Toys from when you were a kid

Local H Jay

I am a nostalgia fiend so I often look at toys from my childhood. I've even gone and gotten some again.


This Iceman is one of my favorites of all time. I love translucent plastic.


Here's a McDonald's Spider-Man toy. I played with this for years


I liked this venom for his big dumb goofy hands



These robots!!!


Currently fighting the urge to rebuy all these old DBZ toys I had

Local H Jay

Yooo can't believe I forgot these flippy head power rangers

Xaquin

Construx and omagles are toys I really miss

turns out that omagles are something very different these days =/

Librarian's ghost

I still have most of my toys from childhood in various boxes. Lotta Z-bots.

Anon the Felon

I was debating buying an old War Planets (Polly Pocket for boys) goober the other day because I was struck with a fit of nostalgia.

Local H Jay

I had one of these growing up
https://youtu.be/jDB0oklgLTc?si=baCY6WWIg24ea036

Uriel

I had the original digital Pokedex toy

I bet that's with money now

Andy Joe

My favorite was a MMPR Megazord.

King Riptor

I miss playsets. I guess drop tests made them obsolete but I loved them. I had the thundercats base l, the ghostbusters firehouse and the bat cave from the movie

Mortal Sky

I've been getting back into Beyblades recently, those things rule

Very few sensations that take me back to being a kid quite like getting an attack blade on a good launch

furlion

I still have an MMPR megazord that took batteries and had a wired remote to make it move and light up. The bottom of the feet have wheels, but the arms and head can move. That thing has got to be close to 30 years old at this point.

Olivaw

The only toys I’ve really felt an urge to go back for are the Micro Machines Action Fleet line. They were the ideal size and detail to make fly around my living room! The ones for my Star Wars action figures were out of proportion and too big and heavy for my tiny child arms to make do cool Immelmann turns around the table lamps

Also they had some weird ones for other brands. I think the Starship Troopers movie even had some! Oh, I’d probably also go back for some of those bug action figures, those things looked cool as hell

Ticaldfjam

https://youtu.be/hoJlRLe81cA?si=QfNbTIkJsa3DvMPY

Munkus Beaver

Z-bots

I am obsessed with Z-bots

Darmak

I was actually talking the other day about these old toys I loved as a kid but I can't remember the name of. They were small like Micro Machines but they were little robots or mechs or something? They had almost no articulation at all, maybe the arms could go up and down but that's about it? I don't really know, I just remember there being a lot of them but I only had a tiny handful of them due to living in the country and not getting new toys very often (and usually choosing videogames or Lego over anything else when offered). I don't even remember when this was, I guess maybe early to mid 90s? Gonna go poke around on Google and see if I can find these

Darmak

Wait, I'm talking about exactly what Munkus just mentioned fucking lol

edit: I had that big one, holy shit I forget about it!

BahamutZERO

Oh yeah I was into zbots, also the star wars and star trek micro machines

Munkus Beaver

Z-bots are rad as shit.

Ticaldfjam

The Real Ghostbusters Animated series Fire house, Ecto One Mobile, with the bucket of slime that you would put through the top center of the Firehouse on unsuspecting Peter Venkman two floors below.

The TMNT Turtle Van, Sewer sets.

GI Joe (Parents were like, The Aircraft carrier!? LOL, NOPE. Here is a Cobra Hiss instead for Christmas!") , and figures.

And of course, Transformers. ( Hey , at least said Parents got me the Transformer Decepticon Scorpion Fortress later.)

Houk

one of my greatest regrets is selling off my various toys, comic books and card collections to buy other stuff, to then sell and buy other stuff, and eventually having very little stuff left from my childhood

I want all those Nintendo games, GI Joes, and Marvel trading cards back dammit!

Darmak

Houk wrote: »

one of my greatest regrets is selling off my various toys, comic books and card collections to buy other stuff, to then sell and buy other stuff, and eventually having very little stuff left from my childhood

I want all those Nintendo games, GI Joes, and Marvel trading cards back dammit!

My shame is that I threw away my NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, PS2, oXbox, and all of my games, several years back when my wife and I were going through our closets and making space. Didn't even sell or give them away, I just chucked em in the trash.

MichaelLC

United States original metal-ass metal Transformers. Had all the main characters, Soundwave and Optimus were great. Had several or all of the Dinobots.
He-Man and his merry band of Masters of The Universe. Had a lot of those over the years. Think I eventually had both castle playsets.

