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[BeOnEdge]

anyone remember mad balls?

 

[TAJ]

I only had one, a green guy with an eye dripping out of its socket. (not pictured)

 

[Ollie Pooch]

YES!!!

my cousin had one, and someone at his school stole it from him and flushed it down the toilet - it clogged up the drain and caused major plumbing problems at the school until they managed to get it out, this ratty, stinky disgusting foam ball thing wedged in the pipes

for some reason this also reminded me of the trash can kids?? the garbage lot kids? i cant remember what they were called! there were trading cards with gum and one of them was called bonie joanie? and stinky sam or somethin!! help me out here then they made a movie with really huge-headed puppets

 

[TAJ]

Oh, there were a bunch of generic rip-offs, too. I only recognize the skull and baseball as actual MadBalls.

 

[Cmdr. Solrak]

I had the baseball one...it got ruined within a week. lol

 

[Ollie Pooch]

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0678/

 

[BeOnEdge]

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

for some reason this also reminded me of the trash can kids?? the garbage lot kids? i cant remember what they were called! there were trading cards with gum and one of them was called bonie joanie? and stinky sam or somethin!! help me out here then they made a movie with really huge-headed puppets

garbage pal kids


fuck I knew i spelled pail wrong oh well

 

[BeOnEdge]

:lol

 

[TAJ]

Garbage PAIL Kids.

 

[tenchir]

It's Cabbage Patch Kids!! The movie had Garbage Patch Kids which were spinoffs.

Anyone remember Teddy Rumpsin(sp?)

 

[Hooker]

*Que the best toys, cartoon of all time*

TRANSFORMERS!!!

 

[RiZ III]

..wow. nostalgia.

 

[TAJ]

>>>Anyone remember Teddy Rumpsin(sp?)<<<

Teddy Ruxpin and his "buddy" Grubby.

And it's Cabbage PATCH Kids (which were dolls) and Garbage PAIL Kids...geez. Garbage Pail Kids were a parody, not a spin-off, and the cards came out years before the movie.

 

[TAJ]

G.I. Joe and Star Wars toys were huge early in the decade. Voltron was big, but not AS big. There was a Dungeons & Dragons line that I thought was pretty cool. He-Man was popular too, but I thought it was fucking lame. Mid-to-late eighties saw Thundercats, which was as lame as He-Man, if that's possible.

 

[tenchir]

>>>Anyone remember Teddy Rumpsin(sp?)<<<

Teddy Ruxpin and his "buddy" Grubby.

And it's Cabbage PATCH Kids (which were dolls) and Garbage PAIL Kids...geez. Garbage Pail Kids were a parody, not a spin-off, and the cards came out years before the movie.

My knowledge of law is limited, but I always thought that it's a parody if you aren't making any money off of what you are making fun of. There is a toyline(and a movie) about Garbage Pail Kids, if money were made, then wouldn't the people who made Cappage Patch Kids sue the ass off of the people who "made" Garbage Pail Kids? Unless they both were from the same company, then that would mean one of them is a spin-off.

 

[TAJ]

>>>My knowledge of law is limited, but I always thought that it's a parody if you aren't making any money off of what you are making fun of. There is a toyline(and a movie) about Garbage Pail Kids, if money were made, then wouldn't the people who made Cappage Patch Kids sue the ass off of the people who "made" Garbage Pail Kids? Unless they both were from the same company, then that would mean one of them is a spin-off.<<<

Most parody is done for profit. And, Campbell vs. Acuff-Rose Music, probably the definitive parody case, definitely involved for-profit parody. (And, like Cabbage Patch Kids and Garbage Pail Kids, involved parody aimed at a very different market than the product it parodied. CPK was aimed squarely at girls, and GPK was aimed squarely at boys. )

I don't ever remember seeing a Garbage Pail Kids toy line, BTW.

EDIT: It turns out that the creator of the Cabbage Patch Kids did sue Topps over Garbage Pail Kids a few years after they debuted, and Topps rolled over, making minor concessions regarding the design of the cards.

