Obscure 80's toys

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

Macross isn't obscure and Battlebeasts were part of the Japanese transformers line. You lose on two counts at attempts to be obscure

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ya I had him too... not obscure at all

[Flames_Gimp]

anyone have this toy? think iits from the 70's but i'm sure either i had it as a hand me down, or i played with an older kid who had it

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Flames_Gimp

ya I had him too... not obscure at all

That was my point. Macross wasn't that obscure, mostly because of Jetfire, but still =-o

[HelloHockeyFans]

Did anyone collect "Army Ants"?

I had the complete blue set until I lied to my parents one day and skipped soccer practice. My dad decided to choose that ONE DAY to "surprise" me by attending practice... he found me almost immediately, at my best friend's house playing Nintendo.

We went home and with one swift motion, he swept all of my army ants (the cool blue ones, too!) into a garbage bag and threw them out as punishment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Ants_(toy_line)

[Flames_Gimp]

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..

these guys? the hologrm is on their chest and sheild...

[Superflyer]

Originally Posted by Kool Keef

M.U.S.C.L.E. Men were pretty cool. I can remember having a bucket full of these choke hazards.

These were the best, I loved them.
I spent so much time playing Transformers, G.I. Joe and He Man.
Another one that I loved was my word burning set. That was great, but thinking back I am still suprised that I never burned down the house.

[Flames_Gimp]

lol damn, i'm remembering all kinds of kinds of toys..this is weird, I totally forgot about a lot of the 80's. remember these?

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by JohnnyB

Wow is it ever a long time since I heard that name. I used to have some awesome audio story tapes for Sectaures that I listened to all the time as well. I loved those tapes.



Did anyone else have the live action videos of Captain Power too. They had all the different Captain Power good guys (like the big guy with the big guns) and the bad guys (like the huge robot with tank tread-like roller-feet). I remember watching quite a lot of that when I was a kid.

I used to rent those all the time. I still remember Tank's line whenever he'd bust through a wall "Piece o' cake"

[Sainters7]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJNxuG8le1g

I'm gonna do what Brutus "the Barber" Beefcake does in this commercial when I walk up to a girl at the bar tonite.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Flames_Gimp

anyone have this toy? think iits from the 70's but i'm sure either i had it as a hand me down, or i played with an older kid who had it

That toy ruled. It was definitely from the '70s. The noise that winder made consumes my dreams.

[SaskaBushFire]

Battle Beasts were unreal. I had all of the He-Man toys, like every single one, including Castle Greskull. I gave them away to my little cousins who kept them in mint shape.

M.A.S.K., Thundercats, G.I. Joe... these are the best. Also DC had some wicked toys back then, all of the old JLA guys, even Red Tornado! Those were the days..

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by SaskaBushFire

Battle Beasts were unreal. I had all of the He-Man toys, like every single one, including Castle Greskull. I gave them away to my little cousins who kept them in mint shape.

M.A.S.K., Thundercats, G.I. Joe... these are the best. Also DC had some wicked toys back then, all of the old JLA guys, even Red Tornado! Those were the days..

I didnt have Greyskull, but had Snake Mountain(Skeletor's lair). You could talk into the snake's head and it would make your voice echo. Alas, they were given away by my mom when I was about 13, after she found them at the bottom of my old toybox . Too bad, had we put our toys together we couldve had quite the little battle.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

I didnt have Greyskull, but had Snake Mountain(Skeletor's lair). You could talk into the snake's head and it would make your voice echo.

Don't forget if you shook the Snake Head it made lasers sounds! How frickin cool is that!

[Deelow]

I had all the He-Man toys.
I wish I would have saved them. WOW, look at some of the prices

http://www.finalfrontiertoys.com/Hom...es31/HeMan.htm

[FurnaceFace]

Originally Posted by mrdeeds

Other than that it was the Micronauts!!

I was wondering if someone would mention these. I had a ton of them. My Karrio was overflowing.

http://www.innerspaceonline.com/karrio.htm

And although I'm sure I had them in the late 70s, I'd also vote for the Big Jim PACK action figures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Jim

[Deelow]

Do Boglins count?
Maybe not obscure, but they were awesome.

[MolsonInBothHands]

Oh man I forgot completely about Micronauts, they were awesome! Space Lego is what I grew up on. Anybody have one of these?



Pulsar, the Ultimate man of adventure.

[mrdeeds]

Anybody ever play with Stretch Armstrong??

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Flames_Gimp

anyone have this toy? think iits from the 70's but i'm sure either i had it as a hand me down, or i played with an older kid who had it

I wanted that, but instead received this


I don't even remember how to play.

[JiriHrdina]

Oooh how about the board game "Mouse Trap". The game sucked huge but the contraption that you unleashed to catch the mouse was so cool.