Top 100 Countdown – TOYS – Part 4 – #50-26!

Hi, this is Eddie from Big Ed's Barbecue in Waukegan,

Illinois, and you are listening to the Geekcast

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GeekCast Radio and ToyCast as we continue the

Top 100 Toys Countdown. Today we'll be revealing

entries number 50 through 26. I am one of your

hosts, TF2, and Mike. And not joining us as always

is that rubber ducky loving Steve Megatron. His

duck broke down, ladies and gentlemen. However,

in a special... Clutch guest appearance, we have

the hero of the Cybertronian Wars, the leader

of the Autobots and Maximals, the true bearer

of the Matrix, it's none other than Rodimus Primal.

Let's do it! Don't you want to say something

about... Peace and Concord in the Galaxy. Ah,

give me a break. Alrighty. And we also have the

ringmaster of our Top 100 Countdowns, the guy

that does all the math, because I hate math.

He is from the planet of KT Toys. He's none other

than Mr. Optimus Solo. Thank you, sir. He used

to be a stunning Steve Austin, the ringmaster.

No. Yeah, we're back at it, revealing more toys.

We're in the middle of our Top 100 Toy Countdown,

thanks to all the folks that submitted lists.

of their all time toy countdown of their own,

whether they submitted 50 or a hundred or 75,

it all helped to make this list. So far, we've

revealed the top half or the bottom half depends

on if Steve's talking or if Mike's talking revealed

100 through 51. And now we're going to go 50

through 26, which will leave only one episode

left, which is the top 25. So Mike, before we

get going. What's your biggest surprise so far

as far as a toy that's been revealed in the first

50? Putting you on the spot. Star Trek coming

in at whatever it came in. Poor Star Trek. It

gets no love. Yeah, even at 81. It made the countdown.

It did make the countdown. And up to this point,

we have had... 12 board games. They're reigning

supreme as far as the categories go. Action figures

are lagging behind a little bit at nine and then

toys with wheels at seven. Those are like the

top three categories so far. As far as time periods

go, we've had nine from the 1980s. We've had

12 from either the 1900s or before. And then

in third place, I believe currently is the 1960s

with eight of them. So that's been some interesting.

categories and time periods and then we'll have

to see how the companies hold up we'll give you

an update at that as we make our way through

whether it's kenner or milton bradley or parker

brothers or mattel or hasbro who's reigning supreme

overall so let's get right into the numbers for

today we're starting with a national toy hall

of fame finalist but one that has not actually

been inducted yet this toy debuted in the 1960s

from a company called Mark's Toys, and this is

the classic Rock 'em Sock 'em Robot. I can be

any kid on the block. Oh, yeah? Yeah. They're

slugging it out. A left to the jaw, and... Oh,

my block is knocked off. But you can press it

right back on. It's Rock 'em Sock 'em Robot.

Press this lever. He throws a right. The other

a left. Knock his block off. You're the winner.

You can Rock 'em Sock 'em with the Rock 'em Sock

'em Robots by Marks. So Mike, what do you think

of Rock 'em Sock 'em starting off the top 50?

I'll knock your block off. Rock 'em Sock 'em

is one of those toys that's more commonly broken

than a lot of other ones. I don't know if I've

ever played a Rock 'em Sock 'em that was 100

% intact, but Mike, what do you think? Yeah,

they took a few tumbles in the 80s. They really,

really did. I love Rock 'em Sock 'em robots.

It was just so fun. It was one way to get your

aggression out without actually hitting anybody.

Definitely a lot of fun. I had the cheap version

of this. I didn't have the actual Rock 'em Sock

'em setup, but I did have these. like hand puppet,

almost things that were similar. And it was like

a ninja and something else where you could like

punch with your fingers. That's not the same.

No, you need the, like, so this is so funny and

so weird. So back in 2019, yes, it was that long

ago, folks, my late wife and I were going through

target or whatever. And we saw like, 17 different

classic 80s board games or things. They had a

new version of Othello and Rock 'em Sock 'em

Robots, and I almost bought the Rock 'em Sock

'em Robots. Yeah, they've kept that going. They

still have it. They have an end cap that looks

like clown puppies and some of that type of stuff.

You've changed colors over the years, too. Yes.

I think I remember there was the red and the

blue one. I think nowadays you might see a yellow

and green one. The other thing that I also appreciated

was its legacy in other brands. I was going to

go back to Transformers, so like in Beast Wars

when Rhinox and Inferno actually rock -em -sock

-em -robot each other. Yeah, that's classic.

And to give you an idea, too, the highest number

of lists that we've had a toy appear on up to

this point is Twister, which came in at number

77, which was on 14 lists. And then after that,

I think Mousetrap was on 12 lists. And Jigsaw

Puzzles, 13. Lincoln Logs, 12. So that's been

the highest so far on the other half of the 50s.

Everything today is going to be basically in

at least 10 or more lists. And we're starting

that with Rock 'em Sock 'em, which made it on

12 lists. So that's where we start today at number

50. Let's move on to number 49. And we're going

to tally another mark in the category of wheeled

toys. So in this situation, we're going to go

back to 1955 and the introduction of the Tonka

truck. Let her go. We took two of the world's

toughest trucks in a 400 -foot cliff. And this

is the truck made by Tonka. Which was a 2001

Toy Hall of Fame inductee. Now owned by Hasbro,

I believe, as are most toys. Tonka Trucks at

number 49. This was also on 12 list. Mike, what

do you think? I remember having the dump truck

and I had the crane. Yeah, I had a number of

these. And I remember most of the time that these

were toys that I played with in our sandbox in

the backyard. It was take the dump truck and

the, and all the different like things that could

transport or do stuff with sand and put them

in the sandbox and watch them rust. It's neat.

Well, yeah. And the reason why they rusted metal,

it's a lost art. Yeah. Well, yeah. Rain. But

like those Tonka trucks back then, all metal.

Yeah. Yeah. So they were for sure. So this is

the. We had seven wheeled toys before. This is

the eighth one. So things that we've already

had come up in the countdown that we're calling

wheeled toys. We had skateboards. We had power

wheels. We had the big wheels. Then last time

on the last episode, we also had model cars.

We had remote control cars, and we had matchbox

cars. So Rodimus Primal, now we have Tonka Trucks.

Do you think those are all worthy, or what's

the best wheeled toy? Yeah, I mean, I'd say they're

all worthy. Specifically, you know, yeah, like

you said, Tonka Trucks, everybody left their

Tonka Trucks outside. They all got rusted. You

know, and everybody seemed to have a sandbox.

They didn't even want a Tonka Truck, unless you

either went to the playground to play with Tonka

Trucks when you were a kid. You know, that wasn't

necessarily me. I was like, like the parents,

like they were so big that like, where else were

you? They were going to be outside or they were

going to be like in the garage. Like, right.

You weren't bringing those inside. No, especially

if they're covered in dirt. You know, mom doesn't

want that in the house. Absolutely. All right,

so from one classic to another, but we're going

to go a little bit back further in time. So we

had the Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots that were 1964

-ish, Tonka Trucks 1955 era. We're going to go

back to the 1930s, just barely, 1939, for one

of those items that, Mike, I think just like

the Pound Puppies and the Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots

has made some appearances on the Target retro

section. We actually bought my three -year -old

daughter one of these, and she loved it. She

calls them her binoculars, but they're most commonly

known as binoculars. of UMaster. See masters

of the universe in a View Master viewer. Know

how we make it look so real? View Master 3D artists

draw lots of pictures. See? One in the back,

one in the middle, and one in the front. When

you see them all together in 3D, the characters

look so real, you think you could reach in and

touch them. With View Master, you can collect

lots of program reels on cards and in gift sets,

like Smurf and Shirt Tails, each sold separately.

View Master gift set with 3D viewer in a Masters

of the Universe adventure on three reels. So

Viewmaster from 1939 from Mattel. And they are

an inductee. 1999, they made the National Toy

Hall of Fame. So two back -to -back Toy Hall

of Fame entries here. I love the Viewmaster.

I loved the different types. I had, like, the

Transformers reel and probably, like, the G .I.

Joe reel. I think I had a He -Man reel. She's

got one that's got, like, animals. And she loves

going back and forth between the monkeys and

the elephants and whatever else is on that reel.

So she loves them. She only has two reels, though.

They, like, came with two discs. I'm like, that's

it? So I've got to find somewhere that has more

discs or go on eBay or something. eBay is your

number one. Literally, I was about to buy a Viewmaster

two and a half years ago on eBay, and I found

a listing at that time where it was like, here's

the Viewmaster, and here's like 100 reels. I'm

like, oh, okay, but I never ended up buying it.

