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I'd figure I would try this one out...

Did anyone here have a favorite toy? It can be anything from a stuffed animal to legos, even sex toys I guess can count in this thread.

Reminsce about toys of old, Debate over what was better...Star Wars or Star Trek figures, maybe even old Dune figurines. Whatever just talk about it already! (Pics very welcome)

Here are a few of my favorites...

The Old Viewmaster
http://artjunk.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/03/viewmaster_rojo.gif

Madballs
http://www.uncrate.com/men/images/2007/11/madballs.jpg

Ninja Turtles
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/content/images/2005_2024.JPG

Teddy Ruxpin
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/compuvisor/teddy-ruxpin-new.gif

I was more a lego man myself amazing stuff. but my favourite toy when i was young is/was i suppose my snooker table or maybe ah yes i remember the swings, or maybe trees in my garden (both of which now gone). I sort of went through crazes, e.g. tennis, football, cricket, table tennis, snooker, lego, subuteo, digging holes in the ground, and so on.

Model trains

http://nitesmoke.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/nes-console.jpg
and
http://noumankhan.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/sega-mega-drive2.jpg

Ah, the glory days of video games... such luck there are emulators. :)

Model trains

That was one toy I always wanted, but for some reason never got.

Ah, the glory days of video games... such luck there are emulators. :)

I started off with this old fella...

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p8/knyte6426/intellivision.jpg

I used to stay up with my siblings for hours when I was very little playing kool aid man, poker, and jaws.

That was one toy I always wanted, but for some reason never got.

Not like they're that expensive. I got the HO Scale. I've toyed around the idea of having a G scale trainset one day, put it outside in the back yard and such.

-snip-

I started out with this.

http://blog.mail.com/xlii:thegame.com/files/2007/08/atari_2600_machine.jpg

Atari 2600

http://nitesmoke.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/nes-console.jpg
and
http://noumankhan.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/sega-mega-drive2.jpg

Ah, the glory days of video games... such luck there are emulators. :)

You should just skip middle age and head straight into grumpy old man senility.

'Ah the good old days' *waves stick*

I had a bright yellow Tonka Toy dumper truck, indestructible they said, I spent hours with that thing.

I started out with this.

http://blog.mail.com/xlii:thegame.com/files/2007/08/atari_2600_machine.jpg

Atari 2600

I skipped the atari in life and went straight to the NES. The intellivision was a hand-me-down, and by the time I got my own system the NES was what's in.

There really were some great things about the 80s.

I skipped the atari in life and went straight to the NES. The intellivision was a hand-me-down, and by the time I got my own system the NES was what's in.

There really were some great things about the 80s.

Wasn't there a movie in the 80s where some guy created the perfect female AI?

I have an old, old bear who lost all his fur. He now wears a long, flowing red greatcoat and a gigantic Russian hat, and sits on my shelf looking somewhat like a much more dignified version of my Avatar pic.

Wasn't there a movie in the 80s where some guy created the perfect female AI?

http://www.impawards.com/1985/posters/weird_science.jpg

Legos pwn all.

Teddy Ruxpin
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/compuvisor/teddy-ruxpin-new.gif
Teddy Ruxpin . . .
I still have nightmares about that damned bear. One of my sisters had one of those vile sins against nature about ten years ago.

Teddy Ruxpin . . .
I still have nightmares about that damned bear. One of my sisters had one of those vile sins against nature about ten years ago.

What is so scary about teddy ruxpin?

Legos and Hot Wheels. I still buy Hot Wheels now and then, my most recent being the Manx Dune Buggy.

Erector, too. And whatever those sticks and wheels were called.

All that, and I didn't grow up being able to build shit.

Also, I guess I should include my quarter midget. (http://www.capitolqma.com/Training/body_T1.jpg) (no, I didn't have a really small person as a toy, and the parents stop riding on the back after the first few times...)

What is so scary about teddy ruxpin?

He could castrate you.... *shudders*

What is so scary about teddy ruxpin?

Well, when you put a William S. Burroughs tape in one...

He could castrate you.... *shudders*

With his reading?

Well, when you put a William S. Burroughs tape in one...

*shudders*

A game I wish I had as a kid:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NW8LPgv4NK0

and not now as an adult. I always lose!

A game I wish I had as a kid:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NW8LPgv4NK0

and not now as an adult. I always lose!

what a great ad.

I have all five Nintendo consoles (virtual boy doesn't count), legoes, and enough army men to conquer all of Europe and half of North America, but my favorite toy is my stuffed fox, which I named Foxy. Everynight I fall asleep hugging her.

A game I wish I had as a kid:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NW8LPgv4NK0

and not now as an adult. I always lose!

Such a sexually suggestive name! :eek:

I want one!

