Awesome Toy Thread

[K9]

Lego Super Star Destroyer

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

 

[Mrbloodworth]

I had this:


And This:

[Sky]

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.

[Nebu]

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.

[Cyrrex]

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.

[Jherad]

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



Alas, management was having none of it.

[K9]

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

[Cyrrex]

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.

[DraconianOne]

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

[Paelos]

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.

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

[K9]

That seems like a bargain, since a real death star is estimated to cost $15.6 Septillion 

[Paelos]

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

[Merusk]

While I loved my Legos for what they could do, when I wanted to actually play with something I built it out of Construx.  Space ships, tanks, fortresses, whatever my Star Wars/ GI Joe or Battle Beast 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.

[Rasix]

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

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.

[Samwise]

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

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

[IainC]

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.

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.

[Draegan]

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.

[Raging Turtle]

I'm nearly thirty and I still find these:



to be a hell of a lot of fun.

[Paelos]

I spent hours upon hours staging pirate battles with this:

[Teleku]

Ha, nice.  I had the Imperial Guard equivilent, Sabre Island:


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

[Mrbloodworth]

I'm nearly thirty and I still find these:

Nerf

to be a hell of a lot of fun.

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

[ghost]

In my day, we played with REAL GI Joes.

Dolls?     Just kidding.....   

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. 

[murdoc]

I'm nearly thirty and I still find these:



to be a hell of a lot of fun.

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

[01101010]

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. 

[fuser]

Lego! A minifig guards my desktop.

edit: holy crap, glossy screen is glossy.

[Fordel]

I had this:

I only had the little helicopter on the top. 

[Ingmar]

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

[apocrypha]

Lego! A minifig guards my desktop.

edit: holy crap, glossy screen is glossy.

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.

[Sky]

Lego! A minifig guards my desktop.

edit: holy crap, glossy screen is glossy.

Snakes! Why did it have to be blue snakes?

[Evildrider]

One of the last toys I ever got was this:



The Fortress Maximus Transformer.   

[Hawkbit]

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.

[Lantyssa]

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

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

[Merusk]

One of the last toys I ever got was this:The Fortress Maximus Transformer.   

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

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

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. 

[Fordel]

Was it Metroplex instead maybe?

[Evildrider]

Was it Metroplex instead maybe?

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