Children of the 80’s will appreciate this

[LittleLebowski]

I grew frustrated with the toys my 8yr old son had, so off to eBay I went. The green toy tank was made in 1982, in Rhode Island!

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[Coal Train]

I grew frustrated with the toys my 8yr old son had, so off to eBay I went. The green toy tank was made in 1982, in Rhode Island!

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Oh man, I had that tank. It saw some things. At some point it lost the tracks but it still kept fighting the Soviets.

[RJ]

M551?

[OlongJohnson]

That's about the right age for a slot car track. I got a setup off Ebay for my god son a few years ago.

And how much does an old RC10 bring these days?

[Suvorov]

I kept my GI Joe’s. I gave them the Jeep’s early on. They loved pushing them around but sadly the plastic had grown brittle over the 30 years and the toys fell apart. I plan on putting the lions share on eBay.

That tank (the MOBAT) sits on top one of my gun safes.

We also have that same bootlegged Hobbs plushy as both by boys LOVE Calvin&Hobbs!


M551?

Yep, basically a Sheridan. The GI Joe Helicopter Gunship was a Cobra with a funky NOTAR system and the fighter jet was a F-14.

Good times!

[awp_101]

Do I spy a COBRA HISS in there? The only GI Joe vehicle I have left is some kind of MLRS. My grandson played with it some then he found YouTube, video games and YouTube about video games so most of his toys just sit now.

[awp_101]

Yep, basically a Sheridan. The GI Joe Helicopter Gunship was a Cobra with a funky NOTAR system and the fighter jet was a F-14.

Good times!

Don’t forget the tilt wing A-10!

[Joe in PNG]

Sadly, my childhood predilection for taking things apart meant most of my toys didn't survive childhood.

And that's just for the toys I remembered to bring inside after playing with them outside. Our dogs chewed up anything left.

[mtnbkr]

And how much does an old RC10 bring these days?

Oohh oohh oohh, I had an RC10!

They re-released it a few years ago, but by the time I found out, they had sold out.

Chris

[LittleLebowski]

I got the HISS tank (https://www.amazon.com/Retro-H-I-S-S-Exclusive-Vehicle-Driver/dp/B08KLZTLXJ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Hiss+tank&qid=1625094686&sr=8-1) and Striker brand new manufactured from a more recent run, a few years ago I think.

[RJ]

Cool toys.

Heh brings back memories. After you guys got a bath and put to bed, this is what we watched on TV on this new cable channel called MTV.


https://youtu.be/XcATvu5f9vE

80s decade is best decade. Disco sucks!

[Suvorov]

Cool toys.

Heh brings back memories. After you guys got a bath and put to bed, this is what we watched on TV on this new cable channel called MTV.


80s decade is best decade. Disco sucks!

Still possibly the hottest music video ever made!

Although Nancy Sinatra’s Boots Are Made for Walking might hold a slight edge (but that song was from another decade so the point is kind of moot).

[rd62]

Cool! I hadn't thought about getting my boys GI Joe toys but like was mentioned already, they mostly watch other kids play with toys on YouTube anymore.

I did buy them some GI Joe cartoon DVDs (yes DVDs) a few years ago. They've been watched a lot!

They just came to me yesterday to tell me there was a new Snakeyes movie coming out, but that it was BS because they show his face, and you never see Snakeyes face.

[Totem Polar]

Do I see a Hobbes?

https://i.imgur.com/Mnjcqu1_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand

[Crow Hunter]

I have never seen that Calvin and Hobbes before. I thought I had seen them all. Thank you for that.



Do I see a Hobbes?

https://i.imgur.com/Mnjcqu1_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand

[Clusterfrack]

I grew frustrated with the toys my 8yr old son had, so off to eBay I went. The green toy tank was made in 1982, in Rhode Island!

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Where is GI Joe?

[LittleLebowski]

Do I see a Hobbes?



Uhhh…yes? Sorta. It’s as close as you’re going to get. This Hobbes has held up well since we got him in Sept 2020.


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0787GQGS3/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1


https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Z%2B5IybsoL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

[LittleLebowski]

Where is GI Joe?

