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BetterToRuleInHell posted:I'm sure it's been posted before, but god drat, just googling it brings back memories. Mighty Max was cool, I remember having two but not what they were. I think a spidery one that was posted a couple pages back was one of them. This picture isn't mine but I have both of these chilling in my closet at the moment, I need to get them out and put them on display. They do the same thing as Mighty Max and Polly Pocket, they fold out and came with little micromachine dudes. I think I still have Kane wiggling around on the mess hall table in the alien head. 
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Anybody remember the zip strip motorcycles? Early 90's maybe. They were basically a plastic motorcycle shaped frame with a plastic wheel in front and a heavy metal wheel in back. The rear wheel had teeth on it and you would put a plastic strip with teeth through the teeth on the back wheel. Rip that strip out and that metal wheel would spin with enough power to make that little bike do wheelies and tear rear end all over the place. It sounds generic as hell but a company, I wanna say Tomy had a line of them in different colors with different riders. I loved those drat things. My friends and I would build ramps and stuff on the garage floor for them. The black one which I called the chopper was always the fastest.
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Those things were the loving poo poo. With a little bit of work you could expose the gear and we stuck a brass cog from a Meccano set onto a drill bit and spun those wheels up to light speed. Took so much skin off my fingers doing it, it's amazing I still have fingerprints. I had a dragster like this:  EDIT: I remember that noise. So badass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NxQf-aeDWk Megillah Gorilla has a new favorite as of 17:02 on Jan 7, 2017 |
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Jan 7, 2017 16:57
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Barrington posted:Anybody remember these? These were the best. 
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Oh man I had the Hero Car for that line of toys and a coupe of the ghost figures. 
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I thought they were a cartoon, but turns out they weren't....but these bad mother fuckers were!!!!! VISIONARIES! Taught me that bad guys always have beards. A lesson that holds true through today. Solice Kirsk has a new favorite as of 20:39 on Jan 7, 2017 |
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Jan 7, 2017 20:37
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Any time someone mentions Visionaries a little voice in the back of my head sings 'KNIGHTS OF THE MAGICAAAAAAL LIGHT!'
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Solice Kirsk posted:I thought they were a cartoon, but turns out they weren't....but these bad mother fuckers were!!!!! Visionaries was also a comic book. I found that out when nerding out on Mark Bagley and that it was the first comic that he'd worked on, though I think it might be officially uncredited, but it's clearly his work 
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:Around 1977 I got a Godzilla toy for my birthday. Did that bad boy have a gimmick where he had a spring-loaded fist you could shoot like a missile? I vaguely remember being babysat at someone's house who had one of those and I thought it was the coolest thing.
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ZDar Fan posted:Did that bad boy have a gimmick where he had a spring-loaded fist you could shoot like a missile? I vaguely remember being babysat at someone's house who had one of those and I thought it was the coolest thing. Yeah, and wheels on the feet, and a little lever that made "fire" come out his mouth. It was rad.
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ZDar Fan posted:Did that bad boy have a gimmick where he had a spring-loaded fist you could shoot like a missile? I vaguely remember being babysat at someone's house who had one of those and I thought it was the coolest thing. I bought one at a Garage sale almost a decade ago and yes he does
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Someone's uploaded a ton of old catalogs, particularly some Sears Wish Books. Brings back a lot of memories of making Christmas lists. For some stupid reason, I always wanted a rock tumbler. A childhood friend had the He-Man castle, which I thought was the coolest thing in first grade. 
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Someone's uploaded a ton of old catalogs, particularly some Sears Wish Books. Brings back a lot of memories of making Christmas lists. For some stupid reason, I always wanted a rock tumbler. Oh the new new Masters of the Universe. The old new Masters of the Universe were much worse but still 
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Z Bots, and the Mega Bot in particular.
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King Doom posted:Any time someone mentions Visionaries a little voice in the back of my head sings 'KNIGHTS OF THE MAGICAAAAAAL LIGHT!' I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers 80s cartoon theme songs. M m m Mask!
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twistedmentat posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers 80s cartoon theme songs. Mask was awesome and I dropped the green motorcycle guy into my pool and it got all rusted. Wish I still had those toys to give to my nephew.
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this thing when i was 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H7ydDAV11I
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Solice Kirsk posted:Mask was awesome and I dropped the green motorcycle guy into my pool and it got all rusted. Wish I still had those toys to give to my nephew. Yea I have no idea what happened to mine. I did shoot the gun from the big tanker at my sister by accident and my dad took the missiles from it. This has most of the songs in it so they can get stuck in your head for the rest of the day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy3RTFFhSYs It's missing Inhumanoids though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls2lvNYrZVI I always liked this toy, because its basically "How can we make HP Lovecraft for kids?"
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Jello Robot posted:this thing when i was 4 Wow I forgot I had that thing too. I thought I lost it but looking back, I'm pretty sure one of my folks threw that thing away as soon as they could.
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Fuckin BIONICLEs. Take LEGO, but instead of building structures, you're building kickass murder robots that can surf on lava with their swords.  They were so satisfying to put together, too - one kind of joint in particular needed an actual appreciable amount of force (well, for a kid) to snap in. Also, they hurt even more than regular LEGO to step on.
