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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.

Posted by Matt. E-mail me!

Discussion Thread: 119 comments

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...3592&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

Either my Sonic the Hedgehog plushie, my Prison Sideshow Bob or my faithful DVD player.

Ghosted by AngeFaitore @ 03/25/2004 5:17 PM EST

Anyone remember My Pet Monster? I think that was it anyway…there was a TV show and a cartoon for it. The boy would become a monster when he put on these orange handcuffs or something…It’s been so long so I don’t remember it too well. I had the toy…it was a big plush monster with blue fur i think and the handcuffs. I remember playing with that old thing for hours each day as a young lad.

Ghosted by Randy @ 03/25/2004 5:26 PM EST

Re: Randy’s comment — Jeez, I better get the archives together.

Ghosted by Matt @ 03/25/2004 5:28 PM EST

Wow, Paul-
I was waiting for someone to bring up the ol’ TR.
I had a regular talking Teddy Ruxpin. He was my best friend. (And favorite toy, duh.) I carried him everywhere. I love Teddy Ruxpin, too.

Ghosted by Rainbowfeet @ 03/25/2004 5:30 PM EST

The Pepsi Truck Optimus Prime!
My cousin won it from collecting two halves of his picture in the cap liners and I inherited him shortly afterwards cuz he was "too old for toys!"
Hehehehehe, if only he could see us now!

Aside: I don’t have him anymore.. I bet he’s worth quite a bit too, pepsi logos on the sides et el.
Aparently he had red feet too but I don’t remember that.. *shrug*

Ghosted by Cyanyde @ 03/25/2004 5:44 PM EST

Another great toy were those goblin puppets, the "Boglins"

Ghosted by The_Blue_Meanie @ 03/25/2004 5:45 PM EST

overall Barbies would probably win out but the Easy Bake Oven was great. Little bite sized cakes and brownies….and you made then by yourself! yay!

Ghosted by Emily @ 03/25/2004 5:46 PM EST

The Ninja Turtles pizza shooter-thing was great, though technically it was my sister’s, and Mom took it away…

I once had an "outdoor survival set" that I was thrilled about, but the dogs destroyed it before I could do much with it. And it was a major let-down that I couldn’t really cook with the plastic pot.

Ghosted by Goz @ 03/25/2004 6:02 PM EST

Meanwhile, click on my name for some Wacky Package stuff I found.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 03/25/2004 6:15 PM EST

Does the NES count? ‘Cause if it does, that’d be it.

Ghosted by Evin @ 03/25/2004 6:18 PM EST

I’m really not sure I could say which was my favourite toy. I know I gave alot of the ones I owned equal billing most of the time.

My favourite action figure-type toy was an old He-Man cycle with one of those rip cords. I was the one with enough finesse to always get it to go right, plus the floor in my room was nice and uncarpeted. Though I’ll always have a special place on my shelf for Nugget and Rath from Mummies Alive!. Rath makes up for the fact that I never had any of the snake-type characters from He-Man or GI Joe. Plus he’s a mummy. Can’t go wrong with that combo.

I figured I should mention that, because otherwise I would have to say the SNES (we got Super Mario World, Final Fantasy IV, and Secret of Mana for starting games, good choices all). Still got it, and in perfect working condition too.

Ghosted by Tonnica @ 03/25/2004 6:36 PM EST

I’d have to go with Ace McCloud of the Centurions line. I still want a SkyKnight suit.

Ghosted by G @ 03/25/2004 6:39 PM EST

The NES. Once I got that, I ignored all action figures, and even criticized my friends for wasting all their money on action figures when it could’ve been better spent on NES games.

I also had all sorts of cool Nintendo memorabilia, such as the calendars, SMB shoes, SMB underwear, SMB sticker book, Zelda hat, and more.

Hell, I annoyed my friends with the fact that I was such a Nntendoholic. Everything I talked about typically had some relationship to Nintendo, and my friends often wanted to talk about other things. But my answer to every question was still "Nintendo."

