5 Forgotten Toys of The 1980s
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- With the 1980s being a decade of countless new toy lines, it was inevitable that some would end up long forgotten... lost to time. But in this video we bring 5 such forgotten toys back into the public consciousness. How many do you remember?
And stick around to the very end for 1 BONUS forgotten toy (though perhaps not quite as "forgotten" as the rest on the list).
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RetroDaze is a nostalgia related channel that celebrates EVERYTHING from our childhoods, mostly from the '70s, '80s, and '90s. This includes movies, TV shows, video games, toys and action figures, comics and magazines, music, and much more!
Celebrating Yesteryear - In this series of videos, we explore a variety of nostalgic subjects with an emphasis on being both informative and entertaining. We take inspiration from some of our favorite nostalgic channels here on RUclips, including Recollection Road and Rhetty for History.
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Written By: Anthony J. Rapino
Hosted and Narrated By: Jon Reddick
Produced and Edited By: Anthony D. Grate
References:
"Toys and cartoons: the correlation between animated properties and toy products"
John Diego Hernandez
rdw.rowan.edu/cgi/viewcontent...
"ADA Consumer Panel Lists Best, Worst Christmas Toys"
By Molly Sinclair
December 2, 1983
www.washingtonpost.com/archiv...
"Wheeled Warriors"
TransFormerLand
"www.transformerland.com/wiki/...
"StarCom: The US Space Force"
TransFormerLand
www.transformerland.com/wiki/...
#80stoys #forgotten80stoys #80skids #Lost80stoys #nostalgia #forgottentoys #rhetty for history #recollection road #forgotten1980stoys 
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I'm always blown away by the production value of this channel
Thanks man. It’s been a great collaboration. Splitting up the duties three ways really helps!
@RetroDaze do you remember Battle Beasts and Muscle Men? Some of the first things I collected and they were both amazing. I still have a huge Muscle Men collection that I will keep forever
Anyone else remember getting the sears Christmas catolog and having to mark every toy you wanted that year from santa like it was a shopping spree and you were actually going to get them all!
Absolutely. Only for Santa to disappoint year after year. Why didn’t I get the G.I. Joe aircraft carrier and VHS camcorder I marked Santa? Huh!? Answer the question, tubby.
@RetroDaze lmao! I'm still waiting on that baby alive and the tape recorder with duel sides! I had to make my mixed tapes using the RADIO......
Instead we ended up with real babies (and real poop) and Spotify.
@RetroDaze lmao. Yes that is exactly what we did!!!! And than it was our turn to deny the little poop monsters the items on their Amazon lists!
@@angelafisher5726I think you mean SANTA denied them. We are entirely innocent. 🤨
Ok,
I’m 62 and still think the toys from the 60’s and early to mid 70’s are the best…
Very cool. What were some of your favorites growing up?
Wacky Wall Walkers. Got those in cereal boxes, drove the cats nuts and left oil spots on the wall🤣.
Ah yes. The infamous "wet" spots got me in trouble a few times. Best to keep them contained to the wood paneling. LOL
Boglins were awesome back in the day. Just like having your own Mutant Muppet Show. I don't have any Boglins nowadays but I do have a very cool Gremlins Cable Guys controller holder :-) Great video Jon!
Now the image of Kermit fighting off a horde of Boglins is swirling around in my head. 😆
I still have a few Starcom toys up in the attic, to be more precise: The Shadowbat, Shadow Vampire, SF/B Starhawk, Battle Crane, the Medbay and the Vehicle Repair pods.
Nice! The line was actually pretty well done. Just couldn't take off like some of the others at the time.
The 1980s was a toy and cartoon tsunami that's staggering in hindsight. And that's where the, "too much of a good thing", kicks in as kids have to back away from the endless salad bar of product placement toys. I remember Starcom because one Saturday it was there, next Saturday it was gone. The cartoon ended when the toys finally hit the stores. It's a lotta fun seeing all these toys again. Looking forward to the next installment. 👍👍
Thanks Edd! Yeah, aside from StarCom and a few Wheeled Warriors, these were not in my toy box. There were just too many other products vying for attention.
Same. I was so interested in seeing the show, it was on TV for like one month and never seen around my area again - no reruns, just evaporated. Then the toys came out and disappeared nearly as quickly.
I'm just there for the free cake and ice cream TBH.
😆 You’re the butthead!
