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 The Talking Computron. It was like a Speak & Spell but with more activities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxVYoWSHuGU&t=28s
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Holy poo poo how did I forget about these? If I remember correctly this is what convinced my parents to invest in a battery charger. No wait, those things are different. Here's what I was thinking of 
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Oct 19, 2015 22:06
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AKA Pseudonym posted:No wait, those things are different. Here's what I was thinking of I'm jealous of that right now.
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Is that Robotix? e: Also known as "Did you see the Other Zoids on Super Channel yesterday? They sucked."
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Oct 19, 2015 22:45
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Yep, I don't really recall either cartoon though
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Oct 19, 2015 23:27
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Yep, I don't really recall either cartoon though I can lend you the VHS.
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Legos and Star Wars stuff pretty well covered, so allow me to introduce to you the Mattel Master Caster. Make awesome cars out of wax. Problem was, I'd often recycle the wax and eventually all my cars came out a dirty brown color and had hair and dirt embedded in them.
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FuzzyBuddha posted:Legos and Star Wars stuff pretty well covered, so allow me to introduce to you the Mattel Master Caster. So Kias, then?
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I had one of these child's computers. You'd put in a card with an activity or a puzzle on it, and that's the program the display would show. I had completely forgotten about it until this thread got me thinking.
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Oct 20, 2015 01:51
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Captain Lavender posted:I had one of these child's computers. You'd put in a card with an activity or a puzzle on it, and that's the program the display would show.  I had one or two Sesame Street books, one of Hello Kitty (this was 1980s) and my favorite, an Inspector Gadget book.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:31
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Mega Force Little metal tanks and planes mixed with big metal tanks and planes. Here's a pretty fun, (bad) old site that features the first series. So. loving. Awesome. Everything deployed in some way, and all the big toys had a ton of little extras. http://www.toyarchive.com/Megaforce/Series1.html STARCOM: The U.S. Space Force All kinds of transforming rovers and drop ships and space poo poo. Little dudes with magnetic feet. Take a minute to read this and look at the loving rad toys at the bottom. http://futurewarstories.blogspot.com/2011/09/msf-oddities-starcom-us-space-force.html?m=1 Yes I am old.
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Captain Lavender posted:I had one of these child's computers. You'd put in a card with an activity or a puzzle on it, and that's the program the display would show. I was just thinking about my Whiz Kid since reading this thread! Mine was this style though:  The one program I remember clearly would display an image, and you had to correctly spell the word. I think they tried to have one starting with each letter of the alphabet. I always got stuck at the picture of a sailboat - "sailboat", "boat", and "ship" were all wrong answers - they were looking for "yacht", which is kind of hard for a 4 year old to remember.
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Capoeira Capybara posted:
Holy poo poo, thank you. I finally have a name for the set of toys my childhood friend would bring over to play war with my GI Joes. I remember making fun of them because they weren't GI Joes and constantly mocked him for getting cheap Chinese knock off action figures for Christmas. (But I was secretly envious of that sweet F1400 StarWolf with the pop out skids).
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These doubled as Barbie go-karts for me.
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I had the Skydancer, she was the closest thing to a Barbie I own.... Because apparently there is a side of me that wanted a cuddly doll that could slice people open. Plus I had this doll, I never liked dolls much by my grandmother gave me her so I loved it.... So devastated when my brothers destroyed it.  Oh, and there was this. Best. Pet. Ever 
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TOMY made the best stuff.   
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So on top of Lego, I had a bunch of Brio Train stuff like this and I can't seem to find the right thing to google, but i had these plastic car roads - they weren't those fancy matchbox car sets or those slot car tracks, but literally just a bunch of interconectable grey roads, intersections, turns, complete with signs and lamposts that you could attach where you want. I'd combine all three of these things to make sick awesome cities that would take up most of my bedroom floor. (And that my parents would always tell me to clean up)
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Pastry of the Year posted:TOMY made the best stuff. I played with this thing for so many hours. I may actually buy one again.
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Capoeira Capybara posted:Mega Force I had the Triax tanks and the V-Rocs rocket launchers, and I played the poo poo out of them. My playmates had these huge army men sets, but nobody objected to my Megaforce units being embedded in their forces  I never got the AA tanks but I used to think they were the poo poo. And drat I didn't remember the super-heavy units were that cool. The whole line had to have been designed by some serious war nerds, because the designs are fantastical but look just right for military hardware, and the technical specifications are detailed and mostly make sense: 
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I would have committed murder for this Lego set: Alas, we were poor, and the best Technic set I ever got was this:  e. I did eventually buy a couple of the bigger Technic models as an adult, such as:  But it just isn't the same anymore. The newer pin-and-beam Technic requires a lot more planning and thought to build things, and you can't just slam together Legos until you accidentally build something really cool like you could with the old studded beams. I wound up giving my whole collection to my nephews, who are apparently a lot smarter and more creative than I am. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 01:48 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:TOMY made the best stuff. Holy poo poo, that brings back memories. Had both, and the car one got left in the family car on one particularly hot summer's weekend ... and melted
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 Had the bonus feature of: "Find the little pegs in the oddest of places for the next decade or so".  Rainbow Brite was a fashion visionary, rivaled only by the likes of Jem and the Holograms.
