Awesome Toy Thread

[Merusk]

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.

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. 

[Rendakor]

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

(snipped Weapons & Warriors pictures)

Good times.

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

[Stormwaltz]

I have no idea who got me it (or why), but I had the 19" Mattel Shogun Warriors Godzilla. It was awesome. Later it served as a Ro-Beast fight my Matchbox die cast lion Voltron. Which, for bonus fun, came with lead paint.

My parents got me the Kenner Star Wars Death Star playset. 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.

[FatuousTwat]

If I only had $6k to spend on a model tank.


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

[Sand]

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.

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.

[Cyrrex]

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

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.

[Sky]

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

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.

[01101010]

Banananananana. And I learned to arch my eyebrow from Steve Austin.

Nimoy taught me. 

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.