The Top 10 M.U.S.C.L.E. Men That Got Real Action Figures

You might remember M.U.S.C.L.E., those little pink figurines from the ’80s that depicted an assortment of wrestlers so bizarre they might have stepped out of an Oompa Loompa’s acid-induced brain implosion. You might be aware that those very weird characters, who arrived without much of a backstory, were all imported from the slapstick Japanese manga wrestling epic, Kinnikuman. What you’re less likely to know is that for several years, those tiny pink wrestlers who once fit so easily in the zippered pockets of your bookbag have been receiving full-on, full-sized action figure treatment, mostly from Japanese toy company Romando. If you ever marveled at the bat guano-insane and irreverently sadistic details of your M.U.S.C.L.E. figures and wished you could have larger, articulated versions of the characters to do battle with Skeletor and D’Compose, prepare to have you mind Oompa-Loompa’ed. Here are 10 of the greatest M.U.S.C.L.E. characters next to their much larger and less monochromatic counterparts. And before you complain that your favorites aren’t pictured below, keep in mind that A) we might give you a sequel to this list down the line and B) some of the Japanese Kinnikuman action figures are hard as **** to come by.

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