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Lego Super Star Destroyer (http://gizmodo.com/5813412/legos-four+foot-super-star-destroyer-executor-is-the-longest-official-set-ever-sold)

At four feet, it is the longest model Lego has ever sold.

 :awesome_for_real:

I had this:


And This:

I'm from an era where legos were mostly generic, though I did have a couple sets with some space bits. Didn't help that the vast majority of my legos came from trading at lunch time because my parents didn't have a lot of money.

One oddly favorite toy when I was a kid was one my cousins had, Richard Scarry's puzzletown. There were a ton of pieces, not sure if they had multiple boxes (there were 4 cousins) or multiple versions or what. Basically it was a slotted land base where you could build up little towns with heavy cardboard pieces. You could slot some pieces into each other to build extended buildings, get creative with the roof pieces, etc. I'd build them and the girls would play with them.

Ok, I'm going to really show my age here.  Here are my two favorite toys as a kid.


In my day, we played with REAL GI Joes.

The hockey table is cool.

The old GI Joes not so much.  I'm partial to the 80s era stuff that was based off the cartoon series.   Best toys ever, except perhaps for the Transformers of the same era.

Heh, before I left the my old job in the UK, my department was kicking around ideas for a team building exercise. By far the favourite idea was to buy one of these, along with a few pizzas and some beer, and let everyone have at it:

http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Star-Wars-Death-10188/dp/B002EEP3NO

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61xROBHmgqL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)

Alas, management was having none of it.

I have seen that one in the Lego store here, it is very very tempting. Hard to justify ~£250 though.

Legos have got to be the world's most expensive building material, which is funny considering they are toys.  Somebody needs to calculate how much a life-sized Lego house would cost.

£300,000 in 2009.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/8239192.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/8239192.stm)

A life-sized lego super star destroyer would cost $23.5 billion by my estimates.

That seems like a bargain, since a real death star is estimated to cost $15.6 Septillion (http://gizmodo.com/5146010/death-star-costs-156-septillion-14-trillion-times-the-us-debt)  :drill:

Well the lego star destroyer would just sit there. I wouldn't launch it into space.  :grin:

While I loved my Legos for what they could do, when I wanted to actually play with something I built it out of Construx. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construx)  Space ships, tanks, fortresses, whatever my Star Wars/ GI Joe or Battle Beast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_beasts) figures were going to fight with was made out of Construx. It was like a wonderful plastic erector set.

I have a 32 gallon bin filled with those things that I gave to my son.  It's fun to watch him build some of the exact same things I came up with in terms of design.

I nearly bought that when I went to the lego store in Rockefeller plaza.   Was really hard to resist.

I should take a picture of my son's new train table or his rideable excavator.  Kid got some amazing toys for his 2nd birthday.

I had something very similar (also showing my age here):

My sister had that exact set. We used to play with it for hours.

I had a lot of Lego and also a huge tub full of Meccano which was basically a metal constructor set designed to injure small children, skin knuckles and fatally damage vacuum cleaners.

I was ready to go and say, "I'm soooo buying that!" then I read the article and it said $400.00.

Fuck that noise.

I'm nearly thirty and I still find these:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZLH3X5DiL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)

to be a hell of a lot of fun.

I spent hours upon hours staging pirate battles with this:

(http://www.forbiddencove.com/sets/images/OOP/1989/6270.jpg)

Ha, nice.  I had the Imperial Guard equivilent, Sabre Island:
(http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/6265-1.jpg)

I was a bigger fan of the Imperial Guards, and collected them to fight off and kill pirates.

Yeah, thats the isle I keep walking down, wishing it was OK to run around the street as a grown man with this stuff on shooting people :p

Dolls?   :grin:  Just kidding.....   :awesome_for_real:

I just dug up a bunch of my old Legos for the boy.  Ive got a couple of cool castles I may post photos of later. 

I have two of those sitting on my desk right now.

Holy shit Constructs. Wow...

