Failed Toylines Thread

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>>6325765

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>>6325773
wrong picture

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>>6325765
YO i fucking loved those as a kid bruh! what are they called again? maybe i can still buy them online

>>6326665
Sonix City.

>>6327108
oh man I remember getting one of those. I thought they were cool

>>6325770
The BTR transformers may have been garbage, but i really liked some of the parts the GI Joe BTRs came with. They make building with accommodations for small figures very easy.

>>6325765
Looks like Blast Corps on N64.

>>6327108
If they hadn't tried to push the stupid game so much and just sold these as customizable action figures Xevoz wouldn't of gone to shit so soon.

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>>6325765
If only the show wasn't such fucking shit, it might have gone somewhere. It's a shame because the toys themselves are amazing

>>6329295
What is this?

>>6329286
The game part didn't seem to detract from the figures, I thought. It seemed to last for a decent amount of time without a cartoon tie in, I thought.

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Does it count as failed if it never even got past prototype and licensing stage? Fuck I want these.

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>>6329795
They were released. You can occasionally find them on ebay for big bucks. I don't know where this idea that Animax was never released came from but I've seen it posted several times before.

>>6327108
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>>6329286
>>6329791
These have a rather vicious collector market now. People fight tooth and nail over the rarer ones of these on ebay.

The line didn't really die because of what it was, it died because wave 2 got way overstocked at a shit ton of stores, meaning wave 3 was rarely ordered and went to discount stores like big lots while KB Toys and the like had to clearance wave 2 because it sat around forever. Basically they sold out because they sold too well and stores ordered to many. That and the scandal with the owner of Stikfas diddling kids.

>>6329813
Well, huh...I'm gonna have to go with a Mandela effect here. Or a double dose of it. I remembered them actually existing, the I saw this website about a year back(http://melbirnkrant.com/animaxcomic/page2.html) and could have SWORN it said they never went into full production. But now I look at it again and see that that's not the case and so I was originally right.
Did I finally come home? I made it back?

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I had a bunch of these, including pic related. Yet another buildable action figure line in the vein of Bionicle and Xevos that failed to get off the ground.

>>6329795
Wait, I swear I had a toy from this line but according to that image these are from the 80s? It was a crocodile head on wheels and had a lever on the back which, when pushed, would make the head swing open from the middle revealing a Mad Max style car inside it with a crocodile/human hybrid driving it with a club in his hand. It might've had missiles as well. Anybody know what it was?

I don't remember the exact name, but there was a series of buildable creatures that looked like skeleton dinosaurs you played with using cards to remove the opponent's control cores (represented as a pair of pink ribs on the dinothing's spine).

The instructions also had this backstory about humanity colonizing the planet this beasts came from after Earth became overcrowded and using them as gladiators in arena fights.

>>6329891
I remember these. I loved that shit.

>>6329780
Webdiver. Some of the designs are pretty interesting, shame it didn't take off. The main robot of the series could actually plug into the TV and play some shitty plug-n-play style game.

>>6329813
I seem to remember reading an article about Animax in Toyfare 10 or so years ago, and I thought they said it was never released. Obviously that's not true, but the key pieces of the line--the two larger "leader" vehicles and the bridge playset--weren't released, so maybe the misconception that the whole line was scrapped started with people who read that article and misremembered the details. At any rate, it doesn't appear that they were widely distributed.

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Anyone else remember NakNaks?

I think I was the only kid in my state that collected these things

>>6330876
I had a few from McDonalds

>>6329795
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=710weFBqi5c

>>6329891
yeah those things were awesome, the really sucky thing about them is due to their name it's almost impossible to do any proper research on them, still have no idea how many different designs were made(I had the purple samurai, the spider, and the space one), heck I don't believe I've ever seen Blasto there before

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The attempt at localized Samurai Pizza Cats toys basically died on arrival, and their release was so limited that the localized versions are a lot rarer these days than the Japanese originals. The originals were snap together model kits, but the localized ones came pre-assembled.

>>6329795
I have the whole 4 issue marvel comics series somewhere in my basement. Sucks I never had the toys. Why can't AniMax and Inhumanoids come back?

>>6329891
>Mattel
these were 5poa shit werent they?

>>6329891
This line had a totally decent PS1 fighter. Loved that stuff back in the day.

>>6329848
Also because the joints turn to fucking powder if you look at them wrong

>>6329891
I had the green raptor one. SO cool.

>>6329795
Fuck, not only did I think these were released, but I think you just solved a mystery that literally half a decade of "what was that toy" threads were unable to solve. Fuck me I was not expecting that.

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>>6337886
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Stikfas. I owned a few of those and ALL of them broke eventually. One of them even arrived broken in the package.

Xevoz were much bigger and sturdier. I have actually never had one break on me, and I own over 50 of them (I army built certain figures). And what's more, a lot of mine were purchased in parts lots that were literally just tons of loose parts piled into gallon ziplocs. If they can withstand being poured into bags and being roughed up against each other like that, I'm pretty sure the plastic is quite strong.

Anyway, Xevoz is best line. Great articulation, the part swapping gimmick was actually FUN, and you usually got enough parts with a single figure to give it different weapon loadouts or heads. Plus, JOKE PARTS. The humor aspect was huge to me, I liked that they could have some fun with it too.

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>>6338180
You, you're a cool dude