So Daniel Coates wants to know some of the toys/collectables that I enjoyed growing up?

1. Star Wars stuff. Star Wars came out when I was 2. In fact, one of the earliest memories I have is going to a drive-in and seeing Star Wars. I don’t remember ANYTHING except the very opening scene, the Tantive IV chase scene. My pops never took us to movies… Except the Star Wars films. Not a huge fan of the Disney stuff, but that’s a conversation for another day.

2. Transformers and GoBots. I never had many of them, but I was obsessed with Transformers and GoBots for a while. Transferred that obsession to my son, he would sit for hours and watch the old Transformers series I ripped off of Cartoon Network (I think?) using MythTV and a tuner card, then burned to DVD. I have an extensive collection of old school Transformers series on my media server.

3. Figment from Epcot/Journey Into Imagination. When Epcot opened, I convinced my parents to buy me a Figment plushie. If I remember correctly, it was $21. I carried that thing through my childhood, and then gave it to my son who loved it for years, then it went into a bag and into a closet. It’s around here still, somewhere. I haven’t been back to Disney in years, but Journey Into Imagination and all its incarnations were always a must-ride. I was a signor of a petition for Disney to bring back Figment when they so rudely redesigned the ride and took him out.

4. Computers. My dad brought home an IBM XT (for work) when I was six or seven. Thing took about 10 minutes to boot as I recall. Before that I remember spending hours entering programs into a Coco computer, just to have it output a circle. lol. Guess it stuck, I’m a software developer. I spend the majority of my life behind a keyboard. Gaming. Writing. Communicating. Puttering around on the interwebs. Trolling. Good times.

5. R/C planes. When I was in my early teens I begged, BEGGED my parents for a Cox EZ-Bee. They got it for me. I flew it for a while. Ended up breaking it (of course) but a few years later I got into R/C again, and I have a couple of park flyers I bring out every once in a while. Model rocketry too, my kid used to love “pressing the button”.

So I’m going to annoy Mina Howell, Calder Quinn, and Jenifer Jorgenson for this one.