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Title: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Christopher on December 30, 2007, 02:41:46 AM
Kind of interseting to see what people liked when they were kids compared to when we were kids

(by older I mean anyone like 25 and older)
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: MrAngryFace on December 30, 2007, 02:44:19 AM
Ninja Turtles/He-Man/Legos
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Yeti on December 30, 2007, 03:10:40 AM
Ninja Turtles/He-Man/Legos

These plus Lite Bright
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: xnikki118x on December 30, 2007, 03:23:15 AM
I'm 22, a little younger than you're looking for, but I loved my Legos and Lite Bright. I also loved Tinker Toys. Of course I always watched my Nickelodeon and played NES. :)

I had a Pee Wee's Playhouse that I LOVED. I never really got into Barbie. I loved Pound Puppies, and Polly Pocket was cool. Littlest Pet Shop was awesome.

Oh, and my little brother always got various Hot Wheels cars and racetracks and stuff that I used to steal and play with.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: The Sceneman on December 30, 2007, 03:53:58 AM
I played a lot of chess while quaffing fine cheese and chardonnay

seriously tho, my toys of choice were my 486 and my Sega Master System

oh yeah I liked Lego too

(Im 22 also so Im too young to post in this thread also but whatevs)
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: BobbyRobby on December 30, 2007, 04:02:11 AM
LEGOs, Construx, GI JOE, Transformers, He-Man, Turtles, Z-Bots, Marvel Super Heroes, Star Wars
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Enl on December 30, 2007, 04:22:17 AM
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/SamSawyr/dcompose.jpg) (http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/SamSawyr/FiguresListPic1a.jpg)

These guys were so badass to play with back in the day.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: bork on December 30, 2007, 04:49:18 AM
I was into toys back then like I'm into video games now. 

-LEGOS LEGOS LEGOS
-Construx
-Matchbox and Hotwheels cars
-Micro Machines
-G.I. Joe
-Transformers
-GoBots
-Voltron
-He-Man
-M.A.S.K.
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
-Starcom
-Toybiz Super Hero toys (Batman from DC Comics Superheroes was cool and then Marvel took over)

I think these were all the main ones.  I had shitloads of Joes and Transformers; loved them.  TMNT just got to the point of being way too stupid. although I remember having were the original Turtles and Shredder anyway.  I remember getting the Turtlevan for a birthday present and being all  :o.

Then around 12 years old action figures lost their appeal and got really, really shitty quality-wise.  I know a huge part of it is nostalgia, but it's like the nineties hit and toys just went to shit.  I did keep on getting Toybiz Marvel action figures though, eventually giving them all to my cousin.  What a waste of allowance and chore money that was.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: bluemax on December 30, 2007, 04:50:19 AM
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/SamSawyr/dcompose.jpg) (http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/SamSawyr/FiguresListPic1a.jpg)

These guys were so badass to play with back in the day.

Fuck yes to the second pic. I had a nostalgia fit a few years back and bought one of those dudes of eBay.

Stuff I had as a kid (I'm 25):

Rambo
MASK (not the Jim Carrey shit, the cartoon with vehicles that had wing doors that shot missiles)
GI Joe
Voltron
Transfomers
GoBots
Ninja Turtles
Batman
He-Man
and of course LEGOS.

Honestly from like third grade on the only "toys" I really wanted were LEGOs.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: abrader on December 30, 2007, 05:43:36 AM
original transformers, gi joe/cobra command and advanced dungeons&dragons action figures.

My all time fav board game is dark tower.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: aoi tsuki on December 30, 2007, 06:11:13 AM
THe only toys i remember offhand were Legos, Construx (<3), and the typical cartoon tie-in toys of Transformers, Voltron, Gobots, etc.

Shit, i remember being like ten and letting the kid sitting on the bus seat ahead of me play with my Gobot. When he returned it over the brown pleather bus seat, it was sans tires. Being the little bitch that i was, i just looked at it, tireless, and did nothing but steam very quietly.

