The idea of Disney owning everything reminds me of Demolition Man where every restaurant is Taco Bell.

@akildukes7499

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody new how prophetic Demolition Man was back in the day.

@thetexasinstrumentsmassacre

4 жыл бұрын

RIP to all the brave soldiers we lost during the Franchise Wars 🙏🏻

@PaulDozierZZoMBiE13

4 жыл бұрын

I wish you joy joy feelings! Be well.

@Iamgoldygramz

4 жыл бұрын

My kids shake there head in disbelief when I say with a straight face Disney owns everything they love. Exaggerated? Yeah...but kinda true

@mightyfilm

4 жыл бұрын

The horrific thing is, Universal was thiiiiiis close to buying Disney at some point. So, technically accurate.

Hey, for a poor kid raised by a single mom these were pretty cool. I had several figures, even some laser lights. I loved them dearly even though I knew He-Man was better and that's what kids at school played with. I remember bringing them to school and other boys laughing asking "what is that crap". That "crap" was what my mom could afford when my dad wasn't around anymore. I still have Blackstar and a throbbit to remember those times.

@RamManNo1

4 жыл бұрын

Tobias Vosh The jokes on them. Those Blackstar figures are worth a lot more than most He-man figures now!

@RobCamp-rmc_0

4 жыл бұрын

Just like with Go-Bots and the “even lower-tier knockoffs” like Convertors, all of this stuff is rad as hell and eff the haters. I’m rapidly becoming a “knockoff-but-not-really-knockoff” advocate.

@RamManNo1

4 жыл бұрын

Rob Camp absolutely! I got the 10 pack box set of Zybots for Christmas one year. Wish I still had those!

@RobCamp-rmc_0

4 жыл бұрын

RamManNo1 oh damn, Zybots! That’s a name I haven’t heard in centuries, looks like there’s another rabbit hole I’ve gotta explore...

@butterflykatana

4 жыл бұрын

@Tobias Vosh that is so cool you still managed to hold on to them, sadly I can not say the same for my Blackstar.

The only thing missing from Blackstar is an origin story episode of who he was, before he was pulled into that black hole, and landed on Sagar. Every series and/or cartoon series should have an origin story episode!

The toy industry refer to you ripping off another companies product as, "Parallel Marketing".

@stefanocampelli2694

4 жыл бұрын

There are few certain things in this world, but one of them is that if you scroll down KZread comments long enough you will find one from Larry Bundy Jr...

@saulcontreras313

4 жыл бұрын

Hello you

As enjoyable as shows like He Man, Thundarr, and Blackstar are, they would never have existed without the original Sword and Sorcery character Conan The Barbarian.

@lipstickzombie4981

4 жыл бұрын

And Conan got a cartoon later than those 3.

@Paulafan5

4 жыл бұрын

He-Man was originally Conan toys, but the movie was r-rated so they had to think of a new use for those designs.

@cabronmalisimo

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, Conan is the original Sword & Sorcery character, but John Carter and the Sword & Planet subgenre came just a little bit earlier...

@mr7oclock346

4 жыл бұрын

I'll have to check that out. I'm currently reading Robert E Howard's complete works of Conan

@cabronmalisimo

4 жыл бұрын

@@mr7oclock346 Nice...!

As a Black man myself, I always kind of cringed at those black heroes named "Black (_____)" . It's like, is being black one of his super powers or something? LOL!

@scottandrewhutchins

4 жыл бұрын

I'm waiting for "Black Tarzan" because white guys who master the jungle are so racist... ;)

@RexxReviews

4 жыл бұрын

Well, "Panther" would seem like a weird superhero name by itself and Pink Panter was already taken.

@Sinsightful

4 жыл бұрын

I've always pictured Blackstar as Mexican.....no one else? Yeh, black astronaut whisked away to another planet and called Blackstar would have been a bit much even in the 80s.

@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly I thought he looked either Spanish or First National.

@SecretGalaxyTV

4 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine the inverse? How terrible that would be? "White Spider-Man", "White Wolverine." "White Batman." Like WTF.

Good job Greg with the "Sega" inserts, I kept hoping Dan said the planet name over and over again because every time was funnier than the last 😀

@SecretGalaxyTV

4 жыл бұрын

Whenever we plan a video we follow a specific plan: 1. Come up with 1 joke. 2. Hit that joke as many times as possible.

@jeanemlicar

Жыл бұрын

Any chance you could make a video based on the live action Superboy TV series which starred John Hayne Newton and later on Gerald Christopher?​@@SecretGalaxyTV

I'm really digging Dan's Blackstar hair in this episode. This is the type of commitment to detail I like. Let that man mane flow Mr. Larson!

