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View Poll Results: Pick your favorite 80's toy line! | |||
Mad Balls | 33 | 61.11% | |
Monster In My Pocket | 21 | 38.89% | |
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05-14-2012, 05:16 AM | #1 |
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Pick your favorite 80's toy line!
Mad Balls Monster In My Pocket
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05-14-2012, 07:44 AM | #2 |
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Monster in my Pocket.
Madballs seemed extremely pointless to me as a kid. And MimP got me into mythology, and I loved the little catalogues that came with them, the multiple colors, and the blind packs. As well as the semi-game the figurines had built into them with the ranks.
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05-14-2012, 09:44 AM | #3 |
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Monster in my Pocket.
Madballs seemed extremely pointless to me as a kid. And MimP got me into mythology, and I loved the little catalogues that came with them, the multiple colors, and the blind packs. As well as the semi-game the figurines had built into them with the ranks. |
05-14-2012, 09:54 AM | #4 |
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Each type had a power rating. Like a Mummy was a 1 star monster, while the vampire was a 4 star monster. Monster in my Pocket on Wikipedia Edit: I should double check my facts before relying on memory. It wasn't a 1-4 star system. It was a point system, from 5 points up to 30 points.
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05-15-2012, 06:53 AM | #5 |
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I remembered both, but I honestly liked Mad Balls better than I did MiMP. I was getting out of collecting toys back then (the dark times when TF's were gone, Star Wars was gone and Joes had gone batshit insane).
I guess Mad Balls were something different and I had had enough of little PVC guys after TF decoys and M.U.S.C.L.E. figures.
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05-15-2012, 10:24 AM | #6 |
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Mad balls def. MMP looked like MUSCLE knock offs.
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05-15-2012, 12:16 PM | #7 |
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Even though Monster In My Pocket isn't technically an 80's line (first series says 1990 on the package), I voted for them anyway because I loved collecting little figs like Battle Beasts and M.U.S.C.L.E.s. I had all of the first, second, and the Super Scary series and they were given away! I really miss those little guys...
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05-15-2012, 12:24 PM | #8 |
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I remember the figures that MADballs did with the head (ball) shooting off the body when you hit the switch on the back. I think they did this in the cartoon to fight or something.
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05-15-2012, 12:25 PM | #9 |
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MIMP, really kept me engaged as a kid. I used to love reading the bios on each character and collecting the different versions.
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05-15-2012, 07:35 PM | #10 |
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Don't even know what Monster in my Pocket is.
Mad Balls gets the vote!
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05-15-2012, 08:07 PM | #11 |
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mad balls. i still have skullface. monster in my pocket is cool too, but i was more of a m.u.s.c.l.e.s fan.
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05-15-2012, 08:17 PM | #12 |
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next debate should be Mighty Maxx vs Polly Pocket lol.
If you combined both toys You'd have "Mad Monster balls in my pocket", lol. |
05-15-2012, 08:19 PM | #13 |
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I never heard of either of these.
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05-15-2012, 08:30 PM | #14 |
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Ditto. Looks like weird bouncy balls, and weird plastic soldiers lol,
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05-15-2012, 08:54 PM | #15 |
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Those nice little summeries Joe gave for the others would have certainly been nice for these lesser known lines.
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05-15-2012, 09:02 PM | #16 |
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I loved the Madballs!
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05-16-2012, 03:24 AM | #17 |
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I vaguely recall Monster in my pocket and having those and while I never purchased a Mad Ball I couldn't help voting for them because of the sheer number of ads in 80's comics they had and I'm always seeing them when I reread classics
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05-16-2012, 03:31 AM | #18 |
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Wow... Wasn't a fan of either so I think I'll sit this vote out.
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03-28-2015, 06:37 AM | #19 |
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Madballs all the way!!!! I got in trouble for playing with the mummy one is n class. Teacher took it away and put it in n her "drawer of doom", last time you saw it until il the end of the year.... Next day I sn ck into the class during my recess and liberated all the toys!! Gave my mates back their toys and chucked the toys of the kids I ddnt like. I was king for a day.
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03-28-2015, 12:31 PM | #21 |
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I always liked Madballs, wish they still made em
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