Toys you wanted as a kid...

[OHSportsFan]

All this football game talk-

This was before my day, but I played the heck out of this when I visited my grandparent's as a kid since it was my dad's growing up.

 

[Buckeye Maniac]

I don't recall not getting anything that I wanted. I'm sure there were things, but nothing sticks out.

My biggest toys were the Batman Forever Batcave

And the K'Nex Roller Coaster

 

[Muck]

Basically anything related to this. This one is a little before my time, but you get the message. Had a plethora of hand-me-down G.I. Joe's from my older brother (six years older) on top of all the ones I had, so this was #1 priority every time Christmas or my birthday came around.

My god it's a HESCO barrier on tracks.

Sadly never got one, but I did get one of these.

I had that as a model, it would team up with a Cylon Raider...

...while battling a Colonial Viper & Earth Directorate Starfighter/Thunderfighter.

That reminds me of another toy that I wanted but never ended up getting:

Mattel's Eagle 1 from Space: 1999

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(small child added for scale)

A neighbor kid might have had this same aircraft carrier. It was pretty big, but being a kid back then I'm not sure the dimensions today. It was nearly my size when I was younger. A few feet long, and the rubber-band catapults for foam aircraft sounds like it could have been the same thing. Darker-colored, like gray or green? He only brought it out for the kids in the neighborhood to play with once or twice.

Sounds about right. Mine was definitely (haze) grey.

Speaking of Army Men, I would set up forts for mine with my Lincoln Logs, then gather a huge pile of rubber bands and sit a few feet away and shoot them down. That was hours of good entertainment.

We would create catapults from Lincoln Logs as part of our warfighting arsenal. Set a roof plank set across a short log (like a teeter totter), set another short log (or anything else suitable) on one end and then smack down the other. Boom, Instant indirect fire mission!

Lincoln Logs also worked well with Fort Apache...

I almost always had the cowboys & indians on the same team (ie the good guys along with the usual 'american' army men) in our wars. The other side (mostly german, japanese, russian & other non-green army men) usually got the knights & other medievals types.

Our wars crossed space & time.

And one other toy that I desperately wanted, even to this day, is the old electronic football game. This was way better than the Coleco hand-held football.

Like Katt we had access to an old hand-me-down one and had almost no idea how to get the guys to go where we wanted. I remember there being a wheel/ring of some sort on the base (that was the word you were looking for Cinci ) you could rotate for different patterns.

All this football game talk-

This was before my day, but I played the heck out of this when I visited my grandparent's as a kid since it was my dad's growing up.

I have never seen that before but it looks awesome!

And the K'Nex Roller Coaster

I bought my nephew one of those just because I wanted to play with it. lol

 

[Poe McKnoe]

My mom took me to Toys R Us to buy one and it was literally the day after they were discontinued and the store was sold out...with the shelves never to be stocked again.

 

[BayBuck]

Snarf.

 

[Muck]

My mom took me to Toys R Us to buy one and it was literally the day after they were discontinued and the store was sold out...with the shelves never to be stocked again.

 

[ulukinatme]

$150 shipping.

Although it is in Dayton. I could drive there and pick it up for you.

Haha, my buddy lives in Dayton and has several of these in his basement. His whole livelihood is buying and selling GI Joes and other collectables. 31 and he just paid off his house...I'm in the wrong line of work.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Anybody have one of these?

Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory

In 2006, the pop culture publication Radar Magazine called the lab set one of "the 10 most dangerous toys of all time, ... exclud[ing] BB guns, slingshots, throwing stars, and anything else actually intended to inflict harm", because of the radioactive material it included (it was number 2 on the list; number 1 was lawn darts)

Entire article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_Laboratory

**NOTE...this must be like the set that George's parents bought him in the 50's as he blew up the back of their house on an Air Force Base and suddenly the family was moving.....his dad was transferred. Hmmmm wonder why?