Wow!!! I always been hoping these figures would be discussed!!! I truly loved the movie and as soon these figures were on the shelves, i quickly bought them at the time...why not? They were 5.88 each, so bought 2 every saturday until i completed the set. And then again bought the set as an adult in 1999. Since Maximillian was never made, i bought the model which was awesome they did him. And just a few years ago i got from Ireland the rare boxed wind-up VINcent which now makes my set more than complete! Thanks for this Oh-So- Awesome review!👍👍👍👍👍

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the review my friend!

@seereadnhear

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrickMantooth absolutely did enjoy this video. Amazing job well done

I was a teenager when I came across these at a Family Bargain Center store in Southern California. They actually had full sets in good condition so I picked all six, *heavily* discounted. I really enjoyed them, quite possibly the highest quality 12" figures Mego had ever released. This was about '80-'81, and Dan had ALREADY developed facial discoloration...

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, there is no doubt that they are nicely made but yeah....

As I was starting high school, my mom gave me a choice: "toys or comics, one has to go", and I chose to keep the comics. About 6 years ago, the nostalgia bug bit and I started to reconnect with my childhood stuff. That's when the regret set in: I had *all* the 3.75 Black Hole robots, minus Humanoid, as a kid. Most were purchased on clearance. I've only managed to re-collect VINCent and a Sentry. Sigh...the next thing tumbling into that black hole is gonna be my wallet... ;)

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that stuff gets pricey!

I loved The Black Hole as a kid and had all the 3 3/4 figures that were available in the UK though I wasn't aware of a 12" line, I would love to add these to my collection one day.

I have been waiting for this. I knew they would cover it, and I was not disappointed! Thank you so very much!

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Was very fond of these 12" figures - I live in the UK and I remember this wonderful window display in the local toyshop where they mixed these with the Action Man Space Ranger line - the figures were hung on wires as if floating in space. We had Holland and Pizer (as 10 and 11 year olds, it was all about the heroic leads!) and later got Durant between us with some Xmas money. I believe the Star Trek: The Motion Picture 12" figures came out around the same time - I wonder why the 12" figures for both movies were so similar, when the 3.75 figures were so different? (The Black Hole ones had far more articulation). Thanks so much for these wonderful bits of nostalgia!

I always found it funny that, somewhere, there's a kid playing with a little figure of Ernest Borgnine!

I only knew a friend as a kid that had the 3.75 Vincent and Bob. Never knew this stuff existed. I had a similar experience as you did when I came across the big TMP figures on clearance in 80’ or so. Got a Spock with my allowance. Became one of my favorites. Wish I had a chance at these too. Always needed big figures when visiting my cousins. They were girls that had Barbie. Spock, Luke, and Boba Fett formed a special team for me. These would have been welcome additions.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think the Big Star Trek figures got better distribution than the Black Hole ones just because Trek was a known property.

We got the film in England at the Odeon Leicester Square, in 1979,playing across the the square was Star Trek the motion picture, so I saw both,over a Saturday afternoon and evening,Fantastic day,my parents couldn't afford to buy action figures for us and as a child I did without such things,which in effect turned me into a toy collector ,when I started earning good money from construction work,,I started collecting toys, especially Action figures and purchased the Black Hole figures at one of the London toy fairs,in the late eighties,so yes they are on display along with many many figures and toys and books,and yes like yourself we enjoy this wonderful collecting because of memories .strange thing really, but absolutely enjoyable. Cheers for posting.

I've always had a soft spot for The Black hole and could never understand why it wasn't more popular. The action figures, especially the 12 inch line are very detailed. It didn't take very long for me to find them all on Ebay, and they weren't expensive. I still have the traveling bag I got for Christmas in 1979, and have taken it on many vacations. It has the Palomino pictured on it. Yes, I also have the Mego Trons and didn't know about the copyright situation with the name. It's nice to see Disney on the receiving end for once!

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah i love the Tron story.

I have just started to collect this line .. have 2 boxed figures and love them!

That might have been your best video yet! Excellent. I had the 3 3/4" Maximillian and STARR but not the 12" figures.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

thank you so much!

Great Episode Brian! Loved this movie!

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, me too!

