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Title: Best toys ever?
Post by: Quemaqua on Tuesday, March 09, 2010, 12:51:21 AM

(http://www.angelfire.com/planet/mattstcool/pics/food1.jpg)

My childhood memories say yes.

Title: Re: Best toys ever?
Post by: gpw11 on Tuesday, March 09, 2010, 12:56:41 AM

Good call.  Also, Army Ants.


Oh, and the toys that were either sheep or pigs fighting each other.

Title: Re: Best toys ever?
Post by: Pugnate on Tuesday, March 09, 2010, 12:57:14 AM

(http://www.ncsx.com/2006/103006/Tuesday/mp4_convoy_02.jpg)
(http://tformers.net/i/a/20th/mp_convoy13.jpg)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/209/450712921_ee745fd584.jpg)

thirteen inches and die cast metal, masterpiece convoy (or sold as masterpiece prime in US) wins. :P

Title: Re: Best toys ever?
Post by: Quemaqua on Tuesday, March 09, 2010, 01:06:23 AM

Fuck your robots.

Sheep and pigs fighting each other wins (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/47/).

Also, Army Ants!

(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m276/justking81/Articles/af831ed7.jpg)

What the hell was wrong with the 80s?

Title: Re: Best toys ever?
Post by: gpw11 on Tuesday, March 09, 2010, 01:30:22 AM

Fuck yes!  As for the 80's, they just hadn't started importing anime yet.

Title: Re: Best toys ever?
Post by: Pugnate on Tuesday, March 09, 2010, 01:46:08 AM

As you can expect, there are a lot of cheap knock off toys sold here.

This I captured as the storekeeper was giving me wtf looks:

(http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v332/237/15/540075028/n540075028_3990722_5387.jpg)

Title: Re: Best toys ever?
Post by: PyroMenace on Tuesday, March 09, 2010, 01:52:39 AM

Alright lets see here... you got batman, spiderman, superman... some sort of power ranger... and wait whats that? A FUCKING GORILLA.

Title: Re: Best toys ever?
Post by: Pugnate on Tuesday, March 09, 2010, 01:53:55 AM

hahaha exactly...

it is like the gorilla snuck in between the Power Ranger and Mr. Fantastic as a joke.

Title: Re: Best toys ever?
Post by: Quemaqua on Tuesday, March 09, 2010, 01:56:22 AM

haha... I love this thread so much.

Title: Re: Best toys ever?
Post by: gpw11 on Tuesday, March 09, 2010, 02:19:19 AM

Do you think emo kids are such pussies because when they were growing up their toys didn't beat the shit out of each other?

Title: Re: Best toys ever?
Post by: Quemaqua on Tuesday, March 09, 2010, 02:29:15 AM

Yeah.  And they weren't food.  Or animals.

Title: Re: Best toys ever?
Post by: Raisa on Monday, March 15, 2010, 12:10:07 AM

growing up, i loved playing in the garden most of all.. but if i had to choose re toys--i liked lego and gi joes.

Title: Re: Best toys ever?
Post by: Cobra951 on Monday, March 15, 2010, 07:33:26 AM

(http://www.dugnorth.com/blog/uploaded_images/Mr-Machine-Photo-718103.jpg) (http://www.dugnorth.com/blog/uploaded_images/Mr-Machine-Patent-732228.gif)

Oh, haha!  The commercial. (http://www.robotsnob.com/archives/2008/09/remember-mr-machine.php)  This I don't remember.

Edit:  Oh, and the Digi-Comp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx5Iawpm5Kg) mechanical computer.  You are the CPU clock.  :D

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Digicomp_I.JPG/800px-Digicomp_I.JPG)

And there's an emulator! (http://www.scoopsfolks.com/digicomp1/)

Title: Re: Best toys ever?
Post by: gpw11 on Thursday, March 18, 2010, 07:55:32 AM

Cobra, those are both badass.

Also, Reminded me of this thread...shitty punchline through (http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1930734)