The Toys That Made Us (Netflix)

ghostryder

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• Jan 19, 2017

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New 8-episode Netflix documentary series called The Toys That Made Us about the history of important toy lines:

https://www.facebook.com/thetoysthatmadeus/

 

Riceball

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• Jan 19, 2017

• #2

Sounds interesting, I'm going to have to check it out once I'm done with Daredevil and Dark Matter.

 

Laspector

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• Jan 19, 2017

• #3

Hmm, I do a search for it on my Netflix and get no matches.

 

Moviefreak

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• Jan 19, 2017

• #4

Laspector said:

Hmm, I do a search for it on my Netflix and get no matches.

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On the link above, they say "coming soon" on the Facebook page.

 

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jwmbot

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• Jan 20, 2017

• #5

The logo has 80's written all over it, and from the facebook page it looks as if there's some possible LEGO love as well - certainly one to check out!

 

Wakeem

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• Jan 20, 2017

• #6

Yeah looks totally retro and 80s. Like that scene in the karate short movie with the time traveling cop.

 

Halliwax

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• Jan 20, 2017

• #7

More and more I'm glad I haven't canceled my membership to Netflix


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ghostryder

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• Dec 16, 2017

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https://www.facebook.com/thetoysthatmadeus/videos/379713302488055

 

ghostryder

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• Dec 18, 2017

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http://www.slashfilm.com/the-toys-that-made-us-trailer

 

Treadwell

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• Dec 24, 2017

• #10

Episodes are up!

Watched the first one so far and overall enjoying it. Mostly for the information, though, and less so for the direction/production style. A bit too clever/cute for my taste. Still recommend.

First one was about Kenner Star Wars, and there were goofs here and there in the b-roll selection: photos from a later period than what's being discussed, or showing Elstree set blueprints when discussing Kenner toy design schematics. They also completely breezed over POTF2, making the uninformed think there were no toys between ROTJ and TPM.

 

Solos blaster

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• Dec 24, 2017

• #11

I watched the 1st and third episodes, really enjoying seeing how all these toylines came to be. I'm not sure how many can really be made but I hope to see as many of my favorite lines as possible.

 

Funky

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• Dec 25, 2017

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I'm a little disappointed there were only four episodes. It's well done and entertaining. I found it odd that they did an entire episode just on Masters of the Universe. To me it seemed a bit of a waste when there are SO many other toy lines with much better stories that impacted our culture much more. Right off the top, I was surprised to see that they didn't do a show on Mego!

 

dbuck

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• Dec 25, 2017

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Funky said:

I'm a little disappointed there were only four episodes. It's well done and entertaining. I found it odd that they did an entire episode just on Masters of the Universe. To me it seemed a bit of a waste when there are SO many other toy lines with much better stories that impacted our culture much more. Right off the top, I was surprised to see that they didn't do a show on Mego!

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Right? The Star Trek, DC and Planet of the Apes lines were huuuuuge when I was a kid.
My father was a kid in the Davy Crockett era and nothing like it had even been seen in the licensing arena. Much like Star Wars today, Davy Crockett was on everything.

 

Prop Collector

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• Dec 25, 2017

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Funky said:

I'm a little disappointed there were only four episodes. It's well done and entertaining. I found it odd that they did an entire episode just on Masters of the Universe. To me it seemed a bit of a waste when there are SO many other toy lines with much better stories that impacted our culture much more. Right off the top, I was surprised to see that they didn't do a show on Mego!

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They are making 8 total. I can't imagine them not covering Lego, but the rest could be just about any other toy line that was popular at any time.

I really enjoyed the first four. I can't believe the He Man creators are so candid about making **** up as they went along in hopes that kids would fall for it.

 

JoeG

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• Dec 25, 2017

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Just started watching this today. Loved Ep1 and currently on Ep2. Its really well done, but one thing I can't help but notice whenever they are talking to one of the former CEOs of Mattel...

What the hell is that?!?!

 

Treadwell

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• Dec 25, 2017

• #16

Was wondering myself. It was a poor choice to have it there, very distracting.

 

hdtheater

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• Dec 25, 2017

• #17

I watched four of them the other day. I enjoyed them. Star Wars story had been told multiple times. I was surprised on the GI Joe relaunch. I did not know a lot of that story. I expected to see Transformers and Lego as well, but no dice. However, if you want a good Lego story, A Lego Brickumentary is very good.

 

Clutch

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• Dec 26, 2017

• #18

They should do Marx toys.

 

Funky

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• Dec 27, 2017

• #19

Clutch said:

They should do Marx toys.

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Or even Ideal.
How about Hot Wheels?
Matchbox?
Corgi?

 

hdtheater

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• Dec 27, 2017

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Funky said:

I'm a little disappointed there were only four episodes. It's well done and entertaining. I found it odd that they did an entire episode just on Masters of the Universe. To me it seemed a bit of a waste when there are SO many other toy lines with much better stories that impacted our culture much more. Right off the top, I was surprised to see that they didn't do a show on Mego!

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Did they only end up making 4? Initially, it was supposed to be 8. Even the theme song still says 8. What happened to the other 4 I wonder?