Remembering a certain toy

[Ponch]

Cool. I must put on my nostalgia goggles!

It's weird, but I remember M.A.S.K. very clearly. Sadly, I never owned any of the toys (I was too old for toys when they came out in the mid 80s -- I was twelve or thirteen, I think). But one of my friend's kid brother had a bunch of them. Even though I was far too cool to say so at the time, I remember thinking that they were far more awesome than the rather clunky early generation Star Wars toys I had when I was little. I remember the big purple truck very fondly. That thing had a rocket launcher hidden in the sleeper cab that would shoot across the room.

In fact, I remembered it fondly enough to put it in a Barn Runner game!



There it is. Its name escapes me at the moment, but it's there next to Jack Burton's "Pork Chop Express". The big red rig from B. J. and the Bear is parked on the other side of the player's car.

Ah, memories. Thanks for them and all that.

- Ponch

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(That kid also had the G.I. Joe aircraft carrier. Man, I remember that thing being as big as a sofa!)

[Anian]

Aww, Saber rider...the simpler times. We used to play in the park (when I was in kindergarden), I was either Colt or Michaelangelo (depending on what
show was the night before).  

It's amazing how product placement provided memories for more than a few generations. Also how amazing is the creativity that went into all of
it...only to have episodes have the same structure every freakin' time.

Being basically behind the curtain (well sort of a transition time when it all started falling apart) got some mixed stuff in. We had some stuff that we
didn't know had tv shows and vice versa. Maybe someone went to Italy or Germany and then got exotic toys and everybody envied them. Playmobile
and LEGOs were all the rage.
Later GI Joe (nobody knew there was a cartoon series, we just bought toys). Transformers were very rare (although the show was known. Ninja turtles
(and a lot of other stuff) was synched, but the voices were pretty good, especially comapred to now, when they have almost no character.
There was a children part of the program on one of the channels, they basically had most of the show in early 90ies. I remember Muppet babies, Looney
tunes, Smurfs, Little flying bears, Bluffers, He-Man (damn, I still have a drawer full of toys, I even had the tiger), Saber rider, MASK, must not forget Ewoks...
I had a box full of Hot Rods and copies, some Micro machines.

Soon people got satelite dishes and also Cartoon network with it. Don't remember a lot of the shows, mostly Captain planet was always watched. Later
Swat kats and Mighty Max, Bettlejuice animated series.