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I had gen 1 bionicles, 90s transformers toys that actually mother fukin transformed PROPERLY was the absolute GOAT and when I'd transform them I'd go eee e oo ee a ooo ee. And a manta force spaceship.
The spaceship was on another level. It had MINI SHIPS AND VEHICLES INSIDE. And little people to sit in the seats and man the systems. And it was so rugged you could pass it down generations.
Oh shit i had a thundercats spark gun It made sparks. Probably a fire hazard
Oh man I had a Spark Gun! Not a Thundercats one tho, just a generic blue thing
Did you ever have this? Little firecracker balls you would throw on the floor and they'd go pop. The spark gun was so much fun but i swear it got warm as i used it, some of the sparks would come out of the hole above the trigger
Nah I was scared of sudden loud sounds as a kid, I would have hated those 
Those things were the shit! My parents would get us a bunch every 4th of July and my brother and I would throw em at each other
Me and my younger brother were HUGE Bionicle heads, I think my favorites were the ~~removed~~ Bug Dudes that folded up into a ball.
The Golden mask movie was dope as hell too and I remember being super jealous when my brother got that kit for christmas one year.
My brother and I also had something like that Manta Force ship, but it was a big millennium falcon we could store our star wars figurines in.
I had a lot of cool GI Joes like the Cobra Mountain playset. It was awesome because some of the parts were reused from a Star Wars toy so there were broken Droid parts on the ground. 10 year old me thought that was the coolest shit ever.
My jurassic park figurines, I loved my dilophosaurus, also liked toys in general of modern animals. I liked to play with them outside and pretend they were trying to survive the elements, find things to eat, etc.
jurassic park figurines
I had the t-rex and the compound as well as various raptors and such.
Think I had one raptor, a broncosaurus and a triceratops. Maybe one was offbrand but didn't matter.
You knew it was an official JP product because it had battle damage, you could take a chunk of the dinos hide off which was kind of weird looking back on it.
Me too!
Check out this awesome Beast Wars Megatron I had as a kid (long broken and lost, sadly):
Also had a Tamagotchi that looked like this:
And this weird thing:
Tamagotchi was huge in my middle school. It wasn't until some years later I read it was supposed to be marketed to girls while boys got digimon, none of the kids had digimon everyone wanted the tama.
Dragon Flyz were the 'boy version' of Sky Dancers, and Transformers were marketed to boys but I had those despite being AFAB
I also had a Game Boy, pretty sure the name gives away who that was marketed to lol.
Even kid me thought sticking to either boys or girls toys was silly. I liked both.
Everyone thought the gameboy was dope with pokemon.
Yeah! Silly of the marketers to call it a Game Boy. Everyone loved that shit! They caught on eventually by eventually calling the handhelds something else starting with the DS
Meanwhile the Game Gear was just trying to get someone, anyone, to buy it.
If I had kmown Game Gears were a thing when I was a kid, I would have been ALL OVER that.
Me! Me! I had a gamed gear! GG shinobi was my favourite game
Tamagotchi aaah. I used to get told off playing with those in assembly at primary school
One of the many action figures I cherished. I use to pit my figures against each other in forts I'd build out of legos.
Bionicles were my shit. I remember those head smashing ones that I would use to beat the shit out of my action figures.
When I was a kid and in particular a very little kid - I loved vehicles: Matchbox Cars, my yellow Tonka dump truck, etc.
When I was a very little kid I loved dinosaurs. But oddly enough - I don't have any fond memories of the dinosaur figures themselves like I do the vehicles. The figures were just a tool for escapism and fantasy - if that makes sense.
Did you ever play the Tonka pc games? Like tonka spacestation or raceway?
It was analog only for me. I was a boy in the 1970s.
There was definitely a period of my life where every photo is of me and a rusted out Tonka truck
I loved that truck. I'm not one for objects or sentimentality- but, man, I'd love to have that truck now.
I had this neat GI Joe P-40 when I was younger. It had a button under the tail that would cause the propeller and gatling gun to spin.
Brian the brain
I didn't think there was anything more cursed than a Furby but here we are