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Anyone remember Garbage Pail Kids? M.U.S.C.L.E Men?

Star Wars, Voltron, Transformers, and Gobots were the toys I was mostly playing with besides, iirc. WWF action figures were big at the time, too.

Muscle men were just wierd, man. Definitely my first taste of Japanese weirdness.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Muscle men ware just wierd, man. Definitely my first taste of Japanese weirdness.

Yeah dude. So weird.

G.I Joe
Jurassic Park
Pokemon
Transformers.
He Man(Alot less, but I loved the show)
Digimon.
One thing I remember clearly is playing with the G.I Joe and Dino Saur toys to make movies with the camera i have. I should find those tapes and burn them.

Turtles
X-men
Spider-Man
Couple episodes of Iron Man and FF
Power Rangers (original series only)
Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and similar once in a while

Got Batman and the other DC shows as an adult. Parents felt the Batman cartoon was too dark.

Oh forgot power rangers. Me and some anime buddies still pay attention to it. We dont watch it, we watch Linkaras History of Power Rangers(A long for review going over each series)

 jasper76 wrote:
Anyone remember Garbage Pail Kids? M.U.S.C.L.E Men?

Star Wars, Voltron, Transformers, and Gobots were the toys I was mostly playing with besides, iirc. WWF action figures were big at the time, too.

You know, we got like one bucket- I think they came in buckets? Of muscle men, and then started on the monsters in my pockets. Weird legends and obscure monsters made more sense to young me than dudes with pliers for heads. Learning that they were originally Japanese makes them much more understandable.

 Alpharius wrote:
Same here - and besides, everyone in this thread is so damn young!

I loved my Micronauts toys - I wish I would have kept them!

No matter what my mother says, she obviously threw most of mine out, because many large items somehow "disappeared" -- the Battle Cruiser, Exploration Lab, Hornetroid, Terraphant, etc. Freakin' Micronauts mother lode...all gone. But hey...I still have a Repto, Time Traveler, and Pharoid. *shrug*

I still have my ROM, though, and that mofo still works! Yeah, baby!

Other classic '70s stuff -- Six Million Dollar Man, original G.I. Joe 12" dolls, and Big Jim.

I had Lego, and that's pretty much the extent of it. I mostly played outside.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I had Lego, and that's pretty much the extent of it. I mostly played outside.

Same here. Lego, lots of lego. I mostly played outside (virtually always either hide-and-seek, pretending to be soldiers or games that involved throwing water on others in some way or another), but when playing indoors it was always lego. I refused any other toys.

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I had Lego, and that's pretty much the extent of it. I mostly played outside.

Same here. Lego, lots of lego. I mostly played outside (virtually always either hide-and-seek, pretending to be soldiers or games that involved throwing water on others in some way or another), but when playing indoors it was always lego. I refused any other toys.

Even now when kids play outside they need toys. My neices and nephews love to play outside, on their toy ATVs, Jeeps, scooters.
But they came over recently and they where bored, So I suggested they go play hide and seek. Their mom says they cant because they might get lost and a stranger might take them. they cant play tag either.
What kind of kids dont want to play hide and seek? I still play it, it just involves BB guns now.

Transformers
Action Force (GI Joe for those who grew up in the US)
He Man
Thundercats
Centurians
Micromachines
Star Wars
Zoids
Turtles
Lego
Bucky O'Hare

 gorgon wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Same here - and besides, everyone in this thread is so damn young!

I loved my Micronauts toys - I wish I would have kept them!

No matter what my mother says, she obviously threw most of mine out, because many large items somehow "disappeared" -- the Battle Cruiser, Exploration Lab, Hornetroid, Terraphant, etc. Freakin' Micronauts mother lode...all gone. But hey...I still have a Repto, Time Traveler, and Pharoid. *shrug*

I still have my ROM, though, and that mofo still works! Yeah, baby!

Other classic '70s stuff -- Six Million Dollar Man, original G.I. Joe 12" dolls, and Big Jim.

I had all of those too!

Good times...

But yeah, nostalgia is pretty...strong of a...blurring factor!

Seeing many of them today, well, they were cooler 30+ years ago!

Hungry Hungry Hippo
Mouse Trap
Life
Rockem Sockem Robots

Original Doom
Duke Nukem

Dino Riders
GI Joe

Dino Riders was mine, I was Dinosaur mad. GI Joe was my brother. Massive, epic Dino Rider vs GI Joe wars were common.

Outside of that, anything and everything. We had a toy box big enough for both of us to sit in that was perpetually being emtpied (to give to Lifeline, thing Goodwill) and refilled at birthdays and Christmas. Transformers, HeMan, Lego and much more fell into that box.

