They did, however, have two direct-to-home video cartoons released by Nelvana. Unlike many high-profile toylines at the time, the Madballs did not have an accompanying television series. Madballs: Escape from Orb VHS front cover These are the Madballs that were released: They also released keychains and vinyl figure blind boxes. In 2016, the vinyl figure company Kidrobot released nine of the original Madballs in their original foam style, slightly modified.
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Bruise Brother, Wolf Breath and Lock Lips from Series 2.ĭue to the popularity of the Madballs, there were many similar imitation toys, such as:.Dust Brain, Skull Face, Screamin' Meemie, Oculus Orbus, Horn Head and Slobulus from Series 1.These were posable figures, with an ejectable/swappable head: Foul Shot: A basketball bursting open to reveal a face with worms crawling out of one eye socket.Goal Eater: A soccer ball with very large pointed teeth.Touchdown Terror: An American football with a manic grin and missile-like fins and tip.Lock Lips: A creature with its jaw locked shut and one eye covered by a riveted plate.Swine Sucker: An ugly, drooling wild boar.Fist Face: A severed hand clutching an eyeball (later depicted as a severed hand with an eyeball emerging from the wrist in the Just Play era).Wolf Breath: A werewolf with large, rotten fangs dripping with blood (drool in the Art Asylum era).Bruise Brother: An ugly biker with a battered blue helmet.
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Splitting Headache: A monster with the skin on half of its face peeled off.Freaky Fullback: A mutant football player.Snake Bait: A forked tongue-sporting gorgon (later depicted in the Just Play era as a monster being devoured by a snake).This Madball was originally named "Crack Head", but was later renamed "Bash Brain", due to the unpleasant connotations of crackhead as a slang term for a drug user.Īll Madballs toys were conceived in the early 1980s by the creative team at American Greetings Properties, which was formally named Those Characters From Cleveland, or TCFC for short: Ralph Shafer, George Chanter, Mark Spangler, Jim Elliott, Kim Hammeren and Vint Gonser.
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There were two series of the original Madballs collectible toys. The toys were rubber or foam collectible bouncing balls with grotesque faces and designs.