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TV Fireball xl5, supercar, thunderbirds, and doctor who.
Toys, corgi, and dinky cars,
airfix models and toy soldiers.
loads of toy guns, including a johnny seven.

Toys
Nerf guns, RC cars, transformers, legos, Best was Capsela( the most amazing thing to me)

Games
Legend of zelda, Final fantasy, super smash bros, starcraft/broodwar
Pokemon red, pokemon cards

Shows
Pokemon, Darkwing duck, Dragonball Z, Centurions

Board games
Risk, Axis and Allies

Outside
Lots and lots of snow related everything, building forts, skiing, snowboarding, snowball fights(grew up in alaska)

Toys:

Matchbox, Lego, Playmobil
Later some Model railroad HO and plastic kits. ( tried planes, Tanks, but ended with lots of ships...)

TV:

maybe Cpt Future, maybe some old western, but generally not so much time in front of a TV set available to me..

Games:

- video games pre-video-game-crash ( with the benefit of access to Grandpa's TV if i need a 2nd player .. )
- 8-bit / 16 bit era games. When we were happy to have 16 colors. But loads of fun,because you couldn't hide a bad game behind Graphix....

Outside:

Fußball, also known as Football or soccer. 1 Toy, several happy people.

For me, my Toys were

Lego (Mainly Star Wars and Bionicle)
K'nex
Plastic Dinosaurs
Pokemon Games and Cards
Yu-gi-oh cards

My favorite was always having armies of Bionicles and Dinosaurs fight it out over K'new structures. I came into Wargaming naturally .

Z-bots
Mighty Max
Ninja turtles
GI Joe
War Planets
Transformers
Attack Packs
Legos
Street Sharks (I regret this)
Star Wars
Batman
Dinosaurs
Street fighter and Mortal Kombat toys

 Pilau Rice wrote:

 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?

Yes! Cheers.

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.

Ah yes, had some Construx stuff too. No Zoids, though. I did have a single Fischertechnik model racing car that my dad got as a gift through his work.

How could I have forgotten SHOGUN WARRIORS?



Raydeen FTW!

I had Raideen and Mazinger in the 24" versions - they were great!

I've since picked up awesome versions (Soul of Chogokin) of Gaiking and Getter Robo...

Monster in My Pocket
Battle Beasts (I actually had to use Google to figure out what these were called because I had forgotten)
Z-Bots (I had the MegaBot thing and it was awesome)
MicroMachines (mainly the military ones)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tons and tons of LEGOs (most of which I have kept)

My Lord of the Rings Return of the King (3rd edition) SBG starter set, the one with orcs and warriors of Minas tirith. I got it in 2003 at the age of 12. 12 years later I still have all the models and I'm still wargaming to my parents surprise.

Also had a load of action men as a kid. My favourite was one with a working parachute. It got stuck on the roof regularly.
I once dug a big hole in the flower bed and pretended it was a trench. Even used sticks for planning and supports, and made a little dugout. Shame I didn't have a camera at the time, would have made for some great photos.
I also had fun catapulting them across the garden using the washing line. But that soon stopped when one hit the garden fence HARD, starfish position with the limbs all splayed out and it just exploded. It was spectacular.

Lets see here...

Start off with a staple for many years, Stickle Bricks. I loved the 'Centurions' tv show, but I could never get any toys of them, so I ended up making them out of stickle bricks.



Then my main toys were The Ghostbusters. - I had the station too, but my parents took the slime off me immediately, so it lost half the fun.

Various Transformers toys. Though, the toys available were way too inconsistent and scattered to get a proper collection. I think the only actual Transformer I had from the tv show was... Of course...



I also had a whole heap of Turtles things. - Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the UK. - Ninja was deemed too contentious a word! Unlike ButteryCommissar, apparently Scotland had a decent supply of them. Or maybe my relatives in the states kept my parents supplied with them for Christmas presents?

From there, it was the primarily the Batman The Animated series toys. I then had a good sized X-Men collection. - Actually, these two were probably my most 'complete' collections.

I also had some Terminator 2 toys because... I don't know why? They looked cool, I certainly never saw the film back then. Oh, several Jurassic Park toys too.



Actually, come to think of it. That was rather fethed up as a toy concept for a young kid. Like, seriously messed up.

From there, like many kids of my age group... It was the Power Rangers years. And they lasted... A while.

