Message from @Spectre
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Cool, I try that out
Zartan's gimmick was criminally underused in toys.
Besides him and his siblings, and much later a couple of Dreadnok vehicles, I don't know of any other toys that really used it.
Thermal changing plastic, yes, but UV is really ignored.
I feel like his ability was a bit to hard to portray with toys, at the time
But yeah they could have done better
They never went back to it.
Modern Zartans don't feature it at all. They just come with clip-on masks.
I had a Batman like that as a kid
It was a Bruce Wayne figure that change into Batman
Yep!
He just had a clip on suit
Clip on gloves and boots, cowl (with cape attached) slid over his head
Yeah, I had that one as parts once.
I had a Spider-Man that could “crawl all by himself!” The gimmick was achieved by making his hands and feet out of a sticky rubber
You were supposed to throw him at the wall then watch him “crawl down”
Oh, *those*. Yeah, wall crawlers were big for about a year.
Those, and the sticky hands things.
Slime! Slime was huge in the 80s then came back in the 2000s
Oh yeah! I never understood the appeal, though.
LOL
I took a slime-oozing Jabba out of the package recently, the slime was like a chunk of green flesh.
Not hard, but definitely not oozy.
Ew
Slime was fun to play with, but once it got boring it was a pain to clean up
I'm still in the middle of my first full move in thirty years. It's taking forever, and I'm finding all sorts of stuff.
...And I'm wandering off topic again.
I’ve moved so many times stuff goes missing all the time
Small stuff and big stuff
I moved constantly as a kid. Lost almost everything every time, too.
I had a framed Spider-Man 2 poster that actually came from the movie theater so it was huge, and it just disappeared
Now I'm something of a hoarder.
It was this poster
Nice! Pity you lost it.
I’m only a hoarder when it comes to stuff I find really nostalgic
Which can be quite a few things sometimes
But it’s worn off over the years
I hang onto stuff to use later, or because after the Transformers thing I refuse to sell something for yard sale prices.
I'm building a hardened bunker out of an old milk crate right now, and kitbashing a broken X-Wing and Cloud car into a heavy fighter.