Old toys from way back

[E.H. Ruddock]

Buzz-Off was awesome

[E.H. Ruddock]

My brother used to collect G.I. Joe figures but only the COBRA stuff. They had way cooler stuff than the good guys. My brothers always bugged me growing up, but I always respected this choice and thought it was cool. I should tell him that someday.

[Bammer]

I still have about a hundred of these

[EJ]

Had an awesome collection of Metal Tonka Trucks as a kid.

Out of the box, nice and shiny and clean:




But, everyone's always looked like this after being left outside:





As teens we would load the cement truck with firecrackers or an M-60 and set them off. The trucks would survive just fine.

[washing machine]

I used to have most of these Street Sharks action figures. I kind of wish I still had them, they're very cool looking

i've seen these but i'm pretty sure this is the first post in this thread that makes me feel my age. my friends' little brothers or nephews would play with these.

Toys and cartoons from this era are the perfect illustration of that weird xennial gap from 1977 to about 1983. I remember the toys that Plat is referring to after watching my younger brother get into them, but I have zero emotional connections seeing something like that.

[doug rr]

Had an awesome collection of Metal Tonka Trucks as a kid.

Out of the box, nice and shiny and clean:




But, everyone's always looked like this after being left outside:





As teens we would load the cement truck with firecrackers or an M-60 and set them off. The trucks would survive just fine.

those were great, we had them too
rock em sock em robots was fun...i still have that one and a bunch of others in my parents basement

[bada]

My brother used to collect G.I. Joe figures but only the COBRA stuff. They had way cooler stuff than the good guys. My brothers always bugged me growing up, but I always respected this choice and thought it was cool. I should tell him that someday.

I had tons of G.I. Joes. They really were the best toys ever.

[Simple Torture]

My brother used to collect G.I. Joe figures but only the COBRA stuff. They had way cooler stuff than the good guys. My brothers always bugged me growing up, but I always respected this choice and thought it was cool. I should tell him that someday.

I had tons of G.I. Joes. They really were the best toys ever.

Favorite Christmas:

[bada]

I gotta a lot of miles out of this one.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Simple Torture]

Always loved bases:

[LoathedVermin72]

Always loved bases:

This is very Burt

[Chris_H_2]

[Chris_H_2]

i was a goddamn trucking mogul.

[Chris_H_2]

stompers!

[washing machine]

Who would win?

[Self]

[Norah]

loved that pizza shooter

[Anders]

Had just over 300 of these, collected between ages 5 and 11. Got my mother to agree to me hosting a party for me and some friends when I reached 300. Two girls showed up that had a crush on me. They tried to hide with a present of a large bag of candy and love hearts for me, but we saw them first. We ran after them and surrounded them. I did date one of them later that year for three months.

Stopped collecting shortly after. Mostly stopped with kids toys by 12, and converted to video games. Although I did build some lego between 12-15.

[VinylGuy]

I have the ghostbusters car and the robocop car...both are awesome.

My he man castle is a copy though. I got robbed.