Right. So do you think it's worthy here of being

in the top 50? Oh, yeah. They're all, whatever

we end up being, they're all worthy. I mean,

there are no unworthy toys here. I think you

could make some arguments against some that we

had in the bottom 50, whether they're worthy

of being in the top 100 or not. As the only one

that knows what's coming up, I briefly scanned

it at the end of last episode with Mike and Steve,

and I don't necessarily think that there's too

many arguments against anything that shows up

from here on out, but we'll see. Maybe we'll

get some in the comments. Yeah, he took my line

placement. Any thoughts on Viewmaster before

we move on, Rodimus? I remember having a Ninja

Turtle one. I had one for all the different movies

they ended up having one or whatever stuff for

the Viewfinder discs. It just lent itself so

well to just be adapted into all different kinds

of properties and franchises and keep that life

going. Even non -fictional stuff too. You'd see

those Viewmasters would be used for other things

too. learning stuff. A teacher would actually

have one with a disc that had something important

for us to learn or something. Right. Like monuments

or whatever it might be. National landmarks,

things of that nature. Absolutely. Alright, so

we have been going back and forth between the

board games and the action figures on who it

seemed like those were the two leaders as far

as who's going to have the most entrance on this

top 100 unless we have somebody come from behind

here in this top 50. We haven't had any yet today,

but we're going to put a tally in the action

figure mark for number 47. Mike, you'll like

this one. This is also going to be our first

toy from a toy company called Bandai. 1981. We're

going to go with Voltron. Enter the world of

Voltron, where thrilling adventures let you soar

beyond the limits of your imagination. Where

the valiant Voltron force merges together in

their robotic lions to challenge the might of

King Zarkon's demonic minions and menacing machines.

You can join this never -ending battle between

the army of evil and the champions of justice.

with the fate of planet aris and the entire universe

at stake voltron action figures lions and vehicles

each sold separately from panache place here

at number 47 not a national toy hall of fame

candidate or finalist or entrant yet but voltron

here makes number 47 it joins the likes of the

action figures we've had come before it which

is the marvel action figures we have had Let's

see, what else? We've had Star Trek, we've had

starting lineup, we've had wrestling action figures,

we've had Silver Hawks, Battle Beast, Dino Riders.

Mike, what do you think of Voltron coming in

here? Personally, I think it's a little low,

but that's just my own personal opinion. But

yeah, coming in at least above the top 50 line,

that's awesome. I love Voltron. It was always

one of those things where it was just so cool.

You could pick the line you wanted, the character

you wanted, and you wanted to obviously eventually

form Voltron. You had to catch them all because

that's, you know, it was way before 1993. I can

tell you that. I think with me, when I was voting

on action figures, because like I've talked about

with the board games, I had to select. I only

had so many room for board games on my list.

So I tried to like either the. most iconic or

something that was unique about it i think voltron

does have in its favor like the whole assembling

of the lion as kind of a unique feature i do

say though it's kind of a thorn in my side here

because i have like the heroes villains action

figure collection that i do where i try to collect

the main villain and the main hero from so many

different lines and voltron's throwing me a curve

because i can't i have king's archon and i'm

just i don't I'm not convinced of doing the whole

Voltron combined thing as the main hero. It would

take up way too much room, so I don't know who

I'm going with. I've got to pick one of the characters,

I guess. Okay, so I'm sure we can discuss this

off -air at some point or another, but if you're

just wanting a Voltron robot itself, there are

plenty of action figure statue -type stuff where

you just have the character itself. See, one

of my rules, though, is it has to be from the

original toy line. And it can't be a reproduction

or a statue or anything like that. So it's just

not as easy as, like, Cobra Commander and Duke

or, you know, Optimus Prime and Megatron. It's

a curveball that's been thrown my way. But, Rodimus,

what do you think about Voltron coming in here

at number 47? I mean, as far as toys are concerned,

of course I love it. It's like, you know, that

Super Sentai, you know, inspired kind of thing

with Go Lion. You know, and of course, Dairugger

is where the two animes come from. and that were

used to form the Lion Force Voltron, the Vehicle

Force Voltron. As far as figures are concerned,

I remember the original and as they were die

-cast, and I never owned one, but I had a friend

who did, and he was super protective of it. So

it was like I got to see it in person, but never

got to touch it, but loved the cartoon, and then

became an adult, and then ended up watching Go

Lion and went, I like Go Lion better. Even though

I love Voltron's music. So, better. Alright,

so we'll be on the next action figure toy that

comes up in our countdown. Let's move on to another

classic from 1960. Number 46 on our countdown

is going to be the 1998 National Toy Hall of

Fame inductee, the Etch -A -Sketch. If you think

this is magic, watch this. The Etch -a -Sketch

Magic Screen. Turn the dials, and like magic,

lines appear out of nowhere. But the magic isn't

just in how you draw, it's also in how you erase.

The one and only original Etch -a -Sketch. So

developed, I guess, originally in France, if

you want to draw it all the way back, but obviously

it's had a lot of different versions. The Etch

-a -Sketch, or to me, like one of the most frustrating

drawing toys of all time. Like I, I could never,

I couldn't do what you see a lot of people do

on the YouTube videos where they're just like

twisting and turning away. And all of a sudden

it's a picture that makes sense. Like mine was

just nonsense. But Etch -a -Sketch is definitely

one of those classics, kind of like the Viewmaster

here. So I'm definitely, happy that it's in the

top 50. I think every kid has played with an

Etch -a -Sketch or seen an Etch -a -Sketch, it

seems like. So I know there's more advanced versions

that came out in later decades, and you had things

like the Magna Doodle and different things like

that. I never had one of those, but I'll go to

the classic Etch -a -Sketches. I didn't put Magna

Doodle on my list. I put Etch -a -Sketch there,

though, for sure. Mike, what do you think? Yeah,

I never had Magna Doodle and Magna Doodle from

what I remember the commercials. No, Etch -a

-Sketch is where it's at. We all know from 1995,

Toy Story, Etch -a -Sketch had a huge resurgence

after, I think it was Toy Story 2 that it was

in. They're like, Etch, draw that man in the

chicken suit. Okay. And yeah, no, I love Etch

-a -Sketch. And you're right, you can't draw

a damn thing on those things. But it was still

fun. Yeah, people with more artistic skill than

me can do it. But it also ties Twister now for

being on the most list, on 14 list. Rodimus,

what do you think about the Etch -A -Sketch?

I think the Etch -A -Sketch, of course, has a

place in the Hall of Fame. My biggest issue with

it was really getting the knobs to twist the

way that I wanted to, which was always a chore,

no matter how you looked at it. And the worst

was on car trips when you hit a bump and you

lose the whole drawing. And I was like, all right,

just give me a piece of paper and a pen. Right.

Right. It's like the toy that most commonly is

like given to a child that the child probably

never masters or they just scribble on it. And

it worked for some reason. I don't know. Weird.

Number 45. We're going to go to somewhere where

we haven't gone in a long time. The world of

stuffed toys. And in this case, it's the classic

from the 1980 81 era. I think this was originally

introduced by Kenner. This is the world of care

bears here. So care bear stuffed animals. or

however you want to do it. I guess there was

figurines of some sort, but most kids probably

had the actual stuffed animals, which are definitely

still on Target shelves. My daughter has probably

eight to ten of these things in different colors.

Obviously, the thing these days is it's not just

the yellow, the red, the blue, the green, like

Grumpy, or Bedtime Bear, or Cheer Bear, or something

like that. Now there's the tie -dye -ish. care

bears that are all over the place with like multi

-colors and stuff like that but she loves them

she'll even actually she watches the old it's

one of the rare things that she doesn't need

like the current version of either she will watch

the 1980 care bear shows or movies occasionally

not all the time but occasionally she'll she's

watched the whole movie straight through and

she doesn't do that with a lot of movies so giving

a care bear is a very special way of sharing

your feelings The hair. She's a wish come true.

Because a Care Bear's tummy shows just what you're

feeling in your heart. Cheer Bear! He'll help

you cheer from the sidelines. Make any day special

for someone you care about. Won't be any fun

without you. Sunshine Bear will keep you company.

Share your special feelings with a soft, cuddly

Care Bear. Each sold separately. I'm happy Care

Bears makes the countdown. I actually had these,

it's a weird story, but one version of my bedroom

for some reason when I was like three or four

or something was Care Bears. And my mom actually

had put like, there was like clouds and like

rainbow slides and stuff that the Care Bears

had on the walls. And then like the Care Bears

were like Velcroed onto the walls. So it was

like a 3D wall effect, I guess. I always thought

that was the coolest thing, and I'm a fan of

the Care Bears, so I'm happy they're here. Mike,

what do you think? Yeah, just like you, I didn't

have a whole Care Bear bedroom thing, but did

we already mention toy dinosaurs in one of the

other episodes? Yeah, that came up. Okay, yeah,

yeah, yeah. So I remember having dinosaur bedsheets,

and I remember having Care Bear bedsheets, and

the only reason why I remember the Care Bear

bedsheets was because bedtime bedsheets were

the pillowcase. And I have... The Funko, a couple

years back in, I think, 2019, started doing these

things called Funko Sodas. They're another version

of Vinyl Figure, and they came out with a Bedtime

Bear one. The common is just the normal figure.

