Your Favorite 80's Toy!!

[ObsidianRose]

Okay children of the 80's....let's hear it! What was your favorite toy as a child growing up in teh 80'?Dig deep and remeber!


Here's what I can remember right now:

Lite-Brite
Fashion Plates
Hungry Hungry Hippos!!! (drove my mother NUTS it was so loud. One day...it just disappeared. Go figure)
Atari (still have my original Atari....I can kick ass at Asteroids!)

 

[Sunnygrl]

Rubik's cube!

 

[ObsidianRose]

Rubik's cube!

Oh God...how could I forget about that? I also had that damn Snake thing that was absolutely pointless...but it kept me entertained for HOURS!! Such is the life of an only child.

Good one Sunnygrl.

 

[ringle]

What was your favorite toy as a child growing up in teh 80'?

Farrah Facett!

 

[Sunnygrl]

Can't forget the cabbage patch kids...and I had the A Team board game

 

[keiffers]

Transformers and Decepticons....!!!

 

[alisonwunderlnd]

Lite Fuckin Brite!WOO HOOOO!!!


I still have mine

 

[ObsidianRose]

Lite Fuckin Brite!WOO HOOOO!!!


I still have mine

Shut UP!!!! Do you really??? I'm sooo jealous!!

 

[ObsidianRose]

Super Simon!

 

[asian_princess]

My Little Pony!!

Care Bears!!

Kerplunk!

and my collection of HOT WHEELS!!!!!


*sniff sniff*

i miss playtime...though i still play wiv toys

 

[keiffers]

Lite Fuckin Brite!WOO HOOOO!!!


I still have mine

makin dirty figures I'm sure lol

 

[asian_princess]

Okay children of the 80's....let's hear it! What was your favorite toy as a child growing up in teh 80'?Dig deep and remeber!


Here's what I can remember right now:

Lite-Brite
Fashion Plates
Hungry Hungry Hippos!!! (drove my mother NUTS it was so loud. One day...it just disappeared. Go figure)
Atari (still have my original Atari....I can kick ass at Asteroids!)

YES!!!!!!! fashion plates!! I gave mine to my little cousin the other day and she was like..."i can do the same with Photoshop!" blech!

 

[alisonwunderlnd]

YES!!!!!!! fashion plates!! I gave mine to my little cousin the other day and she was like..."i can do the same with Photoshop!" blech!

I was TOP BITCH with fashion plates

 

[asian_princess]

I was TOP BITCH with fashion plates

teehee you still are my top bitch baby...wonder why they didn't have plates with nude women. it could be like a adult version

 

[ObsidianRose]

My Little Pony!!

Care Bears!!

Kerplunk!

and my collection of HOT WHEELS!!!!!


*sniff sniff*

i miss playtime...though i still play wiv toys

Me too, AP. So glad I'm not alone in this!

I loved my Hot Wheels. My mom used to whip my ass with those floppy-ass orange tracks. Those fuckers hurt!!!!

 

[alisonwunderlnd]

teehee you still are my top bitch baby...wonder why they didn't have plates with nude women. it could be like a adult version

i would draw boots onto mine and underwear
I think I scared my parents because i did not colour in pink frilly dresses

 

[keiffers]

Me too, AP. So glad I'm not alone in this!

I loved my Hot Wheels. My mom used to whip my ass with those floppy-ass orange tracks. Those fuckers hurt!!!!

you know some mom was on the development team for that one! 'I bet if we make plastic tracks for these cars to race on, they'll have dual meaning' LOL

 

[ObsidianRose]

YES!!!!!!! fashion plates!! I gave mine to my little cousin the other day and she was like..."i can do the same with Photoshop!" blech!

Kids today just don't understand the joys of doing things "manually". Lazy bastards. LOL

 

[ObsidianRose]

you know some mom was on the development team for that one! 'I bet if we make plastic tracks for these cars to race on, they'll have dual meaning' LOL

Was she really? Your mother rocks!!! You can tell her I said so.

ETA: and be sure to thank her for the many ass-whippings I received.

 

[keiffers]

Was she really? Your mother rocks!!! You can tell her I said so.

LOL not my mom, but i bet it was the one that lived up the street....man that woman could be nice, but she had a bitch streak in her when I was a kid LOL of course once I turned 18 she said 'what a nice young man you've turned into' LOL what she doesn't know!