Ghosted by Nate @ 03/25/2004 6:46 PM EST

My favorite childhood toy has to be Buzz - Saw Hordak. Why? Because he’s the toy represebtation of Hordak, and since I have never seen an episode of POP (She - Ra) cartoon, my knowledge about him was based on comics and minicomics, and there he was portrayed as a much greater villain than Skeletor. Since I was totally obsessed with everything He - Man related, Hordak was "best of the best of the best" :).

Nowadays, my favorite toy = my newes t toy, so, for today at least, my favorites are four Insecticons i got in the morning…

Ghosted by Papa_Taz @ 03/25/2004 6:56 PM EST

MERLIN! Oh man, that little electronic game kept me company on many a family road trip and the beeping drove my parents nuts…

Ghosted by Keri @ 03/25/2004 7:06 PM EST

Favorite toy? Simple, my WWF LJN wrestlers. Junkyard Dog specifically got the most use. Since I worshiped Hulk Hogan (still do to be honest), that figure was only brought into battle for special circumstances, because he was never allowed to lose. For me, it was always action figures or nothing as a kid, no fancy stuff.

Ghosted by Rob @ 03/25/2004 8:19 PM EST

On it being time to get the archives together: Damn straight! The My Pet Monster article(s) weren’t even that long ago, were they?

Picking one toy is way too hard, so I’ll just say my Ahh! Real Monsters Ickis stuffed plushie. I always regretted not getting the Krumm w/ detachable eye balls.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 03/25/2004 8:35 PM EST

It would have to be my Mr T A-team figure complete with a crap toolbox and the ability to move his arms up and down. Anyone who said I was a boy for owning him was just jealous. I wish I still had him, but when we moved a few years ago my mum chucked out my collection of crap.

Ghosted by chakaflange @ 03/25/2004 8:48 PM EST

Gosh, this is very hard. My toys are the closest things I’ll probably ever have to children at the rate I’m going, and I loved all my toys as a kid.

I guess I’ll say my very first typewriters. Yeah, I’m fond of my dolls and action figures (including the ones I have now), but the typewriters introduced me to the world of creative writing, my hobby, life’s work, and way of keeping my sanity. Even as a kid, whenever I had a problem, I would turn to my typewriter or diary and put it on paper. It always seemed to make things so much clearer.

I got my first typewriter when I was about four or five. It was blue and white with orange keys and orange trim. It was a play typewriter and didn’t really type. Three years later, my mom got me a cheap but working plastic one for Christmas. There’s a picture of me in the one of my mom’s old bar shirts I used for pajamas, clacking away at the typewriter surrounded by unopened presents that no longer interested me. This was all I needed in the world. I’m still happiest when I’m writing, but the typewriter has now become a computer.

Other toys I loved during my youth include several Barbies (Sweet Roses PJ, Happy Birthday Barbie), Battle-Armor Skeletor, Lion-O from "Thundercats," Lady Curly Crown and Duchess Raven Waves from the now-little known "Lady Lovely Locks," Pizzaz from "Jem," and Mary, the rag doll Mom made me when I was little.

Ghosted by starwenn @ 03/25/2004 9:02 PM EST

My custom panited Optimus Prime.

He was orange.

Or rather, he IS orange. [I still have him in prime condition.]

Ghosted by Lincoln @ 03/25/2004 9:35 PM EST

I’ve had lots of toys. Hell I’m practically a grown man and I still buy toys. Most of the best toys, most the toys in general, I’ve every had were action figures.

But what wins over everything else are the LEGOs. Hours and hours of unstoppable trance like fun. I love LEGOs. And always will.

Ghosted by Don't Touch, Willy. @ 03/25/2004 9:36 PM EST

If I was counting Videogames as toys The NES would totally be the best toy ever followed closely by the SNES. Nintendoes what Sega Don’t.

Ghosted by Meatwad @ 03/25/2004 11:58 PM EST

definatly has to be my old computron transformer. with my ghost buster toys commin’ in all tied for second. i owned EVERY ghost buster toy and accesory so its hard to chose.

