Last night some friends and I got on the subject of the weird-ass toys we had as kids. Lemon twist, Gyrobee, Evel Kenievel Super Stunt cycle, Stretch Armstrong, Suckerman, The Bionic Woman Bionic Beauty Parlour, etc. But we got stumped on a few of the weirder ones, and om these ones Google 'twas no help.
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[li]A weird action figure man with a transparent chest and all-too-visible lungs, heart, intestines and circulatory system that, when a lever on his back was pressed, his heart would beat, his lungs would expand and contract, and “blood” would circulate through his veins. I think he was part of the Six Million Dollar Man toy line because he had a removable face like Masketron, but I couldn’t find anything mentioned about him.[/li]
[li]A line of monster action figure toys made of some weird, slightly clammy rubber that you could tear apart and reassemble and they’d “heal”. You could also get other figures in the line and switch around the legs, arms, head, etc. I think they came in “eggs” for storage.[/li]
[li]Transformers (or maybe Go-Bots) that transformed into rocks. That was their gimmick – they transformed into rocks. Can’t imagine why they didn’t catch on. I ran across two Masters of the Universe figures which kind of fit this description with Google, but they aren’t what I remember.[/li]
[li]Creepy early 70’s Gothic doll. Had a “Big-Eyed-Waif” vibe to it and even had a plastic tear permanently attached to her cheek.[/li]
A line of action figures which, when you inserted tiny little versions of those chemical Glo-sticks inside them, their skeletons would light up.[/ul]
OH MAN!!! I seriously thought I was the only one to remember this toy! I stopped asking people about it because they looked at me like I was crazy! I loved these. I had a green colored one (sea monster I think) and it came with a stand that you rested it on so that it didnt get dirt all over it.
Does anyone remember the action figures of movies monsters like frankenstein and dracula that would glow in the dark?
I remember this guy but don’t recall its name.
Rock Lords.
The others aren’t familiar to me.
I knew this one right away, because I had it when I was a kid. His name was Pulsar, and he was way cool. Not only did he do the stuff you mention, but his face flipped open so you could insert “mission discs” into his head.
Pulsar’s archenemy was Hypnos, who, instead of a circulatory system, had a sparking hypno-disc in his chest!
The only toy that was cooler was J.J. Armes.
Aaah the joys of being a kid in the 70s when most of the toy designers were doing acid…
I can’t help on the ones listed in the OP, but I can add another to the list: a game (I think it was a board game) in which each player had to be the first to assemble a large plastic ant. It was way cool.
I had the Evel Kenievel bike too ('cept he lost his jumpsuit and spent the rest of his career doing nude wheelstands). 
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Aurora Cine-Monster Models! They were a major topic of conversation last night! I had the Frankenstein myself :).
It’s Cooties
OH SWEET LORD!
I… I remember those! Very very vaguely… I remember…They’d fold up and just be rocks… I had some of the toys, and I think I saw a movie about them that gave me the heebie jeebies for weeks. Some kind of rock-disease… oh god.
You’ve dredged up what was possibly one of the most traumatic experiences of my childhood, and I’d entirely forgotten about it. This is… weird. I’m gonna look into this. Anyone remember anything about a Rock Lords movie, or TV show, with some kind of strange disease that they had? Anything at all?
Weird! I had no idea these things were ever popular enough to warrant a cartoon.
I had one of them once. It was pretty neat, but the “healing” ability of whatever the heck they were fashioned of wore out way too quickly.
I suppose that in this day and age, though, a toy that encouraged dismemberment would probably raise an outcry.
I found it. It was called GOBOTS-BATTLE OF THE ROCK LORDS, and features some kind of ultimate weapon. Dosn’t say anything about a weird disease, but I swear on my LIFE I remember a Rock Lords disease… I have one clip in my head of one rock guy getting really sick, and falling over, and I remember having the crap scared out of me. This might also explain the worst dream I’ve ever had, which involved all my friends catching a disease that turned them into stone. I had no idea what inspired that dream until like, just NOW.
My psyche is a wasteland, but damned if it isn’t interesting.