From when we were kids!

[Gilly Bean]

Ok, I know I am one of the younger generation here, but I also see the gap from my generation, to the next one already. What was your favorite toy, or toys when you were growing up?

I loved My Little Ponies, She-Ra (I had the castle), Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Bright, and Barbie.

I loved watching the Wuzzles on Saturday mornings. I loved She-ra and He-man on cartoons. Thunder Cats was another favorite show.

I am a product of the 80's, but boy, I would much rather take my kids back in time, and raise em there, then here.

 

[Calamity Jane]

I loved My Little Ponies, She-Ra (I had the castle), Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Bright, and Barbie.

I am a product of the 80's, but boy, I would much rather take my kids back in time, and raise em there, then here.

I had He-Man and She-Ra... Caslte Grayskull... Malibu Barbie... Stomper Trucks...Pitfall on Atari... Mon Chi Chi's... leg warmers anyone!?... erector sets... legos...

HATED Rainbow Brite and Strawberry Shortcake... they were my little sisters' thing.

The 80's were cool... and while, in the interest of nostalgia, i'll buy my kids toys at yard sales that reek of the 80's, i wouldn't actually want to return to that whole era.

My little sister is a product of the 'next generation'... she'll be 20 in march... there's a huge gap between us sometimes in what we remember about childhood. she was only 9 when i left home, so we don't have many joint childhood memories... i usually feel very old when talking to anyone under 24 or so... no common ground or whatever. this board's an exception though... i never would have guessed some of the posters were so young.

 

[TN_Vixen]

Barbies of course.
We watched Romper Room and had these silly cup-like things with plastic straps attached we would walk on like stilts.
Pogo sticks
hula hoops
roller skates
sit 'n spin
shrinky dinks
I can't remember the name of it, but you tied one end of this around one ankle and swung it around and tried to jump across the long part with the other foot...?
Simon

 

[Samuari]

I am a product of the 80's, but boy, I would much rather take my kids back in time, and raise em there, then here.

I think that we all would like to raise our kids in the times when we were growing up. Mostly, I think that that comes from it being familure to us, with few surprises.

I am a generation eariler, having grown up in the fifties and sixties, with Ozzie and Harriot, My Three Sons, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and of course Mighty Mouse.

There were negitive, confusing things then as well, the Berlin Blockade, Civel Rights controversy, JFK's assination (for that matter RFK and Martin Luther King's as well), the steadyly growing concern about Viet Nam, mind expanding drugs, and "free love".

On ballence, I think that I'll take today to raise my girls.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Barbies of course.
We watched Romper Room and had these silly cup-like things with plastic straps attached we would walk on like stilts.
Pogo sticks
hula hoops
roller skates
sit 'n spin
shrinky dinks
I can't remember the name of it, but you tied one end of this around one ankle and swung it around and tried to jump across the long part with the other foot...?
Simon

Romper Stompers! That lemon thing? I can't remember what it was called either. You can buy them both again now btw. I loved shrinky dinks too... can't believe i forgot shrinky dinks.

 

[Gilly Bean]

last night, I went shopping with a friend. Know what we saw for sale at a ladies clothing shop? Leg Warmers, and those sweatshirts with the neck line cut out. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

 

[Guest]

I loved My Little Ponies, She-Ra (I had the castle), Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Bright, and Barbie.

I had those toys, as well as Cabbage Patch Kids, but some of my favorite toys were Legos, Hot Wheels, and playing any dreamt up interactive chasing game or riding mt. bikes. (I was a tomboy, mostly, though my mom tried to hang on to her lil' girl.)

 

[Julian]

A Great American Hero in 12"...no, not John Holmes...

I grew up with GI Joe, the 12" Adventure Team figure; when the line was introduced in the mid-60's it was fun to purchase a combat figure, thus GI Joe was in every branch of the armed forces. Then, as the war in Vietnam was called "unwinable", the idea of influencing children to be soldiers (Not heroes!) was scary, so GI Joe became a hunter, adventurer & world traveller.

28 years later I still collect GI Joe & other military-related action figures. They make me smile as I remember how nice it was to believe you could be a hero with a gun. As a adult, I see now that heroes don't need guns...

My collection is a small one in comparison to the other collectors I know, but all that matters is that it makes me smile.

Adios!



Julian

 

[Guest]

I grew up with GI Joe, the 12" Adventure Team figure; when the line was introduced in the mid-60's it was fun to purchase a combat figure, thus GI Joe was in every branch of the armed forces.

Joe is back on the shelf. The big guys not the 2" shorty. Being the warped child I was, though, I used to have J.I. Joe ravage Barbie while Ken was forced to watch. lol

 

[Julian]

Now that's a memory....

My sister had a 3 story townhouse with an elevator and my brother & I would have commando raids, capturing all the Ken's & having Barbie clean our rooms. (We were 8 & 5, give us a break!)

However, if you see the Dungeon Dolls, or the GI Joe clubs at Yahoo, you'll see Joe finally getting laid. Hasbro came out with a female GI Joe (Jane) who has enough articultion to be a plastic Jenna Jameson (Ignore the irony!), and if you see Fury Dolls on eBay, then GI Joe will have something worthwhile for shoreleave.

I saw a VIP (Pamela Lee) 12" figure this past Christmas, and thought it just wasn't busty enough...

Adios!

 

[april-wine]

hmmm......i had a doll as a kid mrs. beasley......ackkkkkk am i dating myself lol..she had bright orange hair......

shrinky dinks i used to love those things

 

[lobito]

Romper Stompers indeed!

The first time I came to the U.S. with my Mother, I was on the local version of Romper Room, and still have my original Romper Stompers somewhere around my Fathers house back home.

I still have my Romper Room Diploma, and a picture that was taken with my teacher, Miss Lois back in 1971.

