Nostalgia toys from your childhood.

[After Shock Media]

Ok lets name off our favorites, what you liked about them and of course pictures if you can locate them. PS if it is still sitting in its original box on your shelf of other toys that you never ever played with as a kid, you never were a kid and need to be kicked in the nuts.

This thread inspired by the death of Evel Knievel.

[JD]

the NES and super mario brothers
he-man action figures
tinker toys
mutha fuckin legos

[liqqwid]

I played hockey.... but it's weird to see that no one uses wooden sticks anymore in the NHL

[Spunky]

Lone Ranger and Tonto..they were dolls like GI Joe and had horses
GI Joe
I had the Evil Knievel motorcycle and motorhome

I was more about grabbing my hockey stick and running arouns when I was a kid

[L-Pink]

My first fun-bags!

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[uno]

Transformers, slip and slide, lawn darts, lincoln logs, connex

[Axzar]

Wiffle Ball!

[After Shock Media]

Some of my favorites I know for a fucking fact would be banned today.

Anyone remember those red plastic rockets with the red and white pumps to pressurize them?
Point was that you were to attach a very flimsy cord to your rocket that was partially filled with water. You then would proceed to pump up your rocket at the super safe distance of maybe 12 inches away. When it reached the proper pressure which was gauged by experience and guesstimating you would then let it off to fly into the sky. Lets not forget usually you would be standing damn close and if you did not learn quick often nearly right over this overpressurized sharp ended plastic missile of death.

I also was a fan of hot wheels and the tracks. Well I sometimes hated those damn fucking tracks just like I hated those paddles with the string and ball attached, cause they both could be used as toys or mass ass destruction when you pissed your parents off and they could not find the belt you had previously hid cause you knew there was no way you could hide the fact that the full body mirror in the hallways was now 2 trillion barbie doll sized hand mirrors.

Oddly I was also very fond of my yo-yo. Yup just a standard old fashion yo-yo. Carried it everywhere.

Had plenty of Lego's but I discovered erector sets and my mind was blown, they had engines. Only problem was my family was poor, well not bad poor but poor enough that I had to be segregated at school and forced into public humiliation to collect my free lunch cards.

Lincoln logs were some of my favorites. Yes simple and easy to deal with. Kicker was my great grandfather thought they were brilliant as he spent his life as a carpenter after serving his time in the military and wanting to be as far away from killing people as he could be. So he hooked me up with a whole bunch of custom extensions and stuff for my evergrowing Lincoln log collection. This was the one area that my friends were actually in envy of.

Latter of course my parents found a way to get me an Atari. I played that bitch so much that I swear I went through a few joy sticks. Asteroids was my game of choice for a long time. Loved trying to flip the score. Finally when I did it I was almost done with the game except I had one missing element, I was alone. So I collected some friends and flipped it again. After that asteroids just was no longer that interesting.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Let's see...

My parents were cheap, so first there were sock puppets. My mom didn't wash the socks first, so my siblings and I always knew which puppets were ours.



I was a big Batman fan - that is until all of the kids laughed about my Bat Squirt Gun...



When a new Toy 'R Us opened in the neighborhood, my Dad would drop us off and tell us to play with the toys there all day, and he would pick us up right before closing time...



Ah...the memories...

ADG

[Brad Mitchell]

Legos, GI Joes, Transformers... pretty much in that order.

I'll have to see if I can dig up some pictures of the whole lego cities I used to build. I was kind of spoiled, wayyyyyyy too many legos. I remember having post apocolyptic fantasies and playing Dawn of the Dead with legos and Road Warrior, too.....



Brad

[Zuzana Designs]

I remember Lincoln logs, my little pony and hungry hungry hippos That game drove my parents insane!

[madleinx]

Barbie!! Had to buy a few off ebay to replace the ones I especially loved but destroyed during childhood. Then I discovered the vintage dolls and clothing (which would be from my mother's childhood), collected a few and started selling a bunch. Seriously, some of these collectors will pay $200 for the right shoe (or the left, as the case may be).

[tabasco]

I loved me some Smash Up Derby when I was a young un.

[After Shock Media]

Barbie!! Had to buy a few off ebay to replace the ones I especially loved but destroyed during childhood. Then I discovered the vintage dolls and clothing (which would be from my mother's childhood), collected a few and started selling a bunch. Seriously, some of these collectors will pay $200 for the right shoe (or the left, as the case may be).

I understand that one. One of my cousins is into Barbie big time. From early on she had what seemed like an endless supply of them and she played with them. Latter on she turned that into collecting. Getting the speciality barbies and even by some freak encounter had a big time designer make her a couture (spelling, fashion word, umm hand sewn one of a kind) barbie outfit made, accessories and even shoes.

[Shagbunny]

matchbox, legos and anything spiderman

[DBS.US]

Big Bang Cannon


www.bigbangcannons.com

[Axzar]

G&S FibreFlex Skateboard.. and the old fashioned pea shooter.

[DBS.US]

[BV]