They had no idea of the cultural impact of this movie and had nothing ready to go. You probably know the rest of the story, but when Star Wars became a monster hit, Kenner was completely caught with its pants down. Their original plan was to make a modest line of space toys – which they had already been interested in doing – but have them connected to this new “Star Wars” movie. Kenner, the plucky upstart who took a chance on a random robots and aliens movie in 1977 ended up being a juggernaut in the toy business. With its garage, turrets, turbines, and repair bay, it could also be used with any other brand of action figures as it was such a great command center. Converted for today, that’s around $65, which I guess is not bad for a playset of this magnitude?īut it really did have it all. This toy playset had a ton of features including machine guns, cameras, searchlights, and cost $24.99 when it first came out in ‘83. I remember trying to recreate this one (i didn’t own it, which will be a running theme through this blog) using pieces of wood and popsicle sticks. If you go on, you can see a great breakdown of all the images of this awesome toy playset. The tagine let us know that it was “fully equipped to fight Destro, Major Bludd, and the evil Cobra Command!” This thing was really badass and looked like a genuine fortress. This is one of the earlier entries from 1983.
You’ll see GI Joe a few times on this list, as they mastered what a toy playset could be. 1983 Hasbro GI Joe Headquarters Command Center We’ll see the concept of a goop grate again, but this 1980s toy playset actually came with a 5 oz can of Ecto-plazm play gel which was amazing as usually these money-hungry toy companies would make you buy these things separately.Īll in all, this was a great toy playset, that didn’t take up a lot of room, and had the bonus that you could swap out any other figures to create your own stories and world. It had a “ghost pursuit” fire pole to slide down, a “ghost containment” unit that you could store ghosts in, and – coolest of all – the “goop grate.” The thing was, it wasn’t actually based on the movie, but the cartoon “The Real Ghostbuster.” I think every kid wants to be a fireman, so this was the perfect way to experience that at home. Even if you actually didn’t like the movie, this toy playset was just fun. The truth is, this Real Ghostbusters firehouse headquarters from 1987 was awesome. I wasn’t a massive fan of the Ghostbusters toys, mainly as it was a movie I was never allowed to see so I made it a point to boycott them. 1987 Kenner The Real Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters Playset So, this will be a look back on the 9 greatest 1980s toy playsets: 9. We also got to watch these lucky kids living out our toy playset dreams on screen. They would show all the features, and how you could best use the whole thing.
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Not only that, but we would also see the full potential of how these toy playsets could be utilized through the commercials selling them. They took everything you wanted to make these action figures as playable as possible and put it into the sweetest playset your little mind could imagine. But with the actual toy playsets put out by the companies, nothing could touch them. Inside, you would also use whatever objects and items to create the ideal toy playsets to further your action figure world-building. You would take those action figures outside and create your own little worlds for them.
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TV hadn’t totally rotted our brain yet, so we had some ability to be imaginative and creative with our toys. The toys and action figures of the 80s were amazing.
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