Whats your Favourite Retro Possessions??

Siogfinsceal

I started buying a lot of retro stuff in the past few years mostly from ebay and that. The irony is I should have just kept all my old stuff lol I was gutted the day my mam gave away my my little pony castle - worth a fortune!!! My fave stuff at the mo is my:
- Complete collection of every she-ra episode all 93 of them on vhs - a guy on ebay made it for me!
- My Queen Angella doll from she-ra. Bought it on ebay recently - stunned at the immaculate condition is in!
- all my little my little pony vids
- My my little pony baby & mammy northstar

so what about you guys???

monkeyfudge

I've got a first generation iPod.

Chinafoot

My sister owns a New Kids On The Block video.......

.....thats right, my SISTER

rubadub

speccy 128k+
gameboy
supercan of coke

quank

Gameboy [Tetris + Itchy and Scratchy Golf game... really weird fun]
Nintendo [Mario 1 + 3, and Duckhunt with the original Nintendo orange gun]
Barbar on VHS [he's sorta retro, ain't he?]

Pigman II

My Millenium Falcon (ironically my one now exactly as battered up as the one in the films).

Siogfinsceal

whats a supercan of coke (or are you just taking the p*ss)

I cant believe you still have the duckhunt gun!!! That rocked!!

Vokes

Original VHS tapes of Ulysses 31 and Jayce & the Wheel Warriors :cool:

And plenty of original Transformers figures knocking about somewhere.

Pigman II

Siogfinsceal wrote:

whats a supercan of coke (or are you just taking the p*ss)

Supercans were 500ml cans (same size and shape as current day beercan) of coke etc that were popular back in the day. They went out of style when 500ml plastic bottles started being sold. I checked your age, can't believe you never heard of them?

Siogfinsceal

sofa king you are a legend- Jayce and the wheeled warriors was brilliant!! so tell me..did he ever find his da in the end?? or did he just @rse around the galaxy for years on end

Vokes

I think they still sell the 500ml Cokes in Austria/Germany.

Siogfinsceal wrote:

Jayce and the wheeled warriors was brilliant!! so tell me..did he ever find his da in the end??

Sadly, he never found his Dad (Audric). There were 65 epsiode but the series was still left unresolved at the end unfortunately. A film script had been commisoned and it got written but it never got filmed because of the failure of the toyline apparently

From Wikipedia:

Jayces' 65 episode run was not followed up, and it ended unresolved, however, according to series producer J. Michael Straczynski, a movie had also been commisioned along with the series, following in the fotosteps of other toy based animated series such as Transformers and GI Joe, and if the series had proven succesful in toy sales, production would have began. Straczynski worte the script, but due to the failiure of the toyline, preperation for the movie was shelved.

Had the movie been filmed, it would have provided a sense of closure on Jayce, with his lightning League meeting with the originals and being trained on the home world of the Guardians, he would be reunited with his father Audric, but according to Straczynski, Audric would have been killed by Saw Boss as the Monster Minds began a final assault on the galaxy, in a final battle, Jayce would unite the root and kill Saw Boss, ending the Monster Mind threat forever.

Would've been awesome! ;-(

Pigman II

SofaKing wrote:

From Wikipedia: Would've been awesome! ;-(

Well considering Straczynski wasn't series producer of that show (he was actually only a staff writer) you'd have to wonder how close to the truth any of that information there is. Looks like some Babylon5 fanboy might have got ahead of himself when they wrote that article.

rubadub

Siogfinsceal wrote:

whats a supercan of coke (or are you just taking the p*ss)

They sell anything on ebay
http://stores.ebay.com/Eamons-Coke-Hut

I also have a real cardboard dustin the turkey election poster from about 10+ years back when he ran for election "bring the dart to dingle"

tj-music.com

I have an AIWA active - loudspeaker bought in 1987 and I use the very same amplifier/loudspeaker thingy in my recording studio to this very day!!

Siogfinsceal

The Jayce and the wheeled warriors movie script I wont is the script around anywhere>? Dungeons & Dragons was similar in that they never got home in the end however - the final episode called 'Requiem' was written it just wasnt show cos they didnt commission a second series. You can read the script:
http://www.michaelreaves.com/requiem_preface.htm

Bettyboop

nintendo game+watch handheld game console with donkey kong
1982:D

DublinWriter

Siogfinsceal wrote:

- all my little my little pony vids
- My my little pony baby & mammy northstar

That reminds me of that Johny Vegas joke about the worlds biggest turn-off for a guy - scoring at a nightclub, getting back to hers, then she saying she has something she wants to show you, she opens her bedroom cupboard and there's *the complete* My Little Pony collection.

DublinWriter

monkeyfudge wrote:

I've got a first generation iPod.

They're retro already? Thank God I kept all the original packaging with mine.

boneless

I have a 1970's style rubber bullet and an '80's style plastic baton round... I nearly had me ankle bust by the latter...

GadgetFiend

rubadub wrote:

I also have a real cardboard dustin the turkey election poster from about 10+ years back when he ran for election "bring the dart to dingle"

got one of these meself- classic stuff

he got more votes in tallaght than fine gael.. so they say....

byte

My original Gameboy, and my old Sinclair Spectrum 128k +2A (don't ask me what the +2A meant)

killswitch

gotta be my NES man...that and the stuffed dog teddy thing a nun gave me when i was like a week old

wb

Supercans, and Indeed all sorts of old/foreign cans of coke are on display in 'The Noggin Grill' chipper in Sallynoggin, Dublin

I have a Streetfighter one on cassette for the C64

Siogfinsceal

thanks dublin writer but I dont tend to break the old stuff out for the lads funnily enough. I just lik eold stuff im hanging on to it all for a few years til I can flog it all on ebay and be rich! heh heh

constitutionus

blew 160 quid on a japanese reissue of predaking (a combining transformer), they never sold the bloody thing here back in the 80's and i always wanted one:D and its fecking huge too , first thing i bought with me credit card.:)