Most of my fun toys were usually weapons (plastic guns and knives) with which I would play Red Dawn in the summer with my friends in the neighborhood thru everyone's connected backyards. Amazed we were not actually killed doing the shit we'd do - like take a block of play-dough with a few twist ties and an empty matchbox and pretend it was C4 which we would then affix to some unsuspecting adult's garage door. Get caught doing that shit now, you'd have SWAT coming to your place.

During the winter however, when it snowed, the neighborhood became Hoth.  :awesome_for_real:

Lego! A minifig guards my desktop.

edit: holy crap, glossy screen is glossy.

I only had the little helicopter on the top.  :sad:

I still regret giving my Millenium Falcon away to my little cousin.

That's actually a really cool photo :)

Thinking back to when I was a kid the only toy that really stands out in my memory is also Lego. We grew up in a very rural part of the UK (Suffolk), in a tiny village, surrounded by woods and fields, so most of our actual playing was done outside. Apart from tree forts and holes in the ground and mud and sticks and things I reckon bicycles were our most used entertainment objects!

And then I got a ZX Spectrum in the early 80's and became a geek.

Snakes! Why did it have to be blue snakes?

One of the last toys I ever got was this:

(http://images.blu-ray.com/htgallery/80016_full.jpg)

The Fortress Maximus Transformer.   :awesome_for_real:

All we had growing up was a nail on a string.  We'd swing it around fast and it would zip up into the air and then come down.  Had a few pretty close calls.  The saddest days were when it would get on a roof or telephone wires.  No toys to play with for a few weeks, then.  We'd be all dejected.

Garage sale.  Along with the AT-AT, Snow Speeder, and X-Wing. :cry:

My brother had that.. I don't remember all the blue. His was grey and dark grey, I think.   He got all the cool toys.  That, Omega Supreme, Castle Greyskull AND Snake Mountain, even the G.I. Joe Space Shuttle & Launch Pad. 

I'm beginning to resent my parents...


I've still got mine.  My mom learned because my dad never stopped telling the story of how he got sent to Vietnam and his Mom sold or threw-out all his original Lionel trains and Golden Age to Mid-60's comic books.  :heartbreak:

Was it Metroplex instead maybe?

Ya this, Metroplex was all grey and white I believe.

Ahh yeah, that was it. I completely confused the guys there.. and didn't catch the sense of scale of the pic. Holy shit that's a big transformer.

(http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kydkqpK3Fw1qahcdco1_500.jpg)

Had most of these...but this one was my fav.

I still have the Boba Fett ship I bought from a friend's garage sale (along with the boba fett and carbonite han solo action figures).

The "most awesome" toy I think I ever got was probably the Jetfire Transformer. Damn thing was like 75% die cast metal too.

Yeah, a friend had Jetfire.  I was jealous because it used the same transformation as the Revel line of Macross models and was pretty large for a transformer.

I actually repainted my Jetfire into Roy Fokker's Veritech from Robotech.    :awesome_for_real:

I had shittons of Ghostbusters and Ninja Turtles. Lived on base housing as a kid, so every household had kids. My neighbor also had Turtles and Ghostbusters (plus a ton of Joes we never used). Occasionally, there would even be epic crossover battles.

Unfortunately, one of the last Ghostbuster figures I ever got (some sort of late-gen Janine) I broke the day I got it. Afraid to tell my parents I just broke something they bought me hours earlier, I went two houses down and buried it...I wonder if it's still there, 20 years later.

Also got a TMNT food tray...but with no use for an actual food tray, I ended up using it as a shield until it broke.  :grin:


I probably used it along with the Raphael costume I got in 2nd grade.

Speaking of "Awesome" toys, I just opened a box looking for my old N64 to play Conker's Bad Fur Day and I found my old Atari and some old Nintendo games in a box my mom must have packed with a bunch of my old junk and stuck in the pile of stuff I had been storing in her garage a few years ago.

I have for sale: Zelda II: The adventure of Link (with original manual!), and a copy of the worst game in history: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the 2600!

