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Posted: 10/22/2019 7:31:45 AM EDT
I was walking down the aisle way at work last night and something, I'm really not sure what, triggered this memory of a book I used to have when I was little. It hit me really hard but all I could remember was it was some kind of sci-fi, alien stuff and there was a character named pinscer or something like that.
I didn't remember the plot or anything else. The main thing I remembered were the colors. The colors on the pages were so vivid I remember reading that story over and over just because I liked the way the pictures looked. I got home and started googling every combination of 1980s Storybook Sci fi Aliens Pinscer Kids Cartoon Etc... ...that I could think of. It took about an hour but I hit pay dirt. I scrolled past an image and said YES HOLY SHIT THATS IT! It was a Sectaurs story book. I started googling those and then jumped on eBay and long story short, I just purchased Sectaurs: The Magic Gemstone (that's the book I figured out that I had) for a total of $7.56. The sense of relief was incredible when I saw that one pic. I am so excited to read and look at this book again!  Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 7:34:32 AM EDT
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I bet you jerked it to antenna woman's booty back in the day
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Posted: 10/22/2019 7:39:17 AM EDT
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I bet you jerked it to antenna woman's booty back in the day 
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Posted: 10/22/2019 7:41:43 AM EDT
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My friend and I actually both had one of the flying toys you would wear on your hand like a puppet.
Kind of a unique toy. 
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Posted: 10/22/2019 7:41:43 AM EDT
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One letter changes that into a totally different book
"Warriors of the Symbian" |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 7:44:15 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2019 7:44:16 AM EDT
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Lol, moth man is totally checking out dat ass in the last pic.
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Posted: 10/22/2019 7:59:10 AM EDT
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I had a nostalgia overload when I found a few of my old random toys.
Centurions. Action figures you could plug in various accessories into their suits.  Visionaries Had a hologram type deal.  Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors You could switch out wheels, parts, suspension, etc...  Captain Power. Vehicles that would interact with a tv show or VHS tape. 
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:02:16 AM EDT
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Captain Power. Vehicles that would interact with a tv show or VHS tape. https://retrogamesuperhyper.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/20171209_093932.jpg |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:05:42 AM EDT
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For me it was these:
"Richard Camellion, master of death, destruction, and disguise. He gets the dirty jobs, the impossible missions, the operations that cannot be handled by the FBI, CIA, or any other legal or extra-legal force. He is a man without a face, without a single identifying characteristic...except that he succeeds by being a Merchant of Death!"  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Merchant |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:10:14 AM EDT
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Thanks for the flashback. I had forgotten all about those even though I had several of them as a child. Inhumanoids was another one I enjoyed.
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:11:57 AM EDT
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Oh man, no way. My cousin and I had those. I had the black one. I remember the vhs tape would flash and "shoot back" at you and the cockpit would fly out if you got hit, right? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Captain Power. Vehicles that would interact with a tv show or VHS tape. https://retrogamesuperhyper.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/20171209_093932.jpg They also had a AA style gun n a tripod. It had a viewfinder with mirrors in the back so you could look through a little red box aiming sight on top of the cannon. Pretty nifty.  The videos are still around on youtube.  Captain Power -Episode 1- Shattered |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:30:04 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:35:29 AM EDT
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OP should make this a forgotten toys thread.
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:38:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep! Each vehicle would eject the pilot after multiple hits. They also had a AA style gun n a tripod. It had a viewfinder with mirrors in the back so you could look through a little red box aiming sight on top of the cannon. Pretty nifty. https://d9nvuahg4xykp.cloudfront.net/1861929445854932534/3851871358027194520.jpg The videos are still around on youtube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eAA9rKZc-U |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:42:17 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:43:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
This is a good thread. Here’s an oddity: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/343031/5A52B91E-244A-4B93-8EC7-8D22A623D076_jpeg-1133596.JPG I was big into Robotix too. Picked up two sets that were almost brand new from a garage sale. You could build robots with a little remote control and servos. 
. . . . Construx too. Left one of them sitting on a table at night and freaked out my dad going to work. Certain pieces glowed and all he could see was "glowing eyes." 