We are getting there. Market research shows that the customer prefers vehicles and guns over figures :D

[Duelist]

I have never seen that Calvin and Hobbes before. I thought I had seen them all. Thank you for that.

They’re new. Crossover work between Berk Breathed and Bill Watterson.

[Totem Polar]

They’re new. Crossover work between Berk Breathed and Bill Watterson.

This. About the only thing to come out of 2020 that didn’t suck.

[awp_101]

This should be “Feel good images and video” part 2 :cool:

[idahojess]

No Gung Ho figure?

[SoCalDep]

During my first background interview the two deputies that were talking to me referred to a form we had to fill out prior to taking the initial test, where we had to list all crimes we had ever committed. They asked me why I had written arson.

I answered “because when I was younger I would play war with my GI Joe’s and accidentally lit the dog house on fire as one of the toys was tragically killed by a (simulated) flamethrower.” (That’s the dramatized version…)

They laughed at me.

Then they hired me.

Ahhhh…. memories.

[LittleLebowski]

Don’t forget the tilt wing A-10!

And the SR-71 with canards :D

[ViniVidivici]

Pure awesomeness, I recognize those dearly!

[Ed L]

This is nostalgic. I have a picture of toys from my childhood that was taken in the late 1960s or early 1970s.

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[Ed L]

And a picture of me at the time with a toy that would prove quite prophetic:

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[Glenn E. Meyer]

My daughter for some reason in the early 80's liked those miniature die cast fighter planes. Still have a box of them somewhere. As a kid myself in the 50's (sigh), I would make Revell ships and tanks. I might take them outside and with a magnifying class, melt little battle damage holes in them.

[UNM1136]

Family couldn't afford a MOBAT, but got a HISS and a Rattler. And a WHALE. Over three years, so I could go a few doors down and play with the homicide detective's son. My other best friend at the time was heavily invested in He-Man stuff. I had to pick one...


pat

[Inkwell 41]

And a picture of me at the time with a toy that would prove quite prophetic:

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Is that an actual Mattel M16? I had one of those when I was a kid. My mom hated how noisy it was. I remember cranking the handle on the side to cock it.

[UNM1136]

Is that an actual Mattel M16? I had one of those when I was a kid. My mom hated how noisy it was. I remember cranking the handle on the side to cock it.

I have fading memories of playing at my Granddad's house with an all plastic M1 Garand. No orange muzzle piece. I also remember it disintetigrating as all us grandkids played with and ulimately destroyed it...

pat

[LittleLebowski]

The Mauler (Merkava inspired) tank made its debut tonight :cool:

[Ed L]

Is that an actual Mattel M16? I had one of those when I was a kid. My mom hated how noisy it was. I remember cranking the handle on the side to cock it.

It did have a thing on the right side that you would pull back to cock it and would go forward as it would make firing sounds until it would get all the way forward and stop making the sounds so you would have to cock it again. I don't know if it was a Mattel or not. I think I might have been 5-6 years old in that picture.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

I had a pistol grip only plastic Thompson, pull back the handle and it let off a string of bangs. A double barreled, flintlock pistol - you put a cap in it for each hammer. A Colt SAA with plastic cartridges that you stuck a cap on. This was an exotic. It was a two barrel derringer like cap gun with the barrels in vertical alignment and a plastic dagger in the middle between them. It's modeled after a real gun, I could look up.

Made plastic models of warships - but I stunk at it. Always was gluing the wrong stuff together and to myself. I did try to make a cross bow with my dad's t-square, rubber bands and a bolt made from the long plastic rod used to hold model parts. Proceeded to shoot my self in the hand and make a large cut. Oops.

Those were the days.

[Totem Polar]

I had the Empire toy M16–green plastic—with the “mechanical sound” inside that made clacking automatic-ish fire noises when you pulled the trigger. Epic stuff for 197x.

[entropy]

I had a Thompson that loaded roll caps in the stick mag. Also had a couple of Mattel “Fanner 50s”. Also a Winchester that fired these spring loaded little bullets. I tormented the dog with those...

