Best Christmas Toy

[uecker9]

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x296/uecker9/StopThief.jpg

 

I liked this one. "Footsteps....bwoop...bwoop...bwoop"

 

 

[Fatter than Joey]

Anyone remember this game?

 

I had that game, it was pretty fun.

 

I liked this one. "Footsteps....bwoop...bwoop...bwoop"

 

I had this one as well

[TooLiveBrew]

Yikes -- Ewok Village was so lame. My brother had Ewok Village, but that was OK because he was clearly my awesomeness inferior.

 

HEY! The Ewok Village had the net, a plastic-wood elevator, an a rope-tethered, swinging boulder. How's your Landspeeder looking now, with a huge BOULDER CRATER in it?!

 

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The Millennium Falcon was clearly the line in the sand that seperated the parents who truly loved their children from those who were simply trying to fulfill obligations to their state/church. My parents Land Speeder-loved me, but certainly not Millennium Falcon-loved me.

And, FtJ provides me with yet another signature. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[jcr0nk]

i forgot all about stop thief....classic.

 

my fav was the kenevil stunt cycle, at least thats the first that comes to mind. another fav was the old matell handheld electronic football game.

[TURBO]

another childhood classic...I still have mine, my son and I bust it out every once in a while.

 

http://www.ilovethe80s.com/superjock2.jpg

[Fatter than Joey]

How's your Landspeeder looking now, with a huge BOULDER CRATER in it?!

 

I had the Death Star. -- It had a 3 story elevator. Ewok Village was great for those who opted to play with their Ewoks instead of the Imperial war effort

 

The odd-ball game we had, that I can't find a picture of, was "The Generals" -- which was an electronic version of Stratego.

[burniebrewer]

Turborickey, I just bought the latest version of Super Toe for my nephew. It's called something else now, but same concept--bang the head to kick a field goal.

[TURBO]

Turborickey, I just bought the latest version of Super Toe for my nephew. It's called something else now, but same concept--bang the head to kick a field goal.

 

yeah, I saw it in toys-r-us...

 

can't beat the original though...

[TURBO]

hot damn, this is my exact set.....ebay rules!

 

http://a763.g.akamai.net/7/763/1644/v002/app.infopia.com/img/image/fp/VPID/4392049/img002/img.jpg

 

my friend had this gem:

 

http://i3.ebayimg.com/08/i/000/bf/b7/52eb_1.JPG

[logan82]

Mine has to be either the Tyco electric race track I got or the year I got the GI Joe F-14.

[Paul77]

Voltron.

 

I remember my Mom explaining to me why I wasn't going to get Voltron one year because it cost over $100. I understood, even at 7 or 8 years old that $100 was a lot of money, especially in 1986 dollors. So I resigned myself to the fact that I would not get it. It was a major disappointment for the young 20fry - but I carried on.

 

Flash forward about 20 years and I'm cleaning out my Moms basement when I come across an old Toys R Us advert from 1985 - voltron featured on the front page. The price? $100? $80? $50...How about $29.99! This ranks right up there with the time my parents bought me some HeMan toys for Christmas and "misplaced" them before they had a chance to wrap them. They said "they are in the house somewhere". For 10 years I searched for those toys. NEVER FOUND THEM.

 

Thanks thread starter. Now I'll all bitter and upset.

[sgtcluels]

http://www.oafe.net/yo/art/tfrid_land01.jpg

 

When I got the last 2 parts of my Constructo Bots to make the set. It lasted for about 3 days before I broke a piece and it ended up being a one armed freak of nature. Made me so sad.

[DuWayne Steurer]

My brother and I were the perfect age for Star Wars ( I was born in 74, he in 77), so our Christmas' and birthdays were always chock full of Star Wars action figure and playset goodness.

 

Death Star, Ewok Village, the Hoth playset, the Star Destroyer (well, the bridge anyways)

 

http://www.pomse2001.dk/Darth%20Vader%27s%20Star%20Destroyer%20Action%20Playset.jpg

 

 

.......the At-AT, snowspeeder, we had 3 X-wings between the 2 of us, as well as 2 Tie fighters and Darth's tie-fighter. Jabba's throne (think about that one for a minute), and so many others. We must have had just about every set, and some double. I'll bet we had 20 stormtroopers, if not more.

 

G.I. Joe and Transformers were big too. (As if you couldn't tell by the avatar)

 

Little brother did get Voltron one year.

