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Post by urrutiap on Aug 28, 2016 16:40:50 GMT -5
I grew up in the 1980s when I was a little kid. Best toys were these that I saw in any store whether it was a small town's Ben Franklin crafts store or Kmart store back in the day of the early 1980s when Return of the Jedi was in theaters etc.
Dukes of Hazzard 3 inch figures. I only had Boss Hogg. I still have the figure but lost the hat a long long time ago
Transformers
G.I. Joe
Captain Power
Star wars of course
Mad balls
Visionaries
Masters of the Universe toys
Power Lords
Go Bots
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Post by kellyg on Sept 1, 2016 2:14:39 GMT -5
I never throw out anything really so I still have Star Wars and Star Trek and Super Hero toys packed away along with Aurora model kits. Some are in bad condition, others are well preserved (there was a company in the early 80s practically giving away their inventory of Mego stuff--they sent me a huge tv box filled with things. What a day that was when I got home and saw this huge box). A few years later I read about a "find" of Star Trek items in an old warehouse which mysteriously sounded like the same source I knew, and they were selling the items for hundreds of dollars a piece. I put Dr McCoy through hell. I had a spare and used him as a stunt man. He would fly off a balcony while on fire into a bucket of water though I sometimes had bad aim and he would hit the rim. I figured since he was a doctor he could fix himself up.
Of those I probably miss seeing the Aurora model kits on display in the local store. The box art was so appealing. The monsters, and the Prehistoric kits I used to see at the K-mart.
I wish I still had Maskatron the Bionic Man figure with the removable faces.
There was also a toy sold around 1977--cannot recall the name--but they had a six legged dinosaur creature called Terratron or something (it had a head like a triceratops sort of) and you aimed this remote control light gizmo at it to get it to stop walking.
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 5, 2016 7:51:15 GMT -5
I might have had that one. I love how in the the old days they'd create toy's that made no sense: Hulk on a motorcycle, Hulk utility belt, etc. Parachute Superman was quite spectacularly pointless... |
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Post by shaxper on Sept 5, 2016 7:54:25 GMT -5
I might have had that one. I love how in the the old days they'd create toy's that made no sense: Hulk on a motorcycle, Hulk utility belt, etc. Parachute Superman was quite spectacularly pointless... Maybe he just wanted to know the sensation  Incidentally, Parachute Iron Man was my favorite toy in the world for about 30 seconds in 1985. Then his chute got tangled. |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 5, 2016 8:05:56 GMT -5
I wish I still had Maskatron the Bionic Man figure with the removable faces. I still have mine.  I also still have Steve, Oscar and Jaime. |
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Post by shaxper on Sept 5, 2016 8:10:03 GMT -5
I wish I still had Maskatron the Bionic Man figure with the removable faces. I still have mine. I also still have Steve, Oscar and Jaime. I grew up on a cheaper knock off of the same concept:  |
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Post by kellyg on Sept 5, 2016 9:18:31 GMT -5
What I liked about Maskatron besides the cool electronic face with the little circuit inserts was that the Steve Austin mask looked better than the actual Steve Austin figure (since there wasn't that big hole in one eye for seeing in bionic vision as the standard SA figure had).
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 5, 2016 10:12:36 GMT -5
What I liked about Maskatron besides the cool electronic face with the little circuit inserts was that the Steve Austin mask looked better than the actual Steve Austin figure (since there wasn't that big hole in one eye for seeing in bionic vision as the standard SA figure had). Couldn't agree more, that always irritated me about the Steve figure. |
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Post by dupersuper on Sept 5, 2016 21:24:26 GMT -5
I might have had that one. I love how in the the old days they'd create toy's that made no sense: Hulk on a motorcycle, Hulk utility belt, etc. Parachute Superman was quite spectacularly pointless... The dinky cars that had Hulk driving a car are up there... |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 6, 2016 0:54:18 GMT -5
Parachute Superman was quite spectacularly pointless... The dinky cars that had Hulk driving a car are up there... Brings a whole new meaning to the term "road rage". |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 1:29:51 GMT -5
Parachute Superman was quite spectacularly pointless... The dinky cars that had Hulk driving a car are up there... Was it this Corgi...?  or this Corgi with Hulk on a bike?  or this Buddy L jeep form Japan?  or worse, the Mego Hulk Copter...  the 1979 vintage Hot Wheels Hulk van...  or it's big brother (and cousin to the Hulk Copter) the Mego Hulk Van...  another BuddyL Hulk on a bike, this time from Secret Wars...  the Hulk Hydro Car from Mego...  (actually a repackaged Micronauts vehicle after the line was discontinued) or another Hulkified Micronaut vehicle...the Hulk Explorer...  Hulk and Shellhead out crusin' (from South America)  which one man? YOu gots to be more specific, there's a whole slew of Hulk driving toys. These are just the vintage ones, there's a whole slew more of more modern Hulk driving toys too... Who knew the Hulk was a car guy, sheesh! -M |
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Feb 24, 2019 9:19:51 GMT -5
In fifth grade (1976-77) this Mead Trapper Keeper 3-ring binder was a prized possession.  |
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Post by urrutiap on Feb 25, 2019 1:36:59 GMT -5
Old action figure toylines from my childhood in the early 1980s that I miss these days
Power Lords
Captain Power
Blackstar. When I was a kid I used to have the action figure of the main bad guy Overlord where he had the spark feature. I still have the pink demon figure though
Lost World of Warlord
Other World- little cheap rubber figures where inside the figures were bendable metal. Not the best figures but they looked cool back in the day. I had two or three figures back then
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