Retro Toys

squishywishy

Which retro toys do you miss??
Got a Mr Frosty for crimbo.....oh how i always wanted one!!

*thanx boyf*

Duff

My 14'' Captain Scarlett figure that came with 2 free Mysteron figures..oh how I miss being 4..bring back 1990!!

Ruu_Old

I heard the Mr. Frosty machines were a load of pants back in the day.

squishywishy

Ruu wrote: »

I heard the Mr. Frosty machines were a load of pants back in the day.

wow that really killed my Mr Frosty buzz!!!!!

GhostInTheRuins

I always wanted a Mr. Frosty too, but like you I never got one

keefg

I always wanted on of those "Tin Can Alley" shooting games........but Santa forgot about me

LoneGunM@n

The Millenium Falcon & The AT-AT from Star Wars ... can't believe my folks gave them away

monkeyfudge

I always wanted a Screwball Scramble and that other one with that was like King Kong on top of a mountain...

Athough I'm sure they weren't as much fun as they looked on the telly..

I guess I was pretty happy with my army of Transfomers... oh and zoids.. .I did love my Zoids.

Archeron

I miss my matchbox cars, i used to have hundreds of them. If someone gave me my bucket of them back now, I would happily lie on the floor here in my office and play with them. Vroooooom. Strangely, I always preferred regular road cars over the sports cars. The regular cars were harder to come by too, and the red Ford Cortina and the Ford Zodiac I had were treasured.

I didnt have one, but one ad always stuck in my mind for..... The Big Yellow TEAPOT!! Obviously the way they just shouted the word teapot caused it to stick in my head. Lets not forget its nemesis either, the big red fun bus.

Oh, and space hoppers. Single handedly responsible for making the owners of Elastoplast millionaires. BOING!

GhostInTheRuins

LoneGunM@n wrote: »

The Millenium Falcon & The AT-AT from Star Wars ... can't believe my folks gave them away

Ah that brings back memories. I think I've still got a big box of old star wars toys up in the attic. I never had an at-at but I had an at-st that jerked its legs when you pressed the button on it's back :cool:

ems_12

Read-along tapes...:D
Probably won't work with all those new fangled MP-whotsits, sigh....kids these days

Doctor DooM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I always wanted a Screwball Scramble and that other one with that was like King Kong on top of a mountain...

Athough I'm sure they weren't as much fun as they looked on the telly..

I guess I was pretty happy with my army of Transfomers... oh and zoids.. .I did love my Zoids.

Thats weird. I also had an army of zoids and transformers.

Zoidzilla looked AWESOME. Still couldnt take powermaster prime though.

gucci

Archeron wrote: »

I miss my matchbox cars, i used to have hundreds of them. If someone gave me my bucket of them back now, I would happily lie on the floor here in my office and play with them. Vroooooom. Strangely, I always preferred regular road cars over the sports cars. The regular cars were harder to come by too, and the red Ford Cortina and the Ford Zodiac I had were treasured.

i used to have a matchbox car ferarri 328 and it had SPARKLEY ALLOY WHEELS and was bright yellow, man it was the dogs

Like this

amazing how easy it was to bribe me into doing anything at the promise of a new matchbox car, i used to have two boxes full of them (helped having 4 older brothers collections contributing to them) and i wasnt able to lift either box so i had to drive the cars in convoy from one room to the next if i had to move them......ahhh such a simple life

Doctor DooM

Remember MASK?

Rhino... what a toy!

Loved condor too.

monkeyfudge

SDooM wrote: »

Thats weird. I also had an army of zoids and transformers.

Zoidzilla looked AWESOME. Still couldnt take powermaster prime though.

I never had any of the big zoids... but I had plenty of the small ones... Loved the comic book too...

Transformers were my first love in toy terms though.. had lots of the big ones there.

Doctor DooM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I never had any of the big zoids... but I had plenty of the small ones... Loved the comic book too...

Transformers were my first love in toy terms though.. had lots of the big ones there.

I had Powermaster prime and ultra Magnus, loved them both.

I also had a fake omega supreme!