Sometime later that year, i traded my Tengen Tetris for his Double Dragon. He never got Double Dragon back. Double Dragon > shitty Gobot toys = i win.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Gay Boy on December 30, 2007, 09:33:58 AM
I was into action figures mostly. I mainly played with and bought tons of action figures of Real Ghostbusters, Ninja Turtles, & Star Wars.

As a kid I HAAAAAATED Transformers and G.I. Joe.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 30, 2007, 02:10:57 PM
I had tons of He-Man and Justice League action figures when I was a kid. My He-Man collection also included the Castle Gray Skull and Fright Zone playsets.

(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e295/JoeMolotov/new02720106.jpg)
(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e295/JoeMolotov/PlaysetFrightZone1a.jpg)
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Himu on December 30, 2007, 02:21:14 PM
Ghostbusters toys

(http://64.91.230.245/~transf/ebay/trev/ghost/proton/5/5protonpac937.JPG)

(http://64.91.230.245/~transf/ebay/trev/ghost/proton/5/5protonpac942.JPG)

I have a Ghostbusters figure where you squeeze his legs and his head goes like :O

Of course:

(http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/content/images/2005_2024.JPG)

I had the news van (I wanted the Turtle van lol) and the sewers, and the blimp too!

(http://bp3.blogger.com/_W8dDqsMHtUc/RszUM0NKnVI/AAAAAAAAAoI/BIOiiUaqbUM/s400/blimp.jpg)

:bow

And OF COURSE:

(http://www.wltc.org/dolls/images/Urkel1.jpg)
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: MrAngryFace on December 30, 2007, 02:23:34 PM
fuk yeah I had a turtle blimp too OMG NOSTALGIA
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Himu on December 30, 2007, 02:32:26 PM
TURTLE BLIMP omg
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Gay Boy on December 30, 2007, 02:43:47 PM

And OF COURSE:

(http://www.wltc.org/dolls/images/Urkel1.jpg)

Family Matters lol. It was ok before Urkle took over the whole show. Out of early 90's characters people trash Elmo but of the early 90's icons Urkle was by far the most annoying.

Full House is where it was at on TGIF. :bow And Fresh Prince, that was TGIF too right?
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Himu on December 30, 2007, 02:51:32 PM
Elmo was mid to late 90's.

Full House sucked.

Fresh Prince was on NBC.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Gay Boy on December 30, 2007, 03:02:04 PM
Elmo was mid to late 90's.
I just checked Elmo joined the cast of Sesame in 85 and became a main character around 1990.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Himu on December 30, 2007, 03:07:00 PM
He wasn't that popular until mid to late nineties.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 30, 2007, 03:11:44 PM


-LEGOS
 Hotwheels cars
-Micro Machines
-Transformers
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- and SNES 
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Powerslave on December 30, 2007, 03:14:15 PM
(http://www.primetoystore.com/Toys%20for%20sale/powerrangers/largeredranger.jpg)

(http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nc3k-iwym/toy_hero.files/image006.jpg)

(http://bootsontheground.ca/trades/dinobot_bw.jpg)
(http://www.insecticons.com/insecticomics/v2/images/Dinobot.jpg)

(http://www.codegurus.be/codegurus/images/LEGO%20logo.jpg)

some gi joe I cant find the picture of.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Himu on December 30, 2007, 03:17:04 PM
BEAST WARS
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 30, 2007, 03:22:15 PM
BEAST WARS

SUCKED!

G1 all the way!

I still remember the day I went to school and all the kids had beast wars shit.  It was a key moment in my life; the root of all my anti-social behavior.  The moment I realized people suck.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Himu on December 30, 2007, 03:28:38 PM
hahaha arvie

(http://www.mwctoys.com/images/review_buzzm_3.jpg)