The exclusive one, or the variant of it, is he's

actually flocked. I don't have that one, but

I have the common one, and I'm like, ah, childhood

memories, gotta love it. Characters was always

fun. It was always interesting. It added another

flavor to the 80s. You know, you've went through

this whole thing. Each actually did it this year

or last year. It was about revisiting Saturday

morning lineups and things like that. And the

cartoon was pretty damn good still, even 40 -some

odd years later. a couple different ways with

the Care Bear Cousins and things like that. But

I think as a toy, the stuffed animal is a classic.

If you're voting on stuffed animals besides the

classic teddy bear, I think Care Bears is probably

right up there as one of the most popular ones.

Rodimus, what do you think? Is it worthy? Of

course it's worthy. Pretty much like any cartoon

that was on at the time, for those of us, we

would watch it. even if it was on you know unless

we were going out or doing something else so

if it was on it's like you turn back between

the different channels and it's like okay don't

necessarily want to watch that want to watch

this okay all right care bears is on whatever

it'll be like the background noise um i like

so it was on i never really like got into it

but you know you have uh you know my wife has

like a care bears uh wallet still so um though

she's a my little pony fan Nice, nice. We're

going to go back to another classic. We're hitting

all the classics right now with Viewmaster, Etch

-A -Sketch, and we're going to do something similar

with number 44. We're going to go back to 1943.

This is a 2001 Toy Hall of Fame inductee, and

this is also kind of a milestone in our countdown

so far because, like I said before we started,

we had three people's number ones that didn't

make the top 100, which is rare in these top

100s, and since then we haven't had any come

up. So 100 through 45, nobody's number one, but

we're going to hit somebody's number one right

here. So apologies to whoever that person is,

but hey, it's in the top 50 at least. Number

44 is Silly Putty. So Silly Putty, classic, fun.

We always did it with the comic strips in the

newspaper. Do those exist anymore? I don't know,

but you got your newspaper and then you put your

Silly Putty over the comic strip and there the

picture was. That was our number one way to use

it. What molds into silly animals and silly shapes?

Silly putty. What bounces like a ball? Silly

putty. What stretches and stretches? Silly putty.

What picks up pictures from a newspaper and makes

them silly? And if you stretch it, even sillier?

Silly putty. Are you sure silly putty can do

all those things? Yes, silly putty is fun. silly

putty comes in a shell shaped like an egg nothing

else is silly putty but uh i do remember playing

with this quite a bit as a as a child so silly

putty number 44 i'm loving it mike what do you

think yeah same thing i remember having a silly

putty over play -doh i would as a kid i preferred

silly putty over play -doh was just too damn

weird for me as a kid very generic uh but yeah

i love silly putty it's on 13 lists one person

had it at number one one person had it at number

Let me see if I can do the math right. Number

seven, I believe, was the other person that had

it in the top ten. So some high rankings for

it, and some other people had it down towards

the other end, 92 or 70s. So where do you think

a good spot for Silly Putty is, Rodimus? I would

say further down on the list. I'm very surprised

it's in the top 50. But not that it's not in

the top 100, not that it's not a worthy toy or

what have you, but like I said, pretty much anyone's

favorite childhood toy deserved to be on the

top 100 list, but I think it's the higher numbers

that brought it up as high as it is. For sure.

Yeah, there was only, let's see, there was 1,

2, 3, 4, 5 people had it in the top 50, 8 people

had it on the other side of the 50 mark. I definitely

voted for it. I think the thing that keeps me

from voting it higher, like some of these folks,

is the limitations of it. I feel like there's

not a ton of things you can do with it. What

it does is cool and it's fun, but I feel like

it doesn't have as much of a replayability. How

often are you going to play with Silly Putty

before you're like, I think I've done everything

this has to offer. For me, it was more about

the How are you going to not distract your parents

on a car trip? You sit there and you play with

the silly. And for the record, I'm the one that

had it at number seven. Thank you very much.

Because again, like we already mentioned in the

previous episodes with Lincoln Logs and now with

Silly Putty and other things, just those toys

stuck out to me more. And like I said in one

of the other episodes, ladies and gentlemen,

in case you don't know, in case this is your

first time, this is the Geekcast Radio Network.

For 14 and a half years, People should know 80s

and 90s rules us, which means that the top of

this countdown is going to be a lot of franchises.

So, yeah. But Silly Putty was awesome. Even though

you're right, it did have a limiting factor.

At least while you were playing with it, it distracted

you enough to where you didn't want to have to,

ooh, shiny. You know, that kind of thing. All

right, let's put another tally in one of our

leaders here. We're going to go back and give

another vote for action figures here at number

43. I'm actually surprised this is in the top

50. I am a big fan of the franchise, a big fan

of the cartoon, a big fan of the reboot of the

cartoon. I have some of the action figures. I

would not put it in the top 50, but that's just

because, like I said, some action figures, I

think, do more to distinguish themselves or stand

out as more unique. That doesn't mean I don't

like them, though. Number 43 is Thundercats.

the toy line of action figures from the Thundercats

series. Half human, half animal. Thundercats,

Mummer and Lion -O, each sold separately. I,

Mummer, want the sword of Gundera. With this

secret power ring, battery not included, you

can make Lion -O's eyes light up. With battlematic

action, you control their swords. The sword is

mine! So 1985, put another tally also in for

LJN. We have not had an LJN toy since number

100 with the quote -unquote wrestling figures,

even though they've had a lot of different companies.

We know that. But we'll say wrestling figures

are LJN, and so are the Thundercats. Like I said,

big fan of the show, big fan of most things franchise

-related. I don't know if the toys necessarily

for me stand out more than some of these other

ones. But top 100 I get. Top 50, maybe not so

much. Mike, what do you think? Cat's Lair was

the cat's meow. That is one of the playsets of

the 80s. Like, yes, the figures were... And let's

face it, folks. Not that we're comparing it to

today's standards, but... I look back on some

of these action figure lines and I'm like, how

did I play with that? And I actually enjoy it.

And Thundercats is one of those because I always

was like, I don't want bendy sort of moments.

That's a whole other... But, like, it just...

I like having... I knew that was going to happen.

But... I liked having the characters, but again,

for me, it was all about Cat's Lair and the Thunder

Tank for the classic toys in the 80s as a kid.

The actual action figures, I was just basically,

literally, rock 'em, sock 'em, robotting them.

That's all I was doing, just smashing them together.

They were larger than the average action figure.

It also is our third toy so far today from the

1980s. And all three of them are the only three

toys we've revealed so far that are not National

Toy Hall of Fame finalists or nominees. So I

don't know what that says. I don't see how Thundercats

could ever get in. Literally, I don't think they

can break that door. Not in the National Toy

Hall of Fame. Don't know if they ever would be.

I think Care Bears had the best chance out of

the three. Rodimus, what do you think? I think

they were more popular as the show itself is

what sold the toys. Because unlike most. you

know toy lines of the 80s thundercats was actually

created first as a cartoon and then they produced

toys based on the cartoon so it was actually

made the opposite way around a lot of people

think that it was actually they made the toys

first like they did with transformers or gi joe

or thundercats or gi joe thundercats or he -man

i mean yeah transformers gi joe and he -man were

toys first thundercats was actually made as a

cartoon first the only time that they you know

that the toys you know created the the characters

in the cartoon was the second season uh berserkers

so that is an interesting thundercats fact but

as far as you know as a toy was it be concerned

they were all right as toys but again it was

you bought the toy because you were a big fan

of the cartoon And I think that's really the

bottom line as to why. And it does deserve a

high spot. It's just that it's not like there

were other toys that were made to be good toys

first. And I think Thundercats were just more

designed to be toys for the characters. I would

probably put Voltron ahead of Thundercats, even

though I was a bigger fan of Thundercats as a

show. That's my point. Absolutely. Alright. Try

not to let the action figures leave them in the

dust. We're going to go back to a board game

here for the first time today. Number 42 came

about in 1974 from Milton Bradley, even though

it's currently owned by Hasbro. It was a National

Toy Hall of Fame finalist. We're going to the

classic game of Connect Four. Kind of a board

game. Kind of a different type of game. Go for

one more. Go for it. Too late, Joe. Connect four.

Go for the fun of connect four. Four in a row

wins. Go for the bottom. And go for the top.

Watch for the block. Forget it. You're stuck.

Go for the glory. Go for the star. Go for it.

