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Favorite Toy Pollllll.

I'm currently rewriting a pretty old feature on one of my favorite action figures of all time. There's a shocker, but let's get a poll out of it. What's your favorite toy, ever? Try to stick with what you've personally owned.

Posted by Matt on 03/25/2004. E-mail me!

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I can’t wait. I still miss the archive, although I am pretty sure I’ve read them all at least once.

Chestnuts roasted by FuguDeth @ 03/25/2004 9:26 AM

Hmm. There were LOTS of favorite toys. Petster, Barbies, Pound Puppies were probably my favorites….but my VERY favorite would probably be Legos, as I still love them to this day.

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 03/25/2004 9:27 AM

hmmmmmm C’mon transformers…or marvel legends toys…favorite transformer? RID Scourge

Chestnuts roasted by Scourge @ 03/25/2004 9:31 AM

My favorite, ever, was probably Cyclonus from Transformers. For some reason I could not put that sonofabitch down.

Chestnuts roasted by blizack @ 03/25/2004 9:32 AM

It has to be the transformers Soundwave and all his little tape cronies. That has to be one of the coolest toys ever made. The toy actually looked like a tape deck, his companions actually looked like small tapes, and the bazookas he used were kept in storage in his ass as batteries. How cool is that? The coolest in my assessment. These days, the Transformers Alternators aren’t too shabby either. I can’t wait for the new movie to come out (which comes out many, many moons from now… D’oh!)

Chestnuts roasted by Kaynyne @ 03/25/2004 9:39 AM

I would have to say my favourite toy of all time was my set of Battle Beasts. As dumb as they were (it’s not like they "did" anything) I just thought they were the greatest.

Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 03/25/2004 9:39 AM

For me it would have to be Soundwave or Shockwave…I’m having trouble deciding between the two. They were definitely my favorite Transformers though. They both were great in robot and transformed modes, and both had great voices on the ‘toon.

Soundwave was just super cool – for the reasons stated by Kaynyne. And I remember getting Shockwave for a birthday party, probably in ’86? A friend gave me him, and I freaked out so much that I probably made the other kids feel bad for giving me lamer presents. :^)

Chestnuts roasted by beSharp @ 03/25/2004 9:51 AM

Either unicron or any of the new TF Energon Omnicons. ‘specially divebomb

Chestnuts roasted by DC @ 03/25/2004 10:23 AM

Hands down, my original Soundwave figure. Nothing beat a tape recorder that turned into a giant robot with a cool voice and a bazooka.

Also, the most important Decepticon. (He was the only one capable of making energon. Seriously, nobody wanted to talk about it, but he was clearly the lynchpin of the organization.)

Chestnuts roasted by BaronVonHotPants @ 03/25/2004 10:24 AM

My Power Punch He-Man probably got the most use from me personally. Toys whose hips swivel are 100% better than regular toys, and he could make exploding cap noises as well! It’s win-win!

Chestnuts roasted by Neilmiser @ 03/25/2004 10:26 AM

Hmmm favorite toy I ever owned? I’d have to go with either my 3ft tall die cast Voltron that broke apart into all 5 lions. And if my alcohol ruined memory serves me right all the team Voltron figures fit inside the lions.
A very close 2nd would be my Star Wars Dagobah playset.
Man I wish my parents hadn’t given all my toys away in thier attempt to help me "grow up" and become a functioning member of society…

Chestnuts roasted by oldschool @ 03/25/2004 10:27 AM

Chia pets.

No wait, thats just what I really want now. An article on… With G.I Joe toys…

Chestnuts roasted by Max @ 03/25/2004 10:41 AM

Chia Plot: Rock Tumbler on Monday.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/25/2004 10:42 AM

I think my favortie toy as a kid was this cool radio controlled dune buggy a received one year for Christmas. It was built very well, so could go moderatly fast, and could take some off-roading. I am shocked it didn’t break with all of the tumbles it went through. To give you an idea how cool it was: If you watch the commercials for the radio controlled cars on TV, it shows them doing awsome tricks that aren’t quite so spectacular when you get the actual toy. Well, this car could do it. It even had a little Turbo click on the controller that would give it an extra boost. It also had two gear settings on the car: Off-road, and Street. Street was faster, and Off-road was more powerfull. I miss that toy to this day.

