Show Notes: List-o-Rama: Action Figures We'd Like to See

*Here are our picks for toys we would have liked to have had THEN:

Mike:
1) Tales of the Gold Monkey
2) Voyagers!
3) The Year Without a Santa Claus




4) Dungeons and Dragons (the animated series)



5) Thundaar the Barbarian

Rick:
1) The Greatest American Hero
2) Mike Torello from Crime Story
3) Mel Sharples from Alice
4) Eddie Murphy as Gumby
5) Dick Enberg

Honorable mentions: Plastic Man, Gary Gnu, Fat Albert, The Odd Couple playset

*The Golden Girls action figures now in stores come from Neca.

*Mike found this look at prototype Greatest American Hero toys that never really made it to shelves.

*These Year Without a Santa Claus toys came way too late for our tastes.

*This official board game came with figures from the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon:



And now here are our picks for toys we want to see NOW (if not sooner):

Mike:
1) Search a la Mego Star Trek
2) The Sandbaggers
3) Spider-Woman with mystery villain assortment
4) Universal detectives (Columbo, Quincy, Rockford, etc.)
5) In Search Of... with various Leonards and various show subjects

Honorable mentions: Pray for the Wildcats dirtbike action set, BOTNS Genius Award collection (including Marjoe with real hair), Lego Cheers set

Rick:
1) Late Night with David Letterman playset
2) Battle of the Network Stars
3) Don Cornelius
4) Bob Uecker
5) Paul Williams as Allison Troy

Honorable mentions: Edna Garrett, Sam the Butcher, Disco Paul Lynde

*There is in fact a Robert Conrad toy, though not in track outfit, but as James West from a 1997 "best of the West" line.