Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Okay, this thread needed to happen.? There's entirely too much going on in the Transformers Trailer thread, and the spill over needs to happen somewhere.? I'm having a blast re-living some of my childhood in terms of toys (also in awe of Izzy's knowledge of M.A.S.K.), cartoons, etc.? Time to throw out some random topics and see what everyone has to say & talk about.? Other than Transformers, here's bits and pieces that I remember:

G.I. Joe
Captain Power
Visionaries
M.A.S.K.
Thundercats
Voltron (lion version and vehicle version)
C.O.P.S.
Robotix
Robotech
SuperPowers
Masters of the Universe
Inhumanoids (The evil that lies within!)

Anything to add to the list?? What are your 80's favorites in terms of cartoons, action figures, etc.?

I played with boys not toys in the 80's ;D

Did you win?

Hmmmmm... my top toys when I was growing up were G.I. Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He-Man, Star Wars, Transformers and.... I'm forgetting something I think.

Does anyone else remember Muscle Men??  Those little wrestling guys that were kind of like flesh colored and then they started coming in like blue and red. I think they came in a little plastic trash can??? They had a ton of different characters...  I loved those fucking things.  Marvel action figures started coming out probably two or so years before I was done playing with toys.  I had all every Marvel character that there was!!  I remember those battles well...  Oh shit, the memories!!!


http://www.normandcompany.com/LINKS_PAGE/muscle_men.html

Check that link out...

Oh, yeah...Muscle Men.? They came in little plastic garbage cans full of figures, right?? Not moveable at all, but still, I loved 'em.  And great find on that link...

Wow.  Care Bears.  Those instantly make me  think of Teddy Ruxpin, Rainbow Bright, Snorks, and the Gummi Bears...

Captian Planet, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (Before the 3rd season) both kicked ass.

Am I the only one that watched this show???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjhJSD8RU4k

I think it was on after G.I. Joe early in the morning but I fucking loved it. It seems quite queer now but back then I thought it was cool as fuck.


For those that watched M.A.S.K.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ele9JIi2-WY&mode=related&search=


GI JOE intro theme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25R73tsJtV0&mode=related&search=


He-Man:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRo0HCQM9uo&mode=related&search=


Thundercats:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yElOmdHhihA&mode=related&search=


AND even Ducktales:  (HAHA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0oc_tuP_aE&mode=related&search=

Anyone remember Star Blazers? ( it was very early 80's) About an old Japaneese battleship that was turned into a spaceship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5oniErmeuE

Here's another great one.  Even better when you realize the disaster that changes the planet "happened" in 1994...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvUwYh1hH38

Reminds me a lot of He Man and The Masters of the Universe for some reason i wonder if it was the inspiration

Damn, all these cartoons were great and so were the toys. Anyway, my favs were Transformers and Saber Rider:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEJCkc_6Tg8

I still have both series on DVD  ;D


/lastroots


Oh, and does anyone remember Bravestarr?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD3lmhru3Ik

Bravestar?  Oh, yes.  But what about...Black Star?

http://www.nightstoneunlimited.com/BlackstarToyStuff.htm


Me, I had all the damn toys.  Sigh.

He-Man and Thundercats were the shit, but how could any of you forget the Centurions...those big ass dudes with all the holes in their body that you could put all this war equipment on.  Those things were awesome as all hell. 

well i wasn't born untill 1991 but my fav game of the 80s was pacman  :yes:

I had a big transformer collection. pretty much any toy of the 80's i either had or wanted it. One christmas there was lots of tiny astronaut action figures with magnets on their feet and you could buy spaceships and control centers for them to stay in. Also laser tag, only played with it on christmas day. That was a toy that gave you a workout and had laser range within 10 feet. No thanks. But it sticks out in my memory that we went outside on Christmas playing with it.

No one has brought up ghostbusters.  I had every ghostbuster gadget you could imagine.  I almost had every TMNT toy as well, but never got Krain(?) or Shredder.  Teddy Ruxbin and Grubby were definitely my favorite toys.  I actually bought two working Teddy and Grubby toys off of Ebay.  Damn I miss the 80s and childhood innocence.

