The toys you loved as children [Archive]

Atomic Boo

31-01-2006, 07:05 PM

what were the toys crazes of your day?
my favourite toy was the common bouncy ball,i just did different tricks by rebounding it of the ceiling and floor. In fact i still find myself lost doing that to this day. One other thing i loved was a superman figure and the special thing about it was that it had a retractable head!
And lego aplenty when you came into my room to play! you realise when you step on one and it absolutely wrecks! i think weve all experienced that at one point in time?

MoogleViper

31-01-2006, 07:10 PM

Biker Mice!

Blackfox

31-01-2006, 07:20 PM

Biker Mice got some play'ige out of me...

Along with Lego, and lego technic - i had tonnes of the stuff. And Duple when i was a younger kid.

Also, yoyo's, pogs, Pokémon cards and the tamigochi. Awesome toys.

Eenuh

31-01-2006, 07:39 PM

Hmm, let's see...

-My Little Ponies and Barbies (only had like, one Barbie and a couple of ponies, but I loved playing with them for a while... until I moved over to the more boyish stuff I guess)
-Duplo, Lego and K'nex, in that order
-bouncing ball fights with my sisters
-Play-Doh
-those racing car tracks and remote controlled cars that could spin and do jumps and stuff
-model train stuff, for a short time (loved putting those houses together)

I miss being a kid sometimes.

Enigma

31-01-2006, 07:45 PM

Transformers and Turtles.
I had all sorts of toys but I remember playing with those way too much.

Toy cars of all kinds was also a favorite.

EchoDesiato

31-01-2006, 07:47 PM

I used to have an enormous amount of Action Man figures. I loved building camps with them. Oh man, those battles between Action Man and dr. X were epic.
I also remember playing with something that had miniature figures in a miniature cave of some sort. It was this boy with a cap and a slingshot and some evil monster. I had a rat and a spider version. Damnit, I can't think of the name! I guess you could call it the boy version of those little Polly Pocket things.

EEVILMURRAY

31-01-2006, 08:05 PM

Mighty Max?

That, the Turtles and Bucky O' Hare.

demonmike04

31-01-2006, 08:07 PM

Ah...there was this one toy my mother wouldnt share, she always hid it under her pillow, when i found it and played with it for a while...

I be kidding, i guess the power ranger toys drove me mad! I loved the things!

EchoDesiato

31-01-2006, 08:07 PM

Mighty Max?

YES! That's it! You saved me from a sleepless night.

I be kidding, i guess the power ranger toys drove me mad! I loved the things!
I once dropped the white power ranger (the leader!) in the toilet, I was so sad...

demonmike04

31-01-2006, 08:20 PM

I once dropped the white power ranger (the leader!) in the toilet, I was so sad...
I feel the pain of your childhood loss :sad:
I loved the toy story army men too! Me n my bro used to have wars!

Fresh

31-01-2006, 08:21 PM

Lego, the best toy i ever had and i still have 3 box loadsin the attic.

Smalldude76

31-01-2006, 08:26 PM

Mighty Max ('twas like polly pocket for boys here), Biker Mice from Mars, Lego (still have all of it :)), Transformers, and going way back to my time as a baby, my blanket and talking Teddy Ruxbin.

Pit-Jr

31-01-2006, 08:38 PM

i built up a pretty impressive collection of Thundercats, Transformers and Voltron but they were regretfully destroyed when i discovered lighters and fireworks.
The thundercat lair sure could take a beating though.

kav82

31-01-2006, 08:48 PM

Lego, Transformers, Turtles, Thundercats, He-man, WWF figures, of course the Thomas the Tank engine train set (had Percy too haha), pogz, yo-yo's and last but not least, toy guns! AWESOME!

Bogbas

31-01-2006, 08:53 PM

While I was a kid I didn't understand the point of action figures... I mean I loved the turtles, BMFM and such, but never wanted to own an action figure. Well, guess I had a very boring childhood... Wait, no it was actually great. My NES would probably be one which I got for my 5 year birthday. But that doesn't mean I spent the whole time playing with it.

