Lets have a trip down memory lane and remember the toys that marked our childhood and made us pass countless hours playing and being overall happy with them.
They dont need to be special japanese editions, nor need to be 100 USD or above, any toy that made you geniunely happy is welcome here.
If you want to share a short sotry alongside the toy, feel free to do so!.
I'll start with Capture Claw Superman.
When i was 6 to 8, i was never into Superman or any particular superhero, my favorite toys were Megazords and Beast Machines, but when my father came after work one day with this buddy in hand it became my favorite for basically all my childhood, im not sure why but he just filled the average protagonist hero spot in my play stories so well that i guess it was part of him charm.
I played so much with him to the point of decoloring his hair and upper body, will try to get one eventually, they dont seem expensive at all to my luck nowadays.
As an 80s kid it was all these DC heroes. I punched so many other toys with my action-punching-feature Superman.
We didn't have cable and there were no stores in town that sold comic books, so the only thing I knew about them was what was on the packaging and what I gathered from a couple of coloring books. Because of that, Wonder Woman was usually the "damsel in distress" and Superman was the only one who could fly.
We didn't have a lot of money, so I didn't get a lot of playsets. Instead, whenever my parents would get something that came with styrofoam packaging, they would give it to me and I would draw all over it with my markers to make a base or lair or whatever.
>>5620301
Super Powers was a great line. I have a huge collection of super powers stuff, stopped about 8 years ago, though. The prices went through the roof.
>>5620368
I got most of them at Sears.
Back when Sears sold toys in the actual store.
>>5620374
I remember playing snes games at sears. When they were classy, and somewhere more than desert scavengers wanted to go...
I had fun with alot of tos. One of my favorites was some of the kenner aliens and predator figures, especially the alien vs predator two pack. Or twitch from when toy story 3 came out.
>>5620382
Just looking at that single page ad shows more graphic design skill than goes into a whole catalog these days. When did America become completely unable to do anything?
Beast wars Optimus Primal. A fairly big, chunky figure with a ton of weapon gimmicks. he feels like the type of figure Buzz Lightyear was a parody of. His sculpt still holds up well, with some nice articulation.
basically any star wars character that was butt ugly but these two in particular
>>5620667
also loved the worst version of jabba as a kid
This motherfucker right here. My parents bought it for me on a holiday trip when I was like eight or so. Looked rad back then.
>>5621363
Back view. The jacket has "DAILY BUGLE" written on the back.
I have yet to see someone post a toy that isn't based on some form of already existing media.
>>5621369
Turns out kids want toys based on their favorite media
>>5621369
Okay hotshot, let me share you my tale.
I found this ratty, beat up Mego-style white ninja at a yard sale long, long ago. His outfit was torn and his left hand thumb was gone.
My mother was a professional seamstress, so I asked her to repair his outfit. She did one better and remade a completely new outfit in blue & white. She also gave him a new thumb with some epoxy glue. I painted his hand black to look like it was a gloved cyborg hand like >>5621400
Me & Mr. Ninja had days of summer fun in the backyard together. Sadly, I lost him when my family moved while I was at college. I still think about that Ninja to this day. Once & awhile, I'll check on eBay to find another one, but they either go for insane By-it-now prices or I just missed snagging a cheap one.
>>5620183
Damn I feel so fucking old.
Had this thing forever, though I lost the sword and shield practically the day I bought it.
>>5621369
So?
>>5620183
Those rubber ninja things with removable armor, what were they
>>5620301
>over-whelmed with the best toy market in history up to that point with GI Joe, Transformers, and fuckloads of other cool shit
>preferred the Super Powers shit
That's literally thefirst time I've ever heard of someone saying they preferred Super Powers over the other stuff
Far right Manzinger!
>>5621719
Some of those look like they have better articulation than 4H's redesigns.
>>5621718
Also the Metal Man from Zee toys on the far left here. He was Manzinger's bitch and got beat the fuck up regularly.
>>5621661
>17-year-old Link figure has a better face sculpt than the shit we have today
Kek.
>>5621695
I had one. He had a black body with orange weapons.
We're thinking of the same line, right?
I used to keep him in my closet and I always thought of him as an evil toy.
>>5621412
>Mr. Ninja
:')
>>5621712
So what you're saying is that 6-year-old me had incorrect opinions about toys?
I love stretch Armstrong style toys. It is insanely frustrating that they don't last, though. I'd love to get one now
I had so many sets of these Multimac toys. All lost, too many small pieces and too little care taken. All that's left is a couple pilots and the memories
>>5621436
>a toyline made entirely of Kotetsu Jeeg remolds
That's fucking awesome in retrospect
>>5621718
You lucked out, Great M was the better looking of the bunch
>>5620383
That's not even nostalgic enough, it's from six years ago
>>5621423
This again? Look I know silent hill was released way back in the late 90's but this toy looks too new for this thread
Food Fighters, Ninja Turtles and Toxic Crusader. Oh my.
>>5620183
This bad boy. I played with it all the time when I was 5-6, especially during the summer when we would set up an inflatible pool for me and my [spoiler]dad[/spoiler] to swim in and I would always bring in toys to play with in the pool. Unfortunately I treated my toys like shit, throwing them around and whatnot (just ask my star wars episode 3 toys, they are all missing limbs or accessories) and, combined with the exposure to chlorine water, spidey was pretty much ruined and we threw it away. RIP in pieces Marvel Classics symbiote spiderman.
>>5623620
Yep! Abused the shit outta mine, loved them. Had the one with red and gold armor and black rubber body and another one
>>5620183
This bad boy here, this thing was fucking rad and growing up with geek dad, with my imagination I reenacted Batman: The Cult (should not have been reading that one so young) Killing Joke (same thing), Knightfall and so on with this toy.
>>5625465
I was 14, its nostalgic to me.
>>5625624
these were and still are great. I had a bunch. I had Original Spider Man, Black Symbiote (the one you have pictured) DareDevil, Rhino and THIS Venom
THE WORST FUCKING VENOM TOY
>>5620301
Aw yeah. These were my jam back in the day. Not the "Super Powers" ones, but "DC Superheroes" that came out right after the '89 Batman movie. Superman had an action feature where the figure came with a wearable kryptonite ring and there was a magnet inside Superman's chest, so when you held the ring up to him, he got knocked down.
Anyone who collected Batman in the 90's knows the pain of not being able to find any villains, but these had all the classic foes readily available.
I know it's not as cool as action figures. But I fucking loved my duplo blocks for years. I got them when I was little and even as I got older I liked building with them.
I used to have an army of these motherfuckers.
This crew right here. I was a huge Nintendofag as a kid, and I usually carried these guys everywhere. Mario and Luigi in particular. They're the only toys I've had in my possession at all times for as long as I've had them. They were never put away or packed anywhere. When I stopped carrying them everywhere, I just stood them on top of my NES.
This lil nigga. Man, I wish there were good modern toys of the different Robot Masters.
(I also lost the Quick Boomerang within like a week)
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Lost as child, recovered as adult.
ertl Thomas and friends
loved em, played em to death, still own em,
gutted at how much some of the later ones cost' (00-04) (production stopped in '04)
