Max Steel

Max Steel is a line of action figures produced by the toy company Mattel. The figures are very 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 2 or 3 special packages.

While little known in continental United States, Max Steel is one of Mattel's most commercially successful products worldwide . Max Steel was developed into an animated series, which originally aired from February 25, 2000 to January 15, 2002, as well as a number of direct-to-video animated films.

After Mainframe took control of the TV series, every new toy makes a brief appearance in the series or the movies. Also after the Endangered Species movie plot was included in the toy line, every new set of toys includes at least a couple of wild animals too. Waves 1 and 2 included exactly the same Psycho figure, with only minor changes in the box. Wave 3 changed Psycho's mechanic arm, while the rest of the body remained mostly the same.

Several large vehicles, including a mini jet, a boat and a couple of sport cars were released some time ago, at the beginning of the series. The jet is by far the largest toy ever produced on the line, followed a giant child-size Elementor figure. Despite of the constant presence of women in the series as main or supporting characters, no female figures were ever produced.