1. The Entire Maximum Sweat Line (JAKKS Pacific - 1998)
I really tried to narrow down the Maximum Sweat figures to one particularly awful one, but they're all just so horrendous, I had to include the whole line. The concept is crap, the title of the series is creepy and the way that all the figures look like they're squatting to take a s**t doesn't make things any better. They all have terrible facial expressions. Really, every one of them looks like they're in need of a good laxative to help them out. If you pay particular attention to Road Dogg in the bottom center, you'll see he's starting to resemble the final scene in Beetlejuice where Michael Keaton's head is shrunk down while his body stays the same size. Then you have Billy Gunn on the top right, who suddenly resembles Lou Ferrigno before his green Hulk paint's been applied. But the worst aspect of this line is the fact that each figure comes with it's own bottle of liquid, which you put into the figure so that the toy will sweat. That's right, the genius designers at Jakks figured that what kids were really craving from their action figures was a little more sweat, so with this line you got to pit a moist Kane against a perspiring Undertaker. Shockingly, the line went on to produce four different series of these abominations. No matter what bad LJN or Hasbro ever did, they never gave us figures that you filled with fluid in order to make them sweat. Thank God Mattel currently have the contract.
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