[Sailor Abbey]

I think I had some Thundercats toys. I cant remember their names though.

[Despondent]

I had the animator, but lost patience with it. Vert-bird rocks! I got a new chopper patrol recently, and it's set up with my slot car set for three people action!

girder and panel building set. Hot wheels, still collecting. Legos are great, awful to step on with bare feet. Playmobil Rocks!

SST racers! Those carboard bricks! Slip and Slide! bandana parachutes! CARDBOARD BOXES!

[Jane Sherwood]

YES! No matter how big and flashy the toy, the cardboard box quickly becomes the coolest thing EVER! They made me wish my parents would by new refrigerators, just so I could have the King of Cardboard Boxes! Ironic, though, how the best box in the world when you're a kid becomes the last thing you want when you grow up.

But Slip and Slides? Those things were EVIL! Don't you remember cutting up your arms, legs, and stomach because of stealthy rocks, twigs, and bits of pinecone, or those spiny little balls that fell off trees?

[Sailor Abbey]

But Slip and Slides? Those things were EVIL! Don't you remember cutting up your arms, legs, and stomach because of stealthy rocks, twigs, and bits of pinecone, or those spiny little balls that fell off trees?

Yeah they were never as much fun as they looked on TV. We always just ended up spraying each other with the hose and running through the sprinkler. My face hurts just thinking about a slip&slide.

[Despondent]

A friend of mine had one. And an immaculate yard. Of course said toy can destroy the lawn.

[Spoon Poetic]

I don't think I ever played on a Slip and Slide, but one of my best friends that down the street had a biiiig hill in his yard, and we'd put a big plastic tarp (not the bumpy blue camping tarp, but the slicky transparent kind kinda like a shower curtain) on the hill, and run a hose and a sprinkler on it and run and slide down the hill. It was half our bodies sliding on the tarp, and half the tarp sliding down the slick grassy/muddy hill. I think the tarp was thick enough to prevent any of those nasty booboos from rocks and the like.

Does anyone remember that scary Teddy Rupkins thing? That thing creeped me out. Cabbage Patch Kids, did, too. And the dolls that had Cabbage Patch Kid heads but glowy caterpillar bodies. Trolls were also creepy. Man, we had a lot of creepy toys.

[Sailor Abbey]

My buddy and kid sister were the worst. My buddy looks just like chucky - before chuckys face got all fucked up.

[Cyzyk]

Anyone remember Tacky Warriors? 90s, I know, but hard to forget.

[Despondent]

I had a krazy kar, a ride-in toy from the 60's. That thing was great fun. You sat in a disc, and used your arms to rotate two huge wheels (similar action to a wheelchair, but greater torque). The Big Wheel followed, but I'd technically outgrown that one.

[Jane Sherwood]

I had one of those glow worm doll things, but I didn't like it very much because you had to squeeze it really hard to get it to light up, so it was impossible to relax and go to sleep if you tried to rely on one when bulb in your night light suddenly burnt out.

Not fun times for a little kid who was afraid of the dark.

And I just discovered something very interesting while looking for a picture of my absolute favorite 80s toy ever - my stuffed yellow Fluppy Dog that I got on my first birthday. Turns out Fluppy Dogs was an animated TV show! I never knew that!

What a mint-condition Fluppy Dog should look like.

What mine looks like after twenty years of ownership, about fourteen or fifteen of which were spent sleeping with it. This is not the look of a battered, worn out stuffed animal, this it the look of a well-loved stuffed animal.

This post has been edited by Jane Sherwood: 21 May 2007 - 06:20 PM

[Spoon Poetic]

I actually think yours is much cuter, Janey!

And how could I have forgotten PowerWheels!? My neighbor had one when I was very little and I envied her so much. I used to fantasize about stealing her PowerWheels car and running away from home, only to be discovered by Sharon, Lois, and Bram (of The Elephant Show), and they loved me and wanted me to tour with them. Yeah. I was a weird kid.

[Jane Sherwood]

...Sharon, Lois, and Bram (of The Elephant Show)...

DAAAH!

The theme song! Make it stop! MAKE IT STOP! NYGH!

(*clutches head in pain*)




Really, though, I used to watch that too, along with stuff like Eureka's Castle (I even remember my favorite episode was the one where they all went camping). But dear god, even then that song would get inside your brain and devour you from within!

[Spoon Poetic]

Which song, the opening song with the elephants on a spider web, or the ending song, Skinnamarinkydinkydink?
I actually only watched the show a few times, as we weren't blessed with cable but some of the time. I just got the cassette tapes as gifts when I was small and fell in love with them. I heard Monty Python's "Galaxy Song" for the first time from Bram!
Our generation totally had the best television shows.

[optimus_prime]

YES! No matter how big and flashy the toy, the cardboard box quickly becomes the coolest thing EVER! They made me wish my parents would by new refrigerators, just so I could have the King of Cardboard Boxes! Ironic, though, how the best box in the world when you're a kid becomes the last thing you want when you grow up.

But Slip and Slides? Those things were EVIL! Don't you remember cutting up your arms, legs, and stomach because of stealthy rocks, twigs, and bits of pinecone, or those spiny little balls that fell off trees?

yes,..im glad to know i wasnt the only crazy kid out there that played inside of the empty boxes that new fridges came in. me and my nephew played inside of one on the porch one time.,.we had it laying horizontally, and pretended we were inside of an 18-wheeler. (my nephew's dad drove the big rigs, and hence his daddy was his icon)

his dad cut out windows in the "cab" for us to see thru, along our fantastic journeys

by the way, isnt it interesting that my avatar is in fact of optimus prime,..thats a weird relation to this post, eh?

Which song, the opening song with the elephants on a spider web, or the ending song, Skinnamarinkydinkydink?
I actually only watched the show a few times, as we weren't blessed with cable but some of the time. I just got the cassette tapes as gifts when I was small and fell in love with them. I heard Monty Python's "Galaxy Song" for the first time from Bram!
Our generation totally had the best television shows.

i think it went something like:

"Skinnamarinkydinkydink, Skinnamarinkitydoo,.I love you"

This post has been edited by optimus_prime: 22 May 2007 - 06:29 AM

[Egfu]

I feel so out of place. As a 90's kid and all. Personally, I think toys were cooler in the 80's, but I never got to play with any of them. I did inherit some from my big brother, but none of the cool ones like Transformers. Oh well, the grass is always greener and so on.

And when it comes to my childhood toys and games, the Biker Mice from Mars are usually the first thing that pops into my mind. Oh, and this, for some reason.

This post has been edited by Egfu: 22 May 2007 - 07:40 AM