This is an entertaining site that's got alot of links to old toy commercials and stuff, alot of nostalgia. Sorry, no AT-AT. Only Star Wars vehicles I can remember having were some sort of imperial tie-fighter and an old-school landspeeder. I'm sure there were a few others, but the AT-AT wasn't one of them. Are you buying Star Wars toys for your kiddo?
yeah. the kid is nuts about star wars. whenever he sits down to watch a movie, he chooses one of the star wars movies. we got a gamecube in november, and he loves playing the star wars games, in particular. he has about 10 of the action figures...but no vehicles yet. that's changing this christmas...my parents are giving him X-Wing, Tie Fighter and Milennium Falcon...i think my wife's parents bought Slave I for him. randomly he'll ask, "dad, what's the 3rd movie gonna be like?" he'd watch the preview over and over again, if he could.
Strawberry Shortcake and all her little friends Miniature arcade games - Frogger and Donkey Kong My Little Pony Merlin - The Electronic Wizard Headache, Chutes and Ladders, etc. (when you're an only child, board games aren't always the best idea... you need another player and there's no guarantee you'll have one around) Those giant Barbie heads where you could style the hair and put it in curlers Shrinky Dinks Some sort of cool race track where you wound up the cars and made them do loops. Unfortunately they were on separate tracks and wouldn't crash into each other - unless you could get one of them to jump the track. Various other cars (I was weird for a girl) Bristle Blocks
Big Wheel Sit-n-spin (I always wanted a green machine, though) Stretch Armstrong metal Tonka trucks Hungry Hungry Hippos Linkin' Logs Oddyssey 2, Atari, Colecovision Hot Wheels -- droxford
These were called Roller Racers, I believe. They used to sell them on TV, in one of those "sorry, no C.O.D.s!" ads. I rode a couple in my day, and they were hellafun and deceptively quick. No idea how they actually worked. My He-Man figures and Transformers were my favorite toys as a kid. My favorite "Master of the Universe" was Fisto (man, that sounds awful) and my favorite Transformer was sunstreaker. I also had a collection of plastic swords and other weapons that I spent hours playing with. I had a toy wrestling ring and a bunch of figures, too. My faves were Hulk, Ultimate Warrior, Sting and... Arn Anderson. I liked his action figure's bald spot. I was a weird kid.
What about the big ass rubber ball with the handle that you sat on and bounced up and down? Wasn't it called "Hippity Hop" or something like that?
True Story. We were living in Mexico City on my 5th birthday, 1974. Our house shared a court yard with the neighbors who had a daughter my age named Geneva. My grand parents brought me a big wheel and a hippity hop from the states for my birthday and at my party I was riding the hipity hop and Geneva was riding the big wheel. I can picture her face like it happened yesterday... she was riding the big wheel right at me and rammed me head on. I bounced backward and cracked my head open on the brickdrive way in the courtyard. I had to get 8 stitches in a Mexican Doctors office on my birthday. Worse birthday ever but boy did I love my big wheel... I wasn't too high on the hippity hop after that though.
I know but it is the only pic I could find. It was just awesome. I could do crazy power slides with it.
I had a Knight Rider Big Wheel. Man, I loved that thing. My mom has told the story a million times about my dad assembling the thing on Christmas Eve and he put the right rear wheel on WITHOUT PUTTING THE BRAKE ON FIRST. As we all know, that brake is a large source of the big wheel's mystique... it allowed you to do STUNT TURNS. Well, those wheels are designed to, once you get 'em on, NEVER COME OFF AGAIN, EVER. Kenner or whoever couldn't go having kids wiping out into traffic or something if their big wheels fell apart! My dad tried all night to get that wheel off so he could install the brake. Finally, after giving up, he literally sobbed to my mother, "I've ruined Christmas!" Well, somehow he ended up getting the wheel off and putting that brake on and of course I never knew the difference. I wore that freakin' big wheel out, man, often while singing the synthed "Knight Rider" theme. The big wheel was modeled after KITT, of course. Awesome. I used the brake probably 6 times in 3 years or whatever. Oh well.
without a doubt the transformers. I loed those toys. I disliked the teenage mutant turtles because they were the reason transformers weren't poplar anymore after a while
got to go with transformers...when i got the original megetron gun it was the best thing ever....and those things were expensive for their time.
