Wow..these pics are bringing back a lot of good memories.

Here's my favorite:

Death Star Space Station. Best toy ever!!!

The Man from Uncle spy set.

Cool!

I had transformers and G.I Joes. After that, an IBM PC.

I loved the Marx/Revell army men. I'd build wood and rock forts, trenches and throw dirt clogs at each side. If they landed on their backs they were "wounded" and could be returned to battle after a number of volleys. If they landed on their face they were killed. The 1/48 figures were for outside. The 1/72 figures were for inside on rainy days. I used little balls of tinfoil for ammo then. I still have the 1/72 figures. I've showed them to the kids...they don't seem to compete so well with computers anymore...

HAHAHAH!
We must be Brothers from another Mother.
I had all those. Loved making Evel eat it on the motorcycle. And the Coast Guard ship... hours of fun!
Lawn Darts, Cherry Bombs... Check!

I had a lot of toys but I liked my Lego and plastic army men the best.

I had medieval soldiers, cowboys and indians, as well as WW1 to current plastic army men. I had so many small scale army men alone that it would take my friends and I two or three days to set them up!

My 2nd favorite


Does anyone remember a plane version of the vertibird? Had a glow in the dark prop with a center tower. I can't remember the name at all!!

anyhow the vertibird

My legos. i am just now playing with them again, but with my son this time

The Optimist sailboat.



Cheers,
Slug

Probably the Starwars AT-AT. When I went to a friend's house and saw that thing for the first time my mind was blown.

Call me simple but we had a 4x6 sheet of plywood with a hole drilled in it for ice fishing that my brother and I propped up against a tree as our "catcher". We painted a strike zone on it and created our very own 1 on 1 backyard baseball game using a tennis ball and plastic bat. We would play from when we were probably in middle school all the way up until college. Some of the most heated games and fun I ever had.

The first one was the Johnny Seven OMA

The boys next door had one too, but theirs was slightly diffrent.

Later I got a bow and some arrows, and am still shooting arrows more than 40 years later but it is no toy now

Agreed... I had about 80 of them.

I used to play with them in my backyard "jungle" and blow them up with fireworks. I used to perform Combat Rescue on them with Gauze, white medical tape, and Robitussen and Mercurochrome for blood. I had a couple of Aunts that were RN's.

I had a lot of fun with them.

-Skater

I didnt have a lot of fancy toys.. but I liked my GI Joes.. my green army men.. and I used to play with my model cars and airplanes.. My racing set.. and of course my 007 attache case..

Had one!
And a 'Fanner 50' too.

Several kilos of Lego. Especially when in the early 80s Technical Lego became available.

Ditto... except for the attache case.

Still recall the first GI Joe I had in 68 or 69. Marine Corps service version I believe.

Speaking of the GI Joe phenom.. There was somewhat of a shift on popular culture around 73 or 74 when they went from military figures to Kung Fu grip and adventure rather than war. No doubt influenced by the direction of the Vietnam War.

I have good habit of halting threads in motion.