Your #1 GOAT TOY as a kid

[Art Barr]

Yo man even back then I had Optimus Prime and the Constructicons but I think every black mother across the US refused to buy that Megatron gun. Muthafukka was too real looking back in the day. I fukked around and got my uncle to buy me Shockwave. He didn't look as much like a straight up pistol.

the next puhn puhn right here,...nikka.

this shyt was so cold tho...

shockwave was like the only consolation prize.
where you did not feel jerked.
shockwave came right on time.
as the han solo blaster was on its last leg and the connections from those big dumb ass batteries.
were so corrosion heavy.

this shyt was made right on time.

anyone remember the bootleg radio shack one. after the transformer one died tho.
that shyt was a saving grace.

plus those metal feet on shockwave.
if you got into anything with this shockwave.
the gun but pistol whip to with the feet down to some big older boy trying to stain you for shockwave helped you get away.

i had to fight to keep tyree edwards yellow lion i borrowed.
i broke his paw on seneca face back in the day.


art barr

 

[Art Barr]

Probably Transformers or Power Rangers but heres 2 runner ups that changed the game for me.

When The Ronin Warriors action figures came out . You couldn't find these shyts anywhere and felt good when I finally got one. I don't remember anything about the show expect I had to wake up early on school days to catch it on the SCI-FI Channel.

The toy biz Spider-man was the first action figure that had all the joints so it could move like the real Spider-Man. I had wars with Spider-Man vs Batman and Batman was getting his ass beat

i was grown grown when ronin warriors came on.
that i had stopped watching cartoons.
to discover them and i still watched that shyt.
at like twenty years old in secret.
this was before cartoon network, and my younger older cousins started watching cartoons.
my uncle was like they were wasting their life away.
back in the day.
when you turned thirteen.
before 1990.
you just stopped watching cartoons on some you too old shyt back then.
like if you were thirteen and your brother was seven or six.
y'all was gon be separated by age gap abruptly.

kane talks about this in one of his original podcasts.
that i wonder if the later gens even experienced that.

it is not like now...where the later gens watched cartoons.

only cartoons i watched back then after thirteen was ronin warriors on tv.

only cartoons i watched after that.
which were all on imported subtitled tape was ninja scroll and macross plus.
even video games....playing the early playstation bootleg from japan was so underground in college. you had to go upstairs and be an arcade legend that got money gambling on games in pete's, or safari joes. [since i was a world record setter at the blockbuster world championships and gamblin beast on marvel..i had in].
that shyt was like some sckraight movie shyt to get in and play the playstation.
nobody believed the new nintendo sony stole was real at this time. except it was real...

before 1995. if you was grown..you just were not supposed to be watching cartoons.

it was just the way it was back then.
that changed in 1995,..when cartoon network came out.
i still remember back then...
if someone did not go to college.
cartoon network was the devil and responsible for people being called neerdowells.

so i have complete disconnect to kids who like power rangers and any of that type of shyt.
it is why i know why a lot of y'all have disconnect to hiphop culture too.
it was completely different back then.
especially since they alwasy threatened to redraft us.

so it was always you better grow up cause you gon be goin to war.
that was always the threat,....which is why they made us all gear up for college.
this whole new ideal of not goin to school. that did no exist back then.
especially since it was known back then what we are living now would go away.

especially if you were black and they were like affirmative action is going to be phased out.

back then if you did not grow up.
they made it like you was gon be thrown into war.
plus,...be poor if you never went to school even after serve'n in war.

i don't think kids now even know wtf that is now.


art barr

 

[Art Barr]

dude in my neighborhood shot one of these in a security guard’s face…he lucky af all that happened was that the guard took him home to his mother

the guy who was like the worst kid ever to kids who did not know him.
i grew up wit'eem.
he actually killed the mean store owner back in the day,...

this store owner used to be so mean to us.
this kid i grew up with.
stayed into it with'eem.

he was sent up for that shyt.




art barr

 

[Art Barr]

ROBOTIX

the rich black nikka toy.


this was a grail...
that if you got to play with this shyt.
it was so fukk'n dope.

this was the real legos for us...except it cost so much.
that of course my best friend had this and no one else had it.