Ghosted by troy smoe @ 03/26/2004 2:05 AM EST

Without a doubt, the mighty AT-AT. The Christmas I got it was an agony of waiting, wondering if my mom would buy it for me or not. When Christmas day arrived and I saw no GREAT BIG BOX under the tree I was really upset, and my mom let me go through the entire ceremony of everyone opening all their gifts before she stumbled upon one last gift in the back room that Santa must have forgotten to put under the tree.

Course by this time I’d seen through the whole Santa smokescreen and knew it was really her who’d gotten it for me. My mom rules.

Ghosted by Hellpop! @ 03/26/2004 2:50 AM EST

Hard to say, but one thing I really liked when I was 6 was the ancient Hot Wheels "Sto & Go" parking garage, which was the thing they had around 1980 which folded up into a case-like thing, and, unfolded, it was three "storeys" (Hot Wheels scale, duh) and there was one long road that curved from the top storey to the bottom. I especially liked it because the gas station in the set was a Shell station, and I’ve always had this thing for the Shell logo, ever since I was about 1 or 2 (I shit you not).

Either that, or one of those modular Hot Wheels city sets Mattel came out with around 1981, where there’d be a piece of plastic with a road and an intersection and two or three buildings, and you could configure them anyway you liked. That also had a Shell station.

My brother preferred Playmobil, which was branded with the Esso logo…

Ghosted by Steve Brandon @ 03/26/2004 4:35 AM EST

Well, my Holy Grail certainly was Castle Greyskull. Always wanted it, never had it. Grew up, Mattel came to their senses and relaunched He-Man, I got a job so I could buy Greyskull, finally have it.
But the one cool toy, I DID have was the ThunderTank. That was such a cool toy! I loved it to death! Then my parents gave it away…

Ghosted by Roddy @ 03/26/2004 8:23 AM EST

I have had SO many toys over the years. I’ve always been partial to action figures. The lines I collected and played with most heavily were Transformers and Go-Bots, G.I.Joe, and X-Men. Of those lines, I would say my favorite figures were Bumblebee (he was my very first REAL transformer), General Hawk (the one that looked like a futuristic warrior with a jetpack, from 1991), and Wolverine 2nd Edition (the one in his classic yellow and blue duds). Those were ALWAYS core characters in ALL the adventures I had.

Ghosted by Darth Monkey @ 03/26/2004 9:15 AM EST

Unicron has become my favorite toy now. He works so well in my transformers display, (I got him in ann awesome pose calling out Powermaster Optimus Prime and Rodimus Prime, while holding a tiny translucent purple megatron in his hand, as if he is about to reformat him. Plus on cold rainy nights when the wind is a-blowing and the lightning is a-crashing, I can take him down and hug him like a big uncomfortable hard plastic teddy bear. Plus he’s the only toy that I let kick Voltron’s ass. On a side note, I finally fixed my Voltron permanently by making a contraption much like a the halos they use for people who break thier necks, only made out of a paper clip, so his head is now study in both robot and Lion mode. Hmm, now that voltron can split up into individual parts perhapse he can conquer Unicron. I still need to get that Galactus toy from the toyfair so he can fight Unicron for the title of Greatest Planet Eating God like Being. These are interesting times for toys. By the way, before Unicron I would have said Megatron was my favorite toy. I have a thing for über evil Transformers toys. If I’d ever owned galavtron he would have been there too….

Ghosted by Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 03/26/2004 10:58 AM EST

it’s got to be madballs for me, i fell in love with their mangled features the instant i saw them leering out of the packet. they’ve held a strange power over me ever since ,(might be why i still sleep with the light on, but its a small price to pay).

Ghosted by furtivepictures @ 03/26/2004 11:40 AM EST

Yes, after Nintendo came out there wasn’t much else on my mind.

