Old stuff

[bust3dstr8]

I was back at my moms this week helping her move some things. It was pretty cool to find some
of my old junk that I had forgotten about, and figured would be long gone.

[Joe Redifer]

Can Topspin there still land on his feet when you launch him?  Why was he never in the cartoon?

I remember that weird old man/calculator thing.  I think my sister had one.

[ceti alpha]

Sweet! Thanks for sharing bust3dst8. 

I totally forgot about Topspin, and yeah Joe, I don't know why the Jumpstarters never made it to the cartoon.  The Topspins were some of the cheaper Transformers, but I liked them. I see he still has the camouflage identity sticker.

Holy crap, I just noticed those pink blobs and what they actually are, but I forget what they were called....oh wait...M.U.S.C.L.E. men - now known as Ultimate Muscle. I loved collecting those figures. 

I remember that weird old man/calculator thing.  I think my sister had one.

I don't think I ever had one myself, but I totally remember it.

[Joe Redifer]

Oh, he has Twin Twist as well.  I didn't notice him at first.

[Kitsunexus]

Those GPK cards could net you a lot on eBay man.

[_joshuaTurbo]

MUSCLE!!!


Those figures still haunt me today!!

[Dark Fact]

That calculator is called "The Little Professor" and it was a very popular edutainment toy in the 80's.  You basically answered various math problems presented to you on the LCD screen and you gain points for every math problem you got right.  It focused on math problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and covered math problems from 1st to 5th grade I believe.

[ceti alpha]

That calculator is called "The Little Professor" and it was a very popular edutainment toy in the 80's.  You basically answered various math problems presented to you on the LCD screen and you gain points for every math problem you got right.  It focused on math problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and covered math problems from 1st to 5th grade I believe.

 :idea: Thanks. I was totally stumped. 

[Dark Fact]

No prob! And you should consider selling those GPK cards online.  They really are sought after.

[Tatsujin]

btw: about those garbage pail kids stickers. do you own the atom anton? i loved that one back then..hahaha

[Necromancer]

Nice find of forgotten goodies.  I third the idea that you sell the GPK cards..... and use the proceeds to feed you Turbo habit.

[Joe Redifer]

I remember that exact Garbage Pail Kid card where he is shaving and peeling off his skin.  Who was responsible for that artwork?  George Woodbridge or something like that (from the old MAD Magazine)?

[Sinistron]

I collected m.u.s.c.l.e. men and actually had the official wrestling ring for them- which was way too big considering how small the guys were- but by far the sweetest f*cking thing there is the crossbows and catapults piece.  C&C WAS THE GREATEST TOY/GAME EVER.  I had the battering rams and all that shit are you kidding me that brought back  a great memory

we'd set up this kid's whole basement with my sets and his sets and the basement was small and the perfect size for that.  We'd plan whole days around playing that I remember being the happiest little f*cknut alive playing that.

reminding me of all my old favorite toys.  Laser Tag- I had the robot that went around shooting at you and the rifles and sensor caps.  Photon stuff.  Voltron with the vehicle pieces.  giant Alien doll, Inhumanoids, Clash of the Titans figures and this ghostbusters photon gun which projected slimers on the walls that you could zap.

Garbage Pail Kids and Wacky Packages.  Case of Worms.  TV Dinner candy.  Now I'm kind of getting depressed.

[MurderDate]

don't sell the Garbage Pail Kids -  great artwork there.  High 80s.

[Black Tiger]

I had everything in that picture. Except that the calculator man may have only been a toy at my grandmother's house.