I win. Connect four. Go for it. Yeah. Connect

four. It's not really a board, I guess, but connect

four. I think this is a. One that I put on my

list more so because of, in a similar way that

I did for Tic -Tac -Toe, which we saw way back

when that was number 90. I think I did the same

thing for Connect Four because it's one of those

that you don't necessarily need. the actual game

like it it can be adapted and and done in so

many different ways like i'm sure everybody's

seen like the giant like life -size connect fours

where you're dropping the huge things but you

could do it with so many different ways to do

connect four kind of like tic -tac -toe so i

think it's more universal uh more easily played

by a lot of people and and not very many people

have not played a game of connect four so go

to rodimus first on this one in the world of

board games or games like this do you think connect

four stands enough ahead of the other ones to

be on the list I mean, as far as, because, I

mean, if we're pitting the broader strokes of,

like, because, like, obviously I'm going to be

jealous of all the bigger collectors, but I literally

was playing Anette 4 with my son not too long

ago. So, you know, yeah. It's clearly meant to

be, you know, in the Hall of Fame as one of the,

you know, the greatest toys for kids in general.

So, you know, so I'd say definitely. I'm surprised

it's only been a finalist and not actually inducted

in yet, but maybe one day it'll break through,

Mike. Maybe. Yeah, Connect Four always was one

of, it was that game that I've, like when you

mentioned Tic -Tac -Toe in one of the other episodes

when we had that entry. Literally, my first thought

was Connect Four, even though I know it's not

Tic -Tac -Toe. You know what I mean? But that

was where my brain went when you first said Tic

-Tac -Toe. I'm like, oh, Connect Four. Okay.

Yeah, no, absolutely. Definitely top 50 worthy,

I think, because it was always a super fun, interesting

game. And you're right. It isn't a board. It's

more of a battleship board than anything else.

It just doesn't have the briefcase aspect that

Battleship had. True, true. It was also on 14

lists, so it ties Etch -a -Sketch and Twister

as being on the most lists, but that is going

to be short -lived because our number 41 is going

to be on 15 lists, which is the highest so far.

Our number 41 was a 2022 National Toy Hall of

Fame inductee, so just recently. It came about

in 1967. It's also our first toy that was introduced

by Hasbro. We had to get to number 41 before

we got to an actual Hasbro original. Not the

Hasbro company that owns all the other toys we've

talked about, but one that actually was produced

by Hasbro. Before you even say it, I think I

already know what it is, but go ahead. We're

going with the Light Bright. I knew it. Light

Bright from 1967. Had to wait until 2022 to get

in the Hall of Fame. to glow at night smiting

friends shining bright make a sign to say good

night just pop in the colored pegs and follow

the patterns it's easy to make your favorite

pictures and characters or you can always create

your own light pictures light bright light bright

turn on the magic of shining light light bright

been produced and this is also another one that

you can find probably on at times at that target

like retro uh and cap i think they have like

many versions of it maybe or something like that

but i loved the light bright i played the heck

out of light bright i had so many different transformers

and gi joe and he -man and whatever pages and

i played the crap out of this thing and i thought

it was a whole lot of fun my daughter also has

played with now we did we haven't got her a new

one but she has played with uh my wife's light

bright that we that she held on to so she had

a lot of fun with it um i think that'll be something

more that she enjoys as she gets a little bit

older it's hard for like a two or three year

old to get into light bright too much but she

did like looking at the light so i'm happy light

brights in the top 50 it was definitely on my

list uh it didn't make anybody's top 10 but it

did make three people's top 20 um so all over

the place though it was voted like 98 it was

in the i think every set of 10 besides the top

10 had at least one mention of the light bright

so mike what do you think Yeah, I had it at 20.

I probably should have put it a little higher,

but I remember having them, and I remember just

black construction paper was always so interesting

to have to use that. And the funny thing is,

a couple of years ago, a more modern toy company,

now even though they are 25 years old, they did

a Funko Pop version of Light Bright, and it's

awesome. Oh, Lord have mercy. Rodimus, what do

you think? My question is, do you guys have one?

I don't anymore. We both have one from our childhood.

We have not bought a newer version of it yet.

We have a new one for my kids. Have they made

upgrades? Have they done anything different?

There really isn't much of a difference as far

as I'm aware. Yeah, I think that's what it is.

I think the framing might be different and then

we can utilize it differently. They probably

rounded all their corners or something on them

now. What's that? They probably rounded all the

corners. I believe the one that I had was more

of like a box. Oh, yeah. Well, also because the

pegs are a little bit more rounded than I remember.

Right. I think it's a classic. I think it definitely

deserves to be here. I'm shocked that we had

to get to number 41 to see it Hasbro. I told

you guys at the beginning, you're going to be

shocked at some of these toy companies, how little

toys they actually produce themselves. They just

have the name and the reputation and they own

everything now. So, all right, I guess this section

of the countdown episode three here is, is the

episode of action figures because they're making

a statement here. We're going to another one

at number 40. This one, one of our rare 1990s

toys, 1993 from the same company that did Voltron.

We're going to go, Mike, with something that

you'll have to talk about. We're going with the

Power Rangers. Transforming action, Power Rangers.

This is Jordan. It's transforming time. Evil

space aliens are approaching your location. Combine

your weapons. It's your only hope. Karate action,

Power Rangers. Use your hand -to -hand fighting

abilities. Protect the Earth from evil space

aliens. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from Bandai.

Grab the power. That's awesome. That's great.

Yeah, no, Power Rangers has been around for 30

years now. Literally, and again, because this

is what my collection is nowadays, literally

about a month and a half ago, I just bought a

whole bunch of Power Ranger pops from Funko.

But it's one of those things where Power Rangers

was that... It's like everyone forgot about Voltron

until Power Rangers came up, and then they started

comparing the two back then, and even sometimes

nowadays people get the two mixed up. I don't

know how you could do that. I mean, I guess because

Megazord and Dinosaur and whatever and Lions

and all that, but no, Power Rangers was great

back in the day. It's still mostly great today.

I prefer the comics today over the actual show,

but the toys themselves were always so fun. I

did so many interesting things, like there was,

I remember having the Ninja Falcon Zord when

the movie came out, and I remember that there

were versions of the characters where they had,

I think, flip -up heads, if I'm remembering that

right. If I'm not, people, just come at me in

the comments. Radimus, any thoughts on Power

Rangers? I'm laughing because it's quite literally

this past year I got a chance to meet Walter

Jones. I've met Austin St. John. I'm really annoyed

that while I was present, I was unable to meet

Jason David Frank. But again, being like a super

nerd that I am, knowing that we all compared

it to Voltron, yet Voltron actually It's the

other way around, because Super Sentai came first,

and Voltron was kind of inspired by that, or

Gold Lion was. And so there's that with Voltron,

but Power Rangers being such a phenomenon that

it was when it came out in 93 was something else.

For it to beat Ninja Turtles was a big deal.

Yeah, those toys and those experiences and the

original series was just so great. So as of this

recording, the official Power Rangers YouTube

channel has been uploading like mega... Videos

of, like, The Mutant from Season 2, the Season

2 premiere, The Mutiny, The Mutiny Part 1, Part

2, all in one video, White Light Part 1, Part

2, all in one video. And back in, I think it

was 2010 or, no, it would be, I don't know, somewhere

2010, 2011, we actually got a chance to talk

to the late, great Jason David Frank, and that

was one of the best interviews we've ever done.

Done a lot of them in 14 and a half years, but

man, that interview was like, oh god, it was

so good. Power Rangers rules. You should be.

I'm still kicking myself for not getting it.

And he's a Transformers voice actor, too, because

he voiced Cerebros in Titans Return, so it was

like a double whammy kind of thing, and I'm still

kicking myself. I did not get the opportunity

to actually meet him. Cerebros? I thought he

was Emissary. Is that something else? Yeah, it

was Emissary. It was not Cerebros. Made no sense.

I think he did whatever he could. He did the

best that he could because he always poured his

all into every single project he put his hands

to. I just remember that about Jason David Frank.

He was awesome. Yeah, for sure. And I'm still

annoyed now after having watched Dairanger, which

is the Japanese Super Sentai that they used for

the Thunder Zords. They should have changed costumes

when they changed Rangers mid -season too. Yeah,

they should have, but they didn't. That would

have made so much sense if they did it that way,

and it would have worked a hundred times better.

Eh, it's 30 years in the past. But the toys,

though, the toys, like literally, I didn't want

any other part of the Ninja Mega Falcon Zord

from the movie other than the Falcon Zord. I

didn't care about the movie design toys just

like the Transformers movie design toys nowadays.

The Falcon Zord was the only one. Yeah. All right.

Let's move on to another. Another action figure

toy line. Back to back here. We've only had three

toys that were originated from Kenner so far.

That was the starting lineup figures, Silverhawks

and Stretch Armstrong. We're going to have our

fourth here with our number 39, debuted in 1986.

We're talking about the Ghostbusters toy line.

There's something strange in the neighborhood.

So who are you going to call? Ghostbusters! Have

no fear. Venky, Stats, and Spangler are here.

