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Grassy Knowles posted:The omega virus voice saying “5 minutes until I take over” and sarcastically “help me help me hahahaha” Captain Hygiene posted:I never saw that one before, that's cool as hell. I like the flatter design, it looks like Star Destroyer concept art or something. 
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Captain Invictus posted:it was released last year as an anniversary set, updating the old Galaxy Explorer design to a more modern style with modern pieces. that's probably why you don't remember it Oh lol, I misread it as an anniversary reissue of an existing vintage set. It's really well done, I had to tell myself no, you will not look this up to see how much it's going for 
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Sep 27, 2023 04:08
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I linked to the lego store page you can still order it from until the end of this year, it's a hundred bucks(but will likely go up a lot once it's out of production, as one does). which, for a set with 1400+ pieces, isn't bad for a lego set these days.
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Sep 27, 2023 04:10
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Yeah, that seems surprisingly low from what I expected. Must...resist... 
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I'm standing strong. I've learned my lesson, the last pricey Lego set I bought was the Tallneck from Horizon Zero Dawn. I love it, it's one of the coolest Lego models I've seen. But at the same time, the instant I finished it I was thinking "what am I doing, I don't even have anywhere to put this". No more big Lego sets for now.
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Sep 27, 2023 04:23
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There are also alternate instructions to build two small ships from the parts
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Captain Hygiene posted:I'm standing strong. I've learned my lesson, the last pricey Lego set I bought was the Tallneck from Horizon Zero Dawn. I'm so happy you did this though
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My Lovely Horse posted:There are also alternate instructions to build two small ships from the parts Note that you cannot build both smaller ships from a single Galaxy Explorer set. You can only build one of the three. You'd have to be a crazy person to build all three at once. 
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Captain Hygiene posted:I'm standing strong. I've learned my lesson, the last pricey Lego set I bought was the Tallneck from Horizon Zero Dawn. I went a little crazy on big Lego sets for a bit. Now I have the big millennium falcon, the new lions castle, and the delorean set in their boxes in my closet with absolutely nowhere to put them. I love the technic car kits but they take so much space.
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Sep 29, 2023 02:47
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Teeny Weeny Families playsets. Man I fuckin loved these.  There was also a really cool cardboard haunted house set that I had to collect 30 Fyffe's Bananas stickers and send them to Fyffe's in order to get and build. I've been looking around for this for years to get again, or even just find images of it to prove to myself and others that it did in fact exist, but alas it seems like no advertising material for it exists. It looked somewhat similar to this on the outside but you could open up the back of the house to reveal rooms filled with haunted furniture and cardboard Addams Family-style characters that you could move from room to room. 
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Oct 1, 2023 18:05
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 action figures are low-hanging fruit I suppose, but holy gently caress the LotR action figures were good. Check out this Gimli. He came with all his axes, and of course that thing from Rivendell so you can re-enact his attempt to smash the ring, and he has holsters so you can actually have him carry all of his axes outside of battle. Not pictured, he had removeable helmet and elven cloak. everyone came equally kitted out, ready to play all your favourite scenes. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 22:08 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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Oct 1, 2023 22:04
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I really wanted turtles for pets, so my parents got me this The Littlest Pet Shop started branching out into zoo and other exotic animals after the initial success. I adored this one because it was so glittery and you could hook the polar bear on the magnetic fish. It really delighted me that you could put it in water and go fishing for a polar bear 
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Oct 2, 2023 00:08
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
It was a little too late to technically be childhood toys, but we got into the X-Men movies action figures from around the same time. They also had some pretty impressive design details. Nightcrawler was easily the best though, he had a bendy articulated tail that held its position strongly enough to support him hanging from stuff.  So of course we bought a bunch on clearance, and for a while our house had multiple Nightcrawlers hanging around on lamps, the Christmas tree, etc
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Enfys posted:I really wanted turtles for pets, so my parents got me this I had SO many Littlest Pet Shops. I particularly liked the horses (I was a big fan of all sorts of plastic horses, the sparklier the better).  The ones they make now are hideous.
