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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 3, 2014 11:56:46 GMT -5
When I was young enough, Marx could do no wrong.
Capitalism at its finest, really!
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Post by Jesse on Jul 3, 2014 12:15:18 GMT -5
You guys know there's a toy thread right?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2014 12:21:35 GMT -5
I know there's a "comic-related toys" thread, but these aren't comic-related, at least to my mind.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 3, 2014 12:48:00 GMT -5
My brother had the Monster Maker. I'd completely forgotten about that ! I had one of those, and I too had completely forgotten about it until now. MRP's description triggered my memory and after a quick trip to The Google to confirm, that's exactly what I had. My big thing was Star Wars. I had all of the first 75 or so figures they made, up until the second wave of RotJ figures and the unending string of Ewoks and oddball creatures that hung out in Jabba's palace. Also had lots of the vehicles, the Death Star, the Droid Factory, and a good number of the playsets with the plastic bases and the cardboard backs. Eventually got a handful of G.I. Joe figures, but I was getting a little too old by the time they were getting really popular to keep acquiring them.
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Post by MDG on Jul 3, 2014 13:04:07 GMT -5
Bringing to mind Is that Nelson Rockefeller as the symbol of the Right? Shows how far things have shifted.
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Post by Jasoomian on Jul 3, 2014 13:43:59 GMT -5
More likely as a symbol of capital, which Rockefeller most assuredly still is...
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Post by Jesse on Jul 3, 2014 14:32:48 GMT -5
I know there's a "comic-related toys" thread, but these aren't comic-related, at least to my mind. Fair enough. I certainly wouldn't be opposed to an all purpose toy thread. The new one seems mostly dead without zyrson. He must have not signed up for the new forums yet.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 3, 2014 14:56:12 GMT -5
Definitely not a lawyer, and I know states vary, but there is such a thing as "at will" laws. One aspect of them that I ran up against is that employers (and employees)in states with those laws employ people (or in the case of employees, work) "at will" and can hire or fire (or quit) for any reason or no reason, as long as it doesn't conflict with other laws (anti-discriminatory, etc). The situation I was in, I was fired in blatant conflict with the process set down in the company's employee handbook, but couldn't do anything about it because it wasn't a contract and they employed me "at will". May have no bearing on anything else in the discussion, but that was my experience. Of course. And the firing often coincides with increases that have to be paid in salary and/or commission. Shocking. Cue Claude Rains. Unquestionably true. In my case, there were two of us in the same supervisory position. One had their face firmly planted in the butt of the manager above us and went along with everything she wanted to do, no matter how much it screwed over the workers. The other one spent a great deal of time arguing with the first two about not screwing over the workers. Guess which one got fired?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2014 15:16:23 GMT -5
I know there's a "comic-related toys" thread, but these aren't comic-related, at least to my mind. Fair enough. I certainly wouldn't be opposed to an all purpose toy thread. The new one seems mostly dead without zyrson. He must have not signed up for the new forums yet. I never visited the CBR thread because, for whatever reason, I've never had, IIRC, any interest in comics- or superhero-related toys, action figures or the like. I don't think I ever encountered any before adolescence, even though with the popularity of the Adam West Batman (which started about midway through my first-grade year) they must've been out there.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2014 15:18:29 GMT -5
Of course. And the firing often coincides with increases that have to be paid in salary and/or commission. Shocking. Cue Claude Rains. Unquestionably true. In my case, there were two of us in the same supervisory position. One had their face firmly planted in the butt of the manager above us and went along with everything she wanted to do, no matter how much it screwed over the workers. The other one spent a great deal of time arguing with the first two about not screwing over the workers. Guess which one got fired? Ironchimp?
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 3, 2014 15:33:36 GMT -5
One of the local radio stations plays a little blurb that may be appropriate here-going to church no more makes you a Christian than sitting in the garage makes you a car... -M Funny and true
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2014 19:35:47 GMT -5
Ok if we're going Marx "army men" playsets, this is the one I had.... and the Knight's/Vikings set that had these Viking figures... with a castle was made of some kind of metal not plastic. -M
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 3, 2014 19:57:51 GMT -5
I didn't know they made a playset based on the movie The Guns Of Navarone And I still can't believe Rob Petrie slept thru that film in the theater
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 3, 2014 20:45:48 GMT -5
Never had a Spirograph, either "Did you know that there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it."
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 3, 2014 20:49:31 GMT -5
When I was a kid I was all about the action figures: Super Powers, Secret Wars, Star Wars, Star Trek, GI Joe, He-Man, Transformers, Go-Bots, Knight Rider (I had a talking KITT), etc. Also board games and Atari followed by Nintendo. Plus viewmasters and laser tag. My friend had a Light Bright, Etch-a-Sketch and tonnes of Lego.
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