Had a couple of operations as a kid, swindled the big zoids out of the guilty parents

monkeyfudge

SDooM wrote: »

Had a couple of operations as a kid, swindled the big zoids out of the guilty parents

Bah... I had to go to hospital as a kid once... all I got out of it was this lousy Transformers Pretender

Crumble Froo

weren't the power rangers robots called zoids? bah, my JD is failing my memory... but i used to love playing with them.

as a kid though, i had tonnes of jigsaw puzzles, including a 3/400 piece turtles one that took up most of most floors in the house... roads/traintracks to stick together, and play cars with. always wanted but never got a doodle bear.

i loved playing draughts, chess and checkers as a kid too. and twister ftw!

monkeyfudge

narco wrote: »

weren't the power rangers robots called zoids? bah, my JD is failing my memory... but i used to love playing with them.

That's Zords!

Zoids where these little robot kits that you had to assemble. The small ones were wind up and the big ones were battery powered.

dr strangelove

scalextrics - used to have loads and loads of track and cars and stuff until my mum gave it away because i was 'grown up'.

guinnessdrinker

LoneGunM@n wrote: »

The Millenium Falcon & The AT-AT from Star Wars ... can't believe my folks gave them away

I always wanted those two, they must have been the coolest star wars toys ever. But I did have an x wing fighter and a snowspeeder and they were really cool too.

o1s1n

At the age of 12 or so I thought it would be a great idea to have a toy sale out the front of my house.



Must have made an almighty sum of about 15 pounds. Thought I was great. In retrospect, those kids really ripped me off.


What I miss most, and something to this day I can't believe I sold, is my Starcom collection. For you who don't remember, they were little guys in space suits with magnets on their feet. Some of the ships I had are now considered rare. So trying to buy them back on ebay has proved to be quite a hassle.

Other things my mother can have the blame for. Like throwing Crossfire (Probably the best board game ever made) in the bin :mad:

~Marky~

I used to have the A-Team figures and the van as well. Toys where so so much better then than they are now days.
Used to have the Mask toys and Transformers..Remember having dinosaurs where people would ride them and there was a cartoon of it cant remember the name though but they kicked ass

monkeyfudge

o1s1n wrote: »

What I miss most, and something to this day I can't believe I sold, is my Starcom collection. For you who don't remember, they were little guys in space suits with magnets on their feet. Some of the ships I had are now considered rare. So trying to buy them back on ebay has proved to be quite a hassle.

Other things my mother can have the blame for. Like throwing Crossfire (Probably the best board game ever made) in the bin :mad:

Ahh... never had any Starcom stuff... but I had a friend who did... they were pretty awesome.

I had Crossfire too... love the song in the advert...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XWBsgmIy4w

Although my Crossfire board seemed bigger the one in the advert there.. I think mine was an earlier model... it was rectangular in shape.

o1s1n

~Marky~ wrote: »

Remember having dinosaurs where people would ride them and there was a cartoon of it cant remember the name though but they kicked ass

Dinoriders? Wanted them for ages when I was younger but never did get any in the end. Was always under the impression they were never for sale in Ireland. At least that's what my mother told me....the lying bit...

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Ahh... never had any Starcom stuff... but I had a friend who did... they were pretty awesome.

I had Crossfire too... love the song in the advert...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XWBsgmIy4w

Although my Crossfire board seemed bigger the one in the advert there.. I think mine was an earlier model... it was rectangular in shape.

Ah excellent! That's the model I had. Although I doubt I looked nearly as cool as those two kids. Still find the odd ball bearing for it knocking about the house. Must try and nab one on ebay.

Doctor DooM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Bah... I had to go to hospital as a kid once... all I got out of it was this lousy Transformers Pretender

I was in hospital for 3 months... I would have been pretty peed off if all I got for it was Landmine, myself.

And Starcom rocked!!! A mate of mine collected them, they ere great the way they were designed, the little ships connected to the larger ones and totally matched the design aesthetic. Or something. lol

o1s1n

Yeah the smaller ships fold up into a cube and fit into the cargo bays of the larger ones.
Plus they all had a mechanical feature that made an odd buzzing/hissing sound when it operated. Didn't require batteries. There was a term for it but I can't remember. Really cool though as they still operate today.