@Paaspopstimpy

3 жыл бұрын

He's beginning to look like Paul King. Well, love & pride, I guess...

I remember being so mad as a kid when I would wake up too late on Saturday and miss this show.

@internethandler5462

4 жыл бұрын

Dude, I was up at 5am every Saturday to was all my shows. Battle of the Planets and Superfriends. I think The Fonz and Lavern and Sherly had a cartoon as well.

@ronnellsykes5648

4 жыл бұрын

@@internethandler5462 lol! Laverne and Shirley did have a show...they were in the Army! Gary Coleman from Different Strokes had a show too!

@russellharrell2747

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was up by at least 6am ok Saturday’s, maybe earlier sometimes, that’s how I got to see Terrahawks, the New Zoo Review, and other random stuff.

@TheSickNeeds

3 жыл бұрын

what time was this on where you were at? I feel like i always randomly lucked into it on like a sunday afternoon...i feel ,like it had no set schedule where i live. That made it pretty special to catch an episode.

@ronnellsykes5648

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSickNeeds I was in St.louis, MO, it came on @ 6:00 or 6:30am Saturdays.

Okay, but no joke, that fish idea seems like it has some legs to stand on.

@CJ-ef4tg

4 жыл бұрын

Neptul, in the figures assortment. He's the fish guy standing there. (Lame joke attempt; I'm not actually so Drax-literal.)

@macariogutierrez9224

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@IsiahTomas

4 жыл бұрын

I think it speaks to my current mental state that I rewatched this particular bit about half a dozen times thinking there really is a cartoon with a time travelling fish weilding a sword before it hit me. Carry on.

@Dargonhuman

3 жыл бұрын

It's a good thing this is Toy Galaxy and not Business Blaze, cause that's worthy of an epic Simon Whistler "Ba dam bum tissssssssss!"

@ShadowZero1980

2 жыл бұрын

Fish figure reminded me of The Slayers (anime)...

I appreciate Blackstar as I do Conan, Thundarr and He-man. Each of these shows had their own charm and attraction and I liked watching each of these shows when they did appear on screen.

I tried watching the cartoon after picking up Blackstar and his trusty dragon steed.....but hot DAMN it's god awful. Definitely better left in your memories.

@ShinSeikiEvan

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't grow up with it. I tried watching it a few years ago and I couldn't understand what the hell was going on. The characters were totally flat with no personality. I guess I understand now that the writers weren't allowed the freedom to do anything due to network censorship.

@bcdkp

4 жыл бұрын

They neutered the hell out of out. I think we were just happy to watch cartoons to sit and watch it.

@nobodyinparticular9640

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShinSeikiEvan I mean, bland/flat characters and a story that goes nowhere is a staple of cartoons made only to sell crap. Oh, and most of very young kids cartoons too

@ShinSeikiEvan

4 жыл бұрын

@@nobodyinparticular9640 Right. A lot of cartoons from that era were like this. But there were ones that were actually good cartoons despite being toy commercials. Those are the ones that people still remember and talk about.

@souljastation5463

4 жыл бұрын

@@nobodyinparticular9640 Gundam was made to sell crap robots, the quality of cartoons made for selling crap can vary wildly.

Remembered Blackstar from the 1980s. It was a fairly good show. I remember John Blackstar, Clone the shapeshifter, Mara the sorceress & the Overlord. The last episode had Blackstar's girlfriend finding him and heading back to Earth, requesting the support of the 'entire fleet' to help liberate Sagar.

All this time I thought Black Star was Mos Def and Talib Kweli, the best alliance in hip hop. Wayohh.

Knowing what I know now about Blackstar thanks to you, this show is now a bit cooler and has so much potential in terms of world/myth making

@TwitchWasHere

4 жыл бұрын

It's on my to-do list!

Ah good memories of good saturday morning cartoons and a bowl of cereal 😁

@justafanofnerdculture7602

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Sir! There was nothing like Saturday mornings, back in the day.

@sith7183

4 жыл бұрын

Simpler Times

@kal0247

4 жыл бұрын

@@sith7183 Indeed they were.

@CJ-ef4tg

4 жыл бұрын

Wait..... ONE bowl?! The attempt to binge as many bowls as possible, hasty refills between commercials!! The worst side effect of, without question, being parental ire.

@residentrump3271

2 жыл бұрын

Saturday mornings called for pancakes with the cartoons! Dungeons and Dragons, Mighty Orbots and pancakes? Can you say total bliss?

I introduced my daughter to this show and she absolutely loves it!

