At least, that is what Mattel wanted kids to think in 1976 when they released Pulsar, The Ultimate Man of Adventure.
Standing a little taller than Kenner’s Bionic Bigfoot at 13 1/2 inches, Pulsar is decked out in very 70’s stretch pants and a velcro shirt. Peel away Pulsar’s apparel and you’ll discover that our hero has a transparent chest, revealing his most intimate internal organs. Inside you’ll find a pretty reasonable facsimile of a human heart, lungs, and a circulatory system the size of the large intestines. See a close up.
In Pulsar’s back is a pump. Press on the pump and his heart beats, his lungs “breath” and the blood in his veins will flow.
Unfortunately, whatever substance was used for the blood almost always is congealed and won’t move a corpuscle. Of course, that doesn’t stop it from still being pretty cool
Aside from that, Pulsar doesn’t really do anything else. Mattel also sold a medical bay that you could strap Pulsar into. In many ways, it resembles the Bionic Transport and Repair Bay.
Appropriately enough, Hypnos doesn’t have a circular system, he has a hypnotic spinning disk in his chest… pretty clever eh? When you push a lever in his side, a multi-colored disk in his chest spins, extruding hypnotic rays! Hypnos is a friction toy, so when you pull his lever, e-hem, sparks fly in his chest.
Hypnos’ torso and limbs are cast form the same molds as are Pulsar’s, but his interior is dramatically different, as is his purple head. Hypnos has a very sinister cast to him, not unlike Sinestro, the rogue Green Lantern, but it is hard to be too evil when you’re naked. Hypnos’ only stitch of clothes is a black mask.
Pulsar is a pretty easy toy to find either loose or boxed. A mint boxed Pulsar can usually be found for around $60. Loose with one of his mission discs, Pulsar might fetch $30 to $45. I’ve only ever seen one of his medical bays, however, and that toy, loose, sold for $250. Hypnos is only slightly less harder to find than the medical bay, and with the box sells anywhere from $50 to $100.