I used to have some of these figures when I was a kid, and, like most stuff from my childhood, they made an impression. My favourite was a space shuttle which made noises (not shown here). The nice thing about these characters was that they had no tie-in cartoon or comic books, so a child was free to make up your own stories and assign good or evil alignment to the figures as you saw fit.
The guy in the black crash helmet with the bionic claws was obviously evil, though.