Top 100 Countdown – TOYS – Part 3 – #75-51!

It can't be rocks or dirt. Hey, this is Josh

Keaton, and you are listening to the Geekcast

Radio Network. a Toys R Us kid. Once a Toys R

Us kid. Always a Toys R Us kid. You are now listening

to GeekCast Radio and ToyCast as we continue

the Top 100 Toys Countdown. Today we'll be revealing

entries number 75 to 51. I am one of your hosts,

TFJ and Mike, and joining me as always is the

rubber ducky loving Steve Megatron. Hello. Welcome.

Also joining us this time around for part three

is a man who is all about those impossible missions.

It's DJ Valentine from Simplistic Reviews. Hello.

Hi. I know I'm only being brought on here to

comment on that fraud, Chris Kringle, so I'm

happy to do so. Hey, Santa Claus, me, you, 1984,

you promised me a Bigfoot Power Wheel. Never

got it. What's up? I got socks. I got freaking

socks. I'm pretty sure that's not on the bucket

list there. So, thank you, Charlton. So, yeah,

I'm here to call out Santa Claus, if that's your

real name, okay? Oh, my God. Owen Davian versus

Santa. Next big movie. Yeah, you're doing the

outro for this episode as Owen versus Santa.

I've already made the decision. And from the

planet of KT Toys, we have none other than Mr.

Optimus Solo. Hello. That's right. I took over.

It used to be KB Toys. Now it's KT Toys. Right.

KB is a little bit out of business right now.

Yeah, it's located in a corner of Macy's. Oh,

no, that's Toys R Us. Never mind. Five customers

a year. Yes, I'm here. Yes, you are here. So

take it away, sir, and let us know what will

be continuing on in the countdown with part three

here. Well, just to give a quick recap for those

of you that are late to the party, first of all,

go back and listen to the last episode. But just

in case you don't have time, numbers 101 through

76, I'll do them like rapid fire here. So we

had a tie -up in the 100 spot with starting lineup

figures and wrestling figures, and we went to

walkie -talkies, dino rider figures. the classic

Frisbee, skateboards, and hula hoop, followed

by Trouble, Power Wheels, Kite, the Xbox, Tic

-Tac -Toe, Tickle Me Elmo, the game of Risk,

Pogs, the game Sorry, Teddy Ruxpin, right next

to the teddy bear, Dress Up Kits, Hungry Hungry

Hippos, Star Trek action figures, Battle Beasts,

Stretch Armstrong, Big Wheels, Twister, and Lionel

Trains. And before we get DJ's thoughts on those,

I just wanted to catch everybody up on where

we sat after the first 25. We had a tie at the

top between board games and action figures that

each had six. Then things that have wheels was

next with four, three stuffed toys and three

outside toys. Those were kind of the leaders

of the pack. And we had five toys from either

the 1900s or before, six toys from the 1980s.

and four toys from the 1950s. Those were the

three time periods that were ruling supreme in

that part of the countdown. DJ, I know you didn't

get a chance to comment on these on last episode,

but what are your main takeaways from that first

set of 25 that was revealed? I want a Power Wheel.

I don't know if I've made that clear. Guys, the

biggest toy in my life was a Bigfoot Power Wheel.

I love it. When I saw the list... I think you

guys sent it to me earlier today. The first thing

that popped up was Power Wheels, and it reminded

me, yeah, I sat on your lap, Santa. I sat on,

we had a deal, man. We made a deal. I was good

all year. I didn't bully anybody. I wanted that

Power Wheel, because Power Wheels were freaking

awesome. Should be higher on this list for me.

But yes, the thing that made me also laugh are

things with wheels. That was like, wait, what?