I loved The Black Hole right along with Star Wars, too (and you can add Battlestar Galactica to that, maybe even a dash of Buck Rogers) So some of that 11 dollars Mego made off the BH license came from me! I had the 3 3/4”scale Vincent, Maximillian and the Sentry… still have the first two and the arm of the third. 😁

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

I'm also in the eleven dollars club, welcome brother!

Phenomenal video! Thanks so much for what you do!

@garyshaller8294

2 жыл бұрын

These sculpts… so good!

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it.

I love The Black Hole like you. I’d wanted to get these 12” figures when I was a kid in 1980. But the lure of Star Wars won. But now I want to get them. I got all three robot figures that Diamond Select Toys made. They’re great. I wish that Mego made them in 12” scale.

Amazing!!! Great to hear about this 12" line of Mego figures, as I never actually came across them myself as a kid at the beginning of the 80's, so it was very interesting to hear their backstory. My own experience with this movie comes from the 3 3/4 line of figures, and I still have my Maximillian figure to this day I'm pleased to say. A couple of questions: 1) what is the video that starts at 6:13 please, and is it available seperately on here to view? I'm just curious about all the different figures I saw on view, as it looks like some sort of company showreel, and 2) Being a big fan of The Black Hole film myself, I have to ask what did you think of the very surreal Heaven / Hell ending when they entered the Black Hole? Finally, I loved your school lunchbox, very collectable and neat! Nice video, very interesting subject, thanks!

Thanks for doing this topic. I knew nothing about these figures!

Ohhh I'm ready like a TEDDY for this one!

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

thank you, hope you enjoyed.

@seereadnhear

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrickMantooth love the Ernest Borgnine references LOL

Get a 12" Harry Booth and have it yell "YOU KILLED MY LINDA!" at a 12" Lex Luthor figure. 😂

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

I get this reference!

@scottstalcup6980

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrickMantooth I would hope so, Brian!

Ham Salad for the win.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

I was hoping somebody would mention it.

I loved The Black Hole movie but had little of the merchandise. I had V.I.N.Cent and Maximilian in the 3 3/4 line and I had that book and record and played the heck out of it. I honestly don't remember the 12" line at all. So this is a cool look at a line I have no knowledge of. Thanks once more for a fun and informative video.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

thanks, glad you like it!

In the UK I only ever saw the first wave of 3.75 Black Hole figures at a local store around late 79 early 80! Never saw the 12 inch here!

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

It's weird, Marx distributed the smaller figures and Pedigree had the 12" range.

Great video Brian👍 Strange that Disney discouraged guns with these toys even though movie was full of them🤔

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm not sure why they did that either.

later in the 80s I would end up using my Bravestarr Neutralaser as a substitute for Black Hole blasters

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, not a bad alternative.

Wow! I never saw these in the wild. I was lucky enough to have a couple 3 3/4" Black Hole figs (Maxmillian and Cpt. Dan) , but I wasn't even aware they had a 12" line! Zowie, just complete and total ZOWIE.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah i saw them once as a kid, they were not popular.

All Percy Rodriguez trailer narration is the best.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

One of Canada's best exports!

Great video Thanks for sharing 😀 👍 ♥️ 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🎉 🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉💯💯 I Am from Scarborough Ontario Canada. I loved going to the Scarborough Town center as a Kid and an Adult. I was just there today.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Haven't been in years but growing up in Whitby, I would save my pennies to go there as a kid.

I bought the Alan Dean Foster adaptation of The Black Hole last week. I absolutely love this movie. Good Bad Flicks did a great video about this movie.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Alan Dean Foster really got around with the movie adaptations back then.

@akildukes7499

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrickMantooth yeah, there's so many!

Wow! Thanks for sharing!👏👏😉‼️

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Great video. I'm a huge fan of budget toy lines!! I buy as many robo force enemies as I can from ebay

Loved the film only ever had the Red Doctor Hans figure as a kid in 12 inch here in the UK

That Ernest Borgnine figure looks like a relative of the Munsters.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Uncle Zombie!

Awesome 👍. Big black hole fan and collector here😁

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

I have seen the Black Hole I don't know how many times but I don't ever remember hearing that Harry was a reporter!

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Really, he even mentions interviewing Hans Reinhart.

@GeekFilter

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrickMantooth No idea why I filtered that out over time!

