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How did you play? [Nostalgia Thread]
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My two favorites are an OJ Simpson one featuring a sketch from his trial and a "doorknob" style slammer that was half the size of a roll of quarters.
Seems like it would kind of defeat the purpose.
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I still have this monster of a board game in the attic. Missing the red 'fireball' marble, though ...
The best part about Dennis Nedry was that you could pull his arm off.
Fun fact, Wayne Knight (the actor who played him) visits his parents, who live in my hometown (Cartersville GA), on a frequent basis. He's an awesome guy and has a great sense of humor about his roles. He also thinks it's funny that his only action figure was also the one who could have the arm ripped off, even though that never happened in the movie.
He called it "creative merchandising".
A quick GIS makes me believe it may have been a G1 Overdrive (although that's not exactly what I remember).
I remember sitting around for hours creating all my own vehicle forms. Every slight twist of a part created a whole new vehicle. I must have had a dozen or more.
Every time my mom recalls how enthusiastic I was going through everything with her, I turn a very uncomfortable shade of embarrassed. Apparently, I was very pleased with myself.
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Found a picture I could post. Loved these things, especially when towed behind a car.
Also Crazy Carpet. 'nuff said.
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stupid growing up in the south
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My brother and Ihad Grant, Malcom, and Nedry (though Nedry had dark glasses and a green sweater, not red.), a raptor, the dilophosaur(sp), and the Land Cruiser.
Then Toys-R-Us had a liquidation sale and you could get JP stuff for dirt cheap, and we hauled in the T-Rex and the Utah Raptor. That was like a day of days for my young self. I couldn't believe that I managed to get the T-Rex. I played with that thing for hours.
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Oh wow, thanks for posting those images. Except for the Tron stuff I had toys from all of the above (never got the hovercraft but always wanted it). Being a spoiled kid in the early 80's was awesome.
And the diecast enterprise was the best hand to hand weapon to hit your brothers with. Fact.
Also another one I just remembered thanks to Regular Show were Wrestling Buddies.
I regularly beat the shit out of Hulk Hogan and some blonde wrestler I never knew the name of.
So we had several Barbies, one of which was the Hawaiian one, who, by virtue of having black hair, was the evil Barbie. She spent much of her time in her lair (usually some Lego construction) plotting to kidnap Ken or a baby or kid Barbie. Usually she would dupe the My Little Ponies into carrying out most of her dirty work. Then Barbie and the one My Little Pony who was smart enough to not fall for the evil lady's plots would have to go rescue Ken/the baby/whoever.
Ken also often fell down the elevator shaft in the knockoff Barbie Dream House we had.
I suspect that much of this was in fact influenced by my mom's soap operas.
When we were playing with the Barbies "normally", we'd dress them up in different outfits and they'd have dinner parties on the roof or something, until we got bored and then down the elevator shaft they went (though that was as far as we went with Barbie torture/body modification).
Man, really? Used to play that with my sis and dad, and it worked fairly reliably, if memory serves me right. Sorry it didn't for you, though.
Then Jurassic Park came out, and we spent hours on end, pretending we were Velociraptors (or at least what Jurassic Park told us were Velociraptors). Basically we would run around the yard. There was this one tree,, which was more like a hundred little trees growing all around a big ass stump that you could run into and kind of hide in, but not climb cause the little trees weren't that strong. We'd run around with our arms scrunched up pretending to attack things by jumping onto the chain link fence, and "clawing" it with our feet. Then pretending that a T-Rex was chasing us off the kill and we'd go hide in that tree, then try and attack the T-Rex while it was eating our kill etc.
Then I got a Sega Genesis, and that shit was over on day 1.
But years later we watched the movie "Step Brothers" and about shit ourselves laughing. I'm sure any of you have seen it know exactly which part I'm talking about.
The goal of our founding fathers was freedom. The goal of our current politicians is control.
It took me some serious googling because I couldn't remember the theme's name, but I had this:
Probably my favorite lego set that I had. It was part of the M-Tron theme, which had magnets as part of the sets. This one had a crane with a magnet that would attach and load/unload a cargo container with that magnet.
Neptune's navel, I had that too!!!! It was so awesome. Totally just remembered it from seeing those huge wheels and the canopy.
Very bizarre but interesting concept.
One Christmas my mom made me a huge furniture set for barbies made out of plastic canvas. It was pretty much every possible piece of furniture you could imagine. There were couchs and chairs, a 4-poster bed, a phone, lamps, tables, a fridge and oven, rolltop desk (which I've always loved). It was the best thing ever. I would spend hours basically playing interior decorator in my room with the furniture but then once everything would be set up I'd be bored actually playing.
When I found a friend who also played Barbies we had elaborate adventures that spanned weeks but they were really boring things like hanging out and going to the mall and dating. I think my friend generally made up the story. I just liked the decorating.
I also had My Little Ponies and troll dolls. Colourful dolls with sparkly jewels? How could you not love that shit!
I always really wanted Meccano, but that was too expensive, so I made due with Lego. I really wanted to do stuff with moving parts though. I had this one lego part that was basically a spool with a wire that could attach to something at the end. That one lego piece got a lot of action when I was creating things.
But the shells themselves were way cooler than Polly Pocket - not only did they represent what went on inside, some of them like the Magma guy had stuff they could do.
Kids took their toys pretty seriously.
Yeah, I heard that one as a kid as well. It's kinda true to be frank, but whatev, MM was cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0srD9lZgQfs
These guys were awesome... Magnetic boots! They could go anywhere.... You could store a fold out tank inside of the cargo bay of the fold out jet....
The jet fired missles, the tank had a magnetic missles that the jet could pick up and drop into the tank.
There was a smaller jet that could fold up for transport as well... seriously the dogfights I had with these guys!
I had most of these, used every chair in the house to make some impressive webs of the ribbons and wires.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKGjif2Bj5A
So much fun with this. Lots of injuries though, rubber band in the face effect courtesy of little brother
Gundam Wing Models
I didn't get any of those big ones during their run except Epyon. I was always mad they didn't make a model for Heavyarms in that scale.
But from further back, I remember these.
Streetsharks
And I also remember that my parents would absolutely not ever get me one of them. But there's always that one friend who got all of them.
Also, I remember that I once accidentally broke my friend's Batman figure (one with the snap on armor "Bruce to Batman" gimmick) almost right after I got it for him for his birthday. I hid it in his toy box and he noticed the break but thought it just happened for no reason. He'll never ever know.
Oh god
That commercial
My younger cousins, all of whom are girls, took their Barbies and held them like weapons (the feet being the pointy end), and play-shanked me. So I guess there's that?
Oh, I remember Street Sharks. My brothers and I were into Biker Mice from Mars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJPYmd8_Qdw&feature=related
When Street Sharks came out, when I was seven, I thought it was a crappy imitation trying to ride on the coolness BMfM. I hated Street Sharks.
I remember watching Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. Awesome.