Ooooh! Anotehr good memory! Big Trak! Why don't they make cool toys like that anymore? Gawd I miss being a kid! I think I still am a kid, but people looked at me funny when I played with this stuff into my late teens, so think what they see now at 40!

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MutoidMan Wrote:Just goes to show that real geeks love Big Trak! Big Trak on Mars!

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That was awesome!

The Big Trak on Mars!

You know - If the Big Trak had it's own built in Armatron, it could have flipped itself over - he he he
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MutoidMan Wrote:I can see Big Trak driving into an army of action figures, mercilessly running down many, using its photon cannon to vaporize more, and using its menacing robot arm to capture the few survivors and deposit them in the Transport to be returned to the Big Trak's alien masters for dissection! Ah, the possibilities!

Yeah - if something like that existed back then, I'm pretty sure I'd never leave the house. Between a toy that cool, and Atari, there wouldn't have been any reason to leave the house. Nope. It would have been too cool to stay inside and menace all my Star Wars figures with my giant, robotic, armed, tank of death!

MutoidMan Wrote:Heh - menace your Star Wars figures - good one! You sure your real name isn't Frank Castle? You know, The Punisher? Yeah, between that and action figures and Atari 2600, the only valid reason for leaving home is to get more Atari cartridges or more action figures!

** lowers head in shame **

Sorry about the pun. Sometimes I just can't help myself - I mean, they just pop in there...

You know - it's interesting how us TRON fans and 30 somethings have the fondest memories of the coolest electronic toys of the 70's and 80's.

Perhaps it's even more interesting that probably none of us would hesitate for a second to get right on the ground and start playing with any of these toys again TODAY!

I mean, as soon as I got my Armatron working again, I just HAD to start playing around with it and pick up a few small objects... and then move them a few inches from where they were.

If I had my hands on a Big Trak, or Omnibot or whatever... I'd forget my age, and have at it! Wait a minute... I HAVE an Omnibot in the basement! BUT... it does not work. It's rechargeable battery died several years back. The toy robot was my brothers, but I saved it from the trash in 1996 when my parents sold the house we grew up in. The poor thing just sits on a shelf in the basement collecting dust. I'll have to see if I can get another battery for it sometime.

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TheReelTodd Wrote: ** lowers head in shame ** Sorry about the pun. Sometimes I just can't help myself - I mean, they just pop in there...

In my best Frank Oz Yoda voice mmmm, lower your head do not, your puns I like, yes, mmmmm

TheReelTodd Wrote: You know - it's interesting how us TRON fans and 30 somethings have the fondest memories of the coolest electronic toys of the 70's and 80's. Perhaps it's even more interesting that probably none of us would hesitate for a second to get right on the ground and start playing with any of these toys again TODAY! I mean, as soon as I got my Armatron working again, I just HAD to start playing around with it and pick up a few small objects... and then move them a few inches from where they were. If I had my hands on a Big Trak, or Omnibot or whatever... I'd forget my age, and have at it! Wait a minute... I HAVE an Omnibot in the basement! BUT... it does not work. It's rechargeable battery died several years back. The toy robot was my brothers, but I saved it from the trash in 1996 when my parents sold the house we grew up in. The poor thing just sits on a shelf in the basement collecting dust. I'll have to see if I can get another battery for it sometime. Another very cool 80's robotic toy!

If I ever hit the lottery... I would probably strain my wife's understanding to its absolute limits... I'd have to buy up all of that old stuff! In fact, I would have to have a special climate-controlled room in my mansion (remember, I'm imagining that I won the lottery here) just for my toys!

Of course, I would also have a climate-controlled garage for my other toys: 1969 and 1970 AMC AMX, 1974 AMC Javelin AMX, 1969 Dodge Daytona and 1970 Plymouth Superbird, 1969 and 1970 Oldsmobile Toronado, 1978 GMC 26' MotorHome, and more... ah yes, I would live like a king! A king I say!

You guys are too completely adorable. This stuff kicks butt all over my Holly Hobbie dolls!

Well...not over my Holly Hobbie Gazebo, though.

TheReelTodd Wrote:Which reminds me of "ROM" - another COOL late 70's toy that I STILL have... and think it still works too! I'll have to take a photo sometime. Remember ROM? No, not "RAM's" evil twin, this guy was a robotic action figure with glowing eyes, rocket pack that lit up, and interchangeable guns (that also lit up). It played a variety of cool sound FX. My favorite sound was the eerie electronic breathing!

Ha-haaa! ROM Spaceknight! I always wanted that figure because it looked so AWESOME! TheReelTodd, you are a lucky man to still have yours, and in working order yet! Cool!

Though I never had the figure, I do still have my Marvel ROM Spaceknight comics. ROM was (and still is) one of my favorite comic book characters.

Toys from the 1970's and early 1980's had so much imagination behind them.

Electronics were just becoming cheap enough to make it economical to put them into toys, and the toy designers went nuts!

Even toys that didn't have electronics in them had 10X more imagination than anthing you see today. Now, every toy is "collectable" from the outset (even if no one wants it) and many really don't seem to have much imagination behind their creation.

Man, I just wanna go back in time with ten grand in my pocket. The stuff I would come back with... wow!

I think the people who played with Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs and Lego bricks might have said the same about us. Have you ever noticed how many cool toys come from the early part of the 20th century? There is some neat stuff out there.

I think the problem nowdays is the fact that there is too much of it. It's over produced. Toys we played with as kids are more rare because there were not that many out there and very few survive. I expect to see Star Wars Action figures on shelves when I reincarnate in some other form a thousand years from now. order abortion pill morning after pill price where to buy abortion pill

DaveTRON Wrote:I think the people who played with Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs and Lego bricks might have said the same about us. Have you ever noticed how many cool toys come from the early part of the 20th century? There is some neat stuff out there. I think the problem nowdays is the fact that there is too much of it. It's over produced. Toys we played with as kids are more rare because there were not that many out there and very few survive. I expect to see Star Wars Action figures on shelves when I reincarnate in some other form a thousand years from now.

When I was a kid I played with Tinkertoys, Lincoln Logs, a few Lego bricks, lots of American Bricks (the original wood ones from the 1950's, not the plastic ones), Tente bricks and a tiny little bit of Erector Set. It didn't have to be an action figure to spark my imagination; although, I do have to say that American Bricks are at just the right scale to enable one to make AWESOME multilevel fortresses for 3.75" figures!

The beauty of growing up in the 1970's for me was that you could still get your hands on super-cool old stuff at mom & pop stores that kept unsold stock on shelves until it sold, even if it was thirty years later. Electric racing and electric trains were still big, and you also had all this great new stuff coming out. I had an Ideal TCR (Total Control Racing) slotless racing set (man, it was boss, slotless racing ROCKS) and a Tyco electric train set. I loved that stuff!

Bottom line is this: If it is cool, I can probably appreciate it.

I had an Armitron

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