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These sweet-rear end dual screen Nintendo handheld games. I remember when the kid next door got Donkey Kong and Mario Bros and sometimes let me play them.   I think we did get some of the single screen games like Octopus:  Just not the same. 
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:How large would a properly to scale aircraft carrier toy be if it was made to accomodate G.I. Joe dudes? For the 3 3/4" figures they made in the 80s,a properly scaled Nimitz-class aircraft carrier would be nearly 60 feet long.
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Son of Rodney posted:My contribution would be transformers, any kind really. I thought they were so cool but I never managed to convince my parents that I should get one. Now I'm an adult and I can't justify getting one since, well, it's a toy for kids. Takara Tomy now make "Masterpiece" Transformers which are insanely detailed and WAY more screen accurate to the original 80s cartoons than the original toys ever were. They're also much larger than the old figures and much more poseable and much much more expensive which makes it a lot easier to convince yourself that they're not kids toys, they're collectables https://tfsource.com/blog/2019/09/06/16476/
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I remember asking for the AT-ST for Christmas back in '83. I think Dad even tried to go find one but failed to bring home the goods.  I could have easily bought one for myself at any time in the last few decades but I drifted away from SW fandom when the prequels came out.
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Canuckistan posted:I asked for a C64 and I got a Timex-Sinclair 1000. To be fair they also got me 16K RAM module and a few cassette programs, but by god was I envious of those rich kids with their C64. Ha, we got an Amstrad 6128.  We had that exact user manual as well, except our copy was spiral bound. It had a section at the end where they had a whole bunch of game programs written out in BASIC and you could type them into the computer line by line and then you'd be able to play lovely pathetic games like BUSTOUT or TELLY TENNIS https://www.cpcwiki.eu/manuals/AmstradCPC6128-hypertext-en-Sinewalker.pdf The kid next door got a C64 so sometimes he'd let us play cool poo poo like THE LAST NINJA. That theme song is still burned into my brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWmqoEdjKR4&ab_channel=DerSchmu (We eventually bought games for the Amstrad, though they were usually crappy conversions of Spectrum games) Years and years and years later Dad bought us our own C64 at a garage sale with a whole bunch of lovely games pirated onto floppy disks. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Jan 27, 2021 |
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Grant DaNasty posted:I just wanted to put together robots into bigger robots. When I was a kid I had the GoBots combiner Monsterous:  ..... except I only ever got 4 of the 6 smaller robots so I never got to construct the full robot.
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Picayune posted:God, something like that. I wanted one so badly but I knew it was just too much, so I asked for (and got!) its $50 little brother instead: The big expensive one was the Tomy Omnibot  In Australia it was also known for co-hosting a popular kid's TV game show, Now You See It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAvuAGoNJWY I don't think it was even a product placement deal, they just grabbed a random toy robot off the shelves and never mentioned the product or the company
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AHH F/UGH posted:What is Blue Peter and how is it related to Thunderbirds? The shops under-ordered the playsets and they turned out to be a massively popular Christmas gift that year so the kids TV show Blue Peter did a segment about making your own homemade version out of junk. Here's the Blue Peter segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzo7K0JpDvI Here's some British dude talking about the official playset and the Blue Peter crap version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4RpAW_g-Qo
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Here are a few other odd toy lines based on movies that weren't meant for kids (but I watched as a kid): To be fair these were all based on the Saturday morning cartoon spinoffs of those movie franchises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2_g52p__Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sacAWE4mPbg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCUoYIECWAY There was also a Robocop cartoon series released at the same time, although the toyline wasn't directly related to it at first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fP8wGmnbzc Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Feb 12, 2021 |
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Smaller robots making bigger robots is an excellent and evergreen toy idea. Vehicle Force Voltron was the first series but it turns out that Lion Force Voltron was supposed to be the third series and the original Japanese cartoon that was supposed to become the second series was never translated into English. (They were all adapted from unrelated Japanese cartoons)   Here's a fanmade opening credits sequence for Gladiator Voltron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLM462oKcyM
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Eeeeverything had a board game version. Name any popular show, book, or movie from the 80s or 90s and they made a board game. I did a big effort post about a lot of them in CD a few years back, there's some ludicrous examples. It's also super obvious that in a lot of cases they just threw a logo onto a completely unrelated board game and called it a day 
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evobatman posted:If they were the Brio ones, yes they are ridiculously expensive. Adding on a Thomas license probably didn't help things. The TtTE wooden track sets were compatible with Brio but were made by a different company: https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Wooden_Railway
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shadow puppet of a posted:Growing up I had this lone guy. No accessories. No droids-assistant. No world of possibilities. I had a similar situation back in the early 80s, I somehow acquired this two headed dragon thingy and a few other creatures:  .... and never even realised there was an entire action figure line with dozens of characters and accessory packs and playsets:    https://www.littleweirdos.net/2013/08/the-other-world-80s-fantasy-toy-gold.html In this case it was pretty much the opposite of the thread title and the toys were lovely and cheap and I suspect they didn't last long in shops here in Australia, but I missed out on them until they started turning up in thrift stores.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What was the toy line of really hosed-up (like monster/mutant/human-animal-hybrid levels hosed up I think but also just hosed up people) wrestlers (I think?) that for some reason had both poseable figures and then the same figures that were not (as) poseable? They were on the bottom shelf of the toy aisle at Runos-Market in the late 1980s (again, I think?) for like ˝ a year and then disappeared as quietly as they had appeared. Mad Balls had poseable action figures and non-poseable headball figures and featured a fair amount of eye trauma:  There were a lot of gross-out toys around that time (Garbage Pail Kids, Skateboard Smack-Ups, Mad Scientist, Gross Out Gang, Mash 'Ems, Ugglies, Savage Mondo Blitzers, etc etc etc) and lots of weird wrestler-shaped action figures and undoubtedly a whole ton of weird knock-off/cash-in copies of all of the above so there was likely a shitload of obscure stuff as well
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teardrop posted:I wonder how many Action Tables they sold Hey now it was officially endorsed by the International Arm Wrestling Council, that clearly drove the toy's desirability and collectability through the roof 
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bloodysabbath posted:Exec: “Let’s make a movie with the #2 action star in the world.” Even better, he signed up in '84 just after he'd made Rocky 3 and First Blood when he was at the height of absolute height of his career. The movie was produced by Menahem Golan/Cannon Films which answers a lot of questions but raises several others
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