That NTSC/PAL refrence was classic. Lol 😄

I love Blackstar! I bought that DVD of the entire series back in late '18. I also really enjoyed those figures, back in the day. I hadn't seen the commercial for the figures since it first aired, so thank you for that. This channel is one of the reasons why I love KZread so much! Awesome video, as usual.

@residentrump3271

2 жыл бұрын

KZread is great for reliving long lost properties. Too bad racism runs rampant here

I cannot get enough of this KZread channel!! I just discovered it last week and, as an '80s kid, I'm in too deep now. Haha!

If there was some kind of website awards for running gags, this show would sweep the category every year. 3 times a year in fact, that way it's yet another running gag.

I loved this show as a kid. Thanks for reviewing it. Hardly anyone I talked to remembers it. Glad to know I'm not the only one that liked it.

I had the Blackstar and the Dragon toy when I was little. I could have sworn that the Star Sword and the Dragon's teeth glow in the dark. Details of the show are blurred as well. My memory has been overwritten from the dominance of Thundar and He-man.

@danahousley-preaster2865

3 жыл бұрын

You are correct

How funny is it that I get to the galoob toy commercial and then a KZread commercial pops up right after.

I had a friend who had the figures, and what I quickly learned was that if you worked the ”Laser Lights” as constantly as they do in the commercials , the fuses would be gone in just a couple days.

It was He-Man before Eternia was a glimmer in the eyes of Mattel executives

I recall seeing a statue of Blackstar in an episode of He-Man. I like to think that John Blackstar and He-Man's mother, Marlana, knew each other . They were both astronauts.

That advert must have been memorable because it sure as hell got stuck in my brain for decades despite me not knowing anything about it.

I wish someone would remake black star and thundar the barbarian like they did the thundercats and voltron. That would slap so hard!!!

@Sinsightful

4 жыл бұрын

How about a shared universe between Thundarr, Blackstar, He-Man, Lion-O, and the bad boy Conan......at least some kind of quest with all of them.

@420gaiden

4 жыл бұрын

M Sealey I’ll take anything at this point

@alessandrobaggi6129

4 жыл бұрын

These days it's a risk for fans to ask a remake/remaster 😏😥

@420gaiden

4 жыл бұрын

Alessandro Baggi that’s a shame.

I still have a few of my original Blackstar figures from when I was a kid, didn't even know what toyline they were from until about 10 years ago.

"fish out of water story" This show which I loved as a kid literally had Shark-bats and Pirahna-hawks flying around.

I'm lucky enough to own the DVD series of Blackstar. How I just need some action figures!

@mrf19741

4 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@justafanofnerdculture7602

4 жыл бұрын

Ditto

@r.josephgrundy1706

4 жыл бұрын

I was fortune enough to find a copy, just as they were going up in price and eventually extinct! Loved this very underated show!

Man, I had the Kadray figure as a kid and I never knew what series it was from until now! Discovering the origins of my forgotten toys has been wonderful. Thank you!

Aaah, THAT'S why I remember Blackstar much later then 1981, I obviously caught the re-release as I had remembered it as a contemperary of He-Man's cartoon series.

Jean Yves Mitton is a legend in the French comic book industry… Wow, learning that he worked on a BlackStar comic is gold. I have to find that

I had no idea about Blackstar until a few years ago. Then, when looking through the toys, I realized I had a couple of the bad guys among my earliest action figures. I figure my older brother probably got them for me around my 2nd or 3rd birthday. Seems like the kind of thing he would do, as he bought me a ton of MOTU figures over the next few years.

@RobCamp-rmc_0

4 жыл бұрын

HossTheSlop same as hell. I had somehow acquired an Overlord fig when I was like 3 and I totally forgot about it until about a year ago and the memory came flooding back like nuclear waste on a woefully underequipped Radioactive Man (the goggles did nothing).

Love your channel Dan, keep em coming

I would love to see you guys cover Power Lords!!!

@residentrump3271

2 жыл бұрын

I had Grip-Togg, that weird lizard guy and the insectoid guy with articulated claws and flapping wings. He had awesome toys back then :)

Wow!!!! This really took me back! Had these when I was young. Keep up the amazing work. Love the videos.

Laser light, pew pew pew, laser light... That jingle is now forever stuck in my head. Thanks guys. I never understood, as a kid, why cartoons always had cute little characters or children around in their action shows. Scott Tracker, Snarf, the throbbits... Nobody wanted to play as those characters. I would like Reaction Figures of the cast of Blackstar though :)

Thank you for making this video. Blackstar is a truly special rare series. I really liked the vehicle designs on this show. I liked all the different places on Segar too! Great humor in this video as well!

