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[SonicMegaDrive]

I gave my friend's nephew a big box of Ninja Turtles figures with the Technodrome, Foot Car, and other awesome stuff.

It was awesome sitting there and watching a 4-year old kid play with the same stuff I used to play with when I was a kid. That's a great feeling.

 

[Ricky_R]

It was awesome sitting there and watching a 4-year old kid play with the same stuff I used to play with when I was a kid. That's a great feeling.

*Cue emotional Toy Story 3 ending music*

 

[Hilbert]

Are you one of my siblings with an account?

We definetly had this one when I was a kid.

 

[Giard]

Gonna post the same thing I did in the other thread: MIGHTY MAX

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

*Cue emotional Toy Story 3 ending music*

Wow, I didn't even think of that connection until just now. I'll have to watch that movie again soon.

 

[chris121580]

Oh man, so many memories:

Pillow Fighters
Fisher Price Camera

One I didn't see was troll dolls:

 

[xxracerxx]

With the metal tin container.

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

 

[JumpingTheGun]

fuck yeah

 

[Ricky_R]

haha wow... I broke that SOB so many times.

 

[Deleted member 10571]

fuck yeah

Finally! Best Toyline ever, easily. And up to today.

 

[joeyjoejoeshabadoo]

I really need to search my mom's house for this game. I remember loving this game when it came out. Hell, I still remember when I went to Toys R Us to buy it with my grandmother.

 

[RSLYG]

Bruce Lee hand puppet, made in the 70s.

 

[Log4Girlz]

My grandparents had this, a cable box.

You plugged it into the UHF antenna, and put the dial on U.

Oh my family had one!

 

[LogicStep]

Tomy's Dingbot!

And talk about nostalgia... the site I found him on: http://www.theoldrobots.com/

OMG YES! THANK YOU!! Now THAT gave me nostalgia overload!! =D

 

[McNei1y]

I still have the whole set. These things are never going to be used/tossed away.

I also remember playing with the Batmobile way too much.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Wait wait wait... they are real life siblings? WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!!!!!!

 

[BFIB]

Almost as good as Crystal Pepsi.

 

[JumpingTheGun]

If I had kids today, we'd be having Nerf Wars every weekend. I remember cutting the tip off of the nozzle when I was a kid and shoving the foam suction cup darts in there instead. It was awesome.

 

[Darth Pinche]

Tomy's Dingbot!

And talk about nostalgia... the site I found him on: http://www.theoldrobots.com/

I have him in a box somewhere....I have too many toys.

 

[bengraven]

Are you one of my siblings with an account?

Um, I might be considering we had the Fisher-Price elevator and Main Street as a kid!

But that would mean you're either a 29 single mom living in a trailer house or a 25 year old vicious bitch who regularly tells random strangers that "videogames are retarded because they made my older brother retarded".

I gave my friend's nephew a big box of Ninja Turtles figures with the Technodrome, Foot Car, and other awesome stuff.

It was awesome sitting there and watching a 4-year old kid play with the same stuff I used to play with when I was a kid. That's a great feeling.

My mom gave my TMNT away to the handicapped kid down the street. She did it without my permission so I was upset for a few years. If she only had told me so I could have taken one or two of my favorites to keep.

HeroQuest

I wanted this so badly as a kid. When I was in my late teens a friend found one at a rummage sale, with all the parts and in nearly new condition.

But then none of us knew how to play and we rarely saw this friend (and were too busy trying to "score some booze") that I never was able to play.

Wait wait wait... they are real life siblings? WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!!!!!!

How old are you? In the 80s she was 10x more popular than him. He never got out from under her shadow, not even with Teen Wolf Too.

Arrested Development saved his career and now we're like "who's Justine Bateman?".

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Wait wait wait... they are real life siblings? WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!!!!!!

"That's your sister, that's disgusting."

 

[JumpingTheGun]

Yeah. Id say "Satisfaction" completely fucked Justines career. What a shit movie that was. Ugh.

Who had this bad boy?

LEGO Pirates were my favs

 

[bengraven]

Yeah. Id say "Satisfaction" completely fucked Justines career. What a shit movie that was. Ugh.

Who had this bad boy?

I don't even remember a single Justine movie. That said, she sounds exactly the same as when she was a kid in the 80s.

But looks sooo much cuter.



Edit: also, my friend had this and it's still in his house, collecting dust on a shelf.

 

[BFIB]

 

[Snake]

Figured this thread would not affect me. I was so wrong. So very wrong.

I remember almost everything here. I was obviously spoiled, because this is a lot of toys to remember. I could break down from this nostalgia.

The only exception is the cereal. My parents mostly got us Kix and Cheerios when we were kids.

Oh man, I absolutely begged my parents for that Jurassic Park Compound. Begged harder than anything else in my life, lol

 

[JumpingTheGun]

Navigation was much easier than the NES version (hahaha), but it was still pretty tough. My first Tiger game.

 

[depths20XX]

Yeah. Id say "Satisfaction" completely fucked Justines career. What a shit movie that was. Ugh.

Who had this bad boy?