Ghosted by Goonie4Life @ 03/26/2004 12:02 PM EST

I own a NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, VB, 7800, Genesis, Nomad (The portable Sega, not the space probe from Star Trek), the Atari, Activison, and Namco TV Games from Jakks Pacific, and a dance pad tv game with Tetris and Pinball as well as the dancing game. I had the original Merlin (Where’s Merlin, where did it go?) and I have the more recent Tenth Quest Merlin. Yeah, I love video games as much as I love robots. Hail to the King, baby! (scuffling sound as Ash comes in and kicks KingKlash’s ass)………ow.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 03/26/2004 12:23 PM EST

naturekid- I also had a texas instruments computer. It rocked.

My favorite toy? I’d have to go with the NES, only because I spent more playing playing with it then doing anything else as a kid, including eating and sleeping.

My favorite toy that wasn’t video game-related would have to be my RC off-road vehicle from Radio Shack (I forget exactly what it was called). It made for countless hours of fun, especially in the snow.

Ghosted by El Bandito @ 03/26/2004 12:47 PM EST

Without a doubt, the NES.

Ghosted by JG! @ 03/26/2004 1:48 PM EST

the happy apple. yeah, it was a baby toy as opposed to being a childhood toy, but now that i’ve grown up to be a stoner, it’s still fun

Ghosted by pie @ 03/26/2004 2:23 PM EST

The best of the best for me was the Karate Kid Attack Alley. You could have some cool-ass action figure streetfights kicking them though all those breakable doors, and the trap door ruled.

The TMNT’s original party wagon was great too, with that swinging open door trap and the "Foot stinks!" bombs that flew out when it opened. It’s little touches like that that just get to you…

I also loved the big, dorky Chuck Norris Karate Corvette. The hidden pop out blades were great, and everything actually worked exactly like it did on the commercials. How many toys can say that?

Ghosted by Casey Jones @ 03/26/2004 2:57 PM EST

Oh my GOD, this is a hard one. It’s a tie for me between Skywarp (My First Transformer -tm-) and.. the DIE CAST METAL version of Scott Bernard’s green Alpha (transformable, SO beautiful) from Robotech. Oh I loved that toy SO death. I wish I still had it…

Ghosted by fnu @ 03/26/2004 4:57 PM EST

Holey Moley! An Alpha? And it was Die Cast? (it’s a lost art) I salute you, Fnu!

Ghosted by kingklash @ 03/26/2004 5:24 PM EST

Roddy I loved the ThunderTank, its definatly my favorite toy. I would still have it but it was on my stairs and i feel over it and cut my head open on a radiator which also broke the side "Claw" bits of the ThunderTank.

Ghosted by Gorm @ 03/26/2004 6:01 PM EST

Fav toy of all time was the transformer tripple-changer Blitzwing…For most my child hood i didnt know the name of this transformer….but damn he was the coolest he transformed into two different vechiles!!! how more awesome could you get….untill one time when my room wasnt cleaned and my mom kepted yelling at me and then she went threw bagged all my toys up including my tripple-changer….boy was this a sad day……didnt see him agian for a few years in fact….but the great memories i had

Ghosted by LordSorrow @ 03/26/2004 10:50 PM EST

My Pet Monster. I just loved those handcuffs. Ew! Not in a kinky way. I didn’t think like that then… I just enjoyed feeling like The Strongest Girl in the Whole World. Yay!

Ghosted by Laurie @ 03/27/2004 1:11 AM EST

To answer my own question…

I can’t.

But if I had to narrow it down to five:

1) Inhumanoids Tendril
2) Modulok, duh.
3) Rodimus Prime
4) The Ewok Village
5) Battle Android Trooper from G.I. Joe.

The ALF doll would rate really high, too.

I’d probably change every entry on that list if asked again in ten minutes.

Ghosted by Matt @ 03/27/2004 6:41 PM EST

naturekid–i had the texas instruments sytem you are talking about too. Did you have "hunt the wumpus" and "munchman"?

Ghosted by phred @ 03/27/2004 7:24 PM EST

Four:He-man,Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Army Ants,and Food Fighters.He-man is my favorite ( :

Ghosted by MightyStalfos @ 03/27/2004 10:07 PM EST

Hordak is my favorite of all. ( :

Ghosted by Mighty Stalfos @ 03/27/2004 10:09 PM EST

Vintage Star Wars.