So are these ghosts. They've got ectoplasm. We've

been good. Now what? Stay puffed, Marshmallow

Man. Let's show this pile of dessert who's boss.

Activating Chrono Blaster. We ain't afraid of

no ghost. Peter Venkman, ectoplasm. Stay puffed,

Marshmallow Man. And other figures each sold

separately. Ghostbusters, new from Kenner. Ghostbusters.

I'm surprised that they made this top 50. But

a lot of Ghostbusters fans here. Two of them

had them in the top 10. Two more had them in

the top 20. A couple had them in the top 30.

Mike, what do you think of the Ghostbusters toy

line? I like the Ghostbusters toy line, but other

than Slimer, I don't remember having any. Other

than Slimer and Ecto -1, I do not remember having

any of the Ghostbusters characters. Fair enough.

I had some friends that did. I did not have them

myself. I know they had a cool place that I believe.

The Firehouse, yep. Things like that. Rodimus,

what do you think of Ghostbusters here? I had

quite a few. you know, the main cast and I had

a couple of the different ghosts or what have

you, you know, saw the movies multiple times,

of course, watched the real Ghostbusters with,

uh, you know, with every, every other cartoon

that was out there at the time. And, you know,

I always had to watch the TV edit of the original

1984 film because of course. you know how much

they swear on that so but yeah i wasn't a huge

i wasn't like a mega ghostbusters fan but i was

a big enough ghostbusters fan that like i cared

about the franchise enough so and that's about

it so There we go. We'll have to wait and wage

the debate later once we know which action figure

toy lines are all revealed, if we got the right

order or if they were worthy or not. That'll

be a discussion for the wrap -up show, possibly.

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countdown. We're going to take a quick break.

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toy this one is a classic if at all and i think

if we had more females voting in our list this

possibly would have made it even higher this

is 1963 toy inducted in the toy hall of fame

in 2006 currently now owned by hasbro like so

many toys we're going with the classic easy bake

oven here at number 38 Wait till you see what

I can make. M &M's cakes. They're so fun to do.

M &M's. Easy Bake Oven and M &M's brand sets

hold separately. Light bulb not included. Use

stuff from home. Adult assembly required. So

I definitely voted for this one. It had to be

in the top 100 somewhere. I've never owned one.

I've never played with one. I've never even touched

one. But I know how iconic it is. So Mike, what

do you think of the Easy Bake Oven here at number

38? Pretty much everything you just said. That's

all that needs to be said. Yeah, let's make that

a triple. It was ranked all the way up at number

three for one person. And then three other people

had it in the top 20. So definitely some very

high votes for those that did vote it. And I

think it's definitely worthy of being here in

the top 50. So we're going to go somewhere we

have not gone very often in this countdown with

number 37. And that is the world of electronics,

electronic toys. This one came around in the

1970s. Toy Hall of Fame inductee in 2007. The

classic. Atari. So Atari. here at number 37 joins

the likes of let's see what other we've had xbox

so far is that the it was that the only electronic

toy i think that's the only like video game type

electronic toy that we've had yeah i guess if

you if you consider walkie talkie electronic

that's true that's been about it xbox i want

to say we had one last time and i'm just trying

to look at my list real quick to think of what

it was i can't think we had pinball i guess you

could put pinball in there way, but Atari here

at number 37. Mike, what do you think? Interesting.

I wonder where all the others are going to fall

if they fall on higher. I think I mentioned this

in one of the other episodes. My mom had both

the 2600 and the 7800, and the only game I ever

remember playing on either one of them was Barnstormers.

It's basically you just flying in an old -timey

plane. I don't remember off the top of my head.

I don't know. I couldn't vote for Atari because

we were an Intellivision family, so that's what

I had and grew up with. But Rodimus, what do

you think about Atari? Absolutely deserves to

be in the top 100 at least, at least for being

one of the most popular video game consoles of

its heyday. Definitely played Barnstormer, of

course. Played Space Invaders on it. Played that

version of Donkey Kong and Pac -Man on it. Played

Pitfall. come on how can you have not said you

have played oh that's that's right pitfall hey

it's been it's been 40 years since i played fucking

atari that cheesy uh glitchy sound effect that

it made and you know people told me about adventure

but i never played it but um yeah that's uh that

i always found interesting was uh like people

you know we had an atari we had in television

We had a Commodore 64, so taking it all the way

back there when it comes down to games. I like

Atari. I mean, we have to have something represented

from back there, whether it be Pong or Atari

or Intellivision. Might as well be Atari. That's

the most popular one, I think. At the time frame.

All right, so from one toy inductee to another

one, we're going to go with one that got inducted

in 2013, but is a little bit older than the Atari.

We're not talking about 1972. We're talking about

maybe like, I don't know, the 15th century maybe,

or before. It's hard to kind of trace a date

back to the origins of the game of chess, but

that's what we have here at number 36. Knight

to king three. Pawn to queen four. The pawn?

The knight. So chess. One person's number four.

It was on 13 lists. A lot of people voted for

this one. I did not personally. I guess I think

of toys more for kids and I think of chess as

more for adults. Not necessarily that it is.

I mean, I know there's tons of kids that know

how to play chess and can kick everybody's ass

in it. But I went with another classic game on

my list instead of chess. I love chess. I played

it a lot. But I'm not going to argue whether

it's top 100 worthy. I think it definitely can

be in the conversation. Mike, what do you think?

Yeah, I agree. I always preferred checkers, though,

because it was less stress. Like, you look at

a lot of those chess grandmaster kids, and, I

mean, it's kind of like comparing those to beauty

pageant kids. Those people are going to have

really large scars when they're adults. Yikes.

I like you. I voted for checkers instead of chess,

just when it comes to like, when I think toys,

I think more of checkers, but I prefer to play

chess myself individually. But Rodimus, what

do you think? You're only terrible at chess because

you lack strategy. But I have. A little mega

strong quote there for you. Definitely enjoyed

playing chess. I could definitely agree with

you that it is more of an adult's game. As you

get older, you get wiser and you get better at

strategy, but my uncle and my dad were... very

good at chess and so they would play each other

quite a bit like very much like xavier and magneto

in x -men playing chess with each other like

that's how much that they would every time that

i would go over you know go to my grandmother's

house and my uncle was there would be you know

a chess match between the two of them and then

i would start to learn from them and then easily

get checkmated in like 10 minutes so i do have

a lot of memories playing chess with my family

so absolutely i think it's definitely top 100

worthy of being in the conversation all right

i'm going to give you a list of toys that have

been in three people's top 10 so far that we've

already revealed that would have been lionel

trains that appeared in three people's top 10s

see then we had to wait until we got to lincoln

logs that was in three people's top 10 and thundercats

was actually in three people's top 10 and we're

going to get another one of them right here with

number 35 this has not been inducted or nominated

for the national toy hall of fame but we're going

back to an electronic 1983. Sega. Hey guy, you're

the first serious gamer I've seen all morning.

Check this out, brand new 16 -bit Super Nintendo

with Super Mario World. Wow! What's this one?

Oh, this is a Sonic the Hedgehog from Sega Genesis.

Look at these radical colors, huh? Wow, Sonic's

fast, too. No, over here. I like Genesis, and

it costs a lot less. Wait, kid, that game here...

I'll take Sonic and Genesis. I knew that. Sonic

the Hedgehog. More action, more speed. Sega Genesis.

It's a whole lot more for less. Three people

had this in their top ten. So we've had Xbox,

we've had Atari, and now we have Sega. Mike,

what do you think? I chose poorly. God. If I

could go back to 1986, by 1986 itself, I would

slap him silly. My mom that year said you can

pick one or the other for Christmas. You can't

have them both. And I chose the Sega Master System

over the Nintendo Inter. What the hell was wrong

with me? I know there's a lot of things wrong

with me, but damn it. I'll tell you, the one

reason I remember Sega was because at one point,

my friends and I were big -time fans of wrestling,

and we were big -time fans of the Royal Rumble

Nintendo game. But the Sega version had two characters

that the other version didn't have. So we had

to find someone with a Sega and rent the Sega

version of the Royal Rumble game so we could

play with those two characters that didn't exist

in the other version. I assume it was Nintendo

version. I don't know. think it was the Nintendo

version. That was always the coolest thing about

Nintendo versus Sega back then, was because that's

the way you would get exclusives. Like, you know

how video games today will do an exclusive here

or an exclusive there. Back then, that's how

we did it. Like, the Aladdin version of the Aladdin

game, two versions, Super Nintendo and Genesis,

and there's at least one or two things different

between the two versions. But yeah, man, Sega,

oh boy, Sega. They aren't dreamcasting things

anymore. Rodimus, what do you think of Sega beating

out Atari? A question I have is, is it being

referred to as the Master System, or is it Sega

in general? All Sega. Yeah, because I wonder

if people made their list specifically based

upon their experiences with the Genesis. Probably.