Boy I wish I had these as a kid and even now.

It wasn't only the absence of the guns in the 12" line that made no sense. The 3.75 inch Sentry and STAR both came with silver pistols that they could never ever hope to hold with those Micronaut hands of theirs. The pistols kind of fit in the holster molded on the sides of their legs but it felt like it was included from another figure line. I would have killed to have a 1/6 scale Maximillian figure as well as a Sentry, STAR and BOB. I have Charlie Pizer but he looks like he's in some Kabuki play as his face is scary white/grey and the plastic seems to be slowly melting.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm really not sure why they had those pistols, I always assumed it was reused Microman tooling.

Besides those double blasters the crew of the Palomino at (least Holland and Pizer )had their own weapons. They were disarmed by the Sentry robots shortly after boarding the Cygnus

Our Toys R' Us had the large figures kicking around as late as 1983 . the female one and the man in the red were the ones not there .

I got one for Xmas when it came out. I was 8. I just paid $200 for one yesterday. It was never played with and still in the box.

Brilliant! I've noticed there were never any robots created for the range, which was strange. Unless, of course, you're about to tell us differently? But if that is the case, would the recent diamond select ones be to scale?

@ghostbustersquickresponseu5159

2 жыл бұрын

I think they are to scale. If not they're awful close.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

@@ghostbustersquickresponseu5159 They'd be better with 8 inch figures sadly.

@ghostbustersquickresponseu5159

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrickMantooth Oh duh. I thought they were 8in even though it clearly states 12in in the description! LOL

I had that story record, too.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

I think I still have mine.

the MPC model kits were 1/6 SCALE of VINCENT and MAX !!!! mix together for a complete collection !!!

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Are they really? Now I want them.

The first ever Ernest Borgnine action figure?

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

And it's last.,

@justinplayfair4638

2 жыл бұрын

Watch out if somebody gets the Poseidon Adventure license! Fans have been jonesing for figures from that for *decades*...

I got Harry Booth in my collection now and he is in excellent condition.

I love how the figures have aged to look like the Munsters now. SOMEWHERE.... AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE.... ARE THE MUNSTERS...

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah they're ghoulish!

Great movie and amazing music 🎶

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

I play the soundtrack in the office a lot. It's fantastic.

@dannyd464

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrickMantooth yeah one of John Barry's best after Zulu.

I have my 3-3/4 V.I.N.C.E.N.T. and Max figures (with original stands) on the very desk I'm sitting at right now. In those TV commercials you see VINCENT with and without the name/decal below his eyes...I don't remember mine ever having that (and they've been display pieces since I got them) - no paint scuffs or scratches.....hmmm

My bro is currently watching the black hole as we speak we just got the dvd today .

Great so, having seen The Black Hole, I don't have to ever see The Poseidon Adventure. ;)

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

I would still recommend it. Ernie shines in it!

I used to make the Black Hole/Space 1999 Guns out of Lego

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful, me too.

I want to watch this movie tonight

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

I am watching it right now!

@seereadnhear

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrickMantooth me too! 😄

I honestly found the Black Hole really boring compared to the other sci-fi properties I was enjoying at the time (Star Wars, Buck Rogers, Galactica, Battle of the Planets, Filmation's Flash Gordon). I don't recall ever seeing the 12" figures. I did ask for the Sentry, Max and Vincent from the 3.75" line. The Sentry would act as a supplemental henchman for Baron Karza while the robots could often be found hanging around the Jawa sandcrawler.

@originaluddite

2 жыл бұрын

Black Hole feels much more like an older 70s 'space is big and dull and empty' science fiction movie that is all about atmosphere and philosophy, rather than the more exciting fare that Star Wars ushered in.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

I kind of feel like it began life as a more atmospheric film then they tacked on some "Star Warsy" stuff to it. It's discordant at times.

6:00 stop calling me out! 😬😎

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I now know I wasn't the only kid doing this.

I love the 12in mego dolls that were ever made.I have all of 12in mego dolls ever made.

Would've been nice to have a Maximilian that opened to trap Hans Reinhardt in. You know. A Maximilian shell [sic]. (OOH, I'M GOING TO HELL FOR THAT!)

never knew they existed!

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

I found out a year later!

