CheeseConey
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Jurassic Park and Godzilla toys, both of which I still collect today. Posted a few times here, but here's some pictures of my Jurassic Park collection. Need to take some pictures of my Godzilla collection...
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Your favorite childhood toys
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Growing up we didn't have a lot of money, so we made the toys we got for Christmas last as long as possible. I got a lot of trains growing up as a kid, that's for sure. We got toys so rarely that I remember them all vividly since we didn't have a whole lot in the first place.
Somehow we came across a ton of hot wheels cars though, and we played with those a lot. I used to take individual segments of narrow garage door links and set them up in a line on a downhill ramp using boxes for leverage. Think of them like the orange hot wheels tracks except made out of galvanized metal, way longer, and far heavier. Not sure why we had them, they might have been scrap my dad picked up to sell. The sections were wide enough to fit a single car, so we had two sections side by side and would make cars race each other. We got really good at building these tracks, so we included jumps and tunnels, heavily banked turns, and the occasional crossover. Me and my buddies Oscar and Adam eventually started holding tournaments and raced these cars to see who would fight the final 'boss' car, that heavy, metal Batmobile that came from McDonald's.
Batman always lost though because while it was heavy with wide tires, and therefore fast, it was just a touch too wide and didn't race well down the ramps and didn't land jumps correctly, costing him a lot of time. The final race was more ceremony than a challenge at that point for the car that made his way through the brackets.
We had an NES and SNES as well, but just a handful of games for each. Those hot wheels are what I remember most fondly.
Somehow we came across a ton of hot wheels cars though, and we played with those a lot. I used to take individual segments of narrow garage door links and set them up in a line on a downhill ramp using boxes for leverage. Think of them like the orange hot wheels tracks except made out of galvanized metal, way longer, and far heavier. Not sure why we had them, they might have been scrap my dad picked up to sell. The sections were wide enough to fit a single car, so we had two sections side by side and would make cars race each other. We got really good at building these tracks, so we included jumps and tunnels, heavily banked turns, and the occasional crossover. Me and my buddies Oscar and Adam eventually started holding tournaments and raced these cars to see who would fight the final 'boss' car, that heavy, metal Batmobile that came from McDonald's.
Batman always lost though because while it was heavy with wide tires, and therefore fast, it was just a touch too wide and didn't race well down the ramps and didn't land jumps correctly, costing him a lot of time. The final race was more ceremony than a challenge at that point for the car that made his way through the brackets.
We had an NES and SNES as well, but just a handful of games for each. Those hot wheels are what I remember most fondly.
Is it just me or are they going to beat the crap outta the guy in the middle?I had 2 of these (different looking tho) and they were my primarily used toy.
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Kaji AF16
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Jurassic Park and Godzilla toys, both of which I still collect today.
Impressive. That would have driven my 8-year-old self crazy...
I love(d) dinosaurs, until Jurassic Park took my passion to the masses and I eventually let go my dream of being a paleontologist. Was I a proto-hipster, perhaps?
My own favorite toys were a yellow bear my father bought the day I was born, a red Porsche 917k replica from 1970 LeMans, and a sturdy, heavy motor-grader. The latter is the only one between those three that I don´t own anymore.
Android18a
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Got into this as a 12/13 year old back in the mid 90s. Still into it now, though...
BlueBadger
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I had a lot of favourites. But before I started on things like GameBoy Colour and other games, I was obsessed with my toy Sailor Moon wand :')
Two Left Shoes
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Hasbro WWF wrestlers.
SeriousApes
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I had this cool fighter jet toy that my mom found at a yard sale. Was my favorite toy for a while before I lost it during a move. Apparently, it was missing the tail fins or something, but I didn't know or care.
Always wanted these as a kid, but never had them. I considered stealing one from a friend, haha, but decided not to.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
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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.
my man, the BMX bikes were the GOAT bike! i used to ride one as well and god i loved it until i was too tall for it.
i was gifted a really fancy mountain bike with lots of gear shifts (btw i had modded my BMX with gear shifts as well) but those were so uncomfortable and it was just never the same
those were the good days
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I loved that thing. I was a GI Joe kid. I had epic battles. One the best memories I had was getting a gi joe snow vehicle right before going on a Christmas vacation to Colorado. So much awesomeness for a 7 year old.
This was probably my favorite toy though:
What are those things called? I remember having one
Anyway, i remember having a Tank toy and portable Breakout machine, but can't fin any pics of them on the internet
radioactivez0r
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Construx:
I played with these things every damn day, was basically my substitute for Legos I guess. I had a ton.
Also, Dick Tracy figures (no idea what prompted this):
I think how colorful they were and the exaggerated features played to my sensibilities at the time. Had lots of gangster battles on my floor.
I think my Construx are long gone, but my mom found 3 boxes of my stuff in their garage from our old house and some figures may still be in there. Sister should be bringing them to me this weekend with any luck.
I played with these things every damn day, was basically my substitute for Legos I guess. I had a ton.
Also, Dick Tracy figures (no idea what prompted this):
I think how colorful they were and the exaggerated features played to my sensibilities at the time. Had lots of gangster battles on my floor.
I think my Construx are long gone, but my mom found 3 boxes of my stuff in their garage from our old house and some figures may still be in there. Sister should be bringing them to me this weekend with any luck.
InfiniteBento
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Haha, true. Looks like a "backstreet ambush" theme.
Alex Anderson
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Saw most of my favorites on the first page
The WWF LJN Superstars of Wrestling figs.
Trash Bag Bunch figures. They had them at Dollar Tree.
Regular ol' building blocks. I'd build forts for each opposing faction of action figures housed within. The "letter" blocks would then be rolled/hurled across the room to act as cannon fire. If a dude fell over he was dead.
And oh crap I forgot about Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. I had a carrying case that folded out into a two-lane raceway. Good ol' gravity. I'd do double elimination tournaments with dozens and dozens of cars and they'd take forever
The WWF LJN Superstars of Wrestling figs.
Trash Bag Bunch figures. They had them at Dollar Tree.
Regular ol' building blocks. I'd build forts for each opposing faction of action figures housed within. The "letter" blocks would then be rolled/hurled across the room to act as cannon fire. If a dude fell over he was dead.
And oh crap I forgot about Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. I had a carrying case that folded out into a two-lane raceway. Good ol' gravity. I'd do double elimination tournaments with dozens and dozens of cars and they'd take forever
This story is rock solid awesome. If only every kid was as appreciative and imaginative.
Growing up my life was He-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe and video games. With a bunch of other random stuff that caught my attention like Voltron, board games, race cars, Bionic 6 etc. I was also heavy into TMNT. That was the last toy line that I was super into as a kid.
Waddle Dee
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Aw fuck yeah. I had the Carnage, Venom, and Mysterio ones.
Mysterio is the best Spider-Man villain
wanderingprostheyltite
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Wow at the Power Rangers and JP collections, impressive.
I think mine was this, my dad and I used to swap it back and forth all the time.
Matchbox cars... duh. Also, that's how I became a gamer:
I think mine was this, my dad and I used to swap it back and forth all the time.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
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also had this bad ass mofo
Syphon Filter
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Yea I loved these and they look great till this day design wise. I wanted all the enemies too.
TwEE-N-Toast
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All the great stuff was already posted, but these little guys always stuck with me. Even though they were cheap little one off things.
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