Top 5 Toys

[Shockprowl]

*SPLAT!!!*




Hang it, Ayres, you're determined to get me divorced, aren't you?!

[Philip Ayres]

Last week went down rather well. Don't forget our Brave toys thread.

This week..... since we've just celebrated Auto Assembly our top 5 toys is ....

Week 38: Convention Exclusive Toys

[Shockprowl]

Well I don't own any convention exclusive toys, but I know there's plenty I'd like. I'd mud-wrestle my Mum for those Botcon Ratchet and Ironhide made out of the Energon Towline mold. Those are Classics Ratchet and Ironhide! Are they still doing Machine Wars Prowl out of Classics Mirage? Oh mama!!!

[Hero]

1/ SDCC Shredder! (SDCC 2013)
2/ Fractyl and Packrat (Botcon 97)
3/ Tapout (Botcon 2001)
4/ Shattered Glass Thundercracker.
5. SDCC Polly Pocket MOTU (SDCC 2011)

Honorable mentionL SDCC Blue-coat 6th Doctor (SDCC 2009)

[Philip Ayres]

I never did last week! Ooops.

Purposefully avoiding TFs and very quickly off the top of my head:

5 SDCC 2013 Ace
4 Black Series Boba Fett & Carbonite Block
3 Death Star box of carded figures www.rebelscum.com/SDCC11DeathStar.asp
2 George Lucas X-Wing Pilot Figure www.rebelscum.com/sagac2sacul.asp
1 Evil of the Daleks black domed Emperor's Guard Product enterprises Talking Dalek

[Philip Ayres]

Week 39: Britain's Space Toys

Britain were a manufacturer of die cast toys, mainly of farm machinery. In the early 1980s they released a range of modular space toys.

If you don't know what I'm talking about go onto Google or eBay and have a look there

[Hero]

Will you do Kinder Egg toys one week, or maybe blind-bag figures?

Will look up Britain. Pretty sure I have a fair few of the farm toys still.

[Philip Ayres]

I'm surprised more of you don't remember it tbh.

Here's my choices with some pictures



5) F70 Force Voyager

www.golobthehumanoid.com/britains1.html

(narrowly edging out the Orbital Raider)

The first few years of the Space line involve the Stargards Yellow and Red toys vs Aliens Green and Black. Distinctive, but clashed when mixed. Last year had white toys with red connectors for Stargard and Blue for Aliens. and a ton of new hard to find vehicles. One of my faves is this with it's rolling clear bubble cab


4) R60 Winged Raider

www.golobthehumanoid.com/britains1.html

I really wanted this toy, from the closing year of the line. Could we find it? no. Was I too old? Probably. But it's fab. I own one now.


3) 9125 Alien Space Cannon

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This edges out the Stargard Space Cannon, which looks nicer, purely on the grounds that the cannon piece has an extra socket on the back to connect it to other pieces

2) 9127 Alien Space Grab

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Giant Spring loaded claws. Shame that A they're so fragile and B they never appeared in Stargard Yellow

1) 9110 Stargard Space Craft

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Loved the rolling ball at the centre ofn this which meant it could be propelled. Never had one as a child. Have several now, including four all connected to0gether


See also www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/1982/stargards for a review

[Philip Ayres]

Week 40: Masters of the Universe 2002

Probabably the most succesful He Man reinvention, torpedoed in the US by some ridiculous case assortments

www.he-man.org/collecting/toycollection.php?id=7

Your top 5s please

[Philip Ayres]

Aug 26, 2013 10:41:18 GMT Hero said:

Will you do Kinder Egg toys one week, or maybe blind-bag figures?

Will look up Britain. Pretty sure I have a fair few of the farm toys still.

No to Kinder toys!

We did blind bagged lego back in week 19.

Got a Lego month coming up in September in fact with FOUR different themes and wrapping up a previously unfinished Lego series

[Bogatan]

Week 38
I'm trying to think of some non TF exclusives and it shows just how little attention I pay to other toylines, because I can't think of anything. Even this years SDCC stuff.
I wont do a full list but will just say Fractyl and Packrat from Botcon 2007. Awesome.