That was pretty much every kid back then 🤣 🤣 🤣
I remember garbage pail kids .. those cards were hilarious
Some of them are worth quite a bit of money now!
The Tonka and Nylint metal toy trucks. They were my favorite toys as a child.
Loved my Tonka truck collection as well. Great stuff.
Stompers, matchbox cars, and legos were fun for me. Then one 1980 year, I got a Criss Cross Crash for Christmas. It was awesome!
That’s a kind of forgotten one!
I was one of those kids who would show up at a birthday party just for the free food
It was you! You’re the culprit! Time for a game of “Smear The…“ uh… “Smear The Kid Who Came To Eat Cake”.
Here's the thing about the Wheeled Warriors: the toys actually predate the cartoon. There was an entire set of lore and characters made for the toys, but when it came time to make the animated tie-in almost all of it was thrown out, resulting in a whole new set of characters and story with only a few of the vehicles in common.
Much like Masters of the Universe. Ditching the mini-comic lore for the Filmation version of events.
I don’t think I ever saw one of those toys, and certainly didn’t own them, and I was a child of the 70’s. I was into TSMDM, Starblazers, electronic toys, legos, Shogun warriors, BB guns, and matchbox cars.
I still have my Shogun Warriors Godzilla, and then bought another on EBay a few years back that was in better condition.
@@RetroDaze I had great mazinger and a friend had Godzilla as well. So much fun shooting rockets from its hand.
Years ago, I bought (and still have) Dwork the Bogglin lol. I remember Sucker Man, but never had one of those.
That’s very cool that you still have your Boglin. Did you happen to buy any of the rerelease versions?
Lol no, I didn't even know about the rerelease versions until I saw your video
I loved my Boglins! I tried to keep one for years and it just melted away. Great video!
Thank you! Yeah, unfortunately the materials did not hold up well over the years.
I had several of the StarCom toys and I thought they were awesome! The figures were surprisingly well articulated for their size and the magnets in their feet let you stick them to the refrigerator or the playground jungle gym. I particularly remember playing with the star base that could either fold flat or stand up with three tiers. Also the little black triangle ship that had collapsible wings. While they weren’t as memorable as Star Wars or Transformers, they were still quality toys. Definitely the stand outs of this episode in my opinion.
They were definitely quality toys. My brother had a few of them, and the shuttle made its way into a homemade movie we filmed once. 😆
Just discovered your channel today. It's awesome, keep up the great work!
Thank you! Very glad you found us and are enjoying the videos. We greatly appreciate it!
Clackers. I earned notoriety for how long I could keep them going in my neighborhood. If you recall, two Superball-sized balls on each end of a string with a tab in the center, which you held in your thumb and forefinger and began hitting the two balls together until you could make them meet again overhead. It was a simple concept. Just made a loud clacking noise. I loved ‘em.
Long before there were fidget spinners, there were clackers! 😆 Though fidget spinners can’t really double as a weapon like clackers could.
My favorite toys from the 1984-1989 era were LEGO, Tinker Toys, ERECTOR SETS, and Micro Machine vehicles!
3 building toy lines and a line of vehicles to use on them. 😆
I had a few StarCom things and I loved the Wheeled Warriors cartoon. I had no taste back in the day 😂
I had some Wheeled Warriors and my brother had some StarCom stuff, so apparently there were quite a few of us out there lacking taste. 😆
Out of all of these the only one I’ve never heard of was Sucker-man. I’ve seen or heard about everything else with Wheeled Warriors and Ring Riders being the two I came closest to seeing in stores. Though if I remember correctly Wheeled Warriors was just a mini pamphlet I encountered at a friend’s party.
I had a Sucker-Man toy. I flung that thing around all day when I first got it, until my mom got tired of me ripping it off the dining room window. Eventually, it lost the ability to stick.
Oops. 😆 It didn’t take much to make them lose stickiness. One or two drops on the carpet. Doh!
@@RetroDaze Yeah, I remember mine started to lose its stickiness from cat hair. 😂
Yaaaaay, Jon!
Kudos to all involved in the video production. 😁
I don’t recall, and didn’t have, any of these toys. Favorite one, though: Suckerman! 😹
Ha! Yeah, Suckerman seems to have some appeal regardless of gender.
We’ll make sure Jon doesn’t get TOO big for his britches now that he’s a multi-channel celebrity. 😁
@@RetroDaze Ha!