 

[Stryder]

My brother loved the mad balls cartoon. Every time we went to the video store he would go and grab that video and would ask to rent it, thinking back on it it's pretty cute, but at the time it was like 'that agaaain??'

 

[Shinobi]

 

[TAJ]

Sorry. Legos as we know them today are a '50s toy.

 

[Lyte Edge]

We used to have an electionic version of Mad Libs for our old Apple IIgs computer. The game would show pictures and read the entire story in an 80s synthesized voice...my friends and I used to get such a laugh out of putting obscenities in and rolling on the floor whn it said "shitty shit shit" and stuff like that. Good times.

 

[evil ways]

Aside from the usual GI Joe and Star Wars, I was a big Super Powers fan back in the day. One Christmas I got nearly the whole lot with Batman, Robin, Superman, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Flash, The Joker, Penguin, Brainiac, Lex Luthor, The Batmobile, a vehicle that looked like a ship for Superman, and the Hall of Justice. I loved the cloth capes the toys had.

He-Man was also really big in my household, with Castle Grayskull and that Skull trap thing that oozed green slime, and Skeletor's castle with the microphone, I had all that.

Then there was......

To which I had a smaller version of.

 

[SD-Ness]

 

[Lambtron]

M.A.S.K. was my favorite series of toys.

Someday I hope to have a complete set of series 1 & 2. My parents gave all mine to goodwill (and I think I had basically everything but Boulder Hill).

 

[Alex Anderson]

 

[shoplifter]

Too bad it didn't come complete with chicken.

 

[Comfort_Eagle]

Oh how I miss my youth.

 

[Cmdr. Solrak]

*thumbs up*

 

[yoshifumi]

dinoriders (well, late 80s early 90s)

guns + dinosaurs = 6-9 year old's greatest dream.

 

[UtadaBarkley]

OMG i forgot all about MAD LIBS.... Hilarious at the time...


Oh well here's my list.


-M.A.S.K.
-I forgot then name, but those lil figurines that had lil jewels on their belly. When you rubbed the lil jewel, it would show Fire, Wood, or Water.... It was like paper rock scissors.
-Garbage Pail Kids
-Ninja Turtles.
-NERF Turbo Football.
-Lego's obviously...
-Yo Yo Ball.
-Erector Sets.
-Those lil mini tape players that had like 2 songs on a REALLY small tape, with bad quality... The tape I had featured tequilla, and someother lame song...


That's pretty much all I had or at least all I can remember.

 

[bjork]

Robotech
GI Joe
Transformers
Thundercats
MASK
Madballs
Army Ants
GUTS
MUSCLE
WWF Thumbwrestlers

Commodore 64, and the best game ever imo:

 

[bjork]

-I forgot then name, but those lil figurines that had lil jewels on their belly. When you rubbed the lil jewel, it would show Fire, Wood, or Water.... It was like paper rock scissors.
-Garbage Pail Kids.

Battle Beasts. Originally a spinoff of Transformers in Japan, then brought here... I remember that the snake character had two left arms, for some reason.

I forgot to add GPKs to my list too... I still have all of mine.

 

[UtadaBarkley]

Battle Beasts. Originally a spinoff of Transformers in Japan, then brought here... I remember that the snake character had two left arms, for some reason.

I forgot to add GPKs to my list too... I still have all of mine.

YES...Battle beasts owned...

Also let me throw in hot wheels, and the official nightrider car.
And those lil cars that changed paint jobs when they got hot or cold... those were hella cool.

Oh and wacky wall walkers.... And slime...
And play-dough... I used to make mini-patriot & scud missles outta play dough during the first gulf war...

*sigh* Those were the days...

 

[Semjaza Azazel]

Did anyone else have Sectaurs?

They were really weird people with insect eyes and claws for hands. They rode around on huge bugs. I had a ton of these things, but no one seems to remember them.

 

[bjork]

Also: only two of those madballs are official, the skull and the baseball.