Usually in the summer we went swimming in the nearby lake, go biking etc, or when I was a little older my friend and I fixed up my mums old car. That probably comes second. And we built a "tree"house, it's more like a house since it isn't built on a tree or anything. And has to storeys :D Later we built a garage for the car we fixed.

Oh and there was a time when I was hooked on the movie top gun, I made lego airplanes that looked like an F-14 (or at least on my mind they did ;) )

Being an adult sucks, big time :(

Johelian

31-01-2006, 08:55 PM

I remember I had a figure of Murdock from the A-Team when I was very young - that was so awesome (until my brother chewed his rubber head). I also had an original Darth Vader action figure, til my dad stole it and took it away to his office. I also loved Real Ghostbusters toys, Lego, Sylvanian Family, My Little Pony (anything with animals), WWF figures, stuffed animals, those weird pots of slime/goo stuff that didnt actually do anything (but sometimes had weird aliens and things in it)...oh, and Monster in my Pocket. Too many things.
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Jordan

31-01-2006, 08:57 PM

Turtles and power rangers... man i had so many of those megazords.

The3rdChildren

31-01-2006, 08:59 PM

If it's listed here, I probably played with it or had a friend who played with it. I haven't done very much growing up in terms of the things I like. I still collect toys like crazy. It would be insanity to list all the toys I played with, but here's a shot off the top of my head.

-Lego
-Turtles
-He-Man
-Starcom
-Ghostbusters
-Bucky o'Hare
-Mighty Max
-Scalextrix.
-Care Bears (I nearly had 'em all)
-Power Rangers
-Mario Bros.
-Sonic stuff.

God, the list just goes on and on...

Monopolyman

31-01-2006, 09:07 PM

You know them little cars about 5cm long, and could move them and all. I had a ton of them. Raced them around my room and all. It was a magical period of my life, that.

Also some Ghostbusters stuff, which was pretty good.

Caris

31-01-2006, 09:43 PM

Captain Scarlet.
Power Rangers.
Thunderbirds.

BUZZ LIGHTYEAR.

kyletherobot

31-01-2006, 09:58 PM

i had a massive ghost buster house thingy, magna doodle, spirograph...thats all i can remember playing with :hmm:

Gaijin von Snikbah

31-01-2006, 09:58 PM

More Lego than you can shake a stick at. Why you would wanna shake a stick at Lego is your business not mine. And of course my NES and SNES, sweet memories.

Bren

31-01-2006, 10:06 PM

micro machines
lego
ghostbusters
teenage mutant ninja turtles
buzz lightyear

bryanee

31-01-2006, 10:15 PM

Transformers mostly

Also like Thundercats and Turtles.

Ramar

31-01-2006, 11:00 PM

Turtles
Ghostbusters
Bucky O'hare
He-man
Transformers
Thundercats
Power Rangers
Mighty Max
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Jurassic Park

Anyone recognise these too they get special respect;

Missionaries
Magna Force

Hellfire

31-01-2006, 11:30 PM

Transformers and Ninja Turtles mostly. Transformers really ruled. Power rangers and motormice from mars at some point too.

Caris

01-02-2006, 12:15 AM

motormice from mars

BIKERmice. :smile:

Platty

01-02-2006, 01:03 AM

Android18a

01-02-2006, 04:48 AM

I never paid that much attention to toy crazes. I remember My Little Pony and Polly Pocket being huge in the 80's or early 90's tho, and the pogs fad when I was at high school. As I was leaving college, I think the whole "skateboard" thing was just on the horizon.

Sonic238

01-02-2006, 05:44 AM

lego seems quite to be a runner. /me was also a big lego fan. i never liked action figures, they were not the fun lego was :P

Atomic Boo

01-02-2006, 07:05 AM

I always wanted the latest action figure, the best scaelectrics track. i remember being mesmorized by hotweels and also the power ranger cars that form together to make a huge boss dude.
come to think of it my batmobile was a huge favourite. whats also funny is that i learnt to spell all the thomas the tank engine trains names before my own name! (matt if you didnt know)

The Peeps

01-02-2006, 08:40 AM

Transformers, Turtles, Batman and some spaceship type collection called Manta Force - was brilliant playing that with my brother.

