When i was a kid we played with ...

Ya, Tonkas were the Toyotas of toy trucks.
You couldn't hurt them if you tried... but they could hurt you.

Can't count the number of times I got pinched fingers and cuts from those trucks. But it was all good.
Tonka taught me that...
Pain is fleeting
Blood? I'll make more
Moving a dirt pile across the back yard with Tonkas? FUCKING WORTH IT!


But I had a camper that was a "BuddyL" brand. It was pretty durable. Pickup was powder blue and of course the camper was white. I don't even remember if it was a Ford or Chevy pickup.

 

sticks.......rocks......2x4s........... hammer.........nails.......Donky Kong 64.........

 

Veiwmaster, It was like crack to me, stare at the same flipping disc over and over. Any body have a Vacuum Form, or a Creepy Crawler maker? Tinker Toys and Toggle Toys, GI Joe, and not those little cheesy-ass ones. I'm talking the ones that were over a foot tall, no "Kung-Fu grip, no fuzzy hair or beard, just molded plastic hair, with a bitching scar on his face.

 

Rubber band rifles made from a 1x2 and a clothespin.

I made a few "double barrel" and then everyone wanted one!

No kidding. Looking back now, it seems kinda dumb, but then? Way cool.

"Mattel Thingmaker" was the "Creepy Crawker" thing.
That was one nasty toy! You could burn the shit out of yourself if you touched the "skillet" (or the molds when done), you could cook the juice into a stinking pile of ash... probably a few house fires from that thing being left plugged in.
Mine "lived" in a kitchen cabinet. The molds and liquid were in my room, but the cooker lived in the kitchen and that's where it was used.
But the big thing about that was the "juice".
That stuff was bigtime toxic!

Tinker toys rocked... Did all kinds of cool things with them before moving to the erector set. Never did get into any of the action figures. My friends all had Joe, but I didn't.

 

Mitt, ball, bat.
He-man, G.I. Joe, Legos, Baseball cards.
Intelivision baby.....who remembers that shit?

 

I remember that game and frogger. Good times, had hours and hours of fun with just those two games.

I really loved the tonka trucks when I was really young.

 

yes.


greatest game ever

 

I loved this thing when I was a child.. I think I had like 3 of them. we would keep tearing them up from racing them down the hill by my house growing up.. Such memories...

 

What about this.... My first Video Game... i still have it too!!

 

Or my first computer.. A TI-99A I remember it had games you could buy that were on cassette Tape and their was an adapter that your had to plug into it... Damn I feel old all of a sudden....

 

i had that exact one. lol. i remember something on it broke. lol thats how much i played with it.

 

Hell yeah, you burnt yourself a time or two, but then you learned better huh? I had a few "molding" toys, remember Encredibe Eatables? Kinda the same as the ThingMaker, (good call BTW) but you could eat the shit after it cooked/cured, kinda like a softer gummy-bear. Then I had this thing (can't remember the name) that you could mold (from plastic pellets) tops and bottoms of cowboys and Indians, and then they kinda snapped together. You could even remelt them, and remold. After awhile all the colors were just a shitty tan color. Again that Vacuum Form was cool, well you know, it heated up plastic sheets a formed them around molds of various shapes.

 

yup, did some serious mudding with those dump trucks. We actually wore all the "tread" off the wheels on those things over about 4 years.

 

Im not that old so i remember how happy i was when i got one of these!



And when i always used to play these games


I also remember getting the wooden airplanes that you put together and i would always sharpie on a sweet shark on the front!


This thread actually took off more then i thought it would!

 

this thread is not just what we played with like the title says. lol turned in to a when i was a kid, i did this and played with this. lol

 

I used to fit one knee in the back and jam down hills, lost a fair amount of skin that way

 

My wife of 24yrs had one of those, I didn't, (we dated for seven years) come to think of it, that thing may have been my downfall...

 

may not want to tell her that.

 

At this point, it don't even matter....




J/K she's put up with a lot of shit over the years.

 

OH! cant forget Beanie Babies


I remember how freaking crazy i went on christmas day when i unwrapped this!


I will always remember playing Crash bandicoot, syphon filter, Driver, Tekken 3, that creepy as hell game Resident evil and of course the best game ever for ps1, METAL GEAR SOLID!!!!