R

 

[Guest]

My sister had a 3 story townhouse with an elevator

I had that damn thing too. Santa was "cheap". I wanted the plastic Barbie Dream House, and I got the Townhouse. I wanted this awesome pool with a slide and working water fountain, I got the Barbie version of a lil' kid's collapsible pool. ~sigh~ And my mom wondered by I quit believing around 7 or 8.

 

[bi_theway]

o wow i remeber playing barbies i had the penthouse and cars...
i played with:
she-ra(i used to pretend her and he-man were married and fought evil together)
gem and the misfits
cherry merry muffin
my little pony's
legos
little people
rainbow bright
sit and spin
and then i grew into wrestling and started with collecting them

 

[Nathon_88]

I remember GI Joe, and dozens, and dozens, of the little, ubiquious green army men.

Then I left them out one night, planning to go back the next day and finish the "war", and Mom filled the pit in.

Oh well, by that time, the 286 was in our house.

.....Anyone else remember having a 286?

Mmmmm...Commander Keen!

 

[april-wine]

mrs.beasley........in all her glory lol

 

[Guest]

mrs.beasley........in all her glory lol

My mom had one of those. lol She also had (still has) a Shirley Temple doll.

 

[Mr. Bootie]

Anyone have????

Slinkies??? Could never get it to walk down the stairs like in the commercials...........lol

Rock'em Sock'em Robots. I even beat the adults at that game.

Tonka trucks. My favorite was a a yellow dump truck.

Yo Yo's. Again couldn't walk the dog.

Kite flying was fun. Except when it got stuck in a tree, or entangled with another persons string. Worse yet. Not having enough string........lol

Evil Knievel man and motorcycle. Wind him up and watch him go.

Romper Room was great. I always wanted one of those cardboard firetrucks.......Loved Miss Mary Anne. Had crush on her.

Board games.......Monopoly, Life, Chutes and ladders, Clue, Sorry,Candy Land, Checkers, Battleship, Stratego.,RISK........etc.

Then came video games........Pong was a family favorite. I think we still have it somwhere. Hmmm??? Gotta check

Electric race cars........Which Never made it around the track. lol

Hot wheels............I actually cried when my mom gave away my Hot wheels and track. I had a HUGE track with two power garages. I miss my Hot wheels *sob*. lol

I'll never grow up. I'll play these games still........I'm a big kid at heart..................Can't you tell??? lol

kgboot

 

[Azwed]

I remember GI Joe, and dozens, and dozens, of the little, ubiquious green army men.

Then I left them out one night, planning to go back the next day and finish the "war", and Mom filled the pit in.

Oh well, by that time, the 286 was in our house.

.....Anyone else remember having a 286?

Mmmmm...Commander Keen!

Ahhh but do you remember the Commodore 64???/

I played commander Keen. Well at least i vaguely remember playing it.

The same thing happend to me and a friend of mines G.I. Joes we had them all outside and left them out there one night. We had two big pits they were in and the guys were all in little tunnels in the side. Well it rained some that night and made the pits collapse. We found some of the guys but not all.



Ok what about Transformers. The original transformers from the original series like Optimus Prime, Star Scream Megatron, Jazz, so on and so forth. I had tons of those for toys. I still have many of them probably worth a lot now.

 

[CelestialBody]

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[Azwed]

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You scared me for a second there. Does anyone remember the Christmas special that USA used to run with He-Man and She-ra?? What about the last unicorn? The smurfs? Gummi Bears? I had the hula-hoop thing down pat, I can still do it pretty well. Legos-no erector set. Lincoln (linkin?) logs? Barbie barbie barbie! Mostly I remember running through sprinklers and dancing.

Smurfs i remember and i had many many legos. I used to make my own little worlds out of them. I also had lincoln logs and an old erector set.

Still wanna run throught the sprinklers CB. That might be fun.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Ahhh but do you remember the Commodore 64???/

My mom still has a commodore 64... actually, in my closet i have a 64, a pong game, an original atari, an intellivision, and the first sega that came out. god i was a geek!

I wish I still had my stomper trucks. i used to wire them to 9 volt batteries... they'd shoot across the floor at about 100 mph and then explode in a puff of smoke.

Now that I think about it, I miss my dirtbike too. We used to take the brakes out of them so we could pedal backwards... and we built ramps and then paid the neighborhood kids to lay down in front of them and see how many we could jump. how did we manage not to kill anyone?

 

[Calamity Jane]

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You scared me for a second there. Does anyone remember the Christmas special that USA used to run with He-Man and She-ra?? What about the last unicorn? The smurfs? Gummi Bears?

I'm scary??? Never would have thought that! I don't remember many television shows... i lived my life without cable once mom quit dating hte cable guy and they came out with the boxes so you couldn't just hijack it from the pole.... my childhood was books, toys and animals...

how did i scare you?

 

[Willing and Unsure]

i had Barbie and just about every accessory and doll there was.. She-Ra and her castle.. the smurfs, Rainbow Brite, Jem, Strawberry Shortcake, Cabbage Patch Kids, the playground in the park where all the neighborhood kids would go and we'd all play tag or hide and go seek in the slides.. jump ropes.. playing softball in the street.. and of my favorites, my pet monster

 

[Silverlily]

I had dolls when I was realy little, Raggedy Ann, Mrs. Beasley, Dressy Bessy, and this doll that was as tall as I was and had elastic on her hands and feet so I could dance with her. I never got into Barbie.

Other than that, I lived in my rollerskates. I could walk up stairs in them, got yelled at for wearing them to the dinner table, only took them off when I absolutely had to. I used to pester my dad to clear the sidewalks after it snowed, just so I could go skating.

*sigh* I miss those skates.