Toys

[Doc Holliday]

The majority of this board comes from one sub-Generation, those born from 74-84. But I'll try and represent all the great toys.

If I left anything out feel free to write-in.

[Klonoa]

The TMNT toy craze was huge. Still to this day I can't believe how big that toy craze was and rightfully so. Those were the best toys ever.
I remember walking into Toys R Us and each time, there would see an ass load of kids with their parents in the TMNT toy section. You don't see shit like that nowadays.

[Nomi]

My brother had a Power Rangers phase, and being younger, I was forced to like whatever he did. That was pretty big for him (as well as G.I. Joes) but nothing compared to his Ninja Turtles. Whether I wanted to or not, I was constantly playing with those damn things. I just dug them up two weeks ago and gave them to my little stepbrother, who isn't aware that the old series is better. He's getting the second wave of obsession out of those things, now.

[RaBee]

I wanted to say Hot Wheels(loop-de-loops rock..), but I might as well keep up the Turtle love.
Really built well, too. My crew of turtle combatants had to survive many a 'battle royale' that I'd sometimes held with my friends.
And I don't recall any of them being taken, or 'borrowed' from any of playpals.
Goods kids, those friends.
..Then again there was probably so stickn' many of to things that there wasn't any competition form them... I guess everybody really did have one!

[Rhydant]

I still have boxes filled with Ninja Turtles. And every time we move/clean out the garage, I assemble the Technodrome and leave it on the coffee table for the day until my mom yells at me to put it away. I had GI Joes and Transformers, too, but the Turtles consumed my early childhood.

[Fe 26]

tmnt ? wtf? Most of you are only a year to 2 years younger than me, and you are going on about TMNTs? What, did your parents not buy you toys untill the first and second grade?

Transformers is wheres it's at, and before that the orginal SWs toys. GI joe kicked the shit out of TMNT with it's huge playset might. The GI Joe shuttle was 4 times as big as the technodrome.

I'm not even going to get into the uber coolness of Legos.

TMNTs? You were some sad kids.

[Nomi]

I'm not even going to get into the uber coolness of Legos.

TMNTs? You were some sad kids.

If Legos was an option I'd be all over that. My dad bought me some when I was eight and I still play with the damn things every now and then.

And I only had TMNT because my mother wouldn't let me have my own toys since I could just play with my brother's toys. Sucked for me.

[rama]

GI joes for me. i was into transformers but had way more GI joe toys than anything else. i don't even remember tmnt toys being as big as a lot of people are saying here. i think i only had one tmnt figure. leonardo. i liked the thundercats toys 'cause they had those glowing eyes and weapon swinging action....but they were hard to come by.

[Fe 26]

GI joes for me. i was into transformers but had way more GI joe toys than anything else. i don't even remember tmnt toys being as big as a lot of people are saying here. i think i only had one tmnt figure. leonardo. i liked the thundercats toys 'cause they had those glowing eyes and weapon swinging action....but they were hard to come by.

I think a big part of that was how cheep parents were. A good TF was like, what, 10 15 bucks? You could get a TMNT fig for what I'm thinking is about 4.88. Lego's were also and still are super expensive. Lego blocks must be made of the candy coated hearts of elven babies.

"^_^ come on Billy, don't you want the TMNT figure, it is so much better than those OLD and STUPID TF figures, right?"

[RaBee]

I think a big part of that was how cheep parents were. A good TF was like, what, 10 15 bucks?

Yep. You nailed it.

I was such a product back then. What ever my spongy eyes picked off from tv, I would simple burt it out to my folks, and annoy them until it was mine.
And since:
A) they where easy to come by,
B) they where CHEAP!,
C) it was the only thing my short attetion span cared enough for that I would actually remember it to remind my folks about,

they would pamper me and just buy the damn things.

But I waited too liltte, too late.
And now the market is too tainted for me to rediscover the wonderment that was the Transformor.
*sigh*