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Child of the '80s here. My first film in a theater was Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation and just a few weeks ago, I found all my old figurines in a closet. I didn't keep them.  Then there was Maple Town, which I had nearly blocked from my mind. Until going through Google Images, I didn't realize how many of the toys I actually had - house, school, train, specific rooms, lots of figurines. I can't recall particularly loving them, though, and my mother was a bit sad when I said everything could go to our garage sale when I was a teen. It had been her idea all along to get me into them. There aren't too many good pictures of the stuff for some reason. Here are two of the figures:  If you've never heard of Maple Town, this was the cartoon. Sort of a Little House on the Prairie with anthropomorphic animals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtINuEfsGQE
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Astrofig posted:The chameleon changed color if you put him in warm water; I don't know who made them or what they were officially called, but I had a bunch of what I called "change colour cars" (that might even have been the official name?) that did that. They were awesome. You could do cool stuff like dip them halfway into the water to just change half, and some of them changed quite dramatically (like from dark purple to white or red to green).
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Oct 11, 2015 03:35
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Wasn't there a Matchbox line that did that? Pretty sure my brother had some of those....
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Oct 11, 2015 03:42
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I'm older than most people here so I'm not sure how many of you will remember these...  
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Oct 11, 2015 04:21
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I don't have any of my toys any more, because I'm an adult.
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Oct 11, 2015 04:23
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gentle pete posted:I'm older than most people here so I'm not sure how many of you will remember these... 1: I think I might have had that but I have no idea what it was 2: That looks vaguely familiar 3: No idea, I'm not Jewish
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Oct 11, 2015 04:38
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gentle pete posted:I'm older than most people here so I'm not sure how many of you will remember these... Rearview mirrors from the Turtle Van that was posted on the first page, not that I needed to to see the post to recognize those bits.
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Oct 11, 2015 04:42
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I loved micro machines and forgot my mom had tons of them, figured I could get some more on ebay and just bought this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-MICRO-MACHINES-Indiana-Jones-SET-of-10-Vehicles-INDY-Figure-Galoob-1995-X45-/391289315900?hash=item5b1aa9223c Hellooooo manchild! It has everything except a bald Nazi!
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Oct 11, 2015 05:37
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Lots of dollar store knockoff transformers, which was fine by me because they were hilarious.
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Oct 11, 2015 05:55
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Anyone remember Captain Power? My mom got me one of the ships and the VHS tape. Basically it was a light gun type game where certain areas of the screen would have these seizure inducing flashy bits. You would try to hit them , and try to avoid their fireball shots. They had a short lived tv show that let you use the toys to interact with the action.
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Oct 11, 2015 06:01
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Just going to post this one as a link, don't want to bother with dropping the pic in imgur right now. https://www.flickr.com/photos/25848889@N03/5944558542 Playmobile pirate ship. Look at the goddamn rigging on that thing. Panfilo posted:Anyone remember Captain Power? My mom got me one of the ships and the VHS tape. Basically it was a light gun type game where certain areas of the screen would have these seizure inducing flashy bits. You would try to hit them , and try to avoid their fireball shots. They had a short lived tv show that let you use the toys to interact with the action. I quite clearly remember the moment when I, watching one of those videos and playing along with the ship, suddenly stopped, looked from the ship to the TV, and thought "Wait, that's a VHS tape, it's going to do what it does without my input, these things don't interact at all". RickVoid has a new favorite as of 06:09 on Oct 11, 2015 |
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Oct 11, 2015 06:03
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Panfilo posted:Anyone remember Captain Power? My mom got me one of the ships and the VHS tape. Basically it was a light gun type game where certain areas of the screen would have these seizure inducing flashy bits. You would try to hit them , and try to avoid their fireball shots. They had a short lived tv show that let you use the toys to interact with the action. The loving cyborg bird thing that would digitize people gave me nightmares I had the blue flying hero guy
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Oct 11, 2015 07:35
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Panfilo posted:Anyone remember Captain Power? My mom got me one of the ships and the VHS tape. Basically it was a light gun type game where certain areas of the screen would have these seizure inducing flashy bits. You would try to hit them , and try to avoid their fireball shots. They had a short lived tv show that let you use the toys to interact with the action.  I had that bad boy, but the cockpit roof got snapped off by the force of the little dude ejecting from the seat. Still pretty badass though, and the noises it made were proper REALLY loving ANNOYING loud "laser" noises.
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Oct 11, 2015 08:39
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RickVoid posted:
Uh yeah well that just meant some other soldier of the future is having to pick up your slack. You'll regret it when at the end of the level Captain Power tells you to check your power points and you have none.
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Oct 11, 2015 14:28
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I almost forgot about Sylvanian families. I had the squirrel family.  
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Oct 11, 2015 14:40
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loving loved this as a kid, was called Screwball Scramble in Europe (or the UK at least)
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Oct 11, 2015 15:22
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I had an unhealthy amount of Ninja Turtle toys. Tons of figures, turtle van, sewer base play set, blimp, submarine, pizza shooter, shredders convertible, etc. never had the technodrome though. I was envious of my friend's Ghost Busters toys. He had the firehouse and ecto-1. Those toys were really cool.
