As the title says, what were your favourite toys from when you were a kid.

For me it was my Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles figures. I had loads of them, as well as some of the vehicles. Even made myself a sewer playset out of a big orange box and some plastic plant pots. :D

The sewer playset is long gone, but the figures are still in a cupboard somewhere.

Heh, I made a sewer playset too. And tried making the van cos my folks could never afford the big vehicles. But it got knocked out my bedroom window at some point and fell in a puddle and soaked up dirty water :(

My favorite toys probably were the Thundertank from ThunderCats, and most Transformers particularly Jetfire, the one basically ripped off a Macross Valkyrie. Big, mostly metal and super posable while looking damn cool.

Action Force

Matchbox cars

Lego

Depends on my age. Always loved Lego, got loads of Technic stuff in the loft still. Was really into StarWars and Mask. Liked Transformers but only had 2 and couldnt stand He-man.

Lego

Transformers

Ghostbusters
MASK
Star Wars
Any movie line that usually got reduced heaviuly a couple of years after the movie came out ie Planet of the Apes, Indiana Jones et al

Lego
Transformers
MASK
Star Wars
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Micro Machines

Missus likes the rampant rabbit - opps should have read the topic properly.

Stars Wars Figures/Vehicles
Transformers
BMX Burner - Blue n Yellow - I prefered that computerised white bike what was that called agin??
Big Trax
Screwball Scarmble
Tomy Pinball machine - I forget the name.

Transformers
Lego
Screwball Scramble
Micro Machines (how cool were the little pieces of city you could buy?) B)
Scaletrix with Lamborghini Diablo B)

Star Wars Figures and gubbins (loved my AT-AT)
Action Force stuff (!!) - Glad Merman remembered !.
Action Man (used to race down a hill on pereched on top of the tank !)
Corgi and Matchbox Cars
Siku Trucks
Buck-a-roo
ker-plunk
Top Trumps
.. and me Raliegh Budgie

Think that's about it :)

ThunderCats, Star Wars and Real Ghostbusters figures and vehicles.

Screwball scramble, Pac-Man hand held game, Tomy-Tronic 3D (car racing one) and Pac-Man board game!

Robbo.

Good lord! That just stirred some memories in my brain...

The VEKTAR!

http://www.yodathewise.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/vektar.htm

I remember my brother having one of those with the speedometer. I'm sure his was black though...

Any & all Star Wars stuff!
Also loved handheld games and anything that was *anything* like an arcade experience ;)
Also loved Micronauts - anyone else remember these action figures? They had clear palstic bodies and silver heads, you could remove their hands and feet for maximum "maimed limbs" effect! And I seem to recall their vehicles were constructed rather than moulded as a single unit, so in a Mecchano-type way you could build your own stuff.

good call with the handhelds:

BMX flyer
Donkey Kong Jnr game and watch (recently re-aquired ;) and still great)
Firefox

Lego and Scalextric!

As a kid I was pretty military obsessed so my absolute favourites would have been my 1:32 scale Airfix soldiers and my OO scale ones as well. I had loads, particularly of the OO scale ones. British and German infantry, Desert Rats, Afrika Corps, US civil war, WW1 infantry, Napoleonic era, knights, Romans, Robin Hood, Tarzan, Foreign Legion, US Cavalry.... On top of that I had dozens of tanks, a gun emplacement, two castles, a cowboy fort. Used to spend hours re-creating war films I had seen on TV with them.

Then there was Action Man, had loads of kit for the three I had and finally Lego because I could use it to build bunkers and aeroplanes for the soldiers.

I still have them in a box in the loft.

I'm afraid that I was a He-Man kid and had tons of the figures, Castle Grayskull, an attachment to go on top of the ramparts with a hover ship on (can't remember what it was called) Battle Cat and War Horse. :) I even went as far as having a couple of the She-Ra characters though I didn't dabble too much with those because they were aimed more at girls and the figures weren't a million miles away from Barbie dolls :(

Also had a load of original Star Wars stuff 'n vehicles, even a Snow Speeder and an AT-AT but my dad made me sell them all at a car boot sale years back when I first started getting into computer games. :angry: though to be fair it was quite a while before the Special Edition films came out and they weren't worth anywhere near as much at the time as they are now (in the good condition they were in).

Later on, I had the four Real Ghostbusters figures (though I never had Ecto 1 or the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man or anything like that, and I did the Teenage Mutant Hero thing too (had all 4 figures and Shredder) even though I was technically too old to be into that kind of stuff at the time (15) and bought them more because I was a huge fan of Eastman/Laird's original Ninja Turtles comics (I never understood the whole 'Hero' turtle thing)

I was also a massive fan of the handheld LCD game scene (ah, the days before Lynx, Game Boy and Game Gear... :rolleyes: ) and had a few original Nintendo Game & Watches like Mario's Cement Factory, Mario Bros, and the 2 player boxing one, which belive it or not, I sold to a kid in school for about £5 each (D'oh!!!!) though I've reaquired quite a few of them (and some extras) via the mini keychains series that they were selling in Toys R Us a while back for a tenner each. Also had a few of the games that had 'colour' screens (ie the graphics were all blue and red) like Tomy's Caveman and a version of Super Cobra that Tandy/Radio Shack made that even had a little joystick and two separate fire/bomb buttons. Then there was also Tomy's Space Turbo (I was wowed at the time!), and those 3D games that they used to do where you held them up to your eyes like a pair of binoculars, though I never had one of Tomy's, just a cheaper copy of the biplane dogfighting one that Tandy/Radio Shack did (though I later discovered it was pretty much identical to Tomy's one). I always think of those as being the forerunner to the Virtual Boy.

