Favorite Movie Toylines

[Shadow Master]

Not sure if this is the right forum for this, if it isn't then the mods can move it. Thought this would be a fun and different movie-related topic. Not sure how many here are also toy collectors and especially of film-specific toylines. A lot of blockbuster movies often have toylines, a trend going back to at least the late 70s starting with Star Wars and one continuing today. What are some of your favorite movie-licensed toylines?

I'll always have special fondness for the Kenner Jurassic Park and Lost World lines. Even with the crazy artistic license they took with the designs and accessories and such, I've got so many great childhood memories of those toys and still enjoy collecting them well into adulthood, re-acquiring toys I lost or damaged as a kid, and getting ones I never did before. The more recent line Mattel has done for the upcoming Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is great too and the best since the Kenner days, but I find I'm still most fond of the Kenner ones. The playsets, vehicles and large-scale dinosaurs were especially impressive. Although Mattel has absolutely been killing it with their line as well and I'm super-excited about what they have planned for the future.

Some other movie toylines I love are pretty much any other Kenner-era ones (Alien, Predator, Terminator, RoboCop, Star Wars, etc). Even with the sometimes weird artistic license Kenner often took and how more often than not some of their toys were completely inaccurate, I think that was part of their charm in a way and it encouraged you to use your imagination rather than just re-creating the films shot for shot. Another Kenner line I loved back then was their Small Soldiers line, which is sadly quite scarce and hard to find now. An underrated toyline much like the movie itself, even if it was sadly missing a few of the Commandos and Gorgonites.

As a major Horror fan I'm also a fan of what NECA's been doing with the likes of their many Horror film figures like the various versions of Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Predator, etc. The early Movie Maniacs series by McFarlane Toys was great too before they went downhill. Thankfully NECA picked up the slack and has been scoring one slam dunk after another with their lines.

[levcore]

Last Action Hero had a bizarre but still awesome toy line.

[Shadow Master]

Originally Posted by levcore

Last Action Hero had a bizarre but still awesome toy line.

I actually remember the LAH line and had some of them, including the Ripper who I sadly lost. A cool toyline and an underrated one just like the movie. It's funny how The Ripper looked more like an actual Jack The Ripper type as opposed to the raincoat he had in the film.

[Shadow Master]

Also forgot to mention before how awesome toy commercials for such toylines were back in the day. As soon as you saw them you just had to get them all and hound your family non-stop to buy them for you. Here's most of the Jurassic Park/Lost World ones in this video, talk about a nostalgia overload watching these:

Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Jurassic Park 3, Jurassic World Toy Commercial Collection - YouTube

Even as a kid it was hilarious to see how wildly inaccurate some of the toys and situations depicted didn't match the films but that just added to their charm and awesomeness for me.

[oilers73]

I used to have The Day After playset, but lost it years ago. Pity.

[Shadow Master]

Originally Posted by oilers73

I used to have The Day After playset, but lost it years ago. Pity.

I feel your pain, as a kid it's so easy to lose parts or even the toys themselves altogether. I can't begin to count the number of parts and accessories and whatnot I lost over the years and how tough it is later as an adult to try to re-acquire some of them.

[Shadow Master]

Also not exactly a movie toyline per say but there was a cool toyline based off of the Tales From The Cryptkeeper animated series which included two Crypt Keepers, both clearly modelled after the live-action puppet and then there was this 12-inch talking doll which has a spot-on likeness of the puppet. Hilarious they tried marketing this character so much to kids back then given the HBO show's graphic content and how most kids were terrified of this character. Surprised a company like NECA has yet to make a new figure of him.

Cryptkeeper Toy Ad - 1994 - YouTube

[JMS1223]

My favorites are the Kenner Indiana Jones (particularly Raiders of the Lost Ark) and the Star Wars figures.

[Rodney-2187]

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