Flashback time!

[Doug Burke]

Check out what they're rereleasing...

<a href="http://store.startrek.com/product/show/28164/?sssdmh=dm4.223272&refcode=em1112"><img src="http://www.startrek.com/custom/exclude/newsletter/070821/art/retrokirk.jpg"></a>

<i>Captain Kirk - Retro Style Action Figure
Classic 1970s Style Action Figures Are Back!
Available on: 09/03/2007
Our Price: $19.99</i>

The Klingon will be available then, too. Others to come...

Talk about your flashbacks. Maybe if I get them this time, Scotty won't have to be replaced...

[First of Two]

You like that, huh? I shop at BigBadToyStore.com...







Kirk and Klingon: already in stock.

Spock and Andorian: Coming in November.

McCoy and Romulan: set to arrive in January.

$29.99 each set. Pre-ordering available.
LOTS of other junk there, too.

[Tobian]

Awesome! Shame there's not that much of a likeness

[Doug Burke]

Awesome! Shame there's not that much of a likeness

On Kirk, maybe. IIRC, the Spock and McCoy ones were very close...

[Sea Tyger]

Man, seeing those action figures brings back memories.

I remember Christmas of '75; I had some really great-looking presents under the tree, and I couldn't resist poking around to finding out what they were (I was 6 at the time). Well, I was looking at the package and "accidentally" poked a finger through the wrapping.

Lo and behold, it was the Star Trek bridge set, with the entire crew! To make a long story short, I got in serious trouble for sneaking the peek, but I still got the present on Christmas Day.

My uncles (youngest one was about 11 years older than me) used to play tricks on me with the transporter, spinning it around horribly fast and distracting me long enough to get the character out of the back (to hide it somewhere else in the house). They really had me fooled into thinking the transporter really worked (for a bit).

I don't know where everything went; I think I eventually just lost everything. I remember finding Spock at some point after I moved to Wyoming, stripped naked and missing one leg below the knee, hiding out in the bottom of the box where I kept all my Star Wars action figures. I remember giving him up to the trash can after that.

[Doug Burke]

I remember Christmas of '75...

With a story like that, I suoppose I should explain the "replacing Scotty" comment above.

I believe it was Christmas of '76 or '77. My two brothers and I (2.5 and 7 years older than me, respectively) decided to find our presents about a week or two before Christams. We succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. We found them and (thanks to Kent, the middle brother), finagled a way to unwrap them without destroying the paper and open them. We found Kirk, McCoy and Scotty. (We would get Spock a week or so after Christmas from a family friend.)

We proceeded to play with said action figures, but I guess we were being a bit rough. You see, I broke Scotty's leg off at the knee.

After a moment's despair ("They're going to kill me!"), I hatched a plan. We inserted Scotty's damaged limb into the cloth pant leg so it was concealed, artfully taped the package and wrapping paper closed, and I mentally noted which package was Scotty. On Christmas morning, that was the first present I opened. I played with yhim fro a while and then turned in feigned shock to my dad saying "Daaaad! This one's broken!"

Needless to say, I got a new Scotty within days.

The best part is, my father never learned the turth of this story until decades later. I told him the whole story on Christmas of '96 and we had a good laugh at the resourcefulness of his youngest son...

[Liquidator Queeg]

I remember getting the Trek bridge set and crew figures for Christmas sometime around 76-77. In the following few years my folks started getting me Star Wars stuff instead, since the movie had come out and all.

Anyway, I also remember the same Christmas I got the bridge set that I would "one up" Kirk and co. by turning my big blue toy box into a "time machine". I was just small enough to sit inside it and I dumped all the toys out and glued dials and buttons and taped old Christmas lights around the box to make it look suitably futuristic. (Much to my dad's distress and warnings about starting fires.) And off I went travelling time in the rec room. Hey, I was only five or six. But I had lots of fun!

See what we did when we didn't have video games and cable TV!

LQ

[tonyg]

THere used to be a few websites around that gave instructions on how to modify the olf MEGO toys, including how to make your own parts and replace the rubber bands.

One guy used to make really cool Gorn based on the MEGO Hulk figure that looked a LOT better than the "offical" version based on the Marvel Comics Lixard character.

Have a look.

http://www.megomuseum.com/custom/jamesbrady/gorn.jpg

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Guys, You're talking memorries from a time when I wasn't even born yet...

[Doug Burke]

Guys, You're talking memorries from a time when I wasn't even born yet...

Not our fault you missed on on some kick-ass toys...

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Not our fault you missed on on some kick-ass toys...

You're definately right 'bout that. My posting was a clear show of envy

[tonyg]

You're definately right 'bout that. My posting was a clear show of envy

I guess we shouldn't tell you about the era of "anatomically correct" dolls and action figures?


Don't be too envious, you problaby got the toys that could be molded in multi colored plastics, and that had better muscles (all the new toys must spend time working out before being packaged).

For us old timers, the biggest thing was probably the introduction of "kung fu" grip. Prior to that, none of our action figures could hold any of the accesories. GI Joe (the original version) had a chest full of things from a bayonet to a M14 rifle, and getting him to hold onto any of it took about ten minutes set up time (and he would drop it in ten seconds).

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My favorite toys as a kid where to different systems: One being a german product that you may or may not know knows as Playmobil and the classic building stuff LEGO (of I thing swedish or danish origin).
That were the toys I played mostly with. BAck then, they weren't that much premolded, you could build all kinds of things with Lego: I mostly played with Castles and Knights and of course the Space series.

Playmobil was mostly Cowboy stuff

The old stuff was way more cool than the modern versions of these days...

I am also just a bit too young to have participated in the Star Wars action figures series...

I had some Mattel Masters of the Universe action figures

[Doug Burke]

My favorite toys as a kid where to different systems: One being a german product that you may or may not know knows as Playmobil

I remember Playmobil...

Playmobil was mostly Cowboy stuff

They also had pirate ships and knights in my day...

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I remember Playmobil...

They also had pirate ships and knights in my day...

Yeah, they had them in my day as well. But I never was very much into Playmo Knights. Knights where played with LEGO

But Playmobil Pirates...oh yes. Pirate ships were big fun. I still have mine somewhere in the house ;-)

Didn't know that Playmobil was on the markets elsewhere