Found what’s left of my bro’s childhood action figures, it’s like a Civil War battlefield hospital.
Posted by Wednesday-Addams9@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 30 comments
Apparently the only ones to survive the late 80s and early 90s intact were 2 Shaqs and a Ninja Turtle with 3rd degree burns, plus that gray Frankenstein/Transformer looking guy, I don’t even know what he’s from? At one point he had all the Ghostbusters and tons of ghost accessories, plus the Ectomobile and a proton pack. But that one random pink goblin is the sole survivor. His explanation is that he and his friends went through a pyro phase in middle school where their favorite thing to do was attempt to blow up all their old toys with firecrackers. But seriously tho… WHY SO MANY ARMS?
To be fair, my Barbies didn’t age too well either, they’re missing most of their shoes and wardrobe and some of their hair. But at least they aren’t dismembered, lol.
Baked_Potato_732@reddit
I don’t understand this mindset. I loved all my action figures. I’d pyro stuff, but not my action figures!
OTOH, I wonder if it depends on how much disposable income their parents had. I was poor most of my life so what I got, I kept in good shape.
Wednesday-Addams9@reddit (OP)
We were pretty poor, so I don't think it's that. My dad was a construction worker, mom worked in the food court at the mall. I think it's more that my brother had some super obnoxious friends in middle and high school who liked to do stupid shit.
One of the most irritating times of my life (I was born in 82, he was born in 84) was when he and his friends just randomly decided to talk like Beavis and Butthead for like 3 solid years in the mid 90s. I'm pretty sure they forgot what their own actual voices sounded like, because they just BECAME Beavis and Butthead. Pretty sure that overlapped with the pyro phase.
soulsteela@reddit
The transformer is a rock lord I’ve got him n several others.
Wednesday-Addams9@reddit (OP)
Oh, that's what that gray guy is? I don't even remember those.
Slippery-Pete76@reddit
He-Man’s arms are easy enough to pop on, and Man-At-Arms head can be reattached with a little effort. Too bad you don’t have Mumm-Ra in one piece - he came with a ring that would make his eyes light up if you stuck it in his back.
Wednesday-Addams9@reddit (OP)
Which one is Man-at-Arms? I just remembered he also had the He-Man castle, the one with that cool trap door in the floor. When Skeletor was intact my friends and I would borrow it to play with our Barbies in it, since I didn't have a Barbie house. Basically Skeletor would invite them over for a date and then they would fall through the trap door into the dungeon. So I guess the game was something like "Barbie Date-Rape Castle." Good, clean fun!
Slippery-Pete76@reddit
Here’s his head, his torso is the green one on the left.
Wednesday-Addams9@reddit (OP)
Oh! I just automatically grouped the torso with the Ninja Turtles since it was green. But now that I look at it, it's obviously not a turtle.
mattchewy43@reddit
My guy really likes Shaq.
Wednesday-Addams9@reddit (OP)
He said he never felt right about blowing Shaq to smithereens since he's a real human and not a cartoon crime fighter. I guess there are ethical rules for exploding your toys.
-threefeetoffun@reddit
Mumm-ra just gets no head. Poor guy.
Bike-513@reddit
And Lion-O gets no body. There's treachery afoot.
walter_grimsley@reddit
He was Sid. Does he also hunt puppies for sport?
ChangingHats@reddit
More like a peg board for bug taxonomy.
Funkopedia@reddit
mix and match
delldarlin@reddit
Oh yeah, my GI Joes traded limbs like those red monster guys in Labyrinth.
Slippery-Pete76@reddit
I remember separating my GI Joe’s legs from the rest of their bodies by spinning their upper half around until the rubber band attaching their legs snapped.
I imagine hundreds of years from now when my old neighborhood is razed and dug up, someone will find a bunch of MUSCLE men buried in our backyard.
no_more_mistake@reddit
Someone will write an anthropology PhD thesis on 'polytheistic god figurines for worship, and associated ritual sacrifice'
ashurbanipal420@reddit
I found a GI Joe pelvis of mine in the yard a bit ago. Still hoping that foot clan transport module I buried while playing turns up. One of the great mysteries of my life.
Xpandomatix@reddit
Dang. Rock Lords. Haven't thought about those in a minute. Cool to see one again.
KnifeFightAcademy@reddit
r/80stoys sees you and appreciates you.
big_z_0725@reddit
I see all those beefy arms. You could have Trogdor’s entire clan.
BackgroundSecond@reddit
I see a hulk Hogan arm 💪🏼
Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit
so he was like Sid
Broken-Sarcasm-Meter@reddit
Prince Adam’s body is missing
rust-e-apples1@reddit
Found mine a few years ago and let my kids play with them.
30 years in an uninsulated attic was not good for those rubber-band joints. Eternia fell within the afternoon.
Dimplefrom-YA@reddit
i’ll trade you a barbie leg for the shaw action figure
NewToHTX@reddit
Bro if you came to my door to ask to play I would have said “We can play outside but you ain’t touching my GI Joes…”
Bippie_dips@reddit
All of my action figure were destroyed by drilling holes in the torso and blowing them up with firecrackers 🧨💥 Lots of X-men and Ninja Turtles had a violent demise.
LibertineLady@reddit
PSA: Don’t put either of those Shaquille O’Neal figures in the microwave.
I decided to do this once in the 90s to the LSU version, and the Shaq attack that came for me shattered the backboard of my lungs