|
zombiepanda posted:
You and I would have been best childhood friends because all that stuff is stuff that I had/really wanted! I got my Furby from a McDonalds giveaway (the black one with white toes). I turned in my entry slip the night it ended and they must've just pulled from the top of the stack. I got my Pound Puppy playsets as a runner up prize from a Nickelodeon Sweepstakes (I think it was Nick takes over your school?). I was a lucky kid.
|
#
?
Oct 14, 2015 23:07
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 15, 2024 16:59 |
|
|
Nice!  I remember as a kid entering a contest for some Beanie Babies, and a CN (I think) contest for a Kirby pillow, but I've never had any luck with contests. Of course, the luckiest kids were the winners of the Nickelodeon Super Toy Run. I'd be psyched to win that even as an adult, honestly.Tiggum posted:These were incredibly popular with kids at my primary school, and I've never understood why. Still don't see the appeal. You can impress your friends by showing off all the sweet tricks you can do.  And apparently there's a competition where you can win cash prizes for being good at toy skateboard tricks.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfuAn5NKEtE For me, I just liked the designs and flipping them around out of boredom. And they had these really tiny mini ones that I thought were cute.
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 01:23
|
|
|
zombiepanda posted:Nice! I always wanted to hate on those little mothefuckers but secretly I was always jealous because I couldn't ollie a tiny finger skateboard to save my life  Know what I could do though? MOTHERFUCKING POGS And you couldn't play without a wicked metal buzzsaw slammer  Mine had a eight-ball design it though
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 01:53
|
|
|
Palpek posted:LEGO, but not just any LEGO: All mine are boxed up but you'll know where I stood from these pics    
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 02:26
|
|
|
kizudarake posted:I had so much He-man stuff, including the castle, but my mom and dad's southern baptist church found out about it and took my hyperactivity into account and convinced them that the occultish parts of it were opening me up to demon possession, explaining the hyperactivity and misbehavior, and so the church did a burning of all the he-man stuff that all us kids had while we were in school. That's super hosed up and kind of cultish. I, too, went to a Southern Baptist church growing up. We'd probably have lots to commiserate about.
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 02:34
|
|
|
Oh poo poo, beanie babies! I had a ton of those! Even won the shark one----his name was Munch----in a school raffle and was briefly the coolest third-grader. ^^Wow, that is super-freaky and hosed up. I'm sorry that happened.
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 03:47
|
|
|
Laser tag in general, but in particular my sister and I owned this set, I had the 2 handed rifle and my sister liked the pair of pistols. Two other families on our street had kids with these same sets so it made for some really great summer nights. I remember all the little tricks, turn sideways to obscure your chest pad. Hold your hand over the gun's speaker to muffle the shooting noise and conceal your location.
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 04:01
|
|
|
TheDon01 posted:Laser tag in general, but in particular my sister and I owned this set, I had the 2 handed rifle and my sister liked the pair of pistols. Two other families on our street had kids with these same sets so it made for some really great summer nights. Did it come with a big disclaimer on the side warning not for use with black children?
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 05:47
|
|
|
A lot of people remember the Kenner action figures based on the cult art house movie Aliens. Less well-known was a range based on the Predator franchise. The entire series was made of surprisingly detailed figures for the period, including an Alien Vs. Predator 2-pack that had arguably the most movie-accurate sculpt of either character for some time.  Neca, who have been producing some really nice figures based on both series' for some time, remembered the line, and released several figures in homage to the series, including one based on a toy I had as a kid: the Lava Planet Predator.  (They also released a few based on other figures in the Kenner line, but who cares, this guy was badass) I was searching on Ebay recently to see if I could snag a deal on the Neca figure, when it occurred to me: duh, why not see if you can get a replacement for the original, long-lost fig you had? Several days later, this handsome chap shows up on my doorstep  He came complete with the mask (which I think is somewhere behind my monitor since he keeps falling off the top of my PC) but not the missile for the shoulder cannon. Which is fine, since the launcher looks better without a big chunk of grey plastic sticking out of it. Still haven't found a cheap Neca Pred, but I live in hope.
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 07:56
|
|
|
DicktheCat posted:That's super hosed up and kind of cultish. Astrofig posted:
They didn't get to castle grayskull, probably because it was it was so goddamn expensive, so it ended up turning into the Autobot Base, and I used a lot of pieces of other toy bases placed carefully as the deception base, including the MASK Boulder Hill and some GI Joe vehicles. About a month after the toy burning, my dad took me to the kaybee toy liquidators before mom got home from work, and spent like $150 on all the transformers I wanted that they had in stock, apologizing for tagging along with the crowd, telling me not to tell mom, and then a few days later, mom took me to Walmart after dad went to work and spent almost as much on transformers, telling me the same thing. They still took us to the same church, because it was next to my Grandmother's house, but that was the start of our drifting away from it. We stopped going to Sunday night and mostly stopped going to Wednesday night services.
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 08:18
|
|
|
kizudarake posted:He-man wasn't my favorite, though, happily. That was Transformers. Well at least it had a happy ending, though if they had actually talked about it with each other they might have decided as a couple to abandon that poo poo altogether.
