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Love this thread! Here are a few pics of my behind the bar area that I use to display some of my favorite toys and memories along with a few newer things that find their way back there. The lower area has most of my older yo-yo collection. Please excuse the dust!
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05E5CB0B-3344-479F-9CD2-39034DE25EA8 (resized).jpegC463B766-45E6-4858-AFE2-75CEE58C7F6C (resized).jpegQuoted from mbeardsley:What, no Virtual Boy?
Dammit, I hear that every time I share this pic anywhere, LOL! 
No...sadly no VB. I wanted one, but never got it. I keep meaning to pick one up, but prices keep going up and up. Would love to find a CIB one to match with the rest of mine, but I haven't talked myself into dropping that kind of money on something that will not actually get much use.
Any other ‘80s kids remember this beauty? Mad Scientist Dissect an Alien. I had a bunch of these sets but he was my favorite. You can take out all of his organs and it’s basically a puzzle to put them back in. It came with slime to put in as blood too. Unfortunately his soft plastic skin is degrading and permanently sticky but I still love him.
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pasted_image (resized).pngpasted_image (resized).pngpasted_image (resized).pngpasted_image (resized).pngpasted_image (resized).pngpasted_image (resized).pngQuoted from Atari_Daze:Warning, those are NOT gumballs![quoted image]
I LOVE that idea but have heard warnings of people doing this and having their globes explode. Pinballs weigh a lot more than gumballs. Not sure how much that glass can take. Looks awesome though!
This bike was given to me by my parents for my birthday when I turned seven. A few years back my Dad restored it and gave it to me again for my birthday. My daughter was the same age at the time as I was when I first got it. Spent many, many miles on this bike. My daughter has since put a couple of her own on it and I have put on a few more even if it’s a hair small now.
One of my “best” other memories of it was playing football tag on bikes with the neighbors. Was a small, squishy ball. And of course a perfect throw jammed in between my frame and front tire sending me ass-over-teakettle in the gravel. Lots of scrapes and blood but a memory forever, lol.
A5636105-6D6E-4EA8-975F-0C4CF67D3DCC (resized).jpegQuoted from girloveswaffles:Do you have a Famicom or Super Famicom in your collection?
Nope..just the US stuff. When I was a kid I had no idea what a Famicom was!
Quoted from AlexF:My wife and I don't smoke but have been buying vintage packs of cigarettes when we see them. They are for display in our old 1940s cigarette machine. We like to have the brands that our parents/grandparents smoked. Realistically we should probably hate them because contributed to quite a few family members deaths. It's funny though because seeing these brands around the house are also a part of childhood nostalgia.[quoted image]
I have no love or nostalgia for cigarettes, but the old machines are cool. I just saw this one last week at our local library that had been converted to sell small pieces of art. It was beautiful and a really neat way to repurpose a cool old machine.
23BCD2BA-33F1-4473-8CA9-5E92F495E913 (resized).jpeg51E21B31-079E-40FB-927A-0F4AD336748A (resized).jpegQuoted from Viggin900:Early 80's our Service Merchandise had these in the showroom as you entered on a wall to the right. There were different characters and they would spit water and creepily laugh at you. It gave my brother and I nightmares but we always went back again to pull the tie until I got older. Great memory.
YES! One of those creepy bastards terrorized me as a kid, but I can't for the life of me place where it was. LOL Wow I had forgot all about that thing (or just suppressed the memory, ha!).
Quoted from Viggin900:I just watched a Toy Galaxy episode that reminded me of these. I always wanted the Entertech Uzi or Rambo m16 with reloadable water clips. Any kid we played squirt gun/grenade army with who had one was unstoppable. This was my red rider gun growing up.
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Yes! Those were the best, before those crappy Super Soakers took over. I had two of them...the Waterhawk was my favorite, and I also had a Beretta that was unfortunately a later model after they started making them neon colors. I actually still have them somewhere...found them a few years ago. The motors still run, but the seals must have disintegrated over the years as I couldn't get them to pump water. Great memories of epic neighborhood battles though!
Quoted from cottonm4:With regards to puzzle games there was one I played when my cousin's kid brought it to the family reunions. I could not remember what it was. Yesterday, at a family gathering, I saw the now grown kid and ask him about what game it was.
He still has this game. It is by Milton-Bradley. It is called Cathedral. Object: throw all the pieces on the table and then try to get then all back on the board. They only fit one way. I never could complete the game. Good puzzle.
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Cathedral is a great game! It is still made today and there have been many versions released over the years. My wife found a nice looking wood one at a thrift shop a little while back. As Dan mentioned, the rules are different than you described, although the "get them all back on the board" puzzle is definitely a part of the clean-up experience!
If you like this sort of game, Blokus is another with a similar goal and is pretty easy to find.
Quoted from Azmodeus:I have not seen any muscle men in any of the places if been in last seven years. Not a one I don’t think.
I had a bunch before, all gone now.
If you like them, this website shows them all.
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I still have a box of these guys packed away. I will try to get some pics next time I run across them. Absolutely loved them! I had no idea they were worth anything as they weren't all that crazy popular back in the day even.
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