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