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 20:12
|
|
|
RickVoid posted:Well at least it had a happy ending, though if they had actually talked about it with each other they might have decided as a couple to abandon that poo poo altogether. I seriously doubt they would have abandoned their child.
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 20:55
|
|
|
Frostwerks posted:I seriously doubt they would have abandoned their child. 
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 21:04
|
|
|
TheDon01 posted:Laser tag in general, but in particular my sister and I owned this set, I had the 2 handed rifle and my sister liked the pair of pistols. Two other families on our street had kids with these same sets so it made for some really great summer nights. I remember Laser Tag a little differently.   The red light on the chest piece would bounce back and forth like a metronome, and the chest target detached from the harness so you could use it for target practice. i still think that starlyte pistol is the coolest toy gun of all time (well, next to the toy version of Han Solo's blaster from Return of the Jedi). And if you had the Starlyte rifle, you were a God amongst the other kids. And apparently there's been a sort of attempt to bring it back?
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 21:15
|
|
|
Cap guns. Hell, toy guns in general. There is nothing funner than running around the neighbourhood with your friends blasting away at them and having melodramatic deaths.
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 21:26
|
|
|
The cap guns with the red rings like you posted were great. Those little red rolls of paper with the charges every ~1/4 inch were bullshit.
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 21:38
|
|
|
Six-Of-Hearts posted:The cap guns with the red rings like you posted were great. Those were for setting on fire or peeling open to get at the sweet sweet gunpowder inside. Are they still for sale?
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 22:27
|
|
|
Funky See Funky Do posted:Those were for setting on fire or peeling open to get at the sweet sweet gunpowder inside. Are they still for sale? I don't know but why not just buy gunpowder?
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 22:29
|
|
|
Jerry Cotton posted:I don't know but why not just buy gunpowder? You know, with our fairly strict gun laws and explosives regulation I just assumed I'd need a license but I just looked it up and I can get a few kilos of it before I need one. Thanks toy thread!
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 22:36
|
|
|
Funky See Funky Do posted:You know, with our fairly strict gun laws and explosives regulation I just assumed I'd need a license but I just looked it up and I can get a few kilos of it before I need one. Thanks toy thread! No prob.
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 22:41
|
|
|
Six-Of-Hearts posted:I remember Laser Tag a little differently. i've seen that gun in someone's house but i never knew it was for laser tag. i was always familiar with the one posted earlier.
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 23:32
|
|
|
God drat the caps that came as a strip were bullshit, and it was so much better when they came in the rings. Though you could get more shots out of the strips. As for religious groups coming out against toys, this is probably the best thing to see just how that thinking works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnjdq32u-MU Basically, because it has "occult" overtone, meanings magic, monsters, and other stuff kids like and have fun with, therefor its about SATAN and a recruiting tool. The best part is the guy who looks more like an 80s porn star than a evangelical is using the Snake Mountain speaker and looks like he's having fun with it.
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2015 23:53
|
|
|
Funky See Funky Do posted:Cap guns. Hell, toy guns in general. There is nothing funner than running around the neighbourhood with your friends blasting away at them and having melodramatic deaths.  Cap guns  and cork guns :3 I remember my brother puttin a bunch of corks into my grandmother stove (a big iron thing, with metal covers). Gave us a scare when the cork started popping and moving the plates around.
|
|
#
?
Oct 16, 2015 00:01
|
|
|
Funky See Funky Do posted:You know, with our fairly strict gun laws and explosives regulation I just assumed I'd need a license but I just looked it up and I can get a few kilos of it before I need one. Thanks toy thread! 
|
|
#
?
Oct 16, 2015 01:12
|
|
|
Elfface posted:My old metal Thunderbirds T1 and T3 had a rubber nose so kids wouldn't stab each other with the toys. Nobody at my school had the official island base toy. It sold out instantly and was pretty much impossible to get. No Blue Peter on TV here, but a classmate did have a go at making his own island from chicken wire and papier-maché. The wings could fold out like that? I had that toy but never knew you could do that. My favorite toys were Siku brand die cast cars and trucks.  Especially the trucks. I liked these because the 1:55 scale was consistent between models  Trucks would actually be bigger than cars.Lesser toy brands toy brands would often make trucks smaller and they'd be about as big as the cars. That said, Siku later started selling inconsistently scaled truck models too. It was a pricy brand though, and the mirrors on the trucks would invariably break off or get lost. Stick Insect has a new favorite as of 15:21 on Oct 16, 2015 |
|
#
?
Oct 16, 2015 14:52
|
|
|
 I wrote his name on my Christmas list each year and never got it
|
|
#
?
Oct 16, 2015 15:14
|
|
|
http://imgur.com/gallery/ztP2XAe + sticks. also rocks, perfect for hacking out "cat gold" from cliffsides
|
|
#
?
