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Post by The Mad Plumber on Mar 28, 2009 23:45:00 GMT -5
You've grown up ... you're parents threw away your old toys a long time ago ... you've realized adulthood sucks ... and now you want your old toys back. Too bad!! Well, here a chance to reminisce about your playthings of yesterday and even about the toys you wanted but your parents wouldn't get for you. And video games aren't toys.
Here's a few things for me. I grew up with Star Wars and my parents had gotten me a very few toys that were on clearance. Ones I remember included a Jabba the Hutt figure that would drop victims into a small Rancor pit, a TIE Fighter whose wings would fly off when you press a button (when does that happen in the movies?), and an Imperial Walker whose cannons would flash and make sound when you pressed the trigger.
Legos. My parents always got me Legos for Christmas. Ultimately, instructions that came with Lego sets got disintegrated or destroyed and all the Legos were kept in one large Tupperware container. The floor piece Legos always ended up getting cracked or broken in two. Some pieces would get gnaw marks from getting stubbornly stuck together. My mom even once got me a Tyco set which is still compatible with Legos, but for some reason I just didn't like it as much.
The one toy I wanted was a Teddy Ruxbin. The closest I had gotten to one as a kid was when someone brought one in at kindergarten. I believe during my high school years while I was at a K-Mart I actually saw a Ruxbin on the aisle shelf. I told my friend at school what I saw, but she didn't even know what a Teddy Ruxbin was. Philistine.
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Post by Creepy Girl on Mar 29, 2009 10:26:25 GMT -5
My entry might be invalidated by the fact that all of these toys are still floating around in the attic somewhere. My childhood toys consisted of a giant bin of plastic animals, an equally large vessel of mostly disfigured Barbies, and some plastic horses that lived outside in houses I would build for them. Oh, and the Playmobil figures. My sister and I had the beautiful Victorian dollhouse and the Dragon's Temple sets, which got many hours of use and enjoyment. When we were feeling particularly morbid, sometimes the vapid bourgeoisie of the dollhouse would set out on an expedition into the jungle, where they would inevitably be captured and sacrificed by the inhabitants of the Dragon Temple. Ah, good times.
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Post by Weirdo Writer on Mar 29, 2009 12:29:18 GMT -5
I was big-time into Transformers as a kid, and still am today as an immature adult. My favorite out of the ones I had was Sixshot, which my then-best friend gave me for my birthday when I was 8 or 9. Unfortunately, after a few years his joints rusted to the point where he ended up permanently stuck in "winged wolf" mode. Then when I was 15, this same friend was over at my house for another birthday party, and we ended up playing this impromptu game of LARP-style D&D, and broke out the paralyzed Sixshot to use as a prop.
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Mar 29, 2009 17:35:52 GMT -5
a TIE Fighter whose wings would fly off when you press a button (when does that happen in the movies?)I have an X-Wing whose fuselage breaks down into several pieces when you press a button on its tail. Also, I bought it as an adult from a garage sale, just because it made me chuckle.
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Post by reaperg on Mar 30, 2009 10:59:33 GMT -5
G1 Transformers and the Mattel Godzilla and Rodan. All of which I was very carelsss with.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Mar 30, 2009 15:57:57 GMT -5
I'm snagging all my old Star Wars stuff from my parents' attic for my son who just got into it. There's a ton of G.I.Joe stuff (including that 7-foot-long aircraft carrier) that my dad is just going to send to one of those "sell my crap on eBay" things. I figure if he can even get beer money for it (all out-of-box and heavily played with), it'll be worth it to unclutter the garage. And I still have all my LEGOs...or I should say my son does. Some things I even took with me when I went to college. heh By the way, if you grew up in or near the 80's, there's a great site that's worth some time: X-Entertainment. The guy doesn't update it much anymore (or at least not like he used to), but in his archives there are some wonderful wonderful wonderful reminiscences of 80's toys, commercials, breakfast cereals, Macy's Day Parades and on and on.
