shaxper
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Post by shaxper on Sept 18, 2024 8:50:42 GMT -5
A companion thread to '80s cartoons, what are some of your favorite childhood toys from the era? One of my big wants since childhood finally got crossed off the list last month when this arrived:  I've been on cloud nine ever since! |
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 18, 2024 10:31:41 GMT -5
Putting aside my love for Kenner’s Super Powers Collection (greatest line ever), I’d have to say M.A.S.K, such as this vehicle:  |
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Post by shaxper on Sept 18, 2024 20:43:35 GMT -5
Putting aside my love for Kenner’s Super Powers Collection (greatest line ever), I’d have to say M.A.S.K, such as this vehicle: Rhino and Raven occupied much of my attention back in the day. Amazing toys. Gator, not so much 😂 |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2024 11:47:46 GMT -5
Christmas morning of 1981, tiny Supercat eagerly rushes to the living room and the Christmas tree lights are on, and under the tree are wrapped gifts, but one gift has already been opened up and "posed for action". The Navarone playset (based on the Guns of Navarone WWII based book and movie) that existed in incarnations before the 80's, but again the 1981 version is what I experienced. The battle mat was down and the armies and vehicles were all laid out in a battle "underway". I already enjoyed my little green army men I had acquired the past couple of years, usually it was a bag that had a vehicle like a jeep, tank, or armored car, and then an assortment of the figures themselves. But to see two armies (the light gray Germans and the green USA) and a dual cannon equipped mountainside fortress? My mind was blown!    I've been sort of "on again, off again" hunting one down, it's just hard to get complete and in nice shape much less the right price. Years ago I was watching the Toy Hunter TV show which features vintage toy seller/guru Jordan Hembrough, and in one episode he acquired a nice set. I knew it was a crazy longshot but I emailed him instantly to see if he had it, and he actually e-mailed me back right away saying he was sorry but it had already sold (again, no real surprise knowing the delay of a TV show filming to airing). But I thought it was cool that he still responded and quickly! What has been also cool is Tim Mee Toys still makes army men and they are the old molds from my childhood (and branded as USA made!). I picked these up about 7 years ago:  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 24, 2024 21:07:08 GMT -5
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Post by thuvaunu on Sept 26, 2024 0:09:01 GMT -5
So many great bases! The 80's was a stellar era for that particular kind of toy. It's crazy to look at the MASK Outlaw and get drawn into the displays and weapon batteries. Personally some of my favorites are no longer in my collection. The Gakken Alpha Fighter, a Macross VF-1A 1/100 I got from a Japanese friend, the Transformers Sunstreaker which was the first transformable toy in my collection - heh, once the idea of shape-changing-got in my blood, regular cars, planes, and even spaceships seemed boring! Then there were the ones that were almost guilty pleasures - I had the Go-Bot Bad Boy (the green A10 tank-killer) and I'm amazed it didn't snap apart in my pocket because he was such a cool little bot that I had to take him everywhere. The Converters fell apart in my hands over time, but that package art from so many different anime properties had me convinced there was this world of utterly cool robots behind Converters just waiting to be discovered.
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