I did not grow up with a lot of money & my allowance was only $3-5 per week in the 1970's. In order to get these bigger toy items I had to ask for them for Christmas or my birthday.

Me three. The only time I got new toys were Christmas and Birthday presents, and occasionally for a good report card. I used to get a quarter a week for allowance when comics were 25 cents each. Shortly after that my folks bought their first house and money got tighter so I no longer got allowance. Again only birthday or Christmas money from relatives, I didn't get my own money again until I turned 16 and could get a job (with occasional money earned for raking leaves or some such when my parents let me work odd jobs, which was rarely as my mom was overprotective and I couldn't do anything like that unless they already knew the people I was working for or one of them could be there to watch over me, and since they both worked (weekends too usually) that rarely ever happened. I think they tried to make it up to me at Christmas and birthdays when they could afford it, but new toys was mostly a twice a year thing unless some kind of special occasion reared up.

I did get spoiled a bit by my godparents at Christmas and birthdays too though, as both were single and living in my grandfather's 3 family house relatively expense free, so they often splurged on their nieces and nephews, and I double dipped at godchild too.

-M

I love these toys that make no sense in terms of characterization, but are fun nonetheless. Batman was so much easier to market than Spider-Man, for obvious reason. 

Wow, lots of good memories to be found here. I had quite the toy collection from my youth, ranging from G.I. Joe to Transformers to Voltron to Centurions to Masters of the Universe to MASK to Star Wars etc. Unfortunately, we hit a rough patch a few years back when I got laid off so I had to sell a large chunk of my collection in order to help pay bills.

Did anyone have one of these?





I sold it along with most of my original figures along with a Sky Striker (with Ace).  I still have the first Storm Shadow figure with file card somewhere. And I still have a Sky Hawk vehicle too.






I loved Gobots, perhaps even more than Transformers (I certainly seem to remember loving the cartoon as well). I had a bunch of them but ended up selling them as well. Turns out I had a rare Cy-Kill figure whose color scheme was green and black instead of his usual red and blue.

I sold all of my Gen 1 Transformers but kept Jetfire because his design was based off of a Macross veritech design. I'm a HUGE Robotech fan but I had to bite the bullet and sell some of those toys as well. The one I regret and miss the most is Gakken's Cyclone toy from Mospeada/Robotech New Generation.




Y'see, back then, I convinced my mom to order this toy for me from one of the store ads in Comico's Robotech books. I wanted this one the most back then so I passed over another RT toy that has since become my Holy Grail to acquire, the SDF-1:




And did someone mention a Hulk utility belt?



I had one! The only item I have left from it is the communicator. Beam me up Bruce!

Howdy to another Robotech/Macross fan.  I posted pictures of my collection a while back.  I'm sure you'll find a few things of interest.

classiccomics.boards.net/post/32038

The collection has grown a bit since then (I've added a third display cabinet), but this gives you the general idea of my interests.

The missile pods that attach on his arms were cool but unless I was doing something wrong, I never could get the missiles to fire even though it looked as if they could via the little blue buttons atop them.