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Post by PJ on Jun 1, 2018 5:09:57 GMT -5
I posted this in the “Toys That Made Us NetFlix” thread and thought I would post it here as well. All I needed were my toys and a small little corner of my back year and you wouldn’t see or here from me for hours. It was the best setup for all my adventures whether it was Megos/LJN, GI Joes (12” or 3.75”) , Star Wars, little plastic Army Men or hot wheels.
Our driveway was elevated about 4’ about the back yard. And in the left corner was where everything happened. The wall was a mountain. Then there was a 4’ or 5’ patch of dirt below it that was a valley, desert, battlefield, etc. Then abour 4’ to the right and back was the grass and an in ground foundation so that was the jungle and river/ocean.That little patch of yard was strange new worlds on other planets. the west, battlefields , jungles, islands, deserts, mountains or anything else I needed it to be on whatever day I was playing.
And whether I was alone or with friends hours a day would be spent in that corner. It was a very sad day when my mother sold our childhood house as it was torn down to build a bunch of townhouses on our property. Now my “world” has been plowed under and is part of the road for the last 17 years. So where were some of the places you played with your toys as a kid?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2018 6:35:05 GMT -5
My childhood best friend's garden was THE place to go. It was such a massive garden, with so many hidden areas. We built a little Dalek city in one area, which was great fun. We buried a time capsule there too, so if his parents ever sell up, perhaps it'll be found.
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Post by bababooey on Jun 1, 2018 9:43:40 GMT -5
When I was really young in our first apartment I had two great spots. My room had all hand built furniture with a lot of compartmentalized shelves and then some open desk space with like a stereo and tv. Made for a great bad guy lair or streets with buildings (or a backstage area for wrestling). I also had some good floor space where I could put my playsets for the good guys. G.I. Joe HQ, Wayne Manor, Daily Bugle, WWE arena.
The living room in that apartment was also great. A ton of open carpeted floor space, so my figures could travel. The side tables next to the couches were useful too and we had one sofa next to a matching one seat couch. The armrests touched each other and it made for a cool cave type space. It also had an alcove type area where we had a big computer desk and a big stereo system. I could usually build a bridge from the stereo to the window where the main bad guy would usually be. We had a fireplace too that had brick on the face of it. That was fun for like mountain climbing stuff.
When we moved I had less fun spaces. I mostly played in my room or in the basement. In the basement we had a lot of spare materials from when we built the house so we could create some fun stuff with bricks, tiles, chicken wire, lumber, etc.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Jun 1, 2018 9:55:40 GMT -5
With Legos, it was the living room.
With the little plastic army men, the front flower garden. In the summer time, we used a magnifying glass as napalm. We were sick kids.
12" GI Joes, the back yard & tree fort.
With Star Wars figures, my room. They never left the house.
With my friend's 8 inch Megos, the top of Flower Avenue. We'd put them on a skate board & see where they would end up. Good times, indeed.
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Post by PJ on Jun 1, 2018 10:12:12 GMT -5
For me inside play was either in my room or on the staircase. Whenever I played on the staircase it was either with my 12” Joes or my Megos. The stairs were always used as a waterfall. Or I would make a homemade elevator out of really long string and an empty baby whips box and I would run the string over the top of the upstairs bannister and have rescue missions where they had to lower someone from unstairs down to the base of the stairs. So the upstairs drop would either be the side of a building or mountain.
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Post by bababooey on Jun 1, 2018 11:03:50 GMT -5
I also forgot to mention the other cool thing. My neighbor was really skilled at building and wanted to be an architect. My mom sold Avon and we would get tons of cardboard boxes. So we would bring my neighbor the boxes and other supplies and he would make us the coolest playsets for G.I. Joes.
He once made us a full house scaled for Joes that had working doors, a room with bunks, a kitchen, a computer room (With computers, desks, and office chairs made of cardboard), a dining hall, a rec room. The rec room had couches, a tv, dart board, and a pool table made of cardboard. He even made pool cues with toothpicks and made a rack to store them on the wall. The coolest feature of the rec room was the bookcase. It was a secret door that spun around and gave the Joes access to the armory that was full of weapon racks, computers, and a briefing table.
He also made us a gym that was separate, but could be attached to the house. He made us lockers with working doors, a weight bench with a barbell, a treadmill, and a towel rack. Then it had a bathroom with toilet stalls complete with toilets, sinks, and shower stalls with plumbing. He used straws to make a system of pipes where we could put some water in the back and it would come out of the shower head. He also got a piece of that plastic that covers fluorescent lights and cut a piece out to pressure fit as a window. It stayed tight in the wall but you could also throw someone through it and it would knock out.
They were really cool but there was no where to store them when we were done playing.
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Post by PJ on Jun 1, 2018 12:37:16 GMT -5
Nice. Outside I would make forts like Fort Apache for my army men and 3.75” Joes out of branches and stones.
