The coolest damn toy in the whole wide world...EVER!

I was quite blessed growing up to have to loving parents that provided for me and my sister in many tangible and intangible ways. I never had to worry about my food or shelter or anything, and Santa Claus was always overly generous. One thing that we received from him one year was the MAC (Mobile Action Command) series of action figures by the Matchbox Car company. These were intrepid adventurers and rescuers that followed me through a wide variety of adventures in at least two states. Their secret mountain headquarters had everything that intrepid rescuers and adventurers might require to aid them (except women and beer, but that is a different action adventurer). I miss playing with them and thank my parents for their largess. I have GOT to find those guys...

Fever dreams influenced by the humidity...

"A smile is just a frown turned upside down, my friend!" Great song, but don't these people kinda freak you out in a Logan's Run coupled with The Omega Man kinda way?

Isn't this a dumb but catchy song? H-Bomb protection!

Where are they now? I would love to see a rock concert culminate with the ritualistic burning of a thousand plus My Buddy dolls, all while a Stooges-esque churning riff via Chrome propelled us into cathartic bliss!

I need some sleep and coolness...

You can't take the boy out of the man...

While I was of the generation who first played with Star Wars action figures, I was always somewhat dismayed at their lack of posability and their constraints on my youthful imagination (mainly because they were the products of George Lucas's mind and not mine). You couldn't do wild and wacky things with them because each figure already possessed a back story that was pretty well defined by the movies, as well as all the resultant cultural baggage that was attached to this saga (e.g. Luke Skywalker was a good guy, Greedo was not).

However, I didn't feel the same restrictions with another action figure line called Micronauts. While there were clearly defined good and bad guys, the figures were a bit more non-descript, they were much more posable than other figures, they had little "cultural baggage" and, in my mind, they were a hell of a lot more fun than Star Wars figures. Whenever I would play with the two, the Micronauts would nearly always win, taking over the Millenium Falcon and inihilating the Star Wars people, good and bad (since the Star Wars people would have to ally themselves together to meet the onslaught of the Micronauts!) Then, the Micronauts would have an internal struggle over who would hold supremacy over their race, leading to an intense afternoon of political intrigue, murder, and epic battles across the living room, ending just in time to watch Battle of the Planets! And that was just last week at my apartment!