Let's take a moment to appreciate one of the trippiest toylines ever made: Power Lords.
What the photos there don't make clear, and which adds considerably to the trippiness factor, is that many of the toys turned parts around, as is demonstrated in a scan here (the blue tattoo-covered guy can turn around so he looks like a semi-normal guy or something).
I'll be frank-even a toyline like Robo Force looks better than most of that. (Except for Arkus [the main villain of Power Lords]. I've owned Arkus's head as a hand-me-down for years, and I still love that thing. And Arkus still looks delightfully weird. Too bad he's probably the most fragile toy in the known universe.) The Robo Force robots may be repetitive and plain, but at least they're charmingly ugly. (And they make great substitutes for Skeletor's robots.)
Also, bonus points for the presumably unintentional parallel between their subline and the relatively recent Transformers toyline (Beast Machines).
-Signing off.
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