I'm watching an episode of The Twilight Zone where a man can't seem to get over childhood and the toys (which I'm totally with him on, but I could do without the bratty attitude). He was going on about cap guns for awhile, which were definitely cool. Tops and yo-yo's were pretty slick toys too. And the slinky! People make bank with the simplist things, honestly. I remember one of my coolest toys was Alphie - the robot. I'm pretty sure I remember taking that hard plastic thing to bed with me. And I'm pretty sure I'd take it in the trucks when riding with mom. Veralyn had Teddy Ruxpin, and now still has Teddy Ruxpin. And there was that interactive tape player with the four (or was it five?)big colored buttons to chose when the tape asked you to count something on the page or choose who told the story (the muppet baby story). That was pretty slick. Ryan has some pretty cool stuff too. There was that little computer that had math problems and you could play hangman on. It was so hard to spell words correctly when it said them because you couldn't understand it sometimes. And he had the crane. I think I saw the same one on mythbusters when they did the see-saw episode. Which reminded me of the crane and also of the giant teeter-totters at grandma's. Well, one regular sized and the other that was the tree trunk. It was too big for me to get up on without help most of the time it was there as I remember.
Then there were GI Joes, Transformers, Battle Beasts, and lots and lots of toy cars. Boy we had some good stuff back then. They're bringing it all back now for movies, and making bad new cartoon series out of them. All of them are getting recycled. He-Man will be next. Hope they can meet your standards Ryan, I remember how much you loved He-Man. My She-Ra pajama's were pretty sweet. Barbie can keep her corvette. She-Ra had a sword, superpowers, and a flying winged unicorn. Ken could never handle a girl like that :)
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