I had to categorize these some way. The catalog,

that's what that page was categorized. And DJ,

you're not alone with the Power Wheels. We talked

about this last episode that that was like the

toy that we revealed last time that everybody

wanted that nobody got. Nobody got! Where can

I get it? So we're here to dig up old trauma

from your childhood. Trauma? They got PTSD from

Power Wheels. Power Wheels. You're all Ralphie

and his Red Rider BB gun at this point with the

power wheels. I couldn't shoot my eye. I could

probably run over somebody, but I can't shoot

my eye away. So we will have to see who breaks

the tie between board games and action figures

this round or if a dark third competitor somewhere

comes up and Dark Horse and takes the lead to

see which decade reigns supreme. This section

of the countdown will also be keeping track of

what toy companies. are producing the most that

land on our list. And like we did last time,

we'll give you some information on which ones

are in the National Toy Hall of Fame, either

in it or has been nominated but not made it yet,

and all kinds of fun stuff like that. Mike, any

other business we want to take care of before

we reveal number 75? I don't think so, other

than just thanking all the contributors once

again for helping us make this list. Go on to

geekcastradio .com. I'm sure there will be a

page up there somewhere by some weird... purple

dinosaur magician that'll have everybody listed

as contributor for the top 100 toys countdown

so yeah let's just get right into it and also

when we do do commercial breaks please pay attention

to them because we are featuring some commercials

from some of the contributors so That would be

great for you to pay attention to that and then

go listen to their shows or go to their watch

them or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. And just to clarify

for everybody listening to the sound of my voice,

the only promotions that are in these six episodes

of the podcasts are anyone who contributed a

list. And so as long as I have an MP3 app from

those people, they will get the promotion. And

that's the only promotion we're doing because

they contributed to the overall project. Absolutely.

And we'll also, like Mike said, feature them

on our social media posts and on the website,

etc. So, all right. One thing we talked about

last time before we get into here, number 75

here was the definition of toys. And we kind

of did a brief discussion on what qualifies as

a toy, what doesn't. And we kind of said, you

know, anything that's going to take up a child's

time that you could spend time doing it. We're

kind of using that loose definition for a toy.

So anything they could play with, anything that

they could kind of. spend time with were considering

a toy just for the purposes of this. I mention

that because I think in our number 75, we're

going to get the one that I would think would

be the most questionable, the category that we

included in our toys. And that was the category

of books. So we did include some types of books

in our catalog that we sent out. And we are going

to have one of those here at number 75. And that

is the books that came around in the 1930s from

a guy named Dr. Seuss. So just Dr. Seuss books

in general. come in here at number 75. Mom, do

you recall when you were small that books with

this cat were the most fun of all? Now your kids

will see how fun reading can be. Because Kellogg

is offering beginner books free. Buy these Kellogg

cereals. It's all that you do. Send two proofs

of purchase. And a free book for you. Any one

of these books or perhaps a cassette. But the

offer won't last. So don't you forget. Or you'll

be amazed at the time your kids spend. When they

look into books with Dr. Seuss. DJ, do you consider

books a toy? No. What if we were considering

books? Does Dr. Seuss rank supreme? I mean, if

you're going to give me a book, Dr. Seuss would

probably be high on the list of the ones that

would annoy me the least, other than maybe highlights.

But yeah, Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham, Cat

in the Hat. I'm talking about the movies, not

the horrible. The books, not the horrible, horrible

movies. I was going to say, wait a minute here.

Yeah, that Mike Myers one with Alec Baldwin.

But no, the books I did have to read. And when

I first got them, I was like, I don't want to

read. I want to play outside. And they gave me

a book. I'm at one fish and two fish? Okay, I'm

in. I'm in. So, yeah, Dr. Seuss, I think he realized

that a way to get kids to actually read is to

make books, you know, what's the word I'm looking

for? Entertaining? So, yeah, he did. I think

I can see it with, like, books that are strictly

reading, not necessarily considering them a toy.

I think where the gray area comes in for me is,

like, when you consider, like, a coloring book

because that's something you do something with.

