I’ll always fondly remember Terminator 2: Judgment Day as the first rated-R film I saw in the theater. At the time, I went through a whole Terminator obsession, which was very much enabled by Kenner’s Terminator action figure line.
In the 1980s and ’90s, Kenner was the only game in town for action figures based on rated-R films. The T2 figures weren’t all that great, even for the time, but the notable exception was the Endoskeleton. Robots are always easier to sculpt accurately than fleshy, round humans, so the Endoskeleton came out pretty well. Add a light-up eye feature (via a “light pipe”) and a neat head-mounted gun and you had one of the better action figures of the early nineties. At the time, my only disappointment was that the figures were over 6″ tall, meaning they didn’t look right next to my Robocop or X-Men figures. (more…)
Lots of news coming out of Toy Fair, especially from Hasbro. I’ve got someone working on a Hasbro update, but here’s some non-Mattel, non-Hasbro news I found interesting.
