The Undiscovered Playthings

Quite possibly, this is the worst looking Mr. Incredible bootleg action figure I’ve come across to date.
It’s part of a two figure bootleg toy series. Only thing is, I don’t know if I have both figures in the series.
So let’s take a peek at one of them…

This is Punch ‘n Resue Mr. Incredible. This is one of those rare bootleg toys that actually comes with the correct accessories. The insert is a creation of the bootleg toy makers since I am 99.99999% positive that the original figures did not come with ‘light & sound’. That light & sound feature is something that only the bootleg toy makers produce.

The back of the card features Punch ‘n Resue Mr. Incredible. Which tells me that there’s a good chance the card for the other figure (Super Strength Mr. Incredible) in this bootleg toy series just might actually feature Super Strength Mr. Incredible. Truly, this is a rare thing in bootleg toy packaging.

Other bootleg Mr. Incredible figures that I’ve posted on this blog actually feature some pretty darn good renditions of Mr. Incredible. The bootleg toy factory where this thing was produced just didn’t have the same kind of quality control as other bootleg toy factories when it came to the actual figure. Don’t let the pic fool you. The blue costume this guy comes in is a flat, dull blue. The eyes are actually kind of cross-eyed and the darn light & sound feature doesn’t work. If it ever did, I couldn’t tell you. But considering that the there’s no ‘click’ when I push the button to light up the LED on the chest, I’m thinking it never worked at all.
Curse you bootleg toy maker for taking my three bucks and giving me a toy that I didn’t even get to break myself!

It’s kind of a sad thing when the packaging for a bootleg toy is more interesting than the bootleg toy itself.
“When wall is hit, it break apart!”… that just doesn’t feel right when it rolls off my tongue.
Don’t forget, there’s also WSLL-PHCHING ACTION!! Hmmm… looks like they completely missed the mark when spelling PUNCHING. The other typo? Okay, I can see hitting the S on the keyboard instead of the A. I’ve done that a few times myself.
Hmmm, I’m gonna try something…

In the bottom pic, the bootleg toy mskers ID’d the figures incorrectly.

Of course, who csres thst the Punch’n Rescue (yesh, no spsce between the h snd n) Mr. Incredible hss s cspitsl B or thst Super strength Mr. Incredible hss s couple of typos of its own? This is s bootleg toy we’re tslking sbout. I’m sure the bootleg toy mskers just wsnt this thing put together snd out of the fsctory ss quickly ss possible.

Batmobiles! I love ‘em! I have plenty of these things laying all around and have no idea where to put them.

This Batmobile knock off is from way back when. I don’t know how long I’ve had it. At least a dozen years I’d suspect.
Now normally I don’t take my bootleg toys out of their packaging because I think half the fun of these terrible pieces of plastic is the packaging they come in. But this toy is so old, the plastic it’s encased under has faded to a shade of yellow.

Check it out!

This little bump and go toy car certainly looks like a Batmobile. Well, who can really tell in this picture? But hey, there’s Bat Man labeled on the package. So that must mean something, right?
I really didn’t want to take this thing out of the package. I snapped a few pics and well, they didn’t really tell the tale of this knock off as well as I would have liked. So I pulled the staples off the base of the package and pulled this bad boy out for the first time ever.

Voila! Bat Cop 360!

Ahhh… that’s much better, wouldn’t you say? Lets face it! That really does look like the Batmobile, doesn’t it? Fins, the turbo exhaust, the penis-like thing, I mean thingamajib sticking out the front. Ya just gotta love those headlight stickers.

Here’s the intimidating view of the front side of Bat Cop 360. Why, the villians will tremble with fear and misery at the site of this toy approaching them. Sigh. If only the darn thing worked. That’s right! After all these years of sitting in my closet, I put batteries in this thing, hit the ON switch and what happened? Nada! Zip! Zero! Zilch! Sure, the interior of the cockpit and the antenna lit up. But did this thing ‘bump and go’? No sir/Ma’am. Instead, it just whirrrrrrreedddd away while sitting there wasting my batteries.
Oh well. I never really planned on ever playing with this anyways. So it’s not that big a deal.

