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Stick Insect posted:Thank you for your replies. It looks perfectly dangerous, I probably would've loved it. you would think they could get decent air going off a ramp with a light child riding it. you would think it, but they can't
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simosimo posted:Jurassic park obsessed [if you can tell] "Dennis Nedry's arms rip off to reveal Dino Damagetm" Well, that's horrific.
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Picnic Princess posted:
Man, the creepy robot voice for this was great. I'd like to find a working one and run Silence of the Lambs dialogue through it 
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Davros1 posted:"Dennis Nedry's arms rip off to reveal Dino Damagetm" At least it was film accurate!
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Why is the packaging trying to make everything sound less than lethal? That's clearly a rocket, not a Blood Sample Missile, haha.
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Why is the packaging trying to make everything sound less than lethal? That's clearly a rocket, not a Blood Sample Missile, haha. "Blood sample" missile
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Haven't seen these ones mentioned yet Sectaurs I had this guy and my buddy had one of the puppet ones. These guys were cool as gently caress.   And Mantech. I had Terrortech and Lasertech, and another buddy had the yellow guy but other than that virtually nobody seems to have owned or remembers these toy lines.   I always wanted Crystar: Crystal Warrior toys but never got them. I don't know why but these were so awesome to me as a kid 
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I loved Stompers. I had the tracks and the pulling sled and everything. They always had a problem where the plastic driveshafts would stripout. At the time you couldn't get replacements so you had to by a new truck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbn-XMxXlXw
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Man, so many toys in this thread that I've forgotten about. I wish I lived closer to my parents so I could spend a weekend digging out their basement to find all of my old stuff. Beast Wars got mentioned earlier, but didn't see mention of the biggest and baddest one: motherfucking Optimal Optimus Prime-  Two modes? Three? Bitch how about four modes. This thing was massive and shiny as all get-out and I loved it.
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I'd always play these at my grandma's 
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Picnic Princess posted:
Pretty much this and  Got me through childhood.
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LL_Ghoul_J posted:Haven't seen these ones mentioned yet I had SolarTech, AquaTech, and LaserTech, and I often swapped their body parts around (which was something you could do). Their big guns pegged into their chests and reminded me of crazy electric guitars when I was a kid, so I created my own mythology where they were a cyborg rock band with swappable body parts. I also had Dargon from Sectaurs, but the one that came with the smaller dragonfly-like insect that became a winged backpack for him, not the big puppet. I was lucky enough to have lots of G.I. Joe figures and a few vehicles, and a nice collection of G1 Transformers (Autobots only; I never wanted any Decepticons as a kid), but my favorite were always Kenner's DC Super Powers and Mattel's Marvel Secret Wars figures.
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Captain Lavender posted:I'd always play these at my grandma's Oh drat, I forgot about these! There were also Ants in the Pants, Don't Break the Ice, Mousetrap and that one where you made the plastic bugs from a box of parts.
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So many dinosaur toys but you're all forgetting the best ones: Playskool Dinosaurs motherfuckers! They came with cavemen to ride them and little story books. I loved getting them for birthdays and Xmas as a kid.
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I had the dragonfly puppet sectaur! That thing was my favourite toy for years. Hard to find with intact wings these days though.
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The gloves on the Sectaurs were surprisingly well made. They held up to a lot of abuse me and my cousins put them through. There is a toy I remember that was a robot toy, but it was not transformers nor gobots. I wish I could remember what they were called. The leader of the good guys had some name like Max or something.
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Quad posted:Looking for a toy I had but can't remember the name of, it was basically this: http://www.amazon.com/SmartLab-Toys-Demolition-Triple-Warehouse/dp/B00BD9BXBM Was it Building Blasters? 
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Does anyone remember a toy from the mid to late 70's (yes, I'm old...) that was a 'build your own racecar' kind of idea? It came with little plastic rivets you kind of drilled onto a set much like a Connex set, and the race car bodies were made of cardboard over a plastic frame? I swear I had this thing, but much searching has netted me nothing similar. It might have been made as early as the late 60's and we just ended up with it one year. I loved that thing.
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twistedmentat posted:There is a toy I remember that was a robot toy, but it was not transformers nor gobots. I wish I could remember what they were called. The leader of the good guys had some name like Max or something. 