You know, the Master System I don't think was

as popular in the US as it was as the NES was.

I wanted to say the Nintendo, because I'm an

old -school guy, so calling him the Nintendo

is a thing. But the Super Nintendo and the Genesis

had a big -time war, and so there obviously is

that. But with Genesis, it was pretty much you

bought Genesis for Mortal Kombat 1. But then

the Super NES version of Mortal Kombat 2 came

out, and it was much better than the Genesis

version. There was five characters that were

different in the Royal Rumble version. So the

SNES had Ric Flair, Mr. Perfect, Ted DiBiase,

Yokozuna, and Tatanka. The Genesis version had

Hulk Hogan, IRS, Hacksaw, the model Ric Martel,

and Papa Shango. Wow. So yeah. But just for diversity's

sake, we lumped all of PlayStation together,

all of Nintendo together, all of Sega together.

Yeah. I mean, I would put... Sega... I would

put Sega above Atari, but I would put Nintendo

way above them all. As far as an all -encompassing

all -time, I know that there are going to be

Sony fanboys and Microsoft fanboys who are going

to be like, I don't have you. I like to play

video games. Leave it alone. Absolutely. All

right. Continuing our countdown here. We're making

it all the way up to number 34. I'm going to

have to rely on hopefully you guys a little bit

more on this one. Last time on the countdown,

we did have Magic the Gathering, which tied with

Dungeons and Dragons. I guess similar vein here.

Not necessarily like the same type of thing,

but the same type of phenomenon. And obviously

it's still going very strong today. Our number

34 from 1996. not a national toy hall of fame

nominee or finalist but we're talking about pokemon

cards hey guys get out of here you don't want

to play Introducing the Pokemon trading card

game for Game Boy. You can learn all the secrets

and strategies you'll need to become a true Pokemon

master trainer rated E for everyone. A Thunder

Punch combined with the paralyzing attack makes

Electabuzz arguably the best R -Round Pokemon

in the game. Limited edition card inside. Gotta

catch them all. Pokemon cards in general here

on 13 lists. Nobody had it in their top 10, but

a couple in their top 20. Just a lot of people

that voted on it here. What do you think, Mike?

Pokemon cards. 96? Are you sure? The cartoon

started in 93, didn't it? 96? 97. Oh, yeah, that's

right. It was 97 on the card. Okay, yeah. No,

I liked the cartoon. I thought the cartoon was

fun. I never get into the card games because

by that time I was 16, 17, and I just didn't

get into it. And while I love the idea of using

a video game to go out and exercise, I am sorry.

Pokemon, stop. I could not stand the craze that

was Pokemon Go back in 2015, 2016. So many news

stories of people leaning over cliffs to try

to catch this damn thing with their phone. And

I'm like, please, just stop it. But yeah, Pokemon

in general were always really fun. I've never

had one. I've never bought one. I've never collected

them just because it wasn't from my time period,

but I voted for Pokemon cards in my top 100 just

because of how popular they have been for so

long now. We're talking about 25 years now or

something like that. 28, 27, however many years.

Almost 30. They're still on the shelves dominating

the collectors. You can watch people rip sports

cards just as much as you can watch people rip

pokemon cards these days and the values and all

this stuff is crazy so it's just taken on a life

of its own rodimus what do you think as far as

cards are concerned yeah i mean it's obviously

a phenomenon in and of itself from much like

you said like magic the gathering and uh and

dungeons and dragons are You know, I mean, I

think it was propelled even more because of the

anime and, you know, subsequent, I believe, you

know, and of course, the Game Boy games that,

you know, just launched it into a phenomenon

in and of itself. But still, like the people

who are hardcore Pokemon players, like I'm still

I have no idea how to play it like the card game.

But, you know, you can't deny it's it's. straight

but i mean you immediately if you mention pokemon

to anyone who knows anything you know their first

thing that's going to come to mind is pikachu

so it's clear that it has such an impact you

know on society yeah and that's very true about

the the video game pokemon i forgot how popular

all the and i was at target you know working

in the electronics department when those were

all coming out and they were every time a new

color came out or a new version man that was

like as A Zelda game almost, but slightly different.

All right. For number 33, let's give a chance

for the board games to make another tally in

their list. This is a finalist of the National

Toy Hall of Fame, but it hasn't quite cracked

into it yet. This is from 1967 from Milton Bradley,

currently owned by Hasbro. Mike had already mentioned

it once on this countdown. We're talking about

the classic. Man your battle stations. The enemy's

armed for battle. It's our move, sir. Page four.

It's electronic talking battleship. With real

voice command. Real battle sound. He got us,

sir. He's clever. Against a foe or against a

computer. We missed. First to sink his enemy's

fleet. Battleship sunk. What now, sir? Can you

swim now, sir? Battleship and electronic talking

battleship from Milton Bradley. You sunk my battleship.

You sunk my battleship. So number 33. Mike, what

do you think? Oh, man. I always liked electronic

Battleship over regular Battleship because it

was much cooler. Regular Battleship was great

at the time, but when they put electronics in

that thing, it was so much better. Yeah, talking

about reinventing itself, it definitely started

attracting itself to a whole other audience.

I think everybody's played... If you've played

Battleship, it seems like you've also played

that one where you're like... the classic game

where somebody thinks they've like checked every

quadrant and not on the ship. And they're like,

is it on top of the other ship? Like, yeah, it

can only be in one spot. And then the, the highlight,

this is weird, a weird highlight for the nineties.

But for me, it was like, Oh hell no. Riddler

and two face playing battleship in Batman forever.

Rodimus, what do you think of Battleship coming

in here at number 33? Absolutely love the game.

I'm just very surprised it ended up as high as

it did. It deserves to be in the top 100, but

I'm just very surprised about it being as high.

Partially this high because it is our second

of today's section that was somebody's number

one. Yeah, yeah. Again, it's kind of like one

of those things where it's like, love the game,

played a lot of it as a kid, both regular and

electronic. and even saw that crappy movie, but

yeah, it deserves to be in the top 100, but I

don't necessarily think it's... I think it would

have ranked it a little bit lower than that.

I refuse to watch that movie to keep my integrity

intact. They actually say the line, you sunk

my battleship, and the missiles from the aliens

are the pegs. Yeah. It is number 33 partially

because of that one person voting it number one,

but also partially because it's the highest number

of lists that any toy has appeared on. So 16

people voted for Battleship, which is more than

any other toy so far in the countdown. But nobody

else had it in the top 25. So only one person

had it at number one. Then a couple people had

it like 28, 29. And then a lot of people had

it kind of in that middle range. So 16 people

voted on Battleship, which lands it here at number

33. All right. Not to be undone. Action figures

are coming right back and throwing a punch right

back at the board games here at number 32 from

the 1960s. Originally, if you want to kind of

go for the first one, probably by Ideal Toys,

but it's been done by a lot of different companies.

We had Marvel Comics at number 54. We're giving

you DC superhero action figures here at number

32. Coming from the farthest reaches of the universe

to challenge the worst villains on Earth are

the most powerful heroes ever in the Battle of

the Superpowers Collection. Superpowers figures

with power action, each sold separately. They're

so powerfully built. Squeeze them, they've got

power action like Superman. And Batman. Here

comes Hawkman. Watch out for Brainiac's power

action. And each comes with a mini -comic. The

Superpowers Collection. Superman, Batman, Brainiac,

Hawkman, and other figures with power action,

each sold separately. New from Kenner. dominating

marvel here as far as the action figures go at

least mike what do you think i am i'm torn with

this because while i love what mcfarlane and

all of them are doing now with the dc stuff some

of the dc some of the original like dc superpower

stuff from the 80s i had some of those batman

figures and some of them were not great look

i don't need a cloth cape thank you very much

i don't need fabric in my action figures But

I will say that I'm pretty sure my DC section

for Funko outweighs my Marvel section. And while

Marvel Legends was far superior, DC has put out

some really great... Like, any of the animated

series stuff, whether it's Batman the Animated

Series, Superman the Animated Series, Justice

League, Justice League Unleashed... Some of those

Justice League Unleashed... Unlimited figures

are so cool. I remember back in 2010, they put

out the three -pack of Batman, the Joker, and

the Grey Ghost. It was the first time we ever

got an Adam West Grey Ghost figure from BTS,

and they put it out in the Justice League Unlimited

line. I love that action figure. It was so, so

cool. Yeah, no, DC reigns supreme. At least when

it comes to action figures in this countdown.

Rodimus, do you think the DC action figures are

better than the Marvel ones? As action figures?

