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Nostalgia toy thread - Nerf vs. Super Soakers

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    CerriusCerrius Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    GSM wrote: »
    But wait! There's more!
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    I owned one of those 3 tank monstrosities on the far right side. Took forever to fill, hard to pump, and heavy as hell.

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    ArcSynArcSyn Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    LEGO used the triforce in 1987. Interesting.
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    ShimShamShimSham Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    ArcSyn wrote: »

    Ah, memories. Not every day you see the manual for the castle you got when you were 5.
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    I still have the cardboard front for the first set, with that picture on it, literally 15 feet away from me.

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    WallhitterWallhitter Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    GSM - that is the true face of God.

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    HomelessHomeless Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    oh shit, i had one of the super soakers with the 2 gallon back pack

    we never had neighborhood wars though, my neighbors were fucking squares

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    South hostSouth host I obey without question Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
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    mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Homeless wrote: »
    oh shit, i had one of the super soakers with the 2 gallon back pack

    we never had neighborhood wars though, my neighbors were fucking squares

    ambush a backyard bacbeque, the revolution isn't gonna start itself

    me and my brother established rivalries all over our neighborhood

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    HomelessHomeless Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    my neighborhood was like 12 houses in the middle of this relatively undeveloped wealthy area

    there were like 4 kids besides me and my brother and they all sucked

    shit, i'm gonna get a super soaker when i have the chance

    maybe have some battles with my friends in a park or something

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    Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    The best Lego series was Pirates. Everyone knows it's true.

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    mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    this one time i nailed my neighbor in the head with a water balloon while he was mowing and had headphones in

    solid snaked it, never saw me

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    B.C.B.C. is a bee! remember me?Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I'm going to say Nerf guns are cooler.
    Only because I carry bad memories from being point blanked by a fully pumped shot of one of the fucking massive Super Soakers.

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    SamiSami Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    OH MY GOD

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    I had this, and I loved it so much. I would take care of it and sleep with it and pretend that it was going to grow up and I would train it to be a good dinosaur and ride it and oh man oh man I'm going to go cry myself to sleep.

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    saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Has anyone mentioned Construx yet?

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    SamiSami Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    also,

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    ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Nerf guns win. No contest. Super soakers were fun and everything.. but seriously. I am in college and my friends and I have wars all the time. We even have a huge rivalry going with another dorm across campus. Declarations of war and everything.

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    naporeonnaporeon Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Look.

    I respect Nerf guns and all.

    But I was sold on squirtguns the day my father filled up two of them with red and blue food coloring, and then shot my friend and I with them.

    It took us a while to notice, but damned if it wasn't really fucking awesome.

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    TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Man, I remember when I was little. I didn't have many real legos.

    My mom would get me megablocks.

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    Herr CaesarHerr Caesar Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Has anyone mentioned the Optimus Prime with trailer? The one with the voice box that's all like "I AM OPTIMUS PRIME!" If not, I'm mentioning it now.

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    KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited May 2007
    they don't make a super soaker sniper rifle

    so

    pfffffffffft

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    CarnivoreCarnivore Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Its Lego.

    Not Legos.


    Will people stop using the wrong word.


    The plural of Lego is Lego, like Jedi.

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    TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Knob wrote: »
    they don't make a super soaker sniper rifle

    so

    pfffffffffft

    All that pressure needed to get it to go far enough would make it far to dangerous, it could hurt somebody.


    Hurting people is not cool bonK

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    SamiSami Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Uriel wrote: »
    Knob wrote: »
    they don't make a super soaker sniper rifle

    so

    pfffffffffft

    All that pressure needed to get it to go far enough would make it far to dangerous, it could hurt somebody.


    Hurting people is not cool bonK

    Half of the games I played growing up were just variations of "hit eachother but not too hard, don't be a fag about this"

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    KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited May 2007
    Carnivore wrote: »
    Its Lego.

    Not Legos.


    Will people stop using the wrong word.


    The plural of Lego is Lego, like Jedi.

    if you're going to be a pedantic shitfag about it, then the proper term is LEGO

    all caps, no pluralization

    if you want to be really anal, then it'd be LEGOâ„¢


    but nobody actually gives a fuck so legos it is

    and legos are awesome

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2007
    Carnivore wrote: »
    Its Lego.