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Oct 2, 2023 03:07
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
I had a bunch of the 1990s action figures. I know I had Gandalf and this butt ugly Balrog but I'm not sure how many of the others I had, the photos I found online didn't ring any bells   I don't think they sold very well because LOTR didn't have much of an active fanbase at the time. I ended up giving them all away at some point
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Oct 2, 2023 04:39
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I didn't even know there were LOTR action figures before the Jackson movies  A couple mostly-ignored Nintendo and computer games are about the most I remember from before then, I kinda want a weird nonsensical Balrog now.
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Captain Hygiene posted:I didn't even know there were LOTR action figures before the Jackson movies There was also a line of action figures released for the 1978 Ralph Bakshi animated film but I completely missed out on those 
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Enfys posted:I really wanted turtles for pets, so my parents got me this What an oddly specific memory - I clearly had one of these, but I can't recall which one, but what I do vividly recall is the clip-on water bottle. Edit: Bingo. https://www.toysisters.com/1992-littlest-pet-shop-pet-presents-marching-mice-with-magic-maze/ Magnetic cheese! John Murdoch has a new favorite as of 06:17 on Oct 2, 2023 |
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I went looking for the Barbie limo I had, it had a Jacuzzi that was just a lovely sticker but I loved loading it up with Barbies and GI Joes Turns out it's an off-brand "Fashion Girl" toy, lmbo 
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i just remembered Sky Dancers/i think the boy version was called Dragon Flyz?  i had this specific one with the dolphin launcher and it was the dumbest thing. you pulled the rip cord and it twirled into the air, spinning around and around until it crashed to the ground somewhere and you had to go get it. the "wings" were made of foam but they could still gently caress you up if you launched the thing towards your sibling (or were an idiot and stood too close to it while it twirled), so they got discontinued/recalled after a bunch of kids got horrible facial injuries. gotta love it. someone awful. has a new favorite as of 07:24 on Oct 2, 2023 |
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a classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba25S_AqGRo
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someone awful. posted:i just remembered Sky Dancers/i think the boy version was called Dragon Flyz? They’re back on the market! I swear every few years they come back, then get discontinued because of kids getting their eyes hosed up from them flying directly into people’s faces, then just enough years go by that people forget the whole thing and they appear again. I swear this has happened like 5 times in my entire life (I’m 36)
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someone awful. posted:i just remembered Sky Dancers/i think the boy version was called Dragon Flyz? I had forgotten these existed, but the commercial is burned into my brain because of the bit where one girl catches the sky dancer that her friend had gently and accurately launched over to her, an impossible feat to recreate in real life. My friend and I spent so long hitting each other in the face or chasing after the stupid things when we overshot just trying to do what the girls on the commercial did (because what else did you do with them?)  https://i.imgur.com/tFGesjv.mp4
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someone awful. posted:i just remembered Sky Dancers/i think the boy version was called Dragon Flyz? oh hell yeah my sis and i had so many bruises from that barbie
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:They’re back on the market! I swear every few years they come back, then get discontinued because of kids getting their eyes hosed up from them flying directly into people’s faces, then just enough years go by that people forget the whole thing and they appear again. I swear this has happened like 5 times in my entire life (I’m 36) Wikipedia only mentions one recall and return, although that article says the newer versions were made by Play Along Toys and the ones I can see for sale now are apparently made by Lansay, so maybe there were other versions or maybe it just depends what country you're in which company has the licence. 
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Enfys posted:My friend and I spent so long hitting each other in the face or chasing after the stupid things when we overshot just trying to do what the girls on the commercial did (because what else did you do with them?) That reminds me of getting stuff for Christmas like Stretch Armstrong that I'd pay with for five minutes and be like, "ok what am I supposed to do with this crap".
