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Yeah, still have him.

On a side note, anyone recall a complicated toy that was basically a miniature woodworking shop? It came with a bunch of miniature lumber that you could rip, plane, sand, etc...

I used to read the Shogun Warriors comic book, it wasn't bad as that kind of toy related series usually goes.

Do want!

/Contemporary toys of 70s characters
//Kirby for the win

Shogun warriors is "lesser-known"?

They were made by Mattel for crying out loud.

Subb ,

I+A does not= Y

I was expecting to see some Micronauts.

By '79, Micronauts were sort of on the way down. But Repto, Membros, and Antron came out that year, and they were awesome.

I remember Big Trac.
there was a hack I read about to use it to keep raccoons out of your trash.

/back then you had to wait for the mag to come out.
//we also wore onions on our belts.

I had a Starbird and a Big Trac. I remember programming the Big Trac to circle around the fireplace that had 4 fronts, in the center of the 18th century colonial house we had.

/yeah there was a keystone in the basement, with a carved stick figure of a human, that opened a way into the stone base of the fireplaces, to hide from Indians.

Lesser known toys? I had all of those toys. Well, I had only one Shogun Warrior, it was the one in the articles pic with the yellow spikes on the side of his head.
Star Bird and my Millennium Falcon got in many epic battles. I also had the tractor that connected to the Big Trak.

They could all take serious amounts of abuse. Not like these toys of today.

Subby, swear that you don't have a gun?

I have a Star Bird Avenger and Star Bird Command Base, both mint-in-original-boxes.

They're not the ones I had, as a kid; those, I destroyed during hours of fun play.


Also had: (die-cast) Shogun Warriors, random Micronauts, a variety of Mego figures, Stetch Armstrong's monster enemy, bunches of Matchbox & Hot Wheels cars, and Suckerman.

/and quite a few Star Wars, Buck Rogers, and Battlestar Galactica toys

Crocodile: But Repto, Membros, and Antron came out that year, and they were awesome.

I was so happy as a child when my parents got me all three, plus this bad boy



It was a very cool Christmas. I also wound up with that wasp-spaceship thing as well. Good times.

/What the hell do you mean "what's that got to do with Star Trek"?
//Can't you see it's got "SPOCK" written right on it?

My brother and I both had Shogun warriors. I'd launch the fist at the dog all the time.

I also had the big track.. and yes I did program it to chase the dog.

What an obscure 70's game might look like...

Starbird and Shogun Warrior here. Also played around with a Big Track in Computing class at school.

Somebody help me. There was this toy that consisted of enclosed tracks and a motor that pumped air through the system, allowing you to put a car (or maybe it was supposed to be a spaceship, I cant recall) and send it shooting around at high speeds. Kind of like an enclosed race track that used air pressure.

I loved that toy and have been trying to find one but just can't remember what it was called.

May be from a few years earlier, but the one I spent hours playing with was the 'Vertibird', helicopter toy, the controls and the Vertibird were connected to the base so that it would only go around in circles, but could change altitude and go forward and reverse. You had a hook on the Vertibird that you could use to pick up a space capsule and rescue an astronaut. I learned to take out the batteries at night, so it wouldn't start up by itself and scare the crap out of my parents....

meh...

I still have most of my toys from childhood, which including a bunch of Micronauts, and many others that most might not remember (UFO Commander 7 for example)


(hot hot hot)

But being a big kid, I simply kept getting more throughout the years, and heck, I still buy robots today, just received two in the last 2 weeks.

The Shogun Warriors have been reborn has the Soul of Chogokin.

So, the fact is.... all the old toys have pretty much been redone, better details, better articulations, etc.

There's no need to be nostalgic, just to find these online and get them.

Around the house:


An older picture of my desk (many new ones since that picture)


_{/yup, big kid at heart here}

I was just going to say "Shogun Warriors". Sadly, I buried mine in the backyard because an "earthquake" caused him to fall into the ground. I could never find him since. :(

Nice article full of high resolution color pictures of the toys in question.

Next they'll greenlight a photo of me taking a shiat, same entertainment value.

I just out nerded everyone here by reading that headline as
"Trip down Moria lane." There. I said it.

Of the Shogon Warriors...I had Raideen.
launching his plastic blade fist...he even had a mini-plane within his crown.

