Childhood Memories: The Toys of the Silver and Bronze Age 4 4

[TheWatcher]

Bulletman

 

[Dick Pontoon]

Wow. I don't remember ever seeing Bullet Man outside of those Hostess-styled comic ads. I did have the Invader though. I think he's still in a box downstairs.

 

[BriD.]

Big Jim's Dr. Steel

[BriD.]

[Artboy99]

7 hours ago, Pontoon said:

Building models was a great source of fun, especially dinosaurs and monsters

 

I had several of these!

[Artboy99]

12 hours ago, mosconi said:

Great childhood memories:

Megos!

I had lots of them, I bought most of them with newspaper delivery money. My Megos got butchered though, as I was a very creative kid and it was not uncommon for heads to be swapped, or replaced entirely with other things. I made my own Mysterio using a plastic bubble I got from a gum machine, and heat glued it in place. The head inside the bubble was melted up and then covered in cloth so you couldn't recognize it.

[TheWatcher]

Space: 1999 Eagle 1

 

[Artboy99]

1 minute ago, TheWatcher said:

Space: 1999 Eagle 1

 

wow, I had that too!

[Artboy99]

I was really into Micronauts when they came out. I loved their interchangeable nature. My favorite was Karza he just looked so nasty/ cool.

I was 10/11 years old when they came out.

 

Edited August 14, 2018 by Artboy99

[TheWatcher]

Just now, Artboy99 said:

I was really into Micronauts when they came out. I loved their interchangeable nature. My favorite was Karza he just looked so nasty/ cool.

 

I was a huge fan of the comic and the toys 

[Artboy99]

2 minutes ago, TheWatcher said:

I was a huge fan of the comic and the toys 

same.

Then the following year it became Star Wars toys. I collected lots of the early Star Wars figures, that they were relatively the same scale as the Micronauts for me they became a blended universe. It was common to find a Time Traveller riding a Land Speeder or for a Stormtrooper to be riding a Galactic Cruiser.

 

[Black_Adam]

One of the earliest toys I remember being really, really excited for (1973 - I was five) and playing with non-stop were my Lone Ranger action figures (and their horses!). But I soon graduated to GI Joe, Six Million Dollar Man and Mego Planet of the Apes figures and these three were left behind faster than you can say Sheriff Woody.

[BriD.]

1 hour ago, TheWatcher said:

I was a huge fan of the comic and the toys 

Micronauts were awesome! Microtron was a little odd though 

[jmg3637]

One of my favorite toys as a kid.  Had the space station and the space crawler and a couple of Matts  but I do not remember any of the other characters

[kav]

Anyone who had glow globs knows what I'm talking about-fun level 11:
(also the hercules ring.  My mom gave me some money to shop for christmas presents but I slipped that in for myself- 25c).  I really like glow in the dark stuff.  I remember when I first saw a glow in the dark object-age 5- I felt I was in the presence of the supernatural.

[comicdonna]

Great thread.  I had some cool toys in the 70's.  I'll try to find some pics tomorrow.

[Park]

10 hours ago, Jerkfro said:

This was one of my favorites

I would have killed to have that set. Drifting into the copper age but I had this instead.

[Robot Man]

52 minutes ago, kav said:

Anyone who had glow globs knows what I'm talking about-fun level 11:
(also the hercules ring.  My mom gave me some money to shop for christmas presents but I slipped that in for myself- 25c).  I really like glow in the dark stuff.  I remember when I first saw a glow in the dark object-age 5- I felt I was in the presence of the supernatural.

Nice, super rare ring!

[Robot Man]

[kav]

2 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

Nice, super rare ring!

it had a secret compartment which was too small to hold anything not even a bb would fit in it.  maybe the head of a pin.

Edited August 15, 2018 by kav