That’s right, the 90s Star Wars Power of the Force line. Sure, the body proportions leave a little to be desired, but they were more detailed than the vintage figures and still didn’t go the useless fully articulated route of later figures. You got figures that all aesthetically fit together, ships they can go in, and playsets for them to play in. This was probably the last real attempt to make a Star Wars toyline. Now it’s just figures to sit on shelves with the occasional huge Haslab vehicle that just collects dust. Seriously, they go with accuracy over play value with those things and they do nothing but sit there. I sold my Ghost and Boba’s throne room playsets because of this.
The best part is that most of the PotF line can be found for cheap, so it’s not a hard line to collect nowadays.

Not to mention, this was before the mid prequels and well before the sequels. They did pretty much every character you could possibly want from the Original Trilogy, so it’s a collector’s dream.

>>11435171 (OP)
You out way too much effort into these retrospam threads dude. Imagine what you could do if you put that energy towards something productive. Like delivering tile.

>>11435171 (OP)
Fuck off Retrospammer

>>11435171 (OP)
The 90's toy aesthetic is yet to get truly embraced. I think it's because for 80's kid collectors, this line was just a substitute or a step in between their nostalgic era and modern toys, and 90's kids onward all want more accurate and higher quality toys.

>>11435179
Please tell me one of these dudes have Mick's head

>>11435233
Not enough effort. He didn't even photoshop Frenchie's head on one of the figures. Fucking lazy.
>>11435510
This anon knows what it's about. Time to play the /toy/ version of Where's Waldo.

>>11435171 (OP)
star wars characters should not have He-Man proportions. Luke is supposed to be a skinny underdog, not Jean-Claude Van Damme. Doesn't capture the soul of Star Wars at all

>>11435179
In that sense PotF is pretty based. It’s from the last hurrah, before Phantom Menace ruined Star Wars and the fall from grace began. There’s even a bunch of figures for EU stuff everyone loved, the stuff people in charge of the franchise later tried to retcon and disown.
Some of them look dumb, like He-Luke, but those proportions stopped after the first couple of waves. Articulation obviously sucks. But they’re from a more innocent time, and they’re mostly dirt cheap now. Considering the equivalent stormtrooper figure from 1980 will cost you ten times as much as the PotF one will, they’re the only way to go if you want to collect vintage, unspoiled Star Wars

>>11436275
Fuck off you lunatic

>>11436264
I think it’s fine, the proportions aren’t as cartoonish as he-man and were corrected in later waves, anyhow.
>>11436275
Potf2 is definitely the most comprehensive line of sw toys ever done. Despite the prequels receptions, I think the potf quality lasted up through the Episode 2/Saga collections but then dropped off thereafter. Potf2 and SotE/EU figures was definitely the golden age, no question. Only problem I’ve had is figures being prone to plastic degradation/getting that gooey film on them over time.

>>11435179
I never got that blueghost of obi wan, i didnt send my coupons in beforevthe cut off. The broad chests were odd but it gave them a more contemporary look. This was around the beginning of the geek culture shit becoming accepted, which is worse than potf could have ever been.

>>11436551
>I think the potf quality lasted up through the Episode 2/Saga collections
I personally think the drop off started to happen during Episode 2/Saga era with the horrible extreme action pose figures and wonky action features that plagued that era. There were still some great figs from those lines like Ephant Mon. Also I think Episode 3 line was still a part of that golden age along with the Original Trilogy Collection after it.
The Vintage Original Trilogy Collection figures were what really led to the modern era, whose roots can be traced back to pic related in 2003 and became more prevalent during the RotS line. Gotta say though, I did love those super articulated Clone Troopers and the Storm/Snow/Scout Troopers from VOTC and their follow up lines, even if their price was obnoxious for the time.

>>11436636
I can’t speak much to OTC and VOTC, RotS was my last line as a kid before I aged out and lost interest. Clone trooper variants were definitely a huge attraction of those later collections. For me, PotJ was the last collection I was really psyched for because they finally did some of the last, missing original trilogy vehicles like the b-wing and had some cool variants of characters—it was like potf’s last breath before hasbro fully committed to the direction you’re describing. Got to say I’ve always disliked the fabric clothing for small figures, though.

>>11436636
I kind of liked some of the action features, like magnetic slice off limbs and exploding droid/geonosians. But I agree that clone trooper became my golden standard for figure articulation for figures I purchased.