[edit] how could I forget thundercats? :D and ghostbusters too :P
ps - lego is great, as is mechano.

Letty

01-02-2006, 09:25 AM

Street sharks.
and I had a really cool umbrella that I played with the whole time. :)

catsamurai88

01-02-2006, 09:57 AM

Firemen Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. I used to sit in the bath and compose songs for them.
Also, a cheap little Tetris handheld, which I was good at. And an Amiga.

Mr_Odwin

01-02-2006, 10:31 AM

Like many during the late 80's early 90's the toys i loved were:

Star Wars toys
MASK (i loved the petrol station base thingy and the red car)
Transformers
Thundercats
Ghostbusters
Turtles
Basic matchstick cars (had loads of those)
Lego (i still love lego now!)

Thats about it really, was never really into He-man.

I was very similar except unlike most others here I didn't like Lego very much. Sticklebricks on the other hand were often lying around on my bedroom floor. Mainly I was into Star wars, Transformers, Thundercats, GoBots (Transformer rip-off) and Visionaries.

Strider

01-02-2006, 11:03 AM

My favourites were:

power rangers and there magazords, i also had white rangers sword :)

Action man, i'll always remember the one with the skates because he could slide down ropes :) And the one with the parachute because he was indestructable! He survived being thrown out of many a second story window.

Toy story, buzz and woody action men (buzz was the best he had wings)

Konfucius

01-02-2006, 12:11 PM

My favorites were Lego, more Lego, Lego Tecnics, car (matchbox and such) and Transformers.
I used to collect Trolls - that figures with colourful long hair. They're still sitting neatly in my room.

Meik

01-02-2006, 12:40 PM

Same as most here - lego, turtles, transformers, scalextric, etc. Heavy into WWF wrestlers too, had the ring and everything.

I was really big into Mighty Max though, I had all of the big sets, most of the big "head" playsets and most of the little shrunken heads which I bought from Woolworths every weekend with my pocket money. I remember I was the envy of my friends because my parents bought me Magus from America, ages before it was released in the UK:

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mm_magnus_1_crop.jpg

I used to pretend that he was the guardian of Skull Mountain:

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mm_mnt_3_crop.jpg

That picture doesn't have the orange cannonball which acts as one of the mountain's "eyes". Lame.

The Peeps

01-02-2006, 01:01 PM

I played Mighty Max aswell, I had a lot of the little heads and one big head which was a dragon :D

edit: as shown by eevilmurray below :)

EEVILMURRAY

01-02-2006, 01:12 PM

I want to buy some Mighty Max stuff now...

I had dragon Island
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mm_isld_1_crop.jpg

The Magnus and This
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mm_skl_base_1_crop.jpg

As well as a few smaller shizzles.

Platty

01-02-2006, 01:27 PM

Did no one else love MASK as much as me ?

http://www.retro-trader.com/images/august2003/DVC02642.JPG

EDIT: I found some on ebay :)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/M-A-S-K-Mask-mega-lot-of-Kenner-Toys_W0QQitemZ6032708915QQcategoryZ16468QQrdZ1QQcm dZViewItem

I used to love the petrol station base with the mountain bolder that fell off. There were guns and stuff under it and the petrol thingys span round to also turn into guns!!

Arragaun

01-02-2006, 02:05 PM

I had mostly Mighty Max and Thundercat stuff. I had that cool tank the 'Cats rode round in and everything. It had arms that'd lift up and fire shit at people. It was ace.
The only use for Action Man that I had was:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b98/anorthernberk/actionman.jpg

AshMat

01-02-2006, 02:47 PM

Gotta be lego. Erm.. a tape player got a lot of use too..

