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DrBouvenstein posted:One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is Construx:  Those were the other biggest contender for my favorite construction type set, no idea how I managed to not bring them up. They were neat because of how big and standardized the pieces were, you could easily get tubs of them at garage sales and make pretty large builds like that.I did occasionally get actual sets, too, and unsurprisingly the spaceships were my favorites. Especially the alien line that had a darker theme and glow in the dark pieces.   This one was my favorite, and the biggest set I ever got. It went one step beyond the regular alien line and was wired up with a battery pack and actual working lights  
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John Murdoch posted:Exosquad! These were awesome, I still have a couple.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I still have my Devastator and Defensor Micromaster combiners: I never heard of those, that's cool as hell. I would've loved combiner miniature guys. I mostly had incomplete sets of combiners older, I did have the terrorcons and monster pretenders, and I had to settle for a Gen2 recolored Devastator. He was kind of disappointing in terms of playability.
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I eventually got a bootleg version of the OG Devastator but it's pretty janky
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John Murdoch posted:Exosquad!
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I wonder how popular the Exosquad toys were. I recognize them from the store, but I never knew anybody who had them - I could count on friends to have a lot of the bigger toy lines I never got to buy (Turtles, He-Man etc), so I got to play with them when I was visiting.
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Pleads posted:The white mech in the front was 100% my favourite single toy of all time. Good articulation, cool parts, a motorcycle handlebar for control, plus it could shoot missiles at cats. Sadly, ACAB. The world needs more mechs with stompy ED-209 feet.
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John Murdoch posted:In my eyes the Pizza Thrower was the peak of vehicle design. You just answered a question I forgot I had. I received a complete, intact copy of the guy in the middle (gray suit) and I never had any idea where it came from. His legs had little fake pistons that would move when it articulated and I was fascinated.
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It was so good they reused the mold multiple times.
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Devastator chat: I had the original Devastator, and that damned thing took forever to put together. It also, like the others said, wouldn’t stand up for more than a few seconds before toppling over. Poor Devastator: thought of Dinobots and died
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Kangaroo Jerk posted:Devastator chat: I had the original Devastator, and that damned thing took forever to put together. It also, like the others said, wouldn’t stand up for more than a few seconds before toppling over. Yeah kids today don't know how good they've got it. Just look at this drat thing, 12 year old me would have gone nuts for this: 
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Neither of those are really kids toys though. The devastator is a third party one that I have a ko of and while it's neat and the robots are cool, I think it's too complicated and flimsy for kids(yes i have a KO but a lot of the parts even "original"i doubt would be very sturdy) and also it is extremely expensive. And the optimus prime, wasn't that some promotional transforming pen thing? Anyways, i get your point, just probably could have used a better example 
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This one was the pride of my collection. My dad never got me big gifts, and then one day, completely out of the blue, he comes home with this giant box. I guess he must have found it on sale or something. The two cockpit sections were detachable, and then you could split the main body into two pieces and plug a cockpit into each to make two smaller ships. The front section opened up to reveal a rocket inside, and the back section was a hangar for the little scout craft. It was a really fun design that made it more than just a single big ship.
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It's a great design. When Lego came out with the updated Galaxy Explorer a while ago I thought "I swear this is a test balloon as much as anything else; if they come out with a modernized Deep Freeze Defender after this they're gonna make absolute bank".
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My mom got me the mega core magnetizer for Christmas while at my grandma's in Florida. Then my grandma took me to toys r us to pick out a gift I wanted, and...there was another mega core magnetizer, half destroyed, sitting in a discount bin for 12 dollars. It was missing some pieces since the box was torn in half, but it still had all the giant wheels and giant windshield, and honestly those are the most important parts. My grandma thought it was weird I insisted on getting a smashed open box with missing parts, but got it for me anyways. So I got 1.5 MCMs for Christmas. It ruled She also got me some Snailiens. SUPERSONIC SHELL FIGHTERS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLABasuuGBQ
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Captain Invictus posted:My grandma thought it was weird I insisted on getting a smashed open box with missing parts
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Kangaroo Jerk posted:Devastator chat: I had the original Devastator, and that damned thing took forever to put together. It also, like the others said, wouldn’t stand up for more than a few seconds before toppling over. I wonder if how annoying he was to assemble and his terrible balance is why the all the other combiner teams changed form 6 robots, like Constructicons/Devastator, to 5?
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G1 devastator was so awesome to me as a kid, and when they finally, finally made a new version for Combiner Wars, you're drat right I bought it the individual constructicons aren't perfect but the combined form is essentially flawless. amazing stability, articulation, and detail for a $120 set.