>>11436707
OTC felt like a throwback to the POTJ era. A lot of the figures were rereleases of older figures from POTF and the 2004 Saga line on new cards, but some of the new figures we got like Lobot, Cloud Car Pilot, Myo and Feltipern Trevagg felt like they would have been at home in the POTJ era. They were on that fine line of slightly more articulated like POTJ and overly articulated.

>>11436726
The magnetic limbs/heads were one of the cooler action features. I loved decapitated Jango, even if his articulation cuts were a bit wonky. The ones that stand out to me as being obnoxious were ones like Geonosis Padme and the Bespin Duel Luke and Vader from 2003.

>>11436551
>gooey film
just wipe them off after 'play' time

>>11436748
The Bespin Luke and Vader were actually the ones I had that got me a bit back into Star Wars toys. I liked the the combination of saber swinging action and magnetic arm slicing. But the magnetic torso Maul they released for the episode 1 line was my favorite of the battle damage features.

>>11435171 (OP)
They're not the first, they're not the best, and made a shitzillion of them. I've wanted to recollect them many times but the apathy washes over me and I can't do it because it's not worth it.

I did start collecting the "power the force" line recently, those little shits have good sculpts and cheap vehicles and they're fun

>>11437440
I had a brainfart and got the Bespin Duel ones mixed up with the Throne Room Duel ones. Yeah, the Bespin ones were actually pretty sweet. The Vader could even be put in the "together we can rule the galaxy as father and son" pose with his hand outstretched.
No, I was thinking of this abomination from the following year.
The Vader that went with it wasn't quite as bad, but the helmet had trouble staying on unlike the POTF removable helmet figure. And it was in a kind of awkward pose.
But this cunt? I don't even know why I bought him. I ended up putting the electricity effect from the AotC Sneak Preview R3 droid around him and displayed him being electrocuted by PotF PowerFX Emperor, because that was the only thing it was good for.

>>11436733
>fine line of slightly more articulated
Yes, I really liked POTJ era because of this. They still felt like all the other potf figures, just a little more refined. It was good continuity for kids. Whereas later on it felt like they jumbled things up too much with multiple lines at once. And the sculpts seemed to get worse as time went into the mid-to-late 2000s.
>>11436791
*sensible chuckle. Seriously, though, some of the plastics with potf have that issue. Ironically not the first wave red card ones but a lot of my later green card waves had to be cleaned off every few years. Same thing with old transformers/beast wars: certain figures seem more prone to degradation.

>>11437775
I honestly never saw that Luke until the memes about how awful he is. I think because I was very selective of my purchases those years and so it probably didn't even register on my radar.

>>11437920
I owned almost exclusively green carded figures (only got Chewie and Vader on red cards) and I never had that problem. And I live in a hot, humid climate where that kind of degrading is common place in plastics.

>>11437920
>They still felt like all the other potf figures, just a little more refined.
Yeah, they were still pretty much on the same level as the PotF from when they brought in the Freeze Frame slides and released non-roided Luke, un-monkeyfaced Leia, and Vader with removable helmet. Especially Vader since he was one of the first with a bicep swivel.
>>11437978
Thinking back, I think the only reason I bought it was because I was desperate for an updated Throne Room Duel Luke, and I thought I would be able to customise it into something halfway decent. Once I opened it, I realised there was no way to save it. But it looked good being electrocuted by the Emperor. You could pose him with his legs flung back like he was having full muscle spasms, and the face fit perfectly.

>>11437978
It might be a batch lot problem. Even if mine completely melted, I suppose I could easily replace them with moc ones, since potf was so overproduced there are unopened ones everywhere, seems.
>>11438024
I’ll be honest, it was always the vehicles that got me excited for POTJ. I love the b-wing and the tie interceptor they did for that line. Potf family of lines (maybe including some of episode 1 vehicles, since those figures were all in the same potf design vein) did a lot of great vehicles. The Endor speeder bike with the scout trooper had that spring-loaded explosion for the bike that was cool.

>>11438080
I remember about a decade ago I was buying them at comic shops from between $3 to $8 depending on the character because I was unhappy with the Y-joints and most of the figures they were producing during the Sequel trilogy. Getting old PotF2 and Prequel era toys was much more enjoyable and as you said, easy to find MoC if I wanted. I think back then the only figure I paid more over MSRP for was an Ephant man I found at a comic shop. But after Mando came out, the price on that era started to rise again for some reason and I took a break, and lately TVC has started doing better articulation and quality so I occasionally buy them again.