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Post by Mark Martin on Jun 4, 2018 16:05:40 GMT -5
My Grandma's living room is definitely where I played the most. I played at home plenty but I had other means of entertainment there like video games and sports and Pokemon whereas going to Grandma's house it was whatever I could bring to entertainment myself and that was usually tons of GI Joes, Batman, and wrestling figures.
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Post by JC Motors on Jun 7, 2018 10:45:56 GMT -5
My bedroom
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Post by marino13 on Jun 7, 2018 14:53:45 GMT -5
My great grandma had this old house. And in the backyard she had an old brick fireplace/grill thing in the corner. To me, it looked EXACTLY like a Cobra castle. So I'd play there all the time when I was growing up. Till one day I saw a black widow behind it and I was afraid to ever go back. To this day, I'm scared s**tless of spiders (ironic right, cause of the Spider Man thing)and I blame it on that moment.
I also used to make my Joes wrestle (who didn't?). And I would have big events throughout the year. But my "Wrestlemania" was always while we were on vacation. My grandparents (other side of the family) had a nice trailer by the beach in Jersey. So every year, I'd pack up my Joes and I'd sit on the porch and have my biggest event of the year. It was outdoors, so it reminded me of the old WCCW events that were always outside in stadiums. I loved it.
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Post by LostHawk05 on Jun 18, 2018 19:45:16 GMT -5
A big backyard & GI Joes is a match made in heaven. Hours of fun for me that’s for damn sure.
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Post by The Brain on Jun 18, 2018 20:54:23 GMT -5
A big backyard & GI Joes is a match made in heaven. Hours of fun for me that’s for damn sure. I thought this was the match made in heaven?...
All seriousness when I was a youngster it was either the backyard or my room.
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Post by Mongo Bears on Aug 15, 2018 22:39:43 GMT -5
Anywhere.
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Post by JOEJOEJOEJOE on Aug 15, 2018 23:28:16 GMT -5
Never really took my toys outside because I feared I would lose things so I usually played in various spots around the house
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Post by sidetrip on Aug 17, 2018 15:35:42 GMT -5
It was my bedroom inside. Two different spots outside. The backyard of my parents house was one. Ours was a corner house so it was a pretty good size yard. Gi joe, star wars, and super powers all had their turn out there. The second spot was my best friend's grandparents. They had a two story house but it was one when you walked in there was a small staircase to the living room and bedrooms on the upper level and a small staircase to the kitchen and dining room on the lower level. They had a upper level porch so we would tie strings to the railing and have figures climb up and down or the one and only time we tried to do a homemade zip line for his sky striker with really bad results.
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Post by Nivro™ on Aug 17, 2018 17:48:45 GMT -5
In "the dirt pile"...My dad built a garage onto the house when I was kid. Left over was just a big pile of dirt. That dirt was literally everything. I used it as "fox holes" for GI Joes, even as a dirt track for my 1/64 scale race cars/hot wheels
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Aug 18, 2018 8:45:21 GMT -5
In "the dirt pile"...My dad built a garage onto the house when I was kid. Left over was just a big pile of dirt. That dirt was literally everything. I used it as "fox holes" for GI Joes, even as a dirt track for my 1/64 scale race cars/hot wheels I had one of these next to our dilapidated tree fort. I made a Rancor pit once. I haven't thought about it in years. Thanks for the quick happy memory!
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Post by tenup on Dec 10, 2018 1:54:38 GMT -5
My play spot was the window sill. I was raised in a 10 story apartment and had battles with my superhero figures on that sill and sometimes would have them plunge to their demise. I would go and retrieve them of course as there was a grassy bush area they would land in.
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Post by doctorwhofan on Apr 9, 2019 23:29:43 GMT -5
My favorite place to play as a child was my grandfather's house and my grandfather's house had a big living room and one bedroom that I had to share with Mom and Dad but my grandfather's house also had a big room that my parents made into a playroom for me and I would spend many happy hours playing with my Barbies and other dolls there and I was a happy camper. Then I got my own room when my parents got our first apartment and it was pure heaven having a space of my own playing with my dolls and I like having my own room to play with whatever I played. Today I still play with my action figures and dolls and now ever since I got my WWE figures Dad and I love to play wrestling matches with my figures using my hotel bed as a wrestling ring and rows of pillows as a wrestling mat and it is so awesome and sometimes my mom and I like to dress my WWE Superstars dolls in different outfits too Doctorwhofan
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Post by JokerFC on Apr 17, 2019 11:54:34 GMT -5
Backyard was an obvious one. In the house it was the landing of the stairs....that where all my WWF Hasbro wars went down....and Mask vs Transformers etc.
But out in my Grandparents place in the country was just excellent. I had so many spots outside it was unreal....
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