Obscure 80's toys

[Regulator75]

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0924/

Fireball Island rocked!

[Table 5]

I found a small box of these in a thriftstore a while back, still unopened.

needless to say, i bought some.

[JBR]

This pre-dates the 80's but my favorite toys growing up were the Evel Knievel stunt cycle and van..

[Frank the Tank]

Anyone have Smash-up Derby? The cars would hit and all the doors and hoods and tires would fly off? Those were cool.

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by Frank the Tank

Anyone have Smash-up Derby?

I remember seeing those, and then trying the same thing with Matchbox cars. Turn out you need about 25 feet of hot wheels track and a friend with a long staircase and a mother who isn't home much to accomplish this.

[lazy_programmer]

Originally Posted by Prottotype

Battle beasts owned!

I'm trying to remember the one set of action figures that came with a hologram on a staff... and as the story went, the hologram held a mythodical creature. It also came out with a cartoon, but it became a horrible flop.

Or the bugs that the wings flapped mechanically... and it had a glove underneath...

I wish I could remember all the names... my bro and I had what was going to be my dad's sauna room turned into a toy room... it was sick how many toys we had. We left all the toys in the room when we moved. We probably gave away hundreds of dollars worth of toys...

I believe you are thinking of "Visionaries, Knights of the Magical Light". That was my first thought when I saw this thread. Good times...

[arsenal]

Criss-Cross-Crash was fun.
And the tracks that you get for the matchbox cars that you would make huge jumps out of going down stairs and stuff to see how far you could launch your car.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by arsenal

Criss-Cross-Crash was fun.
And the tracks that you get for the matchbox cars that you would make huge jumps out of going down stairs and stuff to see how far you could launch your car.

Crish Cross Crash. Fantastic. I loved that toy.

I also always wanted the Wayne Gretzky hockey with the silver puck. Was it Wayne Gretzky Hockey. Regardless the spinning puck one.

[arsenal]

I also remember a friend of mine had a football game, with a bunch of men, and they had magnets on the bottom of their feet. You would turn it on, and the table would shake and the players would move. I don't remember anyone ever winning a game of that as they would just kind of shake in circles.

[Table 5]

this thread totally shows why it sucks to be a girl as a kid. boys get all the coolest toys.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Frank the Tank

Anyone have Smash-up Derby? The cars would hit and all the doors and hoods and tires would fly off? Those were cool.

Yeah, I had that. It was never like the commercial but it was pretty neat. My parents are packrats, I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't bit and pieces in their basement in a box somewhere.

I had a Hot Wheels track the was powered by a plunger you pushed down and when the car went into it it would release and the elastic bands would shoot the car around. You then needed to push a lever to reset it before the car made it all the way around.

Lots of Lego.

Kerplunk.

[Prototype]

Originally Posted by lazy_programmer

I believe you are thinking of "Visionaries, Knights of the Magical Light". That was my first thought when I saw this thread. Good times...

Yup... that's it...

[The Unabomber]

Crossbows & Catapults was a favorite, so was some hand-held football video game with lines as the players and the same screen over and over again, that was great.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Table 5

I found a small box of these in a thriftstore a while back, still unopened.

needless to say, i bought some.

Robie!! I had one of those little s. All he did is eat my money.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by The Unabomber

Crossbows & Catapults was a favorite, so was some hand-held football video game with lines as the players and the same screen over and over again, that was great.

Oh man another favourite. I still have mine.

The dissapointing aspect to this game was that a lot of the other pieces you could get were really ineffective. I had the base kit with the cross bows and catapults - far and away the most effective tools.

But I also later got the Cyclops who three the discs - couldn't throw hard enough

Trojan Horse - flipped with his tail - not bad but not as good as the catapult

Battering Ram - piss poor. Did frack all.


When I was in college I brought out C&C one night and it became a bit of a fad. For about 6 months that's all we played. Good times.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

I always wanted one of those M.A.S.K. toys but never got one. They were trucks and what not with cool weapons. So cool.

I had the M.A.S.K. Camaro (Thunderhawk) and it was pretty cool. The coolest thing about it were the gullwing doors/wings. When I was a kid if your car had gullwings it was automatically moved it up into an upper echelon of coolness in my books. Unfortunately, the whole M.A.S.K. toy line was centered around action figures that were smaller than the standard 3 3/4" that Star Wars and G.I.Joe action figures were based on. So, it meant it wasn't as easily integratable with my other toys.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by Frank the Tank

Anyone have Smash-up Derby? The cars would hit and all the doors and hoods and tires would fly off? Those were cool.

you're going back to the 70's with that, Frank. Good times!!

GI Joe and Bionic Man action figures were popular as well (should have kept my Oscar Goldman one, I guess they're worth $$$$)

[HalifaxDrunk]

Originally Posted by Reaper

I had the M.A.S.K. Camaro (Thunderhawk) and it was pretty cool. The coolest thing about it were the gullwing doors/wings. When I was a kid if your car had gullwings it was automatically moved it up into an upper echelon of coolness in my books. Unfortunately, the whole M.A.S.K. toy line was centered around action figures that were smaller than the standard 3 3/4" that Star Wars and G.I.Joe action figures were based on. So, it meant it wasn't as easily integratable with my other toys.

Hahaha, I agree! GI Joe just wouldn't get along wit those shrimps. I still have the M.A.S.K. dune buggy that flips open into a glider.

[zztim81]

Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse

Stompers battery powered trucks used to rule. We'd build all sorts of stuff to see what it could tackle. They'd even run underwater....

http://stomper4x4.com/tyco.htm

... hmmm, i cant remember if i had a 'stomper truck' or something similar but when it was on it even made an engine noise and puffed smoke from the stacks... oh the memories!

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally Posted by Prottotype

Or the bugs that the wings flapped mechanically... and it had a glove underneath...

insectaurs..n/m thats not it