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Toys you wanted as a kid...

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Apache;2309297; said:
I wanted a Schwinn 27 inch bicycle and a Rawlings Dave Concepcion fielders glove and a Johnny Bench catchers mitt.

Earned them all with my paper route.
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Ha! My first purchase with my paper route money was a new bike.

Obviously, we're from an older generation. :wink2:
 
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1) Kenner Girder & Panel building sets. A cousin of mine had the "World Famous Buildings" set from the 1975 Sears catalog. I wanted to spend every weekend sleeping over at his house to play with it. He'd ask if I wanted to play LEGO or watch Dukes of Hazzard or something, and I'd be all like, "Fuck that! I can do that shit at my house, I want to build skyscrapers in your bedroom."

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2) The GI Joe USS Flagg. Needs no explanation.

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Dryden;2309773; said:
1) Kenner Girder & Panel building sets. A cousin of mine had the "World Famous Buildings" set from the 1975 Sears catalog. I wanted to spend every weekend sleeping over at his house to play with it. He'd ask if I wanted to play LEGO or watch Dukes of Hazzard or something, and I'd be all like, "[censored] that! I can do that [Mark May] at my house, I want to build skyscrapers in your bedroom."

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2) The GI Joe USS Flagg. Needs no explanation.

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^^^this^^^ and the death star
 
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I wanted the Droid Factory.

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We were pretty damned poor when I was a kid in the 1970s. I had one Star Wars action figure, a Stormtrooper, until I was ten when I got a few more. My other toys were green army men, a few matchbox cars and a Ford F-100 model truck I didn't know how to put together.

That Droid Factory was my holy grail, and I never got one. They stopped making them before we ever had enough money to buy me one.

Also wanted the Death Star, but never got either one - the plastic playset or the cardboard "cheap" version. The neighbor kids had the "real" Death Star play set, plus a Force 10 from Navarone play set
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and I wanted that as well, but not nearly as bad as I wanted the Death Star.

Being poor and not having any idea how hard this would be, I went to the wood pile, pulled out a pretty large chunk of tree trunk, and proceeded to try to carve a Death Star out of the wood. I think I worked on that thing for a couple of weeks before realizing I would never accomplish anything with what little ability I had as a kid. I doubt I could pull that off today without half a year's work with my Dremel.
 
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Dryden;2309773; said:
1) Kenner Girder & Panel building sets. A cousin of mine had the "World Famous Buildings" set from the 1975 Sears catalog. I wanted to spend every weekend sleeping over at his house to play with it. He'd ask if I wanted to play LEGO or watch Dukes of Hazzard or something, and I'd be all like, "Fuck that! I can do that shit at my house, I want to build skyscrapers in your bedroom."
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I had a couple of those as a kid. The drawbridge and another set (no idea what specifically as I never had the box, my mom probably found it at the Salvation Army).

It was one of those toys that not only did no one else have...no one else had even heard of it. It took me a long time to even find out who made it & what it was called when I started trying to find it online years ago.
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2) The GI Joe USS Flagg. Needs no explanation.

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I was a couple of years too old when GI Joe really started to take off but I do remember thinking the carrier was pretty cool. When I was younger I had a carrier that was smaller (half the size or so?) that had working (rubber band powered) catapults that could launch foam aircraft. Another one of those toys that I've never seen or heard of since (and another one of mom's thrift store/garage sale finds).

knapplc;2309838; said:
I wanted the Droid Factory.

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We were pretty damned poor when I was a kid in the 1970s. I had one Star Wars action figure, a Stormtrooper, until I was ten when I got a few more. My other toys were green army men, a few matchbox cars and a Ford F-100 model truck I didn't know how to put together.

That Droid Factory was my holy grail, and I never got one. They stopped making them before we ever had enough money to buy me one.
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I had completely forgotten about that! Man it would have been perfect with my Micronauts.

The neighbor kids had the "real" Death Star play set, plus a Force 10 from Navarone play set
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and I wanted that as well, but not nearly as bad as I wanted the Death Star.
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The Guns of Navarone set is one of my 3 favorite X-Mas memories. Came downstairs Christmas morning to find it all laid out in front of the tree...awesome job dad (err Santa)! Loved that thing. It's also the only present that I remember coming directly from circling things in the JC Penny catalog.

I probably played with my army men more than any other single toy for years. Any time we would go someplace new, if they had the little packages containing a handful of army men for sale I'd pester my parents to get them. Since they were only .25 cents my pleas were usually answered. I eventually amassed a ridiculous number & kept them in a large cardboard box (around the size of a computer box today). I eventually started playing with them primarily outdoors, we had raised flower (waist high or so) beds around the edge of the back porch which made excellent battlefields. One night I left the entire box on the porch and some SOB stole them all.

A few years later one of my friends ended up with a large number of smaller army men (15mm maybe?) that were very cool. They were modeled after WW2 armies and were far more historically accurate than the usual generic army men. He had US, Russian, British, German & Japanese troops including a large number of vehicles (tanks etc). I always wondered where they came from, probably a company dedicated to war gamers, but they were very cool.

Being poor and not having any idea how hard this would be, I went to the wood pile, pulled out a pretty large chunk of tree trunk, and proceeded to try to carve a Death Star out of the wood. I think I worked on that thing for a couple of weeks before realizing I would never accomplish anything with what little ability I had as a kid. I doubt I could pull that off today without half a year's work with my Dremel.
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You are going to be an excellent grandfather.

"Boy, when I was your age I didn't have any fancy 'eye-pod' or 'cellular telephone'. I had to carve a death star out of a log to play with! So eat your damn vegetables you ungrateful little bastard!"
 
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Dryden;2309773; said:
1) Kenner Girder & Panel building sets. A cousin of mine had the "World Famous Buildings" set from the 1975 Sears catalog. I wanted to spend every weekend sleeping over at his house to play with it. He'd ask if I wanted to play LEGO or watch Dukes of Hazzard or something, and I'd be all like, "Fuck that! I can do that shit at my house, I want to build skyscrapers in your bedroom."

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2) The GI Joe USS Flagg. Needs no explanation.

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i had the jet that's pictured on the ship.
 
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wasn't a whole lot of toys I wanted as a kid.

spent most of our free time outdoors. playing sports, hunting, fishing, etc.
when I was young, i really wanted my own pirogue so i could get deeper into the marsh for hunting snakes.

no i'm not kidding.
yes I realize this post will only help solidify the stereotype of people from my part of the world.
 
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