LEGO Pirates were my favs

I had a bunch of LEGO sets but I never got that one. Always wanted it. I remember the rich kid in my Cub Scouts group had it when I went to his house.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

BAMMM

I was obsessed with these when I was a kid. Probably to the point of a legitimate psychological issue.


oh... and BATTLE BEASTS!

 

[JumpingTheGun]

I remember that red LEGO pirate ship cost 100 bucks when I was a kid. I had one friend that had it. I ended up getting the slightly less cooler and cheaper blue ship.

 

[BFIB]

These are still on my parents old fridge out in their garage:

 

[Duane Cunningham]

OMG YES! THANK YOU!! Now THAT gave me nostalgia overload!! =D

Actually, looking him up caused me to stumble upon the crazy robot hacking community out there... this guy DJ started out by heavily modifying an Omnibot (part of the same line as Dingbot) to be his autonomous "pet", basically, giving it a moveable head, arms, bluetooth, cameras, etc...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPcgoNBsedU&feature=relmfu

And it has turned into all kinds of crazy shit:

http://www.youtube.com/aliencurv

And he even sells hardware/software kits that you can use to modify basically anything. Really wild stuff.

 

[bengraven]

I remember that red LEGO pirate ship cost 100 bucks when I was a kid. I had one friend that had it. I ended up getting the slightly less cooler and cheaper blue ship.

The friend I knew had both. He was really fucking spoiled. Then again, his parents also shoplifted most of his presents. Including the awesome LEGO police boat.

 

[DangerStepp]

This is before my time (I see where the copyrights read 1984 (the year I was born)).

Explain.

 

[Satyamdas]

 

[BFIB]

The McDLT came in a split styrofoam tray. On one side, the bun/veggies. On the other side, the hamburger.

 

[bengraven]

I wanted these so bad but my mother wouldn't let me have them. She was nuts, watched a lot of day time talk and on one show they said the toys were contributing to Satanism.

(the mother in Binding of Isaac makes my eye twitch)

I found a fold out poster with all the characters on one side and coveted it in secret. I would take it out after my mom went to bed and looked at it for an hour.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

This is before my time (I see where the copyrights read 1984 (the year I was born)).

Explain.

it was a double-build styrofoam box. One side had the veggies, one side had the meat. They kept it separated so everything would be 'fresh' once you got home.

edit: beaten

 

[JumpingTheGun]

Mothersuckin' BOGLINS

...and this was the one I had too.

And Giggles were fucking digusting cookies if I recall correctly.

 

[Duane Cunningham]

This is before my time (I see where the copyrights read 1984 (the year I was born)).

Explain.

So, the McD.L.T. came in a Styrofoam box with two burger sized compartments. One half had the top bun, lettuce, tomato, pickles, etc and the other half contained the bottom bun, the burger patty and the cheese. So you opened it, slapped the sandwich together, and enjoyed a fresh burger where the hot stuff was still hot and the cold stuff was still cold! Then the world got uptight about the ozone layer, and McDonalds stopped using Styrofoam and axed the McD.L.T.

Here's George Costanza singing about it when he was still young with a full head of hair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTSdUOC8Kac

 

[BFIB]

My brother got this one Christmas. He would sit and pretend to be driving in the backseat.

 

[jet1911]

Yeah. Id say "Satisfaction" completely fucked Justines career. What a shit movie that was. Ugh.

Who had this bad boy?

LEGO Pirates were my favs

Ha! I had it. It was the BIG gift that my parent got me that christmas. Lego <3

My brother got this one Christmas. He would sit and pretend to be driving in the backseat.

My father had one like that in a box full of old toys lol

 

[TheJollyCorner]

in kindergarten I got into these books because of a little girl that lived down the street:

It was one of those things where every two weeks at the library I'd find a new one. I really liked the artwork. Surprised I didn't get my ass whooped on the playground. :/

 

[bengraven]

My brother got this one Christmas. He would sit and pretend to be driving in the backseat.

Oh man, wow. I can't remember who had it, but I played with one all the time!

Also

 

[JumpingTheGun]

Oh man those damn skates. Didnt they have some sort of cheap brake mechanism?

And

 

[bengraven]

I like the more obscure shit because that brings up the bigger nostalgia kicks.

 

[Ricky_R]

Mothersuckin' BOGLINS

...and this was the one I had too.

And Giggles were fucking digusting cookies if I recall correctly.

Wow... Keep 'em coming.

I had this one:

 

[RSLYG]

My fave book back then.

 

[bengraven]

Oh man those damn skates. Didnt they have some sort of cheap brake mechanism?

Yeah, the little yellow thing in the front. You actually pushed forward to break.

This caused 10x the accidents that it was trying to prevent.

 

[Satyamdas]

Since a bunch of old timers are in here, does anyone else remember those magazine type things that kids used to have (early-mid 80s?), where if you sold subscriptions you earned points, and on the back cover there would be a ton of toys and games that you could get by redeeming those points?? I'm pretty sure it was a monthly or weekly publication, and was probably circulated at schools (this was in the US).

I remember not giving a shit about selling subscriptions, and I couldn't tell you one thing that was inside those booklet things, but the back cover with all those toys is burned into my memory. I remember long car rides where I'd just look at that back cover for the whole trip, wishing I could have all those toys. I can't remember anything about the book, and can't find any pictures of it on the internet.