 

[keiffers]

Kids today just don't understand the joys of doing things "manually". Lazy bastards. LOL

I'll need to go dig up the email about kids these days compared to when we grew up in the 80s....lol

here ya go

>
> When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with
> their tedious diatribes about how hard things were
> when they were growing up; what with walking
> twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill
> BOTH ways .. yadda, yadda, yadda
>
>
> And I remember promising myself
> that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going
> to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how
> hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
>
> But now that...
>
> I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around
> and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy!
> I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
> And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know
> how good you've got it!
>
> I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet.
> If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the
> damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card
> catalog!!
>
> There was no email! ! We had to actually write somebody
> a letter ... with a pen! Then you had to walk all the
> way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it
> would take like a week to get there!
>
> There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had
> to hitchhike to the damn record store
> and shoplift it yourself!
>
>
> Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the
> DJ'd usually
> talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
>
> And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You
> had to steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to
> buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options!
>
> We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the
> phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
>
> And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When
> the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could
> be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your
> drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't
> know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
>
> We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games
> with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the
> Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and
> "asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy was
> a little square! You actually had to use your
> imagination! And there were no multiple
> levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!
> And you could never win. The game just kept getting
> harder and harder and faster and faster until you
> died! . Just like LIFE!
>
> When you went to the movie theater there no such thing
> as stadium seating! All the seats were the same
> height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat
> sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were
> just screwed!
>
> Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was
> only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu
> and no remote control! You had to use a little book
> called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
>
> You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You
> had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to
> change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network
> either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
> Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to
> wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little
> rat-bastards!
>
> And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
> something up . we had to use the stove or go build a
> frigging fire ...
> imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use
> that stupid JiffyPop thing and shake it over the stove
> forever like an idiot.
>
> That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids
> today have got it too easy. You're spoiled.
>
> You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in
> 1980!
>
>
> Regards,
> The over 30 Crowd

 

[ObsidianRose]

I was TOP BITCH with fashion plates

Somehow, I'm betting that you're still a Top. The sexy ones usually are.

 

[ObsidianRose]

I'll need to go dig up the email about kids these days compared to when we grew up in the 80s....lol

here ya go

>
> When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with
> their tedious diatribes about how hard things were
> when they were growing up; what with walking
> twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill
> BOTH ways .. yadda, yadda, yadda
>
>
> And I remember promising myself
> that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going
> to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how
> hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
>
> But now that...
>
> I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around
> and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy!
> I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
> And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know
> how good you've got it!
>
> I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet.
> If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the
> damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card
> catalog!!
>
> There was no email! ! We had to actually write somebody
> a letter ... with a pen! Then you had to walk all the
> way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it
> would take like a week to get there!
>
> There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had
> to hitchhike to the damn record store
> and shoplift it yourself!
>
>
> Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the
> DJ'd usually
> talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
>
> And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You
> had to steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to
> buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options!
>
> We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the
> phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
>
> And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When
> the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could
> be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your
> drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't
> know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
>
> We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games
> with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the
> Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and
> "asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy was
> a little square! You actually had to use your
> imagination! And there were no multiple
> levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!
> And you could never win. The game just kept getting
> harder and harder and faster and faster until you
> died! . Just like LIFE!
>
> When you went to the movie theater there no such thing
> as stadium seating! All the seats were the same
> height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat
> sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were
> just screwed!
>
> Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was
> only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu
> and no remote control! You had to use a little book
> called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
>
> You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You
> had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to
> change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network
> either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
> Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to
> wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little
> rat-bastards!
>
> And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
> something up . we had to use the stove or go build a
> frigging fire ...
> imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use
> that stupid JiffyPop thing and shake it over the stove
> forever like an idiot.
>
> That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids
> today have got it too easy. You're spoiled.
>
> You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in
> 1980!
>
>
> Regards,
> The over 30 Crowd

HA!!! That is sooo true!! I can't believe I sound like my parents now!

 

[alisonwunderlnd]

Somehow, I'm betting that you're still a Top. The sexy ones usually are.

DAMN right Im a top~!

 

[keiffers]

HA!!! That is sooo true!! I can't believe I sound like my parents now!

I don't even have kids and I sound like my parents LOL thinkin 'damn that music is loud' or going to bed by 10 geesh lol