General Toy Nostalgia

Seeing these advertisements are bringing back lots of great memories of the simple and fun life of my childhood. Thanks for this thread!

Food Fighter's were my favorite toys for a long time growing up. My brother and I had them all, including the vehicles, probably because they ended up at clearance stores. I still remember the day we lost Sargent Scoop (the ice cream cone) in our yard and never found him again. I was so bummed to have an incomplete set. Since we lost or destroyed all our other figures, too, I recently made the sound financial decision to buy all the figures again (I'm fine not having any of the guns or vehicles). It's great having the full set again. Poetically, Sargent Scoop happened to be the last one I got.

Of course, I couldn't be happy just having the old set of 10 figures. I've started making new figures and customs. It's cool this hobby allows me to satisfy my collecting, nostalgia, and creative itches all at the same time.
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TFitz said:
Mattel Big Jim - His bicep muscle getting bigger when bent blew me away as a kid. Especially when he could break the metal arm band.

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One of the first toys I remember owning was Big Jim. I remember having him pop the metal band off his arm over and over!
Ultra Seven said:
Oh, man, I have been tempted to pick up the Remco DC stuff so many times, but can never bring myself to pay fair market value. But Machiste and Warlord, particularly, are so cool looking.
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The only one of those I had was Hercules. I had him travel to Eternia, summoned by the Sorceress to aid He-Man!
 
Bills all day said:
Seeing these advertisements are bringing back lots of great memories of the simple and fun life of my childhood. Thanks for this thread!

Food Fighter's were my favorite toys for a long time growing up. My brother and I had them all, including the vehicles, probably because they ended up at clearance stores. I still remember the day we lost Sargent Scoop (the ice cream cone) in our yard and never found him again. I was so bummed to have an incomplete set. Since we lost or destroyed all our other figures, too, I recently made the sound financial decision to buy all the figures again (I'm fine not having any of the guns or vehicles). It's great having the full set again. Poetically, Sargent Scoop happened to be the last one I got.
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I always associated these with the BarnYard Commando's of around the same era. I was surprised to see Nacelle releasing their versions of the Commando's at a Walmart along with the Biker Mice they had been putting out a Christmas or two ago.
 
I've actually got a bunch of StarCOM figures standing on their magnetic feet on the whiteboard attached to my desk! I LOVED Those weird little astronauts.

Food Fighters were so fucking weird and I loved them. Not sure I'd rebuy them now (ABSOLUTELY would re-buy Sky Commanders, StarCOM, bunch of these lines) but what a ridiculous line.
 
I only had the ship from Captain Power, but I honestly loved the show more than the toys. I know J. Micheal Strazinsky work on that show and you can tell.
TheGillMan said:
The only one of those I had was Hercules. I had him travel to Eternia, summoned by the Sorceress to aid He-Man!
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Same minds bro. I knew him as Hercules, but have no Idea when I got him. He just showed up one day. His leg broke not long after I got him (thanks jerk cousins!), so he was the perma-rider for a reformed Night Stalker.
 
Six Million Dollar Man had some great stuff in the 1970's.

My favorite was this - part rocket, part surgical module - the various tubes had connectors that could go all over the place and connected to the "bionic" parts on Steve. Or you could put Masketron in there for interrogation.

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I really wanted the critical assignment legs and arms - I had the arms, but never the legs. I mean, who wouldn't want an exploding leg?
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The cool thing, until it would inevitably break, was the rubber skin you could roll down the arms to cover the bionic parts on the arms. You really needed the repair station to swap out Steve's arms and legs.

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And don't get started on a bionic, alien Bigfoot that was 14" tall...
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I really should find the arms and legs at this point...
 
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And don't get started on a bionic, alien Bigfoot that was 14" tall...
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I really should find the arms and legs at this point...
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Fuck yeah! This is one of my top five toy holy grails. There's a dude who sells at local toy shows who has one, and I've been seeing it at his booth for like a year ... I keep promising myself that if work picks up just a bit more, he'll be mine!
 
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I also had this bad boy, along with a bunch of the green army men - which I usually has as more of a diorama that I'd set up. If you can't tell from the description, this thing was 2 feet tall, so huge compared to the 2" tall army men. You had cannons and ladders and tanks and what not.

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Ultra Seven said:
Fuck yeah! This is one of my top five toy holy grails. There's a dude who sells at local toy shows who has one, and I've been seeing it at his booth for like a year ... I keep promising myself that if work picks up just a bit more, he'll be mine!
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I managed to find one decades ago, probably mid-90's when I had a phase of re-acquiring my Six Million Dollar Man toys I had as a kid, plus the Mego Batman stuff. My "figures" started out with the green army men, then Mego Batman, then $6 Mil, then Micronauts and Kenner Star Wars. I had kept the Star Wars and many of the Micronauts, but stupidly sold off the rest at a yard sale when in college and wanting some cash.

In reality that Bigfoot is kind of disappointing in any objective sense, it has shoulder and hip cuts for articulation and that's it, but you can pop off the chest to see the bionics! I loved it, but Maskatron was cooler.

I had moved on from the line for Micronauts and Star Wars but still coveted this - probably my grail for old stuff. The Venus Space Probe episodes were some of the best (when 10 years old).

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docsilence said:
BIonic Bigfoot was my... nah, no it wasn't, who am I kidding. It was actually Inhumanoid.
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Sure, sure...
 
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yojoebro82 said:
This beauty is high on my vintage want list. It's not a common find, though. O-ring style Tom Selleck? Hell yes.
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Never new this existed. Dan Magnum though? 🤣 🤣

EDIT - the car and figure set sells for over $1,200 on eBay! :eek::cry::unsure:
 
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