Hmm, that's a tough call. I mean, nowadays, with,

like, with the Marvel Legends and stuff, but

then again, like, it's a matter of, like, what

hero is your favorite? You know, it's kind of

hard, like, to place that, you know, either one

of them, because they both try to outdo each

other in a way. But, I mean, if we're going for

old -school toys... I mean, you know, I know

you said you don't like cloth in your superhero

figures, but I think that having that with the

Superman and Batman figures just works really

well. You know, having the cape kind of, you

know, flying in the wind as you're having Superman

fly or Batman glide down, I don't necessarily

know. Like, it's weird to place, like, DC above

Marvel as far as toys are concerned, but I think

it's a matter of personal preference. Yeah, absolutely.

Let's go on then to number 31. It seems like

we've had a little run of some electronic toys,

and we're going to go back there with number

31 from the 1970s. We're going to go with just

the generic all -encompassing arcade games, just

arcade games in general, stuff kids love to play.

Mike, what do you think? Ah, yes, arcade games.

There wasn't anything like in the 90s when you

could go to a movie theater and sit in a Star

Wars seat and pick which movie you wanted to

play. That Star Wars trilogy game was amazing.

Six people voted arcade games in the top 25.

Didn't quite make it here at number 31. Close

enough. Man, arcade games. There's whole conventions

for arcade games, man. Like, there's whole, like,

you know, people get, like, the actual machines

and play them and they restore them. You know,

everything from the 70s arcade games to the...

You know, the 80s ones where, like, you had,

like, different multiplayer, like Street Fighter

and Mortal Kombat were born in the arcade. The

multiplayer Konami games, like, you know, Ninja

Turtles and Turtles in Time and Sunset Riders

and The Simpsons. And the X -Men multiplayer

with six players being able to play at once.

You know, to the Data East arcade games, like,

you know, like, Karnov and Bad Dudes on Bad,

you know. Spy Hunter, Final Fight. Gosh, I can

go on and on and on about how many different

arcade games that we would play. You'd go to

an arcade with a pocket full of quarters, and

if you went to a fighting game, you'd find two

people playing. You'd put your quarter up on

the top to... It's your bet. I'm next. I'll beat

you. I bet I can beat you in Killer Instinct.

I bet I can beat you in Mortal Kombat. Yeah,

we didn't live anywhere near an arcade, but we

even in our tiny little town had a pizza place

that we would go to a lot, especially after the

pizza places. You would smell the pizza and hear

the Hadoukens and Shoryukens. Well, they had

like they had a Miss Pac -Man there that got

played by so many people. And you could sit up

there while you were waiting for your pizza to

be made or whatever the case may be and play

Miss Pac -Man. So I remember that being definitely

a fun thing to do as a kid. arcade games number

31 kind of ironic but number 30 it's going to

be another electronic toy this one though not

from the 70s not like atari not like arcade games

we're going to go to another 1991 how about 1994

from a little company known by the name of sony

we're going to go with the playstation in general

playstation all encompassing playstation doesn't

matter if it's one two three six none of that

is xbox PlayStation number 30. Mike, what do

you think? PS9, it's going to be just injected

right into our heads. Remember that old PlayStation

2 commercial when they're like, hey, guess what?

This is the new boy. This is the new thing, and

it's going to just be fed right into your brain.

I wish. But no, PlayStation was groundbreaking

at the time. It was awesome. I've mentioned on

other podcasts recently, Metal Gear Solid and

Bloody Roar 2 were my two go -to games for that,

for PlayStation. I haven't played PlayStation

since PS2 because the controllers and how I have

to play because of cerebral palsy and all that

stuff, but I just like PlayStation more than

the Xbox. I don't know what it is about the Xbox.

Like, just looking at it just as a visual thing,

the Xbox interface just sucks. What do you think

is the order? So we had Xbox in episode one,

and we had Pinball, and now today we've had Atari,

Sega, arcade games, and PlayStation. What do

you think? I don't know if it's right, but I

like it. I would rank it, yeah. I would rank

Sony as far as the PlayStation is concerned.

As a brand, I would rank it higher. I'm sure

that after today's news... that they would rank

sony a little bit lower after the crap that they're

pulling right now where they're saying that your

digital releases are now no longer your property

and now they can delete them yeah which is a

really like a whole nother discussion for another

day but If I were to rank it as far as a console

is concerned, yeah, I definitely would rank it

higher than those companies and even, I mean,

I would say arcade games. I mean, when Mega Man

and Street Fighter, all Capcom and Konami games

all switched over to Sony, you know, you had

to get one, even though Sony wouldn't even be

in the gaming market right now for Nintendo,

but knowing the history on it, but what they

were able to accomplish by Making the DVD market

and the Blu -ray market what it was with PS2

and PS3. Making a lot of good exclusive or gaining

a license for good exclusive titles made the

console worth it. I think that's really the bottom

line is what console had the best exclusives.

It's funny that it's coming up. That's true.

And now it's funny because I mentioned earlier

in this episode about how Nintendo and Sega kind

of did exclusive whatever by having different

versions of the same game. The Sony versus Microsoft...

I forget which Star Wars game it was, but there

was a Star Wars game back in the day where if

you wanted Yoda, you had to get the PlayStation

version, or I forget which one was which, but

you had Yoda as one DLC character, and then you

had Darth Vader as the other DLC character on

the other system. That's what it was! You're

absolutely right. You wanted the GameCube version

because it was Link as a playable character.

Yep, I remember that now. Yeah, but... Good.

Well, PlayStation just... It was groundbreaking

at the time. Yeah. Like, 1994, 1995, Microsoft

wasn't even... Microsoft was kicking their windows

in, kind of thing. And Sony comes out of the

gate, like, you think of Sony, you think of Walkman,

you think of audio, you think of this, that,

and you don't think of video games. Here's a

crazy analogy. Sony was to the video games what

WCW was to the wrestling world. Nintendo was

the kid -friendly one. WWE was the kid -friendly

one. And then all of a sudden, Sony comes along

and it's like, no, we're going to be a little

bit more adult. We're going to be a little bit

more mature with some of our games. Not in recent

years. No, not in recent years. They've gone

over here a ton lately. Only 10 people voted

for PlayStation, but all 10 of them had them

in the top 50. So that's what got it enough points.

Two people had it in the top 10, including one

person had it at number two. So a lot of high

votes for PlayStation. All right, we're going

to go a little bit different direction with our

number 29 here. We're going to go all the way

back to something that was introduced in the

1930s, a National Toy Hall of Fame inductee in

2014. I'm so happy that this made the top 100.

I definitely voted for it. The classic. green

army men you know you saw them in toy story we've

seen them in other things but big time action

is in store who didn't have like the generic

no detail uh army men i had so many of these

that i had like i had the set though some of

them were green some of them were brown some

of them like they had different colors and we

had i had flags that represented different countries

and like so i could do like a whole world war

with my army men but uh i thought they were classic

obviously it's not going to be like your regular

action figures that have so much more detail

and articulation but who didn't play with little

green army men when they were kids mike Maybe

somebody that lived under a rock. Everyone had

them. They're just so universal. And that's the

thing. Back then, you could have a universal

toy like that and not have to worry about, this

one has this articulated piece, or this one has

this feature. It was everybody's all -in, 100

% just done. They were very nondescript in how

they were made, but that was the point, because

you could army, literally, army build with them,

and it was just fun. Rodimus, 15 people voted

for army men. Half of them had it on the top

50, half of them had it in the other, the bottom

50. What do you think is a good placement for

army men? I mean, for being as influential as

it was, I think it's worth. Being in the top

100, I mean, yeah, I guess top 50, because, I

mean, they're so versatile. You know, they could

be used in almost anything. And the only thing

you have to worry about is the bayonets on some

of the rifles on some of the army men. They'll

poke your eye out. Yeah, they'll literally poke

your eye out with one of those things. All right.

We only have room for three more here in the

top 50, but not in the top 25. So this one at

number 28 is going all the way back into the

1800s. I didn't vote for this one because I tried

to cheat and vote for another component of what

you would do when you played with this toy. This

was a 2019 toy inductee into the Hall of Fame.

We're talking about... coloring books so i voted

for crayons instead of coloring books because

i was trying to save spots but uh thank you to

everyone who worked together over the last few

months to help each other out like our fans who

colored this commercial while staying safe at

home beautiful isn't it red i mean pink i mean

teal i mean whatever's going on there Friends,

we've already had a long time ago in the countdown,

but we're getting coloring books here at number

28. My daughter definitely plays with coloring

books all the time, so I get it. It's very classic,

universal. You can have all different franchises

and different themes and different stuff like

that. I know some people are saying books don't

qualify as toys, but as we said in the beginning

of this whole thing, if it's something that occupies

a child's time, we're considering it a toy. So

we're a very loose definition. So Mike, what

do you think of coloring books being here at

number 28? I think it's a little high. I mean,

and this isn't me... Maybe... 48? 47? I don't

know. I mean, I liked coloring books as a kid.

I could never stay inside the lines, unfortunately.

But it's just one of those things where I just

don't... I don't know. I don't think it's...

