Your favorite toy?

[John Connor]

Fun fact, I can hit an egg at 50' with a slingshot :^)

HAHAHA That's nothing. I can shot a house fly off a clothes pin at 20 feet with a BB gun. LOL! And all that was left was a mangled mess and a wing.

 

[John Connor]

Nice thread

The batman returns Kenner batmobile/ bat missile

That's pretty cool. I think by far the best Batman movie ever made was the first one with the Joker. I seen it at the outdoor and latter my dad bought the VHS. I must have played that VHS so many damn times. I practically knew the entire script line by line. If I wasn't watching Batman it was Indiana Jones.

I watched the original Batman show as a kid and used to pretend my bike was the Batmobile and entering the backyard though the fence gate was the Bat cave. I was always pretty imaginative. Kinda like the Muppet Babies. LOL!

 

[John Connor]

Did the Ecto-1 have the siren? I love that sound.

Yeah, that siren was pretty cool.

When I watched the movie I loved this song from the soundtrack.

Bobby Brown was the shit back then!

I have often wondered what baby Oscar is doing now.

Another thing. Just how old is chroma key? Really interesting seeing the music video.

 

[Paladin3]

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

Same. We had a big book of Bible stories for children that had an illustration of David fighting Goliath with a sling. I was eight, it was the 70s, and my mother was helping me to be the most stylish kid on the block by cutting the torn legs off a pair of my brown corduroy pants and turning them into shorts. Yeah, I don't remember ever wearing those abominations, but I do remember taking the scrap material, some twine and making me a cool sling to chuck rocks in the field behind my house. It could zing a rock darn hard.

 

[John Connor]

When I was really little, I had a Show & Tell I loved. That was my main record player for a long time, even after I graduated to listening to the Beachboys and the Beatles on it :^D

Oh man. I loved my kid's record player. HAHA I remember one day I was listening to this song and my mom came into the room and told me, "you're gonna come and go with me to the store. LMAO!

I had a lot of oldies records.

 

[Sonikku]

Nice thread

The batman returns Kenner batmobile/ bat missile

I had to make do with the scaled down McDonald's toy version of this.

 

[boomerang]

From time to time, my father would start telling the story about how he was so poor growing up that he only had one thing to play with. Before he could get the next sentence started, my mother would interrupt and tell him that that was enough!

I don't remember exactly how old I was before I figured out what that thing was he played with...

 

[Sonikku]

I begged and begged my mom to get me this. The Black Seas Barracuda. But alas, the answer was no. It was too expensive she told me, even for Christmas.

The one I ended up settling for.

The Renegade Runner. It had no steering wheel, but it did have a compass. So they always knew what direction they were drifting in, even if they were powerless to change it.

 

[RLGL]

Erector set and Lionel trains

 

[Crono]

I begged and begged my mom to get me this. The Black Seas Barracuda. But alas, the answer was no. It was too expensive she told me, even for Christmas.

The one I ended up settling for.

The Renegade Runner. It had no steering wheel, but it did have a compass. So they always knew what direction they were drifting in, even if they were powerless to change it.

Funny, the Black Seas Barracuda is ine of the toys I wanted so badly in preschool because one of the classrooms had one. I thought it was the coolest thing, especially with the little gold coins and treasure chest (not sure if they came with set).

Also reminds me that I loved playing with wooden blocks, Duplo, cardboard bricks, and those little wooden train sets (the ones that had cars linked magnetically):

I remember playing with TMNT toys in pre-K, as well as playing pretend with my friends. I was always Donatello.

 

[Loop2kil]

I got one of these for my birthday when i was 12. Put it together by myself and had a blast with it, modified it pretty heavily and won a couple of first place trophies at the local hobby shop races.

https://rctoymemories.com/2012/12/18/tamiya-hotshot-1985/

 

[IronWing]

Funny, the Black Seas Barracuda is ine of the toys I wanted so badly in preschool because one of the classrooms had one. I thought it was the coolest thing, especially with the little gold coins and treasure chest (not sure if they came with set).

Also reminds me that I loved playing with wooden blocks, cardboard bricks, and those little wooden train sets (the ones that had cars linked magnetically):

I remember playing with TMNT toys in pre-K, as well as playing pretend with my friends. I was always Donatello.

I always wanted a Brio set but they were super expensive. Now I could afford one but social pressure (all in my head) holds me back. That didn't stop me from buying the suitcase full of Lego though.

 

[John Connor]

From time to time, my father would start telling the story about how he was so poor growing up that he only had one thing to play with. Before he could get the next sentence started, my mother would interrupt and tell him that that was enough!

I don't remember exactly how old I was before I figured out what that thing was he played with...

HAHAHA!! That's good.

 

[John Connor]

modified it pretty heavily and won a couple of first place trophies at the local hobby shop races.

That reminds me when I was in Boy Scouts and I had to make a pinewood derby car. I really didn't care and made just some dumb car. How be damned if I didn't win third place. LOL!