What is so scary about teddy ruxpin?
Those eyes. Those stupid, staring eyes. Never fully opened, never fully closed, but always moving. Teddy Ruxpin is an animatronic beast of Hell, birthed in the infernal furnace of Playskool.

what a great ad.

indeed. It's up there with the 'I lost weight through AYDs!' ad.
The 80's were a much simpler time. Can't believe we now romanticise about it. I seem to recall absolutely hating it at the time.

speaking of stuffed animals I loved...

http://209.50.251.48/pics6/pet1.jpg

I had the smaller one, I could not find a pic of it though.

I still have mine, handcuffs long since destoryed and hair mangled from a fateful spin in the washing machine...

Those eyes. Those stupid, staring eyes. Never fully opened, never fully closed, but always moving. Teddy Ruxpin is an animatronic beast of Hell, birthed in the infernal furnace of Playskool.

I was hoping the ruxpins would achieve world domination, but kids stopped wanting animatronic bears read to them, so it ended. Just imagine how great the world would have been....

indeed. It's up there with the 'I lost weight through AYDs!' ad.
The 80's were a much simpler time. Can't believe we now romanticise about it. I seem to recall absolutely hating it at the time.

Don't forget where's the beef.

That was one toy I always wanted, but for some reason never got.
me too. I desperately wanted a model train as a kid. Bugged my parents every year at xmas and my birthday for one.
Finally got one when I was 9 (iirc). I was over-the-moon. Best xmas present ever! Unfortunately Boxing Day very early we were going up the coast to spend the hols at my grandparents (that bit wasn't unfortunate) so I wasn't allowed to play with my train on Xmas day - had to keep it in it's box so I could take it with me (this wasn't my parents being harsh, I was a very messy child!)
Bright and early, off we went with my toy train on the back seat next to me. This is Australia, mid-Summer mind. So the inevitable happened: By the time we got to the grandparent's place, the sun and heat and taken it's toll, melting and buckling all the tracks! My holiday plans of carefully setting up the train and spending hours playing with it was totally shot. And as we were now 1000+km away from the shop Mum bought it from, we could do nothing about it (not that they replaced it anyway when we did get home).
Best xmas ever to worst in 24 hours!

God decided to really rub my face in it by the following year on my birthday Mum got me a replacement train set, bigger and better than the first! Oh joy!
But after less than a week of playing with it, it stopped working! She took it back to the shop, but they refused to replace it, insisting Mum had to pay to get it fixed. They had it there for months before finally handing it back over informing Mum that it was totally shot and unfixable. She gave it to a work colleague who was a model train nut. He opened it up and within seconds had worked out what the problem was - a missing spring. Unfortunately he had no replacements so couldn't fix it himself.
It ended up sitting at the back of my wardrobe collecting dust for a couple of years until we moved and I let Mum take it (and all my other toys) down to the Sally Army shop.

sigh.

me too. I desperately wanted a model train as a kid. Bugged my parents every year at xmas and my birthday for one.
Finally got one when I was 9 (iirc). I was over-the-moon. Best xmas present ever! Unfortunately Boxing Day very early we were going up the coast to spend the hols at my grandparents (that bit wasn't unfortunate) so I wasn't allowed to play with my train on Xmas day - had to keep it in it's box so I could take it with me (this wasn't my parents being harsh, I was a very messy child!)
Bright and early, off we went with my toy train on the back seat next to me. This is Australia, mid-Summer mind. So the inevitable happened: By the time we got to the grandparent's place, the sun and heat and taken it's toll, melting and buckling all the tracks! My holiday plans of carefully setting up the train and spending hours playing with it was totally shot. And as we were now 1000+km away from the shop Mum bought it from, we could do nothing about it (not that they replaced it anyway when we did get home).
Best xmas ever to worst in 24 hours!

God decided to really rub my face in it by the following year on my birthday Mum got me a replacement train set, bigger and better than the first! Oh joy!
But after less than a week of playing with it, it stopped working! She took it back to the shop, but they refused to replace it, insisting Mum had to pay to get it fixed. They had it there for months before finally handing it back over informing Mum that it was totally shot and unfixable. She gave it to a work colleague who was a model train nut. He opened it up and within seconds had worked out what the problem was - a missing spring. Unfortunately he had no replacements so couldn't fix it himself.
It ended up sitting at the back of my wardrobe collecting dust for a couple of years until we moved and I let Mum take it (and all my other toys) down to the Sally Army shop.

sigh.

That my friend, is the saddest thing I have ever heard.

I was a pretty big into Lego there for a few years. Hotwheels and the like were also pretty awesome. I remember getting a track one year that you'd clip onto a chair or table and then fire the car down and it'd do a loop and then jump a gap (didn't even need batteries, how awesome is that?). It was pretty killer at the time.

one of my favorite games...

http://correctopinion.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/battleship_galactica.jpg

one of my favorite games...

http://correctopinion.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/battleship_galactica.jpg

I prefer:

http://www.wizards.com/global/images/ah_article_ah20031205a_picMain_en.jpg

I prefer:

http://www.wizards.com/global/images/ah_article_ah20031205a_picMain_en.jpg

I have never played that...

one of my favorite games...

http://correctopinion.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/battleship_galactica.jpg

I prefer:

http://www.wizards.com/global/images/ah_article_ah20031205a_picMain_en.jpg

Sorry, but neither of those compare to this...

http://www.boardgameratings.com/graphics/game_pictures/00010.jpg

Unless you're talking about the Battleship with sound effects, 'cause that version was rather awesome.

