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What was your "Must have" toy?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, May 7, 2008.

  1. lono

    lono Active Member

    Here's Yawn's:

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  2. kokane_muthashed

    kokane_muthashed Active Member

    That picture brings back memories. I had a bike just like it.
    I had just turned 12 (I think) and received a red 10 speed for my birthday. I had asked for one since most of my friends, who were older, had 10 speeds. Days after I got it, an old friend of mine moved back from California and rode to my house on a chrome GT 24-inch cruiser bike. He started racing BMX while in Cali. He brought with him issues of BMX Plus and opened up a new world for me.
    Couple of days after that, I convinced my mom to let me take the 10 speed back (because the chain kept sleeping off, which was the truth) and I got a Stu Thomsen bike instead. My 4-year BMX racing career started two or three weeks later. I bet my mom cursed herself for ever taking the 10 speed back since, for the next 4 years, she was driving me to nearly every Super National or Grand National event in the tri-state region.
    Huffys weren't really known for their quality, but the Thomsen bike was top-of-the-line as far as department store bikes were concerned. I loved that thing. I rode it hard for a year until I cracked the weld near the seatpost clamp. Track officials wouldn't let me race her anymore. *Sniff* I had some money saved up and bought a chrome GT Mach One frame and fork for twice what I paid for the Huffy a year before.

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  3. Beaker

    Beaker Active Member

    If it was Yawn's, she'd be wearing a Che Guevara disguise.
     
  4. writing irish

    writing irish Active Member

    Also, I should have included...
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  5. I seem to recall all the cool kids of the day having Diamondback bikes, which ran at least $100-$120 bucks. That was in my neck of the woods.
     
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  6. Piotr Rasputin

    Piotr Rasputin New Member

  7. Monday Morning Sportswriter

    Monday Morning Sportswriter Well-Known Member

  8. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

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    First toy I remember getting. Remember unwrapping it so vividly and how excited I was. I played with it until it disintegrated. It didn't matter that I had any other toys, because that was the only toy that mattered. I made makeshift ramps and it had it jump over everything I could find. Looking back, it cracks me up how low-tech the thing really was and how entertained I was by it!
     
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  9. KYSportsWriter

    KYSportsWriter Well-Known Member

    Lincoln Logs.

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  10. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    I'd attach the metal legs and eventually, the shaking of the game would cause the legs to chew through the sides of the game
     
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  11. writing irish

    writing irish Active Member

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  12. kokane_muthashed

    kokane_muthashed Active Member

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