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« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2008, 02:52:02 PM »

I had those fisher price toys too. Wow, when I saw that, a flood of memories came back. I'd completely forgotten about them!

Growing up in the late 70's into the 80's, I have a fondness of Japanese toys that seemed to try to get a foothold into the market. Nowadays with the internet, I'm able to say they were Go Rangers (Power Rangers here). Wow. I loved those old toys! There was also an assortment of weird robots, like Mazinger Z, and other ships that became one big robot. They reissued them recently but they were very pricey.
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« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2008, 06:52:43 PM »

I had a good assortment of Strawberry Shortcake dolls and Pound Puppies, I also had a Cabbage Patch doll from when I was really young. Later, as various presents, I got a Popple ("Potato Chip!"), a Fluppy Dog, and some small plastic Carebear, Wuzzle and Gummi Bear figures. Most of the other toys I had that I played with far more often were usually generic stuffed animals that I loved!

I remember a school trip to a Fire Station where the firemen were using a Teddy Ruxpin to explain to the kids about fire safety... I also remember it really creeping me out because I think that was one of the first times I'd ever seen that particular doll. Same with "My Buddy", "Kid Sister" and "The Huggabunch" dolls...

I had a LOT of stickers and coloring books, and would also get a lot of those read-a-long books that came with a tape. I also though that those books where you color with a "magic pen" (a pen filled with water), were *SO* neat and I had a few of those. I still have some sticker sheets from when I was younger, same with the coloring books, though I'm not sure exactly where they are currently.

No pictures though, you'll just have to imagine the awesomeness!!

As far as some of those robots go, I found a "Tin Heads/Space Toy Academy/Class of 62" poster a few years ago that features a bunch of toys, but, I guess all my collecting tends to stray to paper goods. Hmm... strange.
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« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2008, 07:16:30 PM »

I also though that those books where you color with a "magic pen" (a pen filled with water), were *SO* neat and I had a few of those.

I remember having a Flintstones color-by-water book in June of 1986 (when we moved to Florida and were living in our motor home temporarily, but I don't remember a pen. I used a small paintbrush dipped in water.

I still have some sticker sheets from when I was younger

Ooh, stickers. I still have the Real Ghostbusters stickers that came with one of my RBG books (the second, I think). They're stuck on the door of my old bedroom (which is right across from my current bedroom).

I got three RGB books (one per year, I believe) in elementary school during annual book sales where they'd bring in shelves of stuff in the school library.

The first was an adaptation of a cartoon episode (I forget which).

The second was a weird (slightly fictionalized) account of the making of the first (I wanna say second, but it was too early for that) movie, told from the second-person perspective, in which "you" are goofing off in the school library, and some "really familiar" guys walk in and offer you a special effects position on the film.

The third was a how-to manual. I remember quoting part of it to my dad (back then, I thought my parents naturally cared about this stuff as much as I did, never mind them being middle-aged Polish immigrants Tongue) upon coming home from school with it, and he freaked out with a blurted "What?!?!?!" when I read "nuclear accelerator".
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« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2008, 07:34:57 PM »

I still have Legos but don't play with them much.

The 80s were fun - the days when there was a Saturday morning cartoon for every popular toy (Pound Puppies, Teddy Ruxpin, etc.)
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« Reply #19 on: November 19, 2008, 02:27:47 PM »

I myself was heavy into the Rainbow Brite gang (and yes, they had their own cartoon series too.)
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« Reply #20 on: November 21, 2008, 10:59:08 PM »

Tux - the water-pen things were an odd pink color with a white nib and were only in a certain brand of the coloring books (that didn't usually feature any known characters, just miscellaneous stuff). I actually *STILL* have those Ghostbuster stickers, though I lost the book itself a looooooooong time ago.
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« Reply #21 on: November 22, 2008, 12:37:07 AM »

No fair! BRUNETTE used visual aids with her post! Mine would have been so much cooler if I had done the same.
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Those are indeed cool-looking for SIXTIES toys.XD
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« Reply #22 on: November 22, 2008, 02:00:36 AM »

Thanks Brunette,
Those were some of my favorites as a kid!
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