You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us.
Our LifestylesCome discuss past and present fashions, favorite game systems,...talk about your favorite video games, your past and present cars, and other aspects of your past and present lifestyles!
For those of us that grew up in the 80's, and before we moved away from toys.
Mine was probably a styrofoam Space Shuttle that I got in Boston. It had a platic notch in it, that attached to a rubber band "slingshot" type thing. You hooked the rubber band into the notch, pulled back the shuttle while holding the other end of the band, and let it fly. Went like a bat out of hell. I don't remember what happened to it, but I do know that when I took Toadster to Kennedy Space Center a few years ago, we found a bunch of them on a rack in the gift shop. You know I helped myself to 2 of them. Toadster broke his since then, but I still have mine.
I'll list others later.
__________________
"I’m not fat. I’m larger than life."
Here are some I remember as favourites of mine in the 80's:
- Merlin (composed first techno song at age 9 )
- Stomper 4x4's (for the longest time there were no houses built acrosh da shreet from where I lived so there were mountains of dirt. Perfect for Stompers!)
- We had a few of those rockets that you filled with water and pumped them with some pump and they flew in the air. Those were cool.
- Rubik's Cube/Pyramix/Missing Link (still have the Missing Link puzzle)
Rubik's Cube, even though I never solved the damn thing and my brothers peeled all the stickers off.
Lite-Brite, of which my mother bitched about every time she vacuumed because she kept sucking up the little pegs.
Cabbage Patch Kids, because I was dying to have one and never got one.
Barbie - I know it's not just 80s, but that's what I played with. :P Same goes for Big Wheels. I had to steal my brothers' because I never had one of my own.
Slip n' Slide - never had one, so we made our own with garbage bags and tent stakes.
Chinese jump rope - I'm sure they're probably called something else now, but that was all the girls did at recess when I was in the 5th grade.
Rubik's Cube, even though I never solved the damn thing and my brothers peeled all the stickers off.
Lite-Brite, of which my mother bitched about every time she vacuumed because she kept sucking up the little pegs.
Cabbage Patch Kids, because I was dying to have one and never got one.
Barbie - I know it's not just 80s, but that's what I played with. :P Same goes for Big Wheels. I had to steal my brothers' because I never had one of my own.
Slip n' Slide - never had one, so we made our own with garbage bags and tent stakes.
Chinese jump rope - I'm sure they're probably called something else now, but that was all the girls did at recess when I was in the 5th grade.
I loved all of the exact same toys. We must be the same age!
And Midas, you are the only person I know that remembers Stompers! I loved those things.
Rubik's Cube, even though I never solved the damn thing and my brothers peeled all the stickers off.
Lite-Brite, of which my mother bitched about every time she vacuumed because she kept sucking up the little pegs.
Those are two I loved, even though, like you, I could never solve Rubik's Cube.
I did have a homemade Cabbage Patch Kid my Mom made from the official pattern. I took that doll everywhere.
Perfection, like Lite Brite the little pieces always got lost and my Mom was never happy when she vacuumed.
Colorforms, I loved these, especially the Mork & Mindy one I had.
Barbies, I had Western Barbie, where you pressed a button in the back, and she would wink at you, it was kind of creepy.
I remembered some more - Fashion Plates, Speak n' Spell, Dazzle Dolls, Simon (just bought myself one), my Gerber baby doll (took her everywhere), and Matchbox/Hot Wheels.
Oh yeah - Midas solved my Rubik's Cube, but he had to cheat.
By far my favorite toy of the 80s was my BMX Bike! Loved that damned thing! Then the Atari 2600 and later nintendo. The 80s I Started getting more into Music. I remember my boombox. I used it to record mock radio stations of my fave songs. Guess that's when the DJ bug first hit.
Course I was in my Teens/Early 20's in the 80s (13-23) so I kinda already outgrew the whole "toy" thing by late 1980.
I remembered some more - Fashion Plates, Speak n' Spell, Dazzle Dolls, Simon (just bought myself one), my Gerber baby doll (took her everywhere), and Matchbox/Hot Wheels.
Oh yeah - Midas solved my Rubik's Cube, but he had to cheat.
Just for the last layer! I "solved" a co-worker's Rubik's Cube at work today.
If so, that is AWESOME! I begged for one of those for Christmas the year they came out, and was pumped when I got it. I beat the hell out of that game, had the pattern down, and couldn;t be beaten. I'm dying to find one now that works right without paying an arm and a leg.
__________________
"I’m not fat. I’m larger than life."
If so, that is AWESOME! I begged for one of those for Christmas the year they came out, and was pumped when I got it. I beat the hell out of that game, had the pattern down, and couldn;t be beaten. I'm dying to find one now that works right without paying an arm and a leg.
I "solved" a co-worker's Rubik's Cube at work today. 
Linear Mode
