I also used to love those race cars sets where the little cars zipped around the track in the grooves with the metal electric contact on either side. I spent countless hours taking the cars apart, swapping motors, gears, etc and putting them back together. I bought one a few years back to revel in nostalgia and it was crap. The cars just kept flying off at the curves.

Scalectrix

Scalectrix

 

 

Good times, good times...

 

OMG!! I think I had this one!

I had one of these:

 

 

It was incredibly fast, but the battery only lasted for 7-10 minutes. Oh, and I painted my car black and I never mounted that little man on top.. Most often I used to drive it without the Audi-shaped plastic box on.

I had Legos (the oversized kind you couldn't swallow), building blocks, and a Marlin .22 rifle

Could you swallow the Marlin .22 ?

Could you swallow the Marlin .22 ?

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Oddly enough I'd memorized the four golden rules of gun safety long before I'd learned that you're not supposed to put strange objects in your mouth.

Transformers, GI Joe(my favorite), TMNT, StarCom, Bionic Six(Basically die cast GI Joes), Visionaries, M.A.S.K., EXO Squad... basically any toy that had a sweet cartoon.

I had Transformers too.

 

Oh, and STREETSHARKS!

 

 

I had a bunch of ninja turtles, and still do. I was also pretty big on Batman, and Star Wars action figures.

I barely remember anything except LEGO. But my all-time-favourite was plasticine (if that counts).

The 3 3/4" GI Joe and Star Wars figures. I still have them all but not in the best of shape. If they were new like, they would be worth a lot of money.

I mostly spent time on computers even then....

Like Kirottu I used to love finding a good stick. We didn't really have many toys. Imagination was the key.

 

Although my best commercial toy had to be my Star Wars action figures. They were fantastic!

...mine were mostly G.I. Joe, the 4'' figures not the 12''.

..He-Man action figures

..TMNT action figures

Stretch Armstrong was on of my favorites..

..plus ThunderCats.

Biker Mice from Mars-figures. And Spiderman ones.

And then Heman and Turtles figures..

Apart from that, a bit of "Action Man"..

Transformers..

..and Star Wars action figures.

So basically what all you sissies are saying is that you played with dolls.

Dolls with guns and swords.

 

They're action figures!!

I tend to think that the appeal such computer games as Kotor or GTA have on me is due to the fact that they deliver action-figure gameplay the way I imagined it should be as a kid.

I tend to think that the appeal such computer games as Kotor or GTA have on me is due to the fact that they deliver action-figure gameplay the way I imagined it should be as a kid.

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Interesting theory. ^_^

Better than that. I actually did play with the dolls. My little sister came hoem one day to discover that the evil galactic Empire was conducting a police action in her doll's house.

 

We didn't have many kids books in our house. I had to read history instead.

 

Anyway, the point is that unlike mkreku we weren't able to afford vodka and machetes like normal people.

Stretch Armstrong was on of my favorites and who can forget the Six Million Dollar Man!?!?

 

Ah I had a Stretch Armstrong. He liquified in his styrofoam container.

 

I had Maskatron from the Six Million Dollar Man line; my brother had Steve Austin.

 

I also had a number of Megos

 

But without a doubt my favorite toys were The Micronauts

 

 

 

Also a copy of Word Munchers, lots of Sesame Street, and a large amount of books I taught myself to read with by the age of four.

I also had a number of Megos

 

But without a doubt my favorite toys were The Micronauts

 

Wow I never heard of those. thanks for the links

Rosebud

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutating Rocksteady & Bebop. Those were awesome.

 

Also, Jurassic Park Jumbo T-Rex (First series).