its face peeled off. Bruise Brother: An ugly biker with a battered blue helmet. Wolf Breath: A werewolf with large, rotten fangs dripping with blood (drool in the Art Asylum era). Fist Face: A severed hand clutching an eyeball (later depicted as a severed hand with an eyeball emerging from the wrist in the Just Play era). Swine Sucker: An ugly, drooling wild boar. Lock Lips: A creature with its jaw locked shut and one eye covered by a riveted plate. Super Madballs Touchdown Terror: An American football with a manic grin and missile-like fins and tip. Goal Eater: A soccer ball with very large pointed teeth. Foul Shot: A basketball bursting open to reveal a face with worms crawling out of one eye socket. Head-Popping Madballs These were posable figures with an ejectable/swappable head: Dust Brain, Skull Face, Screamin' Meemie, Oculus Orbus, Horn Head, and Slobulus from Series 1. Bruise Brother, Wolf Breath, and Lock Lips from Series 2. Similar imitation toys Due to the popularity of the Madballs, there were many similar imitation toys, such as: "Blurp Balls" by ERTL: Boney Tossteeth, T-Retch, Count Heave-A-Heart, Spittooey Sooey, Biff Barfball, Sharkey Skullsquert, Retch-A-Rat Tomcat, and Croakey Bugchuck. These toys were designed by artist James Groman, with character names and editorial by Rick Reising. "Weird Balls" by The Mel Appel Company: Sewer Face, Brain Ball, Wart Hog, Spit Ball, Shrink Head, and Rock Slime. "Spit Balls" by Lanard Toys: Sharky, 20/20, Ba-Boom, and Crybaby. Original Madballs re-release In 2016, the vinyl figure company Kidrobot released nine of the original Madballs in their original foam style, slightly modified. They also released keychains and vinyl figure blind boxes. These are the Madballs that were released: Screamin' Meemie Oculus Orbus Slobulus Skull Face Horn Head Dust Brain Freaky Fullback Swine Sucker Lock Lips Home video Unlike many high-profile toylines at the time, the Madballs did not have an accompanying television series. They did, however, have two direct-to-home video cartoons released by Nelvana. The first one, released in 1986, was a 22-minute episode called Madballs: Escape from Orb in which the titular characters are a rock and roll band who performs across the galaxy but heads for Earth as music is illegal on their home planet, Orb. The video also featured a female, cartoon-exclusive Madball named Freakella, modeled after the Bride of Frankenstein. It was directed by Laura Shepherd and written by Heather MacGillvray