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Hey guys after the star war conversation I got to thinking... what toys tv series did you guys watch as a kid? And how much do you still remember about them?

For me my favorites where
Ninja tirtles
Samurai pizza cats
Dragon ball Z

Video game wise
Mortal kombat
Mario back when he was saving Daisy lol.
Ninja tutrles traped in time
Hercs adventures. First system I owned a playstation the others where my brothers or sis
Joe and mac

Think thats about it other then the best franchise's EVER jurassic park all games movies and Godzilla hehe best around.

Godzilla movies and toys were probably my favorite. Plus Power Rangers and Transformers.

Oh such kid stuff.

*waits impatiently for latest episode of Mobile Suit Gundam*

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Ninja Turtles
Samurai Pizza Cats
M.A.S.K
Dino Riders
Transformers
Voltron

Oh man, Dino-Riders, that takes me back. I had the T-Rex with harness and figures, kind of sad my parents sold them all. Peter Cullen voiced a few of the characters on the show too.

Lots of Hot Wheels cars.
Plastic Dino toys from all over
LEGOs out the wazhoo.
BIONICLE was a huge part of my childhood
Army Soldiers

That's about it

Never really got many action figures of any sort. I never really got much of anything from commercials

Meccano (yanks know it as "erector set"). Little steel beams and craploads of small nuts and bolts ).
LEGOland space.
Star Wars action figures.
Green army men.

Transformers... Power Rangers... the usual...

Thundercats (it was awesome at the time... my God, is it horrid)
G.I. Joe (was kind of dumb then, still dumb now)
Tranzor-Z (how this got on kids' TV, I have no idea)
Voltron (it's pretty terrible, but I have a soft spot in my heart for it)
Thundarr the Barbarian (and all the rest of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons... almost all of them are not-very-good, but, eh)
Loony Toons (still awesome)
Animaniacs (still awesome)
Ren & Stimpy (subversively awesome)
Batman TAS (incredible)

GiJoe, Masters of the Universe, Star Wars were big for me.

Also some less well known stuff like Zero Force, for which I think I had the entire range apart from one plane.

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My childhood was basically defined by 3 things:

Lord of the Rings
Star Wars
Lego

Each of which I have in spades. I didn't really get into Marvel comics or DC (other than Batman) until a fair bit later, a years or so before the first Iron Man film came out.

I had aa blob of random toys I seemed to enjoy growing up. Duke Nukem from captain planet, one of the street sharks and a mish mash of StarWars and gi Joe. What ever seemed to work I guess, I wasnt stuck to one franchise


Video games I was a huge fan of excite bike and punch out. I actually could beat punch out at the age of 8. I was the envy of everyone lol

Toys I can remember in no particular order:

Turtles.
Dino-Riders.
Transformers.
Ring Raiders.
Visionaries.
Star Wars.
Jurassic Park.
Lego.
Thundercats.
Mega Force.
Micro Machines.
Monster in my Pocket.
Zoids.

I watched any associated cartoons, along with the likes of:

Samurai Pizza Cats.
Bucky O'Hare.
Biker Mice From Mars.
Knightmare (not a cartoon, but awesome).
Animaniacs.
Looney Toons.
Warner Brothers.
Hannah-Barbara.
Bravestarr.

As a tiny squig, my main toys were hot wheels.

Once I got a bit older, it was all about the Lego!
I started initially with a mix of Space Explorers vs. Blacktron, Fire + Police Station and the old Fabuland stuff. But soon enough I found my way into the Castle line, with my first set being the Black Monarch's Castle.
From there I simply stayed mostly with just the various Castle themes, though I did get back into the Fire Station theme in the later 90's.

I also collected a whack load of the LotR action figures when the movies came out, including scooping up 4 Easterlings! (they were *really* rare in Canada) Though I never did manage to get my hands on the Twilight Bilbo, but I do have a number of the larger 'talking' figures such as Treebeard, Sauron & Golum.

Video games include;
- Legend of Zelda
original, Zelda 2, Link to the Past, Link's Awakening, Ocarina of Time + 3DS re-mix (my no.1!), A Lin kBetween Worlds. Currently playing Hyrule Warriors.
- Dragon Warrior/Quest
I, III, IV original NES versions. DWIII GBC re-mix. DQ IV, V, VI on the DS. Monsters Joker 2. Currently awaiting impatiently for the 3DS releases for VII + VIII!
- Breath of Fire 1 & 2
- Final Fantasy
original NES version. FF2 + 3 on the SNES. Dawn of Souls, 4 & 6 for GBA. Currently awaiting Final Fantasy Explorers for 3DS.
- Smash Brother Melee + Smash 4 for both Wii-U & 3DS. (I so hate amiibos... finding them is worse than waiting for GW to publish a decent Chaos codex!)
- Ogre Battle 64 (Best. Game. Ever!)
- Fantasy Life 3DS (too damn addictive!!)


I've also recently over the past few years come out of my Lego dark age and started collecting again...
First it was just the various Minifigures series, but it's now grown into a number of sets from Ninjago, Chima and of course, Star Wars! (duh!)

My largest collection is my Imperials, though sadly it still needs a truckload more Stormies.

All of the above as I am 33 years old.

Also, freaking Battlemasters! That and Heroquest were the sole reasons I got into wargaming. I dearly look forward to playing my original copy of Battlemasters with my son in about 5 years (he's just 1 now).

My god, is everyone posting on this thread so old?

As young one, with parents on a budget, my brothers and I were into the collectible tiny thing market. Transformers and Gi Joes were mainstream special occasion things.