This toy OWNED

sadly it was one of the last toys I ever got. I stopped playing with toys in 5th grade.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Shuri on December 30, 2007, 03:32:14 PM
(http://) (http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/SamSawyr/FiguresListPic1a.jpg)
I had these guys! What were they called? I remember having the tiger
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Gay Boy on December 30, 2007, 03:36:45 PM
OMG POWER RANGERS. I forgot I bought all of those too
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Powerslave on December 30, 2007, 03:39:30 PM
(http://www.toyarchive.com/STAForSale/NEW2001+/Thundercats/LionOOrangeairLoose2a.jpg)
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Gay Boy on December 30, 2007, 03:45:55 PM
Using this lovely picture formant mine would be:
(http://www.rebelscum.com/potf2/POTF2hansolofront.jpg)
(http://www.ninjaturtles.com/toys/1988/raph.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N4YBHGN2L._AA280_.jpg)
(http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/images/products/in/large/KEN10549.jpg)
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 30, 2007, 03:55:44 PM
I had all sorts of shit.  GI Joes, MASK (those things were lame but oh well), Ninja Turtles, etc.  Of course I had plenty of videogames, too.  When I was younger I played with a lot of Legos.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 30, 2007, 04:16:51 PM
Oh yeah, I almost forgot:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Pog_Collection.jpg/800px-Pog_Collection.jpg)

 :lol
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Powerslave on December 30, 2007, 04:19:30 PM
oh yeah marbles and flippos as we called them over here
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on December 30, 2007, 06:12:18 PM
I'm 26. My favorites were Star Wars, He-Man, Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Go-Bots and Legos.

I also had some Macross and Gundam toys that my relatives stationed in Japan sent me that I absolutely loved.

(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/SamSawyr/FiguresListPic1a.jpg)

Those are Battle Beasts. I had a few.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Yeti on December 30, 2007, 07:26:13 PM
I never had any of the big Turtles vehicles like the van or the blimp, I always had to play with my friends.  :'( I did have the sewer though, and I was the only kid on the block who had April O'Neal and the Duck guy with the brown jacket.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Enl on December 30, 2007, 07:48:13 PM
I loved Battle Beasts when I was little. I used to have wars with them since they had stickers on them with specific elements (fire, wood, water) attached. I may go on ebay and see if I can some grab some for nostalgia's sake. Also I remember having this abomination as well:

(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/SamSawyr/MyPetmonster.gif)
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Yeti on December 30, 2007, 07:50:45 PM
Oh yeah, I also had a My Buddy and Ducktales Colorforms.  8)


And SHRINKY DINKS.  :hyper
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Powerslave on December 30, 2007, 08:04:30 PM
Oh, I'm nowhere near 25 and older. Maybe a mod should delete my post.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on December 30, 2007, 09:42:30 PM
I never had any of the big Turtles vehicles like the van or the blimp, I always had to play with my friends.  :'( I did have the sewer though, and I was the only kid on the block who had April O'Neal and the Duck guy with the brown jacket.

I had the Turtle Van, a friend of mine had the blimp and sewer playset. I had practically every figure, though.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: bluemax on December 30, 2007, 10:23:25 PM
Maybe you old timers can help me out. My dad used to have this huge set of cars and shit that if you pressed a button turrets and shit would pop up. He had this SUV that had a turret pop out of the top that I though was so bad ass.


Oh and I used to play with:

VR Trooper Toys
Power Ranger Toys(All the Zords, even the fuck awesome Artillatron from Turbo! Oh and I had the Golden Power Staff from Zeo)
Pogs
Beast Wars(Optimus Maximal had legs that turned into a jet board)
Hot Wheels
Legos
TMNT(The Van, the Hot Ass April toy and the Turtle Phone)


Edit: I also had those Nsync dolls.

That first shit sounds like MASK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.A.S.K.

And yes Battle Beasts were fuck awesome. They're kind of expensive to buy now, especially the ones with the holograms.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: BlueTsunami on December 30, 2007, 10:26:52 PM
I remember getting a 3D puzzle of the Empire State Building and it was so fucken awesome. 3D puzzles <  2D puzzles
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Himu on December 30, 2007, 10:26:58 PM
fucking teddy ruxbin scared the shit out of me
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 31, 2007, 01:36:15 AM
Hey Drinky, why haven't you posted in this thread?

Is,..is it because there were no such luxuries as toys during the depression? 


spoiler (click to show/hide)
:D
[close]
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: xnikki118x on December 31, 2007, 02:48:21 AM
fucking teddy ruxbin scared the shit out of me

Hah OMG I loved my Teddy Ruxbin but then he started talking in the middle of the night. I swear he used to talk even after I removed the batteries.