 :ye_gods:

I used to have enough LEGO to fill 2 of those huge underbed Sterilite containers - I gave them to a coworkwer for her son's birthday, though.  This little dude sitting on top of my PC is all that's left, really:

Mom, giving the Falcon away to some other family because I had "outgrown" those toys.  :heartbreak:

I left home at 18 one step ahead of my step-father's boot. Broke back in and got a box of my D&D stuff before they threw everything out. Millenium Falcon, my mail order Fett, tons of toys. But the stuff that bummed me out was all my art portfolios, paintings and comic books (the ones I drew). Childhood ended pretty abruptly, heh.

In 6th grade the kid who would end up singing in my band and I packed gunpowder in our GI Joes and blew them up in an epic battle that somehow didn't include any fingers in the casualty rolls.

I had one of those table top versions with the paper/flat plastic players when I was a kid, it rocked... showing my physical age.

And to show my mental age... I just nabbed this off Craigslist a few weeks ago for my cave.

That destroyer trumps the rod hockey though, I think I can find a spot for that. It is awesome!

I actually had three of the original Macross models plus the three Mospeada transformable planes as well. The only problem with the Jetfire model was that they blunted the nose because American kids tended to poke their eyes out, apparently.

WANT!  May I ask how much that cost you?  I'm thinking that I need to pick one up. 

My grandmother on my dad's side collected antiques - like serious antiques in the fact that she had hundered's of thousands of dollars worth of stuff in her house. (Yes, there were rooms you were not allowed into when I was a kid - adults included). In her collection was one of these table ice hockey games. My dad used to sneak me into the basement to play every now and then - if I still spoke to him or her, I would ask about it. They definitely were insanely fun.

50 bucks! It was a great score, the thing is even electronic with tunes and score keeping.
I found it online and new I believe it runs about $300. Its surprisingly well made for a "cheaper" model. Real tempered glass too. I'll see if I can dig up the link later (posting from phone now).

Side note - my 2 nephews flew in for visit today (4 and 6) and all they want to do is play rod hockey and ride on the Kubota... "forever" says the 4yo.  :grin:

(http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/1405/2009101121143jeepafterj.jpg)
I had one of these, except it was the early 90's version.

We had a rottweiler puppy at the time, and she would ride with me in the passenger seat. It was fucking awesome, double so because we were dirt poor.

I also had a castle greyskull with a bunch of HE-MAN action figures (including the giant green tiger+saddle that was all hard sharp plastic)... I'm pretty sure that was given away to goodwill.

I was ahead of my time with you crazy manga kids. I had a Mazinga robot back in the 70s, a couple feet tall.

(http://img807.imageshack.us/img807/1103/mainimage9824.jpg) (http://www.quintessentia.com/mattel-70-s-warrior-mazinger-toy-robot.html)

If you click on the link, you'll see the place I got the pic from is asking $280 for one with broken gloves. Parents, don't throw out your kid's toys!

Oops, Thought it was Tranzor-Z at first.

I think I had one of those that was discarded when we moved to Cleveland. I could be misremembering someone else's toys, though.

Wikipedia says it was called that ten years later. I never saw the shows, no idea how I even got the robot. My bet would be on my parents thinking it was star wars because it was a robot.

(http://www.tomfotherby.com/Images/Toys/crossbowsAndCatapults.jpg)

Best. Game. Ever.

My Jetfire spent quite a bit of time in Guardian mode....

I concur, though I had to go over my cousin's house to play with it - which meant always having someone to play with which seemed to up the fun factors. Of course shortly after this came their purchase of a Commodore 64 and that was the demarcation point of my innocence.

I had that same thing, with the little orange darts with white fins that shot out from the fingers. I have no idea what happened to that thing.   :sad_panda:

EDIT: Actually it was the whole fist that shot off I think, but I swear there were dart/missile things involved somewhere too.

It looks like it has shoulder launchers of some sort.

Yeah, I want to say those things down the sides of the legs could hold the little darts too.

Yep. My neighbour had it, and had a linoleum floored ballet room in his house (for his sister). We often commandeered it for battles - the balista would fire those things like crazy across a hard floor.

I had one of those, too!

I had it too!

