celebrating 150 visual indexes

[dwitefry]

I have finished my 150th visual index! “What are you on about dwitefry?” Well when I can’t (or can’t be bothered to) write or draw I’ve been using my ‘flick through the internet time’ to instead make what I’ve dubbed ‘visual indexes’ of toys, combining the information of various sites, forums and cardbacks to produce simple picture and name (with occasional notes) indexes. I started doing it because there either wasn’t a complete (and simple) index/checklist like this for certain lines, or the only ones that did exist were on sites that were clearly dead or dying (i.e. Super Toy Archive or the Fistful of Aliens official site) and anyway you can’t guarantee a site will always be there, so it seemed like a good waste of my time, now I’ve decided to put them all into a ‘make your own book’ book for my reference. At 150 I thought it was time to go ‘yay’ for a moment (and to tell people about it) and who knows, I might actually get the remaining information to finish up some of my stalled ‘dexes (big puppy eyes). As some use pictures from private collections (and some from this site) I can’t/won’t post them here (though I’m sure I can send them to anyone who wants one can’t I? Lord knows why you’d want one but if you do) but here’s a screen grab of the folder:



What’s been done?
Well…*takes deep breath*

70’s Universal Monsters (inc Aurora Model Kits, Tomland, Remco, Azrak-Hamway, Lincoln and the Scare Cycles) / Action Force / Adventure People / Alphabots & Numerobots / Animals of Farthing Wood / Attack Pack / Barnyard Commandos / Battle Beasts (inc. Laser Beasts) / Battle Trolls (inc. Troll Warriors) / Best of the West / Big Jim (inc. Kid Acero and Karl May) / Biker Mice From Mars / Blurp Balls / Body Wars / Bronze Bombers / Bucky O’Hare / Captain Simian / Care Bears (13” Plush) / Care Bears (Poseables) / Combo (inc. Devil Warriors) / Computer Warriors / Conan (Remco & Hasbro) / Cosmic Critters / C.U.T.I.E. / Defenders of the Planets / Dino-Riders / Dragon-Flyz 1995-1996 / Dragonriders of the Styx / Eagle Force / Exogini / Extreme Dinosaurs / Fantastic Stars / Fantasy World / Fatal Fury Kinkeshi / Fiendish Feet / Fistful of Aliens / Food Fighters / Fuerza-T / G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero 1982-1988 / G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero 1989-1994 / G.I Joe & Action Man figures (inc Falcon, Action Joe, Action Team & Geyperman) / Galaxy Fighters / Galaxy Serie / Galaxy Warriors (Inc. Galaxy Adventure Girl & End of Time) / Gargoyles / Go-Bots / Golden Girl / Guerro Del Manana (Inc. Doncellas Del Manana & Guerros Kamalion) / Hamilton’s Invaders / He-Man (‘New Adventures’) / Heroes de le Galaxia / Hot Wheels – Smash & Crash Bikes / Incredible Crash Dummies / Inhumanoids / The Invicta Dinosaurs (or The Natural History Museum Series) / Jem / Jurassic Park / Kenner Aliens & Predator / Kenner Robocop & Terminator / Kenner Star Wars (Star Wars, Empire & Jedi) / Little Dracula / Lost World of the Warlord (inc Warrior Beasts & Pirates of the Galaxseas) / Madballs / Madballs Spin-Offs / Mannix Attacks (Apes Attacks, Mighty Sharks, Dino Attacks, Ocean Warriors) / Mannix Fantasy (Master of the Fighters, Monster Warriors, Two Face Monster, Viking Warriors, Skeleton Fighters) / Mannix Wrestlers (Wrestling Champions, Overtop Man, Monster Maniacs) / Marx Dinosaurs / Masters of the Universe / Matchbox Thunderbirds / Mattel’s Man in Space (inc. Colourform’s Outer Space Men) / McDonald’s Changeables / McDonald’s McNugget Buddiess / M-Force / Microman – Original Series (inc. Henshin Cyborg) / Micronauts / Mighty Ducks / Mighty Max / Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers / Mini Boglins / Monster (Sungold) / Monster High 2010-2012 / Monster in My Pocket (series 1-4) / Monster in My Pocket (series 5) / Monster Wrestlers in My Pocket / Monsters of the Galaxy / M.U.S.C.L.E. / My Pet Monster / Nerfuls / Ninja Turtles – The Next Mutations / Ninja Warriors / Official All Star Wrestlers / Official WWF Superstars / P.E.T. Aliens / Power Lords / Princess of Power / Real Ghostbusters / Real Squish Bugs & Real Squirmin’ Bugs / Road Rovers (inc. Funkymobiles) / Robo Force / Robotech 1985 / Rock Lords / Rocks & Bugs & Things / Secret Wars / Sectaurs (inc Lord of Insects, Guardians, Bugmen of Insecta & Insect Man) / Shogun Warriors / Six Million Dollar Man (inc. Bionic Woman) / Skeleton Warriors / Small Soldiers / Snaliens / Speclatron & Flex-A-Tron / Spit Balls / Star Wars Unleashed (7”) / Street Sharks / Super Ninja / Super Powers Collection / T.H.I.N.G.Z. / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1988-199 / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1993-1997 / The Adventures of Metal-Man / The Other World / Thundercats / Toy Biz’s Fantastic Four / Toy Biz’s Iron Man / Toy Biz’s X-Men 1991-1998 (Inc. X-Force, 2099, Generation X & New Mutants) / Transformers G1 / Transmegator / Trash Bag Bunch / Troll Force & Troll Fighter / Turly-Gang / Unofficial Weird Ball Brand (balls only) / War Planets / Galoob’s WCW / Wild West C.O.W. Boys of Moo-Mesa / Woolworth’s Galaxy Warriors & Galaxie Girl / Wrestlers of the World (inc. 833 & 339 Wrestling Champions lines)/ Wrestling Champions & Wrestler / Wrestling Champions by Madison / Wrestling Superstars / X-Changers / Z-Bots / Zoids International (Mechabonica, OER/OAR, Spider Man & Zoids, Robostrux) / Zoids OJR / Zoids 2 and the firsts Odds and Endex (inc. amongst many things – Dream Bears, Wuzzles Poseables, Monster Force, Gigantics, original Stretch Armstrong, Star Bird, Clash of the Titans, British Convertors, Megadons, Desert Defenders, Manglors, Special Force , LJN’s Gremlins, Goddess of the Ultra Cosmos, Monster Man, Butterfly Woman, T.H.I.N.G.S., Gross-Out Gang, Goops, Carnivors & Muscle Mutts)

