Show and tell time! Talk about the toys you loved.

Decius

Well it's my first time making a new thread with some actual content, so I hope I don't fuck this up. Anyhow, I was just inspired by the "obscure" cartoons thread to post a thread about another aspect of many of our childhoods

Toys!

As many of us in our 20s and 30s (and so on) have read through the cartoons thread, we've had an influx of memories come back to us. So now it's time to take another walk down memory lane, and talk about the awesome toys you had as little girls and boys in the 80s and 90s (and 70s, though they were slightly less awesome).

Obscure stuff is cool, but not necessary. Youtube videos to cheesy commercials gets you lots of cred...I guess. Can we as users give out "cred"? Anyhow, I'll get the ball rolling with this little nugget.

Wish I hadn't sold these

andjustrememberifitdoesntsaymicromachinesitsnottherealthing!

Incenjucar

I... I still have most of my toys...

I think I gave away my He-Man collection though.

But I have hella GI Joes and Transformers and such.

durandal4532

So I have a "Storm Trooper Rifle" that looks nothing at all like the blasters Storm Troopers use.

I remember my friend's rich, indulgent uncle once just gave all the kids $20's, which was madness for a 9 year old, and we got to buy whatever we wanted in the toy store. I got this totally sweet gun. It's turned out to be one of my better purchases, 13 years later and it still makes the same PEW PEW PEW noises as it did the day I bought it.

noir_blood

Oh god, I was just talking about this in the cartoon thread.

Saint Seiya toys. A thousand times Saint Seiya toys.

Saint Seiya was the anime growing up in mexico. I don't think any show or anime since then has surpassed the fevor this particular anime had. It was everywhere. Brand new episodes played on Saturdays, and on the Weekdays they would rerun the older episodes. And the toys were even more popular.

See, the main characters of Saint Seiya all had armors based off constellations or greek myths. So you had Pegasus Seiya, Andromeda Shun, Phoenix Ikki, etc. And the thing that made them different is that normally they were in a "statue" state, which would break off and form into the armors. And the toys did that too. Granted, they don't look like much now;



But back then they were awesome And like fifty dollars, so I think I only ever got two. I regret not holding on to them though, cause they now go on ebay for like 200 bucks. They were even popular enough that Bandai started to make new toys this past few years.

Quid

A few years ago my brother and I went with his family to my sister's place. It was just after SW Episode 1 came out. Her son had one of those simple robots that shot foam disks at the direction of a sensor in the light saber a person would hold.

We were incredibly jealous of him.

Incenjucar

I have this guy in storage.

95% intact:

real_pochacco

I remember that I had some pretty sweet action figures from this Godzilla remake

Goddamn, gigapets, tamogachis, I had all of those things. Fuck, I had a keychain with like 10 different ones.

Kagera

I have a bunch of Star Wars, He-Man, GI JOE, Transformers, and LEGO stuff in storage, though obviously not in the best of conditions after years of childhood enjoyment.

manji

Incenjucar wrote: »

I have this guy in storage.

95% intact:

*jealousy* stupid UK being denied the best transformers.

i've been pretty much buying up old skool transformers since getting steady employment. probably not what my parents would have forseen when they threw the whole lot out, but there you go...

manji

*double post shame*

Mike Danger

Tons and tons of Batman: The Animated Series action figures. I think they were donated to the Salvation Army years ago, though.

Someday, if I'm ever filthy rich, I'm going to buy all of the villains on eBay and line them up on my desk.

Doxa

sidewalk chalk burned a lot of my time. Not hopscotch, but just drawing. You'd think I would grow into an artist but noooooo, I'm one of the worst drawers in the world.

iguanacus

Incenjucar wrote: »

I have this guy in storage.

95% intact:

Got that bitch in box up in my parents attic. Found a wrapped gift up there a couple years ago, with wrapping paper from the 80's. Opened the end a bit, and what do I see, but a transformer box, completely unopened. Tag on is said it was for one of my cousins that just apparently never made it to their house.


***EDIT****

Also, I just remembered that I have this waiting for me in my parents garage

JamesKeenan

Oh god, the memories!!

I can't think of a single toy but this one. This was the first, the first toy that came to my mind. It came to my mind immediately, and now I can't think of any but this one.



I loved this toy. Ironically, it also was used against me as a weapon one day by my brother.

Through it at me so hard it broke skin on my knee.

