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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2020 20:14:05 GMT -5
Hot Wheels track should have been banned as a Crime Against Humanity. I'm not sure anything hurt worse than getting whaled on with Hot Wheels track. Well...maybe getting your hand in between some seriously moving clackers. We (my cousins and I) used to have "sword fights" using the tracks. Then we had to explain the welts we had to our folks. It never went over well, but I was the youngest, so I usually escaped the worst of the trouble (but had most of the welts). -M |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 26, 2020 20:52:23 GMT -5
As a huge fan of robot toys, I'm dying to know what this is. That looks AMAZING |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 27, 2020 7:35:08 GMT -5
The biggest thing I remember as a kid was being the last kid to have a Nintendo.. I was big into video games, but had Atari (2600, then 5200), and my parents didn't get that there was a world of difference between Pac-Man and Super Mario Brothers. I finally got one in 1986 when the local newspaper I was a paperboy for had a contest where you'd get one entry per new customer to win a nintendo, and I actually won it. My mom claims to this day she was going to get it for me that Christmas, but I'm not sure I believe her. For actual toys, I was big into wrestling figures (the giant rubber WWF ones mostly), and a bit into GI Joe. I remember getting this huge base for them when I was like 8 that was really fun. I was also really into sports board games, so I played alot of Statis-Pro (RIP) and APBA sports games... back when one did the stats by hand.. getting a hold of my dad's accounting paper for that purpose was always exciting. As a teen (When my little brothers were of prime toy age) we collected Battle Beasts and Transformers... and would have big fights where we'd draft guys and had some crazy system as to who would win if they battled. They also made their way into my wrestling feds with the WWF guys  |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 27, 2020 8:01:09 GMT -5
The biggest thing I remember as a kid was being the last kid to have a Nintendo.. I was big into video games, but had Atari (2600, then 5200), and my parents didn't get that there was a world of difference between Pac-Man and Super Mario Brothers. I finally got one in 1986 when the local newspaper I was a paperboy for had a contest where you'd get one entry per new customer to win a nintendo, and I actually won it. My mom claims to this day she was going to get it for me that Christmas, but I'm not sure I believe her. That's amazing. I always wondered if anyone actually won those contests. Remember the one where you would get something like 5 minutes to load a shopping cart at Toys R Us? Anyway, you were definitely not the last kid to have a Nintendo, as I never got one. My parents, who were otherwise completely uninvolved in my life, saw something somewhere that convinced them video games would rot my brain, so I begged every holiday season and never got one. Finally, at the age of 11, I had a dog walking job and saved up for one over the course of maybe eight months (which felt like eight years) but, by the time I had enough money saved, Sega had begun packaging Sonic The Hedgehog with their Sega Genesis systems, and I felt like I'd be missing out if I didn't go that route. If I'd waited six more months, I would have been early to the Super Nintendo Era. No one I knew growing up ended up getting a Genesis, so I was sort of the odd man out. Oh man, the most fun part of those was just slamming them into the Wrestling Rink playset. The way they hit and bounced off was so satisfying and also kind of seemed real. I remember Hanukkah 1987 in which I pretty much just got those guys, night after night! I still collect Transformers, and man do I remember Battle Beasts! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 27, 2020 8:12:45 GMT -5
 This was the one that got away. For 2-3 years I was all about Mego Super-Heroes. I had a lot of figures, the Bat-cave and Bat-mobile. But I wanted a Joker-mobile in the worst way. But, alas, I didn't get it. |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 27, 2020 9:33:14 GMT -5
For 2-3 years I was all about Mego Super-Heroes. I had a lot of figures, the Bat-cave and Bat-mobile. But I wanted a Joker-mobile in the worst way. But, alas, I didn't get it. I was too late for Mego figures. For those that say '80s kids had the best toys, so many older siblings and cousins had these figures, and I was so jealous. Beside the fact that Superman was weirdly tan, they seemed so much cooler than the smaller figures I grew up with that couldn't change their costumes and weren't so much larger than life. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 27, 2020 9:42:14 GMT -5
For 2-3 years I was all about Mego Super-Heroes. I had a lot of figures, the Bat-cave and Bat-mobile. But I wanted a Joker-mobile in the worst way. But, alas, I didn't get it. I was too late for Mego figures. For those that say '80s kids had the best toys, so many older siblings and cousins had these figures, and I was so jealous. Beside the fact that Superman was weirdly tan, they seemed so much cooler than the smaller figures I grew up with that couldn't change their costumes and weren't so much larger than life. I was shocked at how popular the 3 1/2 G.I. Joe figures got. Because to me they just seemed so puny and they didn't do much. I kind of felt like I hit the sweet spot for boy "dolls." I inherited my brothers' Johnny West/Marx toys. I came in right at the perfect time for Mego. I concentrated on the Superheroes, but there was Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, etc. I hit the sweet spot for Big Jim (I had most of his Pack). And I came in on the tail-end of the original G.I. Joe, besides inheriting quite a few of the older Joes from my brothers. Beyond the fact that I was too old for them the subsequent little action figures just seemed to pale in comparison. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 27, 2020 10:29:25 GMT -5
Heh, see I was the opposite. I thought those big dolls were too hard to play with. I was all about having lots of the small ones  |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 27, 2020 11:22:37 GMT -5
I was too late for Mego figures. For those that say '80s kids had the best toys, so many older siblings and cousins had these figures, and I was so jealous. Beside the fact that Superman was weirdly tan, they seemed so much cooler than the smaller figures I grew up with that couldn't change their costumes and weren't so much larger than life. I was shocked at how popular the 3 1/2 G.I. Joe figures got. Because to me they just seemed so puny and they didn't do much. At least in the case of Joes, the 3.5" scale allowed for more elaborate vehicles and playsets. My primary interest was super-heroes, and the Kenner Super-Powers and Mattel Secret Wars stuff felt like total rip-offs compared to the Mego output. |
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Post by brutalis on Oct 28, 2020 20:03:09 GMT -5
It might seem lame today but we 3 boys were always excited when our grandmother who was working the local drugstore in Payson would buy the newest Colorform's to play with on our summer visitation.
