Best Toys Growing Up...

[Gwen]

In no particular order here are my picks:
My Little Pony (tho my brother always comandeered them for "army use" with his joes.
Snoopy Snowcone machine (that thing was sooooo cool
Keypers (this little box shaped like an animal that unlocked with a big plastic key)
Pogoballs (i think thats what they're called...they looked like saturn)
Jem (with the light up earings)
Wuzzles
Pocket rockers...i had walk like an egyptian


<b>Gwen</b>

"Every 15 Minutes A Young Child Is Taken Down By An Ass."

[erinmoran]

What about sit and spin!!? When you stopped spinning you'd feel like puking. but youd have a buzz goin!!

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[girl germs]

i didn't care much for toys...but my favorites were my alf doll, my jem doll, and these little penguins that would go up a staircase and back down again. that was cool.

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[Gwen]

these little penguins that would go up a staircase and back down again.


I effin loved those things. i totally forgot about it tho, i think i still ahve one around here...must go find it

<b>Gwen</b>

"Every 15 Minutes A Young Child Is Taken Down By An Ass."

[Pootertoot]

Wuzzles rocked. I had a bunch of Pillow People and Gummi Bear dolls, along with those Wrestler dolls you're supposed to wrestle with, but turned out looking like less-pliable Gingerbread men.

As for action figures...I had a massive He-Man collection which my mother gave away to charity to spite me.

Did anyone have a Nintendo Power Glove? I had no clue how to use it on the system, but if you cut the cord, it made a ROCKIN' accessory when playing Superheroes..

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[jafter]

Real GI Joe's "real hair and beard" -- before kung fu grip.....

rockem sockem robots
shooting gallery game where you had a bb machine gun in a plastic box.

as a little kid "BIG WHEELS" I road mine so much I wore out the front wheel.

Heckler, what was the name of that other big wheel type car with the two big wheels on the sides and you had to turn the wheels with your hands.. do you remember that.

[JustJon]

STAR WARS
GI Joe
Transformers
Nintendo/Atari 2600

And Pooter, my senior project in college was to adapt the powerglove for use on the PC.

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[Pootertoot]

I guess I can safely assume you weren't running around with it pretending to be Robocop.

I didn't know Nintendo counted. I had everything Nintendo. U-Force, Power Pad, R.O.B. Remember R.O.B.? He worked Gyromite (and one other game that eludes me), and "work" is in the loosest sense of the word. If you had a degree in Nuclear Physics, you are halfway there, you can almost set him up. All you need is an altimeter, slide rule, global positioning system, and any material necessary for handling plutonium.

I used him for target practice for my nerf guns.

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[The Blowhard]

My Jap and Nazi GI Joes. I would have them "kidnap" my sister's Ken doll and have him decapitated.

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[maki]

big jim it was a gi joe
knock off


joe poo rulz

[TomPoo]

Bigwheels were the best. We use ride down hills in thoses things. There was always someone getting hurt. Me and 4 of my childhood buddies had them taken away from us when after one of my friends broke his arm.

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[JustJon]

I didn't have ROB/gyromite, but I played it at a friend's house once and we just used the second controller instead of ROB.

And I forgot all about my bigwheels. those were fun.

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[Pootertoot]

I had a regular big wheels and a souped-up Big Wheels...it was Kit the car from Knight Rider. It didn't talk, but it did have the little red light in the front above the bumper...

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[The Blowhard]

Some other old things:
Flintstone Building Blocks(styrofoam!)
Major Matt Mason
Rockem Sockem Robots
Fireball XL-5 Spaceship
Silly Putty
Superballs
Close-N-Play
Johnny Lightening Cars
Viewmasters
Moustrap Game
The list is endless...




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[Pootertoot]

Did anyone notice that Mouse Trap was quite possibly the worst game ever? If it wasn't for the elaborate Rube Goldberg-design of the trap, then it would just be moving around a board, trying not to land on a single space. What challenge.

Silly Putty was retard fun. It didn't really do anything, but you'd play with it for hours.

Finally, Superballs were quite possibly the scariest toys ever. You'd wing it as hard as you can and then you'd run, because there would be a 3" chunk of solid rubber bouncing around the room at speeds upwards of 1,000 mph. It made for a good weapon if needed, though.

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[JustJon]

Why has no one said Lego yet?

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[skullcrush]

bristle blocks

"jon benet wasn't that hott without make up on"
-me

[girl germs]

<i>"I effin loved those things. i totally forgot about it tho, i think i still ahve one around here...must go find it"</i>

gwen, did you find the toy? i wish i still had my set.

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[Gwen]

Sadly Germs, my search was to no avail. We're in the midst of pakcing to move and the worst part of it all is that my mom Just threw it out within the last two months...but i htink if i go to the fleamarket this weekend i can find it.

<b>Gwen</b>

"Every 15 Minutes A Young Child Is Taken Down By An Ass."

[HordeKing1]

Favorite Toys

1. Mousetrap
2. Kerplunk
3. Twister
4. Car racer sets
5. The MB LED handheld football game
6 Air pressure rockets
7. Estees Rockets

GWEN - Have YOU snuzzled your Wuzzle today?