In production:
World’s Greatest Super-Heroes
Remco Sgt. Rock (Sgt Rock, Sarge Team, Bad Guys)
Monster High 2013
Marx Disney mini-figures & Disneykins
Masters of the Universe 200X

Pending (that is, I haven’t been bothered yet)
Mattel’s Simpsons
Toy Biz Marvel Universe
Toy Biz Spider-Man
Burger King Kid’s Club
TMNT: Mini-Mutants
Moondreamers
Mantech

Pending upgrade
G.I. Joe & Action Man (needs better information on outfits and versions for classic Joe and Action Man, also need to do the 1990s Action Man, maybe make it its own ‘dex tho)

Stalled
Simba Wrestling Champs (need names & first series card back, so both card backs lol)
Weird Ball Spin-Offs (need a decent res cardback/photos/names (any or all) for the action figure line Weird Ball GRUNTS)
Horror Pets (i forget why now lol)
Remco Robot Defenders (Defenders, Renegades, Zybots and Bibots) (the Zybots are the problem, it’s the post Zybots IV releases, their appear to be some that aren’t on the cardback and many that are on the cardback that I can’t find)
Sungold’s Wrestler (need images and names/cardback for version 1, the jackets version)
Remco’s US Forces/American Defense (can’t find anything out about the American Defense figure Secret Defense < fitting huh? And could do with some finer details on release order)
Definitely Dinosaurs (need some caveman images, specifically Korex & Poldar, Lomex & Shrag and Nazaar & Zolex, and some other assorted information, like if the Ultrasaurus and Spinosaurus came with cave men, for instance)

So there you go, that’s what I do with my spare spare time (and really, any help on the stalled ‘dexes would be very appreciated, thanks)

[kylefromdirtnapp]

I do this with a few lines, Centurions and Toxic Crusaders come to mind.I use pix from eBay of loose complete figs to know what I'm looking for easily. I'm sure we all do to some extent, you've just taken it to another level!

[rihia2k]

Mar 2, 2014 15:22:51 GMT -6 dwitefry said:

Definitely Dinosaurs (need some caveman images, specifically Korex & Poldar, Lomex & Shrag and Nazaar & Zolex, and some other assorted information, like if the Ultrasaurus and Spinosaurus came with cave men, for instance)

Wikipedia makes mention that Ultrasaurus and Spinosaurus came with two cavemen each, though it doesn't specify who. Perhaps unnamed generic humans?

[alfi]

Is this the card + names you are looking for?

[moonchild666]

Damn, this is great work! I would love a copy of your folder, please

[dwitefry]

thanks to you all for being nice
and thanks for the cardback alfi, I stole it, that's the second series (there was one before it that didn't use Hasbro heads), still it gets me 50% of the way and 50% is a hell of a lot better than before .

[inorder2]

Love it!

Used to lurk here a while back -for references to figure lines. The 30 post rule tuned me off but am back to ask --beg for a copy of your visual book.
I have my own reference but not as awesome as yours. Nice!
Looking forward to lurking again too.