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Post by Lucy on May 1, 2019 15:27:35 GMT
Barbie Giga Pets Stuffed animals Happy meal toys Dear Diary organizers Littlest Pet Shop
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Post by Aj_June on May 1, 2019 15:32:45 GMT
A small homemade cricket bat is probably the only toy I ever had to the best of my memory. It might not even be counted as a toy because I could play sports with it.
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Post by mszanadu on May 1, 2019 22:03:40 GMT
A small homemade cricket bat is probably the only toy I ever had to the best of my memory. It might not even be counted as a toy because I could play sports with it.
Aj_June let's just call it a " sporty toy " then IMPO - even if it's for a sport it's still considered a toy for a game
and as long as you had fun memories with this that's all that counts ( right ? ) .
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Post by ellynmacg on May 2, 2019 1:08:36 GMT
Probably my collection of small molded plastic dinosaurs. I had a shoe box full of them. Although I did have a few Barbies, too. And oh, yes...I loved my Etch-a-Sketch.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Feb 26, 2021 12:34:35 GMT
My dad couldn't afford to buy me the cool toys, so I made a lot of my own toys out of stuff I found around the house. Early on it was animals, each with its own personality and story. Later I made airplanes and spaceships. Looking back, and knowing now, much later on, that my parents had some big money issues going, when I was a kid. I do feel a bit bad, especially for all the times I would want a new action figure, which was almost every time I visited some toy store, as every week, it felt like a new Turtles, Transformer, Bikermice from Mars or GI-Joe figure was out, and each one looked cooler and more exciting than the ones you already got. But since my dad always seemed to be way more easy going with buying me toys, than my mum, I just never realized or understood the situation they were in. Still, I would often make my own toys and weapon (like swords, shields and guns) during when we had sløyd at school (I guess this one fits under workshop in english) and we got the possibility to create stuff out of wood, and pretty much all the boys wanted to make their own weapons, while the girls, well I do not remember what they ended up with. But it was really fun to see how much one could get out of a bit of wood, and how cool and neat looking the end product could turn out, if one decided to give it some time and have a little patience. Still, a lot of the wood-guns/swords and shield would eventually become food for the fireplace in our home, as I remember I made a huge wooden-shield, that got so big and heavy, I could almost not carry it myself, and all of sudden it was gone, not that I really missed it, but my dad "mistook" it for some piece of random wood, just lying around, and into the fireplace it went.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Feb 26, 2021 13:02:55 GMT
The reason that I wanted to bump this thread, was because I wanted to just write a bit of toy nostalgia, and what kind of toys made the biggest impact on me back in the early 90s. I guess it is impossible to forget the classic LEGO Knights franchise, which felt like hit its peak during the late 80s and into the early 90s, and where the Black Knights, always were my favorite series, and I also remember how excited I was, when I finally had saved up (with a bit of help from my parents and a few birthday/Christmas parties as well) enough money, to pick up the legendary: And it was just a few days before summer break, and I had 8 whole weeks to play with this set, but then when I opened it, I realized, you have to build it first (yeah, big surprise, not ), and damn, if not for a helpful mum, I would have not gotten it built on my own, as I tried, and tried for hours, but never could get the damn thing to work properly. Anyway, when we finally got through, it was very different from some of the other LEGO castles I had either bought or gotten, as they often looked way cooler outside the package they came with, but once finished, they were not all that impressive on their own. The 1992 Black Knights castle however, looked very neat, in fact probably the coolest big toyset I ever owned, and 6 months later, I got myself the Wolf Pack castle, as a present for my birthday. Looking at that poster above, which seemed to collect most of the 1992 LEGO Knight franchise all together, I am surprised at how much I actually ended up getting a hold of, as the 6086 The Black Knights Castle, 6038 Wolf Peoples Wagon and 6075 Wolf Peoples Island cave, were all something I treasured, but never realized until now, that the Outlaws forest 6077 was part of this franchise, as I thought they were an older series of LEGO, but I guess I was wrong. By 1993, I remember they delivered another line of Knights and castles, one which included a Wizard and even a firebreathing Dragon. But I always thought the main castle of the Dragon Knights, looked like a complete downer, compared to the 1992 main castle. I almost forgot how epic, some of these toy commercial made it out to be back then:
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Feb 26, 2021 13:19:37 GMT
Another toyline, which seemed to all of a sudden, show up everywhere for a while during the early 90s, were the Mighty Max sets, which came in different sizes and shapes, but I believe some could be stuck together, in order to create or build a very large Mighty Max mini-city or something similar. I guess this was someone's clever idea or attempt, on trying to cash in on a similar toy franchise like the Polly Pocket franchise, but instead where the main target were boys, and sure, it did become a short lived success, at least of how I remember it. As almost every kid I know, either had one or two of these neat looking mini-toy sets. The one I treasured the most, where the Dragon head skull, which included a grim reaper looking villain, along with its pet dragon (I always pretended it to be a good or kind dragon, fighting the evil dude), and of course Mighty Max himself. I guess part of the reason to why they became so popular with kids, were that they was not so big in size, and you could actually play with them during class, which I did a few times, but regretted it, immediately when a friend and myself got caught in the "act", and both of our Mighty Max toy sets got taken away, and we had to wait for friday (4 whole school day) until we got them back, and learned our lesson, not to toy around during classes. Still, I guess the teachers back then, if they only knew of the cellphone that would arrive later on, and how much their students "toyed" around with those things, instead.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Feb 26, 2021 13:33:37 GMT