Then there were
Micro Machines
Mega Force
Z-bots
Battle Beasts
Monsters in my pocket
and an unhealthy quantity of legos.
My sons love going over to grandma's house and seeing the old stockpile. Though they're very confused by the Beast Wars toys.

I find it wierd that modern toys are both much more awesome, and at the same time not as cool as, some of the toys of our youth. It's hard to find action figures that measure up to 3.5 inch G.I. Joes, or Micro Machines with all their awesome playsets.

Star Wars (before it was A New Hope)
Star Trek (TOS)
Space: 1999 (had the Eagle and crew - thing was as tall as me back then)
Micronauts
Shogun Warriors (never owned any, but a friend had three, so it was all good)
Battle of the Planets (G-Force!)
Godzilla (Movies and Marvel comic - reading about SHIELD trying to take down Big G...)
Evil Knievel (and the Christmas I got *4* of the Stunt Cycles!)
G.I. Joe (when he was big enough to date Barbie - you lose wimpy Ken!)

 AegisGrimm wrote:

My god, is everyone posting on this thread so old?

Old school (the 90's) Cartoon Network was pretty much Hanna-Barbera stuff: Herculoids, Space Ghost, Birdman, Jonny Quest.

I would mostly play with Lego and Playmobil, and I spent most of my time creating buildings.

I was also really interested in all sorts of board games, which brought me to HeroQuest, which in turn brought me to all things Games Workshop.

I wasn't really interested in, or allowed to have, 'violent' toys, so I didn't grow up with Ninja Turtles, Transformers or any kind of action figures.

There were a couple weird Asian cartoons that were always on right before school that I would watch while getting ready in the morning. One was about a chick playing volleyball and the other one was about a kid playing soccer.

Lots of Power Rangers stuff (in particular the mega zords, not so much the rangers themselves), all kinds of Bat Man and Spider Man action figures, lego, BEAST WARS TRANSFORMERS (the best fething toys of my childhood), some ninja turtles stuff, oh and Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad toys (Servo was an early childhood hero of mine). I think I had a couple of Street Sharks too.

Being a kid in the 90s was just bitchin'

Not sure why I was thinking of shows instead of toys...

Had He-Man toys, NES, SNES (and thinking "how could those graphics get any better!!!"), Game Boy with all the accessories, constructor sets.

Sacks and sacks of toy soldiers and firecrackers.

Toons...
GI Joe
Transformers
Robotech
Starblazers
....

Series
Star Trek
Starsky and Hutch
MASH
Blacksheep
.....

MTG
Battletech

Xcom
Need for Speed

Pitfall
Pacman
Contra
Shinoba
......

I had the cooler stuff happen during my childhood

 dogma wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:

My god, is everyone posting on this thread so old?

Old school (the 90's) Cartoon Network was pretty much Hanna-Barbera stuff: Herculoids, Space Ghost, Birdman, Jonny Quest.

But a lot of those were reruns of much older shows. Herculoids were from the late 1960s. 90s was Ninja Turtles. 80s would have been more Hot Wheels, GI Joe and He Man.

 Gordon Shumway wrote:

But a lot of those were reruns of much older shows. Herculoids were from the late 1960s. 90s was Ninja Turtles. 80s would have been more Hot Wheels, GI Joe and He Man.

I only brought it up as an explanation for why relatively young people grew up with old cartoons, and the paraphernalia.

I'm not 30 yet, I refuse to be considered old.

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

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

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I find it wierd that modern toys are both much more awesome, and at the same time not as cool as, some of the toys of our youth. It's hard to find action figures that measure up to 3.5 inch G.I. Joes, or Micro Machines with all their awesome playsets.

It's really fascinating dichotomy. Nostalgia flavors some mightily, mostly the ones without direct analogues today. The micro machines didn't have anything out there doing the same thing- until Star Wars brought them back to life. On the other hand, my old Transformers toys combiners do not even hold a candle to the current crop.

This

Would never be chosen over this

With a 5 and a 2 year old, you can see which toys are going to be the ones they post in whatever the 30 years from now equivalent of this thread is. Hot wheels will always be a thing. Beating daddy up with lightsabers and star wars helmets is going to stick. And the playskool action hero line is way better than the weebl wobbles we had to get by with- though they'll never know the weirdness of trying to figure out why the Blacktrons were so bad, or why the Space Police were fighting them. I will miss Lego's self created franchises. The stories you had to manufacture were awesome. And the nerf guns they have these days!

I had a lot of the same toys, but I also was super into trains - had a 6x4 train table in HO scale that was pretty baller.

Also a lot of 1/35 and 1/72 army guys that my brother and I would set up fictional matchups with. Call it an early precursor to wargaming where shouting replaced die rolling.

 creeping-deth87 wrote:
Lots of Power Rangers stuff (in particular the mega zords, not so much the rangers themselves), all kinds of Bat Man and Spider Man action figures, lego, BEAST WARS TRANSFORMERS (the best fething toys of my childhood), some ninja turtles stuff, oh and Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad toys (Servo was an early childhood hero of mine). I think I had a couple of Street Sharks too.

Being a kid in the 90s was just bitchin'

My parents treated me to the 18" deluxe Dragon Megatron from Beastwars after I scored 3pts in a semi-finals game at a hockey tourney down in London way back when! I still have him unopened in the original packaging, though I'm constantly tempted to break him out and start going from his dragon form vs. robot form.

He was a great consolation prize as we ended up only taking the silver in that tourney.