Yes, there was. And if you blinked you most likely missed it as it only ran for 23 episodes. The show was based in part on an abandoned script for ROBOCOP II, however the only character names the series' creators were allowed to use were Robocop and his pre-cyborg moniker of Alex Murphy. All of the other names had to be changed and references to the films were not allowed. Oh, and Robocop was guided by a holographic cyber-angel. WTF?
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| That's Pudface Morgan to you, pal! |
Perhaps the oddest thing about the ROBOCOP series was Murphy's arch-nemesis on the show... a man simply known as: PUDFACE.
If you didn't know about the syndicated series, you were probably even less aware that there was a line of toys based on the show. The toys were produced by a little company called TOY ISLAND. To say the quality of these figures wasn't great is an understatement. These things looked like party favors, not good party favors mind you, they were more like dollar store party favors.
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| What did you say young man? *SLAP* |
Now this figure makes the initial installment of this feature not only because it was a poorly fabricated and just all around fugly toy. But, of course, because it's name is PUDFACE!
Imagine the horror of many parents as their child yelled down the aisles of TOYS R US or KayBees... "Mom/Dad! Can I get PUDFACE?!"
The figure is highly UNARTICULATED, note the gun sticking out of his pants, which is actually sculpted onto the figure. Oooh... playability! At one time I owned a Pudface figure, which I purchased from a clearance bin at Kaybee Toys. I never did open the ugly S.O.B and ultimately I think I donated him to charity.
What was I thinking? The poor kid who got stuck with that probably grew up to hate toys.
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1 comment:
Haha, these were horrible figures. I remember seeing one of these at Wal-Mart, not sure which character - but the leg was broken off in the sealed plastic. Fancy.
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