Coolest toy you had as a kid

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A Mattel Big Wheel when I was little then a Schwinn Cotton Picker like this except mine had a tall sissy bar on the rear.
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While this isn't my actual bike, I have a twin. 2005 Schwinn Spoiler. It's a 7.5' long bike. One of 1000 made, and only sold at the Schwinn dealers. I paid $650 for it new, and it has only about one mile on it. It qualifies for this thread, as it still brings out the kid in me...
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I had the Evel Knievel toy bike too...Id jump that thing over anything including the stairs inside our house in England.
I progressed to the Raliegh Grifter at the age of 14 (as my parents knew if I had a BMX if I'd be doing the some stupid things on it )...well I showed them I can be stupid on anything and jumped 10 kids at the local park, off a very dodgy looking homemade ramp. haha
Yes I bent the front forks and was grounded for weeks...but I did clear the kids haha
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I remember the Evel Knievel stunt cycles. The cousin had one. Cool toy, for sure! He and I were heavy into HO scale slot cars, and use to set up a "drag strip" down my aunt's long hallway. The Tyco cars were the fastest ones, as I recall.
 
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BryanB said:
Nostalgia. This thread may go on for awhile. Couple more favorites for me from the late 70's. Mattel Electronic Football, Football 2 and Baseball. I still have these games.
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I still have the football game; the one in the first pic. By still have, I mean I won a retro one a couple of years ago in a white elephant party, but it is exactly the same one just newer. I remember getting the original from the bargain basement at Sears when I was a kid.

I didn't grow up with much money, but It is hard to say what was my favorite, but I might be able to narrow it down to 3 things

1 Erector set. In case you don't know it is a mechanical robot type kit. It had nuts and bolts, and metal and wheels and string. It was really a set of parts to build whatever you can with it.

2 Hot Wheels. I had a huge collection of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. Of which, I would build garages out of my erector set haha

3 My bike. Man I was free on my bike. I would ride from sun up, to sun down everyday. It was my freedom for sure! I guess it was probably my favorite. It was a Huffy frame, but down the street was a Schwin bike shop, and for years anytime I would get money, I would go down and by parts to fix up my Huffy. It was the heaviest most awesome BMX bike around haha. (Remember anodized goose neck stems, and Tuff Wheels?)
 
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ac_ said:
I still have the football game; the one in the first pic. By still have, I mean I won a retro one a couple of years ago in a white elephant party, but it is exactly the same one just newer. I remember getting the original from the bargain basement at Sears when I was a kid.

I didn't grow up with much money, but It is hard to say what was my favorite, but I might be able to narrow it down to 3 things

1 Erector set. In case you don't know it is a mechanical robot type kit. It had nuts and bolts, and metal and wheels and string. It was really a set of parts to build whatever you can with it.

2 Hot Wheels. I had a huge collection of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. Of which, I would build garages out of my erector set haha

3 My bike. Man I was free on my bike. I would ride from sun up, to sun down everyday. It was my freedom for sure! I guess it was probably my favorite. It was a Huffy frame, but down the street was a Schwin bike shop, and for years anytime I would get money, I would go down and by parts to fix up my Huffy. It was the heaviest most awesome BMX bike around haha. (Remember anodized goose neck stems, and Tuff Wheels?)
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haha I remember the Huffy ...I had Tuff 2 wheels on mine
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ac_ said:
2 Hot Wheels. I had a huge collection of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. Of which, I would build garages out of my erector set haha

3 My bike. Man I was free on my bike. I would ride from sun up, to sun down everyday. It was my freedom for sure! I guess it was probably my favorite. It was a Huffy frame, but down the street was a Schwin bike shop, and for years anytime I would get money, I would go down and by parts to fix up my Huffy. It was the heaviest most awesome BMX bike around haha. (Remember anodized goose neck stems, and Tuff Wheels?)
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I swear, we're related...

So, do you ever purchase as an adult what you wanted (or had) as a child? I ended up with over 600 Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and Johnny Lightning cars. I also had 34 bicycles. I've since brought it down to around 300 cars and 23 bikes, because, you know...I'm all grown up. ;)
 
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I have a couple of bikes now. I have a medium size Gary Fisher Mountain bike and a Fat Tire sikk Beach Cruiser, because I still like to get out and ride, although I do wish I had more time for riding. Most of my bikes now have motors now though.

I do have some Hot Wheels, but mostly now I have some that I collect like Jeeps, and trucks. I do have a lot of die cast motorcycles now.
 
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I think mine were black. Do you remember how heavy they were, but how sweet they were because they never had to be trued up?
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Everything on my Grifter was heavy, so when I got my own money from a paper round I bought a used Huffy it seemed really light haha...a richer mate of mine was given a diamond back for Christmas it was then I realised how heavy it was haha....but it survived anything I put it through though.
your right about the wheels they never got bent out of shape...I remember a myth about them saying if they got buckled put them on the freezer and they will pull back..haha
 
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Like you, I got used to my Huffy with the Tuff Wheels, and I built it myself. My friends dad built my friend a Powerlight from the frame up. He painted it pearl white. That thing shined, and it was so light. I was alway so jealous, but I could put my Huffy through anything he could with his Powerlight, but I sure wanted that bike!
 
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ac_ said:
I have a couple of bikes now. I have a medium size Gary Fisher Mountain bike and a Fat Tire sikk Beach Cruiser, because I still like to get out and ride, although I do wish I had more time for riding. Most of my bikes now have motors now though.

I do have some Hot Wheels, but mostly now I have some that I collect like Jeeps, and trucks. I do have a lot of die cast motorcycles now.
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Gary fisher are great bikes, had one years ago it was a yellow and red Cronus. I was driving home from work one morning and a lady rear ended my car with my bike hanging off the back, she replaced my Gary fisher with a Merlin xlm all xtr, Chris king head set, with a judy front shock, and mavic cross max wheels, gram shavers dream.
 
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Right here - the Gerry Lopez "Lightening Bolt" surfboard.

I grew up surfing all of So Cal (70s and 80s), and then surfed the East coast in the 90s and 00's. I've had an endless "quiver" (line-up of boards) over the decades, but the nearest-n-dearest to my heart was the "Lightening Bolt," circa 1975.

Having surfed roughly 60 major storms in that time span (i.e., most typically "Cean-Up Day" - the day after a hurricane passes through), I have been pounded off the ocean floor, and "rag-dolled" (cartwheeled down the face of the wave) on dozens of occasions. It is why now, in 2018, I have to wheel rather gingerly in the TJ, as my spine has incurred more damage than most incur in 10 lifetimes.

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