If I still had Snake Mountain and Castle Grayskull plus a few figures, I'm telling you I would break them out right now and become a Master of the Universe.

I had a few assorted figures here and there from other series/movies, but HE-Man was where it was at for me.

He-Man was huge for me, too.  That and G.I. Joe's.  Zartan with his changing colors blew my mind at the time.

And then the girls had Jem and the Holograms...

Oh, hell yes I had Castle Grayskull!  I loved He-Man, and also GI Joe. 

Does anyone still remember The Crash Dummies?

They were the last toys I played with in the early nineties, and I loved them.


/lastroots

I still have Castle Greyskull stashed somewhere, but not Snake Mountain because my mom gave it away to one of my cousins (because I was 'too old' to play with them anymore, hah, like that'll happen). I'm still bitter about that.

The Finnish National Museum is actually looking for people who would donate them Masters of the Universe action figures (for the category "popular toys in the 80s"), but I don't want to just give them away... They're MINE, MINE I tell you!!!

Was Snake Mountain that huge fucking thing that had like the track that went around it, that some little vehicle went around on??  I remember I got this thing for Christmas when I was little and I still have the pictures, but this thing was HUGE!!!  It was probably 4 feet wide or something crazy. Which one had the little rubber hand puppet type monster that you could put on your hand and make it come out of a hole? I think the monster was green?? Was that Castle Greyskull??  I still have all of my He-man toys up in the attic.  How about Moss Man??  Now that was innovative for it's time!!!

EDIT:  By the way, my favorite GI Joe toys were Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, Serpentor (Dressed like a snake), Croc Master, Golobulus (red eye patch, bottom half of body was a serpent), Hydro Viper, ROAD PIG (Big fucking dude with white hair\flat top!!!), SUPER TROOPER!!, Destro (Gold Head), Backblast, ALLEY VIPER, Gnawgahyde (bad guy with the warthog)!!!!! 

GO TO THIS SITE FOR GI JOE TOYS BY YEAR TO BRING BACK SOME MEMORIES!!!!!!!  http://joes.propadeutic.com/1989.html

I went through 3 or 4 years and picked my favorites from when I was a kid because there is no way I would remember any of their names except probably Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow and Road Pig.  I think 1987-1989 had the coolest Joe's from when I still played with them.  Really anyone after 1989 that came out I hardly remember at all.

Holy SHIT!!!  I forgot they had The Fridge as a GI Joe as well!!!  WTF!!!???

I have a MOSC C-9 Moss Man  ;D And, damn, I'll never open it



/lastroots

WHAT THE HELL KIND OF MOSS MAN IS THAT!!!!??  I remember my Moss Man was like a fucking lint trap. He picked up every piece of fuzz or hair in the house. But he was one of my favs...

You better lock your doors because that Moss Man could disappear one of these days!!!  :)

Should I also mention that I got a bunch of MISB TRansformers from back in the day  :hihi:


/lastroots

I know I'm gonna be embarrassed, but what's a Moss Man?

A figure from the MOTU line.

/lastroots

Got it.  I remember now.  Man-E-Faces was one of my favorites...

G.I. Joe
Captain Planet (was that 80's?)
Ducktales
Ghostbusters (there was that cartoon as well!)
Original Nintendo! Duckhunt, Zelda, Mario Bros,

All pretty cool it it's own way!   :hihi:

Don't get me started on original Nintendo games:

Kung-Fu
Excite-a-bike
Demolition Crew
Duck Hunt
Kid Icarus
Contra
Master Blaster
Bionic Commando
Ghosts 'n Goblins

I could go on for hours...

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My top NES games from WAAAAAY back in the day are Contra, Super Contra, Ninja Gaiden 1, Ninja Turtles the Arcade Game, and Master Blaster.

My top Sega Genesis games were Golden Axe 1 & 2, SPLATTER HOUSE, Sonic, Streets of Rage 2 and NBA Jam.

