The "identify this classic toy" thread

[GuyWithTheDinoEggThing]

Awesome stegosaurus skeleton dinosaur transforming egg toy thing

So when I went home over break I found this awesome transforming toy I had, but I have no clue what it is (and I'm dying to know.) I unfortunately have no clues, and there are no visible markings on it. I've Googled around a bunch and I can't find it.




(images mirrored here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tzpspktm02rzau3/eZFLTUh5Fr )

And in case it's not clear from the photos, it opens along the spine and everything flips in/out.

So, does anyone have any ideas? Huge thanks and a million Internet points to anyone who does :-)

[bigjuan]

Is this it?

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I ju...I bu...z...bu....

Yes. This is it. I can't possibly say thank you enough...I posted about this and my cousins all chimed in with "yeah, I remember that, I wish I knew what it was" respones too... Now...I begin my quest to find one!

Thank you oh so very much!!!!

[Monsterama2000]

Is this it?

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[bigjuan]

I hope someone here can help me...I've been going crazy trying to figure out what the name of a toy from my youth is.

When I was younger (late 70's to mid 80'sish), my grandparents used to have a few different handheld water toys. They had a couple of Wunderfall toys (squish the button to squirt water/air and try to get the rings on the poles/balls in the basket/whatever), which, using the power of Google, I was able to figure out, identify, and I've got one proudly displayed on my desk at work.

They *also* had a goldfish-like water toy that's a bit harder to explain.

The toy itself was a goldfish bowl, sealed and full of water, with a hoop on a pole stuck in the bottom (think "ring of fire" for lions at the circus), and a floating mechanical fish that looked somewhat like an orange angel fish.

The fish floated by itself, and when you pushed the button (ala a Waterfuls game), the fish would flick its tail to one side and sink. When you let go, it'd float back up. By actuating the button, you could make the fish swim around, with the apparent object to get the fish to swim *through* the hoop in the middle.

I've tried and tried and tried to figure anything out about this game...the vendor that created it, the name of it...anything, to no avail. I was starting to think I'd imagined the entire thing until talking about it at work when around three of my co-workers all recognized the same toy.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about, or, better yet, the name of the toy? I'd love to have one for my desk, to help remind me of better times in the past.

[Red Hulk]

88- chair from the GI Joe Tomahawk helicopter
93- window from the Filmation Ghostbusters series House playlet
101- Part of Millenium Falcon (not sure what version of the toy though, but I recognize what its supposed to be)
146 Might be one of the hats to either Cletus, Enos, or Roscoe in the 3-3/4" Dukes of hazard line (I can't recall if any of the hats other than Boss Hog's were removable)

Several various pieces in there go to GI Joe (most certainly #102) but I don't know exactly, they just seem very familiar. They one that is gonna keep me up tonight is #95. I know I had this piece as a kid. It was from some smaller set (perhaps the "Army Gear" Flashlight. But there were two of those pieces to the set and they held up a landingpad or something like that. Very faint memory, but it will likely come to me eventually. Hope that helps...

number 15 is a Mog from The Other World toy line, I used to have a few of the figures and beasts from it.

[MegoCapnMike]

Here is another crop of WAZZITs as I call 'em.


The centaur guy is marked "Warner Bro.s 2002" .

POTA is marked "Hasbro 99". The phone has no markings but is Sooo Mego scale!!!

The purple monster in the cage is marked "ARCO no date"

Little soldier guys are marked "Soma 1987" Mid-evil guy is marked "Papo 2003" and has removable sword & shield. Fred Flintstone is an eraser 1987. Blue astronaut is "Remco".

No clue on the NunChuks. Capt. America shield has been ID'd as Toy Biz 90's. The green thing is a helmet of some kind, Maybe for 5" figure. Lil old man in green shirt and work apron marked "86 ATI?" And the Bendy Asian looking figure is marked "Marvel Education".

And a late entry...

I call it a Wacky Racer! Markings are "88 IMAG"
Well that's it. Hope somebody can flesh-out these odd little Misfit Toys.

