Topic: Random 90/80's shit you played with as a kid (Read 5338 times)

Air · « **on:** June 22, 2008, 01:16:46 PM »

I remember playing with Spin Fighters when I was younger. They had Power Ranger, and Wrestling, and some other types too, but I mainly got the Power Ranger ones cause I was like 12.

Guild · « **Reply #1 on:** June 22, 2008, 04:30:23 PM »

You MAY NOT conglomerate 90% of the thread topics we've ever started. No. Bad SoraCross.

Also: I used to play with a Castle Greyskull playset. I had He-Man and Skeletor and GI Joe and all the least popular Thundercats.

Brentai · « **Reply #2 on:** June 22, 2008, 04:33:54 PM »

I'm pretty sure my Cat's Lair could kick the shit out of your Castle Greyskull.

I mean literally kick the shit out of it. It was a very intricate playset.

Guild · « **Reply #3 on:** June 22, 2008, 04:35:08 PM »

I dunno, Greyskull had that trap door... pretty fancy.

Mongrel · « **Reply #4 on:** June 22, 2008, 06:46:01 PM »

The only real transformer I ever owned was... Metroplex.

Riddle me THAT one.

(Actually, it has all the parts and is completely intact. I could probably sell it for a couple hundred now).

Lady Duke · « **Reply #5 on:** June 22, 2008, 07:28:30 PM »

I played with some baby my little pony's that were my older sister's when she was little. They were awesome and one was a white little unicorn.

I also had some random battlecat action figure but no He-man to go with it. Green tiger cat, yes please. No thanks, shirtless hero guy.

And I had a Jem barbie/doll/whatever but I cut her hair, because I was really little and I just liked cutting barbie's hair. I ruined a lot of dolls.

And I liked littlest pet shops and polly pocket, when they were both really good toys that didn't look demented. I had a crap ton of littlest pet shops, and I loved them to death (and I have 0 clue where 90% of them are) And they were actually tiny small, instead of really large and ugly and poorly painted.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #6 on:** June 22, 2008, 08:43:22 PM »

I had a lot of GI-Joe. I had the Rolling Thunder. A three-foot long mobile tank thing on eight wheels with a tank turret, missiles, and if you opened the flaps in the middle, and pulled the tank turret back, it folded up a double ICBM.

Why god, have we not funded actually buidling one of these things. Those ICBMS even had plastic panels on the side where even more bombs went. It even had four more guns on it, so guys riding could shoot at cobra! This thing has 'war on terror winner' written all over it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iGR3pmGjGl8&feature=related

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #7 on:** June 22, 2008, 10:24:19 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M-WmQWEJRo

It's not just a show on MSNBC.

Thad · « **Reply #8 on:** June 22, 2008, 10:52:15 PM »

In fact, it's not a show on MSNBC at all.

James Edward Smith · « **Reply #9 on:** June 22, 2008, 11:12:04 PM »

Quote from: Rygaron on June 22, 2008, 10:24:19 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M-WmQWEJRo

It's not just a show on MSNBC.

Much better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvDUx-RWJxw

Bal · « **Reply #10 on:** June 23, 2008, 02:44:28 AM »

The Real Ghostbusters Station House Play Set with working fire pole that I used to remove and use as a sword, because yarr, now I'm a pirate.

McDohl · « **Reply #11 on:** June 23, 2008, 05:49:40 AM »

Damn it, Bal. That was the thing I had that popped in to my head when I saw this thread, and you STOLE MY THUNDER.

Arc · « **Reply #12 on:** June 23, 2008, 07:23:05 AM »

Had a M.A.S.K. playset that went unused, since all my TMNT figures were too large. Would've paid off if I was into G.I. Joe, like, at all.

The turtle blimp was as amazing as you ever dreamed.

Otherwise; videogames. As an alternative, going outside to kick a kickball, kick a fellow kickfagging Power Ranger, or kicking my kicks just sounded foreign and backwards.

Koah · « **Reply #13 on:** June 23, 2008, 07:26:15 AM »

Quote from: Arc on June 23, 2008, 07:23:05 AM

Had a M.A.S.K. playset that went unused, since all my TMNT figures were too large. Would've paid off if I was into G.I. Joe, like, at all.

GI Joe figures were just big enough to make cramming them into the M.A.S.K. toys' drivers' seats a pain. This brought me no end of grief.

McDohl · « **Reply #14 on:** June 23, 2008, 07:30:35 AM »

Oh yeah. A buddy of mine long ago and I created a MAGNUM OPUS of crossovers in the vein of Super Robot Taisen and Namco X Capcom. The central characters were Donatello and Snake Eyes.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #15 on:** June 23, 2008, 07:47:11 AM »

I got to live in Okinawa from 1987 to 1990. The local USO had a selection of Japan toys, and I would discover more in a local hobby shop that had three entire rows of zoids and model kits. Sadly I would not be old enough to understand just what all I was missing out on until these last few years. Japanese toys typically did not care for making things kid safe, usually marking things with spring loaded rockets on the box 'Do not fire at eyes' with a safety smiley picture frowning with something stuck in its eye.

All the neighborhood kids had sentai-team toys. An arm thing that made sounds and spouted Japanese phrases, toy laser guns with awfully pointy plastic bayonet, and various other toys that eventually lead to somebody spilling a drop or two of blood.

And yet there was a steady influx of good American toys. Construx, legos, fabulous GI-Joe items prominently displayed in the very front of the toy section at the BX at Kadena AFB. Looking back on GI-Joe again, I am surprised they didn't make some kind of screaming-eagle bomber that had the American flag emblem on all the missiles and bombs.

What were the best toys? Were they the ones that were almost as big as you? (Fortress Maximus anyone? No, shut up Roger.) Was it something particularly flashy? Or was it something where you came up with a way to have fun with it that had nothing to do with what was intended? (See Bal, above.)

Arc · « **Reply #16 on:** June 23, 2008, 08:23:44 AM »

BTE (Best Toy Ever) was the Super Soaker 100, a revolution in squirtgun tech. The best usage was pumping the gun up with no water in the tank, sneaking up on someone, and then blasting air into their ear.

DREBIN?

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #17 on:** June 23, 2008, 08:44:04 AM »

I think I had the Super Soaker 300. It was the one with the dual tanks on top, and then some odd yellow sub-tank in the back that had something to do with the pressurizer, and it always ran out before the top two tanks did. It was a little heavy when loaded, but it was by no means the TF2 Heavy of water weapons. That title is best saved for that freaking backpack unit that unloaded like a firehose over a period of four seconds before being completely empty.

Bal · « **Reply #18 on:** June 23, 2008, 08:48:00 AM »

The Dawn of the Super Soaker was truly a time of strife and revolution. I was equipped with a mere Super Soaker 30. Limiting me to guerilla tactics when faced with opponents equipped with the latest in Super Soaker 50 and 100 technology.

jsnlxndrlv · « **Reply #19 on:** June 23, 2008, 09:30:05 AM »

Quote from: MadMAxJr on June 23, 2008, 08:44:04 AM

I think I had the Super Soaker 300. It was the one with the dual tanks on top, and then some odd yellow sub-tank in the back that had something to do with the pressurizer, and it always ran out before the top two tanks did. It was a little heavy when loaded, but it was by no means the TF2 Heavy of water weapons. That title is best saved for that freaking backpack unit that unloaded like a firehose over a period of four seconds before being completely empty.

I, too, had a Super Soaker 300, and we found that often the best use for it was to just unscrew the orange tanks and dump them on your target. They made pretty decent grenades, too, if you didn't mind getting thwocked with a heavy plastic tank full of water.

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