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[Waddle Dee]

MLG Hungry Hungry Hippos when?

My grandma and me got super competitive at this when I was young. My grandpa was afraid of getting his finger bit.

 

[Berserking Guts]

 

[uniform]

Besides the usual 80s staples I really liked Army Ants.

 

[ryutaro's mama]

Valkyrie, SkyWarp and the COBRA Raven...I like you.

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

I want dat Hoth Base. Remember playing with my cousin's og SW figures as a tyke when visting, don't think the first run stuff was still being sold when I was growing up though.

 

[TickleMeElbow]

Legos were my fav.

 

[Sparrowhawk]

I loved this as a kid, I had a few of the knights not sure what happened to the rest

And my other favorite was this jungle gym. I took this thing everywhere. We even set it up on the trampoline and would bounce onto it.

Came to post that goddamn castle. I also had a pirate ship.
They're still in my dad's basement. I should get them sometime.

Does anyone remember the old Ronin Warriors action figures? My dad would always buy them for me and it seems he could only find them at Big Lots.

I remember thinking it was so cool that you could remove their helmets. They stand out to me because they had springs for joints.

 

[old manatee]

I played with GI Joes a lot, which seems super weird now. They were really cool when they first came out because it was new to flood stores with different characters. It would be a crappy toy to give a kid today given the other options.

My favorite GI Joe was Jinx. She was the only woman GI Joe I owned, so she figured prominently in all of the scenarios I ran.

At one point my brother saved up a bunch of cereal boxtops and sent away for a limited edition Refrigerator Perry GI Joe. It was incredible.

My dad stepped on it right away, and still brings it up 30 years later as a reason that having kids is a drag. "Kids will suck the life right out of you! God help you if you step on their special Go-Bot and you have to listen to them bitch and moan!"

He calls everything a GoBot or a Nintendo don't get me started.

 

[Daingurse]

Lost World Bull T-Rex

Beast Wars Optimal Optimus

Imperial Godzilla

Trend Masters Space Godzilla

Lost World Ian Malcom (lol)

Only thing I have left is the Imperial Godzilla unfortunately. Think that's why I've been buying so many figures and shit as adult, trying to make up for all the cool shit I lost.

 

[MisterHero]

It didn't give me superpowers though

 

[Peléo]

 

[User 479360]

Lite Bright

Fisher Price Flinstones Car (similar to what's shown -- just older)

Assorted Ninja Turtles action figures

Beetlejuice action figure

 

[Apt101]

My bigwheel was #1 from age four to about seven. I learned to ride a bike late.

I was really partial to my action figures but had too many to list or even remember, but my favorite were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

 

[CREMSteve]

He-Man Transformers, GI Joe and Battle Beasts. That's basically my childhood in a nutshell.

 

[User 479360]

My friend gave me this for my birthday back when the movie came out. I was a bit older at the time, but loved it.

 

[Omega Kirby]

Mighty Max was awesome

Holy shit I remember these. Never knew where they were from though

My personal favourite were the GOAT Bionicles

 

[Delicious Waffles]

Anything TMNT related.

My Dad gave away all my old TMNT toys so, when I got a well paying job before college, I bought them all back, plus some I always wanted, in the box off eBay. Best waste of money ever.

 

[tribal24]

This was probably my favorite toy though:

OMGGGG YASSSSS i loved that toy when i was a kid. Also when i got the white tiger megazord!

 

[Vaux]

It took me and my brother a whole day just to put this thing together.

 

[TAJ]

The toy with the most play time was definitely this...

https://postimage.org/

 

[The Xtortionist]

A childhood of playing with Star Wars Action Fleet has lead to a manchildhood of playing with Star Wars Action Fleet.

Action Fleet was the GOAT toyline...wish I still had mine. Think I was only missing 2 or 3 ships. Bring that shit back Disney!

 

[Jombie]

 

[nasax]

Legos for me! I grew up with two sisters around my age separated by three years all three of us so I played a lot of board games, console games and we used to play outside a lot too so I was never really into action figures and all that.

 

[Matty77]

It took me and my brother a whole day just to put this thing together.

But it was awesome right? I had a cousin who used to always one up me and my brother, so when my brother got this we waited for my cousin to show us his latest(forget what it was one of the larger vehicles) so we invited him to our house rode our bikes and went in the basement ( the only place in the house to keep it set up) he just said cool, walked out and stopped liking G.I. Joe. It was glorious.

 

[TAJ]

I still have the old T-Rex from the Jurassic Park movie too. And I also lost his dino Damage piece.

There were two in that line. That was the small one.

 

[Kyne]

the fucking GOAT.

and then there was this badass mother fucker.

overall though, this dude was prob my favorite figure.

 

[Syphon Filter]

 

[mnemovore]

War Planets!

Z-Bots!

 

[Princess Viola]

Transformers: Energon Omega Supreme

Not gonna act like he had some amazing transformation (as you can probably tell, it was basically just splitting him in half and lying him down, plus his head became a robot like the old headmaster Transformers), but the toy was almost 15 inches tall as a robot, for 8 year old me, that was like fucking enormous.