Here is some info (a picture anyway) on the little blue astronaut guy:

http://megomuseum.com/mmgallery/showimage.php?i=21895&c=2

[MegoCapnMike]

Got it. I was right. #95 was from the "Army Gear" flashlight set.

http://megomuseum.com/mmgallery/showimage.php?i=21890&c=2

It is tiny (only picture I could find with a quick Google search) which makes me wonder how common are these sets? But if you look closely at the flashlight in it's open extended form, you can just make out the support strut there.

[Bruce Banner]

The centaur guy is marked "Warner Bro.s 2002"

The Centaur figure is from Harry Potter:

http://dccollectibles.ecrater.com/p/5035935/harry-potter-creature-centaur-8-figure

The purple monster in the cage is marked "ARCO no date"

The caged purple monster is a Boglin:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Boglins-MIB-with-cage-and-chain-by-Arco-1987-no-7211-/261098612734?nma=true&si=PFmyw6vwAp1Tw9vvgCF872e8QvI%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

[MegoCapnMike]

Anyone know what the belt/holster is? Number 81

That is what I am most curious about.

88- chair from the GI Joe Tomahawk helicopter
93- window from the Filmation Ghostbusters series House playlet
101- Part of Millenium Falcon (not sure what version of the toy though, but I recognize what its supposed to be)
146 Might be one of the hats to either Cletus, Enos, or Roscoe in the 3-3/4" Dukes of hazard line (I can't recall if any of the hats other than Boss Hog's were removable)

Several various pieces in there go to GI Joe (most certainly #102) but I don't know exactly, they just seem very familiar. They one that is gonna keep me up tonight is #95. I know I had this piece as a kid. It was from some smaller set (perhaps the "Army Gear" Flashlight. But there were two of those pieces to the set and they held up a landingpad or something like that. Very faint memory, but it will likely come to me eventually. Hope that helps...

[MegoCapnMike]

Here is another crop of WAZZITs as I call 'em.


The centaur guy is marked "Warner Bro.s 2002" .

POTA is marked "Hasbro 99". The phone has no markings but is Sooo Mego scale!!!

The purple monster in the cage is marked "ARCO no date"

Little soldier guys are marked "Soma 1987" Mid-evil guy is marked "Papo 2003" and has removable sword & shield. Fred Flintstone is an eraser 1987. Blue astronaut is "Remco".

No clue on the NunChuks. Capt. America shield has been ID'd as Toy Biz 90's. The green thing is a helmet of some kind, Maybe for 5" figure. Lil old man in green shirt and work apron marked "86 ATI?" And the Bendy Asian looking figure is marked "Marvel Education".

And a late entry...

I call it a Wacky Racer! Markings are "88 IMAG"
Well that's it. Hope somebody can flesh-out these odd little Misfit Toys.

The little old man in the green shirt and apron holding the magnifying glass is Gimmick from the small (action figure line) of Teddy Ruxpin. I had the whole set when I was a kid. Figures were about 3" tall I believe and had all the characters that were in the Teddy Ruxpin read along books. Actually a cool line for what it was.

My guess on the green helmet is something from the later years of GI Joe RAH. But this may not be the case as you said it could be for a 5" figure...

[droidtrader]

Hmmm, I"m not really sure what you mean. They're pretty big to be what I think you are referring to. They're about an inch long. Maybe I'm wrong though. They look like they could be a leather water bottle/canteen for an 8 inch figure. Or a leather pouch that in Indian might carry?

[ctc]

>Anyone else know what those black ones are?

They look like flash; stuff that'd be trimmed off the final piece.... like maybe they were handles so's the Trek boots could be pulled from the molds? Do the pointy ends seem close to the size of them omnipresent little holes on the back of a Mego Trek leg?

Don C.

[droidtrader]

Thanks for identifying that gray one!

Anyone else know what those black ones are?

[torgospizza]

This is a comlock from Mattel's Space:1999 line. I'm not sure what the first pic is, though. :(

[droidtrader]

Hi,
I'm trying to identify the accessories listed below. They are all about 1" long. They were included in a Mego Star Trek Bridge playset and figures I bought at a show, but obviously don't belong to the set. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!