Those red fins make me laugh out loud. What were the bootleg toy makers thinking? I’m torn because I prefer my Batmobiles to be all black. But somehow, the red fins make this thing look that much more awesome.
It would have been really nice if there were a static generator that spit out sparks from the exhaust while this thing was in action. But then, I’d never it see it because poor old Bat Cop 360 only sits there like a rock.

While this little six inch long Batmobile wannabe is nothing like the HERO CHARIOT (what am I talking about? You’ll have to dig deep into this blog to find it), it fills a special spot in my Batmobile collection. If only the darn thing would have worked when I turned it on.

So when I saw these things, I wondered to myself, “Self, are the Powerpuff Girls cartoons still being produced?” I honestly didn’t know at the time. But now I do and it’s a resounding no.
Well, anyways, here’s a teeny set of figures that I dug up recently while cleaning up my garage.

I wasn’t kidding when I said this was a teeny set of figures. The entire package these things come in measures in at a whopping 7″x5″. I think at first glance, these might look like the real deal. But I can’t imagine the Cartoon Network okaying a package where only a small part of the channel’s name would appear on the top right corner.
It’s hard to see in the pic, but behind Buttercup (she’s in the green), there’s some text that reads Collectible Figures! <– exclamation point included.

Boy does she look pissed. I guess I’d be pissed if I had no fingers or nose. Yeah, I actually went and took a look at pics of these characters online and was amazed to find that these missing parts wasn’t planned by the bootleg toy makers. Heh, getta load of the paint job where the hair is parted. I don’t understand, are bootleg toys produced on an automated toy line or are they hand painted?

Here are the other two figures. Yeah, there really is no play function with these things. They are just little tiny statues of the Powerpuff Girls. It’s actually amazing that the bootleggers got the colors of the characters pretty much spot on.
These little statues stand about three inches tall. The bubble they are packaged under is the natural bootleg toy brittle. The back of the package is just plain old cardboard for which I’m thankful. That’s one less pic I had to take for this review.

I might have some other Powerpuff Girl bootleg toy material laying around somewhere. But to be honest, there’s one toy that I really am hoping to dig up soon. That’s Robert Cop. My bootleg RoboCop action figure that for some reason, is one of the most popular toys on this site.

This next bootleg toy series is a concept that is pretty cool. I’ve seen something sort of like these toys, but not with the same kind of fan to fly the toy. What? Did I say fly? Well, sort of. These toys are tied to a line (I guess you can say it’s a tethered line), the power button is flipped on, you give the toy a push to get it started and off it goes. Round and round and round and round…. You get the idea, right?
Eh… I’ve got a youtube video of this thing in action. I posted it a while back. But I’m going to include it here too.

Here ya go…! All the figures have a fan at the bottom of their legs. The series is called Flying With Motor. There’s a splash on the top left of the card that reads: Flying All 3 Types Action. I thought it meant that there are three different figures. But I suppose the bootleg toy makers meant three different characters. Batman. Superman. Spider-Man. Those are the three superheroes represented in this bootleg toy line. There are actually two different versions of Superman and two versions of Batman. I never saw a second Spider-Man figure in this series.
Check ‘em out!

Superman

Superman II

Is this a twist by the bootleg toy makers? Or was Superman ever drawn with a dark blue costume and yellow logo?

Spider-Man

Batman

All the figures above are based on the same body mold. The bootleg toy makers just changed the paint and head of the figures. Including the fan at the bottom of the figure, these things stand just over twelve inches tall. The arms and head sport articulation. Behind about the knee level (you can see it clearly in the Batman pic) is a round plastic base that has a “gyrostabilizer” with some double sided tape on one side. There is also a long string with a hook at the end attached to the base. On the back of the each figure, a piece of plastic extends from the figure. This is where you attach the hook.