Domo Kun

01-02-2006, 02:53 PM

Yo yos became cool when I was 10(ish). Does anyone remember Yohanz and his infamous bumble bee yo yo? I have a Pro Yo and an X-Brain. I could do loads of tricks, walk the dog, the scottish flag, the 'cradle', around the world. I'm going to make yo yos popular again.

BlueStar

01-02-2006, 03:02 PM

Everybody my age seemed to have a Fisher Price garage with a handle you could turn to make the cars go up in a lift then *ting* it rolled around the ramp and to the bottom again.

Had loads of he-man stuff, snake mountain, eternia with a monorail that went round it, Hordak's lair (yeah, he was from She-Ra but he was a much better baddy than camp skeletor)

The Peeps

01-02-2006, 03:50 PM

Everybody my age seemed to have a Fisher Price garage with a handle you could turn to make the cars go up in a lift then *ting* it rolled around the ramp and to the bottom again.

I had that :D lol. Toys are great :D

mario114

01-02-2006, 04:15 PM

Lego, the best toy i ever had and i still have 3 box loadsin the attic.

Same here, all mines if jumlbed up in a huge storage box, not sure what i will do with it, it's been shut away for years now.

chrizkerr2

01-02-2006, 04:43 PM

Mighty Max and Power Rangers were defiantly some of my favourite toys when i was a kid, and my good old tractor i used to ride on...

Damn those where the days...

MoogleViper

01-02-2006, 04:54 PM

I had a spider version.

I believe I had that one. Was it a big spider and you open it up and the legs were from a smaller spider with space for Mighty Max's feet. and there was a fly man creature thing inside. Also i loved Johnny (Jonny?) Quest. Good times.

Hellfire

01-02-2006, 05:02 PM

BIKERmice. :smile:
Eh, live and learn.

Wesley

01-02-2006, 05:07 PM

Action man... I was horrible with them. I think how a child plays with action men and the violence he expresses with them tells you how screwed up his mind is...

But more pleasant ones include Lego and Mighty Max.

MoogleViper

01-02-2006, 05:12 PM

Street sharks.

Is that the program where the sharks could walk around and they were really muscly and shit. and there was a hammerhead.

Letty

01-02-2006, 05:19 PM

Is that the program where the sharks could walk around and they were really muscly and shit. and there was a hammerhead.

yeah - and they had motor bikes. and swam under the pavement with their fins sticking out of the ground.

Meik

01-02-2006, 05:22 PM

I believe I had that one. Was it a big spider and you open it up and the legs were from a smaller spider with space for Mighty Max's feet. and there was a fly man creature thing inside. Also i loved Johnny (Jonny?) Quest. Good times.This one?

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mm_spider_1_crop.jpg

That was one of my favourites.

Kurtle Squad

01-02-2006, 05:24 PM

Lego
Micro Machines Military
And my cuddly toy called Mr. Parrot; he's a parrot ;)

gaggle64

01-02-2006, 05:38 PM

Lego - me and my bro used to build small cars and then smash them into each other. the one with the most pieces intact won. I also used to build massive towers, and sometimes a windmill. I had this great wee stuffed purple doll which I became hugely attached to. I also loved Scalextric and Power Rangers dolls. Man I LOVED the Power Rangers. I liked the blue one, partially because he never truly got the oppertunity to whomp ass, unlike that stupid red idiot. Who made him leader? Go Stegasauras!

Domo Kun

01-02-2006, 05:50 PM

This one?

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mm_spider_1_crop.jpg

That was one of my favourites.

My God! I had that! Mighty Max doesn't even ring a bell.

Fierce_LiNk

01-02-2006, 06:05 PM

I deem it impossible for a child to live without lego. :P
Also, sticklebrix (sp?) were pretty damn funky as well, but paled into comparison with lego.

