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Title: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: daveblackeye15 on November 06, 2003, 03:03:59 PM
When I was younger I never really got into stuffed animals and I didn't have any security toys that comforted me. That is until my seventh or eighth birthday (I'd say around then) my dad got me this Godzilla two pack thing. The package was two 4 inch tall figuers of Godzilla and King Ghidorah. I remeber playing with those two some much, after several weeks I wanted more monsters for more monster battles. I saw something in the newspaper where Toys R Us was selling a huge package of the same figures. I saved up my money and bought the package (I remember back then there was a HUGE Godzilla toy craze, man those were the days) the package came with Super Godzilla (the same Godzilla figure except darker skinned, still cool.)Mecha-King Ghidora, King Ghidorah (can't have enough Ghidoras)Mechagodzilla(90's)Biolante,Mothera,Battra,
Angiuras,Mogeara,Rodan, and Gigan. Man I had so many battles with all these cool toys. Unlike other people's securtity toys, instead of putting them in the bed I put them on top of my dresser which was right by my bed. If I ever woke up in the middle of the night I could make out Godzilla's sillouthouse(mispelled) made out by the street light outside my room, procteting me from the evils of the world. AHHH the good old days.



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Andrew on November 06, 2003, 03:15:11 PM
Legos were big for me, as were any number of plastic dinosaurs.  We would spend hours with those things, pretending that the yard was some prehistoric planet, filled with monsters.  Seems to me that we were hard on mom's flower beds, because that is where the monsters like to build their lairs.

Also, one of my favorite toys from childhood was the big plastic Godzilla, with the spring-loaded fist that shot across the room.  My dog, a boxer named "Jaws," knew to find cover when Godzilla stomped into the room.

Funny thing, now my office desk is covered with various monitor toys.  (My office here at home, that is.)  Looking up I see the same Godzilla, Mechagodzilla, and Ghidorah that you mention, along with a talking Dalek, Gamera and a Gaos, Yukon Cornelius, Simba, a Space Marine and his opposing Hydralisk, Diablo, Petrie, a kung-fu hamster, Riff-Raff, and a Nuhvok.



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Brother Ragnarok on November 06, 2003, 04:20:23 PM
I also have a load of plastic dinosaurs.  Those, along with Transformers and Dino-Riders (in the dinosaur category, but with laser cannons), and the requisite Godzilla figures.  Just recently a friend of mine visited Nebraska and brought me a Bandai Hypergodzilla figure of the GMK Baragon, which now sits atop my monitor.

Brother R



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Newt on November 06, 2003, 04:25:08 PM
Some things never change.

My five-year-old son has over two hundred (we counted them) plastic dinosaurs, and the love-of-his-life toy is his BIG Godzilla.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: The Burgomaster on November 06, 2003, 06:06:17 PM
I had stuff that I could probably sell for a lot of money if I still owned it today.  I had:

* The STARSHIP ENTERPRISE play set, with all the action figures.

* The old G.I. Joe's . . . the ones with plastic hair, the ones with life-like hair and beard, the ones with Kung-Fu grip.  Plus, I had several play sets like CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB and the G.I. JOE TRAINING CENTER.

* MAJOR MATT MASON and some accessories.

* CAPTAIN ACTION

* THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN action figure

Games like:

* WHICH WITCH?

* KER-PLUNK

* RADAR SEARCH

* SPLIT LEVEL AGGRAVATION

* KING OIL

* BILLIONAIRE

Plus, I had this neat prehistoric village set.  It had plastic cliffs and trees and stuff, plus cave men and dinosaurs.  You could put the dinosaurs into this vice contraption and squeeze them into little cubes (about the size of Star Burst candies).  Then you could put the cubes into this little oven contraption and heat them up.  When they got heated, they would unfold back into their dinosaur shapes.

I also had this thing called a MOTORIZED MONSTER MAKER.  You poured goup into molds and then heated the molds.  It would make the goup turn into a rubbery substance shaped like heads and hands.  You then attached the heads and hands to these little motorized bodies that you could wind up with a key and the monsters would walk around.

I also had a CRACK FIRE rifle.  It was a toy gun that made an authentic rifle sound when you fired it.

I also had a space equipment set that was very popular at the time.  You had to buy each piece separately.  I had a space helmet (complete with visor), space shoes, a ray gun (actually a water pistol), and this long claw thing that you attached to your arm so that you could pick up moon rocks and stuff.

Wow . . . this is bringing back memories.  I think I'm going to cry.



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Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Ash on November 06, 2003, 06:35:57 PM
I also had that giant Godzilla with the fist that shot off!
It also had a red lever on the back of its neck and when you pressed it down, Godzilla's tongue would come out and was covered with fake flames!

I also used to play with those huge Shogun Warriors.
They were cool!



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Flangepart on November 06, 2003, 08:20:11 PM
What did i have?
The original G.I. Joe. The Big one! And i loved lincon logs. Hey, any construction toy was cool to me.

And today....
In my room are such things as: A 14 inch Klingon D-7 heavy cruiser, the Enterprise -D, some Starfleet Battles mimi modles of a Fed Constitution class, a destroyer, and a dreadnaught. A Colonial Viper, and a 12 long X-wing. A Y.wing, B-wing, A-wing, a TIE fighter...hey, i'm startin' to see a pattern here!
Lots of model airplanes.....about 22, i think. And some assorted Mecha.
Me? Grow up?......Naaaaa!



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Ellie on November 07, 2003, 01:26:37 AM
I had the original Barbie and Ken. I also had the whole Nancy Drew book series. I also had a viewmaster with Hansel & Gretal (sp)?,Land of the Giant and Popeye reels. I also had a whole collection of 45 records to play on my portable record player. I wish I had it all now.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Cullen on November 07, 2003, 02:29:14 AM
Not only did I have the Godzilla with the rocket fist and flame tounge, I also had the Rodan and (I think) the Raydeen robot.

My brother had a big sized Alien figure with working inner mouth.  He'd chase our cousin around with it.

Good days.

Cullen - who wishes he had the money for a talking Dalek...