Drop a couple of batteries into the figure and you’re ready to fly. The back of the card has all the instructions needed (some of it is in Engrish instead of English) to help you get the toy in flight. I have to admit, these are pretty cool figures even if you don’t bother to get this thing airborne.

Here’s the youtube video of one of the toys in action. Enjoy!

Bootleg, knock off wrestler figures abound here in my neck of the world.  Which is a real shame because they suck badly. The thought of some poor kid getting these things to play with…

This series of wrestling figures comes in not only the six pack seen above, but also in two packs and single packs. To be quite honest with you, I don’t pay much attention to bootleg wresting figures because I’m not a huge fan of WWE (anymore).

For my five bucks, I got six wild looking figures and a few accessories that you certainly wouldn’t see anywhere else. Although it would be a hoot to see a Batman figure accompanied with a chainsaw and ladder. How about Superman with dumbbells? Yeah, the bootleg toys makers should give that a shot. I swear I’d buy superhero bootleg toys with wrestling figure accessories in  a heartbeat.

I really really wish I could tell you who these scary looking guys are supposed to be. But it’s been years since I paid attention to wrestling and these guys just don’t ring a bell.

Hey! That’s Kane! I recognize him (the guy on the left). The musclebound figure on the right while certainly imposing, would probably make me laugh if I saw him in real life.

Gawwww! Who let the guy from the Goonies into this set? Isn’t that Sloth on the left? Yeah, yeah, I know it’s not Sloth. Don’t beat me up for it. Who this guy is, I have no idea. But I do know that I’ve got that same wrestler in another bootleg wrestling series from years ago.

I guess the bootleg toy factory these figures were made at doesn’t have a spell check feature anywhere. I suppose they fired whoever was responsible for spelling FIGURES correctly.
Now let’s face it. Anybody who buys these figures after looking at the packaging has to be a complete idiot. I mean, if the horrible looking figures isn’t a dead giveaway, then certainly the typos on the package scream ‘Don’t buy me! I’m a fake!”
Yeah, I bought these things knowing they weren’t real. But that’s what I was looking for. Still, you gotta feel bad for the kid who’s parent buys them this cuz they weren’t paying attention.

This is the second figure in the Super Fly Hero series. I think it’s the last of the bunch I have.  I think there may have been four sets, but so far, it looks like I only gathered up two of them.

You can find the first set HERE.

Who have we got in this two pack? How about Mrs. Incredible and Frozone?

Not too shabby looking huh? Like the first set, the bootleg toy makers actually put the correct insert inside the bubble. Usually, inserts feature characters that don’t match the toys inside the packaging. But this go ’round, looks like the bootleg toy makers had some kind of quality control put in place at their factory.

In case you missed it the first time, here’s why this post was titled Super Fly Hero…

Heh, good stuff, huh?

Frozone comes with an LED on his chest. But like the Mr. Incredible figure I have, the LED doesn’t work. I guess the battery just couldn’t make it past a few years of non use.
Frozone comes in at about six inches tall. I’m guessing the board that’s packaged in this set is for Frozone to be mounted on.

Ain’t she sexy? This is actually a pretty good rendition of Elastigirl (although I prefer to call her Mrs. Incredible).
To be quite honest, this bootleg toy series features some really good looking figures. Yeah, they’re cheap and will probably fall apart right away. Of course, there’s always the possibility that the figures have been painted with lead based paint. But if you leave it in the package, these things are really good looking bootleg toys.
Why do the chinese bootleg toy makers save the really good looking bootleg toys for China and ship the lousy toys for us here in the states? Well, that’s a question for another day, I guess. After all, when you think about it, who’s to say there are no bootleg toy factories located somewhere in the US?

