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

DenimAndLeather wrote:

My 3 faves that I can remember:

I had this Evel Knievel toy too... I beat the hell out of it and finally destroyed it when I revved ol' Evel up and launched him down the stairs to my basement. Evel may have survived jumping the Snake River Canyon, but he didn't survive a high velocity trip into a concrete wall.

Fat Freddy wrote:

DenimAndLeather wrote:

My 3 faves that I can remember:

I had this Evel Knievel toy too... I beat the hell out of it and finally destroyed it when I revved ol' Evel up and launched him down the stairs to my basement. Evel may have survived jumping the Snake River Canyon, but he didn't survive a high velocity trip into a concrete wall.

I had this one too, along with the big GI Joes, then later, the small Joes, along with a whole mess 'o Star Wars figures and vehicles.

I had a GI Joe with kung fu grip. Amazing considering I grew up Mennonite. For some reason my pacifist parents allowed this. I also played with the aforementioned Tonka trucks and non-themed LEGOs. No one has mentioned Smash-up Derby! Some of you 70s kids have to remember that! I also had a Johnny West cowboy and horse with all kinds of tiny little guns and saddlebags and equipment for camping out on the range! Awesome!

I remember having a Rom - The Space Knight robot at some point.

Legos
Lincoln Logs
Star Wars
3 3/4" G.I. Joe figures
Transformers
He-Man (including some She-Ra villans)
Centurions
Hot Wheels
The Real Ghostbusters
Voltron
Playdough
Willow
Army Ants (hows that for obscuritiy)
Bone Age (even more obscure-cavemen that rode Dinosaur skelletons)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
WWF Figures (my favorite figures where Andre, The Big Boss Man, and Rick Rude)
Nurf basketball & hoop

Bone Age:


Still remember getting these on Christmas

Army Ants:

There were also blue ones (they fought each other-I even remember the theme song fromt he commercials)

The greatest toy of my childhood:

That thing was awesome as all get out! I especially loved the intercom. However, the toy turned out to be much more enjoyable than the real thing (living 6 months on a carrier is equal to about 12 months).

Funny this post was started becaues I was going to bring this up:



These kids today are spoiled rotten. Rembember our Millenium Falcon, held two characters and they wouldn't even stay standing up, you had to lay them down! This new toy has almost everything you saw in the movie, while we had to use our imagination. I see this at Wal-Mart everyday and it pi**es me off! Then I see some kids (between 14-16) who don't even know what it is! Spoiled brats!

Matchbox and Tonka cars were my favorites. My brothers also used those model cars you glues together a lot. Modifued tyhem, painted them, customizes them. Good times!

the sentinel wrote:

I remember having a Rom - The Space Knight robot at some point.

I never had the "ROM" toy but I remember reading and collecting the Marvel comic book series based on it!!

Thats probably the only Ghostbusters toy I have left.

I hade one of those Evel Kneivel toys as well.Others that come to mind are:

Star Wars figures
Transformers
G.I Joe figures.

Also,anyone else remember the 6 million dollar man figure.You could look through a hole in the back of his head as a bionic eye type thing.

Star Wars action figures
Godzilla with the spring loaded fist ( I loved that toy! Wish I still had it!)
Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars
The Kiss dolls from the 70's. Me and a friend built our own stage complete with Christmas lights .

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Evel may have survived jumping the Snake River Canyon, but he didn't survive a high velocity trip into a concrete wall.

I also remember these Robot guys that shot missiles from their arms and hands. I broke one of my Mom's Christmas ornaments and disposed of it on the sly. I miss the "real" toys of yore that could actually poke an eye out!!

Another favorite were those slimy Octopi that you'd throw on the wall and they would "walk" down the wall. Awesome!

I vaguely remember something I wanna call "Incredible Edibles"; which were a sort of Creepy Crawly that you could eat (and unlike the real Creepy Crawlies, digest). Or am I hallucinating again?