Right, right, right, right. Or even, like, maybe

the Where's Waldo books, the Magic Eye books,

some of those because you're... Pop -ups. Just

pop -up books in general. That's kind of why

we included them, but I'm kind of like you. I'm

on the fence on whether they should be included

or not. Steve, what do you think about Dr. Seuss

books starting us off today? I can see it. I

didn't list them, but those are some of the books

that I didn't mind as much growing up and bought

my own kids. I can see them being on here. I

think it does fit one of the criteria that I

talked about last time, which is something that

most kids have been exposed to versus just a

niche crowd or that was only around for a short

time period. Dr. Seuss books have been around

since the 30s, and I think every child since

then has been exposed to at least one Dr. Seuss

book. Isn't there another thing that Seuss is

not how you pronounce his name? Isn't it like

Seuss or something like that? Let me have to

look it up. I think we've all been saying his

name wrong, and I refuse to say it correctly

because Seuss just sounds cooler, but I think

it's pronounced a different way. And I feel like

it doesn't rhyme as well if you pronounce it

a different way. No, of course. No, it looks

in general, but Dr. Seuss books a little bit

more. They're all entertaining. If it's a form

of entertainment, but you're being entertained,

your mind is being stimulated. Toys stimulate

your mind kind of thing. Yeah, it's on the fringe

outskirts of what an actual toy definition is,

but most of us, a lot of us, all had reading

hours or reading times, or we would do book reports

in elementary school, or, I mean, the Scholastic

Book Fair was about as big as what Toy Fair is

back then. So, yeah, no, and Dr. Seuss, amazing

stuff. Memories. Alright, moving on to our number

74. To me, this one's a slam dunk as far as being

included on this list. What kid has not played?

With a crayon. So crayons in general here is

our number 74, probably most famous from Crayola.

Crayola crayons. It's fun to create with Crayola.

You can make a purple lake with fish both thin

and fat. Or a happy birthday cake and goofy party

hat. Crayola crayons. You can make a ghost to

take to funny puppet shows. You can make a spotted

snake that grows and grows and grows. Cause it's

fun to create with Crayola. Crayola crayons come

in this box of 64 different colors with a built

-in sharpener. You can kind of draw their origins

from about the 1903 period. It's kind of a gray

area as far as when crayons are invented because

they have different purposes before they become

something that's widespread used by children

and that type of thing. It was inducted into

the National Toy Hall of Fame in 1998. I kind

of... I did something on my list where I don't

think I voted for coloring books because I just

voted for crayons because I figured that was

like a way to almost get them both in there.

So I voted for crayons. So I'm in agreement.

Mike, what do you think? Absolutely. And for

a minute there when you were introducing it,

I thought you were going to say. Most kids ate

the crayons because there were plenty of kids

that ate crayons back then and probably nowadays.

I mean, what kid didn't many kids at one point

had like that when they got that big pack, not

the little like 12 pack of crayons, but, you

know, like the 64 or whatever the heck it was.

That was just like that massive box of crayons

that sometimes even had like a brand sharpener

on the back or something of that nature. It was

like that was like the ultimate when it came

to coloring. When you got that big pack of crayons.

DJ, what do you think? Big pack is where I figured

out like, oh, there's colors other than blue?

What's cyan? What's magenta? Chartreuse? What

are you talking about? I thought it was just

red, green, and yellow and stuff. Yeah, so yeah,

the big pack. I mean, burnt orange. That's right.

I don't want to burn an orange. But no, I've

used mint. The only way you could get silver

and gold crayons was the 64 pack. Yeah. Yeah,

exactly. My personal favorite was always Midnight

Blue. That was my go -to crayon. Midnight Blue,

baby. Especially in the G .I. Joe world. A lot

of things could be Midnight Blue. It's like a

late night or a radio music thing. Welcome to

Midnight Blue. Absolutely. That should be a name

of a band or something. Steve, what do you think

of that? Coming to Geekcast Radio in 2024 starring

DJ Valentine. That's right. Midnight Blue. Get

close to the speakers. no i mean i i can definitely

see that because i mean that's still one of those

universal things that everybody still uses to

this day whether it be i mean there's still crayola

or they're you know the crayon either way i mean

whether it's crayon or coloring pencil like crayola

still is one of those ones that everybody just

kind of associates with it all right so we start

off with dr seuss books and crayons we're going

to move away from book like things for our number

73 here. We had a couple of Milton Bradley toys

last time around with hungry, hungry hippos and

the game of twister. We're going to have a Milton

Bradley game here as well. And our first point

for the board game versus action figure contest

here at our number 73, it was invented in 1964.