Transformers Hot Wheels He-Man Micromachines Oh yeah, the Micromachine toy franchise, were a huge (or shall I say, small?) part of my childhood, and I also remember there were a few other similar made/looking toys, that obviously tried to cash in on the more famous toyline, but you could pretty easy tell them apart, as many would have cheap looking design, and the quality of the wheels would often reveal itself, by becoming damaged, very easily. I guess the most impressive and memorable Micromachine sets, arrived in 1993-1994, or so I remembered it, when several huge mini-cities with different looks, arrived in the toy stores, and boy, to get my hands on one of those, that was quite the feeling. I am not sure how many were made, but the one I ended up with, was this "beast" of a mini-city: It seems like they were so popular, that they would later on be re-made much later, as well:
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Feb 26, 2021 13:53:47 GMT
I was into yo-yos for awhile and spinning tops There seemed to be quite a yo-yo trend going strong in the spring/summer of 1994, as I remember there was a talented yo-yo performer who arrived at our school, and he did all kind of neat and impressive magical tricks, which of course were a far better way of selling the yo-yos to a bunch of amazed kids, and just as soon he left the property, and school day ended, we all run like crazy back home, to beg our parents of getting ourselves our very own yo-yo. But, what looked cool and "easy", sadly turned soon into a lot of annoying and frustrating attempts on re-creating what we had seen earlier at school, or during toy commercials on tv. As fast as the craze hit its peak, it soon fell waaaay down below the toy radar, and just a few weeks into summer vacation that year, you could just find all these Coca-Cola yo-yo toys, lying around, with no one to even bother picking them up. I am not sure for how long, I had my red Coca-Cola yo-yo, but I did loose interest, very fast, as I was just too clumsy and not enough patience to try and reach the same kind of "magic" yo-yo talent as some others seemed to have time and interest for. Still, looking back, I am easily hit with that sweet and naive nostalgic feeling, when thinking of it all. Of course, during summer of 1994, another huge reason to why the whole yo-yo craze did not last for much long, was because of the whole hype up, leading to the World Cup in football, that would take place in America, and where the Upper Deck Football trading cards hit its peak. Now ,those things were just on a whole other level, and at times turned almost into complete madness. Kids went totally crazy for those, even fighting like hell, to either get their hands on them, or stealing from each other, and I still have a few left, somewhere, I think. One of my proudest cards, was one I actually won in a challenge, where you would throw/flip the cards, and it landed on the right side down, you won, or lost, but thankfully I did win more than I lost, some even tried to cheat, by gluing to exact same cards to eachother, so it would always fell down on the "right" side, but believe me, those kids who got screwed over by some of the cheating rats, it was almost like in the old west, where anything goes. If you got caught red handed, you were in big trouble, as cheating was not taken lightly, and one got his ass beaten pretty hard, by a girl. Anyway, the one that I was proud of, and won fair and square, was a platinum card, or I guess it went also under the name of Player of the Year: Beside the World Cup 94 trading cards, another set of card franchise which hit big around the same time, were that of the Flintstones (1994) movie, and whenever I end up discussing those times with friends, none seem to remember the film itself, but when mentioning the cards, they all light up like Christmas candles, as the nostalgia is strong with those.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Feb 26, 2021 14:05:14 GMT
Apparently, my first favourite toy was my rocking horse. I would ride it around the house and the backyard. I'd follow mum or dad about as they did house and yard work. Later on, I got into action figures, matchbox cars, model train sets, model racing car sets and so forth. Oh yeah, one of my earliest toy memories, came through an old rocking horse in wood, or in norwegian (gyngehest) which had earlier on, belonged to my dad, when he was a little kid. And one which had quite a history going, as it was made in the early 50s, by an inmate in prison, and even to this day, my dad has it lying around, and it is just as solid as ever. Which is quite impressive, as so many modern and far expensive toys today, so easily gets damaged or goes to pieces. But some of the old toys, those sure could handle themselves, and I must have rocked away on that horse, for weeks, months, and I noticed also that while rocking away on it, I enjoyed it way more, when listening to certain music through my walkman player, and where some of the most memorable moments, arrived when I got a copy of Michael Jakcson - Thriller on music cassette, followed by borrowing a few of my mum's ABBA tapes. That kind of music, just fitted so well and sometimes, my parents would almost get a bit "crazy", as I could sit all night, rocking away on the horse, and just dream myself away along to the beats and melodies of the music I listened to.
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Feb 26, 2021 14:40:56 GMT
I mainly had G.I. Joe, Masters of the Universe and Hot Wheels in my collection.
There were some assorted ones such as the Rambo knife and gun. I think I also had the bandana.
I also had a Godzilla toy and some TMNT toys.