Hotwheels and the like were also pretty awesome. I remember getting a track one year that you'd clip onto a chair or table and then fire the car down and it'd do a loop and then jump a gap (didn't even need batteries, how awesome is that?). It was pretty killer at the time.

we had a race track that my oldest brother got as a xmas present. It was very cool. It had a pump station complete with noozle that you put the batteries in. We'd charge up our cars by inserting the gas noozle into it. Was way cool.


Love the Battleship pic, Mino. especially the girls doing the domestic stuff while the boys lounge around playing. "Get me a drink woman!"

Sorry, but neither of those compare to this...

http://www.boardgameratings.com/graphics/game_pictures/00010.jpg

Unless you're talking about the Battleship with sound effects, 'cause that version was rather awesome.

yes that was the version i was referring to, i just liked the old battleship pic :D

My old gba with pokemon gold. :) I loved that thing when I was a kid.

Lego and my old PS2.

My old gba with pokemon gold. :) I loved that thing when I was a kid.
Och I prefered my GBC with Pokemon red.

Lego and my old PS2.

I don't think its possible to call PS2 old yet.

I don't think its possible to call PS2 old yet.
Being an adult in the vaguest terms and leaving it at home to go to uni, I would say that it is a plaything of yesteryear :)

Being an adult in the vaguest terms and leaving it at home to go to uni, I would say that it is a plaything of yesteryear :)

If the video game is on disc and not cartridge, its not old in my mind.

*edit* unless you count atari jaguar,3DO, and sega CD.

Sorry, but neither of those compare to this...

http://www.boardgameratings.com/graphics/game_pictures/00010.jpg

Unless you're talking about the Battleship with sound effects, 'cause that version was rather awesome.

Axis & Allies is the advanced version of Risk. Risk is fun, but A&A pwns.

PS2 sucks. It breaks down as often as the 360 and has a crappy controller. Super Nintendo is the toy you want.

PS2 sucks. It breaks down as often as the 360 and has a crappy controller. Super Nintendo is the toy you want.
Super nintendos were ace, you are, however, wrong about the PS2, it's a class act.

Super nintendos were ace, you are, however, wrong about the PS2, it's a class act.

Until you keep getting those stupid disc-read errors. That's the good thing about Nintendo. They don't f-ck around with hardware quality.

Until you keep getting those stupid disc-read errors.
Meh, let it warm up a bit and it's fine.
That's the good thing about Nintendo. They don't f-ck around with hardware quality.
Aye just gaming quality.

Haven't had any problems yet with my pawn shop special PS2, and I've had it for 3 or 4 years now, I think. I like my old N64, and I would like an SNES. The old NES has trouble reading cartridges nowadays.

Transformers, original, or close to it, still made of metal, favorite of course was optimus prime. I also received some of those electric trains, the smaller scale, and saved up a small collection of all sorts of train cars and locomotives over the span of a couple of years, as gifts, of course. The locomotives were the big deal, they moved everything. The cars were cheap. I remember one in particular vividly like it was yesterday, it was a bright blue locomotive with a comrail logo, the fastest one had.

Then of course there was nintendo stuff, where it all ended. Video games ruined everything.

You should just skip middle age and head straight into grumpy old man senility.

'Ah the good old days' *waves stick*

I had a bright yellow Tonka Toy dumper truck, indestructible they said, I spent hours with that thing.

I dug quite a big hole in the backyard with one of those things to truck the mud away.

Foxy says hi. We're going to get more army men so that we can give Europe a good ole-fashioned-regime change. But first we need to invade and conquer Russia. We can't lose because unlike Napoleon, we have the Weather Channel. Once General Winter is no longer such a huge threat, we can't lose. Our army is PLASTIC!!!!!

i'd have to say this computer. i lived my whole life for these things the half of it before they were available to mere mortals. i was 30 years old before you could go to a store and actually buy a real computer, as limp as they were to begin with in 77, but my entire youth was wasted dreaming of the day they would become available and i could draw pictures of trains with them.

well creating and exploring ARE what gratify and what i live for. so i didn't just sit around and mope waiting for the day we could have them.

in the early 70s i built and played with paia analog electronic music synthasizer modules, and of course anything to do with guideway based transportation tecnologies and infrastructure, especially modern, and scale models that moved under their own power, all that, but then we, my parents and i, never had a lot of space or cash flow, so i was limited in how much i could do with that either, but that was what i dreamed of and did a little about too, when i was in high school and even from, well the first time i fell in love with the idea about all of that, i was maybe one year old. i don't know if i was even talking yet.

then the other thing, well there were several things, i was in band in high school and in the last couple of years of grade school. i played french horn, mellowphone, basically treble cleff brass with valves. and then there was photography. all the time it was about the fascination of using tecnology in one sense or another, to art with.

yes i sketched and drew and painted and all that too. not that i ever got real good at it, so anyway, all those things were and are my favorite kids of toys and "toys".

so now, with the computers we have today, with this one in front of me, i'm able to do all that and pretty much put it all togather they growing up i'd always dreamed of.

i still don't have broadband so i cant really play in second life or upload big animations if i make them.

i still, build physical models of the concepts in my mind as well as using 3d programs like autocad and blender to illlustrate them in the computer. and now i've got a digital camera, i can and do use pictures i've taken, and take some specifically for use as, back buffers in my 3d illustrations.