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I never actually owned any bionicles as a kid, but god drat did I love the first movie. I also vaguely remember binging through all the comics online. Stopped at Metru Nui though, so I never had any context for the other movies.
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twistedmentat posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers 80s cartoon theme songs. Ever hear the full-length version? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5C0G9Ol7_Q See also: the full-length Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqL_SO2thsE
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Were those the figures with magnet feet? A friend of mine had those and I was really jealous.
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My mother let me and my bro watch gruesome 80's adult movies growing up so we were all over stuff like RoboCop, Aliens, Terminator, that kinda thing. Back then these R-rated movies had toy lines for children for some inexplicable reason. Anyway, I got this for like my 6th birthday I think: I was so psyched until I ran outside wearing it and fell over scraping the poo poo out of it about 20 minutes after I got it.  Also this thing was my pride and joy: 
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Someone's uploaded a ton of old catalogs, particularly some Sears Wish Books. Brings back a lot of memories of making Christmas lists. For some stupid reason, I always wanted a rock tumbler. Oh man, when I was but a wee lad we had a small spare room we used for storage, and slowly over time I converted that room into a toy empire, with that castle set up in the middle like a castle on a tower overlooking the land. It was boss as hell.
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Frankston posted:My mother let me and my bro watch gruesome 80's adult movies growing up so we were all over stuff like RoboCop, Aliens, Terminator, that kinda thing. Back then these R-rated movies had toy lines for children for some inexplicable reason. Anyway, I got this for like my 6th birthday I think: They had toys because parents got to decide if their kids could watch R movies back then. Sort of like today. Deadpool has toys I think.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Mask was awesome and I dropped the green motorcycle guy into my pool and it got all rusted. Wish I still had those toys to give to my nephew. Mask, like many other 1980s hasbro toys, is going to be attempting a comeback soon because hasbro wants a cnematic universe. They have already started making the transformers comics have an expanded universe storyline, as well as turning the yearly official transformers convention into a convention for all their properties.
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 Loved this thing as a kid, definitely one of my favorite toys. If I close my eyes I can still hear the goofy machine sounds it makes as it scoots across the floor.
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Quad posted:Crap, now I need to buy that Run Yourself Ragged game again. Fuuuuck yeah! I loved run yourself ragged! As a kid I though of it as mousetrap without the pretext of being a lovely board game.
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davidspackage posted:Were those the figures with magnet feet? A friend of mine had those and I was really jealous. Wasn't that StarCom? I don't remember if they had a cartoon show, but man those were super duper cool. I remember having a shuttle that had a loading bay in it that you could rev up a buggy, put it inside and when the bay opened, the buggy would shoot out. Frankston posted:My mother let me and my bro watch gruesome 80's adult movies growing up so we were all over stuff like RoboCop, Aliens, Terminator, that kinda thing. Back then these R-rated movies had toy lines for children for some inexplicable reason. Anyway, I got this for like my 6th birthday I think: I didn't seem weird at the time, but when I became an adult I found it super weird that R rated action movies always got action figures. My parents let me watch Aliens and Predator, but Robocop was no way.
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Cartoon Man posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgIm1mJCyRU Yikes. What was life like before they created the polio vaccine grandpa?
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Aesop Poprock posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgIm1mJCyRU I'm 36, but I inherited this from my dad who was a born in 1944. I wish I knew what happened to it, I can't remember and my dad can't either. Probably put it out at a yard sale one day... 
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Picnic Princess posted:
This was a hand me down, but it was my favorite toy I was barely allowed to play with:  And no one has yet posted my favorite Lego Space theme:  I loved that they were just a massive criminal organization with a legitimately cool color scheme. I would have done terrible things for a Megacore Magnetizer, though. Still would.
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  Plus like 20 different action figures, including Venom whose jaws opened with you pushed on his legs, Spider-Man who could fire a (string with grappling hook) web, and my favourite: a pull-cord action Electro who sparked with a flint and steel like in a bic lighter.
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Beachcomber posted:And no one has yet posted my favorite Lego Space theme: They're easy to find, but they're a bit expensive these days: http://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6989-1&name=Mega%20Core%20Magnetizer&category=%5BSpace%5D%5BM%5D#T=S&O={} Still, under $200 isn't actually too bad for such an old and awesome set.
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ParserGirl posted:
AHHHHHH Hello memory lane!
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twistedmentat posted:Wasn't that StarCom? I don't remember if they had a cartoon show, but man those were super duper cool. I remember having a shuttle that had a loading bay in it that you could rev up a buggy, put it inside and when the bay opened, the buggy would shoot out. You're right, it is Starcom I'm thinking of. I think I remember a cartoon show, but of course 9 out of 10 toylines had one.
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Beachcomber posted:This was a hand me down, but it was my favorite toy I was barely allowed to play with: This thing played a major part in James Gunn's novel, "The Toy Collector."  He described it in detail but never called it by a proper name, so I wasn't sure if it had been made up for the book or if it actually existed. I've never seen one of these, but it looks awesome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vVRyo3ZGcY
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davidspackage posted:You're right, it is Starcom I'm thinking of. I think I remember a cartoon show, but of course 9 out of 10 toylines had one. It did have a cartoon show! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNzjOjW5ymw
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