Oboro

Uhmm

I had a Brio wooden train set, and some plastic dinosaurs, and I liked to combine the two

JamesKeenan

Oboro wrote: »

Uhmm

I had a Brio wooden train set, and some plastic dinosaurs, and I liked to combine the two

A winning combination for sure, m'lady.

tyrannus

STUFFED SHARK. NOTHING BEATS MY STUFFED SHARK, NOTHING

he'd eat legos and destroy lego towns and was a scourge upon the land and sea

his name was sharky

Oboro

the trains were fun because they connected to one another with magnets and I could always find new things that attached to the magnets and then became trains

like making new cars out of aluminum foil with refrigerator magnets in front

psycojester

I had a Brio train set, that shit kicked arse, and on the subject of plastic dinosaurs



I loved this thing when i was a kid, best dinosaur toy ever.

Bogart

We had a lot of Star Wars figures - like two hundred or so and tons of the vehicles. And a whole bunch of Action Force stuff, including the beyond awesome SAS Force jeep. And I think I cut up the Star Wars figure packaging board to send off a bunch of the name tag bits so I could get a limited edition bounty hunter guy. Then one day dad took the lot up to a jumble sale and got about twenty quid total. Thanks dad.

I have kept my Transformers and now occasionally dole them out to nephews at Christmas if they have been good. And we had the obligatory boxes of lego. And tons of matchbox toy cars. And then we moved on to citadel minatures and bought them by the hundredweight. And so on.

Ah, memories.

Oboro

my cousin got that one for Christmas!

I got most of mine as bundled with a magazine I got called I think it was just DINOSAURS!!

some of them were glow-in-the-dark

JamesKeenan

psycojester wrote: »

I had a Brio train set, that shit kicked arse, and on the subject of plastic dinosaurs



I loved this thing when i was a kid, best dinosaur toy ever.

Oh, my childhood! It returns! In piecemeal, but it returns nevertheless!

I had this toy, too.

Aegis

I had lego. Lots and lots of lego. I have seen that T-Rax before in stores when I was young, but I don't believe I ever bought it.

enderwiggin13

By the power!

Yoooooo Joe!

Oboro

oh man I had this awesome game but I don't remember the name of it

it came with these two sets of interlocking kind of fortress walls and the players made forts and then they used these little ballistas and catapults to shoot orange marbles at the other person's fort to see who lost first or something like that

those little catapults served me well

Bogart

I haven't looked at it recently, but it seemed that after I'd grown up lots of lego became a model kit - something to put together in exactly one way to form shape. It looked great and all but the pieces didn't seem to lend themselves to making up completely new things a kid would think up on the fly. Most of the fun I had with lego was building new stuff that wasn't on the box cover, like cantinas for my Star Wars figures, or giant pyramids that you built just to see if you could. You could always incorporate the few weird pieces, but I would have been out of luck if the box had consisted of just weird pieces.

Sir Carcass

Micro Machines were awesome. I used to tape sheets of paper together, huge groups like 10x10, and draw cities on them for my Micro Machines. Roads, neighborhoods, stores, parking lots.

My main toy was probably Legos. I used to love building things and then having my action figures destroy it. I also liked GI Joe and had many a fun adventure in the backyard. He-man was the king when I was younger, as well.

Now, about all I have are some Star Wars action figures (from when the special editions were released in theaters), some Star Wars Lego sets (X-wing, Y-wing, TIE Interceptor, AT-ST), and some Nerf guns. Most of that is put away in a closet, but I still enjoy the Legos, and will get them out every now and then. I'd love to get some of the classic Transformers, but they're just too expensive now.

Aegis

Oh shit yea, Star Wars action figures. I had so many at one point. There's a 2 foot tall AT-AT sitting in the corner of my old room at my folks' place in fact.

Oboro

Bogart wrote: »

I haven't looked at it recently, but it seemed that after I'd grown up lots of lego became a model kit - something to put together in exactly one way to form shape. It looked great and all but the pieces didn't seem to lend themselves to making up completely new things a kid would think up on the fly. Most of the fun I had with lego was building new stuff that wasn't on the box cover, like cantinas for my Star Wars figures, or giant pyramids that you built just to see if you could. You could always incorporate the few weird pieces, but I would have been out of luck if the box had consisted of just weird pieces.

