Awesome Toy Thread

[Merusk]

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.

[01101010]

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

[Chimpy]

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.

[Lantyssa]

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.

[Evildrider]

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

[Strazos]

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. 


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

[Chimpy]

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!

 

[MisterNoisy]

Lego! A minifig guards my desktop.

edit: holy crap, glossy screen is glossy.

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:

[Bunk]

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

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

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

[Sky]

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.

[CaptainNapkin]

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):

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!

[Surlyboi]

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

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.

[Nebu]

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

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

[01101010]

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!

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.

[CaptainNapkin]

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

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. 

[FatuousTwat]

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.

[Sky]

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



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!

[Merusk]

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.

[Sky]

Oops, Thought it was Tranzor-Z at first.

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.

[Draegan]

Best. Game. Ever.

[Morat20]

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.

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

[01101010]

Best. Game. Ever.

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.

[Ingmar]

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



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!

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.  

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

[Trippy]

It looks like it has shoulder launchers of some sort.

[Ingmar]

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

[Bunk]

Best. Game. Ever.

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.

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.

[Lantyssa]

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.  

I had one of those, too!

[Engels]

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.



Unfortunately that action figure was not available to me :(

[Teleku]

I had what looks like an updated version of that when I was a kid:




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

[Nebu]

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

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

[Rasix]

Old man is old.

[Evildrider]

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



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!

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

[Ingmar]

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.

[01101010]

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.

[Ratman_tf]