Awesome toys the Tales Forum had as kids

FyshStyx · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 5176

Ok so at ToysRus I often get customers who come up to me and say something like "WOW THE COOL STUFF THAT KIDS GET TO PLAY WITH TODAY!! IT'S MINDBOGGLING! WE HAD NOTHING LIKE THAT WHEN I WAS A KID!!!"

So I'm curious to see what kinds of toys you guys had as kids, and which you found incredibly cool.

As for me, aside from the numerous Power Rangers and Voltron zords/robots I had, I was especially proud of my Radio DJ:

This **** was so cool, it was basically a little toy that let you broadcast yourself over an AM station, and you could put tapes in and play them, as well as having an AUX in port for CD/MP3 players. It also had audio effects that made broadcasting even more fun.
Every time my friends came over, they were like "CMON MIKE LET'S GO DO OUR OWN SHOW OUR LISTENERS ARE WAITING!!!!".

So Tales Forumers, how about you? Also, obligatory HASBRO'S BEST THING EVER!!!!!
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Crestrai · Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 1814 Location: MISPELL

I had a bunch of stuffed tigers and just made up games, I guess. Perhaps I was a lonely kid.

They're rotting up in my attic now.
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Slider · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:18 pm Post subject:

Legos and Megazords, **** yeah

Conn · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:51 pm Post subject:

Varrius · Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 5208

Pretty much all I can remember. Lots of Power Rangers and lots of Legos, also some Beast Wars stuff.
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DoubleL · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 8937 Location: Internetland

Gosh darn it, you're all copying my childhood with Power Rangers and Legos...

I know I always loved my big wheel. Driving down the driveway, lookin' for adventure and all that nonsense. I remember mine was black and X-TREME. Seriously, I'm almost positive it said "X-TREME" somewhere on it.
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Jack · Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 5148 Location: Never give up.

Lego was a big part of my childhood. Along with any sort of action figure that I recieved- I created most of it with my mind. I also had a little mini ride-on fire-engine, and a few other things that I can't quite remember...
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Cal · Joined: 20 Feb 2009 Posts: 1907

I liked Legos and Hot Wheels, and I liked sports so I would go outside and play basketball (mostly basketball).

...nothing too amazing, tbh. I grew up kinda poor, and the coolest toy I had was some computer that taught me how to spell words when I was four. That sucked my life away, because it was one of the few electronic things we ever had.
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Curimuch · Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 17661

Legos
My HUGE make believe kitchen
old old Pokemon plushes

This just means we had to use our imagination more than the new gen IMO IMO IMO

Just getting that comment out there since it took so long
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Grim · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:25 am Post subject:

I used to play with this type of bionicles all the time. =/
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PrettyKitty · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 2:56 am Post subject:

I loved my WWE big wheel and my battery car I could drive. That car still almost fits me I have not gotten so big.
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Kate Monster · Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 3435 Location: Avenue Q.

I barely played with toys when I was a kid. =(
Though I do remember having a Zurg and a Buzz Lightyear action figure. <3
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Blue · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 13801 Location: Feel my Kappa

Bionicles (all but the ice one, which just freakin happens to be my favorite one ;_; )
Mega Zords (lots of them god I am a tool for those things)
Legos
A couple of Digimon Action figures (transformable, gabumon into weregarurumon and kabuterimon into mega kabuterimon)

And that is it I think.
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Mishi · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:14 am Post subject:

My sister and I had tons of playmobile and we'd tell really elaborate stories (there was an evil queen and the kids had to escape and they went on the road with just their puppies and they would have to bring enough plastic food to survive! could they make it?) with them. We also did the same things with barbies and lego and cars (we gave the cars genders, I was always the cool black one who was the batgirl car...don't ask) and action figures (somehow action figure mulan always ended up dating bruce wayne...). We were very creative kids.

Other than that we had this really cool guitar/piano that you could hold up with a microphone attached and another little mic and amp and we loved singing into them?