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:
Also "Burn the tips of your fingers because it was on all night and you didn't wait long enough after turning it off to play with it again". I'm fairly convinced that my moderate insensitivity to heat via touch can be traced back to that thing.
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:
This was a sore spot for me being color blind.
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 I never had one of these things, but i remember the commercials being on all the loving time on saturday mornings. Every time i've asked anyone if they remember them or had one, they look at me like i'm a crazy person (which i am, but not for that reason) who remembers something that never existed.
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Help me remember a toy. I was born in 1986 so I probably saw this toy on TV between 1993 and 1998. It was a two-play toy. You and the other person stood about 20 feet apart from each other. Each of you held a pair of handle/grips attached to a wire/cable. There was a football shaped item with a hollow core, and the wire/cable ran through the core. When you pulled your hands apart, the football would go flying on the cable toward the other person, and they would do the same to propel it back to you. The gently caress was it called? Zoomball? Zoom smash? Smash zoom ball?
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Help me remember a toy. I was born in 1986 so I probably saw this toy on TV between 1993 and 1998. It was a two-play toy. You and the other person stood about 20 feet apart from each other. Each of you held a pair of handle/grips attached to a wire/cable. There was a football shaped item with a hollow core, and the wire/cable ran through the core. When you pulled your hands apart, the football would go flying on the cable toward the other person, and they would do the same to propel it back to you. Zoom Ball? 
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Mister Kingdom posted:Zoom Ball? Oh poo poo  http://www.amazon.com/Slider-Family-Autism-Therapy-Teamwork/dp/B008D2U91M It's a loving autism treatment toy. My parents thought I was autistic?
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What on earth is it? Like, how do you use it?
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Stick Insect posted:What on earth is it? If i remember right, you sit on the red part, feet go on the bar about where the yellow things are, you steer with the handles, and kind of rock yourself back and forth to make it go forward.
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Stick Insect posted:What on earth is it? Like, how do you use it? That's a roller racer and they were designed to go down steep hills at impressive speeds.
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Oh poo poo Hey hey hey. Stop that. We all think you're autistic.
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We had these at my elementary school gym, or something similar. The teacher would bring them out for special occasions as a reward. They were unbelievably fun but only worked on perfectly flat linoleum. So basically useless for home use/outdoors since you needed a ton of space.
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Stick Insect posted:What on earth is it? Like, how do you use it? You basically just sit on it and then ride it down a hill. You steer with the handles. You will notice that it has no good way to stop other than your feet and it is designed to go...well...rather fast. I only remember actually seeing one, ever, and the kid that owned it rode it into the side of a house.
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Stick Insect posted:What on earth is it? Like, how do you use it? Very carefully.
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Thank you for your replies. It looks perfectly dangerous, I probably would've loved it.
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hackbunny posted:I had the Triax tanks and the V-Rocs rocket launchers, and I played the poo poo out of them. My playmates had these huge army men sets, but nobody objected to my Megaforce units being embedded in their forces Ah, these were the poo poo. I loved these things. The Ramfist was one of the coolest toys ever, a giant anti armour thing with two massive rotating blades that spun when you pressed the button. Bloody powerful springs on it as well - if you got bored of flinging tiny metal tanks around you could wail on your little brother for being annoying with it.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:You basically just sit on it and then ride it down a hill. You steer with the handles. I have Fury Road playing on my other monitor, and read the last part of your post right as Nux was screaming "I am the man who grabs the sun! RIDING TO VALHALLA!!!"
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lidnsya posted:I just remembered Capsela! Holy crap. I had completely forgotten about Capsela until now. That really takes me back. So out of nostalgia I figured I'd look up what they're charging for them now. Dear god are those things ever expensive on Amazon. Clearly long out of production. EDIT - Most of the pictures show a floating vehicle. Those clear pods that the motor and battery went in were not even close to waterproof. You had to build really carefully to avoid flipping and dunking your motor. ThatSlacker has a new favorite as of 03:33 on Oct 25, 2015 |
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