Now, one thing about Scotland during the 90's. It isn't like today where you can get films 'on demand' or streamed to your TV.

Nope, there was a video rental store and, chances are, unless your friends you personally knew liked something, chances are, you'd have never heard of it.

What I'm basically saying is.



Was my first ever real exposure to Star Wars. Nineteen Ninety-Five and my first experience of Star Wars. Fortunately, TIE Fighter was a flipping amazing game and I fell in love with Star Wars.

Then, despite still not actually having seen the films, I went massively into Star Wars toys, games and books. But, of course, not actually having seen the films, what did I gravitate towards? The Star Wars from the games. In other words. Micro Machines, particularly the Micro Machines 'Action Fleet' series. At the same time, I was also having great fun playing with my 'Micro Machines military' toys. But I always wanted the sides to be 'fair' and if they weren't, I had to set up the fights so that there were tactics and things to be used.



It wasn't until the 1997 'Star Wars Special Edition' cinema releases that I actually saw the films. I continued to play with them, buying the action figures too. Then, at the end of that year... Just after Christmas, actually. I wandered into some workshop in St Albans, looking to buy a computer game...

And that's I think where I will end that story...

 Compel wrote:
Oh, several Jurassic Park toys too.

I had that toy, and I loved it because it was a visceral reminder that the books existed; the young rex was omitted from the movie but the fact that there was a toy let me remind my 3rd grade friends that the book was indeed a thing that existed. Also why I found Dr. Grant's bow mystifying.

I grew up with:
Toys:
Legos, mainly the space ones, but some of the Adventurers ones as well as a lot of Star Wars ones. I still have 'em!
Wooden train set (I believe the brand was Brio). This was my favorite during my early childhood. Then I got into the legos.
A few toy guns, but nothing amazing there.
Plenty of Hot Wheels cars, and a couple of small track sets (including the well-known set with the loop and jump).
Plastic Army Men. Loads of fun was had by me and my brother having little wars both indoors and outdoors.
TV shows:
Reboot (was my favorite on Saturday mornings)
Beakman's World
Bill Nye the Science Guy
When I was really little, I loved Thomas the Tank Engine.
Video Games:
I started with my mom's old Atari 2600 system, but it eventually crapped out. Later I got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas. My favorite game for a while was Diddy Kong Racing. Then I discovered Super Smash Bros., and I've loved those games ever since. That N64 still works, although my brother has hold of it at the moment.
Outside:
Golf. Started playing at age 10, and still occasionally hit a course and play. I'm not any good, but it is fun.

Well there was the obligatory Lego, Micro Machines, Star Wars, Transformers, Thundercats, He-Man et al but also other gak like:

Dino Riders

Ring Raiders

Visionaries

Go Bots Rock Lords

Gaming wise their was the Spectrum ZX-81 with Robin Of The Hood and an Atari STE.
I particularly remember Special Forces:

and the awesome Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade release with its own Grail Diary


Come to think of it we had a bunch of gak

Here's a few from my days as a nipper:

Mighty Max
Loved Skull Mountain! Would make excellent Age of Sigmar/WHFB scenery actually..


Manta Force vs Red Venom

Lego.

Bionicle in particular stood out. I just found a reasonably priced Makuta and Takanuva on ebay. Had to buy.

Who remembers Ring Raiders?

Lincoln Logs, Lots and lots of legos, G.I. joe action figures and Star Wars action figures. Tonka, Hot Wheels and a BB Gun

 Gitzbitah wrote:
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.

There's a DVD of the entire thing. By the end they gave up colouring it in properly.
They only ever made that farting...I mean croaking... spaceship, and the toad double bubble thing that looked like a toad head, and shot claws out. That also made weird noises.
They never made the Righteous Indignation, Screaming Mimi (Commander Dogstar's ship) or the very um, "sexy" cat first mate. Probably because she looked like a hairy pornbot.

Six Million Dollar Man playset was king!

Anyone else play with Boglins?

I had the Dungeons and Dragons Fortress of Fangs playset (although no other D&D toys - it used to be populated variously with He-Man, Star Wars and Lego figures )

 Alex C wrote:
Anyone else play with Boglins?

Yep. Still got one though he's missing his sticky tongue!

Slogg (sticky tongue)


Snish (has a little water squirter in the mouth)


annd

Boink- just standard hand puppety thing.

I had a BB gun and bucket loads of Green Army men.

That's a true Line-of-Sight game!