Born at the wrong time?

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Welcome! I hope you have a great time here

[Werewolf]

It was amazing...

Besides GI Joes there were Spy Toys...

Whoa! That is some wicked cool stuff! Thanks for posting that.

[Joe90]

I've always wondered what it would have been like to have been a kid in the late 50s to 60s. All those great Marx toys and robots, Rock em Sock em Robots, Great Garloo, King Zor, Captain Action, GI JOE, Major Matt Mason, etc. It was like the golden age of modern toys.

It was amazing...

Besides GI Joes there were Spy Toys...



Army Toys...



Slot Cars...



Train sets...



Plastic models...



Yeah. It was amazing...

[LadyZod]

I think those of us in our thirties really got to have our cake and eat it too.

I mean, I was born in the middle of the 70's, but I school age in the 80's... that means, I got to play with 70's toys and 80's toys. Up until the mid 80's you'd still find Mego products at clearance centers and stores like Odd Lots and Alexander's.

And with Reaganomics hitting all the right nerves, my parents had more disposable income for my toys. It's like I got the best part of the 70's without the whole Gas shortage thing.

The only bad part... jelly shoes. I freakin' hated wearing those things.

[Mark]

I've always wondered what it would have been like to have been a kid in the late 50s to 60s. All those great Marx toys and robots, Rock em Sock em Robots, Great Garloo, King Zor, Captain Action, GI JOE, Major Matt Mason, etc. It was like the golden age of modern toys.

I know how you feel, some many great toys and classic cars.

[Werewolf]

I've always wondered what it would have been like to have been a kid in the late 50s to 60s. All those great Marx toys and robots, Rock em Sock em Robots, Great Garloo, King Zor, Captain Action, GI JOE, Major Matt Mason, etc. It was like the golden age of modern toys.

[Mark]

Deja Vu.

It's alternately explained as the transmigrated soul remembering their past life, or the brain's synapses misfiring.

In the misfire rationale, the reasoning says that our brain first processes information with the "here and now" sensory perception and then the information gets stored in our memory where we can recollect it. The misfire circumvents the information and places it in the memory first and we encounter a sense of familiarity even though we have never experienced it before.

Accept whichever rationale is most comfortable to you.

When I was a child I had vivid dreams of overhauling a motorcycle carburetor. I had no access to motorcycles, let alone a shop. As a young man I bought a motorcycle. A friend in the know offered to help me with motorcycle maintenance. He was amazed that I was able to rebuild the carb without his help. I can't totally explain it, but I'm open to opinions.

I have heard of a few documented cases of transmigrated souls. One in particular involved a young child describing a house, that he had never seen before. With the address he gave his parents, they traveled to the address only to discover that the house had been described perfect detail.

It is a really interesting subject, to think that we have been here before. I have never been to Disneyland before, but I have a faint memory of visiting the park as a young child.

There are alot of reported cases and strange occurrences. But a lot of people seem to just pass these type of things off as hoaxes.

[Joe90]

When I was younger, I would sometimes experience some type of a flash back every now and then. I have asked my parents if certain recounted events have actually happened to me and they have dismissed most of them.

I've had certain "flashbacks" and memories of things that were before my time and I've asked my parents about it, if there's any way these were things I'd seen or heard at an extremely early age and just don't remember, and they have no idea.

Deja Vu.

It's alternately explained as the transmigrated soul remembering their past life, or the brain's synapses misfiring.

In the misfire rationale, the reasoning says that our brain first processes information with the "here and now" sensory perception and then the information gets stored in our memory where we can recollect it. The misfire circumvents the information and places it in the memory first and we encounter a sense of familiarity even though we have never experienced it before.

Accept whichever rationale is most comfortable to you.

When I was a child I had vivid dreams of overhauling a motorcycle carburetor. I had no access to motorcycles, let alone a shop. As a young man I bought a motorcycle. A friend in the know offered to help me with motorcycle maintenance. He was amazed that I was able to rebuild the carb without his help. I can't totally explain it, but I'm open to opinions.

[Mark]

That seems to ve VERY good advice!

It sure is, the best thing to do is to make every day count.

[Wee67]

That said enjoy being 22 and and the good years ahead. As many here will testify it seems to end all too soon.

That seems to ve VERY good advice!

[Mark]

I wish I was a teenager or about 11 /12 /13 when watching the bionic shows originally on tv I was still young but I was watching re runs on UK TV circa 1980/1982 so I was still part of it , i got my first set of figures in 1987 from a local shop in my home town that had old stock I got both figures for 4 pounds each brand new (still own them) and an original kids outfit

It is great when you can revisit your childhood, there is so much that I would have liked to experience. It's a great feeling when you stumble across such a bargin. I came a cross a mego spiderman and batman for a dollar once at a flea market.

[Karen-bionic-fan]

I wish I was a teenager or about 11 /12 /13 when watching the bionic shows originally on tv I was still young but I was watching re runs on UK TV circa 1980/1982 so I was still part of it , i got my first set of figures in 1987 from a local shop in my home town that had old stock I got both figures for 4 pounds each brand new (still own them) and an original kids outfit

[Mark]

Nice to have you here, Mark. I once bought a jacket that I swore was mine, even though I had never owned it before. It was for sale in the window at the Salvation Army and I actually felt upset that someone had taken my jacket from me.

So, naturally, I went in and bought it. Wore it for a long time until I had decided it was cursed and left it in an alley.

True story!


Bryan

Something very similar happened to my dad, he bought a book from a yard sale once. He opened up the cover and he discovered, that the person who had owned it before him had the exact same name as him.

His name is John Belcher, it doesn't seem to be a very common name.

There can be a few bad omens with these types of things, like your jacket. But sometimes it just feels like it's meant to be.

[sauce]

Nice to have you here, Mark. I once bought a jacket that I swore was mine, even though I had never owned it before. It was for sale in the window at the Salvation Army and I actually felt upset that someone had taken my jacket from me.

So, naturally, I went in and bought it. Wore it for a long time until I had decided it was cursed and left it in an alley.

True story!


Bryan

[Mark]

I know plenty of people probably will roll their eyes at this whole thing, and I can understand the skepticism surely.....but man I know precisely what you're talking about, because I've encountered the same thing personally! I've had certain "flashbacks" and memories of things that were before my time and I've asked my parents about it, if there's any way these were things I'd seen or heard at an extremely early age and just don't remember, and they have no idea. I've never bothered to put too much thought into the whole thing because it seems crazy but really, who the heck knows??

I think it's pretty cool that you're interested in the 1960s/1970s, it's not a bad thing to be able to appreciate what came before and find inspiration and fun in it all. Welcome aboard!

Who really knows the truth? But as you said it's cool that a person my age can appreciate what came before me and have a passion for it.