Its Christmas time and while I am working on the next "these movies have to stop" ( considering how many I am making it appears those THREADS have to stop ) I have Decided to make this quick thread about toys yes you heard me toys.
When I comes to Christmas I evolved my Christmas lists with the times around me. Early 70s were always toys mid 70s were mostly toys but also video games, early 80s were mostly video but also toys. Mid 80s was my final Christmas days before I was off to the navy.
Dispite technically being born in the 60s I'd never consider my self a "60s kid" I feel if you can't genuinely remember the decade you were born in, then you are the next decade kid. So the 70s were filled with things I remember because i consider my self a 70s kid. I had a pet rock and was filled with confusing thoughts that people have when they look back on the pet rock. I had pong my first experience in gaming. It started off an obsession I still have to this day ( check out my video games thread for more info ) I got a magna doodle, after a few month I got thise weird dead dots on it and It became a regular at my toybox. I received a stretch Armstrong and I decided to see just how far he could stretch...needless to say I also found out about the whole "filled with corn syrup" thing. I received and mastered Simon. By the late 70s I had two things that made me the most popular kid on the street. First was the Atari 2600 obviously a classic that filled my tv with graphics that even back then looked odd. The other was the rc r2d2 which allowed me to bewilder me friends with a robot that...sorta looked like r2d2.
The 80s was filled even more toys that I sadly did not get because I a teen who was above Christmas. Mid 80s landed my nes a staple of the decade. Aswell as the vhs player which allowed me to watch my favorite movies with no commercials!!! Being a teen in mid 80s the thing that kept my attention besides comics, video games and tickle porn I MEAN GIRLS, was action figures. I read comics religiously back then and secret wars was the best of both worlds for me. People forget how huge secret wars was for us comic fans. Not since the 60s with batman has comics and mainstream entertainment combined. Comics were a niche thing in the 80s and were considered nerd stuff. Now with the mcu, comics are mainstream and I feel secret wars was the start of that. I'm not forgetting about you DC however. DC super powers was a fun line that while not as memorable to me personally as secret wars was pretty cool. By 1986 Christmas became simple, no lists just me saying what I wanted and no real toys
Short story before I go. In the mid 70s as a stocking stuffer I got a yoyo. I opened it up wrapped it around my finger the first time I thwiped it, the yoyo broke off and rolled under the couch. That my friends was the true toy that got away
When I comes to Christmas I evolved my Christmas lists with the times around me. Early 70s were always toys mid 70s were mostly toys but also video games, early 80s were mostly video but also toys. Mid 80s was my final Christmas days before I was off to the navy.
Dispite technically being born in the 60s I'd never consider my self a "60s kid" I feel if you can't genuinely remember the decade you were born in, then you are the next decade kid. So the 70s were filled with things I remember because i consider my self a 70s kid. I had a pet rock and was filled with confusing thoughts that people have when they look back on the pet rock. I had pong my first experience in gaming. It started off an obsession I still have to this day ( check out my video games thread for more info ) I got a magna doodle, after a few month I got thise weird dead dots on it and It became a regular at my toybox. I received a stretch Armstrong and I decided to see just how far he could stretch...needless to say I also found out about the whole "filled with corn syrup" thing. I received and mastered Simon. By the late 70s I had two things that made me the most popular kid on the street. First was the Atari 2600 obviously a classic that filled my tv with graphics that even back then looked odd. The other was the rc r2d2 which allowed me to bewilder me friends with a robot that...sorta looked like r2d2.
The 80s was filled even more toys that I sadly did not get because I a teen who was above Christmas. Mid 80s landed my nes a staple of the decade. Aswell as the vhs player which allowed me to watch my favorite movies with no commercials!!! Being a teen in mid 80s the thing that kept my attention besides comics, video games and tickle porn I MEAN GIRLS, was action figures. I read comics religiously back then and secret wars was the best of both worlds for me. People forget how huge secret wars was for us comic fans. Not since the 60s with batman has comics and mainstream entertainment combined. Comics were a niche thing in the 80s and were considered nerd stuff. Now with the mcu, comics are mainstream and I feel secret wars was the start of that. I'm not forgetting about you DC however. DC super powers was a fun line that while not as memorable to me personally as secret wars was pretty cool. By 1986 Christmas became simple, no lists just me saying what I wanted and no real toys
Short story before I go. In the mid 70s as a stocking stuffer I got a yoyo. I opened it up wrapped it around my finger the first time I thwiped it, the yoyo broke off and rolled under the couch. That my friends was the true toy that got away
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