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: onionhead on November 07, 2003, 04:51:40 AM
I had about a dozen GI Joes, from the original Army man to life-like hair and Kung Fu grip.  My dad dug a huge area in the backyard for a level floor to an above-ground pool, and the resulting mountain of leftover sod was perfect for Joe to crawl, hide, attack.  
I also had the entire pantheon of Aurora monster models--Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Phantom of the Opera, the Gillman--populating the metal shelves in the corner of my bedroom.
I also had the original Rock 'em-Sock em Robots.



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Ash on November 07, 2003, 04:57:16 AM
Actually...instead of Kung-Fu grip I think it was deemed "Swivel Arm Battle Grip"

Hehe!
I remember that phrase was printed on the packaging.



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: TheFeen on November 07, 2003, 06:01:14 AM
He-Man. Definately my favorite line of toys. I mean the old overly muscled, late 80's He-Man too, not the new one. Man they were great, i had two different He-mans (on with arm swivel attack thing) Skeletor, Mordak, Orko, Lockjaw, Whiplash, Man at Arms, the guy with the moustache, the beeguy, the power, Battle Cat (with armour), Snake Mountain, Castle Greyskull and a bunch of others that i cant remember. Happy days!



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: AndyC on November 07, 2003, 11:28:18 AM
My parents weren't into spending a lot of money on the latest toys, and I think they were more inclined toward buying things they understood. For example, they simply wouldn't buy me the Godzilla with the flame tongue and rocket fist, much as I wanted it. I did have a few Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica figures, but I mostly played with Tonka trucks, Hot Wheels and Fisher-Price Adventure People. Adventure People were cool. I had a bunch of figures, the TV Van, the Jeep, the canoe, the dirt bike.

My parents kept all my old toys around for the grandkids. Funny, many of the toys that survived my childhood (some of them surviving older siblings first) just didn't stand up to the abuse my brother's kids gave them. Kids today just don't seem to appreciate or value the toys the way we did. Having visited my brother one Christmas, and witnessed the annual shower of expensive playthings, I can understand it. These kids had a basement full of toys they could barely get around to playing with (they  mostly wanted to fight over the same one anyway), so why are they going to give a damn about a few cheap old toys at Grandma and Grandpa's?

I managed to liberate a few however, and since I built some pine shelves in the rec room for my movies, I've taken to using the toys to dress it up. A Cylon centurion guards my space adventures, and Rubik's Cube sits next to Cube, the movie. Not too long ago, at a toy sale I was covering for the paper, I picked up an Arnold Schwarzenegger figure (Last Action Hero), that now joins my collection of Arnie movies. I've been eyeing some of the really nice movie figures for sale in the local independent video store, but I just can't bring myself to spend the money. There's something a bit more special about using old toys anyway.



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Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Susan on November 07, 2003, 07:55:49 PM
Kids today don't appreciate the toys as much because it's christmas 365 days a year for them. When I grew up I only got toys on xmas and bdays and they weren't the most expensive kickass toys either. The rest of the year there was that odd occasion when mom might say "Ok, pick out something for under a dollar" and I would sit there for an hour trying to decide on the best gift for a buck. But I swear I didn't even know a toy section existed in a store until I turned 10..my folks made sure not to take us there. Now i see kids all year round in the store yelling at their parents like THEY were the children saying "You buy me that! I want that! Grandpa gave me that $20 and you better let me get that because it's MY money". Hell I dont' think I had $20 all at one time in my hand until I was in my teens..lol

Anything in excess breeds spoiling. I usually find as gifts for kids I know cool things you can't find anywhere else. Like i'll go to some craft show and get a wooden puzzle box, something unique where the kid will think it's the best gift ever - because he's SEEN everything else on tv and at walmart and the novelty wears off on those items. Hell I thought the neatest dimestore gift when I was a kid were those paddle balls or even just the joy of a rubble ball with a swirly inside. Hours of fun! Not to mention those little comic books you could get at the drugstore by the checkout.

I saved alot of my old toys. Battlestar Galactica ships, incredible hulk doll..stuffed animals like Snoopy, garfield and ziggy. I have tons of old metal cars and plastic dinosaurs/farm animals. God knows what else in a box, some of it I have out for kids to play with when they visit. Stuff you can't find anywhere like tomy pocket games or these crazy dollar store gifts I got when I was 5. My toys rarely broke and when they did I fixed them or glued them back together..or just kept them broke. Because my parents wouldn't replace it with a new one, I wouldn't get a new toy because I was crying over this one.  I think alot of kids have toys these days and really dont play with them like we did, I think alot of it has to do with the fact that computer games, tv, and dvd's have really robbed kids of how to use their imagination. Sounds strange but when my godson was 3 I actually was startled to learn he had never EVER played imaginary games..so we spent the afternoon pretending the couch was a ship and we were pirates. Wow..what a concept eh? Now they got books that read FOR the kids...woopie



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Jamtoy on November 07, 2003, 11:21:12 PM
That very same 20" tall Shogun Warrior Godzilla sits on my dresser today.  (Along with the 20" tall '98 Ultimate Godzilla by Trendmasters, Metlar, Tendral and D'compose of the Inhumanoids toyline, a 10" tall Godzilla 2000 and 3 Opee fish from Star Wars Ep 1.)  I also have 5 Jumbo Power Ranger Megazords and the 2 20" Tall Trendmasters Voltrons (Classic and Stealth)  Just in case your wondering, I am a 32 year old father of 2 little girls and have been married for 8 years)

My wife is not too upset, she loves Godzilla too.  But she is into Star Trek Ships. My 3 year old daughter loves Godzilla.  When we watch "King Kong vs Godzilla"  She cheers Godzilla on.  "Yeah!  Fire Him! Fire Him!!  Yeah!!! (Fire Him is her way of telling Godzilla to breath fire on King Kong.)

When I was around 10 in the early 1980s, a local TV station back in Louisiana would show "Godzilla Theater" every Saturday morning.  I would sit my Big Godzilla beside me and we would watch the movie and the Godzilla Power Hour on NBC.  (Then we would go outside and stomp my brothers Hot wheels cars.  He seems to have lost all of his cars now.)

My Star Wars and 3-3/4" GI Joe figures always had trouble with Godzilla attacking them.  The AT-AT would lose every week, so would the Kraken from Clash of the Titans.



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Eirik on November 07, 2003, 11:30:44 PM
It begins and ends with Lincoln Logs.  You could build with 'em.  You could pretend the larger pieces were guns.  You could chuck 'em at each other without getting hurt too bad.  

