(S2 E9) Tour my Fisher Price Adventure People Collection

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6 ай бұрын

In this episode of #MrSteviesTallToyTales, we explore my #adventurepeople collection, dig into the history of the toy line and unearth the origins of the 3.75” scale in #actionfigures. So grab your fedora, we’re about to go on an ADVENTURE!

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@Fore-Four-Dee-Too 5 ай бұрын

Adventure Peoplw are the best of all time. Nearly indestructible and kids today love them as much as we did almost 50 years ago.

@ken_r_action_figures7932 5 ай бұрын

This was great Steve, as a 51 year old collector I had Adventure People and Micronauts before I fell in love with Star Wars figures in 1978. This video was a great walk down memory lane and I really enjoyed it.

@themrstevie18 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for tuning in!

@PSNmemoryismisery 4 ай бұрын

these were by far my favorite toys as a kid.I had a lot of these. Still have a few.

@LeftCoastGraphics 6 ай бұрын

Adventure People were 100% my introduction to 3.75" action figures. #LongLiveRetro

@ryanwoodforde4729 6 ай бұрын

Sea Explorer was one of my favourites too, but weirdly I forgot all about it until I saw your video. Thanks for unleashing all those great memories!

@perseusjoppa426 2 ай бұрын

I never had the dolphin but I did have (and still have) the octopus and the mighty shark, both equally fantastic. Along with the Tonkas, the Adventure People sets, vehicles and figures by Fisher-Price are the best toys ever.

@AphonsoLuis 6 ай бұрын

Fantastic episode. I love the way you narrate the episodes. I'm a fan! And I bet that the younger generations are learning a lot from what you are leaving here. Just a few days ago I saw people who were very surprised by an explanation of the red marks that x-wings have on their wings and what they mean.

@themrstevie18 6 ай бұрын

Greatly appreciate the encouragement. Cheers!

@dandunham1750 6 ай бұрын

Loved my Adventure People as a kid. Still have a few.

@orangemanok5800 5 ай бұрын

The wholesome and responsible family down the street had loads of Adventure People. The deep sea diver and gummy octopus were my favorite. Fisher Price did an amazing job on this line and would have done something special had they taken on the Star Wars license.

@Shogunwario 5 ай бұрын

The dolphin would fill with water and i would spray it real hard out the top, and that yellow underwater vehicle was great memories.

@thesecretcompartment 5 ай бұрын

One of my all time fave toy lines and a wonderfully produced episode to boot! Great stuff, Steve!

@themrstevie18 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@T-RavisComics 6 ай бұрын

Loved loved loved my Adventure People as a kid. Had the helicopter and the boat for sure. After Star Wars came out adventure people went on missions with them 😂 isn’t that ironic after knowing

@JohnHood 6 ай бұрын

Adventure People, Micronauts… All the feels!

@1teamski 5 ай бұрын

These were a staple in my family back in the day!

@Th3Xp3rt 5 ай бұрын

I had so many more of these than I knew. You reminded me of the diver and octopus, Clawtron, X-ray man and a few more today.

@efromhb 6 ай бұрын

So much fun! I still have some micronauts and adventure people figures and sets.

@hoppyscreations 6 ай бұрын

Bringing so many memory of the 70’s back,

@dial3 5 ай бұрын

Such an epic line of toys! It’s really interesting how different your favourites are from mine. My Mom kept these for me!!!?? #1 most played with is now gone, the yellow diving bell with cage and octopus. #2 turbo hawk. #3 trail boss. As an adult I discovered the alpha star zx such an epic toy!!!👍🏻

@PozerAdultRacingTeam 5 ай бұрын

My favorite is Motorcycle Racing Team with side car. The green one you have on shelf.

@BringToysToWork 6 ай бұрын

Another stellar episode! I remember having around 12-15 of these when I was a kid. I didn’t know how to play with them so I pretended they were a society of spies on different undercover missions!

@jayboystoys 5 ай бұрын

The Adventure People we’re well loved in my childhood. The Deep Sea Diver with his octopus and the sea explorer and the North Woods Explorer and his canoe all went on many adventures with me and blended right into Kenner’s release of the 3.75” Star Wars figures.

