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Post by Stu on Mar 21, 2017 20:35:14 GMT -5
First off, apologies for not including toys geared toward girls. Other than three or four, I couldn't really think of many.
Anyway, I was feeling nostalgic. Let's all take a moment to discuss our favorite toys from the 1980s. Tell us which ones you had and don't hesitate to post pics. Maybe some of you will remember obscure toy lines that many of us enjoyed.
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Post by Vampiro138 on Mar 21, 2017 20:41:05 GMT -5
I was a ghostbusters kid, I had Ecto Cooler, Ghostbusters cereal, slimer toothpaste, slimer electric tooth brush, and pretty much most every toy. I had the ghosthouse and sadly on my last move the ghosthouse never made it to me. and by virtue of being a little kid when the toys came out I had lost my figures, luckly at a comic con last year there was a booth that had various ghostbusters toys loose, they dont have their proton packs but at 2 bucks a figure it was worth it to grab and get a small part of my childhood back, someday ill eventually get the ghosthouse again.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 21, 2017 20:44:29 GMT -5
Couple of those are actually early 90s, but is all good.
I still contend the 80s were the greatest decade for action figures ever. Sure, they got more articulated and detailed as time went on, but the sheer amount of choices and imagination back then was second to none. Hell, I could list about 20-30 lines right now that you left off and that's excluding the movie tie-in lines or the knockoff lines.
Crystar, Power Lords, Bugmen of Insectia, just all kinds of great memories.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 21, 2017 21:32:56 GMT -5
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Mar 21, 2017 21:34:37 GMT -5
Marvel Secret Wars are the right aesthetic for me. It's like the first action hero set to get the comic book vibe right. Being able to take the characters off the page and put them into your own handheld action had to be awesome in a major way.
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Post by edgestar on Mar 21, 2017 21:36:57 GMT -5
My brother had lots of those toys, but I usually played with the wrestling figures
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Mar 21, 2017 21:37:37 GMT -5
I used to play primarily with GI Joe because they were movable and I could make them wrestle.
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Post by wildojinx on Mar 21, 2017 21:55:38 GMT -5
Marvel Secret Wars are the right aesthetic for me. It's like the first action hero set to get the comic book vibe right. Being able to take the characters off the page and put them into your own handheld action had to be awesome in a major way. I loved Secret Wars (though im still upset we only got 2 waves, there were so many other characters i would have loved to have figures of). Super Powers (DC) was even better.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 21, 2017 22:03:18 GMT -5
LJN was better at action figures than they were at video games. Alongside their fondly-remembered Thundercats line, they also did a bitchin' D&D line too, including my favorites Warduke and Hook Horror (though I was a little disappointed HH was a bit hollow with minimal articulation).
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Mar 21, 2017 22:05:53 GMT -5
I was a ghostbusters kid, I had Ecto Cooler, Ghostbusters cereal, slimer toothpaste, slimer electric tooth brush, and pretty much most every toy. I had the ghosthouse and sadly on my last move the ghosthouse never made it to me. and by virtue of being a little kid when the toys came out I had lost my figures, luckly at a comic con last year there was a booth that had various ghostbusters toys loose, they dont have their proton packs but at 2 bucks a figure it was worth it to grab and get a small part of my childhood back, someday ill eventually get the ghosthouse again. Mother of God, slimer toothpaste! I remember that stuff!
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Post by Stu on Mar 21, 2017 22:08:38 GMT -5
A lot of the later toys had fun gimmicks
Air Raiders moved when you pumped air into the vehicles
Sky Commanders all had strings for zip-lining action
Starcom figures had magnets on their feet with vehicles that showed guns when you pushed a button
Visionaries and Super Naturals both had holograms
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Post by mizerable on Mar 21, 2017 23:08:43 GMT -5
Mine were;
GI Joe Police Academy Food Fighters California Raisins Funrise Horses (I pretended they were a team of cops)
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 22, 2017 0:21:12 GMT -5
I was fortunate to have a childhood excessively overfilled with figures and related toys. Not hundreds but thousands of figures and playsets and such. Several major lines that I came damn near close to completing, figure-wise at least. Had every TMNT figure except most of the variants and about five figures from the last wave. Had all but four or five GI Joe figures from the launch through about right after the Iron Grenadiers, then it gets spotty. Had every Star Wars figure outside of a couple of variants, some of the Ewoks, some of the generic army builders and most of the final wave. Had every single He-Man figure except the final four figures which were only available outside of the US. Every Ghostbuster ghost except three (oddly, the original Slimer was one of them); on the human side, I only had the scream-face feature ones and a random original Egon. Decent representation (at least one figure) from probably about 80% of the lines from around '83 through '89 (when I moved to a small town and had most of my access to toys limited to yard sales). Magical time. I didn't have much else in a lot of ways, but my mom made sure I had every figure I wanted.
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Post by celticjobber on Mar 22, 2017 5:08:56 GMT -5
I had all of the Ghostbusters stuff like the Firehouse playset, Proton pack, etc. And a family friend who felt he had outgrown toys, gave me all of the Masters of the Universe figures (literally almost all of them) and the Skull Castle.
But my favorite toy line was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. At the height of "Turtle Mania" (which I think was around 1989-90) it was really hard for me to find most of the basic Turtle figures at stores. I had Donatello and then it took me a few weeks to find Leonardo. I couldn't track down Raph and Mikey figures until what seems like a couple of months later, at first settling for the goofy looking Rock N Roll Michelangelo figure. It seems like most of the time, Kay-Bee was packed with Baxter Stockman figures and little else.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Mar 22, 2017 5:25:30 GMT -5
80s toys! Loved MOTU, Ghostbusters, WWF Hasbro, Visionaries & Food Fighters from that list.
Anyone remember Supernaturals? The ones with the hologram covering the entire chest area, I had the undead zombie guy and the snakeman of egypt. They were great!
Once I've given it some thought I come back with a top ten actual figures.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Mar 22, 2017 5:29:19 GMT -5
Chuck Norris Karate Kommanders was 80s right? Had a number of these and they had a different quality to the more popular fair.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Mar 22, 2017 6:01:30 GMT -5
TMNT/Transformers/WWF/Food Fighters/Muscle Things were among my favorites.
Madballs too.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Mar 22, 2017 8:48:14 GMT -5
star wars bought the big falcon playset ship ..... ON HOLIDAY IN BLACKPOOL ..... and we all humped it back on the train i still have it but it's not in perfect shape bought quite a few figures too and the original die cast vehicles, sadly i SWAPPED the vehicles away (I AM DUMBASS) but the figures remain also had the star destroyer playset but alas that's in the great dustbin in the sky ..... before then it was all ACTION MAN ..... the british and therefore superior version! had a ton load of big vehicles like the tank, jeep and helicopter!
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Post by Stu on Mar 22, 2017 8:57:51 GMT -5
Chuck Norris Karate Kommanders was 80s right? Had a number of these and they had a different quality to the more popular fair. I totally overlooked a bunch of toy lines based on films and such. Chuck Norris, Rambo, Karate Kid and Robocop all come to mind.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Mar 22, 2017 10:29:36 GMT -5
Yes... I voted for TF, MOTU, TMNT, Ghostbusters, and Battle Beasts... I still have the Battle Beast tank with the rest of m childhood action figures... and I loved the heat gimmick on the center square. I also had a ton of Ghostbusters things from action figures like Touchdown Terror, Slimer, the Wolfman monster, the squad... but also a couple of Proton packs. One proton gun that was basically a slide projector that would show ghosts on the wall when you pulled the trigger, one that was like a nerf blaster... a PKE meter... and maybe another gun.
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