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:45:17 AM EDT
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I was walking down the aisle way at work last night and something, I'm really not sure what, triggered this memory of a book I used to have when I was little. It hit me really hard but all I could remember was it was some kind of sci-fi, alien stuff and there was a character named pinscer or something like that. I didn't remember the plot or anything else. The main thing I remembered were the colors. The colors on the pages were so vivid I remember reading that story over and over just because I liked the way the pictures looked. I got home and started googling every combination of 1980s Storybook Sci fi Aliens Pinscer Kids Cartoon Etc... ...that I could think of. It took about an hour but I hit pay dirt. I scrolled past an image and said YES HOLY SHIT THATS IT! It was a Sectaurs story book. I started googling those and then jumped on eBay and long story short, I just purchased Sectaurs: The Magic Gemstone (that's the book I figured out that I had) for a total of $7.56. The sense of relief was incredible when I saw that one pic. I am so excited to read and look at this book again! https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/247800/Screenshot_20191022-072831_png-1133576.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/247800/Screenshot_20191022-072836_png-1133577.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/247800/Screenshot_20191022-072839_png-1133578.JPG |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:46:53 AM EDT
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Ol' Slikk is checking out Stellara.
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:47:02 AM EDT
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I was walking down the aisle way at work last night and something, I'm really not sure what, triggered this memory of a book I used to have when I was little. It hit me really hard but all I could remember was it was some kind of sci-fi, alien stuff and there was a character named pinscer or something like that. I didn't remember the plot or anything else. The main thing I remembered were the colors. The colors on the pages were so vivid I remember reading that story over and over just because I liked the way the pictures looked. I got home and started googling every combination of 1980s Storybook Sci fi Aliens Pinscer Kids Cartoon Etc... ...that I could think of. It took about an hour but I hit pay dirt. I scrolled past an image and said YES HOLY SHIT THATS IT! It was a Sectaurs story book. I started googling those and then jumped on eBay and long story short, I just purchased Sectaurs: The Magic Gemstone (that's the book I figured out that I had) for a total of $7.56. The sense of relief was incredible when I saw that one pic. I am so excited to read and look at this book again! https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/247800/Screenshot_20191022-072831_png-1133576.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/247800/Screenshot_20191022-072836_png-1133577.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/247800/Screenshot_20191022-072839_png-1133578.JPG |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:47:09 AM EDT
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I bet you jerked it to antenna woman's booty back in the day Good on you OP, that's really cool to find something that old and so far back in your mind. I've been surprised at a few things I've found from my childhood too. It's an interesting feeling getting your hands on them again |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:48:08 AM EDT
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For me it was these: "Richard Camellion, master of death, destruction, and disguise. He gets the dirty jobs, the impossible missions, the operations that cannot be handled by the FBI, CIA, or any other legal or extra-legal force. He is a man without a face, without a single identifying characteristic...except that he succeeds by being a Merchant of Death!" http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--h03FyFWF74/VCcAQ62kn9I/AAAAAAAAM6E/yiaLu_J3bww/s1600/death_merchant18.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Merchant |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:52:05 AM EDT
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All we ever got to watch in my generation were the animated failures of a desert predator chasing a small flightless bird.
Boomers were deprived and downtrodden in those years. No fantasy realms or cosplay. We'd just dress up in caricature outfits of ancient warriors and brandish antiquated weapons powered by bat guano extract. It was all so humiliating having to go door to door begging for sustenance parroting some hostile threat which had lost all meaning generations earlier. But, a family of four children could, in a good hunting season, net three or four grocery bags full of fresh fruit, baked rice cakes, and on the rare occasion, some wax containers filled with artificial nectar. There was the benefit of chewing the flavor out of the wax, too. It was a bare bones, difficult life for a young human then. Those later generations celebrating their happy childhoods never understand the depths of deprivation we endured. It's no wonder many of us signed up for the service where we could actually train and use the improved weapons of our forefathers and actually wear real uniforms. Now, not so much. Kids are more than content having enlisted for service at birth and experiencing a lifetime's challenges vicariously by the age of ten. And the wealth of choice - where we got four, 4, count them, f o u r branches of service to choose from, today's warriors get unlimited dimensional and geophysical attractions beyond the imagination. No longer restricted to being wrist dragging grunts, crayon eating dependapotamus refugees, clipboard carrying jumpsuit crew, or pressganged laborers of Greek predilections, nooooooo, now you get to be whatever hero you choose. No more antideluvian highly constrained role models which tightly controlled your development for your future in dark, dangerous fabrication facilities grinding out the merchandise of commerce, or the halls of Newspeak where every syllable has double meaning and the rules are only meant for the workers, never the ruling class. Now it's all so much better. Sign me up. 
