
I was finishing High School when the M.U.S.C.L.E. thing was big with the kids, so I missed it entirely--which is funny, because I have a younger brother who was really into things like He-Man, Thundercats, and Transformers at the time. He was my window into the whole '80s toy scene, and I usually played with his toys when I played with him.
M.U.S.C.L.E. figures, like so many other great '70s and '80s toy lines, where an Americanized version of something that was already big in Japan. Known as Kinnikuman, they played on the universally loved wrestling phenomenon that had become so huge by the mid '80s.
On a related note, a few years back they put out a modern-ish version of the show called Ultimate Muscle, which was both very good, and very well liked my by own son. A true testament to the strength (pun intended) of the Kinnikuman concept.
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I loved these guys and had a whole shoe box full of them!
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