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03/25/2004: 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.

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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.

Ghosted by FuguDeth @ 03/25/2004 9:26 AM EST

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.

Ghosted by B-Dawg @ 03/25/2004 9:27 AM EST

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

Ghosted by Scourge @ 03/25/2004 9:31 AM EST

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

Ghosted by blizack @ 03/25/2004 9:32 AM EST

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!)

Ghosted by Kaynyne @ 03/25/2004 9:39 AM EST

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.

Ghosted by Sean @ 03/25/2004 9:39 AM EST

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. :^)

Ghosted by beSharp @ 03/25/2004 9:51 AM EST

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

Ghosted by DC @ 03/25/2004 10:23 AM EST

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.)

Ghosted by BaronVonHotPants @ 03/25/2004 10:24 AM EST

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!

Ghosted by Neilmiser @ 03/25/2004 10:26 AM EST

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…

Ghosted by oldschool @ 03/25/2004 10:27 AM EST

Chia pets.

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

Ghosted by Max @ 03/25/2004 10:41 AM EST

Chia Plot: Rock Tumbler on Monday.

Ghosted by Matt @ 03/25/2004 10:42 AM EST

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.

Ghosted by Stilewalker @ 03/25/2004 11:01 AM EST

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.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 03/25/2004 11:06 AM EST

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.

Ghosted by Mr.T @ 03/25/2004 11:16 AM EST

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.

Ghosted by Beege @ 03/25/2004 11:25 AM EST

Rock Tumbler? A set date like monday?

Matt, you know you spoil us.

Ghosted by Max @ 03/25/2004 11:28 AM EST

You people are missing the obvious:

SNES. Best_system_ever.

Ghosted by Booty Boot Crystal @ 03/25/2004 11:38 AM EST

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

Ghosted by -Jen- @ 03/25/2004 11:39 AM EST

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?

Ghosted by naturekid @ 03/25/2004 11:55 AM EST

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.

Ghosted by TheMatt @ 03/25/2004 12:28 PM EST

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.

Ghosted by Meatwad @ 03/25/2004 12:28 PM EST

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.

Ghosted by Brite @ 03/25/2004 12:39 PM EST

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.

Ghosted by Beerstalker @ 03/25/2004 12:40 PM EST

I’m going to have to go with My Little Pony or maybe Barbie. Or take the geek way out and say my books were like gateways to another world.

Ghosted by allicat @ 03/25/2004 12:44 PM EST

Dude the BEST by absolute wicked far (thank you Meatwad for remiding me with your ghostbuster reference) was the ghostbuster ‘protonpacks’? you know the laser gun backpack things they carried around to freeze ghosts with.. and my buddy had the trap thing that if you stomped on this like disk pedal thing it would open and we could ‘catch’ the ‘ghost’ that wasn’t really there.. oooh man I can’t believe how much time we spent chasing fictitious ghosts.. close second is space themed legos I had so many of those.. still might somehwere…

Ghosted by DaveJ @ 03/25/2004 12:46 PM EST

The best toy ever would have to be the Viewmaster that projected onto the wall. With sounds and pictures. The THRILLER tape was great!!

Ghosted by GeorgeT @ 03/25/2004 1:31 PM EST

I liked to play with dolls. Is that wrong???

Ghosted by Todd Butcher @ 03/25/2004 1:33 PM EST

Yes.

Matt I watched movie the other day that can only be described by the phrase it’s so bad it’s good.

It’s called The 13th Child: Story of the New Jersey Devil
Here’s a link. http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808503592&cf=info&intl=us

I guess it’s even based on a real legend, that you might have actually heard of since you’re around that area.

The saddest thing is someone must have actually thought it was going to be decent in order to get the actors they got (Uncle Ben from Spiderman, and Benson).

Ghosted by Beerstalker @ 03/25/2004 1:39 PM EST

Oh yes, I know the Jersey Devil. I think he lives near the hidden camp of midget albinos near Cranford.

Ghosted by Matt @ 03/25/2004 1:40 PM EST

My favorite toy is this stuffed unicorn that I still have, I took that thing everywhere for years. My family went to Hawaii and I brought it. My brother brought his huge foot-tall Raphael and there was this other kid at the hotel who was always looking at it and we were worried he’d steal it. So we locked Raph and Moongem (my unicorn) in the safe. That’s when we got to spend a whole day trying to open the safe ourselves before my parents called the desk for the combination.

Ghosted by Gabbylicious @ 03/25/2004 1:43 PM EST

I still have the teddy bear my granddad got me when I was 3 months old. Usually the first thing I secure when I move from place to place. When Little Brother was teething, he chewed the ears off, and he’s looked like a gingerbread man ever since. (the bear, not the brother)

Ghosted by kingklash @ 03/25/2004 2:25 PM EST

My favorite toy is the Gosalyn Mallard figure from Darkwing Duck. Other then that, I would say the Rancor from the Power of the Force 2 Star Wars line from 1995. He is dead on perfect, and with my slight alteration, he can eat a jawa easily (have a way to get them out through).

