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Best action figures from your childhood?

  • justincredible
    I've been selling a lot of my old toys on ebay lately and dug out a lot of my old ninja turtles action figures from the late-80s, early-90s. My nephew is big into the turtles right now and the new action figures are pretty crappy compared to the old. I had sold a bunch of masters of the universe action figures a few years ago and they were pretty sweet as well.

    I know in Belly's youth the only toy was a hoop and a stick, but what about everyone else?
  • friendfromlowry
    Not necessarily action figures, but I had the full Jurassic Park set with dinosaurs and compound set.
  • SnotBubbles
    TMNT, GI Joe, Legos.

    That's pretty much my entire childhood in a nutshell.
  • Enforcer
    I had all the Masters of the Universe and the old WWF action figures
  • justincredible
    Enforcer;1565556 wrote:I had all the Masters of the Universe and the old WWF action figures
    I have some of the rubber WWF guys I am selling as well.
  • Heretic
    I used to have a lot of He-Man and Transformers. As well as Go-Bots (Transformers for poor kids) and a few pro wrestling action figures (I remember having the Freebirds).

    The wars between them were epic. When it came time to pack them away for disposal, a lot of them were missing arms, legs, heads or broken in some way.
  • vball10set
  • justincredible
    SnotBubbles;1565555 wrote:TMNT, GI Joe, Legos.

    That's pretty much my entire childhood in a nutshell.
    Substitute GI Joe with Masters of the Universe and I'm the same. I still put together lego sets from time to time. My wife and I built the Back to the Future DeLorean while watching BTTF on NYE.

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DQC2FPM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00DQC2FPM&linkCode=as2&tag=ohiochatter-20
  • gut
    justincredible;1565560 wrote:...My wife and I built the Back to the Future DeLorean while watching BTTF on NYE.
    You sound like a really fun, interesting couple
  • justincredible
    gut;1565568 wrote:You sound like a really fun, interesting couple
    That's weird. Seems like a boring night to me, but whatever.
  • Commander of Awesome
    GI Joes, Power Ranger Zords, and Xmen action figures for me.
  • Commander of Awesome
    justincredible;1565570 wrote:That's weird. Seems like a boring night to me, but whatever.
    gut had fun once, he didn't like it.
  • like_that
    Commander of Awesome;1565572 wrote:gut had fun once, he didn't like it.
    LOL'd
  • dlazz
    I was more into Hot Wheels and cars instead of action figures.
  • Tiernan
    I didnt even have a hoop, just the stick.

    ...but the hours of fun I had with that stick mmmm good times.
  • Belly35
    justincredible;1565552 wrote:I've been selling a lot of my old toys on ebay lately and dug out a lot of my old ninja turtles action figures from the late-80s, early-90s. My nephew is big into the turtles right now and the new action figures are pretty crappy compared to the old. I had sold a bunch of masters of the universe action figures a few years ago and they were pretty sweet as well.

    I know in Belly's youth the only toy was a hoop and a stick, but what about everyone else?
    as a kid toy cap guns, rifleman lunch box, football, army trucks, cannons and my favorite model cars.
  • vball10set


    /Belly'd
  • BRF
    Belly, Tiernan and myself didn't play with "action figures" (aka dolls).

    :-)
  • Fly4Fun
    Batman... easily my favorite superhero as a kid and best movie series as an adult.

    My grandma would make little capes for my batman guys.

    I remember my friends and I also had some little (not normal sized action figures, but smaller) monster guys that were semi-collectable. I forget what they were called though.
  • Mohican00


    Old school Optimus Prime

    His trailer even folded out into a petroleum refinery, or something
  • wes_mantooth
    The he man action figures that you could dent were the bomb!
  • vdubb96
    My brother and I had every star wars character/space ship etc you could think of. Lots of Matchbox cars as well.
  • GoChiefs
    He-man, GI Joe, Transformers, Bravestarr, MUSCLE guys, Voltron, Star Wars, WWF wrestlers, Stretch Armstrong...had everything Thundercats
  • ernest_t_bass
    Construx
  • Commander of Awesome
    GoChiefs;1565601 wrote:He-man, GI Joe, Transformers, Bravestarr, MUSCLE guys, Voltron, Star Wars, WWF wrestlers, Stretch Armstrong...had everything Thundercats
    I did a college speech/presentation on the Thundercats. #1 rated speech in my public speaking class by my peers. Prof wouldn't let me go to the finals with a speech about Thundercats though.