When I was a kid...

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not_nadine

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TheRedQueen

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Lioness, tiger, and snow leopard stuffies. There was some "high end" version of a dollar store in town when my friends and I were quite young, and we each wound up with a complete set. I haven't seen these stuffies before or since, anywhere. But we played with our "tigers" (referred to collectively, they were all tigers. we were very young.) all the time. I think I was in my mid-teens before I finally stopped taking one or the other of them with me everywhere. The sad part? I still have all three of my girls, along with two other stuffies that date back to my babyhood. Anyone remember the story of the velveteen rabbit? Yeah, I have him. I used to have an entire family of them, but Velvie, the oldest, is the only one that made it to adulthood with me. The other one is a white bear in a clown suit who is so old that the stuffing is gone out of his neck. I can't remember for sure, but it was either Clown Bear or Velvie that was my very first stuffie. And I still have them both. I am way too sentimental for my own good...:facepalm_smiley:
 

muskrat

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Got this for Christmas when I was a wee Muskie. Manglor was a sticky, rubbery action figure that you could, in theory, tear apart and put back together. But once his stickiness wore off all you had was a dismembered doll-thing.

As for the play set, what you did was put Manglor in the cage, then drop the cage inside the mountain. You pressed the red button inside the golden gargoyle's mouth and the cage would rise up covered in translucent lava slime--basically synthetic snot. It looked totally rad next to Castle Greyskull.

The eighties were a weird time for toys...
 

Doc Creed

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Got this for Christmas when I was a wee Muskie. Manglor was a sticky, rubbery action figure that you could, in theory, tear apart and put back together. But once his stickiness wore off all you had was a dismembered doll-thing.

As for the play set, what you did was put Manglor in the cage, then drop the cage inside the mountain. You pressed the red button inside the golden gargoyle's mouth and the cage would rise up covered in translucent lava slime--basically synthetic snot. It looked totally rad next to Castle Greyskull.

The eighties were a weird time for toys...
I think I had this...oddly familiar.
 

do1you9love?

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Friday nights would be family TV night featuring the CBS line-up of The Incredible Hulk, The Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas (in that order). Many great family memories from those Fridays!!!
Owned almost every K-Tel compilation album out there.
Played the Intellivision, rocked Hungry Hungry Hippos, and napped in my Six Million Dollar Man jammies.

Last night on ME TV, they played the very first episode of The Incredible Hulk and I watched it with my daughter! Next show was Wonder Woman which I have already gotten her addicted to. It is so great reliving my childhood memories with her!=D
 

AnnaMarie

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Not sure why reading this page reminded me of something.

I'm not sure how old I was, but I was excited because I was being allowed to stay up late to watch a skeleton show. My brother (who I idolized) kept telling me how great it was and that I would love it. But he didn't tell me what the show actually was. I couldn't understand why a skeleton would be red.

I was disappointed for a moment...but not for long.