Played with those a lot plus LEGO sets, didn't get into GI Joe. Also a 286 and eventually a 486 desktop computer.

Havelock2.0

Star Wars and Star Trek micromachines, legos, Jurassic Park action figures and dinos, GI Joe, little green army men, Stargate action figures, Hook action figures, Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood action figures, and of course TMNJ action figures

RT800

The desire to collect all the Jurassic Park toys was strong back in the day.

I had the Command Compound and bunch of dinos, but I never did get 'em all.

Houk

hmm I think the only one of those things I didn't have was whatever dinosaur that is coming out of the main gate - not sure if that's supposed to be a smaller t-rex or something

I can't recall 100% on the tour jeeps on the left, but everything else I had 100%. the big t-rex was the coolest thing ever, it had a recording of the big movie roar and was a fantastic enemy for all my GI Joes to take on

Havelock2.0

Houk wrote: »

hmm I think the only one of those things I didn't have was whatever dinosaur that is coming out of the main gate - not sure if that's supposed to be a smaller t-rex or something

I can't recall 100% on the tour jeeps on the left, but everything else I had 100%. the big t-rex was the coolest thing ever, it had a recording of the big movie roar and was a fantastic enemy for all my GI Joes to take on

Yesss it was so cool

The toy store in the mall was having a fire sale and my mom got the t-rex for a song along with the Land Cruiser and the Jeep

Years later the t-rex would have the roar function stuck on all the time so we had to pull the batteries

Local H Jay

Here we go

Local H Jay wrote: »

This shit was so killer. The working cannon that shot a giant rock was so good

RT800

Houk wrote: »

hmm I think the only one of those things I didn't have was whatever dinosaur that is coming out of the main gate - not sure if that's supposed to be a smaller t-rex or something

I can't recall 100% on the tour jeeps on the left, but everything else I had 100%. the big t-rex was the coolest thing ever, it had a recording of the big movie roar and was a fantastic enemy for all my GI Joes to take on

The smaller T-Rex coming out of the gate is supposed to be a "young" T-Rex. I had that one.

I remember it had a pop-out portion on its side you could take off to reveal muscle and ribs underneath as "battle damage". Didn't roar though. That was reserved for the Big T-Rex.

SniperGuy

Local H Jay wrote: »

Here we go

Local H Jay wrote: »

This shit was so killer. The working cannon that shot a giant rock was so good

I had this but I think my parents got it from goodwill, so it did not have a cannon and was missing the trap door thing.

I used it as a bathtub toy and had the knights do sword fights and toss each other into the water

amateurhour

I had this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEh2kJPqkdg

Local H Jay

amateurhour wrote: »

I had this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEh2kJPqkdg

Me toooo! I put in the op lol

Weaver

Nothing beats big stick that sort of looks like either a big cannon or a wizards staff

ChicoBlue

I had one of these

DEFENSORS DE NATURALEZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJi_BhE-nv8

Tonkka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2z7TaWe0KE

Havelock2.0

Weaver wrote: »

Nothing beats big stick that sort of looks like either a big cannon or a wizards staff

if you unscrew a broom handle it’s the perfect length for a lightsaber

SirToasty

BEAST

WARS

Tonkka

Yes I am this old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxcQzEo9eLk

Like, they didn't even have individual names yet at that point, just names for the factions.

Fishman

I had a few Zoids, a good number of Transformers, but the big collection was G.I. Joe.

Many of the the vehicles got cut over the years (mostly donated), but the large bulk of the collection got saved and packed into storage by my mother. I didn't even realise until a few years ago when she craked them out for my kids and siblings. They just turned up in the play area of her basement one day.

Bucketman

I was really big into Mighty Max and Street Sharks and TMNT and had to fight hard to not buy the re-released TMNT toys they had a year or so ago

Local H Jay

Bucketman wrote: »

I was really big into Mighty Max and Street Sharks and TMNT and had to fight hard to not buy the re-released TMNT toys they had a year or so ago

I'm a sucker for these reissues and remakes of old toys, I grabbed a retro Mikey because as a kid I never had the "regular" turtles toys - by the time I got into TMNT all the toys on shelves had them in crazy outfits like baseball players and magicians

Magell

Beside Lego Star Wars action flert were my favorite toys and the Yavin Base was my favorite christmas gift of all time. I still have all my ships and they've started making them again so maybe I'll add to my collection.