Toys I actually owned? Lego (mostly classic Space, although it wasn't "classic" at the time ), Scalextric, Transformers, M.A.S.K., He-Man and Star Wars - and of course a huge pile of Matchbox and Hot Wheels toy cars. Then at the age of 10, I got into wargaming via Advanced Heroquest, Space Hulk and 1st edition Epic.

I moved house a year ago, into a place with a loft. I reclaimed my old Lego and Scalextric stuff from my parents' house, then spent far too much money on Bricklink replacing all the pieces I'd lost, broken or swallowed over the years (how much for a classic black spaceman? sigh ...).

My very first Lego model was this mail truck:



and my first Technic model was the pneumatic Fork Lift Truck:


I remember spending a highly enjoyable Christmas afternoon on my own in my bedroom building this:

Lots of tv shows: Biker mice from Mars, Cyborg 009, Star Wars, Samurai Pizza Cats, Courage the cowardly dog and other cartoon network shows, The Mask, Gundam Wing, Ninja Turtles.

As for toys: lots of Lego, Transformers, and other stuf I can't remember.

And for games: Age of empires, Halo, Command and Conquer, Diablo, Knights and Merchants, Guilty Gear, Call of Duty (Up to COD 2 Big Red One.) Oddworld, Fallout and a bunch more. Oh... and shouldn't forget all of the pokeymans games.

Despite having quite a few of the toys, I never really watched the Transformers or M.A.S.K. cartoons - they must've been on ITV. I watched Thundercats, but didn't have any of the toys. The only one I remember where I was into both the toys and the programme was He-Man.

Having two older cousins was a blessing as I would get their toys when they either grew out of them or cast them aside.

First it was Action Man, the Star Wars. Then it was Transformers and it's always been my favourite. Nothing like watching Timmy Mallet on Wac-a-day waiting for the next episode to run. Had M.A.S.K and He-man, I joined the fanclub and my name club name was Zodiac Then Action Force which were probably up there with the Transformers in enjoyment level. And boxes of Lego.

Some of the more obscure ones were these guys, the Roboforce, image is huge hence spoiler tags.



and Manta Force



At least I think they aren't regular ones. I used to love the Manta Force stuff because you could pop off their arms and legs for battle injuries.

Some of my other favourites were a guy that looked like a Cylon, a red guy with body and tank legs and a robot called Brawn that had an air pump that you would stick to the back and use it to crush a plastic safe, can and car I think.

Childhood was good.

LEGO is fun still

A living Hell though when you step on one in the wee hours of the night

 Pilau Rice wrote:
and Manta Force



At least I think they aren't regular ones. I used to love the Manta Force stuff because you could pop off their arms and legs for battle injuries.

Some of my other favourites were a guy that looked like a Cylon, a red guy with body and tank legs and a robot called Brawn that had an air pump that you would stick to the back and use it to crush a plastic safe, can and car I think.

Childhood was good.

Thank you! I'd forgotten about those. We even had that set at home and the books too

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I had Lego, and that's pretty much the extent of it. I mostly played outside.

Same here. Lego, lots of lego. I mostly played outside (virtually always either hide-and-seek, pretending to be soldiers or games that involved throwing water on others in some way or another), but when playing indoors it was always lego. I refused any other toys.

Spoiler:

Secretly, I still play with my lego every now and then

"Secretly"? Mine's on display in the living room.

I also remember Manta Force and those Robo-Force thingies.

There was also some sort of Sci-fi toy line, kinda like Manta Force, but it made heavy use of magnets and shape-changing mechanisms. Can't remember what it was called, though.

I had Bucky O' Hare, which was probably because my parents loved all the bizarrely naming puns, sarcasm and environmental message.
The team fly around in the Righteous Indignation, with the mechanics named Willy Dewitt, and it just spirals weirdness from there.
I adored it because of space ships and rabbits. Had the entire toy set, and knew where every gun and pistol went (considering one character had four arms and four different pistols, that was a feat at age 6), but my gem of my collection was that my father made me a space ship out of a large soda bottle and two butter tubs. He painted and modelled it perfectly, and even sank seating into it so the toys sat correctly. He repaired it when it broke, and repainted it when I scuffed it. Perfect toy.
Years later I have the set (only really nine or ten figures, two official ships and the scratch build) on display in my bedroom at my folks' house.

