80s kids here, what was your toys of choice?

[1evilregal]

Anyone ever make a solid fuel rocket car out of an Erector set?😎

didn't have an erector set, but tried making one of my models with rolling wheels into a rocket car.... lets just say, that model glued plastic struts buckle pretty quick and the rest of the story isn't too pretty....

 

[ssn696]

Then there were the wood model airplanes complete with 'dope' you painted on the rice paper to make it solid. I built a P-51 Mustang with a two-foot wingspan, it took weeks. It wan't glue sniffing. It was glue inhaling, with the ambient air. I remember the 'kinder, gentler' plastic model glue that smelled like lemons later in my youth, but Testor's liquid glue (with MEK) was the best for detailed assembly. I could draw cars and trucks from the worm'-eye view by the time I was 10. Brake lines, U-joints, everything - this was the 'right' view. Probably why the Grateful Dead had such a strong following - all that dope and acid at the shows programmed Deadheads to associate the rambling jams with 'happy'.
On the other hand...anybody used POR-15 top coat? Smells just like Pactra paints in the 'bumpy' bottles of yore!

 

[Tuffregal83]

Garbage pal kids, hot wheels, ghost busters,knight rider, a team, and a bunch of rc cars Tyco bandit, grass hopper
Dyno vcr, went to garage sales for bikes
Got sky way mags and tons of bikes for 10 bucks to 25 bucks all free style kinds walkman listening to 80s hair bands and metal.
Loved the 80s

 

[DRIVEN]

Stompers, anyone?

 

[tc1959]

I grew up in the 60's and 70's, my old man sold truck tires for General tire, He would bring home huge inner tubes the size of a pickup truck. We had every kid in the neighborhood at our house playing on those tubes.

 

[ItsnotaGN]

Who didn't love winding up the inertia wheel on their Evil Kneivel toy wheelie bike?

I have a Mongoose Californian Pro f&f with Skyway mags hanging in the garage; you know, for posterity's sake... Actually, I wanted to fix it up for my daughter, but she's almost outgrown her 24" mountain already at 9.

I had a Mongoose with blue Skyway Tuff II mags, blue tires and MX2000 brakes. I'd love to have it back.

 

[L92 OLDS]

I grew up in the 70's and one of my favorite toys was the Vertibird Helicopter. Today's drones blow this away but in its time it was a lot of fun. These things are now collectibles, some of them going for $800 or more.

 

[Texas82GP]

I still have my brother's and my hotwheels. I haven't laid eyes on them in at least 15 years though, but they are still there. The one thing that survived. I had model trains (HO), an RC airplane (put it together but never got it to fly), several RC cars and I was really heavy into slot cars in my junior high days (87-89). There was a place about a block from school that had two big 1:24 scale tracks. The guy that ran the place competed professionally then. His "Group 7" slot car would do 80 mph down the straight away of the "King" track. Good times.

 

[Bar50]

Hot Wheels (still look at them at the store to this day) GI-JOE, Star Wars, Transformers. Those were the main ones. Some MASK (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) blue flamed 57 Chevy and a red gull wing IROC style Camaro...

Had some Masters of the Universe/ He-man, short run of comic action figures.

Slot cars, seems like Super GFX, Cliff Hanger, Truckin' USA, and Knight Rider oh there was a Dukes of Hazard as well.

A big wheel that had a KITT hood and slide brake.

Also have some of the bigger older 12 inch? GI-JOE guys ( they set on top of my entertainment center currently ), a Six Million Dollar Man, Vader & Boba Fett

Who can forget a Red Ryder bbc gun? Also had a Crossman that looked like an AR15. Nintendo? Atari 2600?

Cox Vega and Pinto model air plane gas drag cars.

Honda MR50

I have my Huffy BMX with red frame & plastic 5 spoke mags, had v-bars with yellow pads and tires. Later on a Red Line GT and a Haro that I traded around for...

 

[Bar50]

I want to clarify, I was the only boy, five sisters... so anything that was masculine in any way was supported 110%.