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John Murdoch posted:In my eyes the Pizza Thrower was the peak of vehicle design. I had the grey guy in the middle. I liked all the little details - the little "plug" that you stuck into the back of the guys neck. The little power chip that slid into slot in the back. I somehow ended up duplicate grey figures and now my kids stomp/throw them around the house to this day! (I lost the missles)
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More non-LEGO stuff I just remembered after seeing something similar: Battle Beasts. Each had a small label on it that changed color and became visible when you warmed it up a bit. It got kind of tied in with Transformers in Japan but of course when you get one of these with no background whatsoever you don’t really care. Too bad the label stopped working fairly quickly.
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Laserjet 4P posted:More non-LEGO stuff I just remembered after seeing something similar: The label was for a stupid rock paper scissor game anyway. Visionaries had the cool labels!
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Battle Beasts might be my favorite toy line from my childhood. They were cheap enough to get with my allowance, they were surprisingly detailed for their size, and the complete lack of any cartoon (there's an obscure and short comic series I didn't know about) left me free to give my Beasts whatever personalities and backstory I wanted. I sold a lot of my childhood toys once I learned they were worth money (thanks for never throwing them out, mom) but I made sure I kept my Battle Beasts. They sorta came back about a decade ago with Beast Saga, and the figures had little dice launchers instead of rub stickers. https://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/beastsaga/information/index.html They're really cool, but the whole line flopped hard and was released only in Japan.
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Kid Fenris posted:Battle Beasts might be my favorite toy line from my childhood. They were cheap enough to get with my allowance, they were surprisingly detailed for their size, and the complete lack of any cartoon (there's an obscure and short comic series I didn't know about) left me free to give my Beasts whatever personalities and backstory I wanted. There must be someone out there who does all their d6 rolls with these
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someone awful. posted:a couple more of my childhood favorites that i haven't seen anyone post about yet: Hell yeah Brio. When I was around five years old, I apparently hit my little brother over the head with one of the trains because he grabbed it while I was playing with my Brios. He wasn't even two years old at the time.  We're okay now though!
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Probably inspired my love of Rollercoaster Tycoon's coaster designer later in life.
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Calexio posted:Hell yeah Brio. When I was around five years old, I apparently hit my little brother over the head with one of the trains because he grabbed it while I was playing with my Brios. He wasn't even two years old at the time. He deserved it
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let they who hasn't swung a line of brio train tracks like a sword throw the first plastic stone, tbh
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A straight section with a curved section attached to it to make it look like a scimitar.
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Haven’t we all been hit by one toy or another? An old friend of mine threw a Genesis controller and hit me in the head.
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Der-Wreck posted:Haven’t we all been hit by one toy or another? An old friend of mine threw a Genesis controller and hit me in the head. Me and my little brother were wrestling, it was a fierce match and he didn't hold back. He knew I was afraid of getting in trouble, but as the little brother if he hurt me he'd get away with it easily. We were trying to throw each other off the couch and he eventually got the better of me and I came tumbling down, I looked up and he was looking back and getting position to jump off the corner of the couch like a loving WWF wrestler. Thinking quick I grabbed a weapon, a whiffle ball bat. I point it right at him like a sword, surely he wouldn't jump if the bat was in the way like that. Wrong. Motherfucker jumped with no hesitation and his head slammed right into the tip of the bat. He even got a little black eye He cried and I got in trouble. Little dude threw himself on my sword just to own me and it worked
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to heck with toys, my brother threw a block of parmesan cheese in a ziplock bag at me once. beaned me right in the head
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One time my best buddy and I were playing this game where he was on a swing and I would throw things and he would kick them, you know, using the swing's momentum to launch things really far! So I'd throw a basketball and WHOOMP he'd knock it right over the fence into the alley! I throw a teddy bear and WHOOF it goes flying, right into a mud puddle hilarious! I throw a big plastic thing used to put plants in, but I overthrow it, and it hits him in the face. He topples backwards off the swing, and his face lands right in the mud puddle under the swing. And so he's also crying -- no, screaming, he's absolutely screaming. And you know the rules of being a kid: whoever gets to a grownup first gets to tell his side of the story first, so I ran up to him, shoved his face further into the mud so he'd be slowed down, and raced up the path that led to his front yard. There I encountered his mother, and I began my tale, which started like, "Okay, Best Buddy is going to come here and tell you some real crazy lies. But let me tell you how it really happened..." but at that moment, Best Buddy comes shambling up the porch, and there is blood everywhere. Blood and mud covering every part of him. It looked like something out of Hellraiser. The plastic pot I threw had split his lip in half, right up to his nostril. He had to have stitches. I got grounded :\
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