Up, up, and CHARGE IT!

[twfarlan]

Oh. My. Gods. Okay, everyone here knows I was a humongous geek from a long time gone. Comics, superheroes, I couldn't get enough. Today, thanks to a reference in a Wiki, I have been granted a reminder of just how star-stricken I was as a child

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[hephaestos]

Showing my age again.

[twfarlan]

From that same page was another series of toys that I was quite fond of, the Shogun Warriors. I had several from that line.

I miss die-cast toys. Talk about showing your age, but there really was a time when quality construction meant something.

[hephaestos]

Indeed; even the Matt Mason figures were flimsy. Posable through embedded wires, which eventually broke through use, leaving the limbs to flop around. It led to a conversation with my dad in which he explained to me the concept of "planned obsolescence."