I was digging through my old bootleg toys and came across this one. It’s always struck me as one of the strangest toys. Not so much because of the toy itself, but because of the characters associated with the toy. This thing is already on the old site. But I wanted to bring it out and show it off again.

I’ve never seen any of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles using a gun. Have you? Ehhh.. that’s what I thought.
What were the people who thought up the concept for this toy thinking? This is almost as bad as giving Batman a gun.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Gun
Because nothing says Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle better than a gun, don’t ya think?

Let’s get a closer look at the box…

It looks to me like the Turtles are kinda baffled as to why they are on a package featuring a rifle.

How about the rifle? Come on folks, it’s not really a gun. This toy is more like a machine gun.

Heh, typical bootleg toy makers. The box has a black machine gun and I get a blue one. Not only that, this thing’s a Super Rangers gun. The Super Rangers were/are a knock off of the Power Rangers. I guess there were no TMNT stickers laying around the bootleg toy factory, eh?

This toy was a pretty blatant rip off of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. No small twisting of the name or characters. The box says this thing was made in Taiwan. So I’m guessing the company that made this thing had no fear of getting caught or sued.

Y’know, I never put batteries in this thing to see if it actually works. Something’s come loose on this toy as there’s something rattling around in the rifle.
Y’know, this toy reminds me of an old girlfriend. She had a brother-in-law who I couldn’t stand. The guy was a total @$$. So anyways, her sister and this guy had a son who was still a little kid. So whenever I bought something for my girlfriend’s nephew, I always, always, always(!) made sure to buy him something that was loud and noisy. My girlfriend didn’t think it was very funny, but then again, she never stopped me from buying those annoying toys for her nephew. Best thing I bought him? A drum set. It was great to hear him banging on that thing so relentlessly.

I don’t see many bootleg toys where you actually get a cloth jacket of some sort. But the bootleg toy makers kind of went out of their way to (almost) make an impressive bootleg toy that even comes with a cloth jacket (yeah, they cheated a bit on the jacket too. You’ll see.)

Look at this! A boxed Doc Ock figure from the Spider-Man 2 movie. Yup! The Ultimate Spider-Man 2 with sound activated. Of course, it’s not Spider-Man in the box. But that’s just a minor detail. You get a figure after all. Just not Spider-Man.

The front, back, top, bottom and sides of the package feature stolen clip art. Looks to me like the pics might have been stolen from the Spider-Man 2 video game. Those bootleg toy makers, what won’t they steal and from who?

You know, I’m not familiar with the word Doughty. So I binged it (yeah, I’ve been trying the Bing search engine lately).  So you won’t have to look it up, I did it for you.
doughty:
/ˈdaʊti/ Show Spelled Pronunciatsteadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.

Okay, so how Doughty fits in between Hyper and Light, well, you’ve got me.

Look at that! The bootleggers actually whipped together a jacket for Doc Ock! I guess they wanted to keep this figure as close as possible to any real toy this may have been ripped off from. Looks like these bootleg toy makers spared no expense at putting this bootleg toy together.

Waitaminute! Check out Doc Ock’s arm! Why, it’s the same color as his jacket! Those sneaky bootleg toy makers. Why they did spare some expense after all. That cloth must have been kind of expensive. So their solution was to make the arms look like the jacket. Ingenious!
The good doctor’s glasses can’t be removed from the head. But I was able to lift them up so you could get a look-see at his eyes. The bootleg toy makers did a pretty good job on the eyes. I would have expected since the figure was wearing glasses for the eyes to just be spots or non-existant on the figure.
Of course, this figure comes with the LED in the chest. Yes, even after five years of sitting in a closet, the LED and voicebox still work. Check it out:

By the way, nice nipples you’ve got there doc. For the curious, Doc Ock stands tall at twelve inches in height. The figure is actually pretty sturdy for a bootleg toy. I think I may have the Spider-Man figure in this same kind of packaging laying around somewhere. If I ever manage to dig it up, I’ll be sure to post it.