I saw that they brought Lincoln Logs back and are selling them at Toys R Us.  I'm buying a set for my soon-to-be-born kid and will give them to him/her for Christmas 2006.  It's good to get Christmas shopping out of the way early.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: trekgeezer on November 07, 2003, 11:38:15 PM
I got a blonde  Army GI Joe  Christmas  1964.  My Mattel Tommy Gun my mother got me with  S&H trading stamps (this really dates me).  I  also had a Major Matt  Mason astronaut  figure with  rocket pack.  

I have always  been a Science Fiction nut.  My usual  tv fare was Twilight Zone, Outer Limits,  Star  Trek,  Man  from U.N.C.L.E, and of course  Jonny  Quest.  I always wanted to be  Race  Bannon ,  he got the girls,  got to fly all sorts of neat aircraft, and he got to shoot guns a lot.  What  else could a guy ask for ?

Like  Flangepart I also have  and  Enterprise, a Klingon  BOP and  Vorcha Class   Battlecruiser on my desk. I just haven't gotten around to working on the StarFury yet.  I also have a closet  full of assorted mostly Star Trek toys, action figures, and ornaments.

I know I'm  never  growing up!



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Scott on November 07, 2003, 11:48:07 PM
We had two models in our home that we put together. One was THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME and the other was GODZILLA.

This is some stuff I haven't thought of in a while. Let me remember. It was the 70's ............. Okay here is a small list.

Baseball Cards (7,000 completely different)
Coin Collection (Indian head pennies, Buffalo head nickels, Mercury head dimes, Silver dollars, etc.)
Green Army Men (spent hours with them, also had Indians, Cowboys, Calvary, Germans, tanks, artillary, etc.)
Action Jackson (poor mans G.I. Joe)
Tyco Electric Car Race Track
B-B Gun
Tonka Toys
Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Johnny Lightnings, and Tinker toys
Telestar (first in the niehborhood to have it. Tennis with the two lines and the dot. )

The one thing that I remember not getting was:

 Air Hockey.



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: JohnL on November 08, 2003, 02:42:57 AM
>* The STARSHIP ENTERPRISE play set, with all the action figures.

I had this, but I think i got a defective Kirk because he didn't sit properly. Got given away to someone at one point, although I kept Spock.

>* The old G.I. Joe's . . . the ones with plastic hair, the ones with life-like hair and >beard, the ones with Kung-Fu grip. Plus, I had several play sets like CURSE OF

I had a G.I. Joe with the life-like hair & beard and he spoke when you pulled the string. I could never get it to say what I wanted though. I also had the HQ with working search light, and the submarine.

>* THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN action figure

Had this one too, plus the rocket/operating table. I always wanted the Maskatron robot, but never got it.

>Plus, I had this neat prehistoric village set. It had plastic cliffs and trees and stuff,
>plus cave men and dinosaurs. You could put the dinosaurs into this vice
>contraption and squeeze them into little cubes (about the size of Star Burst
>candies). Then you could put the cubes into this little oven contraption and heat
>them up. When they got heated, they would unfold back into their dinosaur
>shapes.

I got one of those at the flea market once, but the vise broke not long after I got it and would no longer compact the creatures. They fetch pretty good prices on eBay.

I had a lot of the same construction toys as others, Legos, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys etc. I also had this neat building construction set where you made the skeleton of the building using plastic 'girders' and then snap on plastic window panels, plus a similar set for building bridges.

As for more specific toys;

*Lost in Space Remco robot. I still have it, slightly scuffed up and with the claws glued on the arms, but mostly intact. This was probably my favorite toy.

*Space 1999 Eagle. This was like 2-3 feet long, opened up and you could put figures inside. The figures all broke in half (they were pretty fragile) and I lost the tiny little guns, but I still have the ship.

*Star Wars figures (original), plus the X-Wing and Tie Fighters.

*A large styrofoam ship with an attached remote-control helicopter. It was attached by an arm so it would only fly in circles, but it could hover, pick up targets etc. I was incredibly disappointed when it stopped working. When Christmas rolled around, my parents couldn't find a replacement for it, so they got me a Star Trek Enterprise that was the same principle (the propeller was under the saucer), but it never worked the way it was supposed to.

*A large plastic crane. Had a lever to switch functions and and a crank to rotate it, lower the crane etc. After like a year of use, it started squeeking badly, so I got the brilliant idea to oil it. It never worked properly after that. :(

*Model trains. I started out just liking all trains, but as I got older, my preferences went toward old-time steam trains (like 1880-1900).

How about toys you always wanted, but never got? I have two big ones;

The 18" Kenner Alien figure. It was quite expensive and they took them off the market pretty quickly.

Mighty Casey Railroad. A gaint train set large enough for kids to ride on. I wanted one in the worst way, but they just cost way too much. I had visions of getting on and laying track all over the yard.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: AndyC on November 08, 2003, 11:16:49 AM
One thing is for sure, my kids are going to learn to be creative. Had this conversation with my wife, and we're both agreed that solitary TV watching is not going to be considered a legitimate option when there are other things to do. I've watched too many other people use the TV as a babysitter, and seen what it's done to their kids. Naturally, I have to balance this with my desire to share my favourite movies with the kids, when they are old enough. Of course, watching a movie with dad is not the same as vegging out in front of the tube. At our house, TV is going to be a family activity, as it was when I was a kid, and there will be arts and crafts and sports and games and music and tools and church and other things to make up the bulk of the entertainment options.

On the subject of imaginary games, some of the best times I had as a kid were playing with a kid around the corner (my best friend until about grade 5). He had a garage full of old junk that his dad kept around - drums and pails and cans, old wooden skids and assorted pieces of things. We used to have the best time stacking and arranging these things to build space ships and robots and things like that. We could fight whole space battles, piloting two stationary piles of junk facing each other in his back yard. It was great fun. Kids who don't play those kinds of games are really missing out, and I think they suffer for it in later life.



