TONE TANK’S TOY TUESDAYS: M.U.S.C.L.E.
M.U.S.C.L.E
Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere.
Remember the first time you heard Wu, and it seemed like there were like two hundred ninja-rappers who were running wild on the island of Staten? These guys are kind of the toy equivalent of that. They came out in Japan first, and came to the US in 1985 on Mattel. I may have a lot more of these (along with hundreds of other toys) at my parents house in storage, my mom swears she “wouldn’t have thrown them out”.
Here is an old commercial I found on the internets. It’s really crap quality:
I thought this stop animation was fun:
…and, to be honest, I don’t think I ever played this video game or was anywhere where this game was being played. It doesn’t look like I missed much, but I like the title screen:
May 27th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Son!
I was just thinking about these dudes the other day.
I couldn’t remember what they were called though.
I had a crazy set of these shits when I was a kid.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Yo….
Yeah, remember they had the wrestling ring but a lot of the characters wouldn’t stay in that good because they were odd shaped.
I think i may have to build my collection back up.
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May 27th, 2009 at 3:15 am
that game was terrible. try WCW Wrestling for the NES. Much much better game. Blog hating!