When I was a kid, I loved that board game 'The Game of Life' loved so much in fact that I asked for it for crimbo for at least 3 years on the trot(you know kids and board games, and lossing pieces)

Marbles, lego, space hopper, matchbox toy cars, and my chemistry set.

PS2 sucks. It breaks down as often as the 360 and has a crappy controller. Super Nintendo is the toy you want.
The PS2 we had was built like a fucking tank. It regularly took dives off the table it was on due to the rats' nest of wires it had spawned had would be more than happy to continue playing. It was one of the original ones and lasted a good three or four years of, to be honest, pretty bad treatment before it finally gave up the ghost.

The 360, on the other hand, is a load of wank which seizes every and any excuse to blow up, go wrong or just plain not work.

My favourite toy from my youth was probably lego, closely followed by a Star Wars TIE Interceptor I've still got knocking about in my wardrobe back home, even though it must be about eight or more years old.

I liked Lego & Matchbox cars.

I liked Scrabble, Checkers, Chess and Monopoly... as for other toys, sure I had NES, but I preferred books until I got a computer that played good video games. :D

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1665/legochicagotb3.gif
LEGO

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4812/pogwy6.jpg
POG

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/739/gbsysot5.jpg
GameBoy

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5878/snes3cet0.jpg
SNES

plus Ghostbusters and Thundercats toys, and those little cars you could connect together and stuff

Now that I think about it... I realise something... my favourite toy was my Genesis and I played Sonic 2 ad noseum.

My 20th anniversary Optimus Prime figure, currently standing watch atop my entertainment center.

Legos, definitely. There were never enough Legos in the house. And it's a disease that follows you all the way to adulthood.

I liked Scrabble, Checkers, Chess and Monopoly... as for other toys, sure I had NES, but I preferred books until I got a computer that played good video games. :D

^exactly this^,
also, Lego.

One of my favorite toys was my skateboard, instead of skating on it though, I'd lay down on my stomach and propel myself around like I was swimming.

Today my favorite toy is my Tivo. I was one of the first 100,000 customers they ever had and noone had ever heard of a DVR.

When i was a child my two favorite toys were both sets. I had all the Star Wars Toys (the action figure set, Millennium Falcon, Xwing fighter Darth Vader tie fighter where the wings popped off etc.) Today there are 50 billion Star Wars Toys, in 1977 there was basically just one set. (The set today had i kept it is worth a fortune im sure)

My other favorite toy was my Star Trek set. I had all the 8 inch action figures, the whole crew and all the bad guys and i had the Enterprise bridge for the actionfigures where you could put the figure in the spinny transporter thing and he would pop up on the other side of the ship.

Hundreds of hours of childhood fun playing with both.

Axis & Allies is the advanced version of Risk. Risk is fun, but A&A pwns.

Just because it is more 'advanced' doesn't mean it is the better game. I'd rather take the streamline simplicity and temper tantrums of Risk than the eventual boredom of A&A.

Just because it is more 'advanced' doesn't mean it is the better game. I'd rather take the streamline simplicity and temper tantrums of Risk than the eventual boredom of A&A.

Yeah, especially since the entire outcome of A&A rested basically on the first battle between Russia and Germany. Risk is better.

When I was a kid, a Red Ryder BB gun.

When I was a kid, a Red Ryder BB gun.

No change there then.

No change there then.

Better firearms. Although nothing seems to handle as well as the original.

When I was a kid, a Red Ryder BB gun.

No one was concerned you might take someone's eye out? :tongue:

My favourite toy? You don't really wanna know, but it's always there when I need it! :p

No one was concerned you might take someone's eye out? :tongue:

More concerned for the birds in the neighborhood. Although I did shoot my sister in the ass.

Legos!! I used to spend hours building villages with them, and then I would set up my little plastic army men, and then destroy the whole place with various bombardments, then, I would start over again...Ahhh sweet memories...

Model trains

Model trains too, and also wooden trains and LEGO trains (4.5 V and 12V).

my older brother was a Trekkie so naturally I grew up with all the press button toys (Romulan war bird = awesome) and the miniature plastics thingies

my mom never let me have army men though :(

Och I prefered my GBC with Pokemon red.

red > blue

I would say that it is a plaything of yesteryear :)

pfft 4 games for £20 now and there really are some amazing games (just completed destroy all humans 2 working on beyond good and evil:))

More concerned for the birds in the neighborhood. Although I did shoot my sister in the ass.

my brother usually went for legs I guess he never thought about hiding evidence...