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[Pootertoot]

A Wuzzle? A Noozle? A Popple?

It didn't matter, it had the same theme song.

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[Gwen]

Yay! Popples! I loved those furry lil bastards.

HK- yes i actually HAVE snuzzled my wuzzle...yesterday infact. It was bumblelion. He sits on my bed right next to rainbow brite and the blue sprite.

What is kerplunk...i dont think i remember that.

Oh yeah and I found some old she-ra dolls while cleaning out this hellhole of a house.

Do any of you chicks remember Sweetsecrets? They were these little dolls that folded up into little plastic cases and clipped on to special necklaces and hairbrushes and stuff.
Smooshies were cool too...similar to sweet secrets, but like mini stuffed animals.

Ahhh...to be young again

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"Every 15 Minutes A Young Child Is Taken Down By An Ass."

[skullcrush]

ok there was this cool swamp monster like thing.he was made of a clay like substance.he could be pulled apart and put back toghether again.(never went back together once pulled apart.dont believe what they say).came in a thing of slime.you had too keep pumpin a button on the side too make him rise outta the slime.anybody know what im talkin about???

"jon benet wasn't that hott without make up on"
-me

[Pootertoot]

Kerplunk was a game where there was a huge plastic tower with many holes which you stuck plastic sticks through. Then you poured marbles on top of the sticks and pulled the sticks out one by one, and the person that loses is the one that makes the marbles fall through the sticks. (The game was further complicated by the fact that, even if the marbles fell, they would go in different players' trays, so one person fucking up doesn't mean they lost, all the marbles could go in other peoples' trays.)

It was one of those games, like Jenga, Perfection, or Operation that could cause an aneurysm in a child, and often did.

Come to think of it, Operation and Perfection were EVIL games.

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[The Blowhard]

Estes Rockets were the best.
As a child you had the power to play with truly dangerous explosives! The were rocket clubs and the members would meet and spend the day blasting flammable projectiles! Another great thing were those vibrating metal football games...what crap! And of course there was Strat-O-Matic Baseball.

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[Pootertoot]

Did anyone have lawn darts? The game was essentially heaving javelins skyward and hoping you weren't impaled.

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[skullcrush]

so the person throwin the dart could be called a spear chucker then,right?

"jon benet wasn't that hott without make up on"
-me

[The Blowhard]

My "Ding A Ling" It took a Chuck Berry song to make me realize that I had a great toy to play with.

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[Gwen]

i almost forgot about gloworms, wrinkles, skip-its and teddy ruxpin....if you play his tape backwards he tells you how to kill your parents.

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[Angelo from da Bronx]

*Wrestling action figures
*That shooting gallery game
*SuperBalls
*These monster hand puppet things (forget what they were called)
*and a talking Wrinkles dog.

[Pootertoot]

I had a glowworm! Their heads were ROCK HARD. You'd play with them and end up with a concussion.

As for Teddy Ruxpin, my uncles always used to replace the tape, so instead of telling me fun stories to get me to sleep, he would scream "I AM IRON MAN" in a frightening voice with his eyes rolling back in his head.

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[JustJon]

its a shame that that you had to live such a poor young life pooter...your parents made you play with your "glowworm"

"sigh"...how evil....

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[Pootertoot]

The reason it glowed is 'cause I fucked a socket when I was younger.

To this day, when I have sex, my partner's hair stands on end. I'd tell them its because I'm so damn good, but they're usually too busy crying or being dead.

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[Gwen]

I used to have this thing, its not really a toy, but you could play with it in it. I was a tent that slipped over your mattress shaped like a house or a car, so your bed was all enclosed in it. It was f'n cool

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[NightTrain320]

How about Transformers and GI Joe? Go-Bots were cool.

"Stand clear of the closing doors and ride the Terror Train!!!"

[EffMeBoobs]

1. Snoopy Snocone machine
2. Holly Hobby oven
3. all my Barbie stuff
4. Lite n Brite
5. Operation
6. Battleship
7. Atari
8. Connect 4
9. Life
10. Clue
11. Candyland
12. Slinky
13. Hungry hippos
14. Twister
15. Etch-A-Sketch
16. of course my cabbage patch kids

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[skullcrush]

those water guns that looked real.they were run by batteries.i think they were called enter-teck or something like that.

"jon benet wasn't that hott without make up on"
-me

[The Blowhard]

Lincoln logs!

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"Back off Beaver, you little creep"

[Iris Junior]

Suckerman-the toy with suction
pods all over it.(Not Fez!)
And-did noone have any Evil
Knievel stuff?

[HordeKing1]

GWEN - My favorite was Butterbear

EFFMEBOOBS - Did your slinky ever actually make it down a whole flight of stairs?

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[EffMeBoobs]

EFFMEBOOBS - Did your slinky ever actually make it down a whole flight of stairs?

