What was the coolest toy you had as a kid?
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These were magnificent. They were moddable action figures, and you could build entirely new models with these things. Hell, I loved modding the originals to be even more articulated than they already were, and having a nice collection of parts for custom jobs was great too. Your imagination was the limit with them. Not to mention they had such a cool world to inhabit... Damn, I really wish they continued them. The new shit just isn't the same.TizzytheTormentor said:
Seriously, as a kid, these were the coolest toys out there! No contest, fun assemble and even more fun playing with them (combining them was the best)
EDIT: How could I forget spinning top perfection!? [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ABUXVq0NSVY/TS45SXbTC2I/AAAAAAAABwc/FhC0g46aCt0/s1600/beyblades_motivational.jpg]
What about the kids who had the imagination to integrate the new sets into what they already were building? When I was a kid my brother and I had dreamt up a massive city that happened to be a battleground during the Clone Wars, and we integrated known characters into the stories of our own characters in the city. It was unwritten Fan Fiction happening right there on the table: hell, we even modded the original sets for greater capabilities in our world. Hell, even now I'm taking that lore and re-interpreting it into a story of my own. That shit didn't curb my imagination, if anything it enhanced it.Katatori-kun said:
Books, and Lego, I also had a stick, and a big box, and some string... and a toolkit with a hammer, and spanners and stuff in it... I fixed stuff, and built things... and read books... a lot of books.
Man, I had a few of those bad boys. combined them with my Bionicles and other lego Technics for maximum awesome. It was super cool to build these massive combat bots with those.Froken Keke said:I had Slizers, those were even cooler. Proto-Bionicles.TizzytheTormentor said:
Seriously, as a kid, these were the coolest toys out there! No contest, fun assemble and even more fun playing with them (combining them was the best)
As for my coolest toy, I think I'd have to think about that a bit, I generally only really played with Lego, so I didn't have that many particularily cool other toys.
I had one LIKE this too, I seem to remember the yellow daggers having holes at the bottom and a small rope tied between them that enabled me to be a ninja with dagger-nunchucks, which resulted in multiple face-slaps for me (from myself, not abusive parentsTanis said:MIGHTY-MORPHIN-POWER-RANGERS-POWER-BLASTER!
I LOVED this thing as a kid.
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) and was for an over-shoulder support so my feeble childish frame didn't have to support all that plastic weight.Then my dad threw away the daggers, and it was pointless keeping the rest of the gun/weapons.
No white bow on mine either
This would be it.
It had a fancy controller but all that really worked was the lever for going back/forth and the one button that made it go "Danger, danger Will Robinson".
It had a fancy controller but all that really worked was the lever for going back/forth and the one button that made it go "Danger, danger Will Robinson".
I used to have a lot of action figures of characters I wasn't all that familiar with as a kid, I used to make up back stories surrounding them and they would fight in my cardboard box cities. Even the action figures of characters I knew about, I would often pretend they were other things.Katatori-kun said:
Also with the lego sets, nobody with any amount of imagination actually follows the instruction booklets; I used to love making weird composite constructs using several sets. Making giant bionicles was also pretty fun to do.
Well my family were too poor so I had this to play with:
Man, the clicking game was so much fun.
In all seriousness, I can't remember most of my toys but my Power Ranger stuff comes to mind immediately.
I had all of them I think (and much more), but my favourite was the yellow one. Seems like a weird favourite looking back.
Man, the clicking game was so much fun.
In all seriousness, I can't remember most of my toys but my Power Ranger stuff comes to mind immediately.
I had all of them I think (and much more), but my favourite was the yellow one. Seems like a weird favourite looking back.
My favorite toy was this simple little grapple arm where you squeezed a handle to close the grapple, and you could pick up stuff with it. Legos a close 2nd.
My favorite toy right now:
Saw this and bought it on impulse, was just too funny to pass up. A remote controlled car with an air soft gun mounted on top. Although what I really want is this:
http://store.diydrones.com/ArduCopter_Hexa_3DR_Ready_to_Fly_from_Udrones_p/ud-achrtf01.htm
My favorite toy right now:
Saw this and bought it on impulse, was just too funny to pass up. A remote controlled car with an air soft gun mounted on top. Although what I really want is this:
http://store.diydrones.com/ArduCopter_Hexa_3DR_Ready_to_Fly_from_Udrones_p/ud-achrtf01.htm
I don't remember many toys from my childhood. But one I do remember was a wooden train-set that I had a lot of fun with. And I had a couple of Mighty Max toys, anyone remember those?
Pretty much most Lego products. I loved building fleets of spaceships with normal Lego. I loved creating insane, mega Bionicles with what ever that stuff was called. But most of all, I loved making elastic band guns using kinex.
