Remember Resaurus?

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The late 1990s really felt like a renaissance for action figure collecting. McFarlane had revolutionized what we thought action figure sculpting could be, and Toy Biz was innovating in articulation (like toe articulation on their movie Blade line).

I feel like Resaurus is the company that reminds me most of that era though. Their innovation was licensing, specifically video games, which had been largely neglected by toy companies. I can still remember the first time I saw a Duke Nukem action figure at Electronics Boutique at the mall. Blew my mind.

And even as the company was failing, they were doing that incredible Carnage realistic dinosaur line. Way ahead of its time! Almost all of their stuff was so cool.
 
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That takes me back. I used to love their Crash Bandicoot line. Had a bunch of the figures, but always lamented I couldn't find more of the bad guys. Only ever had N. Gin. I remember really looking forward to the Gex figures they announced, and being so bummed they never came out, along with the planned series 3 of the Crash figures.

If I remember correctly, Resaurus going out of business is how I first learned about what "going out of business" and "cancelled lines" even were, since I think that was my first experience with a line I loved being cancelled as a kid.
 
Duke Nukem.. now there’s a license I wouldn’t mind seeing revisited by someone. A deeper line with better articulated figures, in a 1:12 scale, as to be compatible with other lines. That would be cool.
 
They were definitely notable for all of their “hey, I wonder if anyone has this license?” lines. I’d forgotten about their Speed Racer line.

And I remember it being a big deal when Resaurus got the Street Fighter license. Since then, it seems like many fledgling action figure companies have used SF as a springboard license.

I loved Resaurus’s Quake 2 line, but I remember even at the time wishing they would go back and do the original Doom. Then it took another two decades before I got McFarlane’s classic Doom Marine.

Other cool toy companies from that era: Art Asylum (later to become Mezco), Toy Vault
 
I have no real nostalgia for anything Resaurus, BUT.... the guys from Resaurus are the ones that started Plan B Toys. Which, pretty much until G.I. Joe Classified, was the only/best source for 1:12 scale soldiers and firearms. I bought like three of the weapon packs they made and used those with basically every gun-toting 6" figure I owned for YEARS. I may even still have a few of them kicking around somewhere.
 
I loved Resaurus until I didn't.

I had everything of theirs. Crash Bandicoot, Duke Nukem, Street Fighter, Sonic, Speed Racer, Bone, Virus, Quake...

Someone mentioned Pitt, but I don't think it was Pitt. It was The Tenth.

I digress. Everything still holds up.

Still so bummed to this day that the Gex, Badlands, and Abe's Odyssey lines never came to fruition. Bummed that the rumored subsequent Crash and Duke series never came out.

But Resaurus and the Toy Buzz were the start to my online action figure community journey.

I was originally Blanka when I first started on many forums as a punk 15 year old kid, including the Resaurus forums. Chose the name because of my excitement at the time for their SF line.

I remember they were hyping up this line for the longest time, and kept dropping all these cool hints that it was going to be this badass, revolutionary thing...

...and it ended up being this lame line of 6 inch electric guitars. I think it was called PickUps or something. I, not having an adult filter, understandably (I think), expressed my disappointment. I was reasonable enough (for being a teenager) and stated that it was kind of lame how they hyped it up for weeks on end, only to show off lame little guitars. Especially when the forum was filled with wishlists of licenses for Resuaurus to pick up.

Ken Lilly or Doug Sapp, one of the two, decided to dress me down on the forums, and essentially call me ungrateful...etc.

Enough so that I vowed to stop collecting their shit after that day. And I stuck to that. They went under shortly thereafter. Not saying that I did that, but hey...I may have done that.

Now that I'm thinking of it, it was likely Ken Lilly. He's a bit of a mentally imbalanced dickhead. A perpetual victim who whines about his life daily on Instagram.
 
RicksNerdLife said:
I loved Resaurus until I didn't.

I had everything of theirs. Crash Bandicoot, Duke Nukem, Street Fighter, Sonic, Speed Racer, Bone, Virus, Quake...

Someone mentioned Pitt, but I don't think it was Pitt. It was The Tenth.

I digress. Everything still holds up.

Still so bummed to this day that the Gex, Badlands, and Abe's Odyssey lines never came to fruition. Bummed that the rumored subsequent Crash and Duke series never came out.

But Resaurus and the Toy Buzz were the start to my online action figure community journey.

I was originally Blanka when I first started on many forums as a punk 15 year old kid, including the Resaurus forums. Chose the name because of my excitement at the time for their SF line.

I remember they were hyping up this line for the longest time, and kept dropping all these cool hints that it was going to be this badass, revolutionary thing...

...and it ended up being this lame line of 6 inch electric guitars. I think it was called PickUps or something. I, not having an adult filter, understandably (I think), expressed my disappointment. I was reasonable enough (for being a teenager) and stated that it was kind of lame how they hyped it up for weeks on end, only to show off lame little guitars. Especially when the forum was filled with wishlists of licenses for Resuaurus to pick up.

Ken Lilly or Doug Sapp, one of the two, decided to dress me down on the forums, and essentially call me ungrateful...etc.

Enough so that I vowed to stop collecting their shit after that day. And I stuck to that. They went under shortly thereafter. Not saying that I did that, but hey...I may have done that.

Now that I'm thinking of it, it was likely Ken Lilly. He's a bit of a mentally imbalanced dickhead. A perpetual victim who whines about his life daily on Instagram.
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Huh. I wasn’t really paying close attention to their forums - I remember the Pickups line, I even had one (still might, somewhere?), but yeah, sounds like they over-hyped it and then took it personally when they didn’t set the world on fire.

I mean, they’re no Spotlight “Shoulder Action Figures”, but…yeah.
 
I had their Duke Nukem figure (forgive me, I was young). Good figure for the time, though. If I could go back I would've bought some of their Street Fighter stuff instead, but it's not like we've been under-served for that series.

Or Bone! I forgot they made Bone. Incredible comic.

The line of theirs I really wanted was the Magic: The Gathering one, but I guess the Hasbro purchase of WotC killed it. Then Hasbro showed off an MTG figure line that never got released anyway! It's weird how cursed that property is, figure wise.
 
I used to have some of their figures. Their Duke Nukem and a few dinosaurs from the Carnage line. It’s a shame that the company didn’t stick around


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