I mean, yeah, it's under the top 25, which is

good, but... I don't know. Rodimus, what do you

think? I think it's a great learning tool. I

mean, you know, just coloring books in general.

But I mean, I am surprised it is ranked as high

as it is just considering that there are so many

other toys to play with. Like considering coloring

book like a toy. It is in the Hall of Fame. But

it's probably because, you know, someone probably

put it on their list and didn't know where else

to put it. You know? So the National Toy Hall

of Fame considers it a toy. I guess that's our

argument against anybody that thinks it's not

a toy. But one, two, three, four, five, six,

seven, eight people had it in the top 25. So

that was definitely a lot of love there. I didn't

vote for it at all. Like I said, I voted for

crayons in general. And I think they showed up.

I don't know which episode they showed up. Part

1 or Part 2, I think. I don't know. It's Part

4. Crayons were number 74. So crayons were 74.

The last episodes, yep. Very interesting there,

how that all works out. Okay, so now that you

ask, I would switch them. I would put crayons

here over coloring books. I would put coloring

books back at 74 and put crayons here at 28.

There we go. Alright, the debate can continue

on crayons versus coloring books. For number

27, this was also a National Toy Hall of Fame

finalist, another 1980 toy, and another Hasbro

toy. So we got Light Bright, and now we get My

Little Pony. Look, look, look. I've never seen

anything like them before. They say they're good

luck. My Little Pony, Flutter Pony. With wings

that flutter up and down. Beautiful. Magical.

Fantastical. My Little Pony. So obviously probably

helped by the craze of the TV show and things

of that nature, but I think most people in the

80s at least that grew up there had a My Little

Pony toy or had a sister that had a My Little

Pony toy or something of that nature. I didn't

vote for it, but I get it. So My Little Pony

here at number 27. Mike, what do you think? I

only voted for it because I saw several episodes

of the show at the time when I was a kid, but

I never had any of these things. I'm pretty sure

I didn't. I didn't vote for it, and I literally

have some My Little Pony from my childhood out

in the tub. We had the stable. My sister had

one, and I had one. So I had the OG toys. And

I watched the OG cartoon. I have not watched

much of the Friendship is Magic craze, but I

know it's a phenomenon. So maybe maybe aided

by that. But you can still find some like retro

versions of My Little Pony toys on the shelves.

Thanks to that, probably. So, Rodimus, what do

you think? My wife's favorite franchise. There

we go. We still have like a closet full of My

Little Ponies. My wife is looking through and

either giving some to my daughter or looking

to sell some of them just to make room so she

can actually enjoy the ones she likes. She's

seen everything out of My Little Pony. My Little

Pony at number 27. That means there's only one

toy left for today. We're going to get a toy

that has been on more lists than anything so

far in the countdown. 17 lists that this toy

is on. There's actually only... seven or eight

toys that have been that will be on more lists

than this so a ton of love for this one nobody

ranked it i think the highest it got ranked was

like 12 or 13 but it was on 17 lists so that

was enough for that we can probably trace this

one back to i don't know like 3000 bc somewhere

around there but it was a 2003 national toy hall

of fame inductee probably originated in egypt

but there's debate on that we're gonna go mike

you said you like it better than chess checkers

Because at least in checkers you can do double

and triple jumps, damn it. You can't do that

in chess. Yeah, you can. Oh, okay, you can, but

it's not as fun. Then you end up with a seven

-year -old girl in tears. Mike, what do you think

of this one coming in here at 26? I think it's

good. I'm surprised it didn't crack the top 25,

honestly. I think it's a good placement for it,

and I love checkers. It was always so fun. And

what always is so fun is, like Rodimus just mentioned,

it's like when you cream your opponent, it's

like, oh, you bastard. Is that how it goes? Rodimus,

what do you think about checkers? I think it's

an all -time classic that, you know, it's kind

of like a family -free tradition, even for myself.

Just like I said with chess, I would play checkers,

you know, since I was a kid, I would play checkers

with my grandmother. And then, you know, now

my grandparents will play, and I will play checkers

with my daughter. So it's kind of like passing

it on. It's like a game that everybody plays.

So, fun times. Speaking of classic, that's all

we got left, guys, is 25 toys. And I think they're

all going to be classics in at least most people's

books. So it's going to be interesting to see

how that all shakes out, what order they come

in. But real quick, before we do that, we're

going to give you guys an update on where we're

at for some of our stats and categories that

we've been keeping track of. So as of this point,

we have, for companies, we have four toys that

were originated by Parker Brothers. We have 1,

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. from Milton Bradley. We

have two from Hasbro, three from Tyco, two from

Ideal, two from Tonka, three from Waymo, two

from Bandai, two from LJN, and we have one, two,

three, four, five, six from Kenner. So it's a

Kenner versus Milton Bradley show at this point.

We'll have to see what the top 25 holds for that.

From as far as decades go, we added about, let's

see, we added three toys from the 1900s or before.

We added 0 from the 1910s, 0 from the 1920s,

2 from the 1930s, 1 from the 1940s, 1 from the

1950s, 6 from the 1960s, 3 from the 1970s, 6

from the 1980s, 3 from the 1990s, none from the

2000s and ahead of that. So right now the race

looks like we have 15 from the 1900s and before,

we have 15 from the 1980s, and we have 14. From

the 1960s. Mike, who's going to win? I don't

know, but I think the reason why the modern toys

don't even rank at this point is because how,

like we mentioned before, we lumped everything.

Like Transformers, it's everything. All 40 years

of it. It's Masters of the Universe. It's all

40 plus years of it. It's not specific to...

this character for this mold for this, that cause

that would have just made everything way too.

Or maybe it just adds weight to the argument

that a lot of people say that the nothing original

comes out lately because we've only had one toy

that originated in the two thousands or plus

and six from the nineties. So that's interesting.

It's a testament to like how more, how everything

nowadays is just, you know, intellectual property.

Yeah. What's that? Intellectual property, yep.

It's not about trying to make something new.

They're always keeping a franchise alive. And

it kind of goes to show you that maybe we need

more creativity in our toys. So although we've

only had two Hasbro original toys, Hasbro at

this point probably owns about 22 toys that we've

talked about overall. That's how that works.

As far as the categories go, the biggest mentions

for today, we had four electronic toys, six action

figures, four board games, probably about three

craft, what we consider craft toys. So right

now, the race is a two -man race here, like we've

been talking about. Board games, we have 16 toys

that were considered board games so far, 15 action

figures. So action figures is one behind, and

then it's a long way until the third place, which

is eight for wheeled toys. and then seven for

electronic toys, four for stuffed toys, and four

for outside toys, and four for craft toys. Mike,

who's it going to be, board games or action figures?

Action figures, because I don't know. Like you

said, you're the only one that has the final

list currently, so you can reveal it to us and

have us all be shocked, but I know the Geekcast

Radio Network and how we do shit around here,

so I'm fairly certain the action figures are

going to make a good old comeback in the top

25, and every time you're listing off these numbers,

all I can think of is, what about the partridge

in a pear tree? That's right! Rodimus, any thoughts

so far on what you've heard revealed today, or

what you anticipate from when you listen to the

next one? I expect a lot of the bigger names.

I was a little bit surprised that Power Rangers

didn't rank a little higher only because of the

phenomenon that it created. Some of them, I'm

surprised that they ended up being as high as

they were. I thought that they would end up being

lower. I think the top 25 are going to be all

bangers, like really good franchises and properties

and what have you. But that's the thing. They're

going to end up being the long -standing franchises

that have stuck with us for so many decades.

We had a little bit of everything today. Like

I said, we had a new resurgence from the electronic

toys, which we hadn't seen much of with PlayStation,

Sega, Arcade Games, Atari. We had some of those

all -time classics like Viewmaster, Etch -a -Sketch,

and Silly Putty, and Light Bright. The Easy Bake

Oven made an appearance, so definitely some big

ones that have already been knocked out. That's

what happens when you have this top 100 because

there's only so many spots. So the top 25 is

going to be interesting to see the reactions

and the order. This is one that I think most

people, we've had countdowns before where I feel

like it's been easier to predict the top, like

our animated series list. I think everybody knew

that once we got, once we were getting there,

some of those types of things. I think this one's

going to be a little tricky for people to figure

out what number one is going to be. So Mike,

take it away. Let's get out of here. We'll be

back with much more fun. Now don't you change

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We talk TV. We talk... Hello, Julie, what the

heck are you doing? Trying to make our spot sound

more exciting by adding explosions. Yeah, I'm

pretty sure you could have got the point across

with sound effects, not the real thing. Car,

car. Download the show on iTunes or at simplisticreviews

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will cover that. No, they won't. No, they probably

won't. Heidi, Heidi, Heidi, ho! Break is over,

here's the show! All right, thank you for joining

us here on the Top 100 Boys Countdown. I don't

know why that script says Transformers. That

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