Speaking of Tomy, I used to like playing Kongman and Screwball Scramble a lot too.

Also used to like playing the Hero Quest board game with my mates. :rolleyes:

Me and my 2 sisters had quite a few fun board games between us over the years. Never had the Pac Man one, but we had the Donkey Kong one, and some other stuff like Mouse Trap and some weird thing called 'I Vant To Bite Your Finger' where you had to put your finger in a plastic Dracula's mouth and see if it left 2 red marks or not.

Last but not least, I always had a couple of 'puzzly' type things around too, like the Rubiks Cube and Clock. Never solved either of them, but I did go to school with the kid who was first in the country to solve the Clock and knew him quite well, though he was a couple of years older than me.

Sorry if it sounds like I was a spoilt kid or anything (it seems like that reading it back :( ) but I honestly wasn't! Nobody ever used to buy me actual 'presents' though apart from my Mum and Dad, and I had quite a large(ish) family so I used to end up with a lot of Xmas/Birthday cash and just pooled everybody's money together and made lists of things that I wanted, then my dad would take me out bargain hunting. January sales have always been one of my favourite things. :)

Lego was always a favourite. I had Meccano too, but it was just too much like hard work.
3 of 4 action men with eagle-eyes, but all the rubber hands with the fingers bit off.

Pocket Grandstand was cool. I bought one about a year ago and still play it now.

My older cousin bought a few tabletops such as AstroWars and a Pacman game. I never could get to grips with Pacman though.

The rev up Evel Knievel was mega, but the launch thing for it was a pain for a lefthander to use.

Had loads of Star Wars stuff, then MASK and always had a huge stash of Classic Space Lego and Technic Lego. Had some Warhammer but preferred to paint them than play them, the rules were too bloody complicated. Also loved my BMX and was always trying to kill myself on it (highlight was riding it off the 15ft high sea defense wall down the beach). of course my trusty 2600 and C64 werent gathering dust either.

Model trains,Hornby and the like,Thunderbird 2 and kits,really
liked making the Tank kits and then blowing them to BITS,
hmm really must chill,happy days...cheers peter.

I had those too along with Scramble and Firefox F-7. Funny thing was with both Pacman (or Munchman as it was called) and Firefox I managed to work out the timings based on the noises they made and managed to beat both of them over Christmas back in the early 80s. My folks were not too pleased having spent what was quite a tidy sum to be told "Done it!" sometime on Boxing day.

Firefox! I'd forgotten about that one.
I can't find a picture of the pac/munch-man that we had though. I seem to remember it being in a silver case, with a landscape screen layout.
I think it used a joystick too.

Did anyone else have one of these though?

http://www.handhelden.com/misc/Strobe.html

Your light would come on and you'd choose to send it left, right or forward, speed increasing all the time. I wonder where all these toys went, cos I never threw any out.

Firefox was brilliant. Had to recapture my youth and bought one on ebay last year. The sound effects just bring those memories rushing back of my childhood.

To me Firefox was the best of these handheld games, had different levels whereas many others were just the same but just had faster bullets etc.

A classic game

I had firefox! but fave was BMX flyer ;)

I currently only own DK Jnr game & watch (which is also very good)

Transformers, ( currently have approx 70 Yay Me!)
Action force/GI JOE!!
Robotech ( i Like valkyries/ mecha and if the poster cant remember who said it still has the metallic jet fire it may be worth summat as later versions were all plastic!)
Bravestarr ( had fort kerium, 40-40 bravestarr tex hex and the litter snarf type things good and bad.... desperately wanna see the movie again, had the green bartender dude as well... didnt have the shamen)
Starwars figures
Space Crusade
Hero Quest
WWF figures(just collecting all over again D'oh classic series with earth quake, warrior hogan etc is a must!!!)

TTFN PINKY

People complain about the prices of games now but some of those tabletop games were relatively expensive even back in the day as I remember.

Never had Firefox, though I always wanted it :(

Firefox, completely bloody ace...I want it now..
cheers peter.

I used to get a Steve Austin action figue every year (i kept breaking trying to see if it really was bionic).
One year some one got me his enemy Maskatron,which would probably be worth a fortune now.Also this was far superior to the Austin figure.
On a side note the Spider Man figure from 20 years ago(approx) was absolute mince.
It was a hard molded plastic figure with one arm in the air and it couldnt move it took 2 large batteries to work a plug in torch and a winch which you could attach to a door handle a Spidey would "climb" up the "web".
Trouble was the thing was so damn heavy witht the batteries after 2 goes it was done. :(