Thirty-somethings: toys!

[Richmond Clements]

I know this sort of thread has happened before, but hopefully no-one has linked to this site before.
It's even slightly on-yopic because of number 9.

Link: http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/index.html" target="_blank">top 100 toys

[Byron Virgo]

Classy!

I swear I think I had all of those toys (but especially Zoids and Test Match Cricket with Graham Gooch + Mike Gatting!)

[Satanist]

"I swear I think I had all of those toys "

Tiny Tears?

[Demon Chicken]

God I must be getting old! Even I recognise quite a few of them! I even owned some.

DC feeling suddenly older than his score of years

[Demon Chicken]

Deary me, no metnion of mantaray/force (? manta-something anyways)

Those guys were the best! But my parents never got me any :( I was deprived I tells you!

[Max Kon]

94 is ontopicish

byron: did you own a Rainbow Brite (80) and Girl's World (78)? If you have they have provided the nation (message board, whatever) with hours of fun yet again.

[Dan Kelly]

I remember Manta Force...

And here's a link

Dan

Link: http://www.mantaforce.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mantaforce

[therev]

i...i...i NEED TO GO AND HAVE A LAY DOWN FOR AWHILE NOW...

[UZI 4U]

Nice one Rac, just wasted about an hour tripping down memory lane and pissing myself laughing at some of the descriptions. Best of all though was the Johnny-7. I haven't seen one of those since the 70's and was actually starting to wonder if I'd just imagined them. Of course I never bloody owned one though, just like most of the other stuff I only ever saw at other kids houses. Did have the action man scorpion tank though which was pretty cool. Mind you in those days you could actually get a nazi stormtrooper action man, the ones my kids have now seem to be gay skateboarding eco-nobbers or something. And they're cheap crap things with fewer movable joints.
Yours nostalgicly, Jim.

[Devons Daddy]

damn i was a spoilt brat
i had almost all of them.
never got tin can alley. though i wanted it.
or the girlie ones.

but the rest bloody hell.
who set this site up then? i would suggest its linked to EBAY.

[James]

No 95. Mercury Maze:

http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/images/quicksilver.jpg>

Coming soon to a PSP near you.

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[Devons Daddy]

i notice the big one thats missing though.

where is the space hopper? we all had one of them.
though i would suggest they where an invasion force. they never burst, got torn or seemed to age.intelligent life form i tell you.

agree on the barbie boyfriend we get now for an action man.no scar on the cheek either,
man of our times, had plastic surgery. litterally.

[House of Usher]

"Mind you in those days you could actually get a nazi stormtrooper action man, the ones my kids have now seem to be gay skateboarding eco-nobbers or something." Made me laugh so much!

What was the very first uniform I, aged 5, went out and bought for my very first Action Man, a good 3 months before he had company in the form of Maskatron?

Why, the German stormtrooper uniform, of course!

[UZI 4U]

Yeah the stormtrooper outfit was tops for sure. Thing is when I recall my Commando war stories and Airfix influenced youth the german stuff always seemed coolest. Tanks,guns,uniforms and stuff always seemed more angular modern and menacing than the rounded blobby old fashioned looking kit poor Tommy had to suffer! Tiger tank versus Sherman- no contest really.
DD- you're definitely right about the spacehoppers. Those things were nigh on indestructable so where are they all hiding now then? "Revenge of the Spacehoppers"- Future Shock anyone? BTW did anyone else have spacehopper fights? ie. waiting til your parents weren't watching then picking the things up by the horns and walloping the shite out of each other with them. A bit like pillow fighting but with much greater potential for a trip to casualty.
Regards Jim.

[Smiley]

http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/images/magicrobot.jpg>

More like Stab-you-under-the-fingernail Robot. That pointer of his was lethal.