Other than that, the vast majority of my toys were second hand, I don't remember ever pulling an action figure from a card myself. I never minded, but it perhaps explains the eclectic mix:
TMNT (toys were quite scarce of these in the UK compared to the bountiful USA)
Looney Tunes (I loved Bugs and Sylvester)
Care Bears (the plastic ones, I don't know where they came from, nor liking them. There was a strong moral undertone to the line, I remember a book for both genders about basically not being a dick)
Lego (just plain Lego)
My Little Pony (and I seem to remember a plastic castle and a set of jump hoops)
Lion King
Lots of those half board game half activity games, Hungry Hippos, Licking Lizards, Busy Bumblebees, etc.

We were by no means rich, but the back bedroom/office was where we kept the toys for "sharing" if friends came over and brought kids. The board games, Legos, ponies (which explains their presence slightly better), and all the books you could read.
My room had a few toys that I didn't ever have to share, as long as I put them away in the cupboard before people came over. That sounds selfish until you realise the age range and behaviour of visitors often meant broken toys, torn apart bears and slobber. If a toy was broken it was thrown away, no arguments.
I hid a small stuffed rabbit ("Bugs"), a blanket "best blanket" and a racing car that I managed to save despite it missing headlights and glass. "Bugs" had a girlfriend, but she sadly fell victim to rough play.

early-mid 90s Star Wars figures
LEGO (I had some of the "original" run LEGO Pirate sets including the pirate island)
Much younger, in the late, late 80s I had some Ninja Turtle toys, including Michaelangelo in hawaiian shirt/skateboard.... my earliest turtles had the rubber heads that could collapse abit..
Hot Wheels galore... which, sadly many of them met unfortunate ends with a hammer (sadly, the drivers' insurance doesn't cover acts of god )



Im a parent of two, including one boy... it's so fething awesome to be able to collect, er, I mean buy the kids more LEGO sets and hot wheels and stuff

 AndrewGPaul wrote:

There was also some sort of Sci-fi toy line, kinda like Manta Force, but it made heavy use of magnets and shape-changing mechanisms. Can't remember what it was called, though.

Was it Starcom?

Looking through the web is starting to remind me of how awesome toys were back then. Reminded myself that I had a lot of Construx, which is kinda like Lego, and a fair few Zoids.

Ohh... almost forgot... I also had/have recently reacquired some of the old Micromachine Star Wars "Actionfleet" models.

Inhumanoids were cool.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
I had Bucky O' Hare, which was probably because my parents loved all the bizarrely naming puns, sarcasm and environmental message.
The team fly around in the Righteous Indignation, with the mechanics named Willy Dewitt, and it just spirals weirdness from there.
I adored it because of space ships and rabbits. Had the entire toy set, and knew where every gun and pistol went (considering one character had four arms and four different pistols, that was a feat at age 6), but my gem of my collection was that my father made me a space ship out of a large soda bottle and two butter tubs. He painted and modelled it perfectly, and even sank seating into it so the toys sat correctly. He repaired it when it broke, and repainted it when I scuffed it. Perfect toy.
Years later I have the set (only really nine or ten figures, two official ships and the scratch build) on display in my bedroom at my folks' house.

Other than that, the vast majority of my toys were second hand, I don't remember ever pulling an action figure from a card myself. I never minded, but it perhaps explains the eclectic mix:
TMNT (toys were quite scarce of these in the UK compared to the bountiful USA)
Looney Tunes (I loved Bugs and Sylvester)
Care Bears (the plastic ones, I don't know where they came from, nor liking them. There was a strong moral undertone to the line, I remember a book for both genders about basically not being a dick)
Lego (just plain Lego)
My Little Pony (and I seem to remember a plastic castle and a set of jump hoops)
Lion King
Lots of those half board game half activity games, Hungry Hippos, Licking Lizards, Busy Bumblebees, etc.

We were by no means rich, but the back bedroom/office was where we kept the toys for "sharing" if friends came over and brought kids. The board games, Legos, ponies (which explains their presence slightly better), and all the books you could read.
My room had a few toys that I didn't ever have to share, as long as I put them away in the cupboard before people came over. That sounds selfish until you realise the age range and behaviour of visitors often meant broken toys, torn apart bears and slobber. If a toy was broken it was thrown away, no arguments.
I hid a small stuffed rabbit ("Bugs"), a blanket "best blanket" and a racing car that I managed to save despite it missing headlights and glass. "Bugs" had a girlfriend, but she sadly fell victim to rough play.

I loved Bucky O'Hare! He was so angry, and the puns were utterly absurd. We had the spaceship that looked like a shoe, and had a rubber clad air thing for croaking toads. I've got to find that to show to my boys some time.