I started out with this.

http://blog.mail.com/xlii:thegame.com/files/2007/08/atari_2600_machine.jpg

Atari 2600
whippersnapper.

this was my first Video Game System.
http://www.thegameconsole.com/fairchildchannelf.jpg
Fairchild video entertainment system. I still remember the controller and still think it's a unique design.

PS2 sucks. It breaks down as often as the 360 and has a crappy controller. Super Nintendo is the toy you want.
considering both of my PS2's are still going strong... and have yet to visit any form of repair store... :tongue:

The old transformers, Gundam, and other robots were also my favorite. however, the top slot is occupied by a very dirty, fur ridden (no fur on it) floppy stuffed dog that was owned by all of my siblings before being handed down to me. Whatever name it had was permanetly replaced by it's name I gave it when I got it when I was 4. "Dirty dog".

SNIP

pfft thats not a games system it seems more like some kind of ancient tape recorder

http://www.vidgame.net/SEARS/Sears/telesys/sears_telegames.jpg

http://www.brianbaumley.com/uploaded_images/sitnspin-758541.jpg

http://www.unicron.us/tf1985/figures/jetfire1b.jpg


and of course;

http://www.boomspeed.com/looonatic/mudfun.jpg

pfft thats not a games system it seems more like some kind of ancient tape recorder
yep, I recorded some fun memories on that game system.
http://www.boomspeed.com/looonatic/mudfun.jpg
gotta admit. can't get older than dirt and water. :D

Model trains too, and also wooden trains and LEGO trains (4.5 V and 12V).

Oh I loved the Brio trains! I used to have a huge Brio collection!

Then something happened to it, I dunno what.

yes, all those construction toy things too, like leggo blox. k'nex and capsula didn't exist yet, but we had erector set (known as mechano in other parts of the world) and lincoln logs. and yes, there was NEVER enough of any one system of them, probably because my parents were neither well off nor rocket scientists enough to figure out that i actually wanted, and could be creative with, and wanted to be creative with, enough of the components of at least on i already had, to do so with.

there was even a set of swap body trucks, long before intermodalism was implemented in the real world, called tootsie toy.

Until you keep getting those stupid disc-read errors. That's the good thing about Nintendo. They don't f-ck around with hardware quality.

Games haven't been the same since they went to cd. I still have a super nintendo and an NES, and the games work just fine for both, but I have a bunch of old xbox games that dont work for shit.

Slot cars(man those things were fun), Lego's, erector sets, and just being outside. I learned a LOT about nature and wild life from my Great Grandfather who was a full blood Creek Indian. If I had to pick one, I'd have to say the time that I spent with my Great Grandfather.

Plasticine ftw.

Games haven't been the same since they went to cd. I still have a super nintendo and an NES, and the games work just fine for both, but I have a bunch of old xbox games that dont work for shit.

The problem is usually scratches. You can usually make them work again like new if you patch up the discs. Many movie rental places will refinish them for you with some machine (for a fee).

LEGOs and playmobil were my favorite toys.

Growing up with watching Fall Guy, I also loved the HotWheels CrackUps in addition to the other toy cars.

My favorite stuffed animal that I've had since early, early childhood is a Raccoon (made by R. Dakin & Co. in SF).

There's so much more but those are the things that come to mind right now.

The problem is usually scratches. You can usually make them work again like new if you patch up the discs. Many movie rental places will refinish them for you with some machine (for a fee).

Or you could buy a disc doctor.

I just miss the days when I would get stuck on a certain SNES game, get made at it, and then proceed to throw it down a flight of stairs, pick it back up and play it again.

I had an ass ton of TMNT toys - original figures, random characters from the show, characters never on the show, remakes of the original turtles in the random scenarios, the sewers, and technodrome, and party wagon, and blimp, and pizza thrower, and submarine, and tank, and bubble-blowing water gun plane.

And almost all of the Earthworm Jim toys, all except the specialty ones you had to order (there were only like 6 Earthworm Jim toys).

Now I have a few left over things and a couple of the new WoW figures which are more like plasticized statuettes.

I had an ass ton of TMNT toys - original figures, random characters from the show, characters never on the show, remakes of the original turtles in the random scenarios, the sewers, and technodrome, and party wagon, and blimp, and pizza thrower, and submarine, and tank, and bubble-blowing water gun plane.



Slash, and the Turtle Blimp were my favorites.

Slash, and the Turtle Blimp were my favorites.
The bubble-blowing water gun plane from the army series was pretty impressive - even made sounds, never got the damn thing to work though.

The bubble-blowing water gun plane from the army series was pretty impressive - even made sounds, never got the damn thing to work though.

I never had that, just the van and the blimp.


Oh wait I also had this...

http://www.retrojunk.com/img/art-images/krang.jpg

one of the best cartoon villians ever.

