Toys & Action Figures

Wow, I got so many toys from my childhood it's really hard to recall which was my favorite, since that changed everytime I got merchandise from a new cartoon series or movie. Heh, but I'll list what series I had toys for and mark my favorite (I'll go from elementary to late jr. high, since I've never really stopped collecting toys).

Hmm, lets see I had:

• Batman movies up to Forever - favorite is either Batman with the retractable belt-hook thing from the first movie, or the Batmobile from Returns where the sides eject out to transform it into that bullet form
• Beast Wars - Optimus Prime, the one where his beast form was the ape
• Bucky O'Hare - Bucky is my fav, though I do recall owning that big foot plane thing, and I remember losing my brother's Deadeye Duck at school (I wonder if I can find the cartoon series on DVD)
• Dragon Ball Z - favorite being the model kit Goku where you could swap his head between saiyan and super saiyan forms, these were the Japanese Bandai toys that you found in Chinatown (the initial lines actually had some decent sculpting), none of that crap you could buy at Toys'r'us when they started broadcasting the dub (which I never followed, I grew up watching the cantonese dubbed movies)
• Jurassic Park - my favorite is the Jeep, as I remember being really excited when I came home from school one day seeing it on my desk, I love my mom
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park - either the Rex that had caged man in his belly or the trailers vehicle set
• Ghostbusters - favorite is easily the Ecto 1 (heh, just recently purchased the whole "The Real Ghostbusters" series on DVD)
• SD Gundam model kits - favorites are probably the gundam wing ones where they were redesigned in a feudal japan fashion
• Gundam model kits - favorite is probably the RX-77, Guncannon, my friend got for my birthday (though I mostly collected Gundams from the Wing series, because it started airing on YTV)
• Lego - favorite being the Johnny Thunder stuff because he was based on Indiana Jones (who didn't play with Lego when growing up?)
• Rugrats - probably the Reptar tank thing from the first movie I think
• Star Wars - favorite being the first Bespin Luke from the 90s line, his right hand was removable, mostly because Luke's outfit from "Empire Strikes Back" was my favorite. My most memorable moment with the SW toys was when my parents were willing to take me to the midnight release of the Episode I figures at a Zellers on the other side of the city, and lining up in the -12 degrees Cel. temp with people 10-20 years my senior while the local news team filmed (heh, I remember my parents turning away from the cameras). Heh, it was pretty horrific once the doors opened as it was a mad dash/grabbing fest for Darth Maul, and it was me (I couldn't even dig in to the pegs) and my dad against everyone, while my mom waited on the side. Didn't get the Maul figure that everyone was fighting for, but I did get the speeder version that night. Heh, ended up getting one from Wal-mart the next day.
• Spider-man - referring to toys based on the FoxKids animated series in the 90s, flexible Spidey was my favorite
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - my favorite turtles were the ones from the second movie, though I only had Leonardo and Donatello
• Ultraman - back when the live action TV series was starting up, favorite is Ultraman himself

Jam it back in, in the dark.