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Post by mccloud on Mar 30, 2009 18:44:13 GMT -5
I thought this thread was about Aerosmith.
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Post by doctorz on Apr 1, 2009 9:42:03 GMT -5
I am ancient and so were my toys: I would love to have all the Gilbert S-guage trains I once had. I had all the first run EC Horror Comics. (read and thrown away) Lincoln Logs, Gilbert Erector Sets. I was there at the start of plastic models. Back then, kids, all our games were on boards. And we liked them that way!Of course all this is worth a fortune now days. I could retire on the EC comics alone. but Noooooooooo.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Apr 1, 2009 9:47:13 GMT -5
Back then, kids, all our games were on boards. And we liked them that way!See, that shows the difference between your generation and the current one. You settled and convinced yourself that it was good enough. The new generation never settles for what they can have now but always demands more and more and more and more and more and tries to stay continually dissatisfied, even with the latest innovations. Their jaded emptiness creates progress!
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Post by Mogol on Apr 1, 2009 10:36:25 GMT -5
Did anyone else go to garage sales alot as a kid? When my brother and I were little, my mom and grandma would usually go on Friday or Saturday morning, and we'd go with them unless it was a Friday during school. I can't tell you the insane He-Man army we collected over time that we could never otherwise have afforded, because you'd find a sale with a box of them for like a quarter each or something, and we could each pick out two or three to get as long as we behaved that day. Or the fantastic number of Atari 2600 games we had, not to mention other random stuff (an old 2XL robot that played 8-track games comes to mind). We generally didn't get new toys unless it was birthday or Christmas, but you never knew what you'd find on a Saturday.
Let me stress this to any parents out there: unless you raise them that way, your kids probably won't care whether their toy is new or not. My brother and I couldn't have been happier battling for the fate of Eternia, so what if Man-At-Arms was missing one of his guns or something. If we were rich and could've gone to Toys R Us and emptied the shelf every weekend that would've been great. But we weren't and to us this was a pretty close second.
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Apr 1, 2009 12:42:23 GMT -5
My husband adored Transformers and GI Joe, and on the trip we took before we got married to meet all the relatives, he happily played for hours with the toys his parents stored in the attic. And yes, I married him anyway.
I had a Mandy doll (my sister had one too) that I played with a lot. My grandmother knitted outfits for her, and she slept in a little suitcase. I still have her in storage.
The toy my parents never bought me: EZ Bake Oven. I still want one with a burning passion! You could make dessert WHENEVER YOU WANTED!
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Post by Donna SadCat Lady on Apr 1, 2009 13:14:57 GMT -5
The toy my parents never bought me: EZ Bake Oven. I still want one with a burning passion! You could make dessert WHENEVER YOU WANTED! Heh, "burning passion"? I get it! 'Cause kids would get... burned... on the... light bulb.... You know, EASY-BAKE ovens are still being made, so you could totally buy yourself one right now.
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Post by doctorz on Apr 1, 2009 14:41:28 GMT -5
Oh, and I forgot to mention this: I once owned a Cragstan "Mr.Atomic" Japanese Toy Robot. For those of you who don't know. It's the rarest of any of the tin Japanese Robots from the early 60's. If you can find one in good shape you can easily ask and get a price of over $20,000. I blew it up with a cherry bomb. I suck.
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Post by Don Quixote on Apr 1, 2009 16:41:56 GMT -5
Lots of legos. A few ninja turtles. Some X-Men figures, including the sentinel thingie with a pop-off chest. Also, both my father and I (my father before I, though) played with his original, large G.I. Joes. Still have 'em too. They're probably not worth a damn thing (since they've been opened and used and what have you), but they're still awesome to play with. My grandmother even made some clothes and sandbags for my dad's Joes, so there's some unique stuff on those guys.
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Post by Shep on Apr 4, 2009 23:16:59 GMT -5
I had loads of those Mego action figures from the late 70s when I was a kid--Spiderman, Batman, the Hulk, the Joker, etc. They were pretty cool! www.megomuseum.com/index.html
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