Week 39
I remember them and had a few but they were just generic toys that I never really thought about.

Week 40
I briefly got into this line while in the US when I realised how much I didnt like Armada and how much I did like the new MOTU cartoon. Having said that I quickly got bored of the toys. Anyway.
The three I think I own maybe, its been years since I saw them
Man at Arms
Orko
Stratos

and the one I kind of still want
Roboto

And not a figure
Castle Grayskull - pretty cool playset. Tidies away very compactly, but doesnt work as toy storage unlike the Turtle Sewer set from about the same time.

[Philip Ayres]

Aug 26, 2013 12:50:31 GMT Bogatan said:

Week 38
I'm trying to think of some non TF exclusives and it shows just how little attention I pay to other toylines, because I can't think of anything. Even this years SDCC stuff.
I wont do a full list but will just say Fractyl and Packrat from Botcon 2007. Awesome.

TF con and club exclusives are a future week on TF top 5 toys...... But not for some while yet IIRC. Not got the spreadsheet laying out what's when in front of me.

[Shockprowl]

BRITAIN SPACE TOYS!!!!!!!

I can't believe I missed this one! My bro and I loved them and had many of the toys, including the base. I'll need to check out the names and pics and come up with a list. They were great toys. I particularly remember the aliens, they were a great design.

[Shockprowl]

Britains Space Toys.

I haven't thought about these in years and years! Brilliant toys. The modular style allowed so much play potential- creation of your own vehicles. The Aliens were great. My bro and I had many if not most if the toys between us, in the yellow and green. I must find them in my parent's loft! Forgive me if I can't remember the proper names.

5 Space gun. Fired projectiles, baby!

4 Alien grabber. Allowed me to make robots!!!

3 Base. Great large base. Nice domes.

2 Yellow spacecraft. Like Phil, loved the roller ball, die-cast wings. Great space ship.

1 Alien flying saucer vehicle. Variation on the yellow goodie space ship, but with a more alien saucer design. Love this ship.

The figures were fun to. You could swap the heads. I remember we somehow had a spare human head who got put on a black Alien body and was a traitor who sided with the Aliens!

Love these toys!!!!!!

[Philip Ayres]

did you have any white Ian?

I bought quite a lot of this on eBay the last few years...... Got 7 boxes worth out of Mums loft today. 7 yellow spaceships. 3 green.

[Shockprowl]

No I'd never seen the white ones until this very day! Never even knew they existed. They look great though, probadly better than the yellow does. Love the green though. Very alien somehow. You must have quite the armada Big Phil!

[Philip Ayres]

Week 41: Lego Town/City

Your top 5 please!

(we're defining this as the main Lego range, all the buildings and vehicles with Minifigures. It's not Space or Castle, obviously, but less obviously it's not trains either which is considered it's own subline)

lego.wikia.com/wiki/City
lego.wikia.com/wiki/Town

[legios]

Abstaining on the Convention Exclusives thing, because I'm not sure that Wonderfest stuff counts so I don't have much that I am familiar with to offer. Also abstaining on He-Man 2002 because I am not familiar with the line at all. However:-

Week 39: Britain's Space Toys
These I loved as a kid - our small toy-shop in Llantwit Major had stacks of the stuff, and a friend of mine had a load which he connected together into a big space-station kind of thing

5) Alien Spaceship - knobbly flying saucer, with a motion-stabilised crew compartment. Great fun.
4) Alien Space Cannon - As a kid I always envisaged this as some sort of huge battleship with massive moon-shattering cannon. Never owned one, but always coveted one.
3) Alien Space Grabs - My brain went back and forth on whether this was a pair of grabber claws for ambushing passing space-craft, or some sort of dragon-like vessel with twin plasma breathing heads. Either way it was great fun to play with.
2)Stargard Flight Buggy - It is a one-person space-rover thingy. Ideal for bolding exploring the airless wastes of the sofa, or plunging into the hostile atmosphere of the dining room.
1) Stargard Spaceship - Bubble cockpit, fins, blunted nose. It just feels like the sort of ship to be blasting off for space adventures in, and with a two-person side-by-side cockpit it is ideally set up to be the spacecraft a brave space-hero and his plucky sidekick.

