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Nov 10, 2011#1

figmentPez

A thread to share little stuff that's made you happy since you were a kid.

For me, I've always loved plasma globes:

I remember seeing them at science museums, and in stores and I always wanted one. I loved how the glowing filaments would jump to your fingers if you touched the glass. The colors we mesmerizing and the patterns they made just made me want to stare. Back when I was a kid they were like $50+ for any model I saw, so I never got one. Now they're like >$10 for a little USB powered one, which is a pretty darn good size if you ask me. I got one for a friend a few years ago, not sure why I've never picked one up for myself. I still think they're beautiful.

I also love glow-in-the-dark stuff.

I dunno what it is about that eerie shade of pale green, but I love it. My sisters had glow-in-the-dark star stickers all over the ceiling of their room when I was a kid, and I was always a little sad that we never did the same for mine. I love all sorts of glow-stuff, though. I have little glowing trinkets stored away in so many different boxes from my childhood.

Nov 10, 2011#2

Shakey

Hypercolor

Nov 10, 2011#3

HCGLNS

Lego, Elvis, professional wrestling, Scotch, Bugs Bunny

Nov 10, 2011#4

Chibibar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erector_Set

that is what I loved. I build so many things with it.

Nov 10, 2011#5

TNM

G.I. Joe, Legos, most 80's toys. I'm glad I have a son as an excuse to buy more toys.

Nov 10, 2011#6

Cheesy1

Nov 10, 2011#7

Adammon

Nov 10, 2011#8

LittleSin

Dinosaurs in general, really. I don't know why, I just have always thought they were awesome. I never got to see Jurassic Park in theaters but I did get to see The Lost World.

Actually, that is a very fond memory. Mom took me to the first showing in North America, a midnight release. We stood in line for nearly an hour. I was bubbling with excitement and she was content to listen to my near constant stream of talk about different kinds of dinosaurs. I was confident in my rediness to see this movie. After all, I was 11 years old! I couldn't be scared by silly jump scares any more!

Mom never made fun of me when I screamed out loud in the jumpy parts or told any of her friends about how I hid my face and clung to her in fear. She was good like that.

She died over a year later but that is still a good, happy memory for me.

Damn...I went and sapped up your thread!

Nov 10, 2011#9

Shegokigo

Cheesy1 said:
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Same with Cobra. Anytime I watch 80s Horror movies, I go "right back". I marathon Halloween, Alien, F13th, NoES all the time. Everytime I do, it's like being in my living room, with my brother, while everyonelse was asleep, enjoying every minute.

Nov 10, 2011#10

figmentPez

LittleSin said:
Damn...I went and sapped up your thread!

Cthulhu is SPY!

Nov 10, 2011#11

Hailey Knight

Since I was 3 years old.

Nov 10, 2011#12

Tress

Nov 10, 2011#13

Hailey Knight

LittleSin said:
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Dinosaurs in general, really. I don't know why, I just have always thought they were awesome. I never got to see Jurassic Park in theaters but I did get to see The Lost World.

Actually, that is a very fond memory. Mom took me to the first showing in North America, a midnight release. We stood in line for nearly an hour. I was bubbling with excitement and she was content to listen to my near constant stream of talk about different kinds of dinosaurs. I was confident in my rediness to see this movie. After all, I was 11 years old! I couldn't be scared by silly jump scares any more!

Mom never made fun of me when I screamed out loud in the jumpy parts or told any of her friends about how I hid my face and clung to her in fear. She was good like that.

She died over a year later but that is still a good, happy memory for me.

Damn...I went and sapped up your thread!

Seeing Jurassic Park in theaters one of my happy childhood memories. My mom took me, my sister, and a friend to it during one day. During the big T-Rex vs wussy jeeps scene, my sister and her friend were crying and terrified, and my mom had to take them out of the theater, but there was no way in hell my 7-year-old dinosaur-loving ass was leaving. So, it ended up being the first movie I sat through mostly by myself. And I loved it.