@@RetroDaze 😆😉
I do remember most of them, and happen to still own my original bogglin. Nice list.
That’s awesome! Unfortunately I’ve had to basically recollect most of the interesting toys I had as a kid. With a few exceptions… I am grateful I kept my Shogun Godzilla and a handful of other items.
I remember, had, and loved all of these.
I have said growing up in the 80s, was the opposite of growing up in the Depression. We were spoiled to a level when 30 plus years later we knew it would never get better.
You’re not wrong. Sometimes it felt like everything everywhere revolved around us!
Suckerman would've been right up my alley with its weirdness 😂great video as always, Vapor!
Thanks Ben! Glad you enjoyed it.
Watched Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors and StarCom. Had a lot of StarCom toys and still have most of them. Also remember Boglins quite well.
That’s awesome that you still have a bunch of your StarCom stuff. Such a great toy line, despite it being short-lived.
I totally forgot about Sucker Man! Nice hosting Jon!
Thanks for check out the video! Always happy to make a forgotten memory surface again.
I would give a lot to visit 80s toy stores again
Absolutely! The only problem would be trying to figure out how to transport all the toys to bring back. 😆
I remember all of them probably because I started work for a toy think tank in 1980, my first job out of college. Eight of us worked on toy concepts. On our first day, our boss took us to Toys-r-Us and he took a Suckerman out of the package and threw up onto a skylight yelling "SUCKERMAN!' The boss also said that Suckerman would stay up there until sometime in the middle of the night when it would fall and set off the store alarms. What a guy.
😂😂 That sounds like an excellent place to work! Designing toy concepts for a boss with a good sense of humor. Nice.
@@RetroDaze It was a lot of fun, but it was also a lot of pressure. Toys are a fashion industry, needing to get to market quickly.
I spent two years there, two years at Kidco, and under two years at Hasbro, increasing my salary substantially.
@@gregrogers6886That’s very cool. But I can see how the pressure to be on top of the latest trends and IP could be exhausting.
Starcomm. Loved those
StarCom was such a great line. Sucks that it didn’t catch on better.
I did have Jase and the wheeled warriors. I had his vehicle and one other. Wish I still had them. The 80s were great.
Yes they were. I had a few Wheeled Warriors myself.
StarCom to this day remains one of my absolute favorite toy lines. I still have one of the little loader vehicles on my nostalgia shelf.
It is funny how some toy lines that didn't resonate with the majority of kids, hold such a special place in the hearts of those for whom they did. I personally thought Starriors was a cool line, but it failed pretty hard and fast.
@@RetroDaze I think you nailed it, there was just an over saturation of so many toys that were amazing. 80s really was a toy renaissance and the fact that so many lines are still around today or are remembered so fondly today proves it. Happy I grew up in such an era for sure. My bank account isn't, lol.
@@andrewthielmann5342 😆😆Yeah, neither is my bank account. But when I walk into the old "retro cave", my eyes and my heart sure are.
@@RetroDaze Totes. *Fist bump*
Thank you I just had a full on flashback and my mind just flooded with forgot toys I had or wanted.
Penny Racers
Key Cars
Stomper trucks
Madballs
And
Spinjas!!!
I loved my Stompers collection. I had a nice set of track that I could run them on to see which one could finish without crashing or running off course.
I was born in 65, my son in 85. I never seen any of these.
They had varying degrees of success, but they were all overshadowed by much more popular toy lines. So it isn’t unusual for these to have flown under the radar of both you and your son. I appreciate you watching!
Lol that's why they're on here
@@kimhawxhurst2707Indeed.
Wheeled warriors was a rare instance where the toy came out before the cartoon. That is why they were not packaged with the main characters from the cartoon.
Unfortunately it hurt the brand pretty badly.
Wow, I don't recall any of these toys. I guess there wasn't anything to forget.
Aside from Boglins, they were mostly drowned out by all the competition.
You have a fantastic channel! I love reminiscing about things from my childhood. I didn't remember any of these toys except for bogglins. My toy life in the 80s revolved around garbage pail kids, micro machines, and of course nintendo.
Then it was a stellar toy life indeed! All three of those are ‘80s kid staples. And thank you for the kind words. It means a lot!
I am so disappointed in myself. I don’t remember any of these 🙈
Well, the likelihood that any of us had much exposure to these is pretty minimal. Some didn't last very long, or did better overseas. Plus the market was just so full of choices. So don't feel to disappointed.😉
@@RetroDaze I’m sure I saw commercials for them, but just don’t remember.