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There was also a line of action figures released for the 1978 Ralph Bakshi animated film but I completely missed out on those My inner manchild wants these very much
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Baskin Robbins ice cream maker mother fuckersssss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EufwZw7LpVY I swear my dad was more excited to play with this than I was and that was nice
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I had more lego and micro machines than I knew what to do with and probably played with them far more, but I had these two playsets and for my nostalgia the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cannot be beat. TECHNODROME    sewer lair I think they may both be in storage somewhere still... Captain Invictus posted:a few years back I found my old Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors bad guy, the SAWBOSS.
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I got to enjoy the sewer lair as a 99% intact hand-me-down from my brother, along with the bulk of his TMNT collection. Had a bunch of the vehicles too. But I'll never forgive his teenage phase where he started selling off his stuff for quick cash, as that included the Ghostbusters firehouse.
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There were great TMNT figures. I remember a cool Splinter and a Michelangelo that came with pizza, but I can't find it. I remember these though 
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Enfys posted:There were great TMNT figures. I remember a cool Splinter and a Michelangelo that came with pizza, but I can't find it. There were an insane number of official TMNT action figures and vehicles, they pumped out hundreds and hundreds of them Here's a list of just the vehicles, it's loving crazy how many there are: https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Vehicle_toys
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In my eyes the Pizza Thrower was the peak of vehicle design.  It was so good they reused the mold multiple times.Though actually that reminds me of another 90s classic that hasn't been brought up yet: Exosquad!  One day in the early 2000s I did a double take because KB Toys had figures stocked that were 100% definitely Exosquad but presumably the molds either got swiped or just kept around to keep pumping out knockoff toys well after the original run had died. I think they were sold as just the exosuits, no GI Joe-esque figures to stick in 'em.
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John Murdoch posted:In my eyes the Pizza Thrower was the peak of vehicle design. I loved my TMNT technodrome and sewer, but I think the Transformers micromasters took the cake for me, combining micro machine scale and action figure playability. I need to find some pictures, I remember the rocket launch pad in particular. If I recall correctly, ExoSquad were another result of the BattleTech licensing drama? Like they were supposed to be Clan Elementals originally?
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PerniciousKnid posted:I loved my TMNT technodrome and sewer, but I think the Transformers micromasters took the cake for me, combining micro machine scale and action figure playability. I need to find some pictures, I remember the rocket launch pad in particular. I still have my Devastator and Defensor Micromaster combiners:  They also sold Superion and Rail Racer Micromaster combiner sets but for some reason I never bought those. Devastator was always my favourite Transformers character but I could only ever afford the dinky little cheap Micromaster version. I eventually got a bootleg version of the OG Devastator but it's pretty janky
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John Murdoch posted:Though actually that reminds me of another 90s classic that hasn't been brought up yet: Exosquad!
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I still have my Devastator and Defensor Micromaster combiners: The original original Devastator is pretty janky too, tbh You know what I never see come up on the internet? Air Raiders  Typical gi-joe-ish vehicles and playsets but the big gimmick was pump-action missiles. I had this sucker and that big round thing in the middle was a bellows that if you squeezed it would fire off a little missile nerf-dart-style. I thought it was cool at the time. Also the store where my mom bought it was this place where they didn't have stock out on shelves, just a catalogue and little tickets or poo poo to order off of. You'd take your ticket to the counter, they'd bring you your thing. Such an early-20th-century way of doin business. E: I just noticed the name of the thing in French is a pretty great portmanteau Phy has a new favorite as of 17:55 on Oct 5, 2023 |
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I'm jealous of any kid who got actual playsets for their action figures. My brother and I got plenty of G.I.Joe, Transformers, even a few random M.A.S.K. and He-Man figured, a couple vehicles, but NEVER a big themed playset like the Technodrome or US Flagg or Castle Greyskull. One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is Construx: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construx   Little plastic pieces that were various lengths of straight or curved pieces, and then some plastic "filler" pieces to close the gaps, all connected to 6x6 cubes with little notches that all the pieces slid and locked into. I loved making weird little cars and spaceships.
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That kid gets better birthday present than you. He won’t call you poor, but he wants you to know he knows.
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