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I have a request for this thread. When I was 5 or 6, so early 90's, I had a toy that I loved but it's long since been thrown out and I can't find any trace of it on the internet. It was a toy where you build robots that are piloted by little yellow men out of modular parts that you can reassemble any way you like, a little like a cross between Zoids and Lego. I had a smaller one and it was a bipedal robot with a shovel and a drill for arms. It was black, green and orange. I don't remember the name or if there was any associated cartoon, but I remember that the packaging was a lot fancier than a typical Chinese knockoff toy so I think they were at least somewhat popular. There was a big picture on the back of some of the other kits in a scifi base/factory setting. Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? My Google-fu is failing me on this one.
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Mar 28, 2015 03:03
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Thanks, but it definitely was not the Crash Test Dummies. I had a Crash Test Dummy as well but it was completely different to what I'm talking about.
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Mar 28, 2015 13:11
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It wasn't Starriors or RATS either. It's really bugging me cos every other thing from my childhood is here 
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Mar 29, 2015 01:59
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Nope, but that's closer to what I'm talking about.
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Apr 1, 2015 02:28
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rockinricky posted:I was thinking Construx, but that doesn't have the colors you mentioned. No, it's not that either. It's not a generic building toy, the parts are clearly supposed to be arms/legs/hands/whatever, you can just combine them in a bunch of different ways.
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Apr 1, 2015 03:27
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SevenSocks posted:Was it the lego run with the tall lanky dudes in, I think, purple and one in some sort of turquoise? Lots of holes in the construction beams? Came with the bitchin' rad lego canon that shot a rounded rubber tipped projectile at little machine scorpion dudes with targets on their tails? Nope, it wasn't Lego of any kind. Lego was always my number one toy (still is actually) and what I'm trying to find definitely isn't Lego. It's bugging me so much and I just can't find anything. It must have been a lot more obscure than I thought.
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Apr 2, 2015 11:48
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spleen merchant posted:I know exactly the ones you're talking about - they weren't like lego etc and made out of bricks but out of whole modular components you could put together to make different space vehicles. They had little transparent canopies on the cockpits and there was definitely a drill tank type thing. I have the impression that they weren't based off any show or made by one particular brand and they were fairly cheap. You'd buy a blister pack with a bunch of different bits in it. Holy poo poo! That's exactly it. Thank you so much! Any idea what the name of the toy is? I'd like to get some more info on it 1000 Brown M and Ms has a new favorite as of 02:04 on Apr 3, 2015 |
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Apr 2, 2015 22:45
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Ok, that's a shame. At least I'm not the only one who hasn't been able to find any info on them.
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Apr 3, 2015 11:22
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beato posted:That's exactly what I thought he was talking about, I had that mac one I think that's what the drill and the tank tracks came with. I couldn't recall the name of them though I think they were just some cheap Chinese brand I think kinda like a poormans Manta Force. Cheers. Even with the name there's not a lot on Google about it, so I guess it was a lot more obscure than I thought.
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Apr 5, 2015 04:12
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beato posted:You get quite a lot of hits if you put the word toys at the end of your search result otherwise you just end up with a ton of car seats for babies. Yeah, I found plenty of pics and entries on retro blogs, but I was meaning more in terms of a catalogue so I could try to find the exact one I had. I couldn't find anything like that.
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