Looking back:Shoe Box toy figure forts

[mazinz]

There was nothing more exciting to getting a new pair of shoes when I was younger than being able to take that empty shoe box afterwards and turn it into a playset for my Star Wars or whatever figures. Sometimes you can get very creative and have break-away doors or even use empty paper towel rolls to make a tunnel connecting to another box, etc. I used to love drawing in fake computer consoles or what ever was needed for whatever kind of "fort" it was supposed to represent.

Although some toy series did make some sort of base for figures, most of the time we were left using our own creativity. There was just something very cool about doing this.

I am sure I was not the only one who was young in the 70's to early 80's to use card board boxes in such fashion. I wish I had pictures of them now. This leaves the door open to share your shoe box toy fort memories or if you have pictures to post them--enjoy

[toys2cool]

lol! I use to do the same thing with shoe boxes

[starsky]

yeah me too! i used to stack them and have different levels kinda like the death star playset!!

[AUSSIE-Rebooted-AMM]

I used to love using Cereal boxes, as elevators for my figures. . .and rig them up with string, and use them along side pigeon holes standing on end to act as buildings.

The other favourite was trying to make ponds in our bed room using Aluminium foil and trying to fill it with water then putting our Action Jacksons in it in an inflatable raft. . . this never worked well. . .never ended well. . . and Mum was never ever happy with me and my brother when we would try to do this in our carpeted room.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Next to the action figure itself; cardboard is humanity's greatest invention. (Especially corrugated cardboard.)

Don C.

[Manspider]

Me too!
I use to love converting my shoe boxes into some sort of playset: complete with doors that opened, cut-out windows and whatever else a pre-teen imagination could create.

[toystalker]

im glad you found my kind of toys helpfull

i had plenty of shoe boxes, cereal boxes, pots and pans but very little or no action figures lol... nope i cant think of 1 i had lol

yeah i cut all the holes and door ways same as you guys but my characters were imajinary

1st toy before any action figure i had was 12" stuff like actiuon man that i had handed down to me, i had bike and side car tanks jeeps and trucks then, no need for flimsy boxes haha

[AAAAA]

Lets hear it for the all mighty card board box !!! Fort, hide a way, hero/villian lair,
shuttle,is it nothing it can't be?

[Bo8a_Fett]

Loved building things out of cardboard boxes for my figures...even using loo roll holders as turrets or chimneys...lol...great times...nowadays of course virtually every line has a playset or base of some kind so that joy has been stolen from our kids....bring back the mystery of the cardboard box!!!

[spiderrogue]

i used to take old tshirts and cut them into tent shapes and actually nail them to my floor(the stakes)....for my 80s joes...we had a hard wood floor in my bedroom...my mom used to kill me for doing that..lol...and im sure that at some point, i did use shoe boxes of some sort...im sure that a lot of us did back them...