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Post by shaxper on Oct 28, 2020 20:47:22 GMT -5
It might seem lame today but we 3 boys were always excited when our grandmother who was working the local drugstore in Payson would buy the newest Colorform's to play with on our summer visitation. I adored my colorforms! |
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 1, 2020 20:26:59 GMT -5
The biggest thing I remember as a kid was being the last kid to have a Nintendo.. I was big into video games, but had Atari (2600, then 5200), and my parents didn't get that there was a world of difference between Pac-Man and Super Mario Brothers. I finally got one in 1986 when the local newspaper I was a paperboy for had a contest where you'd get one entry per new customer to win a nintendo, and I actually won it. My mom claims to this day she was going to get it for me that Christmas, but I'm not sure I believe her. That's amazing. I always wondered if anyone actually won those contests. Remember the one where you would get something like 5 minutes to load a shopping cart at Toys R Us? Anyway, you were definitely not the last kid to have a Nintendo, as I never got one. My parents, who were otherwise completely uninvolved in my life, saw something somewhere that convinced them video games would rot my brain, so I begged every holiday season and never got one. Finally, at the age of 11, I had a dog walking job and saved up for one over the course of maybe eight months (which felt like eight years) but, by the time I had enough money saved, Sega had begun packaging Sonic The Hedgehog with their Sega Genesis systems, and I felt like I'd be missing out if I didn't go that route. If I'd waited six more months, I would have been early to the Super Nintendo Era. No one I knew growing up ended up getting a Genesis, so I was sort of the odd man out. I always got a console when it was cheap due to my mom being frugal. Loved my Genesis, PS1, and Gamecube, adored my Gameboy Color mostly due to my mom hiding it and the games in the fridge as a surprise |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2021 10:26:50 GMT -5
2. In 3rd grade, I was over GI Joe, but still into military toys. I saw this at the house of some friends of the family, their kids had it and I wanted it. We moved at the end of September in my 3rd grade year, and my parents felt guilty about moving me away from all my school friends, so they tried to make up for it with a big Christmas that year, so this was under the tree that year-The Marx Guns of Navarone playset...  This was such a cool playset, it was my "main gift" one Christmas, and instead of being wrapped in the box under the tree, I walked in that morning and it was fully set up including all the soldiers and vehicles. It was like I walked into the middle of a battle! Did not realize until I stumbled onto this picture this morning (while doing some unrelated toy research) that it was also branded as an Iwo Jima playset at one point:  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2021 11:12:58 GMT -5
I'll add my five (I'm sure on any given day this list could change a bit, but these were definitely huge for me): 1) Spider-Man Webmaker. I wanted this so badly, but my mom kept saying no because she thought I was going to get poisoned by the web fluid somehow. But then a next door friend who was super kind bought me one as a gift (very innocently, did not know my mother's position), and my mom finally relented so we could play with it together.  2) Batman Utility Belt. What can I say...Batman was a "normal" non-powered human like me. I was convinced if I had his gear (and my handy dandy vinyl Halloween Batman costume), I could begin my crimefighting career in earnest.  3) Star Wars...like so many of us of an age, it dominated much of my toy dreams. I had all the figures from the first movie and other related toys, but the famous mail-away for rocket-firing Boba Fett was the height of excitement for me. And the subsequent disappointment like every other kid when it came and did not actually fire.  4) Rinse and repeat...Boba Fett is the much more famous mail-away, but they also did the same for Bossk (and no promises made or failed on in this case). I was really excited for this one too.  5) D&D/AD&D and other TSR stuff was big for me as well. A little hard to choose here, but the Greyhawk folio edition just stands out as something I was particularly excited about.  |
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