@classictoysuk6412 6 ай бұрын

Great figures, plus the octopus got to battle Action Force!

@themrstevie18 6 ай бұрын

Of course! I’m sure my AF diver had a few entanglements with the Octo 🤣

@FantamanUK 6 ай бұрын

I had some Adventure People as a small lad, but don't really remember them or what I had. Then at the 3 minute 43 seconds point in this video the Alpha Probe pops up and instantly it came flooding back to me. I don't ever remember getting it new, but I remember having that and those three buttons for the sounds (toys that made noises clearly had a huge imapct on me as a child). I remember using it with my Star Wars figures so it was posible it was picked up at a jumble sale or given to me by a friend or relative. Another superb, interesting and fun video with some huge doses of nostalgia. Great to see you back on the Star Wars team at Hasbro too, congratulations dude!

@MartinFutter70 6 ай бұрын

Such a great toy line, and I have far too many stories to tell on these... Still have two of those sleeping bags, motorbike and side car, Clawatron, a big blue strike jet, various figures and two daredevil parachutists... those rare space figures must be so rare I've never seen those before? Right, I'm now buggering off!

@matthewmartin3563 6 ай бұрын

Awsom line

@red_dog_5 6 ай бұрын

Phenomenal research on this Sir fantastic 😊

@themrstevie18 6 ай бұрын

Thanks a ton

@MarkCerbo 5 ай бұрын

Mattel (now owners of the Fisher-Price brand) should reissue these Adventure People toyline. The Adult Market (some who own the toys in their childhood) would definitely pick this up and pass it on to their kids. They’re great for outdoor Toy Photography too.

@niluo5749 6 ай бұрын

they were the best support teams for my Star Wars figures and like Twiki hung around in there world

@ToysOfTheJedi 6 ай бұрын

Really enjoying the presentation style Steve, already a must watch when you drop a new episode

@themrstevie18 6 ай бұрын

Most kind. Thank you so much. 😊

@SprocketGames 5 ай бұрын

Very well done video! Thank you. Such a great toy line.

@twitchgrass3849 6 ай бұрын

My older brother and I had a bunch of those adventure sets! Lotta baths. We moved from our house in 1984 and the folks who bought it called my parents to say they pulled a fisher price kayak out of the bath drain!

@bretthewitt3890 5 ай бұрын

Wow! Your stuff is in great shape! I have a collection too, but am missing a couple. There are a bunch of variants other than the two you mentioned. Yes, they are incredibly well built. Legend has it the president of FP would throw prototype toys off the roof and if they broke, they wouldnt be made. I got a few in bulk purchases that are MANGELED, but the joints still work perfectly. The vehichles are really tough too....that is amzingly good plastic! They really put Star Wars figures to shame. Best toys ever made.

@bretthewitt3890 5 ай бұрын

Sorry, forgot to mention, each figure has a name, which is pretty cool.

@dezt5108 6 ай бұрын

Great episode/history lesson! I can vividly remember playing with the off road motorbike and sidecar, but I'd totally forgotten about the deep sea diver and the Octopus!!

@themrstevie18 6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@mujone 5 ай бұрын

Awesome content and history of the toy lines that we loved growing up with. Great job keep up the great videos on your channel brother. Looking forward to watching more of them.

@Tr0nzoid 6 ай бұрын

If I would have been playing GI Joe sooner, I might have wanted some of these to serve as regular people and vehicles. Maybe. I did incorporate the Alpha Probe into my Star Wars play, mostly the smaller shuttle that came with it.

@Dav08888 6 ай бұрын

Very enjoyable episode, thanks Steve

@TheBoglin 6 ай бұрын

I was born at the tail end of 1979 so I didn't have alot of Adventure People, but I did have the Deep Sea Diver set and loved it. Great toy line and I'd love to see Fisher-Price make it again today but exactly how they did back then.

@red_dog_5 6 ай бұрын

Watching this I just realized I had that silver spaceship thingy. Fantastic. They were really well made. I remember mine still to this days still intact. Wonderful episode. Thank you!