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:54:08 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2019 8:56:25 AM EDT
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I love me some 1980s toys, especially the obscure ones, like these guys:
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:07:53 AM EDT
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Remember Caska, the Undying Warrior? I loved those books as a kid He killed everybody, and there were nice little narrative writeups on the different guns, grenades other stuff he used to kill everybody. Had 'em all up to #33. I bought a couple a few years ago and discovered they were horribly written.
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:16:50 AM EDT
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OP, I've also been able to purchase some of the books I used to love as a kid. The Phantom Brakeman, Strange but True Sea Stories, and others.
My mom threw out my comic books, but I was able to purchase the GI Joe comic books I read back in the 80s in paperback book format. It was really a blast from the past to read those comics again. |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:19:12 AM EDT
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Nope. The Death Merchant ruined me for anything else. He killed everybody, and there were nice little narrative writeups on the different guns, grenades other stuff he used to kill everybody. Had 'em all up to #33. I bought a couple a few years ago and discovered they were horribly written. Also The Destroyer series with Chuin and Remo. They made a terrible movie but the books were hilarious |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:21:39 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:24:34 AM EDT
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you guys suck at this. I feel sorry if you had to play with those suck ass toys hahaha j/k
Let me save this thread........ METAL (not plastic) OG Voltron 
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:26:12 AM EDT
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I had a bunch of Ertl metal military planes (F-14, couple Hornets, F-16, MiG-29, F-4, etc.) that were a lot of fun. Only the Tomcat, MiG-29, and F-4 seem to have survived. They sit on my gunsafe now.
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:26:41 AM EDT
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I had the complete Swamp Thing toy set. These pictures are dropping nostalgia bombs hard this morning.
  Probably watched the cartoons 1000s of times. I'd reenact complete episodes playing out in the yard. |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:30:45 AM EDT
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WOW! great to see a lot of these. I'd forgotten most of them but had great little 'oh yeah!' moments seeing and then remembering them.
Thanks! |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:34:05 AM EDT
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Man, I can tell I am a lot older than most on here.
I played with "Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots", Evel Knievel, Ready Ranger and other such old school 70's things~ 
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:35:11 AM EDT
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Stinkor. I'm not sure what kind toxic chemicals they used to make this thing but it still stinks 28 years later.
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:36:35 AM EDT
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Evil Lyn was the hotness.
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:37:13 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:38:06 AM EDT
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My Navarone mountain set.
Plastic army men Tonka toys, the old metal ones. |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:38:28 AM EDT
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These guys too
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:38:37 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:39:36 AM EDT
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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/472684/54FA3CC1-DF64-4EE5-AEA2-0BADD7D805A5_jpeg-1133617.JPG I loved my GiJoes 
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:40:19 AM EDT
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Stinkor. I'm not sure what kind toxic chemicals they used to make this thing but it still stinks 28 years later. https://www.he-man.org/assets/images/collect_toy/stinkor01_full.jpg |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:41:00 AM EDT
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We also played this game A LOT!
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:41:02 AM EDT
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I had a few of the mighty max toys. Also a good bit of the star wars figures, micro machines, action fleet. Jurassic park figures Aliens figures. Creepy crawlers. |
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:41:50 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:43:03 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:45:26 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:46:16 AM EDT
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My cousin had these and I wanted them.
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:51:55 AM EDT
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Evil Knievil Knuckle Buster Deluxe
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:53:30 AM EDT
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Dino Raiders
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Posted: 10/22/2019 9:54:48 AM EDT
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This was one of my favorites growing up.
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