And I was old enough. Born in ‘73.
@@johnrossi6212’74 here. Most of these I knew only because other kids in my circle of friends had some.
@@RetroDaze love your videos. Great seeing old memories and stuff like this that I don’t remember at all.
Agreed! I wish there were more channels out there doing it. Some good ones are Recollection Road and Rhetty for History.
Manglors, knew of them but never had any. Suckerman, don't remember even knowing of him at the time. Wheeled Warriors, didn't have the toys or watch the show, but I did have some books which I still have. Ring Raiders, still have a few and I enjoyed the cartoon. And then there's Starcom. This remains one of my favorite toy lines and shows of the 80's. I still have all of my toys, my VHS tapes of the show, the complete series on DVD and the coloring book as well as a few pieces from the official fan club.
Great video I'm glad I subcribed and I look forward to more.
Very nice StarCom collection! My brother had a few StarCom pieces, including the large shuttle. I remember we tied a string to it and filmed it against a black sheet with white dots (as stars) to give the impression of space flight to a crappy home movie we were making. 😆
Very cool. If I'd had a camera I'd had enjoyed trying to do that myself. That shuttle, the Starmax Bomber was one of my favorites.
Starmax Bomber… that just sounds cool.
Yes, the vehicles had some cool names.
Great list! I remember Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors from an insert in the He-Man magazine. I don't recall ever seeing the cartoon, but a buddy of mine had some of the toys. I think they ended up being cannon fodder in his G.I. Joe wars. Fun memories.
Ha! Yeah I had a few myself, and they typically ended up being incorporated into stories of other toy lines I played with. My main toy line was indeed MOTU, but they didn’t work well in that line.
@@RetroDaze True, they weren't sized for MOTU. My younger brother had Power Lords (also a forgotten toy line), and we ended up incorporating those in our MOTU battles.
I had one or two of the Warlord figures that I mixed in with MOTU now and then.
My brother and I had three of the starcom toys! They were awesome
They were honestly pretty decent toys. Well made with good play features.
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors was an awesome cartoon.
There was just so much competition back then. Made it really hard for even good cartoons to stand out from the crowd.
i had the first 2 and remember the boglins commercial, cause they reminded me of the movie 'Ghoulies'
Ahh Ghoulies. That could probably fit nicely on a “forgotten” list itself. 😆
I used to have a battery powered toy called a "whacky walker". It came with different legs to put on it. Also an air powered "moon jumper" i think. I have never found any pics of them. I was born in 1980.
Hmm. I don’t recall those. They sound interesting though.
@@RetroDaze thanks for replying! The air powered one looked like a spider kinda. It had a main body that was black and a big bulb. It got air pumped in to power the toy. I hope to see one some day on your channel. You're my only hope. 💚
Oh no! That’s a lot of pressure! 😆 But we’ll keep an eye out for something fitting that description.
@@RetroDaze I subbed, so I will watch for it in a video.....? Lol maybe? God Bless you. Thank you for making my week!
Our pleasure!
Laughed so hard on the Boglins. There were 3 holes in the back for your fingers. Great stuff man!
😆 Nice. Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, Boglins were almost too well known for this list, but we just had to throw them in there.
@@RetroDaze glad you did and thank you for the reply. 👍
Great video brother! Keep them coming! I love this kind of content! Stay Retro! 😃
More to come!
Girl household so I only recognized baby alive. And boy do I remember her!
You might enjoy the Christmas “Holy Grail” Presents video… a couple good girl toys in that one. 👍🏻
This is great. Trip to childhood
Very glad it got those nostalgia juices flowing! There is more where that came from.
Best show and toys on this list is easily Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors!!!!
It was definitely a great show and some fun toys.
I recognized my playset in the thumbnail! They were such awesome toys even if I never saw the cartoon!
I stand by Wheeled Warriors! I didn't even know the cartoon was a thing - I just saw those Monster Minds vehicles and I had to own them! I had 3 good guys and 3 bad guys and the Mobile Base. Now I only have my fave three toys from the line: Saw Boss, K.O. Kruiser, and Gun Grinner!
Love the video!
Hey, at least you held on to a few of them! It’s probably a common thing to not recall the cartoon. It didn’t seem to be on much, at least it seemed that way.
