What was your favorite childhood possession?

[TXHOSER]

I can't believe I forgot this. My all time childhood favorite...

the Big Wheel.


Even with a busted up tire full of rocks it was the best toy ever.

Oh, by the way...Green Machines suck.

[rushzil2112]

I had some transformers, that to this day, I have no idea what happened to them, and I remember looking everywhere for them and just had no clue where they went. Other than that, my first drumset, which is still what I play today, and probably always will, gotta love my old blue 70s ludwig vistalites.

[Pellaz]

Originally Posted by Entrerie

+1

I had a plethora of Macross Valkyries from dinky plastic to die-cast. But that Go-Lion set was something special. I fell in love with big robot mecha instantly.

To this day, two SDF-1's, an Alpha fighter and a Zentraedi officer's battle-pod "hold court" on the top of my fridge, looking down at the kitchen with weaponry bared. All except the battle-pod, whose long-gun went missing a few years ago.

My, how we went crazy over Robotech (shown on Ch. 46 in Atlanta back in the old days) back when I was in college.

Originally Posted by TXHOSER

I can't believe I forgot this. My all time childhood favorite...

the Big Wheel.


Even with a busted up tire full of rocks it was the best toy ever.

That's gotta be one of the best-loved toys EVER.

Until recently they were available in the Sportsmans Guide catalog for about $40, but now all I see listed is the Big Wheel trainer bike. A nifty bit of nostalgia, since I had no idea they were still being made!

Side note: I love Sportsmans Guide -- one of my favorite online merchants' sites ever. I've gotten everything from leather dusters and leather jackets to weather-radios, tents and sleeping bags from there.

[Entrerie]

[quote=Pellaz;7385506]To this day, two SDF-1's, an Alpha fighter and a Zentraedi officer's battle-pod "hold court" on the top of my fridge, looking down at the kitchen with weaponry bared. All except the battle-pod, whose long-gun went missing a few years ago.

My, how we went crazy over Robotech (shown on Ch. 46 in Atlanta back in the old days) back when I was in college.


That's awesome. I never did get the Gakken Alpha fighter as a child, I settled for the Toynami version finally. I've seen them on ebay more frequently a few years ago though. I know there is a new one that just got released which is the combo of a beta and alpha in Japan.

I did have a Matchbox hover tank but it got lost with the rest of the toys. I have an Invid armored trooper though I got a while back.

Have you kept up with the Japanese Macross series? The new Macross Frontier show is not bad at all.

[Pellaz]

Originally Posted by Entrerie

That's awesome. I never did get the Gakken Alpha fighter as a child, I settled for the Toynami version finally. I've seen them on ebay more frequently a few years ago though. I know there is a new one that just got released which is the combo of a beta and alpha in Japan.

Ooooooh! Me wants!

I did have a Matchbox hover tank but it got lost with the rest of the toys. I have an Invid armored trooper though I got a while back.

I reallly loved the design of the Invid mecha. It really -did- look somewhat alien and exotic, which made sense.

Have you kept up with the Japanese Macross series? The new Macross Frontier show is not bad at all.

Hmm, no, I haven't, lately! Any DVDs available? How many in the series?

[Entrerie]

Originally Posted by Pellaz

Ooooooh! Me wants!



I reallly loved the design of the Invid mecha. It really -did- look somewhat alien and exotic, which made sense.



Hmm, no, I haven't, lately! Any DVDs available? How many in the series?

Now it's just started airing over there, mainly just fansubs right now. I know Macross Plus and Zero should be out here on DVD though. Macross II came out a while back but it's treated as non canon. There's a whole big deal about Legal rights issues with Macross and Robotech and speculation about what the upcoming live-action movie is going to entail.

Also if you haven't looked at Macross toys in a while, they have some sick valkyries available from Yamato toys that are huge, I forgot the scale but I think it's 1/40 and 1/60. They even made a transforming Monster toy, it was the Mecha with the 3 large long cannons on it that used to be on the deck of the promethius(iirc).

[FriendOfEntropy]

Frame of reference...I'm 38 so mid to late 70s toys and early 80s were my era.

I always thought we were pretty darn poor growing up...felt like we had nothing compared to all my friends, and we were pretty much very low middle class, but looking back at this toy list, it's amazing how much I had. Now, I was an only child, so the toy dollars went all to me. I got to be spoiled in that respect.

I did get tired of having to wear Toughskins jeans from Sears instead of name brand jeans like all my friends.
Toughskins

Sears Winner Shoes (the three stripes) instead of name brand shoes, lol.

Enough about unfashionable clothes...

Okay, so the topic was favorite, and I have to say my favorite was my Commodore Vic 20, and I still keep it in working condition..breaking it out occasionally for some retro fun.

It's the reason I'm a computer programmer today instead of an Accountant or something.


I had Lego sets too numerous to count, and I broke those out of the attic for my daughter when she was old enough that they weren't a choking hazard. She's 8 now and is not as interested in them as I was at her age. She'll play with them if I sit down with her and build things, but she'll go play with her dolls and such if she's on her own.


If only I had some of these things I list below still, they might be worth something. I was hard on toys, plus they seemed to turn into hand-me downs. I remember all these fondly, but didn't hang onto them like I did my Lego and my Computers.

Star Wars figures too numerous to remember
Big Jim
Matchbox and Hotwheels
Big Wheel
plain old Huffy Bike (I never got a BMX..I was so un-cool).

Lone Ranger

Weebles

Fisher Price(I had the airport, the garage, and the barn.)

Evil Knievel

Planet of The Apes Treehouse

Planet of The Apes Catapult And Wagon

I had TONS of Micronauts

Space 1999 Eagle

Tons more kinds of toys I can't remember, I'm sure.

Bought this book a few years back and it has been the greatest for wallowing in toy nostalgia. I had priced trying to buy real Sears wishbooks from say 1975 to 1985, and it was way too expensive. Shipping alone on the catalogs was a killer. This guy has gotten the rights to republish the wishbook pages, and boy is it nice to see all the stuff I drooled over as a kid waiting for Christmas.

Boys Toys of the 1970s and 1980s Use Amazon's "Search Inside This Book" feature to get a preview of some of the pages.

[yardleybates]

I would have to say my vintage Barbies from my Mom when she was a girl - they didn't bend and weren't the "blonde barbie" that we all know and love now.

I had trunks and trunks of elaborate outfits for them.
Loved setting up a whole area to play with them

Then my baby sister cut off all their hair and colored them with pink crayons

[Rakosh]

Originally Posted by TXHOSER

Oh, by the way...Green Machines suck.

That was a personal attack, wasn't it?? You know my Green Machine could tear up your Big Wheel any day...besides, the stick steering system helped me years later on BattleZone!

Originally Posted by FriendOfEntropy

Evil Knievel

Oh now THAT was the shit! I had my Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle break more bones on him than the real man ever could...and he was a good match for the Six Million Dollar Man and Maskatron. (Man, I wish I still had that toy--it's worth a fortune now).

[kellsco]

I keep coming back to this thread....and thinking, trying to think about something that I prized most of all. I kept coming up with nothing really special. Then it hit me. My music.

I got my first turntable for Christmas the year I turned 5. I had mostly 45's for a few years, until my parents thought me old enough for albums. It was a portable record player with a latch and carrying handle, and I took it with me whenever I could. A 1967's iPod if you will. I even took it with me when we went on vacations.