Oh I loved the Brio trains! I used to have a huge Brio collection!
Dito!

On the plus side, they still look the very same they used to 25 years ago. The same goes for those construction sets with wooden parts.

Whenever I have the chance I pick up those "toy news" at the shop and I was quite surprised to see the exact same things that I grew up with a long time a go...

Legos.

Everything else is just a shadow.

Except maybe Masters of the Universe toys. Castle Grayskull FTW!

I never had that, just the van and the blimp.


Oh wait I also had this...

http://www.retrojunk.com/img/art-images/krang.jpg

one of the best cartoon villians ever.

Had that too. TMNT had some of the best stuff made.
And a motorcycle with a side car. And a mini-playset that had a spring loaded cannon that shot slime canisters. And some helicopter that the rhino flew. And a speedboat thing.

I liked Lego when you could build what you liked, instead of a truck set or something you'd find nowadays.

Crossbows and Catapults.

An awesome game.

Also, a bow of wooden blocks, some army men and a tin of marbles. Hours of fun building forts and then knocking them down.

I started off with this old fella...

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p8/knyte6426/intellivision.jpg

I used to stay up with my siblings for hours when I was very little playing kool aid man, poker, and jaws.

I started out with this.

http://blog.mail.com/xlii:thegame.com/files/2007/08/atari_2600_machine.jpg

Atari 2600

Bah. Old men. I started out with this beauty:
http://www.games4gamersonline.com/catalog/images/n64_regular.jpg

I liked Lego when you could build what you liked, instead of a truck set or something you'd find nowadays.

Totally

My chaos warriors :p

Bah. Old men. I started out with this beauty:
http://www.games4gamersonline.com/catalog/images/n64_regular.jpg

Bah, whippersnapper.

I'm not sure if this could be considered a toy but I absolutely loved playing with clay (modeling?) when I was a little girl. If I have to choose a favorite toy, that would be it.

I had all the Star Wars Toys (the action figure set, Millennium Falcon, Xwing fighter Darth Vader tie fighter where the wings popped off etc.) Today there are 50 billion Star Wars Toys, in 1977 there was basically just one set. (The set today had i kept it is worth a fortune im sure)
OMG OMG OMG! I totally forgot about the classic line of SW toys! Those are awesome. I have a full cabinet full of them, including 3 Millennium Falcons (two in good condition), a Tie Interceptor, the Ewok village, two AT-STs, an X-Wing, some other space craft and literally hundreds of figures.

But I definitely prefer the classic line to the newer ones.

How in the world could I forget those? They're my... precious! :D

I'm not sure if this could be considered a toy but I absolutely loved playing with clay (modeling?) when I was a little girl. If I have to choose a favorite toy, that would be it.
You'd have to ask LG about that. He's still my favorite clay model. *nods*

You'd have to ask LG about that. He's still my favorite clay model. *nods*

Then I'll ask LG.

OMG OMG OMG! I totally forgot about the classic line of SW toys! Those are awesome. I have a full cabinet full of them, including 3 Millennium Falcons (two in good condition), a Tie Interceptor, the Ewok village, two AT-STs, an X-Wing, some other space craft and literally hundreds of figures.

But I definitely prefer the classic line to the newer ones.

How in the world could I forget those? They're my... precious! :D

My cousin had all the classic, original ones way back when from the 70s. When he was 13 or 14 they turned into cannon fodder I guess. :tongue:

My cousin had all the classic, original ones way back when from the 70s. When he was 13 or 14 they turned into cannon fodder I guess. :tongue:
:eek2:

That's just... bad. In good or decent condition you could make a fortune selling them on eBay - especially the original weapons and complete figures.

Not that I'd ever sell them. I bought most of my collection on flea markets over the years. Can't find'em any longer, maybe a professional seller sometimes has one. I'm not sure I own every single one, but I do have so many I wouldn't even know which ones were missing. (You can never have too many storm troopers etc. ...)

:eek2:

That's just... bad. In good or decent condition you could make a fortune selling them on eBay - especially the original weapons and complete figures.

Not that I'd ever sell them. I bought most of my collection on flea markets over the years. Can't find'em any longer, maybe a professional seller sometimes has one. I'm not sure I own every single one, but I do have so many I wouldn't even know which ones were missing. (You can never have too many storm troopers etc. ...)

He was 13 or 14 back in the 80s before they were worth anything of course. My dad did the same with a lot of his matchbox cars from the 60s and stuff, repainting them and all that. I'm pretty sure I did the same to a lot of my toys as well.

On a related note, I bought my first real action figure a few months ago. Lemmy is now at home on top my stereo. Can't see him becoming victim to an air rifle.

Oh I loved the Brio trains! I used to have a huge Brio collection!

Me too! Brio all the way!

I've got my Brio still at my parents', but I'm moving my old toys to my apartment asap.

Me too! Brio all the way!

I've got my Brio still at my parents', but I'm moving my old toys to my apartment asap.

Brio?