I wish the 3&3/4 sentry was cheap If not for your channel I wouldn't know of these and so many other toys🖖

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear!

@robertgriffiths1724

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrickMantooth always great 👍

I loved the Movie, but I only had VINcent in the 3.5" line.

You do know that Yvette Mimieux, the actress who played Dr. Kate McCrae, passed away last month? RIP. I liked the movie better as a kid. I was less critical and it came around the same time as Star Trek : The Motion Picture which I had a harder time sitting through. Neither is a great movie but Star Trek: TMP has aged better, IMHO. The Black Hole has a nice theme and in general the effects are decent with some minor exceptions where it shows that Disney's effects department was not up to par with ILM by that point. The last time I saw the movie was around 10-12 years ago. It might have been on the Hallmark Channel which had licensed some old Disney films they weren't showing anywhere else! Disney seems to bury its failures and this film is definitely considered a failure. They didn't even release the Blu ray edition in stores. The Black Hole is a Disney Movie Club exclusive along with many back-catalog titles. Heck, there are anniversary editions of films like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (85th anniversary coming up!) which will NOT be released in stores because of declining home media sales. The Black Hole BD itself has had no remastering or restoration work that you can see and was initially screwed up and had to be recalled! The John Barry (yes, THAT John Barry -- the guy who scored and conducted many James Bond films) score has rarely been released in album format. I think the last album release, the CD edition, was very limited and is out of print.

Ham Salad.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

and Chinchilla the Wookie Monster.

Dragonslayer, Black Hole, Return to Oz, Watcher in the Woods, Something Wicked this way Comes - Disney wanted to scare kids in the late 70's / early 80's!: _“We need a space themed movie pronto!”_ _“Do I have a movie for you... it’s about a mad scientist on an ship full of the lobotomised ex-crew trapped on the edge of a black hole. He’s guarded by a silent killer robot that guts people with rotating metal blades. The average age of the cast is 50, and the ending will show a literal DESCENT INTO HELL for the villain!”_ _“Uh... this is for kids... how?”_ _“There’s a small robot with big eyes.”_ _“SOLD!”_ I had a 3 3/4 Vincent as a kid. Nothing else. A Reinheart appeared in my collection many years later as part of a batch of old toys. No appeal to me in the human characters as a kid.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

You weren't alone in the "not interested in the human characters" thing. And yeah, Disney liked scaring kids, we were better for it.

@TheNightBadger

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrickMantooth Can't argue with that - I loved all those movies!

Love the movie and had several of the smaller figures and that story record, but have no memory of the taller figures. No idea they existed until this video.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, glad you checked it out!

@travishiltz4750

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrickMantooth it's why I keep watching. Your videos are educational.

Cool toys.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

I think so.

Oh, then you must know, _"'Come on! There's not much time! The, Cygnus is already starting to break up!'_ _'No, V.I.N.C.E.N.T. This is my home. I belong here. You go ahead and watch after your friends.'_ _'I'll never forget you,' said V.I.N.C.E.N.T. sadly. 'Goodbye._ (。_。)' Haha, I know almost every word from playing it a hundred times.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

My wife, who had never seen the film, cried upon on her first viewing. She still can't bear the sight of B.O.B.

@davidcrowe5524

2 жыл бұрын

I had one of the comic packs... #3 showed them going through the Black Hole to find a duplicate of the Cygnus on the other side, down to another Old B.O.B.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidcrowe5524 Yeah Beyond the Black Hole, I loved that comic, too bad it only got two issues.

you can fix the white-face with some clothing dye

Wow, all the Ernest Borgnine hate on this channel. You know, he is with Alec Guinness and Marlon Brando in a pretty small Venn Diagram. Actors who won Academy Award for Best Actor and had a Sci Fi movie action figure made of them. There may be others but those three pop to mind.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

I love Ernest Borgnine! no hate here but he's not a great action figure.

They’re just plain boring aren’t they? Black Hole figures were always in the bargain buckets in the early Eighties UK. It’s amusing that Disney were so squeamish about guns then given that you can go on Disney+ and find Walking Dead and American Horror Story next to Snow White.

@BrickMantooth

2 жыл бұрын

I think that the addition of the pistols would make them bad ass. I think I'll get some 3D printed.