-edit- I had one Sectaur, it was pretty good... guy on a giant fly with motorized wings. I wonder what happened to that?

 

[Mirk]

toys of the 80s=rock

I am still a big kid. Mostly in thanx to ebay I can buy all the toys I could never get.

Toys I am buying as of now
Transformers all from 1982-2004
TMNT
Lego sets
Ghostbusters
Terminator 2

 

[Dan]

I had a whole bunch of that Teddy Ruxpin stuff when I was real little.

I owned an absolute ton of GI Joe toys as well, but I can't remember being real into any other toy line in a significant way. I was big on TMNT too, but I'm not entirely sure when those hit the market exactly.

Oh snap, and Battle Beasts as mentioned above! My brother and I loved those things.

 

[UtadaBarkley]

Hell yeah, I had that one! I think he was Water if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Socreges]

Battle Beasts! I completely forgot about them! I thought I'd Google some more pictures and came across this:

I not only remember having that one, or that he was Fire (I'm pretty sure), but considering him one of the most powerful/special. I think because he had a hook as a hand. Amazing the shit you can remember.

I've actually been reading a chapter on Memory in my Psych textbook. Lots about recalling things through association. I now remember, pretty vividly, rubbing the black square and having different logos appear. Then teaming the Battle Beasts by their logos! Haha.

 

[UtadaBarkley]

Battle Beasts! I completely forgot about them! I thought I'd Google some more pictures and came across this:

I not only remember having that one, but considering him one of the most powerful/special. I think because he had a hook as a hand. Amazing the shit you can remember.

I've actually been reading a chapter on Memory in my Psych textbook. Lots about recalling things through association. I now remember, pretty vividly, rubbing the black square and having different logos appear. Then teaming the Battle Beasts by their logos! Haha.

Water beats fire! LOL. That kicked so much ass...

 

[Socreges]

What were the other types? Lightning, I think, was one..

 

[Dan]

Fire, Wood and Water. That was it initially, although from what I'm reading it looks like limited numbers of Shadow Beasts and Laser Beasts reached the US and Europe, although were primarily available in Japan. Those latter ones came with rifles, and had little plastic globes in their chest that you looked in to see their affiliation.

Remember these vehicles too? Damn, this stuff really brings back memories.

 

[Socreges]

Ah yes, Wood. Heh.

I actually had that green vehicle. I remember having the hardest freaking time jamming them all in there. I don't think they ever rode anywhere, though. I'd load it up and then probably just empty it again....

 

[bjork]

I had a teal Battle Beast vehicle that was a shark... I remember it being like $35 at the time, and it was pretty big.

I wonder where I put all these oddball toys... I can locate the Joes and stuff with ease, but I don't think I would've just tossed Battle Beasts and stuff into the trashbin.

 

[StrikerObi]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...

The Teenage Ninja Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Shooter

Am I the only one who had one of these things? If I remember correctly it was powered by a big honkin pair of D Cell batteries. It had a moter in it and by pressing the button it shot hard plastic pizza discs out the front really fucking fast. This thing was awesome. Shooting friends with it was a MUST. I'm so sad that they don't make such obviously dangerous toys like this anymore. You could totally put an eye out with this thing.

 

[Mirk]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...

The Teenage Ninja Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Shooter

Yep still got it. And if you go to your local Toys R Us you might find
the Chicken Run movie repaint I think it shoots pies insted of pizzas.

 

[StrikerObi]

Yep still got it. And if you go to your local Toys R Us you might find
the Chicken Run movie repaint I think it shoots pies insted of pizzas.

Are you kidding me? I could have sworn it was discontinued due to the obvious danger it posed.

 

[Dan]

A Chicken Run repaint? That's hilarious! Gotta love how the toy industry rehashes things in such a blatant manner.

 

[Semjaza Azazel]

Anyone else have Monsters in My Pocket? I only had a few, but I thought they were pretty cool. Don't ask me why since they're only one color and don't do anything at all.

 

[Mirk]