What do you wish was still available from when you were a kid...Non BT

[CrossfirePilot]

This started as a work conversation.  We were wanting the old file folders back that we had in school with band logos on the front and other cool stuff (from our time).  I remember being in 6th grade and having a Molly Hatchet folder.  So what would everyone else like to have back?  And from when? And why?

I want me old 70s and 80s metal band paper folders to be sold again. Because nothing says Bad IT PM like having your project papers stored in an Iron Maiden folder!

[Stormlion1]

My old atari, used to love playing missile command and adventure back in the day.

[Neko_Bijin]

I'd like the old version of the Game of Life.

[TS_Hawk]

I don't know this is tough because when i was kid we really didn't have all that cool stuff except for big wheels :P  And GI Joe with Kung Fu grip

[greatsarcasmo]

M.A.S.K. I remember liking the hell out of that show.
Exo-Squad, too!

[roosterboy]

Spider-Man suction dart web shooter

Space:1999 stun gun that shot little plastic disks (no picture of that particular one, but you can get the idea from the others)

Space:1999 Eagle spaceship from Mattel

Mego Batman and Robin

Mego Batmobile

Mego Batcave playset

Pretty much anything Micronauts

[CrossfirePilot]

So how would you all use these items if you could get them again?

[Marwynn]

I'd want a simpler version of Trivial Pursuit, I think it was version 3 in the mid 90s. My friends and I played recently and the things were just too obscure...

[Arkansas Warrior]

$0.75/gallon gasoline.   ;D

[CrossfirePilot]

$0.75/gallon gasoline.   ;D

yeah don't we all...i cry when i see old movies and it says $.05/gal...

[Arkansas Warrior]

My dad talks about being in college (for reference, this would've been around the time of the Kennedy Assassination) and filling up the tank by pooling pocket change among the guys he was carpooling with.

[TS_Hawk]

Spider-Man suction dart web shooter

Space:1999 stun gun that shot little plastic disks (no picture of that particular one, but you can get the idea from the others)

Space:1999 Eagle spaceship from Mattel

Mego Batman and Robin

Mego Batmobile

Mego Batcave playset

Pretty much anything Micronauts

I saw the Space 1999 Eagle 1 on a certain auction site...

[RunandFindOut]

My dad talks about being in college (for reference, this would've been around the time of the Kennedy Assassination) and filling up the tank by pooling pocket change among the guys he was carpooling with.

Don't remind me, I still remember when I could fill the tank on my truck up with a twenty and have enough change left over for lunch at McDonald's.  Now I pay more to fill up the tank once than I do for a month's insurance, and I don't have cheapskate insurance.

Call me nostalgic but I miss this no-name local soda they used to sell in my town when I was growing up.  The company ran out of an old Coca-Cola bottling plant they'd bought when Coke stopped using it, the bottles were plain glass with no logos or anything and it sold in all the local gas stations and corner stores.  They only made grape, orange, and cherry sodas.  But they were the best soda I ever had.  If I remember right the business went under and stopped production when I was in 6th grade.

[bytor]

Tough one for sure.  I can't really thing of anything like an item that I could most likely get from somewhere, like a certain auction site.

Ok, here's something, which is obviously completely impossible..........my dog, a black lab named "Happy" (the name fits, she was always a happy dog).  I was too young to remember when we got her, but she died when I was 12.

[I am Belch II]

I dont know if anyone remember the Mega Force toys. Some of those toys would work awesome for Landships!!!

[Ghost0402]

I dont know if anyone remember the Mega Force toys. Some of those toys would work awesome for Landships!!!

The tanks and other small units make great stand ins for CBT units.

[ClarkeMarek]

A TI/99/4A, an Apple IIe(OK, so I had one years after the fact), and all my old issues of Family Computing.

[Khymerion]

I dont know if anyone remember the Mega Force toys. Some of those toys would work awesome for Landships!!!

I will add my vote for this one.   Diecast construction.   It's a lost art.    They were the perfect size.

I will also add in Micromachines... the older small size for the ground vehicles... not the bigger ones that came later (too big for CBT, though just right for MW:DA)...  though their spacecraft lines made for great stand ins for many a wargame and still don't look bad on the table top... though need a bit of a touch up.

[awclawson]

Drug stores.  I miss the old style drug stores.  Penny candy, soda fountain machines, sundaes served in a fancy glass, sitting at the bar watching them make the sundae and soda drinks (carbonated water and flavor).  Having a soda, cheeseburger and fries for less than a dollar while reading the twenty five cent comic you just bought.

