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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:07:46 AM EDT
If you were a child of the 80's post some of your favorite toys. I'll start with a couple of the most memorable for me.
M.U.S.C.L.E. Men. I had tons of these guys. They sold them in tubes anywhere you could buy toys. They were cheap and fun to collect all the different designs. Warning: DO NOT do a google image search for "muscle men"  
Castle Grayskull, another favorite: 
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:12:10 AM EDT
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I still have my micronauts!
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:13:02 AM EDT
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gi joes bro.
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:15:05 AM EDT
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3 3/4" Gi Joes
4x4 Stompers with the off road course |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:15:30 AM EDT
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GI Joe
Transformers Micro Machines
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:16:37 AM EDT
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I used to have a ton of those myself
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I still have my micronauts! |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:18:39 AM EDT
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I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT MUSCLE MEN!!!!! OMFG they were awesome. So was He man stuff!
GI joe was always a big hit , toy guns , Willy the waterbug! Big foot toys , Starwars stuff , the WWF wrestler guys (I still have Hulk hogan and andre the giant) Metal Tonka trucks were awesome for smashing into other toys with  Transformers (still have Optimus prime and his trailer) ENTERTECH water guns!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99UPQEFSGVQ I had the AKcenterfire
I really wanted Armatron but hardly used it. I was like WTF i can just pick things up with my hand 
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:18:55 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:19:07 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:19:20 AM EDT
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The original Transformers toys!
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:20:31 AM EDT
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Stretch Armstrong and Stretch Monster. Hmmm, those might be mid-late 70s toys.
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:21:41 AM EDT
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I had those muscle men as well as Castle Gray Skull.
I also like micro machines, GI Joes, Star Wars action figures. My brother had an Intelivision that was pretty badass at the time. 
Did anyone have that stupid Saturn looking ball thing that you bounced on like a pogo-stick? edit* Damn I forget about transformers, they were my favorite. |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:23:11 AM EDT
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I'm pretty sure I would still buy this if I came across it.
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:23:38 AM EDT
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I still have it.
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:26:15 AM EDT
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Quoted:
I had those muscle men as well as Castle Gray Skull. I also like micro machines, GI Joes, Star Wars action figures. My brother had an Intelivision that was pretty badass at the time. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/B17BomberBoxart.jpg Did anyone have that stupid Saturn looking ball thing that you bounced on like a pogo-stick? edit* Damn I forget about transformers, they were my favorite. You're thinking of the pogo ball, I had one
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:27:19 AM EDT
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LOL..........I remember that.............."bombs away"!!!
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I had those muscle men as well as Castle Gray Skull. I also like micro machines, GI Joes, Star Wars action figures. My brother had an Intelivision that was pretty badass at the time. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/B17BomberBoxart.jpg Did anyone have that stupid Saturn looking ball thing that you bounced on like a pogo-stick? edit* Damn I forget about transformers, they were my favorite. |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:29:57 AM EDT
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The one in the center.. Blacktron. I also like the red and black Mtron series , with the nifty magnets (not ICP) |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:33:39 AM EDT
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My favorites:
G.I. Joe Star Wars Fisher Price Adventure People Transformers Lego Stompers M.A.S.K. Micro Machines Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:35:05 AM EDT
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This thread is full of my childhood win!
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:36:44 AM EDT
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Quoted: http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/05/lego-space-history.jpg The one in the center.. Blacktron. I also like the red and black Mtron series , with the nifty magnets (not ICP) Blacktron was bad ass. I completely forgot about the fact that I had the base.  |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:36:46 AM EDT
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The Big Trak tank. Loved it. I used to program it to go into my sisters room, blast her with the laser photon gun, do a doughnut and return to me. Good times.
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:39:05 AM EDT
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I'm pretty sure I would still buy this if I came across it. http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c341/nocomply1945/ussflagg.jpg Holy shit!!! I had that thing. It was fraking huge! Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:46:05 AM EDT
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Quoted: The Big Trak tank. Loved it. I used to program it to go into my sisters room, blast her with the laser photon gun, do a doughnut and return to me. Good times. http://toegristle.com/collab/bigtrak/images/bigtrak.jpg I was gonna post that. They are supposed to be doing a reissue of these, only in a white color. Another great toy was a 3ft long aircraft carrier called Flying Aces. It had little foam planes (one corsair and one jet, I forget which one). The catapult was reduce gear driven with a shifter style lever and would launch the planes into flight. Great stuff. |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:47:33 AM EDT
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Quoted: I'm pretty sure I would still buy this if I came across it. http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c341/nocomply1945/ussflagg.jpg $2k |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 8:54:52 AM EDT
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Entertech electric squirt guns. They only suffered badly from low-mag capacity. 10 seconds of squirting and you're headed for a spicket. That would have been cool if they sold extra mags.
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Posted: 8/26/2010 9:02:18 AM EDT
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A phillippina woman named Zeny...
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Posted: 8/26/2010 9:02:42 AM EDT
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http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4123/4929302601_ec9183b1e8.jpg
and I will always remember these toys from McDonalds but they're from 1990. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4929293787_64fcd9cca8.jpg |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 9:57:41 AM EDT
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I'm pretty sure I would still buy this if I came across it. http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c341/nocomply1945/ussflagg.jpg $2k That is weird mixed bag of old joes and new ones. They may have actually reissued the Flagg in the anniversary stuff. If they did it was after I gave up trying to collect the new joes. I was picking up everything but chase figures for a while but they just kept cranking out higher volumes of stuff. Not only did you have at least one series of single every couple of months but they started to do 5 packs and 3 packs almost as often along with vehicles. I was a huge Joe fan as child and a combination of nostalgia and some really good Joe comics brought me back as an adult. I was also a big fan of Dino Riders when I was a kid. I think they were out in the 80s, could have been early 90s. I was never a transformers fan as child but as an adult I picked up a few because the sculpting and engineering impressed me a lot. |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:03:29 AM EDT
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G I Joe rocked. I almost got a little misty from remembering my child hood. Toys for kids now blow. Also loved Marshal Bravestar, Thunder Cats, and Silver Hawks. For who ever said Dino Riders it was in 87.
