Oh yeah... those.

Reminds me of birthday parties.

shooting them with bb guns, blowing them up with firecrackers, burning them with soldering irons.

I had one of those. it wasn't as fun as i would have liked it to be.

Possibly the most useless toy of my childhood. MUSCLE guys didn't do anything. You couldn't even bend their arms or whatever. They just lied on the floor of my room until my mom made me pick them up.

I remember that one "Claw with a face" was the most popular one, and a kid in school scratched his own arm with it and broke the skin.

Weird.

Eventually, we learn that they are wrestlers.

Neither me nor any of the other kids knew what you were supposed to do with these things but dammit if we didn't knock ourselves out trying to collect as many as possible because they were crazy-looking, basically.