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DrAndreaKnollwatcher

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This is too funny; myself and a co worker were talking today about stuff we remember as kids, and I mentioned Garbage Pail Kids. They were not familiar with the cards and looked at me, in a nice way, like "are you feeling okay?".

 

My favorite Garbage Pail was Graffiti Petey!

 

My favorite toy/gimmick - LEGO's. I still have a Space Station set, and a couple of smaller space ship sets, all from the mid-80's. I just can't bring myself to get rid of them with so many good memories of playing for hours with them. So, the Legos remain tucked away in storage.

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It was definitely the Erector Set for me when I was a kid. I never made anything that worked, but I worked those holey beams until they bent or snapped. :unsure:

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GarbagePail Kids? Nope.. sorry, never heard of it. :/

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Transformers! And GI Joe! And Voltron (Go Lion Force!)! And National Lampoon Magazine! Don't forget your Star Wars action figures!

 

ST:TMP, STII:TWOK, STIII:TSFS, STIV:TVH, ST:TNG!

 

Battlestar Galactica (the campy one)! M*A*S*H! The Muppet Show!

 

It's the Muppet Show with our Very Special Guest Star, ...

 

It's time to play the music

It's time to light the lights

t's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight.

 

It's time to put on makeup

It's time to dress up right

It's time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight.

 

(Waldorf and Stadler)

Why do we always come here

I guess we'll never know

It's like a kind of torture

To have to watch the show

 

And now let's get things started

Why don't you get things started

It's time to get things started

On the most sensational inspirational celebrational Muppetational

This is what we call the Muppet Show!

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The Muppet Show!

 

It's the Muppet Show with our Very Special Guest Star, ...

 

It's time to play the music

It's time to light the lights

t's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight.

 

It's time to put on makeup

It's time to dress up right

It's time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight.

 

(Waldorf and Stadler)

Why do we always come here

I guess we'll never know

It's like a kind of torture

To have to watch the show

 

And now let's get things started

Why don't you get things started

It's time to get things started

On the most sensational inspirational celebrational Muppetational

This is what we call the Muppet Show!

 

Great Will, thanks. Now, I have that song in my head! =0]

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I still can't look at Garbage Pail Kids cards without getting grossed out.

 

I loved Simon, Etch A Sketch, Barbie fashion plates (anybody remember those?), Strawberry Shortcake figures (which I still have, and they smell soooooo good), and Mousetrap.

 

Anybody else have one of those Spin Art machines? They were messy, but made cool pictures.

 

spin_art.jpg

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I'd say my favourite toy as a kid were my Legos and my little Hotwheels, Match boxes and Majorette cars. Hours of fun to had with those. Sure I ate a couple of Legos along the way, but it was all good. :unsure:

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Great Will, thanks. Now, I have that song in my head! =0]

 

You're welcome, Andrea. At least the Muppet Show theme had catchy lyrics, unlike Spongebob Squarepants. And, unfortunately, the Cresskill High School Marching Band has chosen to begin their halftime show with Spongebob. I've had it stuck in my head since Saturday's game.

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Corgi cars, the Super Ball and the Matt Mason action figures (think G.I.Joe, but in a space suit - yeah, I know, even back then, huh?)

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Transformers! They were (are) awesome, probably one of my all-time favorite cartoons. Heck, cartoons in general were much better then than they are today.

 

Let's see...those Magic-eye things were pretty big around the mid nineties. Hotwheels/Matchbox cars; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

 

And LEGOs, of course, and I still love them to this day. :unsure:

 

I'm sure there were a few other things, but if I can't remember them, they obviously didn't leave much of an impression on me.

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Corgi cars, the Super Ball and the Matt Mason action figures (think G.I.Joe, but in a space suit - yeah, I know, even back then, huh?)

 

Oh yeah, GI Joes. I forgot about those. They rocked, had quite a lot of GI Joe stuff when I was young.

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I'd say definitely LEGOs and my Matchbox cars and the one thing I still cannot do without... a soccer ball!!!

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Man, speaking of Strawberry shortcake, I forgot that those dolls had scents, too. I remember having a whole collection of scratch and sniff stickers. I watched alot of Smurfs, QBert, and Thundercats...HO! =0]

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I watched alot of Smurfs, QBert, and Thundercats...HO! =0]

 

THUNDERCATS HOOOOOOOOO!! Check out my sig! Check out the sig! That show did, and still rocks, and has nothing to do with the fact that I do RPing as Caitians now :unsure: . I remember making the Thundertank out of a large TV box, and large pieces of styrofoam.

 

(Incidentally, the Smurfs scare me now. Faaaaaa la la la la la....Smurftastic....Smurfy.)

 

Transformers, GI Joe, the Turtles - they all made comebacks in recent years with a new line of figures, TV shows, comics and such, so needless to say I am waiting on the Thundercats. The comic comeback has been done, but I am so ready to pounce on the TV show and new figure line.