My top NES games from WAAAAAY back in the day are Contra, Super Contra, Ninja Gaiden 1, Ninja Turtles the Arcade Game, and Master Blaster.

My top Sega Genesis games were Golden Axe 1 & 2, SPLATTER HOUSE, Sonic, Streets of Rage 2 and NBA Jam.





Go to freeroms.com you can still play all of them.

Could you explain to me how the dl works? I wanna play Wave Racer 64

Explain it to all of us, please.     :peace:

ok u download the game which is usually under 2mb. then search for a rom emulator thats for atari,  genesis, nintendo whatever. You load the game file inside the rom emulator, which is basically a program that plays the game. I used to play Pirates Gold on genesis alot. That game sells on ebay for $40 sometimes.

I still have all my old C.O.P.S. figures sitting somewhere in my dad's house.  The toys and the cartoon show were the shit.

Still got assloads of Lego over there too.

Got it...thanks for that.    :beer:

I remember those Rubiks Cubes , I used to take them apart and put them back together,with all the colors matching!

I also loved to play Activision's "MegaMania" for the Atari 2600,I remember trying to take a picture of the screen,when I finished the game,but the camera sucked too bad and it didn't come out!

I also had like 150 board games (Monopoly,Clue,Battleship,etc.)My friends and I ,once played Pay Day for 32 hours straight!

If you got a misb Soundwave that would collect ya a cool 3k on ebay

*everyone who owned one and opened it is now banging their head against the wall*

I owned a MISB MASK skybolt (the rarest of all MASK toys) - and opened it years ago - they got for ?250 now. D'oh!

I had all the MASK stuff and a fair few transformers - but Lego has always been no.1 with me

I remember :)

I still have most of them - my Rhino is looking a bit worse for wear but the rest are 'as new' - managed to lose Miles Mayhem from my Outlaw tanker which annoys me to this day (his was the Python mask i believe - whereas he had the Viper mask with Switchblade)

Fav M.A.S.K Mask Sly Rax's 'Stiletto' - i mean c'mon the name is just so daft! (By the way the mask fired darts in the cartoon for those wondering)

I want a MASK film! 80's rock soundtrack - MASK vs Venom, bring it on!

and for those wondering M.A.S.K = mobile armoured strike kommand - c'mon command with a k, thats all it took to hook me as a kid

Nah, thats a bit high and also depends on the condition of the box. Got with 1000 to 1500, that would be more accurate, but I've also seen one go for around 400 Euros. I'm selling a lot MISB TFs on eBay myself, so I have a good view over that.

/lastroots

Did Splatterhouse ever make it to the Genesis?  I know it was a TurboGrafx-16 game (and the one I am awaiting most to be released on the Wii Virtual Console.....Bonk is already out. :)  ) but didn't realize it was on the Genny too.

Man, I remember all the toys you guys are talking about.  Had (and still have, packed away somewhere) many of them.  And remember the "go-bots"?  The cheap transformer rip offs (CY-KILL!)?  Got all my go-bots and transformers packed in boxes....someday I'll break 'em out for my kids.  My he-man stuff, and my old star wars stuff (which will NOT get broken out for the kiddies), too.

Thanks for the trip back to my childhood, guys. :)

Bah, they hit $3k - i tracked one the other day that finished at that amount (hence the reference) It was an absolute beauty - it was held in some plastic prison too (maybe to protect from Magneto? ;))

Apparently a TF called 'Browning' - (turns into a pistol), is the rarest of all mainstream tf (excluding the repaints, exclusives etc), and he goes for a fortune, anyone own him?

I that case he was highly AFA graded, so then 3k is possible, yeah.

Browning came from the original Diaclone line, but was replaced by Megatron, so there were only very few produced, which makes him so rare.


/lastroots

That's it.  I'm officially heading back to my parents house to dig through all my toys and see what I still  have out there.  I can't believe you KNOW what M.A.S.K. stood for...I still have the comic books as well.

And here's another one...what about Crystar, the Crystal Warrior?  There was a comic book and action figures for that one as well.  Two princes battling for power, one turned to crystal, the other to magma/lava of some kind.