Anyway, Hornby trains for the win. I still have the Flying Scotsman.

Gundam models. This (the RX-78) was my very first one. (http://www.animefansonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/rx-78-2.jpg)

That my friend, is the saddest thing I have ever heard.
On the plus side, I have all the angst I need to justify getting into model trains in a big way when I become a grumpy old man. What a way to live out one's retirement! :wink:

Good ol' Legos.

And lately I've revisted my PS2, best concole I ever owned.

http://www.unicron.us/tf1985/figures/jetfire1b.jpg


I'm fairly certain that's a Valkyrie out of Robotech (or Macross). What's it doing with a Transformers logo?

Had that too. TMNT had some of the best stuff made.
And a motorcycle with a side car. And a mini-playset that had a spring loaded cannon that shot slime canisters. And some helicopter that the rhino flew. And a speedboat thing.

Was it that backpack helicopter that rocksteady flew?

Bah. Old men. I started out with this beauty:
http://www.games4gamersonline.com/catalog/images/n64_regular.jpg

*shakes fist*

64 was a great system, but it will never beat the real classics.

Bah, whippersnapper.

Agreed.
*continues shaking fist*

My Former Soviet Nuclear arsenal.

Or you could buy a disc doctor.

I just miss the days when I would get stuck on a certain SNES game, get made at it, and then proceed to throw it down a flight of stairs, pick it back up and play it again.

I wouldn't buy a disc doctor, has a lot of bad reviews behind it and looks gimmicky. If I was sticking to homemade, I'd just use one of those plexiglas kits for car lights.

At a time when girls usually got dolls, my parents were getting me the following - I loved it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkertoy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Logs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry_set

Today my favorite toy is my Tivo. I was one of the first 100,000 customers they ever had and noone had ever heard of a DVR.

When i was a child my two favorite toys were both sets. I had all the Star Wars Toys (the action figure set, Millennium Falcon, Xwing fighter Darth Vader tie fighter where the wings popped off etc.) Today there are 50 billion Star Wars Toys, in 1977 there was basically just one set. (The set today had i kept it is worth a fortune im sure)
considering in a convention in the 80's, someone walked up to a seller and pointed to a boxed Hammerhead figure and started the conversation with
"$200 for that figure." Yes, it would be worth a fortune.

I'm fairly certain that's a Valkyrie out of Robotech (or Macross). What's it doing with a Transformers logo?

Same mould. Hasbro bought the Macross toy and released it as Jetfire. Same as all the orignal Transformers (mostly old Diaclones).
That said, Transformers were easily my favourite toys as a child. Then my Hornby trains (the joy of getting an APT as a kid I still remember, even though it was already second-hand http://www.crewesager.co.uk/Loco%20Pages/images/apt.jpg ) and probably my Dapol Doctor Who toys.
Honourable mention to Lego, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, Brio, Monster in my Pocket, and my Commodore 64-C with tape and cartridge.

Hornby Trains, Scalextric, Subbetto, Airfix Models and Soldiers, and Lego espcially this
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/lego/castle/6073.jpg

considering in a convention in the 80's, someone walked up to a seller and pointed to a boxed Hammerhead figure and started the conversation with
"$200 for that figure." Yes, it would be worth a fortune.

I see the Millennium Falcon on Ebay goes for around $250. I vagely remember as a kid that the hard figure to get was the Jawa but no idea if thats one of the more valuable figures today.

I see the Millennium Falcon on Ebay goes for around $250. I vagely remember as a kid that the hard figure to get was the Jawa but no idea if thats one of the more valuable figures today.

chances are that MF set is either open, used, out of box or/and parts missing.

Hornby Trains, Scalextric, Subbetto, Airfix Models and Soldiers, and Lego espcially this
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/lego/castle/6073.jpg
Arrgh!

The old Lego Knights!

How the hell could I forget about them!?

They were fucking awesome!

Hornby Trains, Scalextric, Subbetto, Airfix Models and Soldiers, and Lego espcially this
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/lego/castle/6073.jpg

I always felt Lego lost something when it became less abstract.

Transformers, yo. Fun times.

My Spider Slayers, they came with a Spider-Man Action Figure too.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y153/Clippersg/Toys%20For%20Sale/SpiderSlayer2.jpg

And My Power Rangers Action Figures. I had all them, except the Green Ranger.

http://www.timeaftertimetoys.com/images/OSITpicks/POWER%20RANGERS/POWER%20RANGERS%20JASON%20FIRST%20RED%20POWER%20RANGERS.jpg

http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/lego/castle/6073.jpg
I got that one! :D
I vagely remember as a kid that the hard figure to get was the Jawa but no idea if thats one of the more valuable figures today.
That's because the Jawa was a pretty lame figure. However, nowadays, depending on which one you get (plastic coat or cloth coat), they sell for quite a buck. I'd be careful about buying boxed sets, though. There are a lot of fake ones around. Same goes for weapons. You'd be amazed how much fake stuff's around.
I always felt Lego lost something when it became less abstract.
Definitely!!!

