The toys you played with as a child....

My 3 faves that I can remember:

This Godzilla with a spring-loaded flying fist!

Super-Jock



You would smash his head down and that would make his foot flex and kick a field goal (Goal Posts provided!)

Transformers

G.I. Joes

Star Wars toys

Matchbox and Hotweels and their awesome tracks

Model Trains/Railroad

Hot Wheels (and I was/am vehemently anti-Matchbox )

various bouncy balls from the quarter machines...when they started making the ones with frost on them where they looked like planets, I spazzed out..

a large bamboo stick I would carry around with me for no particular reason, until it got too old and I had to go break off another one.

myself

Those big Gi Joes with the beard, were awesome.

Although that Evel bike was the best toy ever.

scott, I see you are a couple years younger than me. I missed the transformer thing.

Too bad! I was in 4th Grade when they hit..so yeah you're in 6th Grade by then thinking you're some cool punk who can't mess with toys.


When they came out with Transformers I thought they were a miracle.

micro machines. i had over 2k of them.

Two words: Optimus Prime

I got into Priest because of Transformers because I thought the Metallian on the front cover looked a lot like a Transformer, so, at age 10 was very intrigued and bought the cassette. The rest is my history.

Also:

G.I. Joe
WWF Figures
GoBots
Mask
Star Wars Figures
Matchbox Cars

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Two words: Optimus Prime

I got into Priest because of Transformers because I thought the Metallian on the front cover looked a lot like a Transformer, so, at age 10 was very intrigued and bought the cassette. The rest is my history.

Awesome!!

Mask...that sounds familiar...what was that?

Optimus Prime ruled! One of my worst days ever is when I had OP perched on our bar at home and shot the aforementioned Godzilla fist at him. OP went tumbling to the ground and one leg snapped!! I was devastated!!

I also had a giant Stay-Puff-Marshmallow Man I carried around whereever I went. I was confused as to why something so delicious looking carried the smell and texture of a slightly aromatic plastic, but alas.

MASK, Mobile Armored Strike Kommand, was a sort of hybrid of GI Joe and Transformers where the vehicles were driven by people and looked normal ( a tractor trailer, a 57 Chevy, a Harley, etc.) but had hidden weapons and stuff. Pretty much the last toy I was interested in b/c I was getting older and my fascination with Metal was to become all encompassing. Peace.

scottmitchell74 wrote:

Optimus Prime ruled!

the Decepticons were cooler than those lame do-gooder Autobots.

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the Decepticons were cooler than those lame do-gooder Autobots.

You just like them cause they're evil!!

That reminds me!! My crazy Smurf hating Aunt also targeted Transformers. She said they were Satanic because their antennas looked like devil horns!

Holy crap. Wait wait wait. I and nobody else has mentioned..



LEGOS


The best toy of all time.



Witness:

FUTURON Cosmic Laser Launcher

BLACKTRON Message Intercept Base

ICE PLANET Deep Freeze Defender


BRUTAL

scottmitchell74 wrote:

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the Decepticons were cooler than those lame do-gooder Autobots.

You just like them cause they're evil!!

true, i used to dream of the day when Mumm-Ra destroyed those annoying Thundercats.

Legos, Tonka Trucks, Hot Wheels, various Thingmaker kits (you youngsters won't have any idea what "Goop" is), Stat-O-Matic Baseball.

I cannot believe I forgot to mention Lego's ? I feckin' loved those things!!!

Too bad they're all merry and simplistic and based off movies now... Harry Potter Legos.. Star Wars Legos.. Batman Legos.... there used to be Space, Legoland Town, Pirates, Knights Kingdom/Fright Knights..etc... now it's all just sort of movie stuff, with huge main pieces, not as much actual building as before. Maybe with some of the Bionicles but that's not enough. We had Technic, too.

Star Wars action figures! (I had tons of them.. wish I still had'em, cuz the old school ones from the 70s are worth a fortune now...)

Legos - had tons of these! I used to make elaborate castles, buildings, houses, etc., and then crush them with my little plastic army tank and invade them with my lil' plastic soldiers.

Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars...and now my son has inherited the Hot Wheel Collecting gene, he has a huge drawer in his closet full of'em

tohostudios wrote:

Stat-O-Matic Baseball.

I used to play that, like two games yesterday and one this morning! In fact the 1963 Cardinals just finished a weekend sweep of the Milwaukee Braves to take over first place.

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tohostudios wrote:

Stat-O-Matic Baseball.

I used to play that, like two games yesterday and one this morning! In fact the 1963 Cardinals just finished a weekend sweep of the Milwaukee Braves to take over first place.

Freaking antiques!!

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(If I had one of those I'd never see my family again!)

Like OCI wisely stated LEGOs ruled. I remember the cowboy/islander themed sets were freaken rad.

Another LEGO like toy that was cool was Erecto-sets(please no bonor jokes)


Yoyos also were a pretty dope toy.

OH dude!!!!!

totally forgot "Creepie Crawlies", the one where you pour a liquid in a mold of different kinds of bugs and heat em up to produce little rubber bug toys. That thing was awesome. Every kid in the early 90's should have had one of thoses!

Star Wars (had everyone released with the original movie,as well as the Millenium Falcon,X-Wing,Tie Fighter,and Darth Vader's Tie Fighter- alas I gave them all away)


Micronauts (tons of them too;anyone have any of these ?)

Older guys may remember Shrunken Heads as well (hocked by none other than Vincent Price!)

Stender wrote:

OH dude!!!!!

totally forgot "Creepie Crawlies", the one where you pour a liquid in a mold of different kinds of bugs and heat em up to produce little rubber bug toys. That thing was awesome. Every kid in the early 90's should have had one of thoses!

Yep! I just did a Wikipedia search on those. Some company tried to resurrect Creepy Crawlies in the 90s. Back when I was a kid, Mattel owned the franchise and there were tons of variations. You could make bendable army men (with wire in the mold), flowers, scars and teeth, tons of different stuff.