It was Milton Bradley game. It was a finalist

for the toy hall of fame. Hasn't made it yet,

but we're talking about the game of operation

for number 73. I never owned this. But I know

it's one of the most frustrating games in the

world. Because you always get buzzed before you

get that little thing out of the wishbone or

whatever bone you're trying to pull out of that

thing and you get shocked or buzzed, whatever

it was. I remember playing it at a friend's house,

but I never had it myself. DJ, you reacted there.

What do you think of the game of Operation? Hey,

kids, you want to know what open heart surgery

is like? Have you ever ripped out a man's bone

while he's looking at you with a red nose operation?

I do remember playing this a lot. And it just

proves like back in the day, they didn't really

sugarcoat like graphic content to children as

much because the game by concept is a man sits

naked in front of you and you have to rip out

fictional body parts from him. and make sure

you don't touch the sides or his nose will explode

in a red fiery mist so yes operation one of the

greatest games ever conceived by a saint this

is i we talked about a lot of the board games

that we had last time i didn't vote for because

i just had to it was hard for me to pinpoint

which ones you know i i only wanted so many to

get on my list so i think the only ones that

we revealed last time board game that i had voted

for was hungry hungry hungry hippos Operation

was also on my list just because I think it was

unique enough where it deserved it. Steve, what

do you think? I mean, I understand it being there

and I get it because everybody knows what that

game is. I didn't personally list it because

I had other games that I found more entertaining

other than, you know, the electric zap as you're

trying to pull body parts out of him. And I think

it was just the mental trauma of, I don't really

want to do this. Much like a timed game. I don't

particularly care to be extra careful when I'm

playing a board game, so that's just something

that didn't resonate with me very well. So I

understand it being on the list, but I didn't

personally choose it. Mike, what about you? Steve,

coming in like a wrecking ball. No, it... It

definitely deserves to be where it is, and I

had this. I used to love just annoying my family

members. I would just hit the sides anyway. I

don't care. I just want to hear the noise. Yeah,

no, exactly. No, Operation was cool. It was fun.

And it was the first time you actually, like,

in school, we were all like, ooh, or, you know,

usually in science class. Like, come dissect

this frog or whatever. Now you're dissecting

humans, but it's a board game? Oh, boy. But no,

I loved Operation. Actually, it's funny enough,

I will probably have to include this photo in

the post. I actually have the Operation, the

Cavity Sam Funko Pop over on my shelf, and that

game is 60 years old now, I think. Something

like that. Alright, so we're going to go from

one board game to another. Yes, board games making

another point in their column here. And this

one beat out Operation by one point. It is a

National Toy Hall of Fame inductee in 2010. This

one can trace its origins all the way back into

the 1800s, around 1860. Also credited by being

a Milton Bradley kind of thing as far as when

it came to the masses. We're talking about the

game of life. I made $50 ,000 in the stock market

today. I had twins! I went to the poor farm.

I'm on Millionaire Acres. That's life. The Game

of Life. The Game of Life. You will learn about

life when you play The Game of Life. So Operation

and then The Game of Life. Obviously a different

type of game completely. We definitely had this

game growing up and we played it as a family

quite often. You know, the car, which you get

to get married and you have little kids in the

car and you get to... get a job or get bankrupt

or all kinds of fun stuff like that. It was a

little bit, obviously aimed a little bit higher

of an age bracket than operation, but I didn't

find it nearly as frustrating as some of those

other games that may come up later that never

seemed to get finished. And at least when I was

playing them, but I liked the game of life, I

didn't vote for it, but I have no problem with

it being somewhere here on the list because I

think it is iconic. It has been around for so

many years. Like that's over what? 150, 60 years

now. Oh, that's a long lifespan for sure. Mike,

what do you think about the game of life? Yeah.