>>11438024
I preferred them even to the more detailed sculpts of the 5poa stuff they released after Last of the Jedi, because even though the sculpts weren't as accurate, most of them looked a bit more dynamic and interesting. Like this guy who I was never able to find as a kid but thought looked cool as fuck.

>>11439243
>I remember about a decade ago I was buying them at comic shops from between $3 to $8
Exactly. I’m amazed that once in a while I’ll still come across a moc factory-sealed box lot of potf2 on eBay. I don’t have the stats, but it seems like they massively overproduced these toys.
>But after Mando came out, the price on that era started to rise again for some reason
My theory is people were already getting so sick of Star Wars or at least the direction it’s gone in, and the pendulum had swung back toward nostalgia. People going back to potf bc they hate nuSW but can’t let Star Wars go even though it’s almost as culturally dead as post-1983. There’s probably a minority of younger collectors who never grew up with it buying as part of some facsimile 90s experience they didn’t get to have. A strange, inverted consumerism that prizes old things over new, as if these chunks of plastic were art deco antiques or something.

>>11439270
>My theory is people were already getting so sick of Star Wars or at least the direction it’s gone in
That is definitely why I went that route. I didn't hate nuwars, I actually did enjoy Rebels and TFA, but the quality of product tho. And the old alien designs were more appealing to me than the new ones, so hunting down PotF Tatooine BG characters, various droids, and weirdos like Dex gave me something fun to collect.

I even remember snagging 2 moc Jawa 2packs and book-off and being so excited about it.

>>11436264
Hey, I like my He-Man inspired Star Wars figures

>>11439243
>Like this guy who I was never able to find as a kid but thought looked cool as fuck
Momaw Nadon is a really cool creature design. Basically any creature or effect done by classic ILM, Stan Winston, or Jim Henson studios is the gold standard. Sadly becoming a lost art form…
>>11439395
Yes, the quality, but also nobody ever gets into IPs that just plain suck. Kids have a sixth sense (or just peers) for that. Anecdotal, but none of the younger members of my family wanted TFA toys in 2015, just original trilogy/prequel ones.

>>11435171 (OP)
commenting in your thread to say i also love POTF. no more threads though...i like collecting this line at a few bucks a figure.

>>11441824
Don’t worry, hardly anyone reads this board lol

>>11435171 (OP)

I had some of those in the 90's and thought they were pretty bad, except for the Vader toy, it was cool.

everybody was shaped like a wrestler

>>11435179
>this was before the mid prequels
Prequels were kino.

>>11442033
>prequels were kino
SHOTS FIRED

>>11442033
i grew up with them so while i think they are flawed as hell, i think the only BAD one is AOTC, the rest are just very flawed but at least have some soul. Im a person who likes some of the disney stuff(shows mostly) but the sequel movies were a shitshow at best even if there were a couple neat ideas.
>>11435179
i had most of those.

>>11443225
>I had most of those.
Lucky. I had a lot of them but not all. Always wanted a RotJ Luke with green saber but never got one. High quality figures, no doubt.

>>11435179
I forgot how cool it was they did a whole line of EU figures with those neat fold-out dioramas in the packaging.

>>11435171 (OP)
>>11435179
The Power of the Force toyline had the best commercials of all time. I will never not be nostalgic for these figures.

https://youtu.be/kmOswM1kvB4?si=_bx-AjJGSBf3621F

>>11444863
I really like the ones narrated by Mark Hamill.

>>11447414
Forgot to add the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBuh4HUC-2A

>>11447414
>>11447417
Same here, it’s too bad Hamill has ruined his reputation in recent years

>>11447417
Awesome feels
>>11447473
>too bad Hamill ruined his reputation in recent years
Politics claimed another boomer

So, are all the POTF2 vehicles just repaint/retools of the Kenner ones from the 70/80s? Other than the bigger X Wing they seem to be more or less the same.

These figs were a mess. A Jeb Bush kind of a mess. In the early 90s, we're there with, granted, monkey-armed Star Trek : The Next Generation figures, but with pretty damn good head sculpts for the time. Years later, we get... ...Princess Leia, the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers? We get Luke, Gilligan after swimming away from the island? It was downright OBSCENE. And why'd we need a ghost Kenobi in a FIGHTING stance?!? GOD those figures pissed me off. Such a lack of talent, in the crew who worked on them.