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Susan on November 08, 2003, 01:36:56 PM
I loved imagination games. Mine always involved me as a secret agent or a spy, lurking about the neighborhood. In arizona we had a sandpit at the end of the street (people had gravel and dirt in their yards vs. grass so they used to pile these mountains of it in this empty lot). I would climb to the top of the gravel pit, dig a little trenchhole and we would be at war, trying to defend our castle. Ok, so i was a tomboy. Sure I had tv but I wasn't allowed to just watch it all the time, my folks expected me to get the hell out of the house and they had to drag me in when it was dark. So what if it was 100F with 100% humidity - we would just come up with clever things like filling plastic glasses with water the night before and placing them in the freezer and then when it got hot the next day take it out and have a huge cylinder of an ice block to gnaw on while outside. Because yeah, my parents didn't have koolaid or ice pops on hand 24 hours...so we just had to enjoy a hunk of ice

I went through a phase where I was in a futureworld where everyone wore rollerskates..that was the late 70's when it was popular..lol, because we had no rinks where I lived so we skated outside till the rubbers wore right off of those wheels. Sometimes we'd have races or the older kids might be nice and let us hold onto the back of their bike while they peddle..of course it was too late to realize the cruel intention when they spend off very fast and raced over bumps and into the dir. We'd spy on or try to follow the older kids, mostly our brothers, who you knew were up to no good when they grabbed their dirtbikes and headed off someplace they werent' allowed. My parents rarely heard "I'm bored", or "There's nothing to do" from us. We FOUND things to do, with board planks, sticks, whatever was around or we could get our hands on without mom or dad finding out. That's when your parents didn't quite know what you were up to when you were rummeging through the closet looking for a sheet. I think half my childhood I heard my parents voices of "put that back! What do you think you're doing with that?!" We also grew up in an area where thei neighbors and the locals would tell on you if you were up to no good or whip you themselves..lol

Of course in the philippines we had monsoon weather so yeah..we even played outside in the rain all day. Staying inside was a Punishment no kid wanted, we even hated being called in for lunch for fear we'd miss something good. Now kids act like going outside is a punishment...

"But it's HOT, there's nothing to DO! Nobody's out there!  I wanna watch cartoons or play on the computer!" I remember my friend even giving excuses for her kids not being out "It's too hot for them to play". I'm thinking this is the same girl that when we were younger we stayed out so long in the heat once we came back blistered and red.

So what if they complain, kick their butt outside and lock the door..lol



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Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: AndyC on November 08, 2003, 03:45:32 PM
Yep, I can remember when practically every house in our neighbourhood had kids, ranging from slightly younger than me to a few years older. Now it's pretty much a neighbourhood full of old people (our parents). On summer evenings, there were huge games of hide and seek, tag or whatever. These games might have as many as a dozen kids and span several properties. My dad had a cedar tree in the back yard that never grew above two feet for years. It was always finding its way into some rough game. When everybody grew up and stopped playing, it grew higher than the roof in a few years. Nowadays, kids just generally seem to think that those kinds of games are lame, especially if it's something that requires them to participate and interact with other kids.

My friends and I used to spend a lot of time just riding our bikes. We'd ride them downtown, to the corner store, the library, or just around the nearby streets. Or we'd go down to a big park on the other side of town and go fishing. Nothing to catch but shiners and suckers. Nothing edible, and you wouldn't have wanted to eat it anyway, because that stretch of river ran past cow pastures, a junkyard and the local chemical plant, but it was all about the catching.

When we got older, we'd ride our bikes out to the reservoir, or to nearby towns, just for the hell of it. Since all of the surrounding towns were smaller, there was less to do there than at home, but getting there and back was an adventure. These were places we could only get to if our parents drove us. It was independence. One afternoon, we did actually ride all the way to the nearest city. Nothing to do there either, so we came back.

Then there were go-carts. Not those motorized things you pay to drive. These things were homemade. A 2x4 with a plywood seat screwed to it, a 2x4 nailed crosswise for a back axle, and another at the front, attached with a single bolt that allowed you to steer. A rope was attached for steering, and lawnmower wheels for rolling. Propulsion came from a guy running behind you, pushing against the back of the cart with a broken hockey stick. Guys would dress them up with paint and decals, and even fake fur seat covers made from scraps stolen out of the garbage at the local textile mill. They were quite popular in the late 70s. I can remember fall fair parades in which the street was filled, side to side, with decorated go-carts.

These days, it's hard to get some kids to go to a fair, much less participate. I can remember, just a few years ago, overhearing a couple of bored kids who were basically standing around with nothing to do. One of them suggested that there was "some kind of a fair or something" going on. The other one said he went once, and it sucked. It's not like Canada's Wonderland. I felt like shaking the little bugger and telling him he's about seventy miles from Canada's frigging Wonderland, and doesn't appear to be going there any time soon. These little morons are standing there with nothing better to do, and the fair wasn't good enough for them. Standing around b***hing was actually preferable. We used to bike down to the fairgrounds and watch the trucks come in. I knew some enterprising guys who hung around during the setup, and made lunch runs for the carnies - bike down to Kentucky Fried Chicken in exchange for a bit of cash or a free test ride. We'd spend a couple of weeks working on parade entries and junior exhibits. These kids were barely aware that there was a fair. Why? because we live in an age where every major city has a kick-ass amusement park that runs all the time, and every moderate sized city has at least a sports park with some amusement-type stuff. Hell, every school carnival and store opening around here seems to have a bouncy castle. I said it in one of the Halloween discussions. There is so much everyday stuff do do, the special things get lost.

I used to try organizing community activities for kids, but I don't anymore. For every one who has fun, there's three or four who do nothing but b***h, and those are the ones who bother to show up at all. They've been taught that it's the responsibility of others to provide them with things to do, and that only flashy and expensive activities are worth doing. Their standards are set according to the best thing out there, and anything else automatically sucks, even if it's the best someone can provide for them.



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Title: Toy Guns
Post by: Ash on November 08, 2003, 05:23:42 PM
While I played with most toys that are mentioned here on this thread, I forgot to add my absolute favorite toys of all....

Toy guns!

I used to have about 20 of them ranging from pistols to a fake AK-47 assault rifle.
You might remember that in the 80's they looked like REAL guns...before the red tips at the end of the barrells were required by federal law so the cops wouldn't shoot you dead by accident.

The Ak-47 was my all time favorite but while running with it while "playing guns" with my friends I tripped & fell and the first thing to hit the ground was the plastic barrell of the gun, snapping it off like a twig.
Man was I p**sed!