There was a TV show in the 70s called Mazinger Z, and the robot looked nearly exactly like Mazinga. He also had a female robot partner who's boobs where large missiles, named Aphrodite.

(http://www.mazingerztoys.com/images/female-mazinger-aphrodite.jpg)

Unfortunately that action figure was not available to me :(

I had what looks like an updated version of that when I was a kid:
(http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic889233_md.jpg)

(http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic370969_md.jpg)

Good times.


Also had this, which actually shot those damn things with a suprising amount of force.  I could shoot it from my room, down the hall, and into my sisters room/forehead.  It was great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9sNGcTYb7M

I will call your old robot and raise the stakes with my own childhood favorite.

Old man is old.

I had a few of these as well.  I had that one and Godzilla as well as a couple others I can't remember.

Mine would have fights with a big Godzilla as well, also this giant 2 foot tall plastic Alien with a mouth thing that would extend out (from the movie of course), I had no idea what it was from as a kid, but I thought it was cool.

(http://image.europeancarweb.com/f/features/epcp_1010_tonka_toys_icon/30451252+pheader_460x1000/epcp_1010_01_o+tonka_toys+truck.jpg)

My favorite toy that was handed down to me from my father... - sadly, I left it out in the driveway in the winter after I was playing in the snow and said father destroyed it while plowing the driveway clear.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P5UivM8AZUw/S9nwkzndFII/AAAAAAAABQc/-ZYRJEReA3E/s1600/OUTER+SPACE+35+STAR+BIRD+AVENGER+-+FRONT+OF+BOX.JPG)

My mother gave all my metal Tonkas to my aunt when they adopted my cousin, including that dump truck.  Fucking hell I'd forgotten about that until just now and now I'm all pissed again.  My aunt sold them for like .50 each one year when I was about 14 and I raged. 

I actually still have most of that set; the minis make good Generic_Warriors for our D&D games.

I have no idea who got me it (or why), but I had the 19" Mattel Shogun Warriors Godzilla (http://www.toynerd.com/?p=4257). It was awesome. Later it served as a Ro-Beast fight my Matchbox die cast lion Voltron (http://toyasylum.com/Voltron/Voltron%203_Pics.html). Which, for bonus fun, came with lead paint (http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml86/86070.html).

My parents got me the Kenner Star Wars Death Star playset (http://theswca.com/index.php?action=disp_item&item_id=39640). An unusual choice, given that I had a few figures and basically nothing else. I even kept it packed in the original box.

Sadly, both Godzilla and the Death Star were among the majority of my toys that got sold off in a massive yard sale when my parents got divorced in '86.

If I only had $6k to spend on a model tank. (http://www.armortek.co.uk/index.html)


Also, I have a Tonka dump truck in an unopened box around here somewhere... I should sell it I guess.

I think mine through threw everything out. I never got to break back in. Hell they probably think Im dead by now. Really wish I had grabbed the comics (had a Silver Surfer collection of #1 through #27), and had all the original D&D stuff from the first paper pamphlets on down.

This was my favorite childhood toy:
It was cool he had a bionic eye you could look through.

Very recently, I've been getting into RC cars...it's something fun I can do with both my boys (6 and 9 year-olds).  I feel like I'm really getting in touch with my inner redneck.

http://traxxas.com/products/models/electric/5803slash (http://traxxas.com/products/models/electric/5803slash)

Kind of an expensive hobby, I'm finding out, but it's fun and I'm learning a lot.  It is also quite surprising what these cars can do on simple battery power.  After some relatively easy (but expensive!) modifications, I should have this thing running close to 50mph or more.

Had one of those, too. He was my hero for like a month when I was a kid. Banananananana. And I learned to arch my eyebrow from Steve Austin.

Nimoy taught me.  :why_so_serious:

RC cars are pretty fun, but in my day, some of us neighborhood hooligans used to go up street to this place called The Slot Shop. Comics, slot cars, slot car parts, and a HUGE slot track. I know quite a few people who dropped more money into their slot cars than their real cars. Too bad it went out of business a few years ago - no pics I can find of it.