Friday Top 5
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janradderTop 5 Favorite Toys
1. Mego Superheroes
By far the toys I played with most during my childhood. Most of them had lost legs, capes, boots, gloves, and even costumes long ago but I still loved them n spite of their pathetic state. For whatever reason, almost all of the stories I created with them involved one of them dying and the rest of the superheroes trying to figure out which one of them was the murderer.
2. U.S.S. Enterprise playset
Kirk's bridge chair was cool and the bridge furniture, as was the fact that you could use the playset as a carrying case for all your toys. But, by far, the most amazing thing about this toy was the transporter -- strap any 8" doll into it, give it a spin, then press a button and watch it stop on a dime just like magic. Thirty years later, I can still remember the thrill of watching that transporter whirl.
3. Steve Austin: The Six Million Dollar Man
Push a button on the back and you could crank his bionic arm over his head. Look through the back of his head and you could gaze through Steve Austin's bionic eye. Roll the skin on his bionic arm back and you revealed all the bionic chips (that you could remove and lose moments later!). And he could kick Mod Hair Ken's sorry ass in a heartbeat.
4. Mod Hair Ken
With his hair sticking straight up in the air, how could he not be a loser? Technically he was my sister's doll, but I probably playd with him just as much as she did. In the Ken universe my sister and I created, Mod Hair Ken was a polygamist who kept a harem of Barbies at his beck and call (he later tried unsuccessfully to bring Princess Lea and Dorothy Hamill into his fold). Ken routinely had coniption fits in which he announce he was about to die, then dramatically call out the name of Connecticut's governor, Ella Grasso. When my sister got Superstar Ken for Christmas, she promised that he was going to be a good Ken. That lasted all of one day when Superstar Ken discovered he was Mod Hair Ken's idiot son.
5. Hugo, Man of a Thousand Faces
I didn't discover this toy until I was in high school when my father's then wife brought a bunch of her old childhood toys to his house. Seeing this freakish bald guy, I swiped him, and my friend and I made him a star of our dumb movies (we even wrote a song about him). With the camera rolling, we squashed Hugo's head, subjected him to alien death rays, played the drums with him, threw him from one end of the basement to the other, and even (much to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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1. Mego Superheroes
By far the toys I played with most during my childhood. Most of them had lost legs, capes, boots, gloves, and even costumes long ago but I still loved them n spite of their pathetic state. For whatever reason, almost all of the stories I created with them involved one of them dying and the rest of the superheroes trying to figure out which one of them was the murderer.
2. U.S.S. Enterprise playset
Kirk's bridge chair was cool and the bridge furniture, as was the fact that you could use the playset as a carrying case for all your toys. But, by far, the most amazing thing about this toy was the transporter -- strap any 8" doll into it, give it a spin, then press a button and watch it stop on a dime just like magic. Thirty years later, I can still remember the thrill of watching that transporter whirl.
3. Steve Austin: The Six Million Dollar Man
Push a button on the back and you could crank his bionic arm over his head. Look through the back of his head and you could gaze through Steve Austin's bionic eye. Roll the skin on his bionic arm back and you revealed all the bionic chips (that you could remove and lose moments later!). And he could kick Mod Hair Ken's sorry ass in a heartbeat.
4. Mod Hair Ken
With his hair sticking straight up in the air, how could he not be a loser? Technically he was my sister's doll, but I probably playd with him just as much as she did. In the Ken universe my sister and I created, Mod Hair Ken was a polygamist who kept a harem of Barbies at his beck and call (he later tried unsuccessfully to bring Princess Lea and Dorothy Hamill into his fold). Ken routinely had coniption fits in which he announce he was about to die, then dramatically call out the name of Connecticut's governor, Ella Grasso. When my sister got Superstar Ken for Christmas, she promised that he was going to be a good Ken. That lasted all of one day when Superstar Ken discovered he was Mod Hair Ken's idiot son.
5. Hugo, Man of a Thousand Faces
I didn't discover this toy until I was in high school when my father's then wife brought a bunch of her old childhood toys to his house. Seeing this freakish bald guy, I swiped him, and my friend and I made him a star of our dumb movies (we even wrote a song about him). With the camera rolling, we squashed Hugo's head, subjected him to alien death rays, played the drums with him, threw him from one end of the basement to the other, and even (much to
haddayr 's disgust) licked his head. If you want, you too can play Hugo. 
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Date: 2009-10-09 06:58 pm (UTC)Secondly, I had that Steve Austin Bionic Man doll, too. I'm guessing I probably melted him or blew him up in my pyro/firecracker stage.
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Date: 2009-10-09 11:08 pm (UTC)That was the fate of most of my Mego dolls (Steve Austin had disappeared long before that).
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Date: 2009-10-09 07:15 pm (UTC)I am going to be laughing about this all weekend. I had beach Ken and Crystal Ken.
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Date: 2009-10-09 11:13 pm (UTC)from Ben
Date: 2009-10-11 03:29 am (UTC)I think you should link to your "H-U-G-O" song. I remember liking it. I think the world is ready for it.
Re: from Ben
Date: 2009-10-13 05:23 pm (UTC)I agree with you on the opening credits of Six Million Dollar Man. I came across them awhile back and was surprised at how well it held up. I remember that as a kid they were often the best part of the show.