Bottom of the Toy Box: Forgotten Relics of the '80s-'90s

[-Gor]

i really want a SNISH boglin.

[Bennett]

I really want you to run you genitals through a meat grinder very slowly.

[-Gor]

eat battery ACId! slime!--quote IT

[LeChuck]

Kudos to whoever mentioned Crystar figures. Looking at a Crystar figure site, I think we had every single one, although they were just strewn about in our football-shaped toy chest so I never really knew what they were.

Not sure if they were from the 80's, but I do recall having a shitload of the "GERMS" test tube figures. And almost every figure/playset for the "other" Ghostbusters show (incl. Tracy the gorilla, the yellow skeleton, the 'Sir Lancelot' type guy, etc). I don't know if they are considered "forgotten" or "relics", but the M.A.S.K. toys were pretty cool.

To answer someone's question, Army Ants didn't really do anything (although they did have rubber asses that you could pull off).

Here's something I've been trying to remember for the longest time. There used to be these figures you could buy that were made of something like rubbery play-doh. You could kind of stretch them out and rip their limbs off, and stick them back on (or atleast try to). They had a funny smell too, similar to play-doh or something. I remember having one man that was all dark green, and some other creature (a bird or pterodactyl?) that was all dark red. This was likely from 1981 - 1982. Anyone remember these???

LeChuck

p.s. there's two TOMY wind-up toys I'm also trying to identify in a separate thread. One is a walking blue camera with a magnifying glass; the other is a walking set of red binoculars wearing blue glasses. I seem to recall them from a movie or tv show. If you have any idea what these are from, please reply in the other thread!! It's driving me insane!!

[Miss Modular]

Two words:

Slap. Bracelets.

[Bennett]

Miss Mod:

http://www.i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=1171

I'm feelin' you on the bracelets.

LeChuck,

I think you are thinking of MANGLORs... although I could be mistaken.

[LeChuck]

I think you are thinking of MANGLORs... although I could be mistaken.

Thanks for the tip. The thing I'm talking about is very, very close to the same thing as the Manglors. I looked up a Manglor guide, but didn't see the two figures I remember (the dark green man and dark red bird-creature), so I guess it's not the same thing.

My older brother says he remembers the dark green man being a Swamp Thing figure. Was there any kind of Swamp Thing figure that was basically just like the Manglors?

LeChuck

p.s. I stumbled across the "Rocks & Bugs & Things" toys when looking up Manglors guides .. we definitely had a ton of those in the bottom of our (football-shaped) toy box

[The Retro Kat]

Let me tell you...




POGO!

[Bennett]

LeChuck,

not to push the subject, but:

http://theimaginaryworld.com/manglor3.jpg

and

http://theimaginaryworld.com/manglor5.jpg

[LeChuck]

Thanks a bunch, I must not have been looking at a complete guide. I've been trying to remember for years what those were ..

Say, you don't happen to also know what these are, do you?
http://www.i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=5121

I believe that's the last of my childhook toys I'm trying to identify (for now ..)

LeChuck

[agroskaterik]

Originally Posted by The Retro Kat

Let me tell you...




POGO!

POGO!

i can do tricks

[HyperDingo]

Computer warriors..they had like everyday objects that turned into bases and stuff like soda cans and clocks. And cant forget ARMY Gear, i still have the canteen/Air craft carrier.

[Sam]

I saw Starcom mentioned earlier. I think I almost had the whole set of those guys. Everything had magnets and either shrunk or grew. They were my favorite things ever. I remember making them have brawls on the refrigerator. Every now and then when I pick up some crap in my room I find one of those little guys. The guys who all looked the same, with different repaints and stickers. The only one who I think never had a repaint was the robot one who was on the bad guys side. I accidentally broke the leg off one of the guys, and made him "The angry cripple who doesn't need help from anyone and flies the fighter ship."

I found some Army Ants in my garage, and they all had the asses pulled off. I had a really cool tank one too.

[Skjay]

Jump ahead a few years here... The best shit of the 90s included

Those fuckin pens that did a whole bunch of shit
POGS
Yak-Bak
Those things where you pull the strings and it sends the ball back and forth between two people
Slip and Slides
Sockem Boppers
Annnd, the true reason I made this post:
Does anyone remember those things were like a collapsable plastic cup with some sort of electronical bullshit to make your voice sound distorted? What the fuck were those called?

[Shadowdancer21b]

I have a Dungeons and Dragons Fire Elemental toy kicking around somewhere. I also remember these toys that had glow-in-the-dark hands and swords. There were good guys and bad guys and they were basically these rubber robes with arms that were put over these hologram images. Anyone remember what those were called? Like, there would be there normal appearance and then they had a transformation. Like, a werewolf, a rabbit-man, a ghost, so on.

[Shadowdancer21b]

Just saw the Supernaturals in the past posts.

[The Doctor]

Insectoids and Visionaries were cool shit back in the day.

[executioneer]

jesus chrust this is an old thread

[BastardCookie]

I may have been born in teh 90's, but me heart is in teh 80's! Toys from the 90's suck in comparison to the 80's. At least, from what i can remember...

[BastardCookie]

Actually, that's a lie. My cousins were friggin' HUGE Power Rangers fans and whenever they got tired of their PR toys, they would go to me. I had the morpher for every season up to In Space. It was awesome.