Big Trak...both my cousin I loved these,
especially for torturing your sister.
There was a talent of figuring out how to have it move across the house,
shooting her several times with the "laser",
then getting it back across the house.

No live remote driving...you had to measure the distances,
and program them in the keypad, and let it go on its own.

/even if you were a mischievous bastard...you were learning something

BTW...here's much better sampling for Shogon Warriors.
Link (new window)

Oh, and LEGOs.

Quantum Apostrophe: Yeah, still have him.

On a side note, anyone recall a complicated toy that was basically a miniature woodworking shop? It came with a bunch of miniature lumber that you could rip, plane, sand, etc...

Yellow and silver, in an orange plastic case?

Just out this month, you can buy a new Big Trak (new window)

Close2TheEdge: Somebody help me. There was this toy that consisted of enclosed tracks and a motor that pumped air through the system, allowing you to put a car (or maybe it was supposed to be a spaceship, I cant recall) and send it shooting around at high speeds. Kind of like an enclosed race track that used air pressure.

I loved that toy and have been trying to find one but just can't remember what it was called.


sounds like the micronauts rocket tubes. (^)

Help me out, farkers of a certain age.... plastic and probably cardboard aircraft carrier, with rubber-band catapults. It launched these nerf-like foam rubber planes which could glide pretty well. There were a line of these foam rubber planes which were sold with slingshot-style hand launchers too.

Starbirds and bigtraks, rulers of the basement and back yard.

/gotta rotate the tires on my stomper now

Star Bird guy here. I freaking loved that thing. I mean how cool could you get with the sounds, lasers, and the little fighters that came off the wing? And it converted to a smaller "scout" ship. It was like three or four toys in one hot extruded plastic package!

d1jeditech: I too had the vertibird. Several of them at various times, in fact, since the drive shaft thing kept breaking, rendering it useless. Cool idea, too bad the quality sucked.

The 70's saw the advent of the first gay action figure (NTTAWWT).



..and does anybody remember THIS creepy farker?

Abdullah The Destroyer: Close2TheEdge: Somebody help me. There was this toy that consisted of enclosed tracks and a motor that pumped air through the system, allowing you to put a car (or maybe it was supposed to be a spaceship, I cant recall) and send it shooting around at high speeds. Kind of like an enclosed race track that used air pressure.

I loved that toy and have been trying to find one but just can't remember what it was called.


sounds like the micronauts rocket tubes. (^)

YES! That's it. I kept thinking to myself if was the Micronauts but just wasn't sure it was the same thing my hazy memory remembered.

Thanks, man!

Shogun warriors! I had a couple of those, oh god the repressed memmories.

Those two and some of the electronic video game gadgets (space invaders handheld), oh and the vibrating football table. Best toys I ever had until the Atari came out. We were living in a 30 foot trailer on an Lumi reservation with no money, and my mom scrimped up the change to buy me one of the first Atari's to come out and a itty bitty used black and white TV to go with it.

Whew, Nostolgia. Fark.

I had a shiatload of these.

Also, Shogun Warriors...I had one of those giant plastic fuggers. Raydeen or something was his name.

AmazingRuss: Quantum Apostrophe: Yeah, still have him.

On a side note, anyone recall a complicated toy that was basically a miniature woodworking shop? It came with a bunch of miniature lumber that you could rip, plane, sand, etc...

Yellow and silver, in an orange plastic case?

Definitely '70s orange in there. It's not the Mattel electric miniature tool suite either. I'm pretty sure you cranked it by hand with a T-bar somehow.

Memory's tricky that far back, eh?

Wow, only three? What a disappointing article. Fortunately I knew Farkers would make up for it. Here's my little contribution, one of the earliest toys I can remember having:

maril412: /What the hell do you mean "what's that got to do with Star Trek"?


What, you don't remember that episode?

Skyfrog wins the thread.

maril412: /What the hell do you mean "what's that got to do with Star Trek"?
//Can't you see it's got "SPOCK" written right on it?

And it has sonic sound!

Skyfrog: Wow, only three? What a disappointing article. Fortunately I knew Farkers would make up for it. Here's my little contribution, one of the earliest toys I can remember having:

I had one of those!