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Oct 11, 2015 15:46
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Scandalous Wench posted:I almost forgot about Sylvanian families. I had the squirrel family. They still exist, as Calico Critters. My daughter has the camper trailer. Lots of tiny parts to lose, jeesh.
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Oct 11, 2015 16:07
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It gets more and more abstract
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Oct 11, 2015 17:48
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Quad posted:
I had that one too. The anime cartoon dogfight bird were pretty impressive to me at the time.
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Oct 11, 2015 19:49
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Did the giant GI Joe aircraft carrier really float? It seems like all the kids that had that, or the giant transformer that turned into a base, etc had parents that were divorced.
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Oct 11, 2015 19:52
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The USS Flagg. I think every kid wanted that drat thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYAiuJoZ7JI
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Oct 11, 2015 20:26
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Anybody remember these?  I had 3-4 of these figures, totally scratched and worn to poo poo as they were handed down from my big cousin to me. I remember in the commercial they looked amazing, but in reality the holograms were really crummy. I now make holograms for a living, so I guess they were good for something.
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Oct 11, 2015 21:59
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 Gerry Anderson's (Thunderbirds) Space Precinct was awesome, as were the toys too. Very under rated stuff. The cruiser was amazing  Terminator had some cool toys too, with a line of totall weird poo poo. I remember the horned devil from the films too!  Come to think of it, I hated it when toys had goofy non-accurate poo poo included in their lines. Look at this poo poo from Jurassic Park's line. SKINNER!  Time for a palate cleanse, the classic red rex  ps - the guy in green pictured above is Dennis Nedry, the fat computer nerd - remember when he had a flamethrower?
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Oct 11, 2015 22:36
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Jetfire/Skyfire from Transformers Lost all his bits, but still played with him so much that eventually 1 of this arms broke off. A kick-rear end toy.
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Oct 12, 2015 00:57
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motherfucking lego!
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Oct 12, 2015 01:02
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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 But without all the graphics, just plastic girders, joints, and a little plunger thing with a timer that you would use to blow up your huge skycraper you just spent an hour building. Anyone?
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Oct 12, 2015 01:43
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You could just post pretty much all the GI Joe vehicles and playsets. I had a ton of the action figures but none of the awesome bigger toys to go with them, and one of my mom's rich friends son had all of them and would never let me play with them. That was some bullshit
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Oct 12, 2015 01:46
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I don't know what it was called so I can't look it up but my fav as a child (or one of) was this little yellow plastic dog with a bone in its mouth. It had a red pull "leash" that would propel it on wheels and the drat thing blew bubbles from its mouth as it walked. (anyone have any idea what it was called? I'd love to find one if I can. This was in the early 90s.)
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Verily I Shat posted:
Algae Magnet posted:Jetfire/Skyfire from Transformers Look familiar? Yup Jetfire was a Valkyrie from Macross/Robotech with the numbers filled off, and the main reason he looked so different in the cartoon.
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Gogo Logo posted:I don't know what it was called so I can't look it up but my fav as a child (or one of) was this little yellow plastic dog with a bone in its mouth. It had a red pull "leash" that would propel it on wheels and the drat thing blew bubbles from its mouth as it walked. (anyone have any idea what it was called? I'd love to find one if I can. This was in the early 90s.) Was it this?  If so it's a Playskool Bubbles the Pup Motorized Walking Bubble-Blowing Dog
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Beyblade, approx 2001: I had the lime green one, (far left, middle row), which I think was called Draciel. My mother's steel mixing bowl has a bunch of dents all over it from battling my brother. My brother, incidentally, got really frustrated, as his "Seaborg" had a rubber spinning point, which sucked and eventually broke.
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Oct 12, 2015 13:48
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 One of the greatest disappointments of my childhood was the squandering of the precious annual fast-food excursion by find the stupid loving ice-cream dinosaur. Everyone knows the mcnuggetsaur was the best.
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Oct 12, 2015 14:13
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 Pogs!  'Milkcap' aka cheap pogs, maker.
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Oct 12, 2015 14:21
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Motherfucking SOUNDWAVE I envied the bejesus out of one of my older cousins for having this. A giant robot that turned into a boombox and launched tapes that transformed into smaller murder-bots. God drat.. SO 80s. And soundwave had the coolest voice in the cartoon.
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Oct 12, 2015 14:27
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Sic Semper Goon posted:Beyblade, approx 2001: Spinjas, circa 1988:  Dammit 
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 1980s Alphie, the learning robot. He doesn't look like much but you could insert cards for various puzzles and quizzes. His happy little electronic beeps and flashing lights gave him a sense of personality. He was super fun to play with.
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This thread is bringing up insanely visceral memories from when I was like 6. I remember how the ninja turtle weapons feel in my mouth and the disgusting electrical fire smell that the creepy crawler oven made.
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Oct 12, 2015 14:57
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OP I had all those toys except the megazord and stretch Armstrong. They were on my birthday and Christmas list for like 2 years running but alas  The JP compound was rad as gently caress
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:Motherfucking SOUNDWAVE Never had him as a child, but I managed to find an anniversary edition at the local TRU. It's still in the box, in another box somewhere.
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