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El_Marsh posted...

I think you're about the same age as my older cousin and he had quite a few of these. They became my jam. He also had some little 6 inch (?) figures and although he didn't have a lot of GI Joe figures, he made sure to have a Sgt Slaughter figure. The favorite thing that I remember was he had a smaller Junkyard Dog figure that he made his own metal chains for. That was probably my favorite of his whole collection (the LJN Randy Savage figure was a close second, faded though his paint had become).

As for my own toys, one of the less common things that I had was a King Kong toy that had fur (I don't know if it would qualify as a plush since it was solid beneath the fur and had plastic face and hands). Must have been a good 20 inches or so, as it was much larger than my TMNT and Transformers figures.

Also, like most boys (and many girls), I had a fascination with toy cars and my favorite toy car ever was a a cherry red remote control cabriolet coupe. That sucker was *huge* (mind you, I was 8 years old when I got it) and it was hard to go back to Hot Wheels afterward lol.

Thinking on it, my sister and I didn't get new toys very often, but my folks always went bugnuts at Christmas for us. We were incredibly fortunate.

I wasnt big into GI Joe but had a neighbor who was and hearing you talk about them and stuff like your cousin making his own accessories to stuff just makes me reminisce so much about playing outside in the dirt, making like dioramas of towns/bases and putting those GI Joe and my A-Team figures in there and using Stompers and hot wheels/matchbox cars and building roads, jumps, areas with water, all kinds of stuff.

Just the imagination and time we would spend literally playing in dirt lol. Good times.