@themrstevie18 6 ай бұрын

Right on

@BadflipKC 5 ай бұрын

Sadly, my Sea Explorer People were eaten many times while waterskiing, by my dastardly Ideal Jaws game shark. Thanks, Jaws 2!

@Retrotoyguysi 5 ай бұрын

Awesome video sir! Adventure People were my first toys too. Green motorbike with side car? Yes! Diver? Yes! Weird scary blue alien dude in black and silver space suit? Yes yes yes! Liked and subscribed 😊

@isaacvalladares9159 5 ай бұрын

What a great line of toys, still have a couple of figures and the little green ranger vehicle.

@destructarr 5 ай бұрын

I always loved The Adventure People. I had them all when I was a kid, up to a certain year anyway. I still have them. Darth Vader was a monster who attacked The Adventure People and Ranger Scott and the others had to stop him. I think the dog's name is Scout.

@themrstevie18 5 ай бұрын

Scout! 🙌🏻

@TwesomE 6 ай бұрын

I believe that after japan that made micro man with more articulation points in those small figurines,the smaller joes we had from the 80s was because USA took inspiration from japan! Also helped allot to create much bigger sets for the hero characters and all! Also fisher price is one of the best mattel departments when it comes to kids toys!

@benjaminwigley4132 5 ай бұрын

i used the boat and scuba in the pool with the jaws shark from the game... it was great fun in 1978!

@galenkelly4859 5 ай бұрын

Jabba's autographed sail barge is the stuff that dreams are made of

@TimHayes 5 ай бұрын

You've got some cool action figure collectibles behind you! I love Star Wars and DC and Marvel Comics Superheroes as well as the Fisher Price Adventure People! I gave you a sub! I heard your name mentioned recently on one of the ZSR livestreams while they were talking about Hasbro and Star Wars toys. Not sure if it was Tez Rowlands(Rowlands Reviews) or Marc Shabby(The Shabby Geek) or Matt(Zero Toy Hunter) that mentioned you, but one of those 3 mentioned you by name.

@markaes 5 ай бұрын

I love the adventure people. Especially the Alpha/space sets. They were incredibly durable and great for outdoor play. I've still got most of mine and we still play with them all the time. My son uses the sea explorer/sea creatures and divers in our hot tub and a lot of my other trucks and stuff are in the sandbox right now. I should probably take better care of them, but they are toys afterall...

@markaes 5 ай бұрын

Imaginext was a pretty good successor to the adventure people with the early lines (airplanes, sea explorers, space, rescue) but its been going downhill with too much DC and licensed stuff...

@themrstevie18 5 ай бұрын

Oh how cool would the sea explorer be in the wild waters of the boiling ‘hot tub’ ocean at the ends of the earth!?!?! Wicked! 🙌🏻

@galenkelly4859 5 ай бұрын

My dolphin completely rotted apart. Great video. It's my childhood

@PozerAdultRacingTeam 5 ай бұрын

I had many Adventure People. Used them with Star Wars, GI Joe, whoever I had at the moment.

@francoisregis2155 5 ай бұрын

Adventure people where so fun to play with I still have them at my parents basement I have the police helicopter and fire truck It sure brought me lots of fun and thanks for your video who brought me nostaligia. I wonder if I should go pick them up and put them in my toy collection

@themrstevie18 5 ай бұрын

Your answer is, YES! 🙌🏻

@francoisregis2155 5 ай бұрын

Hehe there is a big chance this week or this week end I will haul them 😃

@snakebrown3755 5 ай бұрын

Loved adventure people when I was a kid. That black, robotic guy at 4:50 is one of my all time favorite action figures. Always thought that positioning of the left arm on these guys was a really weird design choice, though.

@themrstevie18 5 ай бұрын

I believe the raised left arm was to always have one hand available for steering wheels

@graf666orlok 5 ай бұрын

LOVED THESE!!! The star ship and diver and octopus were my favorites! The greatest detail of the deep sea diver was looking into the helmet and seeing the divers head was wearing a stocking cap like Jacques Cousteau did. They could have so easily cheaped out and just had the diving helmet but that little extra detail made it so cool. . I can still hear the electronic sounds of the star ship.

@thetoycave82 5 ай бұрын

My kids still play with a Sea Explorer in the bath that wasn't complete enough for my collection. These things are invincible.