[DuWayne Steurer]

The dad on the box, looks like he is going to bust that kid in the chops

Maybe I'm just tired, but that was funny enough to make me laugh out loud and wake up the wife. Thanks a lot! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/mad.gif

 

[Houlie24x]

There are a lot of great toys mentioned that I completely forgot about. I wish I still had a lot of this stuff.

 

I still do have a the Super Toe field goal kicker though. I had no idea it was popular or even what the actual name of it was. I remember my brother and I would kicked field goals all the way across our pretty big living room and into a hall way. That little plastic football could really fly.

[danzig6767]

another childhood classic...I still have mine, my son and I bust it out every once in a while.

 

http://www.ilovethe80s.com/superjock2.jpg

 

 

I had that

The two favorites would have to be getting Atari 2600 and one year i got this Planet of the Apes play set with a mountain compound and a bunch of figurines.

[burniebrewer]

I still do have a the Super Toe field goal kicker though. I had no idea it was popular or even what the actual name of it was. I remember my brother and I would kicked field goals all the way across our pretty big living room and into a hall way. That little plastic football could really fly.

 

I remember how far it flew as well. I also remember getting in trouble for putting the yard line stickers on the kitchen floor!

[Brian the Automator]

http://www.1000bit.net/lista/dati/mattel/intellivision.jpg

 

 

[TURBO]

http://www.1000bit.net/lista/dati/mattel/intellivision.jpg

 

 

 

awesome!

my cousin got that one year and we spent the entire christmas day playing the baseball game... that was fun!

[JET15]

Voltron.

 

I remember my Mom explaining to me why I wasn't going to get Voltron one year because it cost over $100. I understood, even at 7 or 8 years old that $100 was a lot of money, especially in 1986 dollors. So I resigned myself to the fact that I would not get it. It was a major disappointment for the young 20fry - but I carried on.

 

Flash forward about 20 years and I'm cleaning out my Moms basement when I come across an old Toys R Us advert from 1985 - voltron featured on the front page. The price? $100? $80? $50...How about $29.99! This ranks right up there with the time my parents bought me some HeMan toys for Christmas and "misplaced" them before they had a chance to wrap them. They said "they are in the house somewhere". For 10 years I searched for those toys. NEVER FOUND THEM.

 

Thanks thread starter. Now I'll all bitter and upset.

As the Therapist from Office Space said: "Wow, that's messed up!"

I should have expected that Christmas would cut both ways. It has a way of hitting the highest highs and the lowest lows... but let's stick to the highs. These are some great memories.... well, except 20fry's. Thanks for sharing.

 

Ah, one creepy side-effect... I wanna play some electric football, super toe, etc

[uecker9]

I played these for hours

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x296/uecker9/drj.jpghttp://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x296/uecker9/basketball.jpg

 

But the best present I ever got was from my brother , xmas '80 I think

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x296/uecker9/blackmarket.jpg That changed everything.

[DuWayne Steurer]

To steer this back to toys......

 

My brother got this when he was 9, I was 12.

 

http://www.tomfotherby.com/Images/Toys/crossbowsAndCatapults.jpg

 

2 older brothers were over, who were in their late 20's. The catapults were supposed to have one rubber band on them. Older brothers decide the game would be more fun with 3. Amazingly, 3 rubber bands on a plastic catapult was strong enough to put a 1" hard plastic disc right through the living room window.

[Baldkin]

http://www.thisoldtoy.com/fisher-price/dept-7-playsets/f-construx/1-pics/Instructions/FPT14767-MN6001-INSTR.JPG

 

I used to get Construx for every birthday/christmas for about 3 years. Used to try to build gigantic moving things (especially when they came out with that battery powered motor...)

 

I also used to get those dinosaur skeletons that you could assemble that had tiny wind up motors in them and they would move. Anyone else remember those?

[Beerambassador]

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/8601/motulasnakemountain7gw.jpg

I freaked when I got this. I bet my parents had to drag me away from that kicking and screaming on Christmas morning so we could head over to Grandma's house. The microphone was hardcore.

 

[Pedro]

Anybody else remember "Big Jim"? He of the posable body, big biceps, and karate chop button in the middle of his back. A poor man's, non-military GJ Joe. Jim, his pals and their accessories constituted the bulk of my Christmas presents in 1972 and 1973. For some reason, I recall Big Jim as casting a much more rugged masculine presence than he appears in this photo:

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s220/rbrandtjen/boy51.jpg

Sometimes, it's best not to examine too closely one's childhood memories.