You're about to re-live your childhood.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Yep.  They were full of awesome things.  And you wanted them all.

[MetalJunkie]

Nostalgia post on buzzfeed? NO WAY!

*shrug*

This was literally the first time I'd ever visited buzzfeed.

[Podaar]

By a show of hands who played with these toys!



*raises hand*

[bosk1]

[Podaar]

Come on. The sixties Apollo missions? Major Matt Mason?

Not wringing any bells?

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

I had tons of G.I. Joes and Transformers.  What's left of them all are still in bins at my parents' house.

[jingle.boy]

Don't remember those, but how 'bout this guy?

[Podaar]

Yeah, my brother tried an experiment by boring a hole in Stretch and inserting an M-80. Didn't work out too well.

I had tons of G.I. Joes and Transformers.  What's left of them all are still in bins at my parents' house.

12 inch or 3-3/4 inch G.I. Joes?

I still remember these being used to beat up Major Matt Mason. 

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

3-3/4.  I also have a bunch of original G.I. Joe Marvel Comics.

[El Barto]

Hated G I Joe, too. Star Wars action figures were where it was at, for those sorts of things.

[Syzzle]

I probably still have at least half of the things on that list, but they're missing a lot of things that should have been included that I still have.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Hated G I Joe, too. Star Wars action figures were where it was at, for those sorts of things.

Had tons of those also.  Probably still a lot of them at my parents' also.

[bout to crash]

The parachute was lame. Now if you walked in and saw a net sack of these bad boys, it was for sure gonna be a painfully awesome day...

Maybe for you!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drjoRwYJDvg

I guess we know which group you fell into

[sueño]

The parachute was lame. Now if you walked in and saw a net sack of these bad boys, it was for sure gonna be a painfully awesome day...

I liked the parachute.

But I LOVED kickball, dodgeball, war (similar to dodgeball but *moreso*  ), off-the-wall...I was a very sporty kid.   

oh, the smell o' dem balls...   

[Phoenix87x]

The parachute was lame. Now if you walked in and saw a net sack of these bad boys, it was for sure gonna be a painfully awesome day...

Totally agree, accept that somewhere around 10th grade, my lame ass school decided that the kickass rubber dodgeballs were too "rough" and "encouraged violence", so we were forced to use these lame foam pieces of shit.

[El Barto]

Dodgeball outlasted my grade school era. Sadly, around 7th or 8th grade the demographics of the DISD had changed enough that PE went to an all basketball all the time format. That's when I sought out alternatives to gym class (or just stopped dressing out and took the F).

[Jaq]

Kickball, man.

When I was a kid, I lived in an apartment complex in West Virginia that, adjacent to the playground, had a paved area about 300 feet across where all the kids played kickball. To get a home run, you really had to belt the fuck out of the ball-like a couple of hundred feet. I wasn't even the best at it, but when I moved to another town a few years later, suddenly I was a kickball GOD. They called me Grand Slam, because if I came up with three on, it was an automatic grand slam. I was intentionally walked in kickball. I could boot one of those rubber balls two hundred feet easy.

Good fucking times. Keep the parachute. Give me one of those red balls and put me fourth in the line up for kickball.

[sueño]

Dodgeball outlasted my grade school era. Sadly, around 7th or 8th grade the demographics of the DISD had changed enough that PE went to an all basketball all the time format. That's when I sought out alternatives to gym class (or just stopped dressing out and took the F).

I loved basketball in PE, too.  Floor hockey,  volleyball,  badminton, softball (when it got warm enough to play outside), tennis, soccer, archery...there wasn't much of gym class I didn't like.   


EDIT:  I was an honor student; getting an F was unthinkable.  ESPECIALLY in PE!!      

[DebraKadabra]

11: OMG THAT WAS MY FAVORITE THING 

You too?  YES!

I loved basketball in PE, too.  Floor hockey,  volleyball,  badminton, softball (when it got warm enough to play outside), tennis, soccer, archery...there wasn't much of gym class I didn't like.   

OMG, floor hockey RULED.  I sucked at pretty much everything else though.

[El Barto]

Dodgeball outlasted my grade school era. Sadly, around 7th or 8th grade the demographics of the DISD had changed enough that PE went to an all basketball all the time format. That's when I sought out alternatives to gym class (or just stopped dressing out and took the F).

I loved basketball in PE, too.  Floor hockey,  volleyball,  badminton, softball (when it got warm enough to play outside), tennis, soccer, archery...there wasn't much of gym class I didn't like.

You probably wouldn't have cared for it much in the DISD. 

Floor hockey was the one PE thing I really excelled at. I have fond memories of a game in 3rd grade that was so good the coach kept us 15 minutes into the next class because he wouldn't let it end in a tie. Scoring the winning goal was my Al Bundy moment.

[sueño]

What is DISD?

[El Barto]

Dallas Independent School District.

[MetalJunkie]

It always struck me as funny that Plano was PISD.

[7StringedBeast]

Am I the only one who remembers this?

[jingle.boy]

Can't speak for anyone else, but I don't remember it.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

FWIW, I hated PE class as a kid.  You had scrawny nerds like me, then you had these egomaniacal meatheads that eventually went on to be football players.  For people like me, PE was absolute hell.

[Tick]

Why did kids find the parachute thing so awesome? I for one loved it! but I really have no idea why?

The water ring game! Wow, that brings back memories!

[sueño]

FWIW, I hated PE class as a kid.  You had scrawny nerds like me, then you had these egomaniacal meatheads that eventually went on to be football players.  For people like me, PE was absolute hell.

I think most kids were somewhere in the middle... 

[Big Hath]

I was pretty scrawny, but I was also really athletic.  Run fast, jump far, kick the crap out of the kickball, etc.  The presidential award thingies were a piece of cake.

[El Barto]

FWIW, I hated PE class as a kid.  You had scrawny nerds like me, then you had these egomaniacal meatheads that eventually went on to be football players.  For people like me, PE was absolute hell.

I think most kids were somewhere in the middle... 

Depends on the demographics of where you go to school. In middle school, my entire class was nothing but wannabe gang-bangers who had set their sights on NBA stardom when they were 2. I graduated high school from a farm town where everybody in my PE class was the meatheads that Tick referred to. The only thing they ever wanted was to spend PE in the weight room. Not sure which I hated more, actually.

[Ħ]

I hated PE and sports. Picked last for the team and all that. Kinda regret not trying harder in those areas now that I'm past my main growing years. But I don't doubt that if I keep at it now that I've started, I'll be athletic enough in the future.

[sueño]

FWIW, I hated PE class as a kid.  You had scrawny nerds like me, then you had these egomaniacal meatheads that eventually went on to be football players.  For people like me, PE was absolute hell.

I think most kids were somewhere in the middle... 

Depends on the demographics of where you go to school. In middle school, my entire class was nothing but wannabe gang-bangers who had set their sights on NBA stardom when they were 2. I graduated high school from a farm town where everybody in my PE class was the meatheads that Tick referred to. The only thing they ever wanted was to spend PE in the weight room. Not sure which I hated more, actually.

Ah.  Well, my school years were 70s and early 80s in the suburbs, not too dramatic.  Not fancy suburbs in the least...but just regular kids, mixed demographics.  No serious gang problems in my high school.

And as I said, I was athletic as well as smart and good in music.  I got along with pretty much everyone.