That Joe aisle looks so good. Even got a little taste of Cops N crooks there by a nice MASK section. I can just picture myself picking out a Cobra Wolf and Pogo or a Stiletto and Destro. Looks like a strong 87/88 line up. Great years to be a kid.
How amazing would it be to travel back in time there and just load up carts full of those things! 😆
I can still hear the kid saying "Deek" at the end of the show!! 😊😊
😆 Yeah, right. It’s like it’s permanently ingrained in our minds.
Had a glow in the dark Sucker Man! ...learned the hard way that sticking him directly to a 100W lightbulb and walking away was a bad idea... !
Yikes! Poor Suckerman! We cover a similar incident in our Cereal Prizes video. 😆
as a kid of the 80's. i do remember my mom & dad did buy me the manglor mountain for Christmas.
Did you have issues with reattaching the body parts after a short time?
yes. but i tried using soap & water but that didn't help.
It seems to be the consensus online that the claims made about reattaching parts was outright false advertising.
I remember Mangalore. I was skeptical about it, even as a kid.
Yeah, kids sometimes have good BS detection, and Manglors were definitely setting off alarms.
Wow! I gratefully missed all but one of these toys- and that was sucker man! Loved your video- so I’m a new subscriber!
That’s awesome! Thank you. But yeah, most of these weren’t actually “bad”, they just couldn’t catch on with so many other choices out there. Except for Manglors… they sucked. 😆
I'm 1967 Gen X, I was a teen in the 80s and don't remember any of those except baby alive existed.
Given the sheer amount of variety available in the ‘80s, it’s not surprising. So many toy lines, some that were even quite good, got lost in the sea of competition.
She was almost a good idea
The only one if these that I remember are the Boglins. But, I never had any.
I myself (Tony G) only had some Wheeled Warriors. But knew some kids that had StarCom (my brother) and Boglins. Prior to this video, I had never heard of Ring Raiders.
Born in the late 70's and none of the 5 toys or cartoons I remember 😢 bogglibooglins I remember along with the madballs and the mini muscle men
Chalk it up to the over saturation of good quality cartoons and toys. There was just too much competition, and it was so easy for these to slip through the cracks and never show up on our radars.
A few years ago, I was lucky enough to find the Starcom series on DVD for $2.97 at FYE.
Wow! That is a bargain. It’s a well produced show. DIC always did a great job on their animated shows.
@@RetroDaze The show is very well animated, but it just didn't have enough action scenes for me. Namely, space combat.
Star Wars it was not. 😆 But at least looked great.
I clicked on this video because I recognized Jayce and the wheeled warriors.
Such a great line. Too bad it just didn’t catch on.
jayce and the wheeled warriors was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid! catchy intro theme
There were sooo many great ones! Just a few others… M.A.S.K., Pole Position, Dinosaucers, & Gummi Bears.
My brother and I had the complete Jayce and Wheeled Warriors set but I was always confused why it didn't come with Jayce.
Yeah. That probably didn’t help the line… not connecting it to the cartoon very well.
I remember saying that as a kid. I made no sense that there weren't characters.
Very cool and interesting video! Most of these with the exception of Baby Alive and Boglins I don't remember. Manglors looked like it could have been a good idea. It would be cool if someone could make those work today.
You would think with today’s technology we could manufacture something like the Manglors that actually live up to their ad claims. Thanks for watching Margeaux!
Thanks for watching, M!
Alway wondered what toy was " stretch them, pull them apart, put back together " I remember the commercials but don't think I ever actually saw one 😄
😆 Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
@@RetroDaze "GI Joee 🎶" 🤣🤣
I have the Only figure Park Bros put out. Rom Spaceknight. Sadly the box is no longer about.
Somewhere I don't know where, is Tobor. Forget if I still have its controller though.
Rom has come up in quite a few “forgotten” videos here on RUclips. Even heard rumors of a possible comeback of some type.
@RetroDaze There's been talk of a big screen movie. If IDW didnt have the rights, he Could have appeared in the first Guardians movie.
That would have made for a cool cameo.
Great list! I was a sucker for Sucker Man. I threw that thing all over the place!
Wheeled Warriors is one of those "I wish I had picked some of those up now" brands. Back then, lack of Jayce did, in fact, put me off. You nailed it!
Same here. I (Tony G) actually owned some Wheeled Warriors, but like you mentioned, that lack of a link to the cartoon characters was a bit odd.