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More girl toys! There was all the standard stuff. Polly Pocket, the odd Barbie, those lethal Skydancers (jesus christ...), Beanie Babies, and so on... Not yet seen, though:  There was also a more well-known dog version, but I liked cats, so...  I just. I like cats.  Because every nine-year-old girl needs an electronic device with memo capabilities.  One of these gross things got stuck on the ceiling of a classroom at Primary school for about half a year. It was great.
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I had one of those but it was some kind of giant robot that was like three feet tall and could be programed to do all sorts of stuff.
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I actually still have the spider puppet thing in the lower right hand corner. Just the spider puppet "Skulk" it looks like is the name, the rest of it has been MIA for decades. I terrified my cat with it once a about years ago, I probably would have been too if I woke up from a nap to see that coming toward me 
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Mr.Bob posted:I had one of those but it was some kind of giant robot that was like three feet tall and could be programed to do all sorts of stuff. Are you talking about R.A.D. Robot? Because I also had that.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vygf4NTIHQ Not quite as cool as the commercials made it look, but I still loved it.
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Laocius posted:Are you talking about R.A.D. Robot? Because I also had that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTALnTFnfTg Nah, it was this guy.
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I got this thing, it was basically the most expensive toy I ever owned and I had to beg my mom for ages before I finally got it for christmas. I felt like I'd won the lottery.  This picture might be a model? I'm not sure, mine wasnt though it was just a plastic toy with articulated legs and head that made some growling noises if you pushed it's tail down and swiped its paw a bit.
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Bismuth posted:I got this thing, it was basically the most expensive toy I ever owned and I had to beg my mom for ages before I finally got it for christmas. I felt like I'd won the lottery. That looks like a Zoid (Japanese toys like Gundam, but robot animals instead of human-shaped robots). They're usually model kits, but I wouldn't be surprised if they put out the occasional pre-assembled one with some extra functions like yours.
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That's it! Oh man one of those looks exactly like a Dalek.
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Parsley posted:
For some reason, I had a tub of these (cats and dogs) and ther was a big shaggy beige dog that was posed laying down on it's belly. And a brown lab who was bending down with it's tongue out. The 'te he' thing to do was to make the dog lick the other one's rear end.  ha found it, thanks internet.
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Vulgar(tm) the Destroyer looks like R2-D2 and a unicorn had incest.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:That looks like a Zoid (Japanese toys like Gundam, but robot animals instead of human-shaped robots). They're usually model kits, but I wouldn't be surprised if they put out the occasional pre-assembled one with some extra functions like yours. It was definitely pre-assembled and I think crappier than the one in the picture but it shot darts out of the tail and had those functions. I dont remember how much it cost, maybe $15 tops at Walmart? It was boss though, every kid should have a growling robot lion.
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DC to Daylight posted:Vulgar(tm) the Destroyer looks like R2-D2 and a unicorn had incest. That's the one I thought looked like a Dalek. The fun thing about Zoids is they came with little silvered plastic pilots that fit perfectly in the cockpits of the generation 1 Transformers.
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Astrofig posted:Oh drat, I forgot about these! There were also Ants in the Pants, Don't Break the Ice, Mousetrap and that one where you made the plastic bugs from a box of parts. Aw yiss  My aunt and cousins had this game, Operation and Battleship, owned bones
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Crazy Bones! My friends and I had no idea how to play so we just threw them at each other. 
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rndmnmbr posted:But it just isn't the same anymore. The newer pin-and-beam Technic requires a lot more planning and thought to build things, and you can't just slam together Legos until you accidentally build something really cool like you could with the old studded beams. I wound up giving my whole collection to my nephews, who are apparently a lot smarter and more creative than I am.     Those are some bad boys. They're way over my budget for things like these nowadays though.
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Seriously Safe posted:Crazy Bones!
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This makes me remember a toy I LOVED as a kid but can only half-remember. It was I think supposed to teach math skills. It was red and had a screen and a keyboard, and there were little running guys who would dash across the screen to help you learn addition. I still remember the little song it played when it tallied them up! Oh man I loved that thing. That, these cupcake dolls (I had this one, my sister had a pink one with blonde hair) and Polly Pocket were my favourite toys.
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