ONE time in its whole miserable life as my toy did it make a whole trip down my steps. That is one day in my childhood I'll never forget. I was so proud of my lil slinky. I trained it so well. :)

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Piddlers and BJQs do it better....There you are you sexy thang...come love me darling.

[sunndoggy8]

I hope someone has mentioned lite bright. That was fascinating to me. I like lights :)

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[EffMeBoobs]

I did Mr. Sunndoggy I did! Look above. :)
It surely was fascinating and bright, like your sig pic!

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Piddlers and BJQs do it better....There you are you sexy thang...come love me darling.

[JustJon]

I used to teach rocketry at a camp years ago. Estes were cool. And you were lucky if your rocket came back down where you could retrieve it. And if your streamer "parachute" was packed badly, the thing was a fucking bullet coming straight down.

I still have my kerplunk in my closet.

And I got so into slinkys a few years ago, my parents gave me a gold plated slinky for my b-day.

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[sunndoggy8]

Effmeboobs, see, great minds think alike! :) And I'm glad you liked the sig, cause it's good to know that there are other people who like bright lights too! :)

And a toy that always hit the spot was a big box. Whenever my parents bought something that came in a big box, I used to take that box and make it into something. Whether it was a fort or a spaceship or something like that, just give me a box and some magic markers any day, and I'm set! :)

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[EffMeBoobs]

Yes big cardboard boxes served many purposes as a kid, especially the large refrigerator ones. We used to play store, house, school, and camping in them. There always managed to be enough room for at least 3 of us. Ahhh the good ole days of "I'll show you mine if you show me yours." :)

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[JustJon]

EMB, we can play "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" any time you want!

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[Pootertoot]

Alright, everyone behind the shed for a round of "Can I Touch It?" and a good cry. Maybe we'll throw a circle jerk in there, for old time's sake.

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[JustJon]

Poot, you're no longer invited to come out and play.

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[Pootertoot]

Don't make me hold my breath until I turn blue. That'll teach you.

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[EffMeBoobs]

JJ well since I'm soooooo good with favors, I can play your game too.

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[skullcrush]

i see nobody wants too comment on my slimy monster. you were blessed if you had a refrigerator box,skateboard,and friend dumm enough too let you roll him down a buisy street in it

"jon benet wasn't that hott without make up on"
-me

[Circus Boy]

the kung fu grip Gi Joes were the shit...but nothing beats Transformers..it was two fuckin toys in one

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[The Blowhard]

Nothing was more fun than an old refrigerator box and rolling your idiot friends down the street onto a busy avenue. Garbage can covers were also fun...you could throw them like frisbees.

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[The Blowhard]

Do they still sell any cool war toys?

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[Gwen]

Since this topic is being discussed again allow me to say:"Top!"

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[Heroin Bob]

well then allow me to say that i used to have a mini proton pack about 8 years ago.
Oh right and i had the ghost trap also that glowed in the dark.

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There will be no flowers flowing
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[skullcrush]

hay that proton pack was cool as hell.i was a little too old for it,but i played with my baby cousin all the time just so i could wear it.

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[Dirtybird11]

lol toys, ok, i had a suped up big wheel called "green machine" toss across, lite brite, stretch armstrong, i use to play with daddys .357 magnum till mommy got shot by accident..(edited due to graphic description) ummm, and it was so pretty,,,ah, toys..

till the next line~

[radio junkie]

Electric football, they never ran the way they were supposed to, which is what made it fun. Skittle Bowl, The Marx Shooting Gallery, Etch a Sketch, and Klik Klax, (if they didn't break and blind you)

The only time I have a drinking problem is when I don't have a drink

[WebHead]

Transformers...hands down.

Honorable mention goes to He-Man, Thundercats, and my Hulk Inflatable Muscles.

And don't forget Sit-N-Spin

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[The Blowhard]

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"It takes good taste to truly appreciate bad taste"-John Waters

[Bron Yur Stomp]

We had stretch armstrong
and I had the 6 million dollar guy, the big foot and his boss oscar and oscars office, and the bad guy who had all these different attachments for his hands.
Star war figures. If you didnt have them you....., well lets say you better have some star wars figures.
Risk was the board game of choice. Hours spent playing that game when it rained.
My trusty old greg nettles baseball glove.
And dungeons and dragons. Get your homework done so we could play that game. IN fact we had a d&d game club in middle school.
Atari 2600 with the ms pacman and asteriods. Well all the games rocked.

It's either I am tettering on the brink of eternal damnation or I am having alot of fun.
It you call depending on your god, gods, or lack there of a god.

[NewYorkDragons80]

Transformers

"THOSE BASTARDS"
-Norman Schwartzkoff

"May God bless us in this trial, comfort us, strengthen our resolve, and make our justice as terrible and certain as His."
-Senator John McCain

"Neitzche is dead"
-God

[impactplayer2k1]

1- Masters of the Universe
2- Thundercats
3- Transformers
4- Etch-A-Sketch
5- Marvel Secret Wars Figures
6- D.C. Super Powers Figures
7- M.A.S.K.
8- Silverhawks
9- G.I. Joe
10- Star Wars

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