Hmm, I miss my old action man toys (the late 70s early 80s ones), Machine Men (Specifically the Rocklords), and another line I can't remember the name of, but it was a bunch of knights and smaller dudes in cloaks, and their chests/heads were a hologram that switched between a person and an animal. I miss the old boardgame Heroquest too.

Can't remember the name of the game ya mentioned, ThaBenMan, but I saw it being reviewed on an episode of attack of the show a while back.

Jaythulhu:
it was a bunch of knights and smaller dudes in cloaks, and their chests/heads were a hologram that switched between a person and an animal.

I remember those! They were sweet. There were these other ones that were similar, I don't know if they were the same brand or not, but they were like monsters. There was this one guy I had who wore a hooded cloak, and they had holograms too (it was kind of a fad back then, I think)

Jaythulhu:
Can't remember the name of the game ya mentioned, ThaBenMan, but I saw it being reviewed on an episode of attack of the show a while back.

Nice, maybe I can dig it up on youtube or something. Thanks!

GI Joe, with Kung-fu grip! Man, I had so much of their stuff and pummelled it terribly... Sarge got male pattern baldness and a hand amputation from all the rough handling.

-- Steve

Z-bots. I vaguely remember that craze, must have been early 90s.

stompy:
Didn't play with many toys in my day and age... I had a few Bionicals and the such, but I primarily used Blu-tac to model. It was weird; instead of the regular play-dough, I used the regular ol' Blu-tac, which I found was a lot stickier than its entertainment-purposed counterpart.

Holy crap, me too.

I made a Blu-Tac monster to fight my favorite toy ever

I have no clue what they we're called but they came in like werid egg things and you had to sit them in warm water for the goo to come off them to see what toy you got.

Gotham Soul:

I miss it already.

Truly the most epic of all toys.

KaZZaP:
I have no clue what they we're called but they came in like werid egg things and you had to sit them in warm water for the goo to come off them to see what toy you got.

Those alien things?

TheGhostOfSin:

stompy:
Didn't play with many toys in my day and age... I had a few Bionicals and the such, but I primarily used Blu-tac to model. It was weird; instead of the regular play-dough, I used the regular ol' Blu-tac, which I found was a lot stickier than its entertainment-purposed counterpart.

Holy crap, me too.

I made a Blu-Tac monster to fight my favorite toy ever

You will be astounded.

Who won?

BEASTWARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TheGhostOfSin:

stompy:
Didn't play with many toys in my day and age... I had a few Bionicals and the such, but I primarily used Blu-tac to model. It was weird; instead of the regular play-dough, I used the regular ol' Blu-tac, which I found was a lot stickier than its entertainment-purposed counterpart.

Holy crap, me too.

I made a Blu-Tac monster to fight my favorite toy ever

You will be astounded.

They didn't sell those in Calgary when I liked Power Rangers, so I built my own combining mech out of GI-Joe Vehicles, Glue, Tape and Lego. It couldn't move, but it could stand.

Lego was also probably my favorite toy ever. I could and did build just about everything with it.

Fox1789:
i can think of a few...

remember firbys?

what about poochie? ..

these two toys where famous for no more than 3 years..

Furbie.

Frisbees are still around but I see your point as they are not nearly as populare same with hula hoops and yo-yos.

nathan-dts:

TheGhostOfSin:

I made a Blu-Tac monster to fight my favorite toy ever

You will be astounded.

Who won?

The Green Rangers DragonZord which was too awesome to be caught on film.

Neosage:
BEASTWARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TheGhostOfSin:

You will be astounded.

I had both of those, and when I was younger and I loved them as well as the first generation fo Bionicles. They were pretty cool, and the monsters actually looked like Legos and were hard to build, they didn't use special pieces made jsut for them, instead they used good old Lego ingenuity.

Blu Tac and sticks were also some of the best toys I ever had.

Flour:

Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab

I'll just link to the article
While everything on that site's list is something people would want to forget, they still deserve to be mentioned here.

That's awesome, I would've loved that when I was a kid! That's like something straight out of Fallout!

remember my buddy dolls?

mine reminded me too much of the child's play movie so i decapitated it

Anarchemitis:

Back when Lego had the good ol' 9V Motors. And didn`t suck.

I had that set!

ThaBenMan:
I remember those! They were sweet. There were these other ones that were similar, I don't know if they were the same brand or not, but they were like monsters. There was this one guy I had who wore a hooded cloak, and they had holograms too (it was kind of a fad back then, I think)

Yeah, the monsters came with a little dude who could ride on the back of them. Were like a splinter line or something.

I remembered another toy I thought was rather cool, was a sub-transformers thing. Little cyborg monster things that had a hidden symbol on their chest that when ya warmed it, it revealed a log, flame or wind thingy.

Ooh, and that one reminds me of "monsters in your pocket". Little single colour thingies based off mythological and fantasy monsters with various point values, even had rare glow in the dark ones. They were a massive craze for about 8 months when I was in grade 6. Or was it 5? Eh, long time ago anyway.

Jaythulhu:
I remembered another toy I thought was rather cool, was a sub-transformers thing. Little cyborg monster things that had a hidden symbol on their chest that when ya warmed it, it revealed a log, flame or wind thingy.

Battle Beasts! Those were the shit! Good times...

meatloaf231:

Anarchemitis:
*Last Train to Enjoyment-ville*
Back when Lego had the good ol' 9V Motors. And didn`t suck.

Seriously, LEGO has got to be the greatest toy ever made.

I 3rd that, lego is so awesome.

I miss bionicle why? I liked the fact that they had those spinny gear thingys... Yeah that and thy didnt use batteries. They were fun I'd just like having them beat the crap outta eachother. Or at least until their masks fell off.

freebiewitz:
I miss bionicle why? I liked the fact that they had those spinny gear thingys... Yeah that and thy didnt use batteries. They were fun I'd just like having them beat the crap outta eachother. Or at least until their masks fell off.

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Bionicle? One of my little sisters plays with them. I bought her a couple of new ones for her birthday ealier this year. They're definately still around.

Anyone remember dragon flyz?

I dont know if you would consider them a toy I really dont but pogs...my god me and my friends would go around beating kids up and taking their pogs...those were the days.

Didn't anybody else do plastic models as a kid? Or did you all just jump straight to the glue sniffing?

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