Well, it’s time for something Incredible. I don’t remember where I got this particular bootleg toy set. But clearly, from the packaging, it was not meant for the U.S. market.

That’s Mr. Incredible and Frozone in this two pack. Well, looking at this pic, I’m sure it’s clear to you why I don’t think this was meant to make it here to my small part of the world.
If anybody can help out with the text on this package, that would be swell.
Notice that there’s only one stand included in the package. it’s gotta be for the giant Mr. Incredible. Wait a minute! Is Mr. Incredible a giant or is Frozone a little person? Well, I guess only the bootleg toy makers know the answer to that question.

Here’s the back of the card:

Once again, the primary language on this card is Chinese (Japanese?). Since there are eight characters shown on the back, I’m assuming this series of bootleg toys had four different sets of two figures each. The Incredible thing about the packaging is the the bootleg toy makers actually matched up Mr. Incredible and Frozone on the insert placed inside the bubble. Seriously, that’s a rarity for bootleg toys.

Mr. Incredible stands tall at about six inches in height. Yes, he comes with the infamous LED that almost every bootleg toy made comes with now. I guess the battery has gone dead cuz the darn LED doesn’t light up.

Why is he so small? I just don’t get it. I mean, it’s not like he’s shrunk anytime during the movie, is he? By the way, it is extremely hard to make out any detail on this figure’s face. I can see the outline of his mouth and nose. The pic above? I snapped a bunch of pics of this guy trying to get that perfect shot. What you see is about as good as it gets.

Are you wondering why I titled this post Super Fly Hero?
Well, take a look at this…

I guess it’s a good thing the bootleg toy makers didn’t bother with any English on the packaging. They probably would have butchered it. But dang, it would have made for some good reading.

I’ve got another one of these two packs. I didn’t bother to include it in this post cuz that would have made for a lot of pics. It’s coming though. Real soon….

This sucker’s got to be at least fifteen years old! I picked this up way back in the early half of the 1990s. Yes friends, I reached deep past the cobwebs of my bootleg toy closet in order to share this toy with you.

Behold! Batman on a (skate?) board….

Batman’s got a gun and he looks ready to use it! Of course, if I was Batman and relegated to an oversized skateboard, I’d be ready to shoot somebody myself.

This particular toy belonged to a local shopkeeper who snuck in some bootleg toys on his toy shelves. He kept this thing on a shelf behind the counter. It wasn’t for sale. Everytime I went into that particular joint, I bugged the guy to sell it to me. This went on for months, mind you.
Finally, after constantly asking him to sell it to me, one day, he just handed it over to me. No reason why. That day he just happened to be in one of the best moods I’d ever seen him in. He had a big smile on his face when he turned around and took it off of his counter and handed it to me.
Well that shop is long gone now. But the memory of it and this particular toy will remain with me for a long long time.

Here’s the back of the figure:

It’s hard to tell because the back is all black. But the bootleg toy makers made sure to put some detail even into the cape.

The board measures about six inches long. Batman (a shirtless Batman!) is about three inches high and made of the kind of plastic you find in squeaky toys. The figure can be removed and even rotated around so Batman can face evil doers at all angles (except up and down of course) as he shoots them with his gun.

There was a price tag on this thing at some point. But it must have been removed by the shopkeeper who gave this toy to me. The eyes on the bat logo on? They are actually a part of the sticker.  Nobody drew them on.

The skateboard itself is a pullback toy. If I pull it back and let it go, it rolls forward. Yeah, it still works after all these years. The thing is, cuz of the type of wheels on the board, it doesn’t exactly roll very smoothly.

So what do you think? It’s actually not a bad looking Batman face there. Yeah, time hasn’t been too good to the figure. The paint has some scratches here and there. Look closely at the legs and you can see some of the dust I missed when cleaning this figure for this review. I’m extremely fond of this bootleg toy. I like to think the little dings add to the charm of this particular toy.