My favorite Blackstar memory was adapting the Lavalocs for use as monsters in our D&D campaign at the time.

No joke, this is an amazing video. Well done on every level. Thank you.

Thanks for this. I have so many half-remembered memories of this show that I didn't truly know much about it... just as a kid I thought that half-sword design looked really cool.

No Blackstar, no He-Man & the Masters of the Universe. Lol!🤣 Loved this show as a child & even had the Warlock dragon toy. As I've gotten older however, I've noticed the similarities between Blackstar & John Carter of Mars & perhaps Lord of the Rings

I who missed episodes from this channel and was looking for new episodes ... oops ... it was released about 6 minutes ago. Blackstar ... can not get even better.

What about galtar and the golden lance , seems like that was a mix of Blackstar and Thundar

Those laser light figures look like a whole lot of WORK to play with and absolute HELL on your fingers. Sidenote - Thundarr the Barbarian was my show back in the day.

Chalk up Blackstar as another toy line I had at least one of, and completely forgot existed, until halfway through a Toy Galaxy video. Nothing about the cartoon rang a bell, but I remember the sparking action, and while the figures are long gone, I still have that distinctive magic sword. Until this moment, I couldn't recall what figure it was for.

I love this channel. I LOVE Dan’s hair. I miss the old music.

@420gaiden

4 жыл бұрын

It is a great channel

@metal_helm

4 жыл бұрын

me too, love the old music!

@oddcreatureX

4 жыл бұрын

I agree, I thought the old music was perfect.

@edbraun383

4 жыл бұрын

The hair. Nice!

Wow,holy crap.I totally remember those alien demons that came with the figures,i never knew what toy line they were from.I just remember them out in the wild everywhere when I was a kid.Cool figure with a very striking appearance,totally just brought me back to the early 80s.Thanks for the great video,keep up the great content

Yeah, sure, Blackstar is on youtube, but we cannot comment on it because reasons. Comments on old cartoons and intros were always the best part! KZread fell so goddamn low. I wonder if we'll ever get those comment sections back.

You're a good guy, Dan. I love you guys work and it makes me happy.

I always thought Blackstar was Native American. That would have been cool. Like the series & wished it had gotten more episodes.

Thundarr was created by Steve Gerber, and he was responsible for the King being hired to work on the show (and, as a result, Alex Toth leaving Ruby-Spears after having designed only Thundarr, Ariel, and Ookla). Not crediting him is a MASSIVE omission, as is not tying Blackstar's inspiration directly to Filmation's Flash Gordon cartoon.

Can't belive you didn't mention Black Star made a cheeky appearance in MOTU in the form of a statue. That's trivia worth mentioning.

Enjoyed this video very much, seeing the Blackstar toys brought me back to how I had the Blackstar figure as a kid.

I had an Overlord figure when I was a scrawny toddler. I’d never seen the cartoon, having been born in ‘81 and not really cognizant of any of that stuff until, iunno, ‘84/‘85-ish, and it wasn’t until about a year ago that I discovered what that figure was (which was itself locked away in my mind and totally forgotten until that point). Interesting stuff. Also, you’re totally growing a warrior mullet now, aren’t you Dan. 🤘

I'm reading the Filmation book and it didn't occur to me that Blackstar came before He-Man! Mindblown!

Always enjoy the history segments guys! Great job😁👍

You guys have the best sense of humor, SEGA-AAAAA..lol I love this channel!

Warlock the dragon steed was an awesome toy!! Only problem was the wings eventually came lose over time and healthy play. Definitely an underrated classic.

Thank you for your guys videos!

This show was on super early Saturdays when I was a kid. Like 5:30 am early. I remember always wanting to be up to watch it, but it rarely happened. I remember I thought the sword was the coolest looking weapon I had ever seen.

Love your videos. One of my favourite channels on YT. 👍

*"... trapped on the planet... SSSEEEEEEEGGGGAAAAA !!!!!"* Okay, you made me laugh on that one.

I'm calling it now. We need a Blackstar/Bravestar crossover. I was just this side of too young to watch Blackstar, but I loved Bravestar.

Brilliant Dan. Thank you!

There are many toy bins in attics right now that have a full compliment of Blackstar toys mixed in with the MOTU. Kids were so He-Man crazy that these guys were mixed right in along with the others. I just wish my parents had snagged me some Sun Man back in the day.

i own a boxed Icecastle. thats all i wanted to say. lol

You guys keep knocking these outa the park

@SecretGalaxyTV

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

I'd still watch if your production values weren't so high but DANG YOUR PRODUCTION VALUES ARE HIGH and Dan Larson is a national treasure

Great vid as always Dan! Even though I had a bunch of the figures, I've never seen one episode of the cartoon, lol. I didn't know one even existed for the longest, lol. I will be patiently waiting for the Time-Traveling Super-fish show.