Literally towered over all my other Transformers I owned.

I still own him, but I wanna buy a new one since over the years some pieces broke off or went missing and stuff.

 

[Toxi]

Holy shit I remember these. Never knew where they were from though

My personal favourite were the GOAT Bionicles

Those are actually fan-made models that update the original designs.

Also, loved Beast Wars Transmetal Tarantulas.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Atari 2600, C64, Amiga, NES and early monochrome PC flood me with gaming flashbacks.

Any G1 transformers toys, amazing quality and designs.

Table tennis setup in the basement with my brother, always played as a kid.

Especially my Diamond Back silver streak bike, took us anywhere anytime. I miss those BMX days with mates, we used to race competitively, ride to school and generally roam free after school finding spots to practice tricks.

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

I was fortunate enough to have a sizable collection to play with (though I don't miss them, anymore). Still, my favorites were anything to do with Hot Wheels. Some of the playsets were pretty fun to mess with.

 

[Hansel]

Well, we would take the jungle gym and put it on the trampoline. Then jump off it on the trampoline or hang on the edge of the jungle gym while people bounced it around on the trampoline. We were pretty crazy kids with the trampoline, my favorite was jumping off the roof onto it and then bouncing into the pool.

It's pretty good luck only my younger brother broke his arm on the trampoline. We soaked it in water to make it bounce higher, then he bounced insanely high but also slipped and went flying around until his arm broke right on the bar when he landed lol

Children are knuckle-dragging slack-jawed savages.

 

[Yarbskoo]

Action Fleet was the GOAT toyline...wish I still had mine. Think I was only missing 2 or 3 ships. Bring that shit back Disney!

That's a pretty impressive collection if you actually were only missing a few vehicles. I've spent the past year or so slowly building up my small childhood collection and now I've got about 16 of them, but I don't intend to try and catch em all. Some of rarer ones, like the TIE Defender, are stupidly expensive.

I'd love to see the line revived. They were well built toys and worked well as display models, and I'd be in for some Episode VII Action Fleets, though I'm not sure they'd be able or willing to maintain the same quality to cost ratio as the original line.

 

[MedicUnderFire]

I got given a big box of old star wars toys that my parents found in a second-hand shop, so many hours of playing with them, and they added all the new star wars toys as they came out.

I feel that the 90s where a great time to find toys in second hand shops, had loads of old 70s and 80s army men as well, from all different periods of time.

Also had this sweet bad boy

This and the car and the proton pack

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Game Boy Color with Pokémon Yellow, Red, and Crystal.
Absurd amount of Legos.
Godzilla action figures.
Jurassic Park sets. Specifically the RV from Lost World.

 

[BodiesWithoutOrgans]

Thomas The Tank Engine & Pokemon

 

[SallyIsNow]

Called him Brock

 

[Trokil]

My lego and this

 

[RiderKairuu]

Those are actually fan-made models that update the original designs.

Also, loved Beast Wars Transmetal Tarantulas.

I never owned any of these but the Beast Wars toys were pretty cool. My best friend had a bunch when we were kids.

 

[Yarbskoo]

I want a hanger like these but with enough space to fit at least 4 ships, and I want to be able to snap multiple sets together until I have enough for all of my Action Fleets.

Something like this Naboo hanger but with more universal Action Fleet mounts.

 

[BY2K]

Those are actually fan-made models that update the original designs.

Also, loved Beast Wars Transmetal Tarantulas.

OMG I had the exact same one.

It had a vehicle mode too, IIRC.

 

[DarkWish]

My favorite toys were Power Rangers. So much so that I just never stopped collecting. This picture is from like two years ago I think so my collection has grown much more since then too. The reason it's all setup like this with me there is because I was filming it for a toy collector featurette on a Power Rangers DVD set.

 

[TheFuzz]

Let's be friends. My childhood in a nutshell.

 

[Wil348]

Trains, Star Wars action figures, Lego.

Spoiler

I still like Lego heheh

 

[Yarbskoo]

My favorite toys were Power Rangers. So much so that I just never stopped collecting. This picture is from like two years ago I think so my collection has grown much more since then too. The reason it's all setup like this with me there is because I was filming it for a toy collector featurette on a Power Rangers DVD set.

Damn son that's impressive.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

I collected Beast Wars as a kid. I have two trunks worth of them in storage still. Every birthday, Christmas or special event, I probably got a Beast Wars toy. Plus we lived a couple blocks away from a Target so it was easy to spend my saved up lunch money or allowance on them there.

 

[Weston]

 

[Spenny]

My Imperial Godzilla and a shit ton of army figures was my go-to.

 

[MechDX]

Generic space toy released by Milton Bradley but it was soooo cool. Everyday in elementary school all the kids brought their space ships for recess. There were Battlestar Galactica ships. Star Wars ships, Star Trek ships, etc... but mine was envied by all because of the sounds and lights.