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>>10467582
there's alot of crazy fun toys from the 50s and 60s like garloo. I always imagined him and robot commando were rivals on the level of godzilla and kong or frankenstein and dracula. Im surprised nobody has attempted to reissue these things. Imagine the boomer bucks you could rake inl

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Anonymous Thu 15 Jun 2023 13:13:45 No.10467970 Report

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also related is big loo. this guy was a swiss army knife of a toy. I think he was part water gun, part nerf gun, lit up, and did all kinds of other things ontop of it.

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Anonymous Thu 15 Jun 2023 19:00:12 No.10468515 Report

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>>10467946
Why do you fear soul?

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Anonymous Thu 15 Jun 2023 19:32:49 No.10468562 Report

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>>10467914
No.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jun 2023 01:51:22 No.10469254 Report

Quoted By: >>10469311 >>10469393

Wasn’t there a similar toy of a large wolf-monster from the 80s? Keep forgetting the name of it.

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jun 2023 02:14:24 No.10469311 Report

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>>10469254
Gorzark maybe?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jun 2023 02:46:24 No.10469393 Report

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>>10469254
>>10469311
there used to be rumors that he was meant to be apart of the inhumanoids line
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w7scmcrsPQc

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jun 2023 02:48:50 No.10469400 Report

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>>10467582
Proto-Shrek

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jun 2023 03:04:28 No.10469438 Report

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FYI, the $17.98 price tag for Great Garloo in 1961 equates to $182.88 in today's money, adjusted for inflation. That's a pretty damn pricey toy.

Given that so few boomer kids could afford him back in the day, I wonder why there's so much nostalgia fuel for Garloo. There's plenty of re-sculpted toys and figures of him in today's market. There's probably more new Garloo figures made today than there were of the original Garloo back then. You don't see anyone demanding a funko pop of Big Loo, the giant moon robot. Strange.

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jun 2023 03:08:59 No.10469453 Report

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>>10469311
YES! Thanks anon. And turns out this was from the early 90s. I never heard of it until I started visiting /toy/ years back. I would have been 7-8yrs old when this came out but have no recollection of it.

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jun 2023 11:56:32 No.10470064 Report

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>>10469438
>Given that so few boomer kids could afford him back in the day, I wonder why there's so much nostalgia fuel for Garloo
Why not? I never owned most of the toys I'm nostalgic for.

It's all about living the childhood dream.

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jun 2023 17:49:59 No.10470615 Report

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>>10469453
I would always accidentally turn this mother fucker on
ARR!
ARRRRRRRR! ARRRRRRRR! ARRRRRRRR!

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jun 2023 18:06:43 No.10470653 Report

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>>10469438
>ou don't see anyone demanding a funko pop of Big Loo
maybe Big Loo fans are classy enough to recognize funko pops are crap

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Anonymous Sat 17 Jun 2023 01:36:55 No.10471343 Report

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>>10470653
But Garloo gets tons of modern toys besides Funko - there's the Super 7, Nacelle, several sofubi and non-toy merch like shirts. Big Loo didn't even get a Funko even though half of his name is literally the same as Garloo's.

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Anonymous Sat 17 Jun 2023 02:03:38 No.10471397 Report

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>>10471343
Garloo’s face reminds me of the Exeter.

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Anonymous Sat 17 Jun 2023 02:05:32 No.10471400 Report

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>>10471343
He's just that cool

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Anonymous Sat 17 Jun 2023 02:58:41 No.10471489 Report

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>>10471343
i think its down to the fact that garloo has more of an international appeal than Loo. tin toy collectors in japan absolutely worship garloo and herald him as a white whale. it makes the abscence of reproduction garloos all the stranger. for fuck sake you can still buy wind up repro-robby the robots.

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Anonymous Sat 17 Jun 2023 03:00:41 No.10471493 Report

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Marx really was king of robot toys for nearly 30 years

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Anonymous Sat 17 Jun 2023 03:07:32 No.10471505 Report

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>>10467582

The Great Garloo was released in 1961 for $17.98, so calculating for inflation that would equal $175.98 today. That was a very expensive toy for the time, and most kids wouldn't have one.

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Anonymous Sat 17 Jun 2023 21:50:01 No.10472708 Report

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>>10471505
I never had most of the big LEGO sets like the M-Tron Multi Core Magnetizer, doesn't stop me from recognizing them as peak.

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