Transformers, yo. Fun times.

Which transformer turned into the gun? The one that was banned...

Which transformer turned into the gun? The one that was banned...

this? (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/generation-1-1/canadian-customs-regulators-reverse-ban-on-masterpiece-megatron-165562/)

this? (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/generation-1-1/canadian-customs-regulators-reverse-ban-on-masterpiece-megatron-165562/)

Yes! I remember now it was banned for looking too much like a real gun.

Oh the good old days when companies used to brag about how much their toy guns looked like the real thing. Take for example, in my childhood I had an UZI automatic fire water-gun. It looked just like an UZI9mm and could go through a whole clip-full of H2O in about 10 seconds. Sucks I had to shoot my mother in the face with it and she had to trash it, but such is life.

another one of my favorite toys ever...

I may not have owned it, but I put enough money into it to own one...

http://www.arcadeshop.com/galaga/galaga-white-ls.jpg

All Hail the Mighty Galaga....the ultimate Timewaster!

:hail::hail::hail:

Legos!

Also, these (http://www.virtualtoychest.com/defdino/defdino.html)...

...and my Optimus Prime, of course.

Also, these (http://www.virtualtoychest.com/defdino/defdino.html)....

Wow. I had forgotten all about those.

Can you still get those anywhere?

Wow. I had forgotten all about those.

Can you still get those anywhere?

Only on collector websites and Ebay...they stopped making them in 1996.

Playmobile toys when I was young (like lego without all the sharp, annoying little pieces).

Nowdays, my computer and my three favorite games: Battle for Wesnoth, Age of Empires 3, and Battlestations Midway.

Playmobile toys when I was young (like lego without all the sharp, annoying little pieces).

Nowdays, my computer and my three favorite games: Battle for Wesnoth, Age of Empires 3, and Battlestations Midway.

Well, in the electronic media I'd have to vote AOE3 (I go by "Tothe" there, if you feel the need to thrash a n00b) and every game in The Orange Box, along with classics like Starcraft and Lords of the Realm 2 for PC and a lot of good games on N64 and PS2.

Legos still pwn for not requiring electricity.

Over all, across my entire childhood, my LEGOs were my favorite toy.

However, I also desperately loved my Molly doll. She was a WWII fighter pilot and we shot down TIE fighters together. (My grasp of history was both fluid and largely imaginary.)

I always felt Lego lost something when it became less abstract.

i feel that too often these days, Lego just produce specifically shaped parts for different sets. this kinda defeats the point for me


i wonder why europeans call it Lego and americans call it (them) Legos :confused:

i feel that too often these days, Lego just produce specifically shaped parts for different sets. this kinda defeats the point for me

100% agree.


i wonder why europeans call it Lego and americans call it (them) Legos :confused:
I always called them LEGOs because, well, they are plural. One LEGO block, two LEGO blocks, three LEGO blocks...but saying "LEGO blocks" is longer than "LEGOs."

Also, my green machine. All the other kids had stupid "Big Wheels" but I had a green machine.......a green machine of doom!

100% agree.

aha! i'm not alone! :p

I always called them LEGOs because, well, they are plural. One LEGO block, two LEGO blocks, three LEGO blocks...but saying "LEGO blocks" is longer than "LEGOs."
well, for me they were - all together - a single toy, you see. your way makes good sense though.... i wonder what my kids will call it (assuming they want to play with toys where they actually have to use their hands and stuff ;))

But Legos sounds stupid...

But Legos sounds stupid...

No, see, Lego sounds weird to me. Like, "Pass me some of the Lego?" It sounds funny to me.
I pretty much go with Bottle's explanation, becuase that's the way I think about it.

Legos, and something that's similar to this (http://www.funtasia.com.au/shop/images/3944.jpg)

Also, Articoa, I remember that thread, and it makes me giggle to read it again.

One of my current toys - but not useful until the snow melts.
http://www.daviswheelworks.com/bikes/specialized/images/mountain/06hardrocksport_lg.jpg

I should make a thread about which are your favorite toys as an adult.

No, see, Lego sounds weird to me. Like, "Pass me some of the Lego?" It sounds funny to me.
I pretty much go with Bottle's explanation, becuase that's the way I think about it.

Pass me some of the Lego sounds no more silly than pass me some of the popcorn. Pass me some Lego sounds even better.

I should make a thread about which are your favorite toys as an adult.

See my post.

I should make a thread about which are your favorite toys as an adult.

Really no change for my answer.

aha! i'm not alone! :p
You should know I got your back, especially on this one. :)
But Legos sounds stupid...
I used to play with LEGO. Yet, I always dreaded putting away my LEGOs.

I use both. One for the type of toy (singular), the other for the bricks (plural).

Lego = singular
Legos = plural

At least that's how I've always heard & said it. However you want to say it, it's the best toy ever, hands down, no contest.

Lego = singular
Legos = plural


I have heard it both ways, I don't know which one is correct.