I still haven't lost my interest for guns.  I've recently gotten heavy into Airsoft.  These guns look exactly like the real thing.  They are all full size replicas.
I have an MP-5 smg, a SIG 550 assault rifle, a Czech Skorpion machine pistol with a folding stock (looks like the Klobb from Goldeneye for the N64) & another silver handheld pistol but I cannot seem to figure out which company makes it.  
They all come with the red tips but I paint over them to make them look totally authentic.  They all shoot those small yellow plastic BB's that do hurt like hell when shot with.
My next purchase will be an AK-47 Spetznatz that I've had my eye on for awhile at a local shop.
GO here to check more out:  
www.shortyusa.com  (click where it says "spring guns")

Did any of you "play guns" around the neighborhood when you were a kid?



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Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Flangepart on November 08, 2003, 05:38:54 PM
Oh,Oh!...forgot to mention the 10 tall B9 robot! "Danger, Danger Will Robinson!"
Adult toys? Well, i have a Ruger MK2 and 10/22 pistol and rifle. A Moisan-Nagant 7.62 x 54R carbins. A .303 Lee-Enfield Mk3*, a Ruger Security Six .357, A Mossburg M88 12 gage, and finaly, a H&R .50 black power deer gun.
Man....i'm well armed even for my neibourhood!
Do not burgle the homes of Rednecks. It is folly.



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Susan on November 08, 2003, 06:15:06 PM
Andy, kids today are overstimulated. I mean if you start a 3 year old off on one of those motorized cars vs a simple tricycle..you can imagine what they'll expect when they're 9. When I was a kid we hardly ever went out anywhere so even if our parents went to some grown up movie or to a sit down resturaunt we begged to go and we were also were expected to behave accordingly. We didn't raise a fuss and they bribed us to be quiet with a toy or ice cream. If we did act up we knew we wouldn't be taken back to another resturaunt or movie for the rest of our natural lives...

Hell we were thrilled just to get out. I hate to sound so old saying "kids today", it really doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the kids themself. Kids are kids, it's how they are conditioned from an early age by their parents and society. I think a big problem is that my generation and just over grew up without a bunch of toys (in comparison to today) and with ALL these new gimicky gadgets..well it appeals to the child in them and they over-indulge in buying these for *their* kids. Plus maybe it's a guilt thing because more parents today are two-income families than my folks generation at the time..and they spend less time with the kids and perhaps feel guilty. Or maybe we're a generation that idol-worships children and wish to do nothing but please and appease our gods..lol

When my godson was at his 4th birthday party he got tons of expensive things..i mean expensive gadgets and things kids deemed as *way cool*. But those electronic things lose their novelty in about 2 seconds. The next thing I knew kids were teeming around me, all dying to participate in the fun of the gift I bought him which was less than $2. It was that tube of goo you blow with a straw into giant plastic balls. So yeah, every kid I get the chance to hang out with I'll grab a cardboard box and we'll build a house or a castle. Or i'll pass on games like :
red light - green light
mother may I
tag
hide and seek
statues
comety come (i spy)
hide the thimble..yeah I have family games passed on from my great grandparents day that I still remember.

I think games like musical chairs, duck duck goose and simon probably are banned. Because it would be a sin to have children lose at something and risk possibly lowering their self esteem (so we must give even the losing team trophies...that way they feel special too and the winning team doesn't really feel that special since everyone has essentially won)

I still liked to play on my atari and watch tv, but it's a fine balance folks...kids NEED imagination time. Plus my dad would have had a holy fit if he knew that tv was running all day long. What kind of memories will they grew up with? Nopiling into the back of the station wagon and getting a bucket of KFC original and heading to the drive-in wearing your PJ's. Or dusk bike rides when your racing with the sun to get home. I remember i'd get on my bike and all day it would be an adventure. I'd cross the highway bridge and head over to the little store and spend a good half hour in the parking lot scoping for dropped pocket-change. Then when I had enough i'd go in and buy some cinnamon toothpicks or if I had enough, candy.

It'll be sitting in front of the x-box in a room full of toys you never play with.



Post Edited (11-08-03 17:27)


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Scott on November 08, 2003, 07:04:03 PM
Oh yea lincoln logs. Forgot about them.

How about Green Slime in a can. It was a late 70's thing. I use to let it ooze all over my brothers miniture train villiage.

Board games that I use to play were Monopoly, Battleship, Stratego, Clue, Pay Day, Life, Tank Battle, and Carrier Strike.

We use to play soldier and spy from sun up to sun down. As we got older the spy game went quite far.

Building fortresses was another thing we did and store ammo in the ground. By spring the nuts and other things were beginning to sprout. We built tree forts as well.

Skateboarding in the High School late at night. The janitors would chase us out of the building. One of our bunch would put a pebble in the H.S. door which was just enough to put it ajar.



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Eirik on November 09, 2003, 01:52:36 AM
How about Green Slime in a can. It was a late 70's thing. I use to let it ooze all over my brothers miniture train villiage.
*****  YES!  Then they also had purple slime with rubber worms in it - remember?  Then to capitalize on the slime craze, you used to see it in grocery store gumball machines too (in those opening plastic bubbles).  Man, that was gross.  I loved it.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Eirik on November 09, 2003, 01:57:36 AM
"I think games like musical chairs, duck duck goose and simon probably are banned. Because it would be a sin to have children lose at something and risk possibly lowering their self esteem"

My wife works in a school and tells me that children aren't allowed to play dodgeball anymore.. Dodgeball!!  How can a school, in good conscience, graduate some wuss who's never sensed the danger of a ball whizzing at his head?  Who's never tasted the bloodlust of whaling a ball at someone from six feet away?  I swear, someday we're gonna get conquered by Mexico.


Title: Re: Toy Guns
Post by: AndyC on November 09, 2003, 10:49:49 AM
Oh yeah. Toy guns. I used to have cap pistols and squirt guns that resembled colourful plastic replicas of real guns. My favourites, however, were a plastic machine gun with a mechanism inside that made a ratatat noise when you pulled the trigger, and an air rifle. This thing wasn't made to fire anything, but would build up air pressure when you pulled the lever action, and make a loud pop when you pulled the trigger. Good quality too - metal construction with a sturdy plastic stock. I soon discovered that if you jam a cork in the end, the air pressure would shoot it pretty far.