Karl

[Philip Ayres]

Sept 2, 2013 9:17:37 GMT Philip Ayres said:

Week 41: Lego Town/City

Your top 5 please!

(we're defining this as the main Lego range, all the buildings and vehicles with Minifigures. It's not Space or Castle, obviously, but less obviously it's not trains either which is considered it's own subline)

lego.wikia.com/wiki/City
lego.wikia.com/wiki/Town

Bubbling under for this week we have

4208 4x4 Fire Truck, 60002 Fire Truck, 3367 Space Shuttle, 7248 Digger & 7990 Cement Mixer all of which are top sets:

5 376 House with Garden

I love Lego buildings and had this house when I was younger. The way it folded open amazed me! And it was the only set I had with an arch in.

4 3368 Space Centre

Yes it's a big gantry but it's fabulous

3 4432 Garbage Truck

Several of you have this. You know I speak the truth. And Gav's in it.

2 6384 Police Station

Another childhood owned set, retrieved from Mum's loft, rebuilt and patched up with some replacement garage sliding doors.

1 7905 Building Crane

The one that got away. I want this set. Big time. I never had the money to afford it when it came out. Now it's ££££

[Bogatan]

Lego City is not my area. Pretty much I only take interest in is scifi and fantasy leaning toylines.

But I do like some of the sets still. In no particular order, just as they occur.

5. 3367 Space Shuttle is pretty cool

4. As is the older space shuttle on plane set

3. Airport Monorail (its not a train set honest guv)

2. 60008 - Museum robbery. Saw it in Tesco a few weeks ago. Probably like it as it feels like it would fit into a Marvel Lego type display.

1. 4440 Forest Police Station. Just saw it on one of Phils links, Bear attack!!

[Philip Ayres]

Sept 6, 2013 15:12:01 GMT Bogatan said:

Lego City is not my area. Pretty much I only take interest in is scifi and fantasy leaning toylines.

You'll like the next couple of week better then!

[legios]

LEGP City and Town:-

Where on Earth do I start. There are so many marvelous sets to chose from... :-

5 3367 Space Shuttle - A great little space-plane, with neat moveable control surfaces on the wings. Fun articulated cargo arm to deploy the satellite payload.

4. 4432 Garbage Truck - it is such a fun build, and looks so wonderful when assembled, and as Phil observes, was the first place we saw LEGO Gav in the wild.

3 3368 Space Centre - Fantastic rendition of a launch gantry, and it comes with a version of the new Astronaut minifigure. It sounds like a simple set but it is so much more fun when it is assembled than pictures do justice to. (The LEGO Space fan in me also likes to imagine that it represents the backstory to LEGO Space proper, the first faltering steps which will lead to moonbases and Plasma Drive Starships).

2 4439 Heavy-Duty Helicopter: Wokka-wokka-wokka-wokka. A LEGO Chinook, and fantastic rendition it is too. Plenty of doors and a ramp, pilot figures with their unfinished coffee in their hands to dash to the copter, a 4x4 with a Park Ranger in need of their support... Great fun set.

1 6384 Police Station: A set I coveted as a child and never managed to get. It just looked so much fun. I had a very similar police helicopter and loved that, but I wanted the actual station. (Indeed, when our village got a new Police Station I was vaguely disappointed that it didn't look like that...)

Karl

[Shockprowl]

I avoid Lego like the plague. Not 'cos I dislike it... Because I LOVE IT!!!! But I can not get into collecting another toy line! I dare not! I must remain content playing with Piglet's.

[Philip Ayres]

I think you'll find she needs Galaxy Force and Trains and dustmen that look like Gav

[Jim]

Britains Space Toys

This one I can do! We had loads of that stuff (though none of the really big sets), and loved it - there have been times when I wondered if I and my siblings were the only ones who even remembered it. There was a Britains shop in the town where I grew up, and I remember on my first ever trip to London buying a set of the figures from Hamleys.

I think this image pretty much captures my top 5:

www.golobthehumanoid.com/britains13.html

Lego City and Town

Where do you even start with this... I'm going to go for ones I have strong childhood memories of.

