[mireaux7]

I remember having many toys as a kid. Growing up in the 1980's, kids were pretty much spoiled with the coolest damned toys ever imagined.

It was awesome to be a kid during this time, but if your allowance wasnt all that much, it also kind of sucked. If I could travel back in time, with a lot of money, Im sure I would go crazy buying up toys left & right (especially knowing that certain toys have impressive value today)

Many of the coolest toys from the 1980's are pretty well known:

Transformers
Voltron
G.I. Joe
Go-bots
Star Wars by Kenner
He-man
Rock Lords
Thundercats
M.A.S.K.
Hot Wheels (for some reason, they seemed cooler back then)
Colorforms
M.U.S.C.L.E.

I havent forgotten about you ladies:

Barbie
My Little Pony
Jem
Strawberry Shortcake
Rainbow Brite

Then there were toys that I remember so well, but I forgot the names of..thanks to the remarkable resources of the internet, I was able to finally remember the names of these toys after some 20 odd years...

Battle Beasts ( a sort of rock, scissors, paper play with figurines using the elements of fire, wood & water)

Flipsiders (travel games by milton bradley that resembled audio cassette tapes, but you gently shake the cassette and out came a folding magnetic game board..4 magnetic pawns were concealed and stored away inside a small compartment at the top of the cassette tape)

Sweet Secrets (transforming toys for girls, that resembled small jewelry lockets,.but when you opened up the locket, you could fold out the head, arms and legs thus transforming the jewelry into a figurine.

If there are any toys you remember that I havent listed (which is a lot, to be frank) please list them.

If you need help trying to remember a certain toy you had, post several clues about the toy and I will try my best to help identify what exactly that toy was. The more info you give me, the better my luck will be.

This post has been edited by mireaux7: 19 May 2007 - 01:52 PM

[Cobnat]

Well I don’t know about the 80's but I remember during the 90's I had plenty of Batman, Mighty Ducks and Street Sharks toys.

[mireaux7]

Well I don’t know about the 80's but I remember during the 90's I had plenty of Batman, Mighty Ducks and Street Sharks toys.

what?...No Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles??!!

[Jane Sherwood]

I'd get a bit pissed off about the Barbie thing if it weren't for the fact that I was one of their victims...

And I loved TMNT when I was little, as did my two brothers (three guesses who got all the cool toys, though ). But damned if I can remember anything at all about them now except names, colors, and that Michelangelo was my favorite (...I thought he was silly. And I liked his nunchucks).

As far as toys go, I wish I still had an Etch-A-Sketch or one of those electronic animation things. They were these clunky gray things about the size of a mouse pad but two inches thick because they took four C batteries to work, and you'd do one giant pixeled picture at a time, then play them all together to make a little cartoon. I remember it made this horrible screeching noise like an ancient printer when it played.

I loved that thing.





...I want another Lite-Brite, too.





And plane tickets to Boston.

[Spoon Poetic]

I still have my Etch-A-Sketch! And a handful of Hotwheels. Most of my toys came from the 90's, though. I have several Koosh balls (can't find them anywhere anymore, and if you do happen upon one, it's different than they used to make them), slinkies, Silly Putty, and a pinball I stole from a pinball machine. I also still have my California Raisin toy, and a box of 96 crayons - I think it was the first time they had 96 at once, and it was like, a special edition box because they were announcing the winners of the naming contest, where people sent in names for new colours. So it was the first box of crayons to have colours like "Asparagus Green," "Robin's Egg Glue," "Mac&Cheese Orange," "Timberwolf Grey," "Purple Mountain's Majesty," "Wisteria," "Tickle-me-Pink..." Weird how I can still remember all those. Anyway, when I was a kid, my toys came mostly from a certain relative who wanted me to be a girlygirl. So I ended up with lots of Barbies, that I waged wars and battles with as if they were G.I. Joes. (Okay, I admit, I played with them like a normal little girl sometimes, too.) I had lots of guy friends that I'd play with, though, so I played with lots of Transformers and Beast Wars toys and TMNT and Hotwheels and Matchbox cars and other "boy" toys. And of course video games. Oddly, the boys asked me all the time if we could play with my Barbies.