[Neko_Bijin]

Drug stores.  I miss the old style drug stores.  Penny candy, soda fountain machines, sundaes served in a fancy glass, sitting at the bar watching them make the sundae and soda drinks (carbonated water and flavor).  Having a soda, cheeseburger and fries for less than a dollar while reading the twenty five cent comic you just bought.

Hell yes.  And while we're at it, how about a coin operated video game other than Street Fighter?

[Hersh67]

Karate Champ!!!  Just watched Feris Bueller's Day Off yesterday and noticed it in the one scene.  :) 

We *still* have an Apple IIe.  Not that it's doing anything, but we still have it.

Then there's the being able to watch 3 hours of programing *without* a single swear word...

The idea that it's Okay (or even possibly preferable) for the Good Guy to shoot (and kill) the Bad Guy. 

[Drop Bear]

Jacaranda Creamed Rice

Issue One Comics

DTF Gaming Magazines

Drive-in movies

Coulom Shift Manual Cars

CC's corn-chips that follows it's own pack color coding instead of truing to copy American brands

Venues in Pubs so I can go and listen to some good unsigned talent, and big names doing Covers or testing out new material under assumed band names

Bris-Con

Interlock System RPG's (gods I miss C-Punk 2020 & Mekton)

Anime on SBS on a Saturday night (stuck in between either the soccer or the Kung-Fu movie and the late night Porn)

Not having to be "Political Correct", I miss Comedy acts like Keven "Bloody" Wilson, Rodney Rude, Austantasous and their ilk

[glitterboy2098]

I dont know if anyone remember the Mega Force toys. Some of those toys would work awesome for Landships!!!

I will add my vote for this one.   Diecast construction.   It's a lost art.    They were the perfect size.

I will also add in Micromachines... the older small size for the ground vehicles... not the bigger ones that came later (too big for CBT, though just right for MW:DA)...  though their spacecraft lines made for great stand ins for many a wargame and still don't look bad on the table top... though need a bit of a touch up.

i miss both the megaforce toys and the Micromachines military vehicles. sure, they were a bit larger scale than 6mm, but given how big BT vees tend to be for their mass, they don't look that out of place. most of my non-mech forces are micromachines.

also, i miss Lego Pirates as a standard part of the lego lineup.. nowadays when it comes around it's a handful of kits and all basically limited runs.

[mathesont]

Real Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys and Meccano sets.

[Sigma]

Man, most of these are physical things and are still available if you know where to look (I actually turned down one of those Space 1999 Eagles just 6 months ago in a trade).

I want 1980's 14% interest rates on CD's. Borrowers gonna weep, savers gonna reap.

[TS_Hawk]

Real Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys and Meccano sets.

Have you looked at Kmart for the lincoln logs and tinker toys?  I know when I was working at the one where I live they had those and they were still selling along with the erector kits

Curious when hearing about the Mega Force toys you are not referring to that god awful movie that was made in the late 70's or early 80's?

[roosterboy]

Man, most of these are physical things and are still available if you know where to look (I actually turned down one of those Space 1999 Eagles just 6 months ago in a trade).

Well, of course you can still get them if you know where to look and put forth enough effort. But that's not the same as them "still being around" in the sense that the OP strongly implied.

[Drop Bear]

The Bomb, Things where built so cheap lots of things weren't built to last because the War could start next week and you don't need cheap "Stuff" when that one kicks off. stuff was built so cheap they couldn't help but pass the savings on to the consumer and if you liked it you could afford to buy two to replace your first one that busted on you or step up to the next model.

either that or things where built to survive an Atomic War & it's Aftermath so regular priced things ended up working forever.

Also Liquorice Straps & Twirls, so much better than this "Soft Eating Liquorice" we get today, half the fun of Liquorice was the chewing

[GRUD]

Curious when hearing about the Mega Force toys you are not referring to that god awful movie that was made in the late 70's or early 80's?

Hey, I liked that movie when it came out!   ;D  Of course, I've only seen it once or twice since then, and the last time was shortly after it came out on VIDEO TAPE!  :o Chances are, it hasn't aged as well as I'd like to remember.   :-\


As for things from my childhood that I'd like:

Milkshake candy bars.   [drool]
Choc-ola chocolate soda. (Usually drank while eating a Milkshake!)
Comic Books: GI Combat (with The Haunted Tank and Sgt Rock), Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandoes.
Cartoons: Thundarr the Barbarian, The Herculoids.

And while I'm Dreaming, Star Wars: A New Hope, un "Enhanced", in it's Original Form, before a certain nitwit started adding to it and making other changes.  :P

[Von Jankmon]

Innocence.

The internet (and mobile phones) tell kids too many things too soon.