Oh yeah! I had multiple Voltrons - that die cast one being the best quality by far. It took me a loooooong time to save up enough of my allowance to buy the car version.
Oh man, was that the metal one? That was such a quality toy. I ended up getting the plastic version some years later & it was total garbage in comparison. Just cheap, shoddy junk. But that diecast version...they used to make awesome toys back in the day...
i had a big monster truck which i used to haul mud. that killed the electronics pretty quick.Legos. Mostly the Creator or Freestyle or whatever they call the regular, non-themed buckets rather than sets now.
Other than that (and not including consoles) I had a Lionel train set that I had a lot of fun with. Also had a bunch of cheap remote control cars, most of which ended up broken or I took them apart to play with the motors.
I had those exact same sets when I was a kid. That brings back memories. My brother and I use to catch lighting bugs and put them inside the ship to give it a really cool glowing effect. The downside they'd leave the legos smelling funny.
Another outside toyish thing I liked was my air rifle and slingshot. If I had a dollar for every projectile fired, I could buy microsoft :^D
Fun fact, I can hit an egg at 50' with a slingshot :^)
When I was young I remember being sick in bed and seeing a commercial for the first time for a series of toys called Spy Tech. After I seen that commercial I said, "I want that!" From then on every birthday and Christmas I would get a few Spy Tech toys to complete the collection. I was a little sleuth back then. Sleuthing around the neighborhood, gathering evidence. Quite frankly I was a flipping peeping Tom. I also had my own desk in my room with a nice lamp and my own phone complete with a Red Ryder BB gun. I even had a detective kit which included an awesome pocket sized microscope. I remember one Christmas I used my detective kit to lift prints off all of the presents. It was then I knew Clause was a bunch of shit! I mean, these prints should have had a snowflake pattern. If that wasn't bad enough, when I sat on that fat bastard's lap I would notice his eye color change year after year. I remember this one particular Santa that had greasy ass hands as if he just pulled the transmission from his merry ass Buick.
Sure, Nintendo was awesome, and I did play my fair share of Mario, Duck Hunt , Street Fighter and Star Fox. But nothing beat the wonders of Spy Tech and my accompanying detective kit. Man, those were the days...
Been thinking lately, I'd like to make an old school slingshot. The kind with a long thong of leather you swing, then release an end to launch. Supposed to like a gunshot in power. That would definitely be useful against the robot swine.Good. We'll need that skill in The Resistance after the robots take away all our weapons.
Been thinking lately, I'd like to make an old school slingshot. The kind with a long thong of leather you swing, then release an end to launch. Supposed to like a gunshot in power. That would definitely be useful against the robot swine.
https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_the_unheard_story_of_david_and_goliath
I have that! I still remember getting home from school one day when my mother told me I had a new toy on my shelf. I ran into my room and there it was, sitting on my shelf in "car" mode, next to the Ecto-1. Good times.Oh man, one of my favorite toys as a kid was the Ghostbusters VW Bug, that thing was the bomb!
I have that! I still remember getting home from school one day when my mother told me I had a new toy on my shelf. I ran into my room and there it was, sitting on my shelf in "car" mode, next to the Ecto-1. Good times.
The Extreme Ghostbusters one did, which I bought for myself in 97 out of nostalgia. Neither of the real ghostbuster Ecto 1s did sadly, just a grappling hook that went out the back and a chair to put on top of the car. It made NO sense.Did the Ecto-1 have the siren? I love that sound.