Ghosted by Killerhelix @ 03/27/2004 10:53 PM EST

That Galvatron figure that came out after the TF movie was like owning a Bentley. Everyone wanted it, nobody had one.

Ghosted by Niq @ 03/27/2004 11:31 PM EST

A white, motorized Fisher Price space tank with removable cockpit for flight and a multi-function trailer including a large orange frog-alien in the secret compartment. Compatable with 3 1/4" figs and was MOTORIZED. Drove. You could steer. OOOOOH!

Close runner-ups? The land of the hyphenated names, aparrantly…
- Snake-Eyes (version II, 1985).
- Trap-Jaw.
- Cobra Terror-Drome.

-nate

Ghosted by dogmatica @ 03/28/2004 4:42 AM EST

My favorite toy ever would have to be Barbies and My Little Pony.In fact I’m in the process of collecting all the ponies from my childhood from the 80’s that I didn’t have and the the new G3 ponies are great unlike the G2 ones.

Ghosted by Liz @ 03/28/2004 7:29 PM EST

care bears plushies! and my twin sister had a rollerbalding doll. that was rad!

Ghosted by Rachel Cakes @ 03/29/2004 2:48 AM EST

Currently, I dig my WWE Classic Superstars Bret Hart action figure more than any of my other ones. I’ll certainly be getting more from that set starting with Ultimate Warrior, and maybe Andre the Giant. Not to mention the new series 2 set including Dude Love, Mankind, Sgt. Slaughter, Big John Studd and George "The Animal" Steele complete with real furry chest. God, when did I turn into such a geek?

As for of all time? No question, my old GI Joe HQ playset. That thing fucking rocked. I just wish I had more figures for it at the time. It had a jail with a breakaway wall, a searchlight, alarms, and more missiles then the Philipino Armed Forces. Plus, you blow out the tower causing to crash down with the American Flag in tow. Of course, I’m Canadian, so it actually came with a Canadian flag as did all GI Joe merchandise in Canada. As fucking if! I love my country, but there’s no way our millitary is GI Joe level.

I’d ask for a review of "Mac & Me" at this point, but that’s become a bit old, wouldn’t you say? >8^D

Ghosted by A-wel Cruiz @ 03/29/2004 12:08 PM EST

I still have that fisher price space crawler with the orange frog alien. It does rule.

Ghosted by Casey Jones @ 03/29/2004 1:46 PM EST

I would love a review of Mac & Me also!I own Mac & Me,that movie is great!

Ghosted by Liz @ 03/29/2004 5:21 PM EST

a real toughie, but that honor would have to go to Barnyard Commandos series 1. Don’t know why, but around 1989/90, toy companies decided to come up with bizarre war toys such as food fighters and Army Ants(which I also collected). But I’d have to side with the pork and rams, who not only had a animated miniseries, but was able to last for a second series. Just loved the Pork-a-pult.

A close second would be the Toxic Crusaders Toxie Action Figure(Is it just me, or did PLaymates own the early ninties). Being a huge fan of the show, this guy was well equiped, including his trusty mop, which I could never get the action feature to work. It broke within a few months, but nothing calls to you from a kaybee shelf like a toxie hidden among the ninja turtles and wwf head squirters.

Ghosted by cheaptrick @ 03/29/2004 5:25 PM EST

whoops! my bad!

Ghosted by cheptrick @ 03/29/2004 5:27 PM EST

Probably Marvel Minimates, Marvel Legends, or that gi-normous Spider-Man with 67 points of articulation.

Ghosted by Nick @ 03/29/2004 7:16 PM EST

Uh what action feature on the Toxie figure? I have one still on card, and one that isn’t, and he’s just a regular figure, a la TMNT…

BTW, they’re making noise about Toxic Avenger action figures again…some Japanese company this time.