Nov 10, 2011#14

ThatNickGuy

Nov 10, 2011#15

Shegokigo

I loved smushing the people with that thing.

Nov 10, 2011#16

Cheesy1

Quotemander Prime said:
Seeing Jurassic Park in theaters one of my happy childhood memories. My mom took me, my sister, and a friend to it during one day. During the big T-Rex vs wussy jeeps scene, my sister and her friend were crying and terrified, and my mom had to take them out of the theater, but there was no way in hell my 7-year-old dinosaur-loving ass was leaving. So, it ended up being the first movie I sat through mostly by myself. And I loved it.

When I saw it in the theater, it was on THE best screen in town. It had just updated to the best surround sound system available at the time. When that T-Rex screamed during that scene, everyone could feel it in their chairs! I remember looking around right after that happened and seeing everyone else in the theater with their eyes bugging out of their skulls! It was awesome!

Nov 10, 2011#17

Steve

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonadair/4336925201/
Loved these little guys. They were cheap and as a kid I couldn't get enough.

Nov 10, 2011#18

phil

HCGLNS said:
Lego, Elvis, professional wrestling, Scotch, Bugs Bunny

ಠ_ಠ

Nov 10, 2011#19

Dirona

I possess far far too many Snoopy plush toys. And a squeaky Woodstook. And Belle, and I've seen pretty much every animated film that features them, and and and... I love these guys.

Nov 10, 2011#20

Jay

Nov 10, 2011#21

makare

bubbles, legos, playing in water with squirt guns water balloons etc, ghostbusters lost of stuff

Nov 10, 2011#22

Dave

Walking in the woods. Seriously, I'm not big on camping, but I fucking LOVE hiking through trees and forests.

Nov 10, 2011#23

Tress

Nov 11, 2011#24

AshburnerX

It seems like LEGOS are the most universally beloved toy... maybe it's because you never really outgrow them because there are always more advanced things you can do with them.

Nov 11, 2011#25

Biannoshufu

Nov 11, 2011#26

phil

You had me at robotech.

Nov 11, 2011#27

Null

Construx, Robotech - I had the matchbox toys, including the transforming SDF-1, Transformers, TMNT.

I have to admit, I have gone on more than one Robotech spree on Ebay.

I have a GIANT ROBOT PROBLEM.

(What, just because all I'm playing right now is Armored Core 3/Silent Line, Front Mission 3 & 4, and Robotech Battlecry?)

In fact... right now I'm gonna see if there's any deals on those Wanzer toys from Front Mission, or Armored Core model kits...

Nov 11, 2011#28

Biannoshufu

phil said:
You had me at robotech.

Nov 11, 2011#29

AshburnerX

Null said:
Construx, Robotech - I had the matchbox toys, including the transforming SDF-1, Transformers, TMNT.

I have to admit, I have gone on more than one Robotech spree on Ebay.

I have a GIANT ROBOT PROBLEM.

(What, just because all I'm playing right now is Armored Core 3/Silent Line, Front Mission 3 & 4, and Robotech Battlecry?)

In fact... right now I'm gonna see if there's any deals on those Wanzer toys from Front Mission, or Armored Core model kits...

I'm almost certain they make a Nineball kit, as he's pretty iconic.

Nov 11, 2011#30

Null

Oh, that's right, for her it was Super Dimensional Fortress: Macross.

Oh well.

Did I mention I actually have most of the Palladium Robotech: RPG books? Yeah. Including The Sentinels and Shadow Chronicles. It's a shame the Palladium system sucks.

Nov 11, 2011#31

phil

Biannoshufu said:

Either I'm the black guy, which doesn't work because I was agreeing with you in that I like the same thing, or I'm Arnold and hit you in the face.

The clip just doesn't work, is what I'm getting at.

