Okay, maybe I'm showing my age here, but does anyone remember when toys were cool?!?

I mean, I was a huge fan of the original Transformer toys. Cars and planes that became robots who battled for the fate of Earth. They were cool! They looked cool as vehicles, they looked cool as robots, and they looked cool sitting on your dresser. You could even fit a tiny driving figure in some of them like Optimus Prime. Laserbeak, Ravage and Soundwave was always a deadly combo. Even the show rocked!

Now, they are animals and insects. You can barely tell the difference between their two forms. Apparently it didn't sell well enough cause they've decided to go back to the original vehicle mode, however the robots are no longer symetrical. Doors become immovable shields for their arms. None of the arms match the other, and not every arm is guaranteed to have a hand. So sad...

Voltron was cool! Huge as all hell, but still cool!

StarWars with their extending lightsabers!

GI-Joe with their action vehicles (and breakoff thumbs)!

Go-Bots, Mask, and the Knight Rider BigWheel (whatever happened to the bigwheel?)!!!

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With the exception of Mega Blox, Lego, and Todd McFarlane's figures, there just doesn't seem to be a perfect marriage with imagination and coolness just yet like their used to be at one point.

Generation one Tramsformers are still the best!

Voltron... I only liked the Vehicle one not the Lions.

Star Wars... the ships were cool, but the figures were less than cool

GI Joe... was only cool when everyone got Swivel arm battle grip.

Go Bots... were for those who couldn't afford Transformers.

MASK was like Star Wars... Vehicles were cool, but the figures weren't

Big Wheel.....ah... that's all you, man...

pokemon and yu-gi-oh... trading card games and cutesy little animals have replaced all the cool toys of our generation.

In my neighborhood, if you had the Knight Rider Big Wheel, you were #### cool!

Star Wars is one of the best toy lines of all time and the first to make figures 3.5 unches tall.

GI JOE is the greatest line of all time. Figs, vehicles....they had a space shuttle, headquarters and a AIRCRAFT CARRIER!!

Mask was super cool, but didn't last unfortunately, but when those commercials hit....

Transformers to me were those mysterious toys....like super cool and you had to have them, but how did they work?! Only the rich kids everyone wanted to be friends with knew!

I was sorta stuck with GoBots...the poor man's Transformers.

And Voltron....in 2nd grade, that was THE hot toy!

I love G1 Transformers. Im a HUGE fan, and cant stand the way the show is done now. Heck, if Megatrons lackeys talked back to him as they do on the new show, hed have BLASTED them to bits in a second. And dont get me started on Galvatron. Hed blast you just for the &^%$ of it. Great show, great figures, and an EXCELLENT recent comic series.

Micronauts. I even had the Marvel comics. Can't remember a blessed one of them now, though, or why I liked them so much.

I was about a year or two too old for Transformers and GI Joe, though. Those were baby toys to me back then.

Yes, and now I play with little plastic figures in colourful tights. My wife just shakes her head.

Aw, c'mon Tsannik...if yer not down with Big Wheel I'm not sure you ever WERE a kid! <chuckle>

Beast wars was better as a show than a toyline

In our years creativity in recreation was a must. The toys were created with great panash and stlye, representative of their sources. They held great oppurtunities of imagination in them, while still having several tricks up their sleeves. Now in the toy world, quality has gone down, the action figures have focus more on commerciality than they do in quality of the figure, and in more relation to television than they had been. We all miss the toys of our youth, toys that ispired as well as entertained, toys that involved being cool and being fun and not just being the face of some entertainment character or having too many functions to remember them all.

This is why we play heroclix.

Thank you for your time,

The
Black Panther

i think im a little younger than the rest of you, so i grew up with teanage mutant ninja turtlrs, COWABUNGA!

I agree,way better tan any other set of transformers.

Owned both sets but played with the lions more,still have both sets though now they sit on my shelf where my wife will allow.

Huge disagreement here,Starwars figs were the original figs of the 80's,the only reason GI joe was remade in the 3.5 inch version was because Starwars sold so well.

Gi joe rocked because up till then you only had Starwars that had no joints,however they were improved a thousand times over with the kung fu grip.

Not true,Gobots were the original transformers,they came out at least a year earlier,so give credit where credit is due,without Gobots,no transformers.

The vehicles were awesome,the figs less then spectacular but at least they were included and did make playing with the vehicles that much better.

I did own a bunch of big wheels but that was when I was super young and the best ride in my neighborhood was the Greenmachine with the hand brake on the side for 180 spinouts,now thats sweet.

Hey, who remembers Jace and The Wheeled Warriors? A small group of humans in suped up vehicles fighting a race of plant monsters that can transform into deadly vehicles as well. Very cool show.

Liking Micronauts was easy - nothing else in the late 70's combined so well the concepts of action figures and construction sets. There's a good reason why these things fetch major dollars on Ebay. Even the lowly Time Traveller, the basic "get one with every vehicle" figure with *amazing* articulation, broke down into about 15 parts with a jewelers screwdriver. I used to do Frankenstein surgery on those things constantly.

Palisades Toys bought the rights to most (all?) the Micronauts line, and have been re-releasing the basic figures. Got a Baron Karza sitting on a shelf in my office.

I loved GI Joe and Transformers G1. I bought my son a generic rip-off of some transformers. Only five bucks got him the firetruck, police car, police cycle, ambulance, and helicopter that all combine into the big guy. I can't remember his name. They also had the "Constructicons" and the jet guys.

I personally liked GI Joe more than transformers. Half the fun of GI Joe was building your vehicles using the blueprints. That was hot and I haven't seen it done since. Except for lego, but those used to be just blocks that you put together and used imagination, NOT the "Harry Potter Castle" playsets they have now. (Although the Star Wars legos are calling me....)

G1 Transformers and GI joes were the coolest toys ever. I still have the original optimus prime! CARTOON NETWORK NEEDS TO STOP SCREWING UP WELL DONE CARTOONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG... why did I just have a Kool-aid sugar OD flashback.... I think I might remember this... if it wasn't a just a bad dream....

heh, and just for fun...


You all are wrong! Gobots are borken!