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Warriors of the Galaxy (1983)

Stu Horvath — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:30:00 +0000

Back on my Hong Kong toy bullshit! This is Warriors of the Galaxy (1983), the big box play set from Marty Toy. There is a version of this box without the electronic soundboard, which seems to have come out around the same time. There were also smaller sets in blister packs on cards, some just with dudes, some with dudes and a vehicle (“dude” is the term of art my son applies to these sorts of plastic entities, be they men, women or creatures). Marty Toy seems to have been less a real company and more a marketing shell; it pretty much vanishes right after these toys hit this market. The toys themselves live on under a number of names, mostly from Hong Kong, mostly in increasingly lower quality copies — Galaxy Knights, Superteam of the Universe, Demons & Wizards. The handful of figures I previously posted appear to have been made in Mexico. None of these, to my knowledge, have any connection to Sungold’s 1987 Masters of the Universe knock-offs, Galaxy Warriors.

Anyway, this play set is pretty great, exactly the sort of thing I would have lost my mind over as a kid (and it honestly hurt me a little to tell my son he couldn’t play with these because they are relatively rare). There is so much to love! Two factions, Golden Heroes (zzz) and Galactic Demons (yea!), both of which are designed to hold brightly colored plastic weapons (which so far are still on the sprues in my set). Because of this, the little guys look like they are dancing when they aren’t holding anything, which I find endlessly charming. The vehicles, a sci-fi tank and a flying saucer, are little blow-molded delights that have holes where radar dishes and guns can get mounted. There are also little missiles on stands, so you can put them on the battlefield as they fly to toward their targets.

The real star is the soundboard. My goodness! Six sounds on a console featuring an angry plastic castle — electronic scan, rocket fire, explosions, laser gun, the rumble of space tank treads and a button for the sound of the UFO taking off, flying and, when pushed a second time, landing. I kept this on my desk for a long time when this first arrived and only put it away once I killed the batteries. Imagine if I worked in shared office space. Everyone would love me.

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Just Riffin’

Stu Horvath — Mon, 12 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, it’s a little bit of this and a little bit of that. There’s Stu’s new radio show, Games People Play (co-hosting with Unwinnable’s own Sara Clemens)! There’s Hambone’s reaction to Sinners! There’s the Rifts calendar! There’s the Warriors of the Galaxy play set with sound effects box!

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Galactic Demons (1983)

Stu Horvath — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:00:00 +0000

These doofs are four out of the six Galactic Demons from the Marty Toy Warriors of the Galaxy line (circa 1983 — the skeleton’s winged helmet and lack of any company marks make me inclined to believe these are Mexican copies from a slightly later date). The two missing guys are a bug-eyed lizard fellow and spikey-headed goblin guy. There are also six Golden Heroes, usually cast is metallic gold plastic, but those guys are pretty boring because they aren’t monsters. The entire line was designed to hold a variety of guns, weapons and shields molded in brightly colored plastic. I don’t have any of those, and that’s fine by me, because without the weapons, it looks like the little guys are dancing, and that cracks me up.

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