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:09:20 AM EDT
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GI Joe
Transformers Go-Bots  |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:12:19 AM EDT
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GI Joe for me too!
Out of all I had, I thought that this was the coolest toy: 
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:22:52 AM EDT
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Girder & Panel building sets.
Were the Heroes In Action figures carried over from the late 70s into the early 80s? It seems to me that they were, as I had several sets/figures/vehicles, but that was a long time ago.... Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:23:40 AM EDT
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My favorites: G.I. Joe Star Wars Fisher Price Adventure People Transformers Lego Stompers M.A.S.K. Micro Machines Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Pretty much identical. Also include Coleco Head to Head Football. |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:25:20 AM EDT
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Micro Machines......freakin awesome, that guy talked so fast.
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:30:53 AM EDT
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It was soooo fun- I wasn't a tom-boy I just liked crushing and playing cops and robbers... |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:32:44 AM EDT
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Quoted: http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/05/lego-space-history.jpg The one in the center.. Blacktron. I also like the red and black Mtron series , with the nifty magnets (not ICP) I had the top two. The stuff I had that got the most use in the '80s besides my bike were legos, 3" Joes (had just about everything they put out the first 2 yrs), my daisy pellet rifle, and my toy guns.
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:34:17 AM EDT
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GI Joe for me too! Out of all I had, I thought that this was the coolest toy: http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100217051206/gijoe/images/thumb/a/a6/Mauler_title.jpg/255px-Mauler_title.jpg man i always wanted that one, it and the hovercraft |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:37:19 AM EDT
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I had the big helicopter and it was awesome.
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:37:31 AM EDT
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I had a lot of favorite toys, some of them meant a lot to me. One of the most special was 2 tonka type trucks that my Great-Grandfather modified by putting a hitch on both of them. That let me pull each other around.
Another was a huge plastic C-130 Hercules plane. Had a wingspan of about 2 ft. You could fit all kinds of stuff in the bay using the rear cargo door. I played with that more than anything I think. All of my toys were destroyed in a house fire when I was 11. 3 years ago, I was in an antique shop with my wife (then g/f) and came across an identical C-130 Hercules plane. I couldn't snatch that thing up fast enough. It's now displayed proudly in my office. It's funny though, because the first thought I had when I saw this thread was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Blimp that I saw in a house I was helping my dad at. I remember wanting one SO bad, but never did get one. Here's a picture of it:  Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:39:50 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:46:09 AM EDT
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Anybody have these? I used to play with them for hours. Hot wheels die cast tanks, half tracks, etc.
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:54:45 AM EDT
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Man, brings back some good memories...
Lego Green Army Men GI Joe Star Wars people Stompers |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 10:54:52 AM EDT
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870 Wingmaster
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Posted: 8/26/2010 11:01:13 AM EDT
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Anybody have these? I used to play with them for hours. Hot wheels die cast tanks, half tracks, etc. http://matchboxdiecastcars.com/wp-content/uploads/diecast%20military%20toys.jpg http://cdn2.ioffer.com/img/1150873200/_i/12542210/1.jpg I had a couple of those half-tracks |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 11:08:56 AM EDT
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Imperial AT-AT. I still have a complete working one in my collection with box and manual. That and a Cobra Ferret.
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Posted: 8/26/2010 11:11:31 AM EDT
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One of these:
I still have it, too, although it's not in such nice condition.
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Posted: 8/26/2010 11:11:59 AM EDT
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Quoted: The Big Trak tank. Loved it. I used to program it to go into my sisters room, blast her with the laser photon gun, do a doughnut and return to me. Good times. http://toegristle.com/collab/bigtrak/images/bigtrak.jpg I had/have its sportier cousin.  |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 11:12:28 AM EDT
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http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/05/lego-space-history.jpg The one in the center.. Blacktron. I also like the red and black Mtron series , with the nifty magnets (not ICP) I had the two leftmost kits on the top row. DAMN I loved Legos! 
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Posted: 8/26/2010 11:14:10 AM EDT
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Imperial AT-AT. I still have a complete working one in my collection with box and manual. http://i533.photobucket.com/albums/ee338/clracer69/atat-front.jpg I still have mine. When my Star Wars toys got sold off, that was one of the ones I kept. |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 11:14:53 AM EDT
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I had a lot of favorite toys, some of them meant a lot to me. One of the most special was 2 tonka type trucks that my Great-Grandfather modified by putting a hitch on both of them. That let me pull each other around. Another was a huge plastic C-130 Hercules plane. Had a wingspan of about 2 ft. You could fit all kinds of stuff in the bay using the rear cargo door. I played with that more than anything I think. All of my toys were destroyed in a house fire when I was 11. 3 years ago, I was in an antique shop with my wife (then g/f) and came across an identical C-130 Hercules plane. I couldn't snatch that thing up fast enough. It's now displayed proudly in my office. It's funny though, because the first thought I had when I saw this thread was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Blimp that I saw in a house I was helping my dad at. I remember wanting one SO bad, but never did get one. Here's a picture of it: http://onceuponawin.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/blimp-loose1.jpg Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I forgot about the TMNT. I loved those things back in the day. I think I had the same C-130, even though it was nowhere near Joe scale I used it with my Joes. I had a tank I think the same people made, similar construction. Also used with G.I. Joes. |
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Posted: 8/26/2010 11:16:56 AM EDT
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TXL |
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