Another one for me is Ghostbusters! I had the HQ, ECTO-1, and various ghostbusters and ghouls. :)

kopo

01-02-2006, 06:11 PM

Lego: me and some friends build entire economical empires revolving around trade (mostly diamonds and power crystals), transport, services and resources, no joke. We each had our own HQ and ship. We were all competitors untill one day we combined our funds and pieces to make one huge megaship and to have a massive capital to rule the market. It soon collapsed.

More lego: at home i had everything ranging from aquastations to knights and dragons to spaceshuttles etc. Then i made all their worlds collide to create the battle of the universe and time. I actually had my room full of entire armies and ships and whatnot. Millions died.

Power Rangers. And i thought i was the only megafan :) . Had some action figures of them and lotsa bots like the red dragon, white tiger and the ninjazord or something. I was insane for the Power Rangers, i would've died for them. Once some guy told me they had no tv and power rangers in heaven. I then made a promise to myself to never die.

Dinosaurs. Yup. I was a sucker for dinosaur figurines.

Cars: little ones, models, the whole thing.

Batman: i had some kind of a batman with special armor and a hot wich/chick with a claw and a gun. I also had the joker whoh would always set up cunning traps for batman. Batman never won...

Action Man: i liked the possession of them more than to actually play with them

Boxes, ordinairy boxes

Mighty Max: had a dozen of them 'heads'. Nice

Ninja swords and futuristic guns

My mind

weeyellowbloke

01-02-2006, 06:56 PM

Ah, hell yeah, Mighty Max was one of my favorites as kid as well. Loved the a snake one and had the huge fold out skull mountain.
Also had a bit of a obsession with Mini Boglins and Pogz for a while, until some bastard went and nicked my collection, I still have nightmares about it to this day.

Meik

01-02-2006, 07:18 PM

Also had a bit of a obsession with Mini Boglins and Pogz for a whileBoglins, good lord. I used to love those things.

I used to have a glow in the dark one, which my brother ripped out of the box and freaked me out in the night with.

I also seem to remember having a crab-like one with a claw on one hand.

Edit - I love the internet.

http://www.toydreams.co.uk/images/boglins/loose/flobster.jpg

EEVILMURRAY

01-02-2006, 07:19 PM

I remember Street Sharkz well, I was actually looking on Wikipedia about it about two weeks ago. I had the Great Slammu toy. I can fondly the "SEISMIC SLAM!" from the cartoon. Legendary.

AshMat

01-02-2006, 07:31 PM

Oh and action man, i had loads of them, and loads of vehivles, the original stuff kicks the new stuff's ass.

MoogleViper

01-02-2006, 07:38 PM

This one?

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mm_spider_1_crop.jpg

That was one of my favourites.

Yeah that's the one. I used to spend hours making max and the fly dude fight.

demonmike04

01-02-2006, 08:05 PM

I used to pretend that he was the guardian of Skull Mountain:

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mm_mnt_3_crop.jpg

That picture doesn't have the orange cannonball which acts as one of the mountain's "eyes". Lame.
I had that! That was one kewl toy... dont remember any of the other stuff you posted though..

Wesley

01-02-2006, 08:29 PM

It's really amazing to see them Mighty Max toys, I had all four of them.

Ah... I'm so going into the atic to dig out my old Mighty Max...

ShadowV7

01-02-2006, 08:29 PM

I use to play wih lego all the time,I use to make hideouts and mini fortresses.Some more stuff I played was Power Ranger,I use to get all the machine thingys(zords or something) to make it into the huge mega one just about had every toy that was about power rangers,I remember one time my mum order me the red dragon one and I played it for hours cause it could transform.

arnold

01-02-2006, 08:53 PM

All of the above Toys much MUCH <3 for them especially Mighty Max, Used to have all my Wrestling, Thundercats, heman and other ones fight him to the death >>

But ust read all through this...no ones Mentioned Monster in my Pocket..For Shame ;_; I used to have crap loads od MIMP
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mimp/mimp31.jpghttp://www.virtualtoychest.com/mimp/mimp47.jpg

Cartoon for it was Pretty cool as well.