i think the cartoon flopped just because it cost so much...
no kid wanted to even get shot down trying to ask for this.


yet everything about this shyt was next level and you could make any vehicle you thought of.
plus it was mechanized and that shyt worked frfr.

if you had a chance to ever play with this.
plus the action figures were next level sturdy as well.
just a five star toy...i don't think many may know or remember.
except it sat right after the gi joe aircraft carrier and voltron as the must have expensive toy of the era.
plus real talk...it was buss'n at anything you could have ever bought.
plus it had a cartoon that was like the mysterious robotix came on.
that everyone thought you was lying...just like most kids saying they had robotix.

except the cartoon did come on and it was next level too tho.



art barr

 

[Art Barr]

the scariest goat toy ever made

if you wanted to creep someone out...

all you need was this.

sectaurs....was my shyt.

my bestfriends auntie and grandmother bought me all my great toys.
since i had no family in chicago, to not be left out from all the other kids.
so the xmas this came out.
i asked for the hero and the villian of this line.
sckraight out the montgomery ward and service merchandise catalog.

i freaked out everybody for years with these things.

if you was over my crib...you better watch out.

i would make adults damn near piss on themselves with the dragon fly.

then come back with this one....

the villain on a tarantula and the wings worked.

oh i loved the insectaurs...
loved them....

i don't even like bugs...
this was the big time exception....
nobody else played with these toys but me.....though but i loved this line of toys.
everyone was creeped out from these.
it gave anyone the chills no other kids would go near these.
so they stayed in pristine condition....i wish i could find these.
the figures were next level and the weapons were supafye...

plus it had a cartoon too.



back then...shyt came out. that i think no one in later gens has no idea.
how much dope shyt came out for us back in the day. it just does not compare.


art barr

 

[ORDER_66]

the scariest goat toy ever made

if you wanted to creep someone out...

all you need was this.

insectaurs....was my shyt.

my bestfriends auntie and grandmother bought me all my great toys.
since i had no family in chicago, to not be left out from all the other kids.
so the xmas this came out i asked for the hero and the villian of this line.

i freaked out everybody for years with these things.

if you was over my crib...you better watch out.

i would make adults damn near piss on themselves with the dragon fly.

then come back with this one....

oh i loved the insectaurs...
loved them....

i don't even like bugs...
this was the big time exception....
nobody else played with these toys but me.....though but i loved this line of toys.
everyone was creeped out from these.
it gave anyone the chills no other kids would go near these.
so they stayed in pristine condition....i wish i could find these.
the figures were next level and the weapons were supafye...

plus it had a cartoon too.



back then...shyt came out. that i think no one in later gens has no idea.
how much dope shyt came out for us back in the day. it just does not compare.


art barr

I missed this 0ne

 

[Art Barr]

SERVICE MERCHANDISE SEASONAL CATALOG = THA GOAT

if you did not have this.
[this photo is all i could link as this is not even the goat. you needed the seasonal xmas catalog, to be on point].
you wasn't gon get a motherfukk'n thing period.
so..you better be on top of having your ask for this face prepared.
or you was not ever getting no toys period.
not for your birthday,...and definitely not for xmas.


this was the beginning of how you were gonna get anything toy related back in the day.
if you did not get it from here.....good luck when it hit the shelf.
you would have been on the phone all motherfukk'n day and night...
this shyt was better than the fukk'n internet.
if you had this...
you had the toy connection to tha gawds.

SERVICE MERCHANDISE CATALOG >>>> INTERNET

this was what made life life for a kid...
this catalog was as coveted as anything you could get in life as a kid.
this was the bible, the link to the toy gawds....
without this...you was nuffin in these toy bin sckreets...
nuffin.....



art barr

 

[detroitwalt]

Actually this is probably the two greatest boy toys of all time.

there were 2 brothers that lived across the street from me and their parents got them EVERYTHING. One would get the good guys and the other one the bad guys. I mean Castle Greyskull & Snake Mountain, Cobra Terrordome & the aircraft carrier. That’s the only time I seen one in real life. That bytch was humongous. They got all the transformers too except for Megatron. I didn’t know anyone that had that.