Man, I can remember playing in the neighbourhood with those guns, taking them out on Halloween, and possibly even taking one of them to school once. No doubt I'd find myself in a heap of trouble these days.



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: JohnL on November 09, 2003, 06:23:15 PM
I used to use my imagination quite a bit, but unfortunately, I never had very many friends to play with. My mother and grandparents were INCREDIBLY over-protective, so I was hardly allowed out of our yard alone until I was in highschool! No riding a bike all over the neighborhood, no disappearing off someplace with friends. Mostly I played alone either in the house of in the yard. On the times friends came over, we'd either do something out in the yard, or play video games. As you can probably imagine, most of my friends quickly got restless and wanted to go places, but I wasn't allowed.

>Toy guns!

I had quite a few of those. One of my favorites until it eventually broke was a very realistic looking revolver. It was all metal except for the plastic grips. I also had the typical western style cap guns that took the rolls of paper caps. I also once had a western style rifle that had bullets you could load and fire.

>I've recently gotten heavy into Airsoft. These guns look exactly like the real thing.
>They are all full size replicas.

I've got a few plastic replica guns that I've built from kits. A couple of them fire weak replica bullets (uses a short spring for a range of maybe 6 feet), that is when the tips don't pop off by accident. I also have one that was designed to be more of a toy than a replica. It looks good, but they sacrificed some realism to make it fire mushroom shaped plastic pellets. Those things hurt.

I've also seen catalogs advertising "blowback" replica guns. They're plastic kits and the bullets take a small cap. They don't actually shoot anything, but the cap mimics the action of a real gun. They even make M16's that can be fired full-auto.
They're expensive though.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Flangepart on November 10, 2003, 12:14:13 PM
I had some tou guns that were alot like the real thing. One was a bolt action , like a Remington hunting riflr. called "The Magumba" Another was a copy of an M14. Had a magazine that loaded like the real gun, and had two part plastic cartriges. Put the bullet in the "Brass", work the bolt by hand, and let fly!
Naturaly...the bullets got lost, and mom would not buy new ones....
Craps.....



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: BlackAngel on November 12, 2003, 05:57:06 AM
I remember when I was young, I didn't have much.  But, my mother (bless her heart) was there to provide the play things that I asked for (and that she can afford).  The toys I was hooked on were the Master of the Universe, with Battle Armor He-Man and Skeletor.  I even had the plane (I just can't remember the name).  I also had those vehicles from Mask.  My father (who didn't help much) also bought me a cheap Voltron set.  It did have the five lions, but I had the ones that had no weapons(I even went through the whole "Go Voltron Force"schtick).  And my utlimate vice, were definitly the Transformers.  If I had my own office, or a room to call my own in my apartment, that room will be filled with nothing but the original, along with the Armada version and the Beast Machines.  Not that "Beast Wars" crap.

The toy I wanted but never had: G.I. Joe.
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Bulls**t, I still can't hear you, sound off like you got a pair.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Lee on November 13, 2003, 01:40:59 AM
Oh man!!!! The memories are flying back!!! Licoln Logs, Transformers, G.I Joes, Masters of the Univeres, Hot Wheels, toy guns. We played war, cowboys and indians, tag, hide and go seek(greatest game ever!). I can remember me and my friends heading out on our bikes to see what was waiting for us out there. I also remember my bike coming in handy when I was trying to make it home by curfew. :)
Every winter I can remember we built a snow fort and even the occasional tunnel. Those came in handy during snowball fights. It's these very reasons(plus a few others) that I refuse to grow up. My hair will grey and my joints will tighten but dammit I'll always be a kid at heart. And nobody's taken that away from me.


Sorry fond memories and temper tantrums tend to make me rant. :)



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Susan on November 15, 2003, 01:11:32 AM
The two toys of my childhood I wish I still had (I saved alot of my actual 'housetoys') were my big wheel - blue with the streamers ripped off and covered in Superhero stickers, and my first pair of rollerskates which were all metal and clamped on your shoes. I still remember running as fast as I could on those outside with grinding metal sounding off and sparks flying. I was just thinking of how I loved playing outside more than anything and what I did out there..swinging on that plastic tire.  I was a big tree climber and all the places we lived had GREAT tree's.

In the philippines we had this "green ball" tree that was close to star apples I guess..but something quite different. They were golfball size but quite firm. Once we gathered a ton of them..I mean a ton and laid them all on the street in front of the bus stop (conveniently located outside my door) where the city bus would drive by. We hid when we heard the bus coming (it's old clunky engine could be heard sputtering from blocks away) The street was a sea of balls and when the bus rolled up to the stop we had quite a laugh as balls went popping, crunching and flying everywhere..tires ran yellow/green and the street turned to mush. Sometimes on a bored day we would sit and hurl a ball at the bus as it passed to see if we could get it in one of the open windows. Yeah, we were bad...but the fun of being a kid was coming up with the dumbest things to get away with doing. Altho most of the time we spent hurling those things at eachother.



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Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: JohnL on November 15, 2003, 03:41:18 AM
>The two toys of my childhood I wish I still had (I saved alot of my >actual 'housetoys') were my big wheel

I had a  couple of those (the wheels would always develope holes), but I had something that was even more fun. It was a six-wheeled thing called (I think) a Wild Ride(r?). You sat in it and there was a hand crank on each side. Spin them both the same way and you went forward or back, but if you spun them in opposite directions, you could spin in place. Anyone else ever seen one of these?


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Jim H on November 16, 2003, 02:56:10 AM
Andrew - did you ever play StarCraft online?


Title: Re: Toy Guns
Post by: Deej on November 16, 2003, 08:43:30 AM
Oh man, I was a total militant! I had a complete arsenal of toy guns. My favorite were an old(inoperative) pump action air rifle that had been my dad's. I cut the stock down to make a crude pistol grip, it looked totally wicked. I also had a Red Ryder lever action Daisy. If you cocked the lever(unloaded of course!) it would take out all the tension in the mech, thereby enabling you to do the Rifleman spin, like Chuck Connors in the tv show! I even drove a bunch of nails into the inside of my closet door, so that I could properly display my toy guns, ala Rutger Hauer in Wanted:Dead or Alive, my Pop wasn't pleased.

