Death”, sings badly, uses hick slang, can drive and is everyone’s buddy.
Gooseeo, friend of Maltese children everywhere-o :razz:
Also Coily the Spring-Sprite and Mikey the Mike-Sprite 2-Pack.
121: What about Willy the Waffle?
They actually made a Brute Man figure. It’s by Amok Time and is a tribute to Rondo Hatton http://www.amazon.com/Rondo-Hatton-12in-Collectors-Figure/dp/B0015VVWCI
I’d like a Gorgo action figure. So my nephew and I could put her in there with all our other giant monsters.
How about a “Horrors of Spider Island” set with before and after Gary—the before with adjustable approving/disapproving voting legs, Mr. Blackwell (with transition lenses) and Georgia.
All of the dancers would have to be collectible, each capable of saying, “Gary” with an off and on murmur switch.
*Mr. Blackwood (sorry)
Ator (Cave Dwellers) with his fabulous hang glider action. Include the evil John Saxon type character complete with goofy helmet and the snake god, complete with virgins to sacrifice.
Worm-face guy! Plus the ginger woman and her gangly little sister and the ginger dweeb with his ACTION EGG CREAM and lots and lots of worms (sold individually).
How about Arch Hall Jr. action figure? When you pull the string it would whine. ROXXXXXXY!!!!!! Also come with vaseline in case it isn’t oily enough. Or how’s about Mikey from Teenage Strangler. You pull his string and he not only whines but cries. Then you can take them and have a cage match to figure out who the biggest fem is.
Richard Kiel action figure! Do you want him to be a caveman? Do you want to be a spaceman? It’s your choice! You dress him!
You shave him!
The Steve Squad vs. The Ken Klan!
Who wouldn’t be happy with a John Saxon action figure? Yeah, Action Saxon is his name…
Action Ben Murphy from ‘Riding with Death’!
Didn’t see this link in the posts, but these are wicked awesome.
http://www.figuronomy.com/customcon4/puma-man/
SWAMP DIAMONDS:
Complete with the 3 hot lady-fugitives with jeans you can cut into short-shorts!
Also – a swamp to find the diamonds (swimming pool to drown in sold seperately).
GIRL IN GOLD BOOTS:
Little guy Buzz who disappears and reappears at random!
‘Dancer’ Michelle who flails like a toddler – with margarine outfit & Holiday winter fur-lined-bra!
Critter – complete with stick-on beard, shiny shirt, and guitar! (Traveler sold spereately).
this was an awesomely fun thread by the way
Did my post #109 only now become visible? Well, I realize one I missed: the Gilligan’s Island line also included the Professor, meaning it could pass for characters from MST3K:TM and The Space Children as well!
For that matter, figures meant to be a likeness of an actor, but with accessories to make them any of their characters would be a good economical way to go, especially for the likes of Tor Johnson and Joe Don Baker, and even recycled monsters, like Corman’s Teenage Caveman Blood Beast (now THERE’s a catchy name). Heck, #134’s John Saxon Figure could be the start of lines for tons of movies from ‘Black Christmas’ to ‘Tenebre’…and even some that don’t involve stabbings!
But agreeing on a scale could be a thornier problem than most of us realize: wouldn’t we want all of our favorite riffed characters to be able to interact on our shelves, and visit the ‘bots in the Satellite? For that matter, we’d prefer they also be small enough to have unique vehicles. Maybe not Micronaut/SW/Joe sized, but closer to the size of most 90’s superhero and current Justice League Animated figures. Wrestler sized at the biggest for a non-enlarged human or human-ish fellow.
I forgot to mention earlier that Gamera toys, though clearly less popular than Godzilla toys, have been around for years. I have a small Gamera toy around here somewhere. Also, if you want to count the KTMA shows, there have been many toys over the past 40 years based on Gerry Anderson’s “super-marionation” shows, such as Stingray and Captain Scarlet. We bought Stingray and Captain Scarlet toys for my son a few years ago, both new ones and older used ones off of eBay.
Nick Miller (with geeky 10speed and action chin)…Torgo (with crutch and action thighs)…Officer Geronimo (with cowboy outfit and action flatulence)
For human MST3K cast members though, I might like to go 3 3/4″ scale, since I’ve found a few G.I.Joes that could be kitbashed into the Mads. For starters:
man MST3K cast members though, I might like to go 3 3/4″ scale, since I’ve found a few G.I.Joes that could be kitbashed into the Mads. For starters:
http://www.yojoe.com/action/88/88card/roadpig.jpg
Now before anyone who knows his bio takes offense, the version of Road Pig I have is the lower quality Funskool one with more rounded features, requiring minimal painting and a custom outfit to become a passable TV’s Frank. Of course, if Soultakers have the option of going through rigorous training like the soul reapers in ‘Bleach’, then his character might well look like this by now, truly earning the title “Frank-Enforcer”
For Dr. Forrester, I have a Wild Bill head that could easily be repainted into his, and parts of Headman (one of the few Joe toys with a suit and tie) could probably make up most of the body, if I swapped in some parts of the lab-coated Dr. Mindbender from about 6 years ago.
And not that he’d be a passable toy of Gypsy, but whenever the subject of a toy of her comes up, this fellow springs to mind:
http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Trypticon/trypticon.htm
Although the toy and comic book versions of Trypticon have eyes on the side of his head, the cartoon made the gun-like thing in the sinus cavity look like a cyclopian eye, making me wonder if Joel perhaps subconsciously modeled Gypsy after Trypsie. Hey, assuming Joel was the one shopping for props, he would have seen Trypticon on store shelves when he hit that Battle Bones blowout sale.
And that’s another point for anyone wanting their own Devil Dogs: The Power of Grayskull compells you…to find the right shade of red spraypaint.
An Arch Hall Jr. cabbage patch elvis figurine would be excellent. It comes with a dune buggy you can resent, and a mystery voice-over warning of the danger of possible snakes in the area.
The Del Aires! With removable skulls!
Eulabelle! With toenails!
#142 – As you might guess from my handle, I have quite an interest in your idea. May I ask a technical question – will the dune buggy’s tires be filled with water?
My wife thinks the “giant lizardy thing that eats people”…and then she swivels side to side with her arms sticking out…would make a good figure. (I think she means the Creeping Terror)
While I’m typing she’s changed her mind to the Martians from the Santa movie, because they have cute white round things on their heads. She tries. I’m giving her an E for effort.
And don’t forget these action figures need proper variants. We’ll need the battle-armor Arch Hall Jr., the midnight-attack Rowsdower with night-vision goggles, laser-trooper Torgo, and aqua-ninja Kenny.
Oops, sorry my post bumped “…there was no monster…”‘s post down to 142. I just learned the hard way that you get a moderation delay if you post too many links.
And the dune buggy is precisely the sort of vehicle I’d want to keep these figures small scale in order to ride in. Now I’m picturing a fantasy joust between it and an Enforcer…which the dune buggy could just escape by driving outside the factory and onto uneven terrain. Wait, did I say spaceship?
And has there been a figure of Ro-Man? I could swear I’ve seen one somewhere, but it might have been a custom job.
GYPSY!!! And Cambot.