The line failed as it was too realistic.

Cool fansite with pictures of everything for anyone who cares

http://www.nemesisworld.com/starcom/home.html

Just trying to think of other stuff.

I remember a Monster in my Pocket craze when I was in 3rd class. Had a couple of tubs full of em. No idea where they went.

Or how about Boglins?

monkeyfudge

SDooM wrote: »

I was in hospital for 3 months... I would have been pretty peed off if all I got for it was Landmine, myself.

Ha.. yep... he wasn't even a proper transformer.. he just stuck his ankles up around his head like you was about to take a good rogering.

What was that toy that was a big space ship that came with about 30 small space ships inside it? It was pretty damn cool and again was a toy that a friend had...

o1s1n

monkeyfudge wrote: »

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What was that toy that was a big space ship that came with about 30 small space ships inside it? It was pretty damn cool and again was a toy that a friend had...

Manta Force. Another toy I lost to the big sale

Doctor DooM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Ha.. yep... he wasn't even a proper transformer.. he just stuck his ankles up around his head like you was about to take a good rogering.

What was that toy that was a big space ship that came with about 30 small space ships inside it? It was pretty damn cool and again was a toy that a friend had...

I know... I had him foisted upon me...

God damn takara and them wanting human transformers...

I got a Voltron for Christmas one year. Man that toy was awesome. And you could swap his arms for transformers combiner toys!

monkeyfudge

o1s1n wrote: »

Manta Force. Another toy I lost to the big sale

Ah.. yes.. I knew manta was in there somewhere.

There was an evil ship as well, wasn't there?

Oh.. and I remember Voltron being hugely popular as well for a long while... odd that it seems to be mostly forgotten...

Again Voltron was a toy that lots of my friends had... a good few were big into the MASK toys as well...

I had a Dinorider toy... I thought that was pretty cool and I liked the little action figures that went with it. There was a guy with the head of a hammerhead shark.

o1s1n

The bad ship was The Black Barracuda. I got that from Santa and the larger ship from my grandparents. Of course, I had to go and tell my parents that the large ship was 'miles better than the one Santa gave me'.

Would explain why my grandparents never bought me a big Christmas present again.

Doctor DooM

Fun voltron fact- peter cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime, played voice over guy in Voltron.

I loved Mask too but my hard earned cash went straight to the transformers.

What was the name of the huge Venom black truck? Look like a giant motormaster?

Doctor DooM

o1s1n wrote: »

The bad ship was The Black Barracuda. I got that from Santa and the larger ship from my grandparents. Of course, I had to go and tell my parents that the large ship was 'miles better than the one Santa gave me'.

Would explain why my grandparents never bought me a big Christmas present again.

heh

First Christmas Santa was around, I asked for a transformer named soundwave. Of course, he was never sold in Ireland... My poor dad had a conniption trying to find him.

monkeyfudge

Oooh... must start a 'My first Transformer' thread i the transformers forum...

I remember being pretty impressed that I managed to get Trypticon for chirstmas one year.. I asked for him... but really wasn't expecting them to get it for me.

o1s1n

Secret shame moment.

I never had a Transformer. Don't think I ever really watched the show either. Which is odd as it seems like something I'd have loved.

Doctor DooM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Oooh... must start a 'My first Transformer' thread i the transformers forum...

I remember being pretty impressed that I managed to get Trypticon for chirstmas one year.. I asked for him... but really wasn't expecting them to get it for me.

Wow. You still got that?

My first one was Startscream. My brother got Skywarp. I guess the parents didnt want us arguing over who got the better one

monkeyfudge

SDooM wrote: »

Wow. You still got that?

My first one was Startscream. My brother got Skywarp. I guess the parents didnt want us arguing over who got the better one

Yep.. He's about somewhere.. Good sturdy toy too... Metroplex got snapped in half my a friends younger brother fairly easily... boooo!

Ha.. Starscream was my first one too... I didn't even know what transformers were at the time, but my parents reckoned they were getting me two toys in one... man... that excuse got annoying pretty damn quick.

Doctor DooM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Yep.. He's about somewhere.. Good sturdy toy too... Metroplex got snapped in half my a friends younger brother fairly easily... boooo!