@galenkelly4859 5 ай бұрын

I would love a 6 inch modern version of a few of those figures

@stumon257 5 ай бұрын

Never owned these, but looks like a really good toy line.

@galenkelly4859 5 ай бұрын

The gorilla played a large part in all of my figures adventures. He was a gorilla in gijoe, he was a talking alien in star wars . The list this on

@themrstevie18 5 ай бұрын

It’s an awesome fig. Especially the expression

@scottkrasowski745 4 ай бұрын

I really liked the motorbike rider. Was his name "Dean"? Anyway, his bendable knees were so cool. As Kenner's Star Wars figure line kept moving forward I wished the characters had bendable knees and elbows. In 1982 Hasbro did that with their 3.75-inch GI Joe figures.

@deathmetalrob5563 6 ай бұрын

All right I'll bugger off and see next week. This has been fun. Are you and A.I. creations made just for me?

@themrstevie18 6 ай бұрын

Glad you’re enjoying some tall toy tales. Thanks for joining in🙌🏻

@Jordan__Sloan 5 ай бұрын

Think how much toxic plastic we ingested chewing on our toys!

@Justiceforcliffjumper 5 ай бұрын

Did you know that the original Kenner Star Wars figures originally had a base body that had the same body as the adventure people?

@themrstevie18 5 ай бұрын

You’re right! Kenner used AP for prototypes to pitch the toy line back to LFL. I have a custom Ben Kenobi which you can see in an earlier Star Wars episode of TTT

@nooctip 5 ай бұрын

How high can it go? How high can you toss it duh. Hey I had that tv truck.

@chenglee1 5 ай бұрын

imaginext fp-636 same design

@themrstevie18 5 ай бұрын

I had not seen this! Looks cool (even with fried egg eyes) - thanks for spotting

@adamwest3266 6 ай бұрын

Dude ... are you even old enough (age range of 5-10) to have had these in 1975 when they were released? Or did you have these much later in the 1980's? So so many of you KZfaqrs are disingenuus when recalling your childhoods by pretending as though you were the first at something or were around when something was popluar, or by saying you had some toy as a kid, when most of the time it would've been impossible because you weren't even born yet. The truth being, you probably had the toys, but they were hand me downs from older siblings or had aquired them from ... somewhere much much later than when the toys were popular. I guess many youtubers do this for imagined cool points. Sad really. I'm in my mid 50's and I did have two of these toys when they were new and hitting the shelves at my Lionel Playworld. Millennials are really bad about this.

@themrstevie18 6 ай бұрын

I turn 51 in a month. Got my sea explorer in 1976 when it was released (so my mum tells me) so yep. Old enough.

@adamwest3266 6 ай бұрын

@@themrstevie18 So you were 3 years old in 1976. Got it. Not trying to rail on you man, but this is still a stretch because of how you talked about it in this video. See what I'm saying here? Us humans stretch the truth or leave out bits of the truth (being disingenuous) to place our mark on certain events in history thinking that it will ad legitimacy (street cred?) to their stories, when in fact, when called out and the truth is revealed, the story is not quite what it was purported to be. I would have said; "When I was three years old in 1976, my mum bought the diver for me blah blah blah......" I know this sounds petty ... and it is really, but true honesty in any regard ads credibility to anything we do. Again, not trying to be mean, but anytime you see someone making comments and they do not appear old enough to back up their stories legitimacy, you have question it. You won't be the coolest guy in the room, but that doesn't matter. Take care. Nice collection btw.

@Tr0nzoid 6 ай бұрын

Not to say this man looks "old," but he clearly is not a millennial.

@francoisregis2155 5 ай бұрын

Turning 52 very soon and I remember getting the police helicopter and fire truck plus many small sets like construction workers, motorcycle with sidecar, the zodiac with divers they are all at my parents home and Im thinking to bring them with my other toys collections

@adamwest3266 5 ай бұрын

@@Tr0nzoid I knew he wasn't a millennial either, but I didn't think that he was in his middle 50's or older, so ... I guess that could be a compliment. :) Although, there are some guys I've met in the age range from 38 to 48 that look like they're 68.