General Toy Nostalgia

[SalemCrow]

Steel Monsters from Tonka.

Had more than a few. The 2 big ones for sure, and I think the black pickup and the one with the motorcycles.

Super Naturals from Tonka:

Had a few. Not as cool as Visionaries.

StarCom by Coleco:

Had a bunch. Loved the magnetic and auto change gimmicks.


Kenner Sky Commanders:

Had quite few of these, and would string them all over our playroom from upper cabinet doors down to pilfered dining room chairs.

My replies in green in the quote for ease.

 

[Spongyblue]

How the hell, out of all that, do they end up with one guy just named Zach...?

Designers kids name? My brain tells me those guys where way more detailed, but my eyes are proving it wrong. My dad had a habit of picking up odd toys for the holidays that I never remember seeing in stores.

My biggest line asking these lines from my childhood was Kenner's Mega Force line. I had so many of those things!

While researching, I stumbled on soo many lines that I either have the faintest memory of existing, or don't remember at all. Either way this was one and I really wish I had some of those, they look real cool.

B.T.W., @Spongyblue this is a great thread!

Thanks! Just had one of those random toy memory's that started my brain going on a fact finding mission.

 

[Red Ogre]

SuperNaturals always creeped me out as a kid.

Now that you mention it, I think they heebied my jeebies as well.

 

[SalemCrow]

I have to say, watching Pixel Dan's toy hunt videos really jars the memories of "Oh crap! I had that!" more often than I'd have thought.

I did not want for much as a child, as evidenced by my reactions to watching him in said videos. Do I know what a lot of those lines the toys came from were called? not a chance, but it has sent me down a few rabbit holes to look up info on more than one occasion.

 

[RichardSimmonsRobot]

Not 80s related beyond where they got the original mold from (the Ewok Tree House from Return of the Jedi), but I did love Kenner's Robin Hood Prince of Thieves tie-in figures. As someone who was too young to experience the Return of the Jedi tree house when it debuted, the Sherwood Forest playset was a lot of fun, even if Friar Tuck was a repurposed Gammorean Guard body.