Was going through the storage room tonight and ran across some old collectible toys that were here. Got me thinking about being a little boy and the joy of a new toy on Christmas Day. There is a wide variety of ages on here so there should be a wide variety of answers. Like my father's stick with a string on it that he played with (times were hard right after the depression)! Or the younger guys here that probably had a million toys to pick from and ended up using less than half of them (like my little boy's room filled to the roofou. Some of my favorite memories were getting toys related to the tv series "The Six Million Dollar Man". Other great ones were from "Star Wars". One GI Joe sticks out too. An old Hot Wheels that looked like dad's 66 Riv. to me (still got it too). I loved a slot car track that I got one time that actually would shift lanes with a flip of the switch on the controller :jd:! High Tech Stuff, would you say??? What are some of your favorites?
All I needed was model cars and modeling clay to build cars . I can still remember cutting the little playboy bunnys out of the paper and glueing them to the rear windows . Slot cars were kool until the hobby store closed because the owner of the store decided to wrap his motorcycle around a tree in the forest preserve . Yep he didn't make it .Soon after , it was work at the gas station and cars and ...:Brow: :laugh: :TU:
Transformers. Apparently I had alot of them when I was really little, probably explains why I've got over $1.3k worth of em now. o No: :laugh:
Oh yea , the ones my Mom put to the street for the nieghborhood kids to take and do what they want to them when I moved out !:rant: ou: Not to mention what they are worth today .....:eek2: :ball:
My favorites that stand out in my head....... Erector set Green Machine Those little battery operated 4WD trucks ("mini mights" or something like that??) Remote control cars Slot tracks and HO trains Those little cars that looked like top fuelers that you ripped a zip tie looking thing out of them and they flew across the room at mach 10 :laugh: Don't forget about the ATARI!! p
I had an Erector Set that I played with forever. I also had a GI Joe set with the space accessories including a moon walker, space ship, etc. Very popular in the late 60's. Oooh, I'm dating myself there.
Big Wheel, SitNSpin, toy guns [with out neon parts] I miss the gun isle at Kmart. It where every boy went. A whole isle of gun that looked fricking real but went click click click. cap guns were cool.
I still have most of my toys from my childhood, some inherited, some bought as I was "growing up" (yeah, like that'll happen):grin: Lots of Star Wars figures, spaceships (Millenium Falcon:bglasses: ). I still have my original Aurora AFX Slot Car set (late '60s), still LIKE NEW, in the box!:bglasses: I started building Model Cars at about 10 (started with Snap Tites, still have the Pepsi "Dragster in a Bottle"), which caused me to buy/collect over 200 Model cars that I have, NOW! Mostly GM Musclecars and Prostreet's, and some Lamborghinis. I've become an Electric Train collector - Dad's Lionel train (from '48:eek2: ) - My H.O. set is HUGE - an "N" scale "automotive town" (mini train, with GM Car Dealership, Paint/Body Shop, Drive In Restaurant, Shell Oil refinery, EVERYTHING "GM" or CAR related! All cars in Dealership lot are GNs. That's the only "Buicks" that are available in "N" scale.:bglasses: - Toy trains for my kid's, too (there are 2 more trains I set up TODAY in my basement!:bglasses: Before Atari, there was ODYSSEY (I have it packed away, somewhere). It had transparent screens that stuck on the TV, to move a little white "ball" on the screen. I even have a Shotgun that was used for "shooting" the ball on the screen (VERY RARE, I've only seen ONE other one!o No: ) Don't get me started on "ATARI":eek2: I still have 2 of the original game decks, and ALL the "unusual" accessories (Wireless Joysticks, a Snowboard Controller that you can stand on and "Ski" with, Rollerball Controller, etc.), and between 200 and 300 Games!:eek2:ou: I bought them at garage sales and yard sales for $1 each, over the years.o No: The original Nintendo, same way, ALL games, ALL accessories.ou::bglasses: This "kid" has not grown up, yet. I've added to my "video game collection": Nintendo N64, Sony PS2, XBox... What's NEXT? I'm waiting.:TU:
I was into the old slot car tracks that my dad collect from the 60's and seventies. I have a whole bunch of cars and enough track to build a pretty nice track with banked turns and that stuff. LEGOS....I have three big tupperware boxes with nothing but legos. I made a pretty stock car out legos. I made a modified out of legos. Umm Matchbox/Hot Wheels cars. k'nex. Hairspray and lighter.......I MEAN.....that actually makes a pretty cool flame thrower.
The two that stick out most for me were the Vertibird (helicopter on a stick that went in a circle back and forth) and the Evil Kneivel Stunt Cycle.
Rick, My brother & I use to have those, mine was red his was blue. I use to have Barbie's, I would shave their heads, throw them in the closet (so mom would not find them :spank: ) then go play with my brothers Hot Wheels & race track. :laugh: Beth
Oh yes, the Evil Kneivel stuff was great, as were Vertibirds. I had a lot of toys (still have them in an attic somewhere), but my favorites were Big Jims (liked them far better than GI Joes), Screamin' Demon' motercycles, SSTs, Hotwheels, frizbees, cardboard boxes, and Atari computers. A telescope and microscope as well. The woods behind the house was a great"toy" - exploring it, playing different games... I'd have to say my imagination was the best toy.
when that sucker was revved up, nothing could stop the gyro powered back tire .....NOT EVEN YOUR SISTER'S HAIR !!........ . . . . . . . . so i have heard.:laugh: anyone else ever have the "COX gas powered dragster"? we ran ours on a fishing pole. we would hammer a nail in the street for the staring point and then one of us would hold the end of the fishing pole against the ground .... as you were holding the pole, this dragster would be comining toward you at about 40+ mph.... if you didnt pull the pole into the air soon enough, YOU GOT CLOBBERED!!!.. and ruined the fishing pole ...and the car was only limited in its destruction by its fuel capacity....
Had a few...but these were my favorite: GI JOE (smaller ones in the 80's!) Lego's Real looking non-politically correct cap guns! Hot Wheels Man, those were the days. Why was I in such a freakin' hurry to grow up? Oh ya, beer:Brow:
