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The toys that brought me joy ( and the one that literally got away )

Mrcool

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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
 
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The 80's and 90's had some of the best toys! Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Centurions...the list goes on! I remember how excited I was when I found the He-Man power sword (from the 2nd incarnation of He-Man in the early 90s) under the tree, and a friend of mine got the Skeletor staff.
 
My toy days were in the 60's, mainly the first half. Dad was stationed in Japan at tht time, so not sure if what we saw was the same as on the mainland. We tended to have these large "sets" of various themes: Army soldiers (more of the WW II variety), cowboys and Indians, knights, dinosaurs, and even some of a few TV shows, of which I remember Fireball XL-V (a marionette-based show, of which you youngsters will know nothing about). Play rifles, machine guns, and handguns, with Greenie stick-em caps (made the toy noisy). Also for the older kids, plastic model kits (cars, planes, etc.), erector sets, slot cars, electric trains, and the now-dreaded chemistry sets (one of these led to one my careers). Video games? Not even thought of back then.
 
Growing up in the 1950's, my favorite present was a (fake) coonskin cap complete with a raccoon tail as worn by Fess Parker in the Walt Disney miniseries Davy Crockett. :D
 
I had the Sword of Power from the original He-Man cartoon, Castle Grayskull, then it was G.I. JOE action figures with their vehichles and the Cobra Terror Drome. Then another Christmas it was TMNT figures.

Don't remember when my sis and I got an NES or the Sega Geneses, or the Sega Game Gear .
 
I'll always cherish my Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis that me and my sis got for Christmas. We played the heck out of them and had tons of fun doing so. :D
 
I received a red wagon which I still have and use on occasions.
 
I was an 80s/90s kid, we had the most insane toy commercials around xmas time lol. When I was little I dreamed of having a horse, so the #1 entry on almost every Christmas list involved a toy horse stable, or horse figurines of some kind. Also the Barbie "sets" used to thrill me...I had the hair salon, soda shop and the medical office, and one really neat one with a bath tub that would squirt bubbles (just foam created via an air tube under the water, I think lol) so it looked like a real bubble bath. Hmm what else... I went bonkers over the Nintendo (the original NES, yes I'm old), although that was a whole-family gift that we all enjoyed, not just for me.

The one that got away? Oh yes...the Breyer horse collection...I asked for these every year, but I'm guessing they were either too expensive or too large...my toys took up enough space as it was, so I hardly blame my parents for saying no lol.
 
Christmas 1997, I receieved a mysterious grey box marked 'PlayStation', and so began a love of Sony's consoles and their games that has endured to this day :D
 
Christmas 1997, I receieved a mysterious grey box marked 'PlayStation', and so began a love of Sony's consoles and their games that has endured to this day :D

I'm more of an Xbox guy, but I did get the first 2 PlayStations
 
Was in to Star Wars as a kid, so Xmas 83, I got an AT-AT and Scout Walker!

As an adult, an ex bought me a Nintendo Wii about 10 years back, we had hours of fun with that, espicially Mario Kart :)
 
I think my generation were very much distracted by the emergence of Sega & Nintendo - both the console and the handheld devices. It certainly dominated a few years of my life. So getting games at Christmas was the most wonderful thing ever.

Aside from this, Lego was very much popular and Micro Machines was not far behind (my particular fave) . For the girls, it was Barbie and Sylvanian Families.

There was also a craze for Boglins - they are quite collectable now (see photo) and were very popular amongst the Doctor Who contingent.

Commercially, I remember the biggest news story relating to toys at Christmas was the release of the Buzz Lightyear toy from Toy Story - this was huge news at the time.
 

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