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Post by Jokers_Wilde on Feb 26, 2021 16:55:53 GMT
I had a Kermit The Frog doll that I took EVERYWHERE with me when I was a toddler. Because it was getting all dirty, my mother went to put it in the washing machine. Apparently, I didn't like that. Still had it up to when I was at least 12 years old. I was talking a Babysitting course, and it came to the part of the course when we learned how to change a diaper. Many of the girls brought dolls from their childhood in. What did I bring? Needless to say, the girls made fun of me for that.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 26, 2021 23:20:03 GMT
And what did I get?
I had one of those, the 1995 twirling edition.
By far my favorite of all my Barbie dolls because she could actually MOVE, her legs actually BENT, and true to the ads, you could spin her just by the crown on her head. I had a huge wooden dresser with a flat top and a full mirror on the back and in the dark I'd use it as her stage.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 26, 2021 23:35:34 GMT
This was a big one for me, anybody remember these? Lights, doorbell, phone, and dolls that could talk, it was mind boggling 25 years ago. I would experiment switching them around on their talking discs to see how many different things I could get them to say. I had one weird occurrence one time when the dad's voice *sharply* replied to the daughter, could never get it to happen again. I don't know where it came from, but the coolest thing for me was I had a little wooden milk bottle case with six painted wooden milk bottles that just fit with it perfectly and was always in the kitchen. It looked like it was part of it. Lite Brite, I LOVED that, I wore it out, the pegs couldn't stay in the sheets by the time I got done with it. This was another one of my favorites. I loved baseball. We had one of those with the big fat red plastic bats that made a huge CRACK when you hit the ball, played that thing to death. My brother had one of those green/yellow Nerf bats with the water in it. Remember those? He had that for years, I was using it one day and when I hit the ball the bat exploded. I loved Polly Pockets, I had like 3 of them, I always wanted the whole set, I wanted the one with the big water slide and the light up chapel. I loved the one that actually looked like a house. I would take the dolls from all of them and put them in it to reenact "The Bat" with them.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 26, 2021 23:59:48 GMT
Couple pictures didn't post.
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Post by autumn on Feb 27, 2021 0:17:41 GMT
Books. As long as I had plenty of books and stuffed animals I was happy.
I never cared for dolls.
I did inherit some of my grandfather's metal trucks and trains though.
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Post by quagsjonny on Feb 27, 2021 0:18:45 GMT
Lego. It was amazing before the 'themes', still great.
I was also the age of 'hot wheels' 'matchbox' cars with the plastic interlocking tracks. Great courses, and great weapons if you lost.
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Post by quagsjonny on Feb 27, 2021 0:36:22 GMT
The reason that I wanted to bump this thread, was because I wanted to just write a bit of toy nostalgia, and what kind of toys made the biggest impact on me back in the early 90s. I guess it is impossible to forget the classic LEGO Knights franchise, which felt like hit its peak during the late 80s and into the early 90s, and where the Black Knights, always were my favorite series, and I also remember how excited I was, when I finally had saved up (with a bit of help from my parents and a few birthday/Christmas parties as well) enough money, to pick up the legendary: And it was just a few days before summer break, and I had 8 whole weeks to play with this set, but then when I opened it, I realized, you have to build it first (yeah, big surprise, not ), and damn, if not for a helpful mum, I would have not gotten it built on my own, as I tried, and tried for hours, but never could get the damn thing to work properly. Anyway, when we finally got through, it was very different from some of the other LEGO castles I had either bought or gotten, as they often looked way cooler outside the package they came with, but once finished, they were not all that impressive on their own. The 1992 Black Knights castle however, looked very neat, in fact probably the coolest big toyset I ever owned, and 6 months later, I got myself the Wolf Pack castle, as a present for my birthday. Looking at that poster above, which seemed to collect most of the 1992 LEGO Knight franchise all together, I am surprised at how much I actually ended up getting a hold of, as the 6086 The Black Knights Castle, 6038 Wolf Peoples Wagon and 6075 Wolf Peoples Island cave, were all something I treasured, but never realized until now, that the Outlaws forest 6077 was part of this franchise, as I thought they were an older series of LEGO, but I guess I was wrong. By 1993, I remember they delivered another line of Knights and castles, one which included a Wizard and even a firebreathing Dragon. But I always thought the main castle of the Dragon Knights, looked like a complete downer, compared to the 1992 main castle. I almost forgot how epic, some of these toy commercial made it out to be back then: Great memories. I had some of those cavalry horses, but I was the youngest, and had the previous gen 'Yellow' castle to build and rebuild. Epic battles!
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Post by TutuAnimationPrincess on Feb 27, 2021 0:39:59 GMT
I was all across the board. I loved Barbie and friend because of all the accessories. I loved Jurassic Park toys as they were the best dinosaurs. I also loved the Alien and Predator toys because they were so cool. So many great options.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 27, 2021 0:40:09 GMT
Books. As long as I had plenty of books and stuffed animals I was happy. I never cared for dolls. I did inherit some of my grandfather's metal trucks and trains though.
We had a couple of the old plastic/metal jeeps, BIG jeeps to push around, one was black, one was dark pink with I think a floral design, both with the long antennas, I tried finding some pictures but I couldn't come up with anything.
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