I forgot about Power Rangers. Loved them. Had a huge crush on Tommy the green ranger.

I loved K'NEX, too.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Enl on December 31, 2007, 06:57:04 AM
I'm having some weird nostalgia overload here. While searching for Battle Beasts I came across another seires of toys that I used to play with, M.U.S.C.L.E Men.

(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/SamSawyr/MusclaMen.gif)
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Powerslave on December 31, 2007, 07:28:30 AM
Muscle men huh. Heh, I guess your colours were showing early on.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: JJR on December 31, 2007, 07:33:23 AM
Lots of Star Wars figures.  The Imperial Walker (it was pretty big for a toy), etc.  Other Star Wars stuff.

It all got crunched into dust.  Today, all of it together would be worth at least a few thousand.

The Star Trek bridge with transporter was nice.  I had a Scotty, Kirk, and Spock figure.  The transporter had a button and it would spin around, making the figure "dissapear" by spinning it to the back and having the front show the empty chamber.

Not bad.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: The Sceneman on December 31, 2007, 08:11:14 AM
If its the same Imperial Walker Im thinking of it was fucking huge, you could fit a full 30 action figures up in that bitch

A friend of mine had one and I was pretty impressed
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on December 31, 2007, 01:01:12 PM
(http://mollybol.50megs.com/Mollyweb/Book/Diary%20Pics/Lego%20pirate%20ship.JPG)
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Eric P on December 31, 2007, 01:04:41 PM
star wars
lego
he-man
thundercats
mask
tmnt
erector sets
gi joe (my dad worked for the army so he didn't want me having these for the longest time)
transformers
go-bots
voltron
basically anything that transformed amazed me.  engineering is cool

lots of japanese toys that never made it to america or never made it to america in the same format

really the amount of plastic debris from my youth just floating around is amazing
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2007, 01:05:56 PM
fucking teddy ruxbin scared the shit out of me

Hah OMG I loved my Teddy Ruxbin but then he started talking in the middle of the night. I swear he used to talk even after I removed the batteries.


I forgot about Power Rangers. Loved them. Had a huge crush on Tommy the green ranger.

I loved K'NEX, too.

Tommy the green ranger owns a dojo here in Houston and teaches martial arts with his son iirc.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Powerslave on December 31, 2007, 01:33:31 PM
(http://casualkeystrokes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/barbie-dream-house.jpg)
(http://i4.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/78/ef/989a_1.JPG)


 :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: tiesto on December 31, 2007, 01:35:56 PM
Stickers were in an orange fire pattern, not blue, but I couldn't find any pictures of the exact one:

(http://bmxmuseum.com/image/1998_dyno_vfr_lg.jpg)
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: MrAngryFace on December 31, 2007, 01:41:18 PM
(http://mollybol.50megs.com/Mollyweb/Book/Diary%20Pics/Lego%20pirate%20ship.JPG)

and had this

(http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/~lynette/mylego/pics/1682.jpg)


(http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/lego/castle/6073.jpg)
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on December 31, 2007, 02:44:52 PM
(http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/6990-1.jpg)

I had this, it was incredible.
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on December 31, 2007, 04:04:33 PM
Lego was the best
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2007, 04:59:30 PM
(http://casualkeystrokes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/barbie-dream-house.jpg)
(http://i4.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/78/ef/989a_1.JPG)


 :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

is it sad i knew the name of this without looking at the file url?

for some reason i liked those girl toy commercials as a kid

i mean, that one doll where you take a spoon into some plastic made up jam or something and it actually stick the plastic to the spoon which you can feed the baby? lol
Title: Re: Oldies - What toys did you play with as kids?
Post by: Barry Egan on December 31, 2007, 05:27:35 PM
I'm having some weird nostalgia overload here. While searching for Battle Beasts I came across another seires of toys that I used to play with, M.U.S.C.L.E Men.

(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/SamSawyr/MusclaMen.gif)

OOOOMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :Bow :bow :bow