Ghosted by Casey Jones @ 03/30/2004 12:30 PM EST

Any of the original Super Powers line of action figures…Batman & Green Lantern were the best. And of course, Hawkman!

Ghosted by Robert S @ 03/30/2004 1:11 PM EST

call me crazy, But I could’ve sworn on the toxic crusaders toy commercial, the toxie figure had slime come out of his mop on one of the villians. It’s the only reasonable explaination for why there were holes in the mop. Either that or toxie made a ceramic mop and didn’t want it to blow up in the kiln.

Ghosted by cheaptrick @ 03/30/2004 11:21 PM EST

one word … three initials …
B.A.T. they didn’t mean shit in the cartoons, but they meant the world to me. i only had one, but i wanted a whole damn army of them. COBRAAAAAAA!!!

Ghosted by snakesheep @ 04/01/2004 3:59 AM EST

My favorite was my MOTU Frosta figure. I lost her when i was four. I was playing in the front yard and a neighborhood dog stole her right out of my tiny little hands. Damn dog.

Ghosted by Ru @ 04/01/2004 1:07 PM EST

Well, Playmates did make the toxie figure, and they were pretty much dropping actions after figures were made a lot. I know there were some TMNT guys that didn’t do what they were supposed to, and there’s the whole Levar Burton Star Trek figure visor thing on his first figure.

Ghosted by Casey Jones @ 04/01/2004 3:53 PM EST

Favorite toy? as a child… that would most definitely have been battle damage skeletor… then later modulok… I could never remember his name, but I had like 6 of them, and built many things… too bad the little nubs were smaller than the ones for the other he-man figures… I would love to strap trapjaw’s arms to that sumbitch.

Ghosted by gesis @ 04/01/2004 7:16 PM EST

There is one toy to rule them all, and that would be……………….SNAKE MOUNTAIN!

Ghosted by Kasey @ 04/02/2004 11:26 AM EST

Totaly all-time favorite is the Inhumanoids figures. It was just the craziest thing back then !!! Almost like a horror movie put into cartoons and the action figures were the biggest I’ve ever seen, check out the archive when it’s back on line and you’ll see…

Ghosted by Jeff @ 04/04/2004 11:14 AM EDT

It would probably be my stuffed Fraggle Boober. He was the best! I also really liked my Moon Dreamers PLay house thing. I don’t think the Moon Dreamers ever really caught on…hmmm

Ghosted by Jenner @ 04/05/2004 12:55 PM EDT

This is probably a little late, but better late than later…

I have to say my favorite past time was unscrewing the old GI Joes and making new figures out of old ones. Nothing says cool like Destro with the red cobra outfit and one webbed green hand. Surprisingly, morphing storm shadow and snake eyes doesn’t beget the super-sweet ninja you would expect…who knew?

*Matt, Rodimus prime was probably my most hated toy (I mean…he killed Optimus, dammit). However, since it was the only one I had for a summer, I have to say he’s been branded into my memory. DAMN YOU AND YOUR ELBOW-LESS ARMS, RODIMUS!

Ghosted by Landolakes @ 04/09/2004 10:04 PM EDT

I think BATTLE BEASTS (fire, water, earth, air) and M.U.S.C.L.E. (those little pink things in a thousand different shapes)… hey and what about M.A.S.K…. those cool vehicles like the motorcycle that morphed into an ATTACK HELICOPTOR! YEAH!
Hey man do an article one one of these!

Ghosted by Lebensaar @ 05/25/2004 3:39 PM EDT

Blythe Doll! Woot!

Ghosted by Camila @ 06/22/2004 11:05 PM EDT

I saved my favorite toy of all time..it was the original red power ranger, Jason. I used to parachute him off of my roof, bury him in dirt, throw him into stuff, and he was also my friends barbies date :p His legs ended up breaking off and splitting, so i used to make a ‘cast’ for him out of wet toilet paper. It would actually harden too. Needless to say, hes in rough shape, but he’s put away in a safe place now, lol!

Ghosted by Sarah @ 09/08/2004 1:08 PM EDT

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