Also had a load of the little plastic GI Joe figures, they were cool because by taking out the screw in their back, you could remove the arms, legs, head, and re attach them to another GI Joe torso, mix and match action figures! Of course I had tons of Star Wars toys, which I threw out, 'cause I'm a bonehead. And I had two Indiana Jones action figures, Indy and the gestapo guy. Had to ditch Indy though, I used one of the old Great-Start Microwavable breakfast trays as a tomb for Indy, without cleaning out all the pancake syrup, so when I  allowed Indy to escape from the tomb(by taking the duct-tape off the top)he emerged all sticky and reeking of maple goodness. Never was able to totally clean him off.



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Scott on November 16, 2003, 08:57:54 PM
John wrote:

>I had a couple of those (the wheels would always develope holes), but I had >something that was even more fun. It was a six-wheeled thing called (I think) a >Wild Ride(r?). You sat in it and there was a hand crank on each side. Spin them >both the same way and you went forward or back, but if you spun them in >opposite directions, you could spin in place. Anyone else ever seen one of >these?

Yes JohnL, I don't know the name of it, but my brother had it. Six wheels with the hand cranks kinda like a tank without the tracks and I had the Big Wheel about the same time period.

Wow, how could I forget my Big Wheel. That was one of my greatest things. I loved spinning out and yes the wheel would in the end start to break apart. We use to race our different type vehicles down a hill. The Big Wheel won usually unless a bike was in the race.

Speaking of bikes my first one have the banana seat and long handle bars with a back wheel generator for the light in the front. When I first rode the new bike I was going down the street and and everyone was there to send me off on my first journey. Well, they all started to wave and yell and I would wave and look back and the next thing you know I ran straight into a parked car on the side of the rode for my first spin on my newest bike.

Also I remember the all day war games that seem to go on for years and years. I would love doing the death fall (or death scene). We would map out the whole neighborhood and start our patrol. Sometimes we made the playing field to big and we could never find the enemy and would come home only to find them also home watching TV. As we became older the war games took one a far more serious battles.



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: JohnL on November 17, 2003, 07:26:02 AM
>Speaking of bikes my first one have the banana seat and long handle bars

I had a bike like that. My father got it for me one year on my birthday. I'm not sure why as I wasn't allowed to go anywhere on it. That was comfortable to ride. I never could get used to normal/adult bikes with the tiny little seat and handlebars so far forward and low that my back started to gurt just bending over to reach them. I'd end up all bent over and my legs would hit my elbows as I pedalled.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: devil clown on November 17, 2003, 08:36:52 AM
I know its sad so sad.
oh i aint said which toy yet have i well i used to own a glorious (i know i carnt spell) Robocop figure, even had the car. ah the `fun i had seeing how many ways i could cash the car. as all good things must end i finaly relised that Robocop was camp and so me met a firey end.



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Don on March 22, 2004, 12:50:42 AM
Hi:
I read your post on your childhood toys and saw you had the Motorized Monster Maker by Topper Toys!!  I hope you can check out my website (very nontechie/homemade) dedicated to this toy and if you like, to Please sign the guestbook :-)  I had many of the same toys you did and enjoyed them as well.

www.geocities.com/toppermonstermaker/index.html

Take care,

Don



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Foywonder on March 22, 2004, 12:58:46 AM
I too was into anything Godzilla as a kid but for me me childhood toylines that I was all about were:

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (this was the big one for me)
G.I. JOE
M.A.S.K.
BATTLE BEASTS
INHUMANOIDS


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Mr. Hockstatter on March 22, 2004, 02:01:32 PM
I was always into models.  I had models of all the Star Trek stuff, Space 1999 Eagle, Cygnus from the Black Hole, and on and on.  And military models of WWII tanks and stuff.

And I still haven't grown up.  I still build models of Trek stuff, though they're much higher quality now :)  And I still build models of military subjects.  You can really spend some money on military models nowdays since a lot of us "adults" are into it.  You buy the kit, then the photo-etched brass detailing set, then the real metal individual link tracks, the aluminum gun barrel, an extra set of decals, maybe even a book full of reference photos.  You can drop well over a hundred bucks on a single model.   And of course you're not a real modeler if you don't have half a basement full of partially built models.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: George on March 23, 2004, 08:53:02 AM
I miss only one toy from my youth..................Micronauts.

I still have my Dark Tower game, which I love.

I also have all of my Star Wars toys, about 25,000 baseball cards and about 1,000 comic books.

Living in the past????

YOU BETCHA!!


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Darkautumn on March 24, 2004, 02:56:54 PM
Wow. So many great old memories from reading these posts!  My big thing as a kid was dinosaurs, Godzilla, and anything monster or Japanese SF related...plus the requisite "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" stuff.  Of all the toys and figures I had, though, I think the  most versatile for sheer "playability" were the "Micronauts." I spent hours making up a whole adventure-filled universe for those little guys! Plus, with a little imagination, they also doubled as pretty much ANYONE I could think of; I used micronauts as James Bond, Dr. Who, Marvel superheroes, any human characters in my monster games-they were great! Eventually, though, alot of them broke and those that didn't I sold at a garage sale. I managed to save a few items from my childhood; I still have this cool rubber bendy "Godzilla" that's about 6-inches tall, from around 1978. It's actually a better representation of him then that big "Shogun Warriors" toy from around the same era. I also have three plastic, wind-up monsters that are clearly Japanese-inspired, but as far as I know, are not representative of any actual film or TV "kaiju." My mom presented them to me out of the blue when I was maybe about 7, sometime in the first half of the seventies. Like I said, they're wind-up, but they also have a little flint-device in the mouth that would shoot out an impressive stream of sparks (that really looked like lightning!) The flint has worn down on two of them, but one still works (although the sparking is considerably weaker then back in the day.) One of the beasties is red, with kind of a frill-like collar, an angled horn on the nose, and is highlighted in metallic silver and purple. Another is painted metallic blue, with an orange underbelly. It has rows of large and small spikes along the back, arranged in the same way as the sixties incarnation of Godzilla. A unicorn-like horn protrudes from the top of the head. The last is green, with silver and metallic blue paint, and kind of vaguely resembles "Gappa the Triphibian Monster" (vaguely.) Does anyone else remember these awesome little guys? Occasionally, one will pop up on ebay, but nobody seems to know the name of the company that made them, the name of the product itself, or the names of the monsters (if they had any.) They're extremely well-made and detailed.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: JohnL on March 25, 2004, 12:30:05 AM
I think I still have most of my Micronauts. I know I had the big robot that you could put a figure into his chest. I forgot and left some of those batteries with the damn cardboard bodies in it and they leaked all over! It's still in the attic, I never did get around the prying out the batteries and seeing if I could repair the damage.