Oct 16, 2015 15:56
|
|
|
Titus Sardonicus posted:They still exist, as Calico Critters. My daughter has the camper trailer. Lots of tiny parts to lose, jeesh. They're still sold as Sylvanian Families in Japan. Content: My two favourite toys were Lego and Transformers, but everyone knows about them. I also had another toy that I loved but seems to have become obscure: Multimac. It was a modular sci-fi themed toy where you combine parts to make spaceships or robots or other vehicles. Lots of fun! PS, thanks to the goons in the 90s thread who helped me identify it.  
|
|
#
?
Oct 16, 2015 16:13
|
|
|
lllllllllllllllllll posted:]
|
|
#
?
Oct 16, 2015 16:27
|
|
|
ShiroTheSniper posted:
I vaguely recall an older cousin using one of these to play a Gwar or Sepultara tape and freak out a younger sibling of theirs.
|
|
#
?
Oct 16, 2015 17:01
|
|
|
I just remembered Capsela! My dad always bought me science toys. :3
|
|
#
?
Oct 17, 2015 01:06
|
|
|
Capsela was dope. I made a science fair project using it once. The wheels were almost the perfect size to use with Duplo train tracks so I made trains using it.
|
|
#
?
Oct 17, 2015 02:25
|
|
|
Martian popping thing Z bots 
|
|
#
?
Oct 17, 2015 02:34
|
|
|
RickVoid posted:I had this as a very young child, but it disappeared along with a bunch of other poo poo during the move back to the States when my dad left the Army. Have mine, my two girls still play with it. Hasn't broken (yet)
|
|
#
?
Oct 17, 2015 02:41
|
|
|
ShiroTheSniper posted:
Six-Of-Hearts posted:I vaguely recall an older cousin using one of these to play a Gwar or Sepultara tape and freak out a younger sibling of theirs. My high school art teacher would put in Metallica tapes in his during class.  Had a ton of G.I. Joes because Transformers were a little too expensive. What Transformers I did get were cherished greatly.
|
|
#
?
Oct 17, 2015 03:19
|
|
|
 This is the kind of toy you buy for a niece or nephew, and smile at the horror that dawns on their parent's faces when they realize what you've done. I had these as a kid, and they were a blast. I wanted to buy some for my niece when she was 4, but couldn't find any, so I gave her one of those buckets full of percussion instruments. It was full of stuff like tamborines and bells and little bongo drums. Her mother has yet to forgive me for urging her to explore her creative and musical inclinations. 
|
|
#
?
Oct 17, 2015 03:35
|
|
|
poo poo yes, the classic laser tag gun. I was too young during the 80s when this was huge, but all the kids on my street had laser tag stuff, so I wanted in. I remember I finally managed to get a hand-me-down pistol like this, then had to beg my parents to buy one of the sensor doodads. They also had a sensor hat you could get that was the dorkiest looking thing ever. But the ultimate loving laser tag item was the giant rifle.  This thing was massive, and had so many crazy features. Only one older kid on my street had this thing, but by god he was KING poo poo on that street while laser tag was a thing. Things I had though. Somehow I managed to get GI Joe's Nighwing plane for christmas one year.  This is another of those toys that in your memory seems massive, but was probably only like 2 feet long. But it had so much cool poo poo like working landing gear.  Then there was hot wheels wreck cars. I forget the proper name, but they all had a spring-loaded damage panel on the car that when you smacked them together flipped around and made it look like they got wrecked. Such a quintessential boys toy, I spent so much time mashing these things into each other. And one thing I remember owning, and I'd love to find out more information about it. It was a water gun around 1992 or so, not a super soaker. It was shaped like a sawed-off shotgun with wacky colors, and you racked the slide and it would fire a solid slug of water, not just a squirt. This thing was a loving beast, it literally hurt to get tagged by this thing. If anyone remembers what the hell this was, I'd love to know.
|
|
#
?
Oct 17, 2015 04:27
|
|
|
Enos Shenk posted:And one thing I remember owning, and I'd love to find out more information about it. It was a water gun around 1992 or so, not a super soaker. It was shaped like a sawed-off shotgun with wacky colors, and you racked the slide and it would fire a solid slug of water, not just a squirt. This thing was a loving beast, it literally hurt to get tagged by this thing. If anyone remembers what the hell this was, I'd love to know. Was it by chance this?  Defender Shotgun (?) by Entertech. That thing ruled.
|
|
#
?
Oct 17, 2015 05:12
|
|
|
Enos Shenk posted:
Yea, nightwing was probably one of the coolest GI Joe things. I loved how its cockpit dropped down. Cobra always had the best stuff. lidnsya posted:I just remembered Capsela! This reminds me of Meccano. http://i.imgur.com/GOZnCDu.jpg Just various metal pieces with screws and washers. But you could build neat stuff. My dad had it when he was a kid in the 50s, his sets were more impressive http://i.imgur.com/qz5vyRd.jpg The crazy thing is he still had stuff he made when he was 10.
|
|
#
?
Oct 17, 2015 05:25
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 15, 2024 16:59 |
|
|
Meccano was/is a pretty popular toy in the UK and other Commonwealth countries (not sure about the US). It's kind of like Lego in that the basic way it works hasn't changed since it was invented so you can use stuff from the 50s or whenever with the stuff from today no problem.
|
|
#
?
Oct 17, 2015 07:52
|
|