Planet Heroes is a line of toys from Fisher-Price created by Danny DeVito, depicting various heroic characters each identified with a specific planet. These characters represent their planets in design and features, such as Mercury and Pluto are very small, while Jupiter is a larger toy. The toys representing the planets have numbers on them corresponding with the number of planets from the sun they are. A few of the planet heroes toys were released in a basic model that comes with a smaller accessory. These include the Earth Ace with Skateboard instead of Go Kart and the Mars Digger with Drill and shield instead of Rumble Rover.
Heroes
Original Characters
Mercury Zip - Accessories are a small gun and a 2-wheeled vehicle, that when rolled back will zip forward.
Dazzle is the only female character in the toy line. Her accessory is a lava launch gun.
Earth Ace Earth Ace Basic Earth Ace come with a Go Kart, the basic figure comes with a skateboard with wings.
Mars Digger comes with a Rumble Rover vehicle. The basic version comes with a drill and shield.
Jupiter Gustus - Jupiter is the largest Planet Hero and can spin 360 degrees. He comes with a pet robot dog.
Star Shooter] Star shooter comes with a star surfboard.
Moon Lunar comes with a small moon buggy.
Sun Commander is a larger toy and comes with a small bird that rests on his shoulder.
Voice Comm Characters
Voice Comm characters are versions of the original characters that have different accessories and speak a few phrases.
Voice Comm Sun Commander comes with a Sun Staff.
Voice Comm Earth Ace comes with a dog.
Voice Comm Mars Digger comes with a dog.
Voice Comm Jupiter comes with a gun.
Metallic Squad Characters
Metallic Squad characters are a second line of planet heroes toys that took most of the original heroes and gave them a metallic uniform and new accessories." The character Star Hollywood is unique to the Metallic Squad line. Metallic squad characters for Sun Commander, Mars Digger, and Jupiter Gustus have not been released.
Space Patrol Mercury Zip has slight color differentiations from metallic squad Mercury Zip. Product #P8450
Space Shooter Venus Dazzle has no discernible difference from the metallic squad version. Product #P8454
Space Patrol Earth Ace has slight color variations from Metallic Squad Earth Ace. Product #P8448
Creature Squad Earth Ace is packaged with a silver dog that looks exactly like Jupiter Gustus' dog. Product #P8446
Space Patrol Moon Lunar has slight color variations from Metallic Squad Moon Lunar. Product #P8449
Space Shooter Saturn Rings has slight color variations from Metallic Squad Saturn Rings. Product #P8456
Space Shooter Uranus Yuri has slight color variations from Metallic Squad Uranus Yuri. Product #P8453
Creature Squad Neptune comes with a sea serpent. Product#: P8443
Creature Squad Pluto comes with a plutonian polar bear. Product #P8444
There are slight color variations between Space Shooter Star Shooter and Metallic Squad Star Shooter. Product #P8455
Space Patrol Star Hollywood has no discernible difference from the Metallic Squad version. Product #P8451
All of these items were released in 2009. Just like the metallic squad, Mars Digger and Jupiter Gustus are left out. This product line seems to mostly be a repackaging of the Metallic Squad.
Villains
Original Characters
The characters Photon and Neutron are sold in a set with Professor Darkness.
Professor Darkness comes with Photon and Neutron.
Photon Comet
Neutron Comet
Tiny asteroid comes with an asteroid boulder and a launcher.
Voice Comm Characters
The Voice Comm toys are versions of the characters that have different accessories and speak a few phrases. Red Giant Slash is Unique to the Voice Comm line.
Voice Comm Professor Darkness Black Hole] Voice Comm. Professor Darkness comes with a Neutrino Ray, and a hand heldray gun.
Voice Comm Red Giant Slash comes with a gun.
Voice Comm Tiny Asteroid] Voice Comm Tiny Asteroid comes with a small asteroid figure.
Accessories
Solar Quarters: This is a play set designed for the planet heroes toys.
Turbo Shuttle: This is a spaceship designed for the planet heroes. It has two secondary spaceships that can break off of the main ship in battle.
Voice Comm Jet]: This jet features voice comm technology and seats 1 planet heroes character.
Moon Buggy] This land vehicle has room for 2 characters.
Earth Ace Special Edition Set] : This set includes Voice Comm. Earth Ace and his puppy, DVD, skateboard, and exclusive motorcycle, not found in any other sets.
Ultimate Professor Darkness Gift Set] : This set includes Voice Comm. Professor Darkness, Photon and Neutron, DVD, Neutrino Ray, and exclusive Space Blaster and Mini Sub only found in this set.
Comic book/DVD
Three DVD episodes and comic books have been released for the Planet Heroes. The DVD episodes are approx. 16 minutes.
Every planet hero action figure comes with a trading card that on the front contain a picture of the character and on the back have facts about the planet and the planet hero.
The planet Heroes toy line was officially discontinued in late 2009. The most difficult toys to find are Voice Comm. Sun Commander and Voice Comm Tiny Asteroid.