As was Visionaries and Centurions
http://www.loqtech.com/figs/visionaries.jpg
http://www.kryptonsite.com/powerxtreme.jpg

Wesley

01-02-2006, 09:19 PM

Jesus! How could I forget them! I had hundreds of them!

Much to the annoyance of my Mother I set them up everywhere in the house and had little wars with them.

MoogleViper

01-02-2006, 09:39 PM

Letty

01-02-2006, 09:58 PM

The Peeps

01-02-2006, 10:25 PM

Me and my brother were constantly having fights with monster in my pockets, we had a little wrestling ring for them too :P
http://www.yowiemaggi.com/monsters/images/km88.jpg
most of ours were monster wrestlers in my pocket like this one though. But we still had quite a few monsters.

Meik

01-02-2006, 10:34 PM

Man, Monster in my Pocket. How could I forget those things.

I like this thread, it's like an electronic trip down memory lane.

Smalldude76

02-02-2006, 12:59 AM

I like this thread, it's like an electronic trip down memory lane.

Agreed, I'm being reminded of so much I used to have/do in the past.

K'nex was also really big in my childhood; many memories of building stuff to jump over and making ramps for motorbikes and cars to jump off of (into a wall, of course) :)

Atomic Boo

02-02-2006, 07:05 AM

I was ecstatic when i got my plastic mechano kit(not as good as metal but..), it was hard to make things that werent in the instructions book but it was fun to experiment with all the diferent kogs etc. i once made a really cool jeep thing but my sister mst have destroyed it.

BlueStar

02-02-2006, 07:46 AM

Did anyone play flips with Muscle Men?

They were quite cool. Unless you stood on them.

The3rdChildren

02-02-2006, 07:59 AM

http://www.toydreams.co.uk/images/boglins/loose/flobster.jpg

Dude, I had that Boglin too. Boglins were awesome.

I think it's a testament to my parents' spending power when I look through this thread and confirm I had pretty much all of these toys as a kid. No wonder we're so poor.

EEVILMURRAY

02-02-2006, 11:10 AM

That looks nothing like a Boglin, it's eyes are on things and it has a hook! They never looked like that.

As for Monster In My Pocket I still have a few, as well as some Mini-Boglins. Pictures may come soon.

The Peeps

02-02-2006, 11:27 AM

I had some boglins. Well.. still do somewhere :p
http://www.yowiemaggi.com/boglins/images/boglinbl2.jpg

Mundi

02-02-2006, 11:32 AM

My old sonic doll. Got it from my dad because he worked at the place wich imported sega things and got it for free

Wesley

02-02-2006, 12:20 PM

Jesus Christ I had so many toys.

Too much Lego for playing, Action Men all over my floor, dinning room tables filled with them Pocket Monster, Boglins that lived ontop of my wardrobe and Boglin tribes on my TV...

Not too mention all the others I forget.

Xeal

02-02-2006, 01:58 PM

I've always loved swords. I think my first was the Sword of Omens from Thunder Cats. I loved that thing, then my mum threw it away coz it had split at the end. Could have just taped it up. That must have been 15 years ago.
I had liono, panthro, cheetara, tigra, a sky cutter, a nosediver and a hover cat and all mighty mum-rah!

still got some street sharks (streex, ripster, slammu and moby lick).
I think I still have my Super Mario wrist watch game some where. Haven't seen it in at least 7 years.

Tamagochi
Transformers
NES
Megadrive
Marbles
Pogs
lego
yo-yo
NERF bow and arrow.

Johelian

02-02-2006, 02:57 PM

But ust read all through this...no ones Mentioned Monster in my Pocket..For Shame ;_; I used to have crap loads od MIMP
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mimp/mimp31.jpghttp://www.virtualtoychest.com/mimp/mimp47.jpg

Cartoon for it was Pretty cool as well.

As was Visionaries and Centurions
http://www.loqtech.com/figs/visionaries.jpg
http://www.kryptonsite.com/powerxtreme.jpg

You freakin' lie, I mentioned them first!
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