This is a question that has been bothering my brother and I for nearly 5 years now. Growing up in the 80’s and early 90’s we had some really neat toys that I am sure were connected to some cartoon as almost all of my childhood toys seemed to be, but for the life of me I can’t recall what they were called or what the show was.
The key features of the toys as I remember them was that the figures, in light blue jump suits and perhaps sporting some sort of red chest plate, had magnetic feet, and their vehicles had magnetic pads for them to stand on. The vehicles themselves were the coolest part because not only did they transform, but they did so automatically at the flip of a switch. Granted that even looking back through the eyes of nosalgia (am I really allowed to have nostalgia at 21?) I realize that the transforming was really basic but in was more than cool enough for a 6 year old.
I have tried googling it but without any place to start it is hard. Not much results from searching for “auto transforming magnetic 80’s toys” unfortunately. Does anyone have any idea what I am talking about?
That is it. I definitely recognize the toys, but for the life of me the name does not ring any bells, strange. On viewing the screenshots of the cartoon along with sample dialog I can easily imagine that I would repress the memory. I swear sometime in the last 20 years someone went around and switched every copy of the shows that I watched as a kid with really bad mockeries of the originals, they were not this bad when they originally aired.
Yes, StarCom. This page has a lot more info. Personally, I had a [URL=http://www.nemesisworld.com/starcom/astro_vehicles.html#1]Laser R.A.T., piloted by Capt. Vic “Dakota” Hayes.
Lets see…
I know I had the Laser R.A.T. and I had either the Missle Station or the Laser Artillery (I think it was the Laser Artillery, but they look quite similar), and also the Battle Crane piloted by Sgt. Bob Anders.
I don’t know those toys. But speaking of magnetic toys, anyone remember Flipsiders? They looked just like cassette tapes, but give them a flick of the wrist and a mini board game would pop out of the bottom. A little compartment on top held wee magnetic playing pieces, and a tab in the middle spun wheels that determined your number of moves. I loved those things.