Post station 6689 - a bike! a letter! a small grey base plate! Got this for my birthday from a friend of my mum.

Auto workshop 6369 - that garage door! Again a birthday present received on a camping trip where I wasn't allowed to open it until I got home. Longest camping trip ever.

Auto repair truck 6521 - I am a sucker for yellow things, and found this an all-round appealing set, including the figure.

Fire and rescue truck 6650 - lovely compact little fire engine, love the hose and always liked the Lego fire service logo.

Ice cream cart 6601 - it was just so unique at the time. Both my brother and I had this.

-Jim

[Philip Ayres]

Week 42: Lego Space Toys

Any Lego toy that fits in the space theme. Space, Futuron, Blackton, Magnetron, Space Police, right through to modern Life on Mars and Galaxy Squad!

One caveat: no licensed sets, so no Star Wars!

lego.wikia.com/wiki/Space should prove helpful.

[Philip Ayres]

Confining myself to sets I have owned:

5 6981 Aerial Intruder

Love all the Blacktron 2 sets and this one comes with two removable flight pods

4 6878 Sub Orbital Guardian

Smallish set, good looking and the astronaut comes with a flightpack

3 6887 Allied Avenger

Blacktron's X-Wing fighter. Again a removable flight pod spaceship

2 6932 Star Defender 200

In many ways this Futuron ship is similar to the Aerial intruder: two removable pods and a central body with a ground vehicle in. Lucked out and foundone years after release in 1992

1 6848 Strategic Pursuer

A walker. With arms. Small, simple, superb.

The didn't have list is long: 6990 Monorail Transport System obviously and 928 Galaxy Explorer, the first BIG space ship. Two more big ships in 6980 Galaxy Commander and 6985 Cosmic Fleet Voyager plus the original two moonbases 920 Launch Pad & 926 Command Centre and one of it's sequels 6971 Intergalactic Command Base.

[The Doctor]

That monorail set is the window of Toys Galore Morningside in the Burger. I often watch it in operation.

-Ralph

[legios]

Sept 9, 2013 18:52:32 GMT The Doctor said:

That monorail set is the window of Toys Galore Morningside in the Burger. I often watch it in operation.

-Ralph

The Futuron Monorail set is truly a thing of joy. That said, it doesn't feature on my top five LEGO Space sets, but only because it is displaced by things that I love even more.

5. 6981 Aerial Intruder: The core-and-pod design give this so much playability, and the Blacktron design aesthetic is really distinctive.

4. 6980 Galaxy Commander: Separable research module and high-performance looking spacecraft, as a kid it felt just like a smaller version of the Eagle Concept. It also looked absolutely massive when it was assembled, and really felt like a mighty spacecraft to young Karl

3.6985 Cosmic Fleet Voyager: Another large, chunky exploration ship with a module that could be deployed to let LEGO Space men properly explore an alien environment. It is boxy, clunky and low-tech seeming, an aesthetic that really floats my boat when it comes to spacecraft

2.6929 Starfleet Voyager: Love the double-delta planform, the big spoiler on the back, and fact that it seems to be festooned with aerials and dishes, suggesting that it is either well and truly prepared for defending the LEGO Planet, or that it is loaded up with sensors to seek out the vital raw materials that are needed back home (why yes, as a child I did imagine that the LEGO Space Agency was mining moons and asteroids for raw bricks to ship home to fuel the growth of LEGO Cities)

1. 928/497 Galaxy Explorer - The original LEGO Space Agency deep-range explorer - Big hefty rocket engines, a swing-tail cargo bay. Room inside for a couple of brave Space Agency astronauts, and it even came with somewhere to land and help stake a claim on a barren, airless rock.

Karl

[blueshift]

Sept 9, 2013 18:52:32 GMT The Doctor said:

That monorail set is the window of Toys Galore Morningside in the Burger. I often watch it in operation.

-Ralph

One of my friends had that, he couldn't even be bothered to put it together!!!!

Does M-Tron count in this? I loved M-Tron. I had the big spaceship and big chunky 6-wheeler