12 OBSCURE 1980s Toylines You Always WANTED | Lesser Known or Forgotten 80s Toys & Action Figures

I remember just about all of these. Captain Power was great

Bionic Six was one of my favorite things when I was a kid.

I fondly remember playing with Captain Power when I was much younger. The fantasy of being a fighter pilot was too much to resist. I also really liked the Battle Beasts and had forgotten about them. Thank you for the reminder of their existence.

I loved Eagle Force; I got several for my 8th birthday, but GI Joe quickly and completely overtook the line with better articulation and accessories.

My nephew was still playing with our Shogun Warriors Daimos and Raydeen up until a couple of years ago. Those things had real staying power!

By the second half of the 80s video games took over and no new toy line could gain enough ground to be as big as Gi Joe/He-man/Starwars and Transformers were...... Nintendo was such a giant leap from what Atari and Colleco vision were. You just had to look at the ads in comic books to see the change happening...by 88 there were almost zero ads in comics that weren't video game related. Those big four toy lines that I mentioned needed such a massive budget to support their domination.... either box office smash movies (star wars) or shows with 64 episodes per season...so daily..... 13 episodes per season and perhaps a comic were no match for Super Mario, Zelda and other games that literally made you shut off your tv to take part in! Transformers the Movie and the Gi Joe movie seemed more like a book end rather than a line getting bigger....and the Heman movie was like vandalism of a strong line.

To this DAY.... i still ADORE the SUPER NATURALS. one summer my parents and myself went to the local Mall, and Sears or one store had a TON of the Super Naturals on DEEP Discount... 50 CENTS EACH for the "BIG" Super Naturals, and 25 for the Ghostlings. my mom and dad bought me every one of em they had "I mean, no doubles, just each character" I was happier than a Pig in Shit! mainly i got every one of the Ghostlings, and a couple of the bigger ones, but most of those had sold out. apparently the Tomb of Doom playset was on sale too, but those sold out before we got there too. i played with those toys up until i was literally 15 years old!.. i lost them in a move, sadly.. except for one or two of em i still have to this day. i need to buy a whole new set, honestly.

It's a challenge trying to sell toys when you're competing with other toy lines that have a half-hour commercial every week/every day.

The Air Jammer was easily one of my favorite 80s toys. The sound it made is etched into my memory lolm

I had gotten the R1500 Robotix (Venturak) set for Christmas the year they came out. It was one of my favorite toys to the point I collected the other 3 sets in my adulthood and have all 4 on display in my den. Great conversation piece when people come over.

Definitely remember most of them. The only ones I had was the Shogun Warriors. It was primarily Star Wars until 84 when Transformers came out and it remained my focus for the rest of the 80s. I just admired some of the others mentioned in the video when I saw them on the shelves.

Adventure People. If ever a line of toys deserves a live action movie, this is it.

Hi there thx for the flashback.I had Tuskus from the infacebles & I had Captain Power also 2 battles beast.My brother had 1 supernatural.Now i own Robotics thats i luckily found at a fleamarket.

I absolutely loved Bionic Six and Sky Commanders.

Battle beasts!!! Oh my god, you’re hitting every toy I’ve ever forgotten. I had a bunch of these. I remember they were really small.

I had so many of these & wish I still did. Thanks for bringing back some good memories. I was on the tail end of Gen-X.

I miss all these toys, at 55 now since I turned 20 I have been collecting toy some are very expensive now you can't get them or maybe buy 1 every other month I have over 100k worth. Right now getting the whole set of visionaries. I just finished JAYCE AND THE WHEEL WARRIORS

Loved the Robotix cartoon, mainly because it gave a story to the cool build sets. Bionic Six the cartoon was far more popular than the actual toys, which were seen as low rent GI Joe stuff. Both theme songs live rent free in my head all these years later.

I loved all the all these toys, and now looking to buy thema again. Perhaps even start a playset company for them...💙👍💯

I remember playing with Sgt Rock with my Gi Joe figs. Eagle force were cool too. We'll made