Try this one for future needs:

Nov 11, 2011#32

Biannoshufu

phil said:
Either I'm the black guy, which doesn't work because I was agreeing with you in that I like the same thing, or I'm Arnold and hit you in the face.

The clip just doesn't work, is what I'm getting at.

Try this one for future needs:

Nov 11, 2011#33

PatrThom

-Magnets
-Let's Pick the Cherries (now known as "Hi Ho Cherry-o"), Candy Land, Uncle Wiggly, Aggravation - Board games
-Mirrors/Magnifying glasses/Prisms
-Light Organs
-Flashlights
-Caves
-Trees (Was a really big climber)
-Jarts

--Patrick

Nov 11, 2011#34

Ravenpoe

PatrThom said:
-Magnets

How do they fuckin' work?

Nov 11, 2011#35

jwhouk

These, times about 50,000.

Nov 11, 2011#36

Biannoshufu

Nov 11, 2011#37

Frankie Williamson

Ever since I first saw the show, I've been a massive fan of Starscream. I still have every incarnation of his toy in storage, even the shitty F-22 Raptor movie version. The only part of my once massive Transformers collection I didn't give away (to children).

My favorite happens to be the Masterpiece King Starscream.

Nov 11, 2011#38

Grytpipe-Thynne

Model aircraft, since I was eight, photography, F1 racing, and I am a great Snoopy fan.

Nov 11, 2011#39

fade

I don't have an answer for this thread. I grew up poor. We only got toys for Christmas, and usually not the popular thing. I didn't even play video games until I was a sophomore in college, unless you count the few we had on our C64 we got for free 5 years after it was released. Parents didn't let me watch cartoons, so I mostly know about things like Thundercats and Transformers from sleepovers and Toonami reruns. Not whining, just don't have anything particular I loved. Except books. They were good escapes, and they were free from the library.

Nov 11, 2011#40

Gusto

I replay it every year or so since I was 7 or 8.

Nov 11, 2011#41

Bones

gusto, like a thousand burning suns of like...that is the single greatest game ever made

Nov 11, 2011#42

Allen who is Quiet

Ranma ½. It was a lot of fun growing up in a primarily Asian area

Also, hey Gusto. I put down something Japanese. Bet you didn't see that one coming.

Nov 11, 2011#43

Gusto

Say it ain't so Allen!

Nov 11, 2011#44

Piotyr

Nov 11, 2011#45

Shegokigo

Frankie Williamson said:
Ever since I first saw the show, I've been a massive fan of Starscream. I still have every incarnation of his toy in storage, even the shitty F-22 Raptor movie version. The only part of my once massive Transformers collection I didn't give away (to children).

My favorite happens to be the Masterpiece King Starscream.

I will say that for some reason Starscream had the better toys than Megatron

^ Look at that crap.
But Megatron was definitely my favorite, alongside Soundwave in the series.

Gusto said:
I replay it every year or so since I was 7 or 8.

I was a bit older when that came out, so it doesn't really strike me "child nostalgia" as it does "amazing rpg" nostalgia.

Nov 11, 2011#46

Gusto

Yeah it's not so much a "I've loved it all my life" thing so much as it's a "I've loved video games all my life and this is the one I keep going back to from the old days" thing.

Nov 11, 2011#47

Shegokigo

My "go-back-to" game of all time is:

Easily played it more than any other RPG I ever owned.

Nov 11, 2011#48

Made Ya Blush

Nov 11, 2011#49

fade

Shegokigo said:
I will say that for some reason Starscream had the better toys than Megatron

That's because Megatron turned into a gun. How stupid is that? Plus, the inexplicable shrinking thing was just as bad as Optimus Prime's trailer.

Nov 11, 2011#50

Piotyr

fade said:
That's because Megatron turned into a gun. How stupid is that? Plus, the inexplicable shrinking thing was just as bad as Optimus Prime's trailer.

