Toy review videos

Doctor DooM · 18-06-2010 3:06pm #1

You may or may not be aware but there is a huge youtube community of people doing toy reviews, of hugely varying quality.

I'm subbed to quite a few so I thought I would post ones I find interesting/ high quality.

First up we have cobra commmander tfw of the moonbase 2 forum/ podcast, probably one of the more famous (and funny) Transformers/ GI Joe heads. Here he's reviewing the Mask Manta Ray toy. This gent likes using the odd bit of special effects for humour in his vids.

These vids might be boring to some but if you remember the toys, the nostalgia is epic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJnmXn0J6UQ

Doctor DooM · 20-06-2010 12:15pm

Popculture network, get advance figures from alot of companies (usually Mattel) but present information in a very dry manner.

Also, Pixel Dan's reviews can be seem to be a bit fake, although I do think he's genuinely enthusiastic after watching some more of his stuff.

Here's a review of the new San Diego Comic Con DCUC plastic man figure- both the figure itse'f and the box are really interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9mtm-k2Ros

stone roses · 21-06-2010 9:29pm

hi yes i watch these toy reviews a lot, very popular vintage toy collecting today and getting bigger buy the looks of things, i have a collection of vintage 70s and 80s toy collectables myself , love it :-)

cheers

mar-z · 21-06-2010 9:31pm

Doctor DooM wrote: »

These vids might be boring to some but if you remember the toys, the nostalgia is epic.

I had the Mask Manta Ray. Brilliant toy with lasting appeal to kids who wouldn't know what MASK is. I dug it out last year from my attic for my cousins son to play with and he loved it so much I had to give it to him (minus ejection seat which is lost forever).

I can see why you said the video might be boring to some, but I ended up watching parts of it a 2nd time

r3nu4l · 22-06-2010 10:18am

Wow, that's great!! I never had any MASK toys but my neighbour had them all so we used to play with his and he played with our Star Wars toys

Must get to YouTube and start looking for reviews

Doctor DooM · 22-06-2010 10:21am

If people like them I'll keep posting them, I have ALOT of toy subs but most of them mightn't be so interesting

You don't see enough on Mask, for such a popular and well designed line. I really don't know why it hasn't been revived (well actually I think I do, due to some legal gymnastics Hasbro owns the rights to Mask, and I would say they will not release them for the same reason they're not releasing gobots- they don't want to water down their big "transforming vehicle" marke .)

Doctor DooM · 22-06-2010 10:33am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VGCwCekRBA

Seeing as we were just talking about Starcom.

Doctor DooM · 22-06-2010 2:26pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjgu1qulER0

SeanxLong reviewing the original Castle Grayskull.

Here's an example of a reviewer I don't like. I don't find his voice interesting at all nor his jokes funny. He does show nice detail though.

Sean long is a youtube partner and he actually treis to make a living from his video reviews (which was the source of some scandal way back when in the transformers community.)