Changing the topic for a moment, there's one thing I won't miss: carboard sided batteries! I haven't seen one in several years, I hope they stopped making them!


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Darkautumn on March 25, 2004, 10:58:43 AM
John L-
Funny, but the EXACT same thing happened to me. The robot's name was Biotron, and I left the batteries in him for well over a year, and one day I opened him up, and found all the innards corroded. It took a long time to get himm finally cleaned up. I don't remember if the mechanics ever worked properly again.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: odinn7 on March 25, 2004, 01:58:56 PM
Anyone remember the old Hasbro Planet of the Apes dolls and play sets? Those were my thing. I had almost everything available for them. I still have most of it but when I was a kid, I played with my toys without ever thinking they may be worth something...they're a little distressed at this point. Same thing with the 6 Million Dollar Man and his sets. Maskatron didn't age very well at all. As a matter of fact, he didn't last more than a couple weeks. Oh, the good old days...



Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: JohnL on March 26, 2004, 04:16:59 PM
>Funny, but the EXACT same thing happened to me. The robot's name was
>Biotron, and I left the batteries in him for well over a year, and one day I opened

Now I remember. I had most of the figures, plus many of the vehicles, including one that was a big off-white thing with multiple parts and a wired remote control. I also had a couple of the building sets with the square and triangular panels and the set of air-powered travel tubes, which didn't come with enough pieces to make anything worthwhile. The ads showed this fantastic setup that looked like the model for Logun's Run and all you really got was enough for a tabletop.

>him up, and found all the innards corroded. It took a long time to get himm finally
>cleaned up. I don't remember if the mechanics ever worked properly again.

I wonder if anyone ever sued Everready for making batteries that leaked like that?


Title: Re: Toy Guns ryder year 1960 bb rifle
Post by: joe bogen on November 30, 2004, 11:54:27 PM
looking for ryder toy rifle bb


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: JohnL on December 01, 2004, 06:44:34 PM
>looking for ryder toy rifle bb

Try eBay (http://www.ebay.com).


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Sugar_Nads on December 03, 2004, 10:17:59 PM
One toy that I have fond memories of as a kid was a transformable Robotech Valkyrie Fighter. ; )


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: JohnL on December 06, 2004, 02:08:36 PM
>One toy that I have fond memories of as a kid was a transformable Robotech
>Valkyrie Fighter. ; )

I never had one of these, but I always wondered something; Could you transform it from plane to robot and back without using any alternate parts or physically removing some of the parts and putting them in different places? The reason I ask is that I have one of the transformable model kits and to transform it, you have to remove the plane's nose/cockpit section and replace it with a different one that had attachment points for the legs.


Title: Re: Toy Guns ryder year 1960 bb rifle
Post by: Ed on December 07, 2004, 11:48:29 AM
You'll shoot your eye out.
-Ed


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Keith on December 23, 2004, 07:44:11 PM
Do you have a JUMBO dino thunder stegazord for sale.  Desperately looking.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: mark on January 05, 2005, 08:34:48 PM
I have a friend who had that toy with the dinosaurs and the hot plate and the vice that mashed them back into little starburst-like chips! I think his mom took it away after he either a) burnt his fingers, or b) mashed his fingers in the vice. A classic ! Does anyone know who made this thing? I'd love to at leat see an old image of what it looked like, it's been about 30 years. Thanks!


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: JohnL on January 06, 2005, 07:18:39 PM
>I have a friend who had that toy with the dinosaurs and the hot plate and the vice
>that mashed them back into little starburst-like chips! I think his mom took it away
>after he either a) burnt his fingers, or b) mashed his fingers in the vice. A classic !
>Does anyone know who made this thing? I'd love to at leat see an old image of
>what it looked like, it's been about 30 years. Thanks!

That would be Mattel's Strange Change Time Machine (http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/str.html). I bought one of those at a flea market once. Fun, until the threads on the vice got stripped and I no longer had a way to crush them into neat little blocks anymore. I think it got thrown out after that. :(


Title: looking to buy mattel rodan and 1978 flexable godzilla
Post by: maskatron on March 17, 2005, 09:14:27 PM
i have read about your toys i feel the same way.i have boxes of toys and comic books full of vintage titles.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Alan Smithee on March 19, 2005, 11:40:39 PM
I loved the toys from the mid/late 70's to the mid 80's.

But my favorite was and is THE MICRONAUTS.

I'm an avid collector. I also collect their Japanese ancestors, Microman (Takara).

I have several hundred figures and I wouldn't sell them for all the tea in Japan.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: Scott H. on March 20, 2005, 12:05:15 AM
That's a lot of tea to pass up.

My childhood toys are sparse and I don't hold a very fond memory to them. However, my baseball card collection that I started when I was 5 and have continued to build since I wouldn't trade for all the tea in India. It's amazing to see who has passed through the ranks of minor league to become rookies, who then become all-stars.

I have rookie cards and some minor league cards of today's biggest stars: namely Derek Jeeter. Also Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Randy Johnson, etc.... Special interest in Frank Thomas, though his value has depreciated over time.

Speaking of "The Big Hurt", Frank Thomas is appearing before the congressional hearing on steroid use in baseball alongside Jason Giambi, Mark Mcgwire, Jose Canseco, and other beefed up beef heads. Good luck trying to defend themselves. I mean, seriously. Who doesn't know?

-Scott H.


Title: Re: Toys from your childhood.
Post by: ErikJ on March 20, 2005, 07:00:04 PM
I used to have all of the afore mentioned toys. I hade the Shogun Godzilla plus all of the other Shogun Warriors. I had the large Alien action figure. I also had the 12 inch size Star Wars figures.