Ghosted by KennethCummings @ 03/25/2004 2:33 PM EST

Favorite toy….well… maybe the Yeti from the "G.I. Joe :Search for the yeti" set…. but actually I think I would go with the "Cobra Mountain Playset"…with plenty of Joe and Cobra figures of course (especially Cobra Commander and Destro)…Speaking of which. Is there going be be another Cobra Chia Pet comic? It said continued in 2 weeks…but so far, nothing, or is it over?

Ghosted by The_Blue_Meanie @ 03/25/2004 2:51 PM EST

My favorite toy of all time had to be my G.I.Joe Snow Cat vehicle. I would just pile all of my figures on their and roar into battle.

Ghosted by Jeremiah @ 03/25/2004 2:52 PM EST

My favorite toy as a kid, that’s a tough one as I liked to dismantle action figures and toys to see what I could make with them. However, I do believe it is a tossup between the ghostbusters’ proton pack and the ghostbusters’ other gun that shot the little foam cylinder thingies.

Ghosted by AJ @ 03/25/2004 3:01 PM EST

My fav toy had to be my very first Transformer, Shockwave. He was bad ass, but being a dumb kid, I played with him like he was a real toy gun and one of his arms broke and his sound and light effects no longer work. I still have all of my Transformers, including Shocky. I gotta find a good storage space for them all in my new house.

Ghosted by Hypnotix @ 03/25/2004 3:09 PM EST

You see the Decepticon Snow Cat, Jeremiah? I had to get that one just for the Joe/TransFormer vibe.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 03/25/2004 3:19 PM EST

Oh man I can’t believe I forgot about the proton packs those were awesome. I always wanted a ghost trap to go with it but I never got one.

Ghosted by Meatwad @ 03/25/2004 3:32 PM EST

Yea, I was always a fan of the original Star Wars line back when the movies first came out. The best figure was definately Darth Vader. He was boss.

Ghosted by G.I. Joe He-Man @ 03/25/2004 3:44 PM EST

That’s a real toughie. I’d have to say that my favorite toys were the Transformers. But my favorite out of ALL of them… THAT’S a tough one. I’d have to say it’s either the Powermaster Optimus Prime(First actual Tansformer I ever owned), or Monstructor and his component robots. Dang I wish those guys weren’t selling for about $400 now…

Ghosted by DocDragon @ 03/25/2004 3:56 PM EST

This is going to sound weird, but my favorite toy was this little bendable skinny Santa made by Ross. Ya’know, the guys that made those hideous Troll dolls? Anyway, it was one of those bendy toys that’s made of rubber and has wires insterted into the arms and legs, so you can bend it into all kinds of positions and it’ll stick that way. I called mine "Super Santa" and had plenty of adventures with that guy. I’d bury him in the mud, freeze him in ice, tie him up to my remote controlled car and crash it. He survived it all.

Ghosted by WiseGuy @ 03/25/2004 3:57 PM EST

That’s such a hard question I have to say my stuffed mouse who I named "Muffy" after the mouse character in Today’s Special. She had a bad accident in about 89 or 90 and she fell in my wading pool and got all moldy. *sniff* I filled the void now with my stuffed pikachu.

Ghosted by pikachulover @ 03/25/2004 4:20 PM EST

Oh, please, it’s like trying to choose a favorite child.

Of course, I have no children, and at the rate things are going, I doubt I ever will.

So, discounting video games, I think I might have to go with a weapontoy which I think was called the Eliminator. It was a sword that transformed into a gun and would light up and make noises. Released around 1992, I think. Mine is probably still in my basement, although likely not in working order.

Ghosted by Seth Christenfeld @ 03/25/2004 4:28 PM EST

The Sonic 3 toys that came with a Mc Donlad’s happy meal. I loved them more then all of my My Little Ponies combined.

I still have the Knuckles one on top of my TV.

Ghosted by Lucky Cat @ 03/25/2004 4:32 PM EST

I’m shocked and appalled that nobody yet seems to have mentioned one of the best toys ever, THE GHOSTBUSTERS FIRE STATION! This was the Holy Grail for any young collector of the RGB range, and who didn’t spend hours pouring the slime onto the top and waiting for it to seep all the way through? Why the Ghostbusters allowed themselves such a major security breach never became an issue, unlike the hours of cleaning up that was required afterwards…

Ghosted by Malibu Pete @ 03/25/2004 4:38 PM EST

He-Man was definitely my favorite. However, my mom bought maybe a total of 2-3 He-man figures because I lost one and the other two the legs fell off. That stupid rubber band crap attached to the legs couldn’t hold shit together. In fact, some of my other MOTU figures did the same thing. F U Mattel!!! F U!!!!

Ghosted by J-Dog @ 03/25/2004 4:49 PM EST

Most recent? Nougat!

Ghosted by kingklash @ 03/25/2004 4:50 PM EST

This one’s a bit unusual…

Everyone remebers Teddy Ruxpin, right? He was my toy of choice. Mine, though, was different…

My Teddy Ruxpin was just a plush bear. He didn’t talk or move, and he was much smaller than the real one (maybe 10" or so tall). He was just a stuffed bear…and I loved him.

<3 Teddy Ruxpin

Ghosted by The ORIGINAL Paul @ 03/25/2004 5:15 PM EST

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