Chindit: I wanted that toy..

Johnny Seven O.M.A. commercial (new window)

List fails without Dino-Riders.

FAIL: no Legos, no Erector Set.

teto85: FAIL: no Legos, no Erector Set.

No lincoln logs either. But at least they got the GI Joes right.

Irwin Mainway would like to have a word (new window)

Amazing how much of it did not need batteries. They ran on imagination, like in South Park.

gahh!
*shakes tiny fist at ricewater_stool*

I loved Colorforms. But not nearly as much as Chloroforms. They were a knockout!

ignatiusst: teto85: FAIL: no Legos, no Erector Set.

Legos are in the 1940s list..

To be fair, they didn't appear over here until the '50s. I almost missed them too.

No Six Million Dollar Man?!

I loved my Micronauts.


And this guy was da bomb!

Sometimes I wonder if my mother raising me as a toy gun-less peacenik had any long-term psychological effects. Hmmmmmmmm.

I'm not saying this list fails without them, but they should have been included.





Honorable mention: Robotix

UberDave: No Six Million Dollar Man?!

No Steve Scout or Major Matt Mason, either.

Girder & Panel FTW!!!

EatHam: Girder & Panel FTW!!!

Hells yeah.

I spent weeks building things.

You know you can still buy them right?

/You just don't walk into a meeting and say, Bugs

No GI Joe, No Transformers, No Legos, but they have Bratz and Zhu Zhu Pets? Are these people insane?

downpaymentblues: My uncle says no greatest toy list is complete without the Big Wheel. I had to google it.



I am unimpressed, but he IS old...

1st gen big wheel. No hand brake for spinouts. Sad.

Shadow Blasko: downpaymentblues: My uncle says no greatest toy list is complete without the Big Wheel. I had to google it.



I am unimpressed, but he IS old...

1st gen big wheel. No hand brake for spinouts. Sad.

Lacking the little compartment behind the seat, too. That was the convenient spot for storing freshly-purchased comic book(s) and candy on the trip back from the drugstore.

I remember liking these:

I prayed to God for a Big Wheel and never got one. Now I'm an atheist.

Shadow Blasko: downpaymentblues: My uncle says no greatest toy list is complete without the Big Wheel. I had to google it.



I am unimpressed, but he IS old...

1st gen big wheel. No hand brake for spinouts. Sad.

That's where this thing ruled:

RussianPooper: I remember liking these:

and beating the sh*t out of your little brother w/ the T-Bar.

hot wheels track didn't didn't afford as much in your face 'you stinky stupid butthole' contact.

Yeah.. After drunken parent decides you need a spanking for setting up a hotwheels track on the pool table.. and uses a section of track for it, you kinda lose the love for hotwheels.

Diogenes: Shadow Blasko: downpaymentblues: My uncle says no greatest toy list is complete without the Big Wheel. I had to google it.



I am unimpressed, but he IS old...

1st gen big wheel. No hand brake for spinouts. Sad.

That's where this thing ruled:

Helmet? Hells naw!

Old school.

Steve_pss: Shadow Blasko - That's Capsela, not Robotix (both were awesome).

And yep, I had Girder and Panel as well.

Thank god my parents bought those toys for me. They made me the geek I am today.

I said that. Posted the capsela pic because I thought it was superior to Robotix.

I had both as well.



ALTHOUGH .. They are forgetting the most important toy you could buy a child in the 70's or 80's




I still have some of the wires in my toolbox!

Missed one.

All of us in the neighborhood had Big Wheels except for one guy with a Green Machine. I must note that (especially in his possession, and he had the strongest legs of all the kids) the Green Machine wasn't much faster, sucked in all aspects shy of spinouts, and was an incredibly uncomfortable POS in comparison.

BIG WHEEL > GREEN MACHINE

bring it, biatches