It was weird, mostly because Hasbro took Megatron from an entirely different toy line than the other Transformers.

Nov 11, 2011#51

makare

We only really had mario games as a kid. Did you guys every play the game where mario traveled through time? that was such a shit "game" I loved it hehe.

Nov 11, 2011#52

Piotyr

makare said:
We only really had mario games as a kid. Did you guys every play the game where mario traveled through time? that was such a shit "game" I loved it hehe.

Nov 11, 2011#53

makare

Yes.... that is the game

I want to know if anyone else played it.

Nov 11, 2011#54

Piotyr

I don't really remember playing that one. But I do remember playing Mario is Missing, the other edutainment game exploiting the Mario license. I remember them mostly as cheap knockoffs of Carmen Sandiego.

Nov 11, 2011#55

makare

I still get the traveling song in my head

You traveled by surfing and this was the song that played. You also had to pick up mushrooms while surfing that in now way affected the game as far as I could tell. hehe god that was a shit game.

Nov 11, 2011#56

Biannoshufu

Nov 11, 2011#57

SeraRelm

Biannoshufu said:

And

plus

Nov 11, 2011#58

GasBandit

Does anybody remember what a freshly opened NES cartridge smelled like, right out of the box? Oh dear god, it was the smell of absolute rapture. Perhaps it was mere classical conditioning, but for me, that was the smell of anticipation, eagerness, hope, joy, bliss and achievement all rolled into one.

I'd forgotten about it for a long long time.. then out of the blue I caught a random whiff of it a few years ago (when I was nowhere near anything videogame related, oddly enough), and it nearly brought me to tears. I've been searching on and off for what makes that smell ever since, with no success. I'm afraid to go down to the local game store because I'm sure they would throw me out if I started sticking my head in the piles of NES cartridges snorting like an asthmatic rhinoceros.

Nov 11, 2011#59

Biannoshufu

Nov 11, 2011#60

Shegokigo

I did that like a fiend with every new game I purchased GasB, I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. My recommendation is spending 10-50 on an unopened NES cartridge on Ebay and get your 'fix'.

Nov 11, 2011#61

makare

I only got new cartridges one time, when I was 5. So I dont remember what it smells like

Nov 11, 2011#62

Null

I still have my SNES. I loved the hell out of Battleclash (Giant Robot Problem, remember?) with the SuperScope 6, as well as Final Fantasy II and Final Fantasy III (as they were called at the time; I know they're IV and VI now).

And the cartoon I rushed home to see when I was in 1st grade?

Nov 11, 2011#63

Bones

MAZINGER Z: HERO OF THE PEOPLE

Nov 11, 2011#64

Tress

Nov 11, 2011#65

Shegokigo

Speaking of childhood anime:

Tress said:

That, with FFT would probably be my most played strat games of all time.

Nov 11, 2011#66

Null

Ogre Battle! I played it on the SNES (rental) and then bought the Playstation version. Had a game like 65 hours or so in - I think like the 11th level - saved on one of those multi-cards, and the battery on the damn thing died. I'd even gotten a unit of 3 werewolves and a vampire with a wizard for night fighting.

Anyone else bother getting Cloud and the other bonus characters in FFT?

Nov 11, 2011#67

Gryfter

Nov 11, 2011#68

Tress

Null said:
Anyone else bother getting Cloud and the other bonus characters in FFT?

Yeah. I always felt Cloud was underpowered in FFT, especially compared to other characters in the game. The same goes for Reis, though she had her uses.

Nov 11, 2011#69

Shegokigo

Cloud was overpowered if leveled correctly and given the right gear. Personally I used my "Immortal" Meliadoul to wipe out every map when I felt like being a bitch.

You want over powered? I purposely NEVER used TG Cid or Agrias because their sword arts were just cheap/lame.

Nov 11, 2011#70

Tress

Shegokigo said:
You want over powered? I purposely NEVER used TG Cid or Agrias because their sword arts were just cheap/lame.

