I love that you still have the same one from the 80s. I vaguely wish from some sense of odd nostalgia. I still had the first one I had. My mom was impressed with it. So I got it right as it came out.
Yet, I am old enough to know it would just be another item to sit in the house. That my wife will end up being responsible for. So I've never replaced it even as a decoration item.
I actually honestly really wish I had all the star wars toys, GI Joe toys, and hotwheels/matchbox cars I so horrendously abused during my childhood. (Most of us are old enough to see... M80 attached to (insert action figure)) Because, why not, I could get another one to explode, and more M80's, off the store shelf after a weekend of working for neighbors.
Fuck all. We have strayed far.
I have some of those toys. Voltron is in pretty good shape considering my brother took it into the bath to fucking play with and broke off the wings and ears from the black cat. Liono from the Thundercats has all accessories, but the eyes don't light up because my brother also took that into the fucking bath to play with. He-man figures are pretty good with most accessories. My son got all of my old consoles and he plays with them. Books though, I managed to keep all of those and used them with my kids, and when they move out, they'll get all of those books for their kids. There are thousands of them ranging from things for very young kids all the way up to the Hardy Boys books. Sticker books. My favorite one was the Transformers one.
I still manged to keep so much 1E/2E DND books, and Hickman books the go with them for stories generated in the 80s.
I never had the Voltron toys. That was a cool cartoon. He-Man was a better cartoon, and I never had any of that either. That came too late for me to have had toys from.
I do still have many of my consoles. My Atari and original RoB nintendo, are long gone, I have a nintendo, I bought years ago. Not Rob though. He costs too much for what I am willing to spend on nostalgic garbage I dont use.
Transformers. I had all of the originals....
Fucking money... those things are worth a car today.
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