Little known toy from Milton Bradley (the board game maker) but it was awesome!
and Tonka trucks made from steel and not plastic! I had this exact front loader!
Oh god, Consumers Distrubiting. I remember pouring over the catalogue. Fuzzy, do you remember Bargain Harold's and Biway? Probably a good portion of my clothes as a kid came from one or the other.That catalog was my Christmas wishlist. I'd circle what I wanted and leave the pages open for my parents.
It was a Canadian retailer where you'd go in and fill out a form for what you wanted then they'd go to the back and get it for you. The store was barebones to supposedly pass on the savings to consumers. They went bankrupt a long time ago.
Little known toy from Milton Bradley (the board game maker) but it was awesome!
Funny (at least to me) story time. In July 1989 my family and my grandmother went to Portugal for a month. My father bought an 8mm camcorder earlier that year for that trip and recorded A LOT of footage during that vacation. One of the videos is my grandmother talking on the phone with my uncle here in Toronto on a pretty bad connection so she's talking kinda loud. The part that always cracked me me up is when she repeated the news that my cousin got a summer job at Bargain Harold's and how funny it sounded with her accent. When we got home my brothers and I all called my cousin Bargain Harold for a VERY long time. :lolFuzzy, do you remember Bargain Harold's and Biway?
I still have many of my old Transformers and GoBots.
If you're on the later end of Gen X, you know this was the holy grail of toys.
You got Rocklords?
My prized toy possession is a Empire yoda figure I somehow managed to keep sealed. My mom got it for me at Children's Palace on clearance for fifty cents.
Funny (at least to me) story time. In July 1989 my family and my grandmother went to Portugal for a month. My father bought an 8mm camcorder earlier that year for that trip and recorded A LOT of footage during that vacation. One of the videos is my grandmother talking on the phone with my uncle here in Toronto on a pretty bad connection so she's talking kinda loud. The part that always cracked me me up is when she repeated the news that my cousin got a summer job at Bargain Harold's and how funny it sounded with her accent. When we got home my brothers and I all called my cousin Bargain Harold for a VERY long time. :lol
I remember my Castle Grayskull being dope AF:
Snake Mountain was SO much better than Greyskull.
Gen Y should be 1980-1994. Z (Millenials) 1995-2014. IMO
I was besotted with this.
1979 here. I'm in there boys!
My prized toy possession is a Empire yoda figure I somehow managed to keep sealed. My mom got it for me at Children's Palace on clearance for fifty cents.
That was a magical, magical time. Saturday night, a roll of quarters.. man..'81 here, way more Gen X relatable. I saw the golden age of arcades.
This thread doesn't have enough Radio Shack references. Disappoint.
I feel I can relate with Gen X way more then the vast majority of Millennials. How many Millenials remember watching Johnny Carson, or using a typewriter?
Got this for Christmas when I was a kid. 1974 here.
This was my most prized toy ever.
not my pic, but also had all of these ...
born '75
Perhaps more for us European heads
Ulysees 31
Mysterious Cities of Gold
Perhaps more for us European heads
Ulysees 31
Mysterious Cities of Gold
He-Man sucked. Transformers and GI-Joe were where it was at.
If you're on the later end of Gen X, you know this was the holy grail of toys.
I remember going to play in the woods with my friends with toy machine guns and uzis that were all black and looked like the real thing at a glance minus the orange tip that we of course immediately removed.
The dividing line isn't simply being alive for events or using certain technologies. The guideline is that if you understand the significance of certain generation defining events at the time they happened you are a part of that generation.
Generally speaking the biggest difference between Gen-X and Millennials is that Gen-Xers were the last generation to understand the significance of the Cold War. Most older Millennials - 85-ish babies and maybe Younger GenXers (81-82) were too young to understand the significance of of things like the Berlin Wall coming down or Tiananmen Square or the collapse of the Soviet Union at the time they happened even if we were alive to see it happen live.
For me Gen X is defined by the following events:
The Collapse of the Soviet Union and communism
The early 90s recession
The Golden Age of Hip Hop
The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock, Kurt Cobain's suicide.
The beginnings of the digital age.
The Clinton Years
Most GenXers were around and had an understanding of the significance of all those things as they happened.
For Millennials, even those of us who were alive were too young to understand many of those things at the time they happened. I remember - vaguely, watching live news footage of the Soviet Union becoming Russia again, but I was five at the time. I had no idea what actually happened. Our thing is:
9/11
Late 2000s Recession
The Maturing of the Internet
I'm a late Gen Xer, and a child of the 80s and I can say I lived in a time before consumerism really took over: when pizzas actually had cheese, when cartoons didn't get dumbed down, when McDonalds fries actually tasted good because it used saturated fat oils. lol
What's your story, memories of being part of Generation X?
If you're on the later end of Gen X, you know this was the holy grail of toys.
This thread doesn't have enough Radio Shack references. Disappoint.