 

Okay, my curiosity got the better of me I had to do a net search on Atragon's "Matt Mason" - that Captain Lazer guy looks like a Vulcan lol!

 

Got another one - anyone remember MASK?

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OK, you know what I really liked? The "old school" Battlestar Galactica paraphanelia - the board game, the action figures and ships that didn't look anything like anything I saw in the series, the plastic projectiles that really fired, etc. I remember the press making a fuss about some kid who choked on one of them and mommy made me give them up - even though my friends and my sister's friends were well beyond the age where something like that would happen. There were plenty of other toys around that had that potential but for some reason the media focused on the Battlestar Galactica toys.

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Tonka cars, trucks and equipment. (I had dozens)

 

The Mego Star Trek action figures, actually any of the Mego action figures.

 

The Mego Star Trek Bridge playset. (it had a "working transporter, you'd put the action figure in, spin the dial, press a button and he'd appear outside the playset)

 

Star Trek toys, the phaser shooting set, communicator walki talkies, tricorder tape recorder.

 

Star Wars Toys (never really got into them, more into Trek)

 

G.I. Joe before he got shrunk, the G.I. Joe battle command set. 3 feet tall with a working searchlight.

 

G.I. Joe's Jeep, submarine, etc.

 

G.I. Joe with kung fu grip. (get the impression I was seriously into G.I. Joe as a kid) *LOL*

 

The original Atari pong. No cartridges, just 3 built in games.

 

Evil Knevil Stunt bike.

 

Space 1999 Eagle playset.

 

Klackers (two glass balls connected by a string, you could do serious damage to your body with them)

 

Micronauts

 

Whirly Birds (it was a helocopter on a rod with a control to raise it up and down and around in circles, I had the Star Trek one that had the Enterprise instead of a helocopter)

 

Magic Wishing Trolls.

 

Lawn Darts (great concept, throw a sharp oversized dart in the air and wait for it to land)

 

Duncan Yo Yo (I still have a purple one that I've had since I was like 9)

 

........................................................................................................................

 

Ok, enough memory shock for now. ::goes off looking for a time machine::

 

 

Laterz,

 

Daryus

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Corgi cars, the Super Ball and the Matt Mason action figures (think G.I.Joe, but in a space suit - yeah, I know, even back then, huh?)

 

What the heck is a corgi car?

 

Did anyone have a Tiffany doll? You know the one where if you rotated her scalp she could be blonde one moment and brunette the next?

 

We had lots of Little People (the castle, village, hospital, airplane, house ...) and blocks. Lots and lots of wooden blocks to build with. Ohhh, and Weebles. Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.

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What the heck is a corgi car?

 

 

 

 

They make die cast cars like this: VA10201.jpg

 

They also make Star Trek models too. I would've liked to have Corgi cars, they have such great detail and a very good selection of cars, buses, tanks, etc. But by the time I was a kid, they were too expensive, compared to other brands. :(

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They make die cast cars like this: VA10201.jpg

 

They also make Star Trek models too. I would've liked to have Corgi cars, they have such great detail and a very good selection of cars, buses, tanks, etc. But by the time I was a kid, they were too expensive, compared to other brands. :(

 

Exactly, the Corgi company was the high-end version of Matchbox that were manufactured in the UK and were more expensive. I couldn't get as many, but they were worth it. They had a Lincoln Continental with a TV in the back that was a little plastic picture and a lightbulb behind it so you could turn it on and see it through the windows. They had a James Bond Astin Martin with a real ejector seat (comes with a bad guy you can fling out), a shield that pops up to cover the back window, rotating license plates, sharp spokes that extended from the wheels and fake machine guns that stuck out of the bumper!

 

CORGI_Aston_Martin_261_5.jpg

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Lawn Darts (great concept, throw a sharp oversized dart in the air and wait for it to land)

 

 

 

The Air Force still has 'em. They're just called F-16's. Lose your engine, and your glide profile is just like a Lawn Dart.

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Exactly, the Corgi company was the high-end version of Matchbox that were manufactured in the UK and were more expensive. I couldn't get as many, but they were worth it. They had a Lincoln Continental with a TV in the back that was a little plastic picture and a lightbulb behind it so you could turn it on and see it through the windows. They had a James Bond Astin Martin with a real ejector seat (comes with a bad guy you can fling out), a shield that pops up to cover the back window, rotating license plates, sharp spokes that extended from the wheels and fake machine guns that stuck out of the bumper!

 

CORGI_Aston_Martin_261_5.jpg

 

 

Those Corgi cars from the 60's are selling for hundreds of dollars to collectors. My brother had the James Bond car when he was a kid, and he had the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car. He wishes he still had all his Corgi's. *LOL*

 

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(Incidentally, the Smurfs scare me now. Faaaaaa la la la la la....Smurftastic....Smurfy.)

Ah, the Smurfs. I know a girl that doesn't know who the Smurfs are. She's two years younger than me. :(

 

We had lots of Little People (the castle, village, hospital, airplane, house ...)

Oh, Little People! I was all over those when I was little. :D

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