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I was chatting with Cincinnatus the other night on the unofficial RooshV chat room.

I brought up how my mom suggested selling all my Legos in the basement. For whatever reason, I was seriously aggrieved, as I remember toiling away in Illinois humidity clearing ditch weeds and mowing lawns to accumulate enough scratch to buy Legos in my youth. I'm not parting ways with those fuckers!

I remember how cool Legos were when I was a kid:









Man, looking back there was so much shit that seemed so cool. Hot wheels, Micro Machines, Batman & GI Joe figurines. I probably have about 5 or 6 big ass tubs of toys in my parent's basement just on those categories.

What stuff do you recall from your youth? I remember getting into Pogs, battling in Pokemon on black & white Gameboys and briefly dabbling in Magic! The Gathering.

What about you?

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Begged my parents for it after everyone started getting it, they promised me to buy it if I got As in math, science and history.

Got my As, they bought it, I grew bored of it after two weeks. Kept it shut down with battery removed forever more because I couldn't bear the thought of the poor thing dying because of my lack of interest.

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The 1980s ain't got shit on the 1970s.

   

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I loved super soakers and this was the holy grail. It must have weighed 30 pounds when fully loaded and I was only 10 or 11 when I had it and It only lasted one summer but man that shit was fun. I felt like Duke Nukem!


The picture doesnt do it justice.That thing was like 4 feet long.

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fuck the haters

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Since Lego has been covered (it was my favorite toy by a long margin).

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(04-22-2014 04:07 AM)2Wycked Wrote:  I was chatting with Cincinnatus the other night on the unofficial RooshV chat room.

I brought up how my mom suggested selling all my Legos in the basement. For whatever reason, I was seriously aggrieved, as I remember toiling away in Illinois humidity clearing ditch weeds and mowing lawns to accumulate enough scratch to buy Legos in my youth. I'm not parting ways with those fuckers!

I remember how cool Legos were when I was a kid:









Man, looking back there was so much shit that seemed so cool. Hot wheels, Micro Machines, Batman & GI Joe figurines. I probably have about 5 or 6 big ass tubs of toys in my parent's basement just on those categories.

What stuff do you recall from your youth? I remember getting into Pogs, battling in Pokemon on black & white Gameboys and briefly dabbling in Magic! The Gathering.

What about you?

Lego was hands down my favorite kidhood toy.

I used to have that same Lego Castle Woodsman set! I went to my childhood home some years ago and took every last brick I could find, now they're all safe with me. Found hairs from my dog in the bin, too, made me all nostalgic.

I was also a fan of action figures, I had Batman, Ghostbusters, the 80s style small GI Joe (based on the cartoon), and the full-size GI Joe's, too. However my favorite were Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles, and though I had Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, and Leonardo and their various permutations (in space, disguise, etc), myfavorites were the more obscure characters:







When I was real little, younger than 5, this was my favorite, Fisher Price Little People's Main Street:



Great thread.

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Oh man, Meccano. That toy taught me a lot about fabrication.

Playmobil. It had me researching adventure touring at a very young age and I took my first cross country tour at age 18 (Greece). Thanks Playmobil.

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Big Trak. You punched in a route and then it would execute the moves. Damn I loved that thing.

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I had one of these Kenner SSP racers. They were awesome. I don't know why they aren't still popular.

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I suppose that I was in my pre-teens or early teens during the atari period with breakout, space invaders, packman and asteriods.

I also recall riding a banana bike in my preteens. I remember one time taking a jump with the banana bike and the cheap seat broke (the two adjustment bars holding it up in the back), so I had to ride the bike three miles before I could make some kind of patchwork fix of it. I was kind of adventurous in attempting various fixes that upon reflexion were probably half-assed at best (but we were NOT much into new things or throwing things away, but instead repairing what we had, if possible).

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(03-19-2015 01:46 AM)JayJuanGee Wrote:  I suppose that I was in my pre-teens or early teens during the atari period with breakout, space invaders, packman and asteriods.

I also recall riding a banana bike in my preteens. I remember one time taking a jump with the banana bike and the cheap seat broke (the two adjustment bars holding it up in the back), so I had to ride the bike three miles before I could make some kind of patchwork fix of it. I was kind of adventurous in attempting various fixes that upon reflexion were probably half-assed at best (but we were NOT much into new things or throwing things away, but instead repairing what we had, if possible).

My friends and i we were always doing all kinds of repairs and modifications to our bikes. I remember my mother buying me a Huffy for my birthday and within seconds of seeing it i was already making a mental list of what was going to be gotten rid of to make it lighter and cooler looking.

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The 1980's... the last great decade kids were free to be kids before society and technology started to suffocate and limit them.

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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These were the best toys to play with.

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Can't forget the GOAT, Fisto. That little lever on his back to keep him fisting away!

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Zartan was the coolest. He would change colors depending on the temperature.

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Ghostbuster's Ectoplasm.

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I could never get this right, but it was fun trying.