Those two would be the "other characters" I mentioned above.

Nov 11, 2011#71

Shegokigo

Meliadoul, Cloud, Time Mage and Mustadio made the maps VERY fun.

Mustadio being able to disable targets from across the map? Priceless. Meliadoul's immortality? Hell yes. Clouds "instant-stone" kill move? Fun times.

Nov 11, 2011#72

Tress

God, I love that game.

Nov 11, 2011#73

SeraRelm

I got all the extra characters, but I just didn't like Cloud, so I never used him.

Nov 11, 2011#74

BananaHands

I still have the oven. Ordered some goo a few months ago and it was still just as fun.

Nov 11, 2011#75

General Specific

Nov 11, 2011#76

Tress

General Specific said:

Also some of my favorite movie posters of all time.

Nov 11, 2011#77

LittleSin

Small Tangent: My husband saw the Jet was taking a great interest in our Star Wars calendar and his action figures...so we decided to show him the movies about a month or so ago.

Holy crap what have we done. He is always asking to watch them, he tries to imitate the ewoks, he starts shouting for joy when there light saber battles. He is in love with these movies.

Thus, he takes another step into nerdom.

Nov 11, 2011#78

BananaHands

LittleSin said:
Small Tangent: My husband saw the Jet was taking a great interest in our Star Wars calendar and his action figures...so we decided to show him the movies about a month or so ago.

Holy crap what have we done. He is always asking to watch them, he tries to imitate the ewoks, he starts shouting for joy when there light saber battles. He is in love with these movies.

Thus, he takes another step into nerdom.

http://anthonyherreradesigns.com/in...ic-designer-ewoks&catid=34:anthonydesign-blog

Nov 11, 2011#79

LittleSin

BananaHands said:
http://anthonyherreradesigns.com/in...ic-designer-ewoks&catid=34:anthonydesign-blog

That is fucking adorable! What a cool Dad.

Nov 12, 2011#80

Hailey Knight

Shegokigo said:
Cloud was overpowered if leveled correctly and given the right gear. Personally I used my "Immortal" Meliadoul to wipe out every map when I felt like being a bitch.
You want over powered? I purposely NEVER used TG Cid or Agrias because their sword arts were just cheap/lame.

This. I used TG Cid on my first play without realized that they weren't kidding by having the G stand for God. Ripped the shit out of every battle--I never used him on any other playthroughs (of which there have been many... many.)
Added at: 08:24

LittleSin said:
Small Tangent: My husband saw the Jet was taking a great interest in our Star Wars calendar and his action figures...so we decided to show him the movies about a month or so ago.
Holy crap what have we done. He is always asking to watch them, he tries to imitate the ewoks, he starts shouting for joy when there light saber battles. He is in love with these movies.
Thus, he takes another step into nerdom.

Dammit, I gotta show them to my cousins before they get too old and it's not "cool" anymore.

Nov 13, 2011#81

fade

LittleSin said:
Small Tangent: My husband saw the Jet was taking a great interest in our Star Wars calendar and his action figures...so we decided to show him the movies about a month or so ago.

Holy crap what have we done. He is always asking to watch them, he tries to imitate the ewoks, he starts shouting for joy when there light saber battles. He is in love with these movies.

Thus, he takes another step into nerdom.

Yes! This. I never thought I could possibly tire of Star Wars until my son found out about it.

Nov 13, 2011#82

Mathias

fade said:
Yes! This. I never thought I could possibly tire of Star Wars until my son found out about it.

Sadly, it is my nephew's love of everything Star Wars that killed it for me.

Dec 17, 2011#83

figmentPez

figmentPez said:
I also love glow-in-the-dark stuff.

Want.

Glowbar

Dec 17, 2011#84

Shegokigo

Oh if only Dr. Freeman had known of these.....

he'd have never been a slave to that stupid flashlight battery.

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