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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’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.

Chestnuts roasted by allicat @ 03/25/2004 12:44 PM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by DaveJ @ 03/25/2004 12:46 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by GeorgeT @ 03/25/2004 1:31 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Todd Butcher @ 03/25/2004 1:33 PM

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).

Chestnuts roasted by Beerstalker @ 03/25/2004 1:39 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/25/2004 1:40 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 03/25/2004 1:43 PM

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)

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/25/2004 2:25 PM

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).

Chestnuts roasted by KennethCummings @ 03/25/2004 2:33 PM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by The_Blue_Meanie @ 03/25/2004 2:51 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeremiah @ 03/25/2004 2:52 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by AJ @ 03/25/2004 3:01 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Hypnotix @ 03/25/2004 3:09 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/25/2004 3:19 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Meatwad @ 03/25/2004 3:32 PM

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.

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

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…

Chestnuts roasted by DocDragon @ 03/25/2004 3:56 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by WiseGuy @ 03/25/2004 3:57 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 03/25/2004 4:20 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Seth Christenfeld @ 03/25/2004 4:28 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Lucky Cat @ 03/25/2004 4:32 PM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by Malibu Pete @ 03/25/2004 4:38 PM

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!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by J-Dog @ 03/25/2004 4:49 PM

Most recent? Nougat!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/25/2004 4:50 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by The ORIGINAL Paul @ 03/25/2004 5:15 PM

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