I had the Six Million Dollar Man as well as his enemy Maskatron (who came with 3 masks-Steve Austin,Oscar Goldman,and a generic human disguise).I also wanted the KISS dolls very badly but never got them. To this day, I get on my mom about that (which she denies that I ever asked for them!)

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I vaguely remember something I wanna call
"Incredible Edibles"; which were a sort of Creepy Crawly that you could
eat (and unlike the real Creepy Crawlies, digest). Or am I
hallucinating again?

That did exist. I don't remember what it was called, but you basically cooked these gummy bugs and ate them, one of those kinds of toys.

Legos and Thomas the Tank Engine. I use to watch Thomas every Sunday morning.
They had some big names on the show as narrorators. Ringo Starr, the late George Carlin, Alec Baldwin, and Pierce Brosnan.

Something else:




EPIC.

xyz wrote:

Legos and Thomas the Tank Engine. I use to watch Thomas every Sunday morning.
They had some big names on the show as narrorators. Ringo Starr, the late George Carlin, Alec Baldwin, and Pierce Brosnan.

I too was a huge Thomas the Tank Engine fan. We only had Ringo Starr and some other guy, who's name alludes me. I actually can't stand the American dubbings of Thomas, it's one of the few things that fills me with nationalist pride, haha. I believe Pierce Brosnan hasn't started narrating the series yet... that'll be interesting.

But anyway, yeah, Thomas the Tank Engine and Lego were big things for me. I'm also of the Pokemon generation, so any crap related to that.

xyz wrote:

Legos and Thomas the Tank Engine. I use to watch Thomas every Sunday morning.
They had some big names on the show as narrorators. Ringo Starr, the late George Carlin, Alec Baldwin, and Pierce Brosnan.

My son is almost six years old now, and he was all-Thomas the Tank Engine, all the time, for about three years. He's been slowly moving onto other things in the past year or so, but he has tons of the little wooden railway Thomas trains and still plays with them pretty regularly. I hope his little bro (who just turned 1) develops an interest in Thomas down the road, so we can re-use all the videos we bought for the first kid!!

scottmitchell74 wrote:

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Evel may have survived jumping the Snake River Canyon, but he didn't survive a high velocity trip into a concrete wall.

I also remember these Robot guys that shot missiles from their arms and hands. I broke one of my Mom's Christmas ornaments and disposed of it on the sly. I miss the "real" toys of yore that could actually poke an eye out!!

These guys, right?

Shogun Warriors kicked a$$!! The kid next door to me had Raydeen when I was a kid, I was jealous as hell.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Shogun Warriors kicked a$$!! The kid next door to me had Raydeen when I was a kid, I was jealous as hell.

I had Mazinga, and if I recall, my cousin had Raydeen. They were awesome and they could blind you. Ahhhhhh, good times. :bounce:

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These guys, right?

That seems about right.

I was a Hot Wheels kid. I also loved all things nerf.

Falls more under games - but Mouse Trap and Hungry Hippos were the greatest things ever.

I remember playing with SUCKERMAN alot, mine was red I think....

And I had MAZINGA, but My mom took his fist off coz I kept shooitng my brother in the eye with it....

xyz wrote:

I use to watch Thomas every Sunday morning.
They had some big names on the show as narrorators. Ringo Starr, the late George Carlin, Alec Baldwin, and Pierce Brosnan.

The first "Thomas" video we got for my son (see previous post) had George Carlin as the narrator. I was and still am a HUGE fan of his stand up comedy but had no idea he'd ever done kid-oriented stuff, so it was a little weird at first hearing his distinctive voice telling these sweet stories about sharing and friendship, then later I'd see one of his HBO specials and he'd be swearing up a storm

I always wondered if any out-take reels from his "Thomas" recording sessions existed... imagine what those would sound like?

"Thomas said 'f**k you, Percy!' and Percy replied 'no, f**k YOU, Thomas!' Suddenly James whistled into the station and said "Hey you f**kin f**kers, Mister F**kin Conductor sez you'd both better shut the f**k up!"