What was your favorite toy as a child?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-04-09 02:09am

We had Voltron, too. The bitchin' metal lions one.

...

But his head and wings broke off, and we didn't have his sword.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-04-09 02:42am

My favorite toy was my old Sega Master System, weonly had Alex Kidd in Miracle World and Castle of Illusion, but it was great.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2003-04-09 03:17am

Damn, how about Colleco Vision or Atari 2600?

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-04-09 03:19am

army soldiers. I had a c-151 which carried a light tank and 2 heavies, I had 500 little green guys, mortar teams, flamethrowers, everything, and a few dozen of the half inch medieval models. I had massive wars in my basement, spreading three rooms.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2003-04-09 03:52am

Mostly Transformers: Favorites were Metroplex (Trypticon ultimately beat him though, since he was so much sturdier), Countdown the little micromaster commander, and some Action Masters. Lots of folks didn't like the non-transforming Transformers, but I wasn't one of 'em. It was a chance to own all the long out of production transformers, and they were ALL THE RIGHT SIZE FOR EACH OTHER!! Any of you remmember having Optimus Prime fight Shockwave? That's right, Shockwave is like a frickin' half foot taller than Prime! Also I could snap off the AM's arms and legs for "battle damage."

Later on I liked whatever the cheap toys in the bargin bin at KayBee's were. My friend David and I would buy an armload, torture them all, and then take the scraps and construct bad ass new toys from them. We had some great times...

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-04-09 05:49am

Simple: LEGOS

Joe comes a distant second, and ti would have to be full sized indestructable joe.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-04-09 06:17am

Legos
MagnaDoodle
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Play-Doh

Among others..

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-04-09 07:06am

fgalkin wrote:That toy wasn't popular in Russia. For obvious reasons.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Well, they did have the uber cliched Oktober Guard series of toys to play with. In the comics GI Joe and the Oktober Guard would always come to blows when they were trying to fight Cobra, but they always made nice by the end

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-04-09 07:54am

Legos. Best toy ever in my opinion.

GI Joes, Transformers, and Matchbox/Hotwheels cars.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-04-09 09:21am

Favorite toy was Boba Fett, I prized him above all others.

In general, went from: Toy Cars => Star Wars => Gi-Joe. Pretty much always played with lego (especially space lego) and transformers.

Still have all this stuff stored at my parents house. Including Boba Fett (and he still has his little gun, woohoo

)

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-04-09 09:47am

I had a Milleneum Falcon. That was my favorite -- had it for years. The Darth Vader action figure was probably my second favorite. My friend and I would take a mixture of GI Joe and SW action figures to fight wars against each other (I always took Imperial forces and Cobra stuff). Whenever it looked like I might lose, I'd fly in Vader in his TIE fighter and say, "Vader chokes all of your men with the force. You lose."

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-04-09 10:03am

Star Wars micro-machines for one, however, I managed to destroy 3 TIE fighters, 1, TIE bomber, and 1 TIE interceptor. I still have most of them. I also kept my gigantic collection of animal toys. However, I gave away most of my plastic dinosaurs

but talked myself into keeping my old Jurassic Park action figures(Poseable Dilophosaurus, with REAL spitting action! I got algae in him that way) Speaking of algae, I also kept my whale and shark collection(Awesome, even though you can't put them in water). *sigh* "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away........"

(I also still have my old teddy bear

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-04-09 11:31am

Ahh, I've still got several suitcases of Lego in a closet here.
I also had a load of MASK toy's long ago.....

I also still have all my GW minatures....a large High Elf army, a small Imperial Guard contingent, and a company of marines from my own chapter......I also have a few Necromunda gangs, Warhammer Quest and Gorkamorka and Bloodbowl.......

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » 2003-04-09 10:06pm

You children wouldn't know a good toy if it came up and bit you in the ass. Behold! Here are the best toys!!!

-Star Wars figures and ships (especially the X-wing and Falcon)
-Atari 2600 (Yar's Revenge, Defender, etc...)

theski · Post by **theski** » 2003-04-09 10:07pm

Legos and Lincoln logs followed by a Big Wheel

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-04-09 10:13pm

Transformers. Megatron was the coolest mofo on the block. And my gigantic AT-ST, plus huge Millenium Falcon. You know, the ones built ot fit micro-machine figures into, but could hold a regular action figure or two if it wanted to.

And Jurassic Park stuff. The T-Rex that roared when you pressed it, geez that was so cool.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-04-09 10:31pm

I always loved an "Indiana Jones"/"Tomb Raider"-esque game that we used to play.

You had at your disposal, the entire resources of the lego, wooden block, technic, meccano and other "construction" stuff to create the most impentrable, trap ridden "temple of doom" ever.

Your opponent would then attempt to guide a GI Joe through it without setting off any of the traps.

It was helluva cool, using soft-balls as "boulder traps" an having lego punji pits etc...

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-04-10 08:35am

Transformers. I only had three of them (among them Sideswipe, or whatever the red Lamborghini Countach was called), but they're simply..... CULT!!

Don't forget Lego, as a native of Denmark I have to mention Lego.