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How Many of These 1991 Toys Did You Have?
1991 was a great year to be a kid with no taste. The Ninja Turtles were everywhere, Monster in My Pocket and Mini Boglins filled your pockets, and someone at Playmates looked at a gory cult film and thought: Toxic Crusaders. We picked 25. Did you have them?
The 25 Best Toys From 1991
Good luck. These are our picks for the best toys from 1991: the action figures, tiny monsters and total oddballs that filled toy boxes that year. Go through them one at a time and see how many you owned.
Ganesha #62
One of the Series 2 monsters, in a neon green you could spot from across the playground.
Bloody Bones #68
An old British bogeyman, now in neon orange and small enough to lose.
Bloth
A giant villainous pirate from a cartoon nobody else remembers. You remember.
Rappin' Mike
Michelangelo with a microphone. The early 90s have a lot to answer for.
Wolverine
The one every kid grabbed first. Nobody ever played as Cyclops on purpose.
Toxie
A kids' toy of a gory cult film about a mutant janitor. 1991 had no filter.
Spew
Small, rude and exactly what it sounds like.
Deadeye Duck
A four-armed duck with a bad attitude. Who wouldn't want one?
Ultimate Warrior
All neon, no indoor voice.
Chrome Dome
Robot villains with a shiny head were simply non-negotiable.
Werebunny
It's a werewolf rabbit. We have nothing to add.
Spin
You pressed the button, he fell apart. Peak engineering.
Power Arm Terminator
You were not allowed to watch the film. You got the toy anyway.
Rahzar
A mutant wolf from the second film, and a shelf essential.
Magneto
Every good X-Men shelf needs a bad guy in a great helmet.
Bucky O'Hare
A green space rabbit in charge of a starship. Zero notes.
Macho Man
Ooh yeah. You did the voice. Don't lie.
Stink Buzzard
Bin monsters were a real business plan, and this one nailed it.
Darkwing Duck
Get dangerous. Politely, on the shelf.
Captain Planet - Thunder & Lightning
He's our hero. Sorry, that's in your head now.
Overlord
A Transformer with a name that promises a lot. He delivers.
Little Dracula
A very small vampire with a very big head. Criminally underrated.
Sergeant Bananas
A gorilla soldier who came with a lemur called Larry. Sold.
Dr. Gangreen vs. Ketchuck
A toy line about killer tomatoes. Yes, really.
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30 More From 1991
Super Shredder
Bigger, angrier and the first Shredder who looked like he could actually win.
Cyclops
Somebody had to be in charge. Nobody wanted it to be him.
Ymir #52
A tiny frost giant in a colour no frost giant has ever been.
Nozone
A pilot with an enormous nose. That was the whole pitch.
Groundchuck
A mutant bull. Your mum still found him under the sofa.
Slick
Crash him, rebuild him, crash him again. Best value toy of the decade.
Major Disaster
Possibly the best name on this list.
Juggernaut
Unstoppable in the comics. Top heavy on your bedroom floor.
Dirtbag
A mutant mole who needed a wash, and we respected that.
Bruiser
Every crew needs a big lug. Bucky's crew had this one.
Storm
Weather powers beat claws. We said what we said.
Spy Tong
Mini Boglins looked like something you'd find in a drain. That's praise.
Secret Weapon Terminator
Your friend said his was better. He was probably right.
Roddy Piper
Loudest man in wrestling, now in pocket-friendly plastic.
Toadborg
Half toad, half machine, all villain.
Psycho
A villain called Psycho on the kids' aisle. Different times.
Nightcrawler
The coolest X-Man. This is not up for debate.
Peter Pan (Air Attack)
The film was all about growing up. You ignored that bit.
Cesspool
A G.I. Joe villain named after a sewage pit. Perfect.
Space Usagi
A samurai rabbit in space. Somebody had a great meeting.
Daryl
Another dummy, another excuse to drive things into walls.
Apocalypse
Huge, blue and furious. He never lost a fight on your carpet.
Smogcycle
Even the bike looked like it smelled terrible.
Ectoplasmic Phantom #61
A ghost the size of your thumbnail. Lost within the week.
Jimmy Snuka
They called him Superfly, and the plastic version earned it too.
Wyrm
Even we can't explain this one. Did you actually ask for it?
Odd Job
A Bond villain's henchman on a kids' cartoon. Bowler hat included in spirit.
Mantus
The show barely lasted. The figures still look brilliant.
Shell Slammin' Mike
Turtles doing sport. Nobody asked, and everybody wanted one.
Head Droppin' Raph
The name alone earns a spot on this list.
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Toys from 1991 FAQs
- What toys came out in 1991?
- Plenty, and plenty of it was odd. This list runs from Toy Biz's X-Men and Playmates' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Toxic Crusaders, Darkwing Duck and Tyco's Incredible Crash Dummies. These 25 are our picks, not every toy from the year.
- Why was there a Toxic Crusaders toy line?
- Toxic Crusaders was a 1991 kids' cartoon based on The Toxic Avenger, a gory cult film that no kid should have seen. Playmates made the figures.
- How do the stickers work?
- Go through the list and say which toys you had. 3 earns Bronze, 7 earns Silver, 13 earns Gold, 20 earns Platinum.
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