Max Steel Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Max Steel Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Max Steel is a line of action figures produced and owned by the toy

company Mattel since 1999. The original figures based on the first TV

series were similar to the original 12-inch G.I. Joe toys, consisting

almost entirely of different versions of Max Steel, the main

character, and one or two of his enemies, a couple of vehicles and two

or three special packages. The original toy series ran from

1999â€"2012. At the end of that period, was substituted by a different

series of toys with the same brand name, but with a change in quality

and design intended to tie into the companion TV series in 2013. The

2013 line did not exhibit 1/6 scale of the original and reduced the

number of articulations and action features of the figures.Max Steel

was simultaneously developed into an animated series of the same name,

which originally aired from February 25, 2000, to January 15, 2002,

followed by nine direct-to-video animated films, being released

annually from 2004 to 2012. A reboot aired on Disney XD in the United

States, where it had premiered on March 25, 2013.In 1998, Netter

Digital was commissioned by Mattel to create and develop a secret

agent themed TV series partially based on James Bond's adventures, but

aimed to young kids. The series premiered in 2000, but since October

1999, the first toys based on the series hit the shelves. The Max

Steel toy line quickly become an instant success, although most of the

first toys were completely different from the characters on the

series. This may be due to the fact that both, series and toys, were

developed simultaneously, but in independent way. Most early Max Steel

toys had a notorious military, adventure or sport clothes not related

to the series in any way, but surprisingly quite similar to the 70's

Mattel's action figure Big Jim. It was also noted that in Latin

American market, many Big Jim toys were sold at that time under the

name "Kid Acero", which literally translates as "Kid Steel", a

different Mattel toy line who also had a similar plot as Max Steel's

TV series. Eventually, Mattel cleared those apparent coincidences in a

TV episode in which it is revealed that Max Steel is indeed Big Jim's

son, and other secondary character named "Jefferson Smith" is actually

"Big Jeff" from the same classical Big Jim toy line, just 20 year

older, hence making a connection between both toy lines, thus making

this one of the first times a toy company makes a continuation of

generations of toys, taking in consideration their history,

backgrounds and timeline.After the first year, development of the

series went to Foundation Imaging, an animation company which

eventually declared a bankruptcy at the end of second series. Mattel

then choose Rainmaker Entertainment as the main animation studio,

which at the time also was in charge of Transformers: Beast Wars.

Following the same formula as Beast Wars, once Mainframe took control

of the production, every new toy makes an appearance in the series or

the movies, so they finally made a match. After the Endangered Species

movie, every new set of toys includes at least a couple of wild

animals as companions of Max too. The original run of the original toy

series began in 1999 and ended in late 2013, with the reboot of the TV

series. Since the toy line was intended solely for male kids, despite

of the constant presence of empowered women in the series as main or

supporting characters, no female figures were ever produced.
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