Chestnuts roasted by Stilewalker @ 03/25/2004 11:01 AM

Little Brother. He’s my dawg, my partner in crime, my back-up, my ace-in-the-hole, my secret weapon, someone to blame things on, repository of Alister Crowley lore and legend, persuer of BigFoot, and he never broke my Shogun Warriors Mazinga. Even though we’re two years apart, we have been mistaken for twins. Being able to finish each others’ sentences (good thing to know if one of us lands in jail) only adds to the confusion. Ask anyone with a younger sibling, when it comes to using someone for personal gain, a little guy who looks up to you is a very handy thing indeed. Either him or the aforementioned Great Mazinga.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/25/2004 11:06 AM

My most favourite toy I had was definately Scorpinok… managed to lose her (her?) helmet/visor thing within 5minutes though. Think she safely away in storage at my parents… may have to rescue her when next I visit them.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr.T @ 03/25/2004 11:16 AM

well, it’s a toss up. Transformers were in my dreams every day and night, and held a magical hold on my thoughts. But in versatility, nothing could beat the small G.I. Joe figures. You could tape them to arrows, bottlerockets, m50′s, etc…. and they had unlimited posing capabilites due to their wealth of joints and hinges.

Chestnuts roasted by Beege @ 03/25/2004 11:25 AM

Rock Tumbler? A set date like monday?

Matt, you know you spoil us.

Chestnuts roasted by Max @ 03/25/2004 11:28 AM

You people are missing the obvious:

SNES. Best_system_ever.

Chestnuts roasted by Booty Boot Crystal @ 03/25/2004 11:38 AM

favorite toy I owned?

Thats an easy one: Barbie, Barbie, Barbie

I had cheerleader Barbie, she had this cool little skirt and pompons and she could do the splits and her knees really bent (not fake joints like regular barbie)
Mom never bought me a Ken so i shaved the hair off a regular Barbie and made her my ‘guy’. She/he used to lift up cheerleader Barbie when they did gymnastic stunts…good times

Chestnuts roasted by -Jen- @ 03/25/2004 11:39 AM

my favorite toy of all time was the Texas Instruments home computer/video game system. A direct competitor of the atari and coleco vision and such relics, The T.I. had a keyboard, and a speech Syntethisizer! You could type a word and the T.I. would say it back in computer/robot like voice. I used to get up a 6am to start jamming on Parsec and mountain climber. It also had a tape drive. You could play games off of audio cassete looking tapes. this thing was pretty advanced for 1982. I still got it in a box somewhere. Did anyone else have this?

Chestnuts roasted by naturekid @ 03/25/2004 11:55 AM

My fave toys were probably MASK toys. Namely, the Rhino and Switchblade. The Switchblade because it was cool, but the Rhino had the best launcher I’d ever played with. Seriously, that thing had like a 1000-pound spring or something and could shoot that missile across a room.

The only other toy that came close was my old Killer Whale GI Joe hovercraft. The spring for the sled was way too strong on that as well, but the carpet usually took the danger from it.

Chestnuts roasted by TheMatt @ 03/25/2004 12:28 PM

My Favorite toy not counting any Videogames. Would definitely have to be my transforming Voltron figure. Second favorite My Ghostbusters Stay Puft Marshmallow
Man figure of course.

Chestnuts roasted by Meatwad @ 03/25/2004 12:28 PM

Hands down it had to be the first nintendo, I remember how bad I wanted it when it first came out and when I opened the box on Christmas morning how I forgot all my other gifts so I could plug it in.

Chestnuts roasted by Brite @ 03/25/2004 12:39 PM

My favorite would have ot be either Jetfire of Omega Supreme from the original Transformers line. They were both great. Jetfire was really sturdy, but I lost all his add on jet packs and stuff. Omega supreme was sweet because he turned into a tank that could roll around on it’s own.

Chestnuts roasted by Beerstalker @ 03/25/2004 12:40 PM

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