![]() ![]() Hairy Heads: Also called Dread Heads or Scalps, they were keychain sized heads with synthetic hair and a unique Max figure.(The pieces would usually slide out instead.) Monster Heads: Even smaller toys containing a Max figure and a villain figure but no ability to open up.Horror Heads: Smaller playsets with fewer working parts.Three of these were released: "Mighty Max Trapped in Skull Mountain," "Mighty Max Storms Dragon Island," and "Mighty Max Takes on Terror Talons." Large Playsets: Exactly What It Says on the Tin much larger playsets often with many monsters and lots of working parts.Doom Zones: The earliest and most common, palm sized playsets containing a Max figure, a villain, and a few monsters.There were several different varieties of Mighty Max toys released. Being marketed more to boys, the genre was shifted away from Polly Pocket's " Slice of Life" style to Action Horror. ![]() ![]() But he was MIGHTY MAX, and he'd get back somehow!ĭesigned by Chris Wiggs and put into production by Mattel in 1992, Mighty Max was based off the Polly Pocket line of toys. Stumbling from one terrifying adventure to another with only cryptic clues to help him escape.he was all alone. "Aaaargh!" Suddenly the world had gone weird and very unfriendly! The cap had changed color! Something very strange was going on! He'd been caught in the Horror Zone. Trouble was, this was no ordinary baseball cap."Gotta look the business" Max thought as he tweaked the cap's peak round to the side. We also get the return of the Skull Master figure from the Double-Demon figure set - he can wield his menacing staff when it isn’t being fired from his big blue howitzer.Max's Dad left him with his old baseball cap. It sports a lot of silly, cartoonish decals - one more sign of Bluebird’s growing disinterest in the toy line - but there’s tons of great stuff to make up for it. Many a kid probably enjoyed busting this evil bastard’s face open. This set’s connection to the cartoon is obvious from the get-go: it’s made in the striking image of Max’s nemesis, the titular Skull Master. That has finally been remedied, so the collector in me can finally sleep well at night. I have no idea what the deal is with Series 3’s wishy-washy US distribution, but it’s a shame it kept me from getting the entire playset collection for twenty years. Some states didn’t get anything from Series 3 apparently. The Beetlebrow and Freako horror heads, like the Geela Guts doom zone of Series 3, were readily available all over the UK, but only select areas in the US for whatever reason. It’s also the only doom zone with a black Mighty Max logo, instead of the usual red. I only got it because, at the time, I was a completist. Where the designs are cool, the substance is…lacking.ĬYBERSKULL is too abstract for my tastes: it plunges Max into the belly of his own computer (just like the elusive Geela Guts doom zone, which plunges him into the belly of his pet iguana), so the interior is an amalgamation of computer parts and electronic miscellany. There are a few golden moments here, but despite the unchained creativity in the playset compositions, it was at this point I realized Max wouldn’t see a fourth adventure. On the plus side, the designers went all-out with the playset layouts: almost every one of them is a complex puzzle box of moving parts and odd configurations, from the vertically splitting Nautilus to the bagel-shaped Geela Guts. Here the bulk of Max’s adventures draws to a close as we finally round out the Doom Zone collection. ![]()
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