Ha.. Starscream was my first one too... I didn't even know what transformers were at the time, but my parents reckoned they were getting me two toys in one... man... that excuse got annoying pretty damn quick.

My little cousin loved chewing Screamers rubber nose cone. In jet mode he looked like a chewed bic... Ah, retro toys!

dobsdave

Star-Bird.Spaceship that made an ascending noise when pointed up and decending noise pointing down.Think it also had a missile sound effect aswell.

Mate got the follow-up avenger (I think it was called) I was soooo jealous.:D

guinnessdrinker

SDooM wrote: »

heh

First Christmas Santa was around, I asked for a transformer named soundwave. Of course, he was never sold in Ireland... My poor dad had a conniption trying to find him.

I feel for ya man! But soudwave was definatly sold in Ireland, I know because I got him, he came with a tape too. If I can remember properly they were sold in the toy dept of the old Tesco.

c - 13

Heres one for you - I cant remember the name of it but I think it was called connectibles ?

Basically a bucket load of cars that broke into multiple pieces and could be conected together in different formations to make some sort of car hybrids.

There was also a line released that were the same idea but people with detachable arms, legs heads etc. Same idea.

I'd forgotten all about them until this thread, had hours of fun with both of those. Probably one of my favorite xmas presents.

GhostInTheRuins

c - 13 wrote: »

Heres one for you - I cant remember the name of it but I think it was called connectibles ?

Basically a bucket load of cars that broke into multiple pieces and could be conected together in different formations to make some sort of car hybrids.

There was also a line released that were the same idea but people with detachable arms, legs heads etc. Same idea.

I'd forgotten all about them until this thread, had hours of fun with both of those. Probably one of my favorite xmas presents.

Oh god I remember them :cool:

I'd completely forgot about them untill you mentioned them. I think I got them for christmas one year, I've no idea what happened to them though. I though they were great craic at the time

c - 13

D.T. Jesus wrote: »

Oh god I remember them :cool:

I'd completely forgot about them untill you mentioned them. I think I got them for christmas one year, I've no idea what happened to them though. I though they were great craic at the time

If you were anything like me you probably slowly lost them piece by piece

I'm gutted, I cant find anything about them on line at all, no pics not nothing.

GhostInTheRuins

c - 13 wrote: »

If you were anything like me you probably slowly lost them piece by piece

I'm gutted, I cant find anything about them on line at all, no pics not nothing.

Perhaps I did

I've got no idea what they were called though, maybe it was connectibles like you said but I really cant be sure.

Do you remember the things that were out a few years before them and were kind of like them only better, they were big tanks that you could take apart and make bigger hybrids tanks with?. They had proper tanks tracks and shot missiles and stuff. Ah, the memories. I thought they were the best things ever

~Marky~

Well done Oisin thats it Dino Riders I had a look on ebay and they had them brings back so many memories

monkeyfudge

Soundwave has reminded me...

Anyone remember those things that were in the shape of cassette tapes, but would fold out into tiny board games?

There were about 4 different ones and they were like Orange, Yellow, Brown and Blue...

V480

Space hoppers wanted urgently!! pm me if you have one

stone roses

hi people

i had the a-team van and figures, star wars at-at star wars figures, transformers, action man, evel kenevel and his wind up bike, today these toys are very collectable and exspensive i know because 5years ago i desided to collect as many toys as i could connected to my child hood, i was on a mission :-) , 5 years on and i have most of them back some very hard to find but a great time collecting ,im glad i done it the kids love them the wife not so much! lol :-)

the toys i have today in my house bring me great joy, i have them on display in my music/retro room in glass displays,yes i agree toys today are crap but i think we just got lucky in the 80s, all these jems came out at the same time will never happen again! plus noboby know they would set the trend for vintage toy collecting which is a big thing today!

these toys bring back great memorys of a time when nothing mattered only having fun!!! :-) stay young for as long as you can!!

cheers

Dull and Boring

I loved Polly Pockets, always lost the doll though:(

storm2811

Barbie camper van,polly pockets when they were actually small,every art set under the sun:pac:,screwball scramble,miss it!