Can't forget one of my favorites...SuperPowers!  I swear I had every single one, except for Cyborg, which I never sent away for.  Firestorm, Darkseid, Hawkman...the list goes on. Now those things would fetch a high price on eBay these days (though perhaps not as much as a mint Soundwave...sigh).

I feel like I'm 10 again, and that's not entirely a bad thing.

It's a good thing, kid.

 :yes:

No I believe that was Eternia, the entire city. As far as I remember, there were three seperate buildings there, and though one of them was snake-like, it wasn't actually Snake Mountain. Snake Mountain was the purple piece of rock where Skeletor lived! It even had a microphone that altered your voice to sound like Skeletor's :D


I don't think so... Maybe you're talking about Hordak's place? I think it had some kind of cave.

Whereas my brother managed to destroy every toy he was ever given, i was always careful with my toys and so the ones that ebay hasn't claimed from me are all lurking about the place in pretty decent condition.

I resisted selling my MASK figures on ebay when i had a purge a few years back - not ready to completely let go of my childhood!


I can best that!

Venom stands for:

Vicious evil network of mayhem

I have no idea how i remember that when i cant even remember the one thing i go to the shops to buy....

I have some of the comics too - somewhere - they were always better than the cartoon if i remember. Saw a a few episodes of it a while back, so gloriously 80's.....

I tended to focus on just a few ranges of toys back then - so have loads of things like mask and transformers but everything else seems to have passed me by

...they just dont make 'em like they used to, a child of the 90's with all their computer game shenanigans will never know our joy :hihi:

indeed it was, how it had avoided the ravages of time i can only guess

Its always amazing when sealed items from over 20 years turn up on ebay with barely a mark on them, you'd have thought there would be nothing left in that condition..


there is also a gold (or is it silver?) version kicking about too, not sure if that would be more or less valuable. I think Browning is a far superior model to megatron, wasnt there a third 'gun' transformer....i cant remember

Well, later on there was Galvatron.

But I seem to remember a huge canon type gun that transformed, too.  Maybe part of the autobot base?  Can't remember....

I'm looking forward to Masterpiece Megatron. The first proto pics kick ass.
http://tformers.com/ig.php?mode=view&album=6907&pic=CIMG6596.JPG&dispsize=800&start=0


And I still have a lot MISB in nearly C-9,5+ condition. I pictured some earlier in the thread. I still have a nearly C-10 Silverbolt and a Springer. And I recently sold a C-9 Insecticon Kickback from 1984 on eBay. There are still lots of them out there.

The thiird gunformer was Shockwave.

/lastroots

Me too - i have Masterpiece Prime and the simply breathtaking Starscream - Starscream is just - wow, a little odd they changed the colour but the attention to detail and its absolutely perfect jet mode made it a must buy. In jet mode you'd never even know it was a transformer...


I was thinking more of a 'earth form gun', maybe i dreamt it...

Wasn't there a MoTU toy where you put your hand into a glove that served as the "legs" of a giant crab/lobster creature that the figures sat on?  You squeezed a trigger underneath the body and the claws would close?  Or am I confusing this with a toy from another line?

You got that right.  The hours I spent with all those toys...sheesh.  I'm gonna have to see if I can find a question that will stump you.  I'm in awe of your insane 80's toy knowledge, and I say that with the utmost respect, of course.       :hihi:

And let's not forget a true 80s staple, one that consumed many an afternoon, and the closest I've ever come to watching what could be considered a soap opera...Robotech!

Ah, Min-Mei.    :love:

Anything about He-man will stump me - even as a child an Aryan 'master of the universe' had me freaked :hihi:

How funny!  I never thought of it that way.  Skeletor is just a skeleton with a purple body though...what race is that?

Let alone one with a bad "Prince Valiant" bowl cut...

Don't pervert my memories of HE-MAN, Izzy.  :P

He-Man is white supremist propoganda :yes:

My eyes are now open.  How could I ever have missed it?  Another childhood memory ruined...sigh.    :beer:

well atleast the villian was changed from 'Jew Man' to Skeletor at the last minite...