 

[detroitwalt]

I thought so I wasn't into Beasts Wars at all. Thought it was blasphemy to the OG series.
Anyone had Centurions?
Those toys were heavy as fukk when you strapped on all of their weapons. You couldn't play with them with all that shyt on

Me and my cousins would get our action figures out make a ring out of a pillow and have wrestling matches with them all day.
Man we had shoe boxes and ziploc bags full of GI Joe's and other action figures.

Edit- didn’t realize you put the Centurion name your post. I was asking if I had the name right.

 

[Art Barr]

the shelf gawd = K MART

only the real ones know.

if you missed the release..

this was the next move.
plus this shyt was thirty dollars cheaper on nintendo games.
people would sleep cause kmart had this stigma...of being like the lower end store.
except they had every fukk'n thing deadstock and like no other kids knew to call them.
so when everyone was raiding and fighting in the aisles of toys r us.

you have some parent take you to kmart.
that it was so lax...parents would jump to take you there.
to see the joy on your face.
to complete the great toy and game missions.


kmart were kings...shame the stigma or whatever it is.
that makes them look lower level is there.
as kmart was the fukk'n shyt.

real talk...it was the goat.
especially when zelda came out...zelda was ninety dollars at toys r us.
at kmart this shyt was sixty like all the other games.
even legend of zelda two was no fuss walk in walk out at sixty five or seventy dollars.


lowkey....the greatest toy store...


art barr

 

[detroitwalt]

Yea when my pops and mother got divorced shyt just changed and then crack hit and all the innocence was gone.
Before then we use to wake up early in the morning with my mother playing music on this

Start cleaning up to get ready to go outside. Before we knew how to ride bikes we were stuntin on those big wheels man. Spinning out and everything. shyt it use to be a contest to see who could get outside first b/c you felt like you was missing something. Hell our mothers didnt even want us coming back in the house until we were good and tired. I remember when it was a big deal to go inside each other's houses too. You had to ask both parents permission if you could "have company". Aww man that's how everybody got to know each other in the neighborhood and on the block. Good times as a kid in my old neighborhood.

Big wheels was the shyt until you wore a hole in one of those plastic tires. I remember riding with a fukked up wheel. shyt was super bumpy and not fun cause you really couldn’t get your speed up no more. Jumping them hood ramps with cement blocks and pieces of plywood from a boarded up house. Good times.

 

[old pig]

the guy who was like the worst kid ever to kids who did not know him.
i grew up wit'eem.
he actually killed the mean store owner back in the day,...

this store owner used to be so mean to us.
this kid i grew up with.
stayed into it with'eem.

he was sent up for that shyt.




art barr

damn smh

dude grew up to be a good dude tho

he was older than us by a couple years

ended up teaching his son

 

[Art Barr]

I missed this 0ne

make a whole adult piss themselves and have to reattach their soul to their body.


then come back withe villain and watch their soul float from their body again...


catch the old men watching boxing talking all that macho shyt..
yeah..aight...

we will see how tough yo ass is...when i pop out the dip with this sectaur you old motherfukker.
bet you be trying to get yo lick back from sheer embarrassment.

imma get all you poppas watching them old ass boxing reel to reels.




fukk'n goat toy.......


art barr

 

[Art Barr]

Big wheels was the shyt until you wore a hole in one of those plastic tires. I remember riding with a fukked up wheel. shyt was super bumpy and not fun cause you really couldn’t get your speed up no more. Jumping them hood ramps with cement blocks and pieces of plywood from a boarded up house. Good times.

wasn't shyt better than big wheels.

big wheels >>>> bmx bikes..
knight rider big wheel = goat riding kids vehicle

i never cared about being bigger than other kids.
all cause i could still ride big wheels and they couldn't...

still eight on a big wheel tho.....
i would run you down on a tyler...
a big wheel was just more fun....

art barr

 

[Art Barr]

damn smh

dude grew up to be a good dude tho

he was older than us by a couple years

ended up teaching his son

real talk...tho.

ol store owner was asking for that shyt.
i still don't know why he had this dope ass candy store and was so mean tho.
his anger and mean attitude got him bodied..no bullshyt.



art barr