Retro Toys

[luzur]

the toys i had was Transformers, GI Joe, MASK, He-man, Turtles.
i had lots of characters but sadly all but 1 is gone now, i found Scorpio (the huge Transformer that turns into a scorpion) and nowadays he stands guard on a shelf out in my workshop

[greenberet79]

I wanted the Turtles, but never got any. Although my mum did get me fake ones! I did play with them, but doubt i was impressed, even though it was actually a really kind thing to do cos it wasn't my birthday or christmas and she got me four of them. What an ungrateful little sh** I was!

The real Turtle toys were harder to get than a meeting with the Pope.

[themightymartin]

Anyone remember the old Super Soaker water pistols? Everybody had the Super Soaker 50 and the Super Soaker 100, but only the very lucky had the Super Soaker 300. The grandaddy of them all though was the Super Soaker CPS 2000. This beast was less water pistol, more crowd-control water cannon! It is STILL the most powerful stock water blaster ever to be sold in shops, fired A PINT OF WATER PER SECOND and was allegedly capable of causing physical injury.

[Megamixer]

Anyone remember the old Super Soaker water pistols? Everybody had the Super Soaker 50 and the Super Soaker 100, but only the very lucky had the Super Soaker 300. The grandaddy of them all though was the Super Soaker CPS 2000. This beast was less water pistol, more crowd-control water cannon! It is STILL the most powerful stock water blaster ever to be sold in shops, fired A PINT OF WATER PER SECOND and was allegedly capable of causing physical injury.

I had one of the standard "assault rifle" size Super Soakers and some pistols but I always wanted the huge shoulder-mounted guns with the quad-nozzles and triple water tanks. Can't remember which model that was but it looked awesome!

As for toys in general, I always wanted a complete set of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers zords from the original series. As a kid I was bought the MegaZord with the shooting fists but I always wanted the 'main' toys i.e. the individual bots that you could fit together to make the MegaZord or keep separate.

Sadly, the MegaZord set and - in particular - the DragonZord with flashing lights now go for quite a bit on ebay.

[samhain81]

A sum up of my childhood toys in 4 words

Boglin
Dinoraiders
PowerRangers

[Liamh1982]

Was I the only person who had a Rubik's Triamid?


Not to be confused with the Triangle, also known as the Pyramid or Pyraminx.

[themightymartin]

Was I the only person who had a Rubik's Triamid?

Yes

I was always a fan of those Tomytronic 3D things. Even when the batteries ran out you could run around pretending it was a spaceship.

[Sega2006]

Bloody hell somones been doing some digging, its been a while since I last posted on this thread.
Ill have to do some photos of my retro toys collection as its quite big now, the falcon now can be used and it has a few friends, Ive loads of tinplate and diecast toys from various era's, some are the real deal others are replicas.

[felgekarp]

Anybody else got any Dungeons & Dragons figures? I did have some large dragon type thing at some point as well, I'm not sure if that's still lying around somewhere though.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Got a fair few Dungeons & Dragons figures, no people though - all monsters. I'll put a picture up later on (more likely tomorrow).

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Here we go, as "promised":


Excuse me whilst I get pretentious:

[felgekarp]

I've not seen any of those before, I'm a little dissapointed that they're staction figures though.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Wouldn't really call them staction figures - they're big enough (around the height of the TMNT figures), made of hard rubber and fairly flexible - the ones with tentacles anyway. All dated 1982, I really like them!

There's a few others available, frogmen and the like, but there's also that massive dragon with loads of heads - can't seem to get that one at a decent price.

[Shinobi]

Wouldn't really call them staction figures - they're big enough (around the height of the TMNT figures), made of hard rubber and fairly flexible - the ones with tentacles anyway. All dated 1982, I really like them!

There's a few others available, frogmen and the like, but there's also that massive dragon with loads of heads - can't seem to get that one at a decent price.

You don't have Venger or any of them.. I'm sure that Swamp Thing was on the cartoon

[tekaotaku]

Bought this today from a charity shop:

Ring Raiders: SKYBASE COURAGE MOBILE ASSAULT BASE



I remember playing with these at my mates, little planes attached to a plastic ring, and you'd run around making plane noises and machine guns noises, until you begged your parents to buy you the sound effects device!

Very short lived.

The one I bought today is boxed, nice condition, one plane, all items, instruction sheet, limited edition mini comic book/advert sheet and sticker sheet (not been applied!!) and all sealed. Local hospice shop, £1....