Toys from your youth

[v1st]

Wondering why nobody mention the bionic man doll.  remember you can look through his eye and that karate chop  arm  lol.

[Simaril]

Wow, great topic.

I remember way back, I had a plastic spy ship about the length of a coffee table. (At least that's how big I remember it to be...probably smaller in real life!) It looked like a freighter, but when you slid open a telescoping midsection it exposed a hidden spring powered missile launcher. Think there were other gadgets as well, like a satellite or radar dish...

Like you guys said, hours of fun with that thing.



And there was a plastic race car set designed with a figure 8 cross over -- and the cars had exploding parts, so that when there was a collision cool stuff popped off. Not to mention the variety of Hot Wheels sets and parts, all gravity powered, so you could clamp the start on a mantel or something and send cars zipping across loops, high G turns, and up and down furniture obstacles all over the place.


And action figures that were sized for kids instead of adults? 12inch GI Joes, "Johnny West" dolls that looked exactly like Robert Conrad (who was then doing Wild Wild West). Copy cat figures of knights, whose faces looked the same as GI joe but had old fashioned beards. And all the GI Joe accessories! I remember a yellow truck with trick doors and all sorts of cool attachments..some kind of early 70s mobile command car. Even a plastic "jet" that would hold a 12" GI joe, balanced nicely enough that it actually kinda worked as a glider...(course, it had a drop rate close to that of a brick, but it seemed amazing to me at the time)

Good times.

[ODBAL]

wow - I forgot about some of this stuff - I had the carrier with the soft rubber corsairs...and the electric footbal as well as the big track.....
Also had the biggest electric race car track Sears made / sold outta the catlog at the time.... Back when Toughskins were cool!

But I see you your big wheels and raise you a
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Ps - who had Lincoln Logs? They worked good with the little green soldiers and firecrackers.

YES! Green Machines>Big Wheel!  Loved mine.

[ODBAL]

Wondering why nobody mention the bionic man doll.  remember you can look through his eye and that karate chop  arm  lol.

I did have the 6 Million Dollar Man "Action Figure" (Never say doll).  Good call on that one.

Also, I had some sort of "erector set" that came with all these short black plastic rods that you would melt together (like a faux weld) to build stuff.  It made a very distinct smell and once in a while I will smell something similar that takes me back.  Anyone else suffer the same fate with this toy?

[Coach]

Estes model rockets
erector set
hot wheels
bicycle
chemistry set
leather tooling set
woodburning set
BB guns

How did we live to be this old with all of those dangerous toys 

[Simaril]

How did we live to be this old with all of those dangerous toys 

Simple -- those toys were parents' clever plan to eliminate the stupid. Notice how much less capable the protected youngins of today seem?



I say bring back the Jarts!!

[Treize69]

Bring back jarts and outlaw helmets. 

[rogerdee]

i had action man with rubber griping hands,i think you yanks called them gi joe's.

Airfix had a thing in England called flight deck,had  a phantom fighter on a long lump of string and you had to land it on the carrier.

Also had tonka toys although they were never as strong as the tv adverts.Found a tonka dump truck a few weeks ago at work so decided to try like they did on the tv ad and stick my lorry front wheel in the back.
One very flat tonka toy

[v1st]

I remember this odd smelling stuff you mixed and put on a staw then made like a ballon out of it.  can't remember the name of that stuff .  but surely wasn't good for us

[Treize69]

I remember that, I still swear it was the same stuff they covered school bus seats with.

[Sol75]

No pics but...

Capsella brings back memories.. had that.
Estes model rockets
I was lucky, had a dad into RC so starting @ Age 6, through today, have had many an RC airplane and Heli.
Erector set....
Had an old 8088 PC as my first computer
there was another "build" set i had.. cant remember the name of it to save my life.... It had these "I beam" looking things, they were grey.. had various electric motors which these things could attach to, also could attach wheels to the motors.  Came with a BIG control board to control the various things.  You could make stuff like robots, walking bugs, etc etc. Anyone know what im talking about?

Also had a KITT toy which you could open the hood, and program a set of instructiosn into, then hit the GO button and it would do various things... go forward slow, then speed up, turn, honk the horn, open the t-tops, talk, etc.  All absed on what you programmed it to do with the keypad. That was fun!

(edit)
Found the name of the "building" set i was talking about...
Called ROBOTIX.  Aparrently the sets have been sold since 1984 until PRESENT! Even though distributers have changed several times, the NEW sets remain completely backwards compatible with the old ones! WOW! should get a set for.. uhm... my kid! lol
Sol

[DREDIOCK]

And how about these

"Fright Factory"



And "Creepy Crawlers Bug Maker"

[DREDIOCK]

And here is something they dont do right anymore

heh. who didnt "smell" the cards?

Who in your minds,,nose cant still SMELL the cards?

[Treize69]

I think the cards had more flavor than the gum.

And the Yankees sounded best when stuck in the spokes of a bike. Only thing the Yankees were ever good for. 

[Treize69]

And here is something they dont do right anymore

heh. who didnt "smell" the cards?

Who in your minds,,nose cant still SMELL the cards?

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I think the cards had more flavor than the gum.

And the Yankees sounded best when stuck in the spokes of a bike. Only thing the Yankees were ever good for.