[P30]

Carl Sagan's Cosmos (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIjCnZfzPF0BGhyqKe9QMGR9yaOOkKQbm)

[Suvorov]

The Mauler (Merkava inspired) tank made its debut tonight :cool:

Mine sits along side the MOBAT guarding the gun safe. Actually the MAULER is an inspired copy of the HSTV-L (https://tanknutdave.com/the-american-hstvl-tank/) light tank which was an entry in the Armored Gun System competition to replace the Sheridan in the 1980s. It was a pretty cool idea boasting a 75mm auto-loading cannon. Unfortunately the successor to the Sheridan has not been found to this date despite 2 programs to select a modern light tank. I’m hopeful the current 3rd attempt, the MPF trials will bear fruit.

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[P30]

My pistol in the early 80s: Edison Giocattoli Falcon

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/g8kAAOSwEgxgiRkZ/s-l1600.jpg

Ammo:

https://images.feuerwerk-forum.de/2019/01/369041_857f6678cd56d3cdf53cd9084fdec322.jpg

[Glenn E. Meyer]

My daughter when she was around 10 had a electric battery water gun that looked just like a Beretta 92. We used to run outside taking turns shooting each other with it. Today, I'd probably see the Swat team arrive or have a good samaritan shoot me when I was chasing her. That was about 30 years ago.

The motor died after awhile.

[Clusterfrack]

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/u8wAAOSwW3BgpA4c/s-l1600.jpg

[Joe in PNG]

In the time before realistic airsoft was a thing, there was a very realistic looking Uzi capgun in the toy section that child me just couldn't quite scrape the money together to buy.

However, I did wind up with a nice Skorpion cap gun, but found out that hanging it by the stock from my handlebars was a great way to permanently remove the magazine.

And it was indeed a different time- we used to play war in our neighborhood with realistic looking toys, and even an expended LAWS rocket tube, and had no trouble with the authorities.

[entropy]

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/u8wAAOSwW3BgpA4c/s-l1600.jpg


Those “Star Trek” guns were cool! They shot those little colored discs. (That looked like miniature 45rpm record adapters.)

How about the dart guns? I remember some looking like older Berettas, and another resembling a P210...

[Clusterfrack]

Those “Star Trek” guns were cool! They shot those little colored discs. (That looked like 45rpm record adapters.)

It's possible for one of those discs to become lodged deep in a nostril.

[entropy]

It's possible for one of those discs to become lodged deep in a nostril.


Those simulated contact head shots will do that. Lol

[rd62]

In the time before realistic airsoft was a thing, there was a very realistic looking Uzi capgun in the toy section that child me just couldn't quite scrape the money together to buy.

However, I did wind up with a nice Skorpion cap gun, but found out that hanging it by the stock from my handlebars was a great way to permanently remove the magazine.

And it was indeed a different time- we used to play war in our neighborhood with realistic looking toys, and even an expended LAWS rocket tube, and had no trouble with the authorities.

No one was.stupid enough to think children had a LAw and SMGs. Not like today...

[jtcarm]

You people are pups!

I had the original collection of Hot Wheels cars and GI Joe.

I was raising girls in the 80s, so the only toys I recall were a talking bear and Nintendo-64.

That, and the music mostly sucked.

[jtcarm]

I had the Empire toy M16–green plastic—with the “mechanical sound” inside that made clacking automatic-ish fire noises when you pulled the trigger. Epic stuff for 197x.

Did they still have Western Days in schools by then?

I went nowhere without my trusty Winchester 73 cap gun.

[JohnO]

Is that an actual Mattel M16? I had one of those when I was a kid. My mom hated how noisy it was. I remember cranking the handle on the side to cock it.

I had one too when I was a kid. Probably the best toy gun ever created. FYI. If you happen to be watching John Wayne in the movie The Green Berets watch closely when he breaks the M16 across the tree. The oversized magazine of the Mattel M16 writer is unmistakable.


https://youtu.be/xd_0hUZ-qSU

[entropy]

Fast forward from my childhood to 2015 when I found myself renting an apartment with some coworkers in El Segundo, CA. Literally right down the street from Mattel. All the goodness that emanated off of Mariposa Ave during my yoot is immeasurable.