I thank you kind sir, you bring back wonderful memories from my youth that my mind had long forgotten.

Great video and thanks for all the facts. I loved "Blackstar" as a kid.

My older cousin gave me a bunch of his old toys when I was a kid, and most were from lines that no longer existed. Apparently one of them that I didn't recognize until now was a trobbit.

I was like, "an Elvis shapeshifter?" Then I saw the ears. I still wouldn't put it past an old cartoon, though.

@NevTheDeranged

4 жыл бұрын

Same!

Come for the knowledge Stay for the gooey center of my childhood to melt Lmao

I LOVED THIS TOY LINE!!!!! I found these guys at a thrift store in my small town and immediately fell in love with them. The characters were fantastic and they came with a literal arsenal of weapons. "Tongo" was the first character i got and he had, I think six or seven weapons which glowed in the dark. Suffice to say as a nine year old, I lost my mind. Cool cartoon, AMAZING toy line!

Always got this show confused with Galtar and the Golden Lance when I was a kid, even though I had the action figure. The sparky thingy in the chest was pretty sweet, for what it's worth.

Holy crap... me and my sister were cleaning out an old box of toys I had from the 80s and we found some of these toys.... We were convinced it was from either He-Man or Shera...

Man I was just thinking of those last week! Was hoping you’d do a video on it. I had some of the toys. Also had a Hercules figure that looked very inspired by He-Man.

Prince Adam/He-Man's mother was also an astronaut that got trapped on an alien planet. I always thought her story was far more interesting than He-Man's.

@alanguages

3 жыл бұрын

I wanted Queen Marlena and Blackstar to have been astronaut colleagues. Blackstar went into space first, then she followed to find him, when he lost contact.

@GeekFilter

3 жыл бұрын

alanguages That’s my head canon now!

@alanguages

3 жыл бұрын

@@GeekFilter I thought it made sense, and it would have been interesting to connect the two series in that way.

@residentrump3271

2 жыл бұрын

...but did she have the power? *NO!*

OMG I actually REMEMBER this series.. LOL tyvm for doing this video

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest doofuses and cromulents!

@SecretGalaxyTV

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for paying attention.

I like how you kept a straight face at the end there.

I just discovered this channel a couple days ago and the content is amazing, the Ulysses 31 video is my favorite

Just realised I owned a bunch of these back in the eighties. Love how you could have stuff that you didn't even realise was iconic, such as these, the mega odd face sucking in figures, the D&D stuff, Bandai robots, Micronauts, Grandstand Converters, obscure Action Force things, weird Gobot combiners etc. Oh how I miss the simpler times...

Just watched the show and found out his explanation is literally the theme word for word

Blackstar, another potential fighting games crossover with Soul Calibur, Injustice, Master Of The Universe and Thundercats

I was wondering when you would do the Blackstar series, thanks Dan, have a great weekend my friend!

Dang, I remember that from when I was a kid, that pink alien with the giant ears brought it all back

I'm just now realizing Thundarr the Barbarian was basically has the same concept of Adventure Time with Jake and Finn.

Got that Ash from evil Dead look going on 😁

Man! You're looking like you're working on growing out a mullet there

Speaking of fish out of water. I'd love to see a history of War Planets/ Shadow Raiders video. The toys were forgettable, but the animated series by mainframe is one of the best ever that most people haven't seen. Combining story elements from Flash Gordon and The Transformers, it really is amazing, and ended way too early.

The glow-in-the-dark stuff reminded me of some toys I ended up with using some birthday or Christmas gift-cash. There was a line from Arco called The Other World that used the bendy metal bits inside of the rubbery plastic model that lasted... a month or two if you were lucky before the metal skeleton broke, tore through the molded plastic, and stuck you in a finger. The figures were derpy but the accessories were actually kinda cool for the 80s.

That's rad, I didn't even know this existed. Good stuff 👍🏻

I thought it was strange there were so many Conan style cartoons on the air at the time, but I found myself enjoying the motif long after it had subsided, especially in video games like Rastan and similar. Great Stuff! The naming wouldn’t have bothered me as a kid growing up, since it wouldn’t have been all that different from similar characters from that period. To say it then connoted something entirely different and positive vs today.

I remember really liking this show as a very young kid. I'd say it was in my too 5 in the early 80s. It was definitely unique for it's time and dealt with some kind of dark themes for a kid's show. I gotta say, I have absolutely no recollection of the trobbits at all. I do remember that there was a goal of some kind to reunite the two swords together.