Edit: I just remembered a couple staple toys from the late 80's/early 90's: trolls (always hated those) and slap bracelets! I just found a couple slap bracelets and promptly bought them for me and my best friends.

I love toys. I'm such a kid.

This post has been edited by Spoon Poetic: 19 May 2007 - 03:52 PM

[princesskadee]

I'd get a bit pissed off about the Barbie thing if it weren't for the fact that I was one of their victims...

And I loved TMNT when I was little, as did my two brothers (three guesses who got all the cool toys, though ). But damned if I can remember anything at all about them now except names, colors, and that Michelangelo was my favorite (...I thought he was silly. And I liked his nunchucks).

As far as toys go, I wish I still had an Etch-A-Sketch or one of those electronic animation things. They were these clunky gray things about the size of a mouse pad but two inches thick because they took four C batteries to work, and you'd do one giant pixeled picture at a time, then play them all together to make a little cartoon. I remember it made this horrible screeching noise like an ancient printer when it played.

I loved that thing.
...I want another Lite-Brite, too.
And plane tickets to Boston.

You are referring to the Etch-a-Sketch animator. I still have mine. I got it at a yard sale 17 years ago. ehh,.it was really cool when it first came out, but I can tell you that it shows its age considerably compared to more advanced computer animation tools available for amateur animator enthusiasts..

..however, if youre creative engine can be easily entertained, or if youre looking to take a dip back into nostalgia..then yeah, its worth getting. (cough**ebay).

as far as TMNT, dont tell me you already forgot about Be-Bop, Rock Steady, Master Splinter, Shredder, the Foot Clan, April O' Neil, Krang, Casey Jones, and the secret ooze?..ohhhhh. how could you!

[Jane Sherwood]

A couple of them, yes, until you just reminded me (but I think I always called Casey Jones "Jason" for obvious reasons). But who was the rabbit? I remember one of us had a TMNT action figure of a rabbit, but not even knowing who the hell he was then.

[Chyld]

Was there a TNMT rabbit? Must have missed that one.

But they were some pretty sweet toys back then. I've still got a box of many Thundercats lying around somewhere. Hopefully not car booted off. And some Turtles somewhere, and even the odd Transformer. Those were the days.

And even though they were technically 90s stuff, who could forget the Power Rangers, and their new robots every six months?

[Cyzyk]

Dino Riders, anyone?

[Deepsycher]

I still have some white robot things that move around. I'll picture them when I get my camera back.

I don't remember much useful toys other than mini computer I pulled apart because it was faulty. The stuff I considered as toys were unused electrical boards, wires, plugs and tools.

[Cobnat]

I remember when X-Men movie toys came out, I was in my early teens and when I took them home, I realised I had out grown toys… saddest day of my life…

[Spoon Poetic]

Psh. I'll never outgrow toys.

[Cobnat]

All toys are fleeting and video games will last until we learn how to communicate with one another once more.

[princesskadee]

Was there a TNMT rabbit? Must have missed that one.

Yes,.there was some white rabbit character on TMNT..and for the life of me, I forget what his name was.

My research didnt pull up any results either:

http://en.wikipedia....tles_characters

Ok, bonus points to the one who can solve the mystery of the white rabbit by posting a link that identifies exactly who this fabled white hare was.

[Sailor Abbey]

He-man and She-ra
My Little Ponies
Hungry Hungry Hippos
GI Joe
Those little army guys with the parachutes
Ninja Turtles

My mom kept buying my barbies for some reason. Instead of spending their time driving pink cars and dressing up in girly clothes, my barbies did time in the trenches beside Rip-Cord and Storm Shadow. And don’t think for a second my Joes didn’t ride My Little Ponies.