    Not Legos.


    Will people stop using the wrong word.


    The plural of Lego is Lego, like Jedi.

    HELLO COMMON USAGE

    HEY FUCK YOU BUDDY

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    SamiSami Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    oh shit pedantic

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2007
    Sami wrote: »
    Uriel wrote: »
    Knob wrote: »
    they don't make a super soaker sniper rifle

    so

    pfffffffffft

    All that pressure needed to get it to go far enough would make it far to dangerous, it could hurt somebody.


    Hurting people is not cool bonK

    Half of the games I played growing up were just variations of "hit eachother but not too hard, don't be a fag about this"

    "dammit let's wrestle" was always a fun one.

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    tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited May 2007
    oh knob i love you

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    Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    God I fucking loved Lego. I had lots of pirate stuff, and would recreate naval battles between Skull's Eye Schooner and the Imperial Flagship:

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    I also had some miscellaneous island or base sets, and some of the Islanders - those crazy face-paint natives. Between all of these I had enough gold coins to actually fill one of the smaller boats - took like eight chests to store all of it.

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    TalonrazorTalonrazor Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I had both of those sets.

    Took over a week to get them built.

    But goddamn was there epic battles afterwards

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    DeciusDecius I'm old! I'm fat! I'M BLUE!Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Let's not forget the awesome Visionaries. Too bad the series was so short lived. I'm actually surprised I even remember it, considering I was 5 and was being inundated with so much 80s pop culture.

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    Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Talonrazor wrote: »
    I had both of those sets.

    Took over a week to get them built.

    But goddamn was there epic battles afterwards

    The best part was using the crane on the 'Schooner to throw a boat full of pirates at the King's men.

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    Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    my brother had this giant skull water gun. not a super-soaker, but a generic brand. that fucker lasted forever, and had enough power to shoot almost all the way down the street. it had like a five gallon tank and took both hands to pull the thingy back to empty the tube and shoot the water out.

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    Filler Inc.Filler Inc. Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I loved legos. They were the best thing ever. Your imagination was your guide through playland with legos, and when you were all done, you could scatter them on the floor for your parents to step on in their barefeet and then they would hit you.

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    SpaceGhostSpaceGhost Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
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    OctobotOctobot Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    anyone remember StarCom?

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    more here

    A really cool toy line. The figures had magnets in the feet and the vehicles all changed configuration or had weapons that deployed without batteries. Apparently there was a cartoon (like every other 80s toy) but i dont remember that, but the toys themselves are great.

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    ParisInFlamesParisInFlames Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
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    Tron was before my time. But man, did I play the fucking shit out of these things(I had the red one). Wood floors + steps = hours of fun.

    And screw your Legos that had instructions. I just had one of those big red suitcases full of pieces.

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    ArcSynArcSyn Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Octobot wrote: »
    anyone remember StarCom?

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    A really cool toy line. The figures had magnets in the feet and the vehicles all changed configuration or had weapons that deployed without batteries. Apparently there was a cartoon (like every other 80s toy) but i dont remember that, but the toys themselves are great.

    I was TRYING to remember what they were called! Thank you!

    I had this one:
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    TheCanManTheCanMan GT: Gasman122009 JerseyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Construx pwns Legos. Truth.

    Also, back in college (yes, college) me and a bunch of my friends would ambush each other with supersoakers (or any watergun, really). But it wasn't just a free-for-all war. There were rules. Everyone would carry around 3 tokens and whenever you'd get hit you'd have to give up a token to whoever shot you. The only safe-zone was the student center, but everywhere else (at any time) was game-on. Walking to class...going to get some food...just sitting in your own room...whatever. There were alliances formed (and broken) between people who lived in the same dorm. When you ran out of tokens, you were out of the game. At the end of the semester, the one with the most tokens won.

    It was cool.
    We weren't.

    I used one of these for "home defense". I also used it to blast the scum off our shower at the end of the semester.

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    GSMGSM Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I have one of these in storage somewhere, but it's missing most of the parts.
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    We'll get back there someday.
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    cramsincramsin Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Dude, this thing is massive

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    And Hot <3<3

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