I was a k*nex kid not a Lego one

I would attach the pieces without connectors so that they were very fragile and pretend that my creations were living things and they would interact

and the strong would add pieces from the weaker

until there was only one

and it looked a lot like the Ultralith from Starcraft

Sir Carcass

Bogart wrote: »

I haven't looked at it recently, but it seemed that after I'd grown up lots of lego became a model kit - something to put together in exactly one way to form shape. It looked great and all but the pieces didn't seem to lend themselves to making up completely new things a kid would think up on the fly. Most of the fun I had with lego was building new stuff that wasn't on the box cover, like cantinas for my Star Wars figures, or giant pyramids that you built just to see if you could. You could always incorporate the few weird pieces, but I would have been out of luck if the box had consisted of just weird pieces.

Yeah, most of the newer sets have more specialized pieces, but you can still buy traditional ones in bulk from Lego.

Oboro

Aegis wrote: »

Oh shit yea, Star Wars action figures. I had so many at one point. There's a 2 foot tall AT-AT sitting in the corner of my old room at my folks' place in fact.

the miniature ones were better! I had a Death Star that folded out to be scenes from Tatooine

and I'd make everyone have civil discussions in the Cantina or else I'd send them to time out with Mister Vader

EndrzGame

Great thread! Here's some of my favorite toys, the ones that I could find anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J5P2gHerEQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z3HHBKryY4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDALxV4yDZ8

Oboro

oooh oooooooh did any of you guys have Z-Bots?

I named them all after the kids from school and played ROBOT SCHOOL with those, that was fun times

Sir Carcass

Another toy I really liked that I can't find many people that remember was Army Gear. In my mind, it's like the perfect toy for young boys. They were full size plastic Army items, like a pistol, a survival knife, a compass, a canteen, etc. that would fold out and become little play sets for tiny plastic men. I loved the pistol.

Sir Carcass

EndrzGame wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z3HHBKryY4]

MASK was another of my favorite toys. I tended to like toys that weren't unitaskers.

shanis

Who had the Filmation's Ghostbusters toys? I know I did!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbC61FvyEU8

Dman

Bogart wrote: »

I haven't looked at it recently, but it seemed that after I'd grown up lots of lego became a model kit - something to put together in exactly one way to form shape. It looked great and all but the pieces didn't seem to lend themselves to making up completely new things a kid would think up on the fly. Most of the fun I had with lego was building new stuff that wasn't on the box cover, like cantinas for my Star Wars figures, or giant pyramids that you built just to see if you could. You could always incorporate the few weird pieces, but I would have been out of luck if the box had consisted of just weird pieces.

I was all about the lego growing up and was totally into building my own stuff. My brothers and I owned a ridiculous amount of lego.

I was also into plastic dinosaurs, those are sweet.

And I also played with little toy cars about the size of both of your thumbs side by side. My brothers and I would make a little city/skaterpark in the sand box for them.

For anyone secretly still into lego you should pick up lego mindstorms, you make functional programmable robots with little motors and sensors, its basic stuff but you'd be surprised what you can do with it, I won a science competition back in high school with it and all this talk of lego is making me want to play with it again.

KalTorak

My older brother and I shared a room and the floor was always COVERED with Legos. (Fuck you, I'm calling them Legos. "Lego" is a noun, not an adjective, because I said so.)

Those things fucking hurt when you step on them.

My brother used to make gigantic castles and pirate ships of his own devising. Then when I got pissed at him I'd run up to our room and smash whatever he'd built. Then he'd hit me a lot.

Sir Carcass

Dman wrote: »

For anyone secretly still into lego you should pick up lego mindstorms, you make functional programmable robots with little motors and sensors, its basic stuff but you'd be surprised what you can do with it, I won a science competition back in high school with it and all this talk of lego is making me want to play with it again.

Yeah, I'm probably going to be getting my Legos out tonight.

I always thought Mindstorms looked incredibly cool, but were way too expensive for me to justify.

Sir Carcass

Speaking of Lego, I wonder if that story is still around here. It was by an old forumer, I think Rambozo maybe, about how he built this huge spaceship and launched it into his backyard and then had the survivors build a colony out of the wreckage. It sounded incredibly cool. I'll dig around.

Edit: Fuck yeah

enderwiggin13

Aww man, I have an arseload of legos. The crown jewel of my collection is:



Yes, I bought it like a year ago and spent a week after work putting it together, but that was a fantastic week.

I also have 20-some new Star Wars figures on my desk here at work....