was cleaning out a room of crap and came across some of my old toys from when i was younger and i found one that i thought was awsome it was a plastic robot that u put batteries and oil in it and he moved around on wheels puffed smoke and said "I AM THE ATOMIC ROBOT GIVE MY BEST WISHES TO EVERYONE" it was the coolest toy ever (apart from lego)

and it still worked all 20 years later (doesnt puff smoke now tho)

wot cool toys did everyone have growing up that sh!t all over the cheap and nasty crap that is being sold today???

Lego (obviously)

My transformers!! Heaps better then the crappy transformers they come out with these days.

Voltron. He-Man.

Armatron.

Phil

Voltron. The full set, with the characters.

Robot tigers were the shizz.


Oh, and Lego

Oh I had the LIONS, they were cool. Not nearly as cool as the Vehicle Voltron though!!!

i used to love the teenage mutant ninja turtles figurines, HE-MAN and thundercats

^ Yeah. The original TMNT figurines. Umm. The original Tonka trucks spring to mind, and i guess the Smurfs?

I think i still have my old TMNT figurines. Where though is another story! lol

Yea, Voltron with the cats, TMNT characters, lego (which for some reason I would always lose the pieces I wanted, yet find 10 other pieces I was looking for yesterday, go figure) and transformers. Most of the toys were made better then they are now, and there was less of the "be careful and don't aim at someone's eyes" with the projectiles. That was half the fun.

Edit - GI Joes were pretty good too, until you broke their stupid crappy thumbs making them almost useless, though some tank blu-tac gloves solved their problem of having no opposable thumbs.

Ah yes! Action Man, oh and MicroMachines Probably not as old school as most of you are talking about, but pretty old for my era/generation i guess.

surprisingly i NEVER had transformers as a kid, and im actually disappointed that i didnt because ive missed out...i did have the TMNT figurines, with shredder as well, then i had lego...duplo....mechano, an atari lol, tonka trucks, trouble the board game, barrel o monkeys, and others that i cant think of....those were the days.

has anyone seen the new tnmt toys they suck i also had splinter shredder the foot guys and some sewer thing with a cell u lock shredder in and the skate boards that came with the turtles wot about the super duper ones that there arms span around ind stuff

edit: does anyone remember the crash test dummies with the cars u used to total how good were they

Lego ftmfw! I have tubs of the stuff, many many hours as a kid playing with it. Micromachines were also pretty awesome. Nothing like playing with toy cars in the sand put but

yeah Voltron FTW!

had inspector gadget

G.I Joe (had heaps of these)

matchbox cars x 200

heaps of transformers

Commodor vic 20 (and later on a atari 2600)

lego and mechano

Atari 2600 - but that was kept at the holiday house we werent allowed that at home.

Lego & some mechano though I always preffered Lego (but now I play with big mechano...)
Match box cars - dunno how many but we had a shopping basket FULL to over flowing with them plus some more.
HO Scale trains (which I still have some of them and I'm looking at redoing a layout)
Wooden toys
BMX bikes

Living on acreage there was always something fun to do though.

Never got into figurines I guess I thought playing with a little plastic man was for fags

Lego, of course....but also Technik - that was cool!

Gotta love Voltron and Transformers

Also, Scalectrix - or whatever it's called - the race track with little electric cars

i prefered k'nex to lego but i guess that has to do with how old i am

I had an Amstrad, a Vetrex and a C64 all old school computers. Toys, I loved of course my lego and Mechano. I also had a great scaletrix set. Tons of Matchbox cars.

At our holiday house in Torquay we had the Atari and all the NES/SNES, Segas. I remember the x-mas holiday the NES was first released, my brother an I spent pretty much the whole time inside, we ended with the cross imprinted on our thumbs. Barely spent anytime in the water.. so much for a beach house, we could have done that in our house here hahahah

LEGO mostly (i had a couple of plastic crates full of the stuff - including plenty of technics)
Also got hooked on these model houses where there is miniture bricks and mortar, roof tiles and all.
then there was plenty of die-cast model cars which i modified to have working (and non working) audio systems that would plug into my cassette walkman (old speakers from electronic devices)
500 or more matchbox cars + buildings and town mats

my favourite toy of all time was a self propelled - NON remote Toyota Hilux (ran on 4 aa batteries) which towed a makeshift lego trailer to suit my battery powered boat. I went through many "puddle" crossing, got covered in mud and just kept going and going and going (still runs perfectly).
It even had a working winch on the front of it!

pretty much like all hilux's

Except 2wd single cabs with no aircon

Tonka Trucks

Army Men

The red and blue ball with yellow shapes (Tupperware).

all cool in their day

The tupperware balls were awesome! We still have some lurking somewhere in storage somewhere

wot about the wooden hammer and pegs u bashed into the block thing cant really remember was a while ago

OMFG!! I HAD THE RED AND BLUE BALL WITH THE YELLOW SHAPES!! i thought i was the only one lol. didnt realise they were mass produced lol.

Lego technics was the best. Especially the ones with the circuit boards.

And I still remember the coloured building blocks in the little wheel around trolley. Must have been 1 or 2 but i still remember how fun they were.

Lego, C64, Atari 2600, Air Jammers (air propelled cars that had a bike pump), Machine men (they sucked!), mechano, zoids.

treehouse.

Mask. I wish I still had my mask vehicles I still have all my lego and matchbox cars - they might be worth money one day

you might wanna get that checked out

This thread needs pics of said toys.

I still have some Transformers (G1), M.A.S.K., Micro machines, He-Man and Centurions. I think I might have Brave Starr somewhere as well. Plus various other Misc toys.

my parents gave me air to play with

And cause your a retard you just thought you had super cool invisible toys?

no
just air

it was cool
some times it was warm

Mine was called Toto

OMG ! I remember air ! I had a little plank of wood on a string and when I swung it thru the air it made a woob woob woob noise too !
Then some koori fellow would always walk up and say "Your not Mick !"

r they in ther boxes timmeh