I said somewhere else. Star Com was a really popular toy line that didn't need the Cartoon. I can't recall ever seeing it but still loving the toys based on the short story on the back of each toy.
It was quite possibly the highest quality of the toy lines we mention in this one. A sequel with 5 more forgotten toys will be coming in a couple weeks!
I was born in ‘81 and I remember being very young and watching Dino Riders on t.v. I also loved the toys . I don’t think it was ever popular and I’ve yet to meet someone my age that ever played with Dino Riders
Dino Riders was a GREAT toy line. Very cool.
As kids my brother and I had some Wheeled Warriors and Starcomm. Both were fantastic toys with lots of playability. I think my brother still has the Wheeled Warriors in a box in one of his closets ❤
Both were quality toy lines. Just didn’t catch on like a lot of others.
I loved the Wheel(ed) Warriors and had most of the toys. Heck, I didn't even know there was a tie-in show until years later watching Saturday morning cartoon intros here on RUclips.
That probably made enjoying the toys way easier. No feeling of disappointment because of the differences in the toy line and cartoon.
Starcom design still holds up. It actually still looks like it was designed today
It definitely doesn’t date itself like some other toy lines of the time.
My kids are grown n. Up now I still have there toys from from the 80 ,
I would say that if they aren’t looking to keep them, and you need the space/cash, you could probably get some good money from them.
Bringback wjeeled warriors, i had 2, but i lovd them, didnt know what they where back then.
They were hard to get into since the cartoon didn’t really tie into the toy line as well as others did.
Didn't even know there was a cartoon for them. Parents got us some, probably on mark down. Then someone got me a second of the same one. It was the saw blade one, which I thought was neat so okay. I think the wheels and some parts were interchangeable on different vehicles.
I've seen a bunch of people, you know who I'm talking about, walk this place, but none of them had as much info as you. Good job as always!
I wonder why thru cut out chunks of the houses? Are they going to sell, or auction those pieces, maybe the Christmas Vacation window too?
Oh star commm, thats a rich kid toy line.
Ha! There were a few inexpensive items, but not a lot.
My friend that had the StarCom toys also had the full Wheeled Warriors collection, and had the power glove
@@metaphyzxxgot the power glove that first xmas it came out. What a disappointment. Also got a Manglors years before that, Kmart actually gave us a refund when my mom returned the plastic egg full of dismembered limbs.
There was a tabletop game called Pivot Pool that used to love as a kid.
Pivot Pool? Have to look that one up!
I had a Manglor. Played with it once and in the garbage it went!!! I might have had a Suckerman. Keep up the good work!!!
That sounds about like most folks experience with the Manglors.
I remember getting up at 6 am Saturday mornings to watch Jayce and the wheeled warriors, The Centurions and Saber Rider line up 😊. I actually have a lighting league vehicle and black evil one with the scorpion tail saw blade that is featured here. I have a Star com shuttle i got as a trade with another kid. I still have these up to this day in my garage in the same box with some thunder cats, silver Hawks, mask, heman figures, Ace McCloud 😅
That’s awesome. It’s always nice to have that box of vintage stuff to crack open every couple years and let the memories flow.
This video just settled a 35 year old arguement between me and my brother as to why i ripped the arm off my Manglor😂
Ha! Hey, we’ll take it. Glad to be able to help resolve those sibling conflicts. 😆
I still have my Atari 2600, garbage pail kids trading cards, jarts, records and tapes, 8 tracks & then some
Very nice! Even Jarts!? Well played, sir. 😆
Still have my Boglin from when I was a kid lurking about a shelf...used to drive my brother's little dog hilarious when I brought it to life.
😆😆That’s awesome. I can see my own dogs being freaked out by one. Hmmm. Now I want to try it. 😆
@@RetroDaze 😁
On my 7th birthday (1985) i got a yellow radioshack dash 4x4 moster truck which works still and is emaculate now i chase my 5 year old son with it. I burn through 4 C batteries and carry a spare set when we go to the park its a eye catcher sometimes not as fast or fancy. But she still has it!
I remember also a article in popular science where they had instructions for adapting the truck into the automated robot from "Flight of the Navigator"
That’s awesome! Especially with it still working and being a part of your son’s childhood. Love that so much.
I remember all of these except for Suckerman and Starcom.
Yeah, prior to this video I didn’t recall anything about Suckerman either.
