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r3v3n63 · 05-26-2012, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by BigHanksCustoms

@r3v3n63: I forgot all about the six million dollar man doll! Red jumpsuit, telescope eye. peel back skin. Did you know you could remove the little bionic block sections? Too cool!

I'm so glad to have grown up in the 70s-80s. Maybe not technically the "best" toys, but the heart and soul was off the charts......

Anyone remember the big ROM you could order out of the comics?

Ab-So-LUTELY
I used to love taking out his bionics and placing them back in as if I was one of the doctors from the beginning of the show making this frankenborg man to go and beat the hell out of Evil Knievel.
I remember ROM coming out about the same time as that frigg'n Alien "Big Chap" figure (79' ish?) ROM has come, evil is on the run! If I remember correctly the guy who designed ROM also did the Milton Bradly Star Bird ship. I'll have to look that up though.
Tangent: I saw Alien in the movie theater when it was released, (so I was about 7,) I was a huge fiend for anything sci-fi but at the time didn't even conceive that horror and science fiction could be put together, they were mutually exclusive ideas that I didn't even think you could mash into one concept. So after bugging my parents to take me to go see the new "space movie" (which I was totally traumatized by) I remember going into a Toys R Us and my dad found an Alien fig out of its box (same isle that had all the big Shogun Warriors, Rodan and that weird vampire bat that you could see it's insides were in) and chased me down the isle with that thing hitting the button on the back of its phallic head making it's wee mouth pop in and out. Scarred the crap out of me.
Regardless... Yeah, there was something real cool about the mid to late 70's, looking back at it you could see the early beginnings of what would become a golden age of action figures (80's) and it was neat to realize that, even if only a consumer, you were part of it. 76 to about 86 was a killer time to be a kid. I know everyone has their magic childhood time and that was it for me; Micronauts, Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Transformers and the whole giant robot craze that went along with it.

05-26-2012, 08:09 AM	#73
r3v3n63 Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 216	Quote: Originally Posted by BigHanksCustoms @r3v3n63: I forgot all about the six million dollar man doll! Red jumpsuit, telescope eye. peel back skin. Did you know you could remove the little bionic block sections? Too cool! I'm so glad to have grown up in the 70s-80s. Maybe not technically the "best" toys, but the heart and soul was off the charts...... Anyone remember the big ROM you could order out of the comics? Ab-So-LUTELY I used to love taking out his bionics and placing them back in as if I was one of the doctors from the beginning of the show making this frankenborg man to go and beat the hell out of Evil Knievel. I remember ROM coming out about the same time as that frigg'n Alien "Big Chap" figure (79' ish?) ROM has come, evil is on the run! If I remember correctly the guy who designed ROM also did the Milton Bradly Star Bird ship. I'll have to look that up though. Tangent: I saw Alien in the movie theater when it was released, (so I was about 7,) I was a huge fiend for anything sci-fi but at the time didn't even conceive that horror and science fiction could be put together, they were mutually exclusive ideas that I didn't even think you could mash into one concept. So after bugging my parents to take me to go see the new "space movie" (which I was totally traumatized by) I remember going into a Toys R Us and my dad found an Alien fig out of its box (same isle that had all the big Shogun Warriors, Rodan and that weird vampire bat that you could see it's insides were in) and chased me down the isle with that thing hitting the button on the back of its phallic head making it's wee mouth pop in and out. Scarred the crap out of me. Regardless... Yeah, there was something real cool about the mid to late 70's, looking back at it you could see the early beginnings of what would become a golden age of action figures (80's) and it was neat to realize that, even if only a consumer, you were part of it. 76 to about 86 was a killer time to be a kid. I know everyone has their magic childhood time and that was it for me; Micronauts, Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Transformers and the whole giant robot craze that went along with it. __________________ Personal Sculpting Blawg http://monster-zer0.blogspot.com/ Last edited by r3v3n63; 05-26-2012 at 08:18 AM..