My mom HATED the slime that came in playsets back then. I remember my little brother and I used to put that stuff in our hair (I dont know why we did that). What exactly was that stuff anyways?






My mom HATED the slime that came in playsets back then. I remember my little brother and I used to put that stuff in our hair (I dont know why we did that). What exactly was that stuff anyways?
Still have the Dagobah playset (foam pit has disappeared over the years), along with the Endor playset. I have them set up with my other Star Wars things that I had when I was a kid. My kids now drool at the sight of them as they walk by, eagerly await for a chance to play with them. I am not a collecter. All my Star Wars toys were played with quite a bit. Fortunately, I kept them in pretty good shape so I am waiting for my kids to get a little older before I let them enjoy what I did so long ago. Good Times!
Yeah, slime was not appreciated in my house as a kid. He-Man and Ghostbusters both came with slime. Clean it up right away was a lesson quickly learned...
I love these toy retrospectives! They always take me back to better days.
I was in a store in Cary Towne Centre the other day called Stuff n Such, just a little temporary setup that basically serves as the world's best yard sale. It has tons of old action figures from all sorts of lines, some in the package some out. So I'm working my way through it oohing and ahhing at all this crazy stuff (my wife's eyes were about to roll out of the back of her head), when I get to the back and what do they have? An incredibly dusty, very old, but essentially complete Cobra Terrordrome, the greatest playset of all time. I didn't even ask the price cause it only took one glance from my wife and the subsequent look on her face to know there was nowhere I could put this in the house that would ensure further "relations" between the two of us. Oh well.
Ewok Village is right Moon! First thing I thought of when I started the article. Caste Grey Skull was cool too. http://www.persona-non-grata.com
Of all the star wars sets I would not have chosen Dagoba. Hoth was way better. But How about the friggin DEATH STAR! HELLO???
The Slime Pit Struck fear into the hearts of Masters of the Universe heroes, villains, and your real life parents. Gotta admire the craftsmenship of that slime. Just viscuous enough to cover your action figures without any help from anything but gravity, but it wouldn't permanently stick to anything. except Moss man.
Loved the Cloud City Playset. Not really a mini play set but it has to be one of the all time greatest playsets in general. It had a hing where you could put Han solo into a chamber and switch the action figure to a platform with Han solo encased in Carbonite, and you could even remove that platform and it had movable platforms where you could attach your Light saber Lukre and Vader and you could slide the plaforms around to makre them sworsd fight. Awesome. And it even had a trapdoor somewhere I think.
THE SLIME PIT was a fantastic playset! I loved this one... DEGOBAH was pretty spiffy too, the foam "mud pit" was a truely unique feature, though I personally played with the Hoth battle play sets much more than Degobah.
Good list!