Old plastic warrior-toys

[Kyriakos]

I just googled the name of an old plastic toy set i was busy playing with before i owned my first ever computer. The images seemed interesting still, and i recall a number of those figures

^One of the smaller boxes one coudl buy of the figures.

^Four of them. Their arms were removable, and they also had weapons.

^One of the manuals depicting some of the figures, along with a description of the game (you had to place a square sticker onto the torso part of each figure, in the square space there, and according to the quality presented in that sticker- water, fire, wood- you would win or lose against the enemy figure. The actual sticker would be covered by your finger up to the point of the battle.

The collection was called Εξωγήινοι Τερατομάχοι (Eksogeinoi teratomachoi/ Alien Monsterwarriors). Part of it was produced by a Greek toy company, titled "El Greco". I think that other parts of the collection were made in Italy, such as the following, which is the Pyramid/larger size of the toy box:

Nice memories from when i was 7 years old

-Feel free to discuss old plastic warrior-toys you used in pre-puberty. I titled the thread in this way because ideally it should not include Lego or Playmobil, both of which were massively popular but had a different, far more savory, image. While those plastic warriors were on the brutal side of things

 

[Perfection]

My Lego dudes totally would brutalize your alien scum.

 

[Kyriakos]

I doubt there is any lego which would look more brutal to a child than the Minotaur here:

Or at least there used to be no lego of equal brutality. Now there is always the Cthulego:

(which looks mostly like a stupid robot, though).

 

[Antilogic]

... is that a mecha-Cthulhu?

 

[classical_hero]

I had the old transformers when I was younger. I don't have any toys from when I younger, since most of them got destroyed or given to others.

 

[cybrxkhan]

My Lego dudes totally would brutalize your alien scum.

Yeah, Lego Dudes beat everything.

Including die-cast toy cars (Hotwheels, etc.). Before I stopped playing with those things I used to have my legos and toy cars fight epic battles. You know, where lego guys with pikes would skewer cars like horses.


Thankfully I still have a large chunk of those old toys somewhere in the garage. I hope if I ever do have children they'll enjoy it as much as I did.

 

[Kyriakos]

I also had some of these soldiers (they were called "Code Zero" ) :

The evil side was some sort of terrorist group which broke into the good side's base using a schoobus (not sure just why a military base would allow a school bus to enter in the first place ).

They also had a monoplane and some other interesting vehicles.

 

[Lone Wolf]

I doubt there is any lego which would look more brutal to a child than the Minotaur here:

The doggy, on lower row, second from the left, is so cute

 

[Kyriakos]

My first ever plastic warrior-toys were the following, which iirc i got when i was 5 or 6:

The local version was made by the same Greek toy company, but it seems there was a foreign version, called "crossbows and catapults". The local one translates to "castles and besiegers". It was the battle between two human sides, a vaguely dark-era western european one, and a clearly viking one. It also included a number of monsters such as a Cyclops, a Dragon and a Minotaur

Actually it had quite an interesting battle-plan/rules too:

Spoiler :

I think one had to capture the enemy flags, by killing the defenders with the use of catapults or balistas. Some alternative conditions of victory also existed but i do not recall them now

 

[Phrossack]

My best friend had an entire playroom dedicated to literally thousands of toy soldiers, tanks, planes, ships, and a bunch of Thomas the Tank Engine sets, plus some tables with grass and lakes painted on them. We set up countries with diplomacy, warfare, terrorism, economies, politics, and so on. But mainly warfare and terrorism. He was (and is) obsessed with trains, and trains, rail transport, and their related construction projects came to dominate the room. I got sick of it and came to resent trains, and I made some of the toy cowboys "Train Robbers". Their goal was to cause as much destruction to all things rail as humanly possible, and they constantly blew up the tracks and set off bombs in the fuel cars. The playroom went on from I can't remember when to when we were about 12 or so, I think.

 

[cybrxkhan]

My best friend had an entire playroom dedicated to literally thousands of toy soldiers, tanks, planes, ships, and a bunch of Thomas the Tank Engine sets, plus some tables with grass and lakes painted on them. We set up countries with diplomacy, warfare, terrorism, economies, politics, and so on. But mainly warfare and terrorism. He was (and is) obsessed with trains, and trains, rail transport, and their related construction projects came to dominate the room. I got sick of it and came to resent trains, and I made some of the toy cowboys "Train Robbers". Their goal was to cause as much destruction to all things rail as humanly possible, and they constantly blew up the tracks and set off bombs in the fuel cars. The playroom went on from I can't remember when to when we were about 12 or so, I think.

That sounds pretty epic.

When we were young my brother and I would build up a big Lego and wooden train civilization on this playtable with grass and lakes and stuff (it was meant for wooden trains). We'd play through its history - when the first settlement was found ala Ancient Egypt, and then have it progress to a semi-modern socialist society where every Lego person was given a blue, red, yellow, and white brick (representing water, non-wheat and non-rice food, wheat, and rice). This state would then found Lego "colonies" in other parts of our playroom and even into the adjacent family room (which pissed off my parents) connected by wooden trains.

Epic times, epic times. We also stopped around middle school, but thankfully we continued playing with our imaginations using Civilization and Simcity, so I feel we never really lost that creative spirit, even to this day.

 

[timtofly]

This would about sum up the Plastic Toys of my day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8emRNypGDC8

 

[FriendlyFire]

I had jack all as a poor kid.
All I had was an very old push bike and until highschool when I got an Amiga

 

[Kyriakos]

The Amiga used to be on the quite expensive side of things, though. So i am not sure if you were joking.

Those plastic toys were most of the time quite cheap (at least the generic, non-complex-vehicle inclusive ones). Lego and Playmobil were more expensive, but the other plastic toy-soldiers could be bought (and were meant to be) by the child using his own allowance money in the pre-puberty age, so a very small amount at any rate.

 

[Synobun]

As a child, all I had was a single bag of these guys.

They were $1 so my parents saw that as a great way to cop out of providing me anything else except, well, a single bag of those. I also had a smallish action figure with bendable arms and legs, and it had a flexible spine so it could "emulate" a person. Pretty fun toy for the bathtub.

Edit: I forgot about one thing. I stole a small bag of K-nex from school when I was little.

Had a lot of potential, but I didn't have enough to make anything more than make-shift "bombs" that were used in battlefields with the plastic soldiers.

 

[Kyriakos]

I just searched for "Lovecraft toys" and some rather interesting things came up...

I like this one, titled "HP Lovecraft's Marriage councilor": (in spoiler due to its size)

Spoiler :

I am sure every poor kid will be able to afford this too:

 

[CavLancer]

I find it amazing that children who played with mech toys are now able to express themselves in another way. I played with the same soldiers Synsensa did and before that it was metal musketmen. I really wish still I had some of those.