Favorite childhood toys

[goodcop2000]

@PJON, can't say I ever had a rubber ducky! But I did have some plastic boats that floated in the tub. I would put army men on the boats and have sea battles.

@staypuft, I like your little Ghostbusters action figures. I don't remember seeing those...

@phantomninja, the Battle Beasts look awesome. I heard of them when I was younger but never saw them. A few years ago, I came across a collection of really cool mini monsters from Europe called Gormitis. I gave a few to my son and he loved them so we ended up buying all the figures we could find. Unfortunately, they only released series 1 and 2 in the U.S. I saw some pictures of series 3 and there were some really awesome looking beasts. I did go to U.K. sellers to get some special "atomic" Gormitis that were not for sale in the U.S. so maybe I will have to do the same for series 3.

@wisdomknight, we probably ARE the same age...I'm 42. I noticed when I was researching images of Matchbox cars online that there were different waves or sets so I imagine they were released in different years. When I got to the set that had the images I posted there were many others that I also recognized from my old collection.

@mqstout, very solid list of fun there but I don't know how you don't like comics!! I still do. I went about 25 years without buying any but two years ago I started collecting again. They are very different now than when I was young! Comics were pretty much G or PG type content when I was a kid and there are many series now that I enjoy as an adult because of the high quality art and writing but that I will not let my younger kids look at! Some of the Batman series, for example, have really gone to a dark tone.

@old dwarf, WWII?! I thought "old" was just an expression! Sounds cool, though. I'm not sure what your Fort Apache set look like but when I was young I found an awesome, old (at the time) metal fort that folded in on itself for storage and it was old western themed. I need to look for images online and see if we had similar forts.

@SovTech, since your childhood toys are LNOE and ATOE I assume you're telling me you're a kid now! Enjoy your youth. Your games are much cooler than my games were (Monopoly, Sorry, etc.)

@viking lad, nice choices there. I see you were heavy into action figures. I liked G.I. Joe but I just used friends' figures instead of buying my own.

@staypuft again, I laugh when I look at your wrestling figures. I don't know why, they just look funny to me. But I did watch some wrestling when I was a kid. And I've never heard of Boglins.

I tried to post a photo of some Gormitis but it didn't work. Let me see if I can add it to this post.

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@mqstout,

This is the playset I had.

   

These are Gormitis, a couple from the Volcano Tribe and then the kids' whole collection...

   

   

And this is the sweet Six Million Dollar Man action figure I had...