I'm not sure if this goes here or in the Art forum so if I'm in the wrong spot feel free to move.............
So today my (way younger) cousin gave me a box, and in this box was a bunch of Star Trek toys I had given him in the 90s when he was a yound kid (I was in my 20's) but collecting Stuff like the Trek Micro's and such. There was a bunch of stuff I'd totally forgotten about....a bunch of this little mini Trek Playsets from the "Star Trek Innerspace" sub line, some Trek micro's I had doubles (or triples) of, and a couple of the Ertil Diecast ships from the late 80's. It was pretty neat to see this stuff again. I was surprised how many of the sets were complete....anyway......
I got to thinking about any Trek Toys I had as a kid that I really loved. There wasn't a lot of stuff to choose from in the early to mid 80's, and a lot of Trek Toys from that period that I see on Ebay I don't recall seeing at stores growing up, I would have really wanted some of them. I remember getting a "Southbend"? USS enterprise for Christmas when I was like 6 I think. You could take it apart and build different types of ships with the pieces, I think there were only like 5-6 variants you could make but I remember loving that thing to death. I'd love to find another one. I also remember having a Dinky brand Diecast Enterprise in the early 80's it was a pretty decent size, it had a little launcher that shot little orange disks out of the saucer (seem to remember it getting jammed all the time) and it had a little plastic shuttle that came out of the bottom, I have memories of using it to do battle with a diecast Star Destroyer I had. eventually, because I wasn't a forward thinking kid and I was hard on my Toys, it broke and I guess wound up in the trash eventually. I don't remember having anything else really until the "golden age" of Trek Toys in the 90's and I started collecting them then (before it was cool to do so), So that's my Ramble....anyone else have any cool memories of Playing with Trek Stuff as a kid? (Or even using other toys to fill in for Trek Stuff?)
So today my (way younger) cousin gave me a box, and in this box was a bunch of Star Trek toys I had given him in the 90s when he was a yound kid (I was in my 20's) but collecting Stuff like the Trek Micro's and such. There was a bunch of stuff I'd totally forgotten about....a bunch of this little mini Trek Playsets from the "Star Trek Innerspace" sub line, some Trek micro's I had doubles (or triples) of, and a couple of the Ertil Diecast ships from the late 80's. It was pretty neat to see this stuff again. I was surprised how many of the sets were complete....anyway......
I got to thinking about any Trek Toys I had as a kid that I really loved. There wasn't a lot of stuff to choose from in the early to mid 80's, and a lot of Trek Toys from that period that I see on Ebay I don't recall seeing at stores growing up, I would have really wanted some of them. I remember getting a "Southbend"? USS enterprise for Christmas when I was like 6 I think. You could take it apart and build different types of ships with the pieces, I think there were only like 5-6 variants you could make but I remember loving that thing to death. I'd love to find another one. I also remember having a Dinky brand Diecast Enterprise in the early 80's it was a pretty decent size, it had a little launcher that shot little orange disks out of the saucer (seem to remember it getting jammed all the time) and it had a little plastic shuttle that came out of the bottom, I have memories of using it to do battle with a diecast Star Destroyer I had. eventually, because I wasn't a forward thinking kid and I was hard on my Toys, it broke and I guess wound up in the trash eventually. I don't remember having anything else really until the "golden age" of Trek Toys in the 90's and I started collecting them then (before it was cool to do so), So that's my Ramble....anyone else have any cool memories of Playing with Trek Stuff as a kid? (Or even using other toys to fill in for Trek Stuff?)
and 5 color Aztec paint. I've come a long way, haw haw!