I had completely forgotten about Star Com and Wheeled Warriors until this video, but I'm almost certain that I had at least one of each. I had a Bogglin. I remember the Ring Raiders, but i don't think I ever had one. I must have totally missed the other two.
Despite them both being quality toy lines, they were easily missed as they couldn’t get through the plethora of competition.
I had a few ring raiders when I was a kid. They had some awesome looking jets
They were pretty cool looking and worked well with Hot Wheels toys.
My favorite 80's toy were my french action figures based on the animated tv series The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Oh wow. I’ll have to look those up!
When Speed Racer came back in the early 2000's my son wanted them sooooo badly. Then he was crushed when they didn't come with the action figures and he was so crushed.
I had a Mangler. It got lint and hair all over the torn limbs. It was still fun for a minute.
😆 Yeah, it had that same sticky quality that the wall-clinging octopuses did. Unfortunately if it fell on the carpet it was a mess.
I had the StarCom toys!! they were pretty cool!!
StarCom was a high quality toy series that just couldn’t find its footing in the crowded marketplace.
I completely forgot about Wheeled Warriors!! I’m pretty sure I had a few of them.
Me as well. Actually the Wheeled Warriors are the only line we covered that I know for sure I had some of.
I had a Baby Alive doll, my mom finally threw it away cause the “baby food” it came with did not all come out the other end of the doll!!! It started to get moldy and rotted and the doll smelled worse than poo!!! I think I only had it for a couple of months. But mom didn’t know I tried to put some real mashed food down the doll after the fake stuff went through. In my child mind I thought mashed up carrots or broccoli would “clean her out” for the same reason mom told me to eat it. Ah, the good old days!!! I remember the Wheeled Warriors! Never had the toys but I did watch the show.
Oh geez! 😆 Gotta wonder just how many kids did the EXACT same thing with their doll.
I had Starcom and Boglins and remember Ring raiders and Wheeled Warriors. Stacom had such cool vehicles. I can't believe it failed so hard in America.
It’s too bad as it was such a great toy line!
GI Joe was number one ☝️ .
It was a great toy line! But, definitely NOT forgotten.
Good title! ...I don't remember ANY of those! 😉👌
Ha! Mission accomplished then.
@@RetroDaze Totally!
I had the suction cup monster tentacle thing. It was cool for a little while. I have very little memory of it.
One of those toys that the novelty wore off pretty quickly.
On my 5th birthday, I wanted the Snoopy icee maker. I got a plastic duck with a cheese grater in his butt. It came with a plasic brick shaped mold to fill with water and freeze, and then you had to grate the ice. By the time the water actually froze you had forgotten all about making an icee and if by chance you did remember the next day it took so long to grate the ice all you had was a cup of water. On my 9th birthday I wanted this rc car called Fire Fox so bad. I got Fat Wheels. You literally had to blow up the tires from a little straw that was molded into the tires. Then you had to quickly tuck the straw back into the rim so they wouldn't deflate. It was next to impossible. Every freaking time that stupid car hit anything the straws would pop out and there I was again sitting in the grass try to blow up these tires. My mother promised me the furnished Barbie Dream house for at least three years straight after this after that. Then she got her realtors license, and she promised after she sold her first house. Never happened. Then when I was 16 they supposedly bought me a car. For years, I heard how spoiled I was by my much older boomer siblings. When my parents passed away I was cleaning out their filing cabinet where I found the receipt to my first car. Turns out they had taken the money from my college savings account. I lost all my serotonin pretty early on. If I could find those things now, I would buy them for myself just so I could finally say my childhood dreams came true.
That was always a big disappointment when you were anticipating one thing for a birthday or Christmas, only to get something you didn’t ask for and didn’t work!
Has there been anything you wanted that you finally obtained later in life?
@RetroDaze oh gosh, yes! Tons of things and goals but as far as toys. Not particularly. Although, because was a tom boy and I had five sons no girls I loved going to thrift stores and getting them cool stuff. I found a J. I. Joe Jeep that was made in the early 90s. The lights, and everything worked on it. My boys loved that thing. All those great old transformers and such like things. All those great old toys are in the attic for their kids when those days come. I got to live a whole other childhood through my sons by being a stay at home mom and having that time. Maybe someday I'll have a granddaughter who I can get that Dream house for.
That would be such an amazing thing… to be able to get that for a granddaughter. A truly special way to bond.
I had at least one StarCom toy.
My brother had a few, including the larger shuttle. They were actually pretty nice toys.