Mental. Retardation.

>>11447539
Were they? I think there were some really obvious ones like the at-at, but not sure about others. The later ones were definitely not retools.
>>11447640
>>11447646
Neither of these things bothered me. As kids, we weren’t zooming in on the face to scan it for total accuracy, we were just happy to have a decent Luke figure we could play with that looked mostly like him. As for the muscles, almost every 80s-90s action figure line had exaggerated bodybuilder physiques; potf was more restrained than most. In fact, I remember thinking some of the later, corrected Luke figures looked pretty wimpy despite more screen-accurate bodies. Kids want toys to look at least somewhat heroic.

>>11447667
>The later ones were definitely not retools.
I'm talking about the 90s stuff. The Slave 1 was a new sculpt, it's much bigger than the original but a lot of them seem to be altered original Kenner sculpts.

>>11447640
>Such a lack of talent, in the crew who worked on them.
These were literally worked on by a lot of the same crew as the Kenner 80's stuff. They were just trying to keep up with the times.

>>11447667
Judging from the filenames and the CAPSLOCK FOR EMPHASIS, I'm pretty sure you are replying to Subby.
>>11447747
I remember an interview in the mid 2000s where one of the designers said this exact thing. It was the execs decision to have superhero proportions because that's what their initial market research indicated would be popular, but they quickly noticed that the most criticised and frequently underperforming figures were the ones like buff Luke. That's why they toned them down for the updated versions like Blast Shield Helmet Luke.

>>11437775
I somehow misread the filename as "shaking a turd loose" and thought that was referring to the facial expression

>>11447473
>ruined his reputation
Hamill's political opinions mean nothing to me and do not affect my opinion of him. Firstly because I put no stock into the political opinions of celebrities at all (which no-one else should either), but also because US politics are so batshit insane that any celebrity having an opinion on it is like listening to someone talking about their favourite clown in a clown show.

>>11447640
>Such a lack of talent, in the crew who worked on them.
You're wrong, those figures fucking ruled and clearly they were a success because it brought the Star Wars toyline back from death.

>>11447789
> I remember an interview in the mid 2000s where one of the designers said this exact thing. It was the execs decision to have superhero proportions because that's what their initial market research indicated would be popular, but they quickly noticed that the most criticised and frequently underperforming figures were the ones like buff Luke. That's why they toned them down for the updated versions like Blast Shield Helmet Luke
As I said in >>11447667, it never bothered me. In fact, I think it makes potf even more collectible bc that physique sculpt is so quintessentially 90s and you just expected it as a kid, growing up with playmates tmnt figures with their cartoony proportions.
>>11448229
Those horsecock sabers were hilarious.

>>11436297
gonna be honest your the only one here that comes off as a lunatic

>>11448904
I actually like the ridiculously oversized lightsabers, goes well with the ridiculously oversized physique, and it bums me we never got one for Jedi Luke

>>11447747
WELP. That explains a bit, them still looking like ass decades later. Like was said, Playmates managed the ST:NG heads perfectly well.
KENNER COULDN'T. No skill.

>>11449438
Despised the physiques, despised the figures themselves, but I loved sifting through them in the stores to find ones with the longest sabers. Though, at one point, I was all, "Y'know... ...these are actually really too fucking big. lol.".

>>11448229
>ozempic vs hgh

>>11435234
Hey! be nice

>>11449710
Kill yourself

I have the mail away Han Solo stormtrooper suit somewhere in a box.

>>11453231
Sent away for the mace windu figure in 1998, it never showed up. Hasbro wouldn’t send a replacement. Postal workers probably stole it. I was very sad.

>>11456090
That sucks anon, hopefully the mailfag died from ALS

>>11453231
I had both that one and the Force ghost Obi-Wan

>>11456605
I don’t hold a grudge. Disney only wishes interest in Star Wars was as high as it was back in the 90s. People were so hyped for at least a year before tpm came out, that always brings out the worst in some.

>>11448229
kek

>>11447646
These were terrible. I think later on they toned down the proportions.

>>11459847
They did. They got a bunch of backlash and they eventually did tone it down a bit. I think the next 2-3 series had a mixture of normal proportions and space marine proportions.