The Toys You Used To Play With!

[ozzyzak]

Speaking of Dominoes, anyone remember Domino Rally and those various other packs like glow in the dark and rockets?

Domino Rally was the shit. I remember begging my parents for years to get one of those!

 

[chrishull]

I feel old now

My toys where a Big Trak, Spectrum 48k, Binatone Pong and a stretch armstrong

 

[KDH]

Lets see, I had LEGOs, K'Nex, Tinker Toys, some plastic stuff that snaped together (most of the pieces were long and rectangular, with blue cubic connectors and a few cockpits thrown in so you could make futureistic cars and spaceships), and some metal stuff that you actually had to put together with nuts and bolts, and had a few motors. Pretty much any toy you could build stuff with I had, along with my Video game systems, which I traded back and fourth with my cousin (he had Sega systems, I had Nintendo) up until the N64/PS1 era, at which point we both got one of each.


Never really had any action figures or anything like that, never really wanted them, especially after getting a chemistry set and some tools, then I was too busy setting fires, causing explosions, or taking apart radios, alarm clocks, computers, and desk fans all the time.

 

[heathdogg]

The toys I played with the most:
#1 Lego
#2 Hot Wheels(and Hot Wheels Superrails)
#3 GI Joe

 

[superrob]

1# Lego (I still build guns out off it

)
2# Knex (Same ass lego

)
3# GAMEBOY

 

[jimmy j]

Who remembers Stompers?

The UK advert was better - "ST-ST-ST-STOMPERS!"

 

[jimmy j]

And Wrist Racers?

I actually had both the general lee and the police cruiser. Pretty collectable nowadays

 

[Psyfira]

I was a girlie kid so we had some Littlest Pet Shop stuff (like Puppy in my Pocket but cooler because they had magnets and moving parts and stuff) this one grey cat (image 6) was my favourite, played with her so much the paint came off the eyes

To save boring you with the details... methinks I'm winning (losing?) on the cheesy-ness factor

The colours really were that scary, and I still have some of it

To fill the geek quota we always had a mixture of Lego and I had a Zoids walking big-cat thing too (top image), that was pretty cool

Bluestar: that garage looks familiar... I don't think we had it, maybe a cousin or dentist waiting room?

 

[Samutz]

I remember now that I was also into Hot Wheels cars and MicroMachines. This when the big play sets were real stuff like auto garages with elevators and ramps. None of this stuff that's like THERES A GIANT MONSTER TEARING SHIT UP YOU MUST STOP HIM BY SLAMMING YOUR CAR INTO HIS FACE.

Oh, and me and my sis had an NES with Mario/Duck Hunt, Spelunker, and Dragon Quest.

 

[tyasawa]

>_> polly pocket!!!
i used to hab the huge suitcase one.. the castle.. houses.. the necklaces.. a looot of them.. O,o used to go to singapore and buy 5-10 of them at once.. but the small ones gone now.. taken by younger relatives or lost when i was moving out to my new house...

the new one sux.. 'o'

 

[Hadrian]

There use to be these toy cars that when you turned the doors over it showed dents in the side, can't remember what they were called!

 

[DjFIL]

lego, slot cars, table top hockey, micromachines, commodore 64 & atari 2600.

 

[leetdude_007]

Legos, NES, Tetris. Tandy 1000. Truly a modern household!!

 

[Hadrian]

To be honest I probably played more on my C64 making my own shooters on Shoot-em-up Construction Kit, as well playing Midnight Resistance, H.e.r.o, Dizzy games and the usual others than any other toy.

 

[jimmy j]

There use to be these toy cars that when you turned the doors over it showed dents in the side, can't remember what they were called!

I remember those. Sections of the car were spring-loaded and if you crashed it that part would spin round to show the damaged side. It was on the front and back of the cars too. Very cool. Can't remember the name though

You reminded me of this van that I used to have. Coz everybody knows, if superman is in a rush, he needs a supervan!

 

[BlueStar]

Bluestar: that garage looks familiar... I don't think we had it, maybe a cousin or dentist waiting room?

Haha, yeah I bet you can still find them in some waiting rooms. You'd put the little guy in the lift and the car in the car-lift thing and turn the handle till they got to the top and *ping* the guy would be turfed out onto the garage roof and his car would roll all the way down to the bottom again without him. Always thought that was quite cruel.

 

[Deadmon]

Hmm..hot wheels, Lego, those Digimon digivolving toys

 

[BlueStar]

There use to be these toy cars that when you turned the doors over it showed dents in the side, can't remember what they were called!

I remember those. Sections of the car were spring-loaded and if you crashed it that part would spin round to show the damaged side. It was on the front and back of the cars too. Very cool. Can't remember the name though

That sounds very much like Battle Armour He-Man and Skeletor - you hit their chest and it span round to show one bit of damage to their armour, do it again and it'd spin round to show 2

 

[BlueStar]

Jesus, from searching for those I remembered just how many He-Man figures I must still have in the loft at my parents house. I reckon I've probably got 3 bin bags full of them, plus Snake Mountain, Hordaks Lair and Eternia complete with monorail system. I've got all of these ones for a start
http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/615.html

 

[tyasawa]

O,o oh yea i just remember i used to like some half naked trolls with colorful hairs.. dunno what its called.. they look freaky now..

i somehow have certain hatred of lego now..cos it is all over the place in my apartment.. -,- making my place messy.. one of the house mate still into it.. graaah..