Out of Pod Experience

I got a neat space ship looking toy for Christmas. It was made of this awesome soft, ivory coloured palstic; a ship of sorts, with 3 or 5 crew members. It could be taken apart and made into 5 individual ships, the "wings" of which were like pistols that shot out darts with big rubber bumpers on them.

Apparently the rubber bumpers often broke off and the plastic shaft became a sharp missile propelled by a powerful spring. The toy was recalled, and one day my mom packed it up and we went to the store to return it. I got to pick out any other toy that I wanted! I got 2! They were Buck Rogers space ships each with a guy.

They were made of cheap, hollow sounding plastic. And a bit to large for a little kid to play with. The figures fell apart soon after as they were pretty cheap. Nothing like the guys on the ship that was returned.

I always missed that ship. And I still wonder what happened to the company that made it. It was a well made toy that had a flaw which could have been easily fixed. Instead the toy was destroyed and I imagine the company that made it along with it.

This was 35 years ago or so. Did you ever have such a toy? Or a great childhood disappointment that is perhaps the reason for you playing Eve?

I'm home watching the kids today. We played hide and seek, ate some toast, and counted all of their transformers. At this point we are reading kids books, then we read a few forum posts together =-) They often get bored with the forum posts and I have a few minutes to think and write.

Lulz

Go outside and show your kids that there is a life without you staring at a screen at every possible opportunity.

I had construx as a kid where you could build almost anything.

On a side note, Battle Beasts made a perfect fit in Construx seats/cockpits.

Replace Toy Company with CCP, and toy with EVE/Dust, and you have all of us in a few years...

Corey recalls the rage of this memory, everytime he logs on. Burning with the fury of exactly 5 3/8th Class O stars, he makes a beast out of himself, as the client program loads. A beast that hungers for killmails. He presses the undock button... and all is lost.

It looks like a damn Curse....

early 70's ,i had cast toys . i had a set of spaceships and tanks from the tv show UFO . ahh good times

http://ufo.sfdaydreams.com/toys/peufo.htm

I once had a set of Star Trek ships that I loved. But there was one problem, the Galaxy class was way too small. That ship was supposed to be huge! I shrugged it off and played with my Constitution class and Bird of Prey instead.

Then I found Eve and got my first Rokh... and the old disappointment returned

My brother and I had untold amounts of lego sets. We used to build huge fleets of spaceships that would fight epic battles in a distant solar system (which was actually the floor of our basement).
There was one that was twice the size of all the others... the mighty dreadnought USS Nevada, as we called it. No Russian ship could withstand the force of its all-powerful Wave Motion Cannon (thanks to Starblazers for the awesome name).
In fact, for my brother's sake, I still played these spaceship battles with him, even when I was in high school. Girls who wanted to date me would just have to deal with the fact that it was what I did on Saturdays (pausing only to watch The Tick), before anything else.


Little did I know that I would still be playing with spaceships, fighting Russians, and explaining to my girlfriends why it's so interesting to me, well into my 30's...