Life. Get a life. I don't know. Never get into

the game. I played it like once or twice. I just

remember it for the, the spinner too. Like the

little thing with the, the, whatever it was one

through nine or one through whatever it was that

you could spend. It was one through 10 and, uh,

half the time it doesn't stay in the stupid board.

You definitely had to be careful with this. Steve,

what are you, what's your experience? Well, I

play this with my family a lot, actually. Somehow

my youngest always ends up being the richest

person in the building. One, I don't like the

spinner just because it takes forever to spin

it because it never stays attached to the board,

which is annoying. But I don't know, I didn't

list it, but I enjoy playing it with my family.

As far as just... a game if i'm playing with

like friends or something that's not one of the

games i would choose but it's enjoyable for what

it is and i know they've made newer versions

of it where it kind of evolves a little bit my

my youngest always ends up like multi -million

dollar winner uh and I never actually, I'm kind

of somewhere in the middle of my youngest. My

oldest is usually the one that's at the bottom

as far as money management on it. So it's kind

of interesting to see how that works. Showed

up on 10 people's list, which is actually one

less than Operation, just a little bit higher

of votes for it overall. DJ, what do you think

of the game of life in Operation compared to

the ones that we've already seen, which is Hungry

Hungry Hippos, Sorry, Risk? those have all already

fallen. What do you think of the order so far?

Ooh. Technical difficulties. Let's move on, shall

we? So, Mike, what do you think of the order

that we have the board games so far and the ones

that have been revealed versus where we're at

here with Operation and Life showing up this

time around? Operation is because I didn't really

play the game of Life. I'm not really whatever.

Like, for me, if I was ranking them, I would

put Life back in the last episode. And put Sorry

or one of the other ones in this place, but hey,

that's life. All right, let's get away from the

board games, but stick with games of some sort

here. We're going to go to number 71, and this

is something that originated in the 80s, 1983,

in the United Kingdom, actually, and it is now

owned by Hasbro. It wasn't originally. This is

also a National Toy Hall of Fame inductee just

recently in 2020. Another one that I think has

been played by all ages since 1980. So I think

everybody since then has probably played this

at least once. We're talking... about Jenga.

Jenga here at number 71. It's like the ultimate

party game. I remember playing, I think it was

at a bachelor party or something where we had

like one that was like six foot tall or something.

It might not have been six foot tall, but it

was huge with giant little sections of it. And

obviously there's little tabletop ones as well.

So it comes in all shapes and sizes. Do you,

are you a fan of Jenga? Yeah. I mean, within

reason, I like it. I have the game. i've played

it with the kids and it's always fun to see if

you time things just right but yeah i mean it's

it's entertaining i didn't again another one

i didn't list but i i do enjoy yeah it was one

that you could always tell if somebody had played

it a lot or not based on what their strategies

were and how they stacked it in the board yeah

things of that nature mike what do you think

of jenga showing up here at number 71 i think

i like giant jenga the best because it's the

easiest to clean up But the original regular

game was always fun. Like Steve said, like you

said, you always had to make sure you just grab

that one piece at the right spot. I get too many

neck cramps. There's a little tap test. Tap test

to see if it's loose or not. DJ, what do you

think? Jenga top 100 worthy? I don't want to

brag, guys, but I'm kind of a Jenga master. I

am the aficionado of Jenga. I've played drunk

Jenga. I've played sober Jenga. I've played,

as Mike said, giant Jenga. I've played regular

Jenga. I think my middle name might be Jenga.

I'm pretty sure I'm pretty good at this game.

It's not even one of my favorite games, but I

just, for some reason, I got savant with Jenga.

I'm really, really good at it. So, yeah. That's

what the J stands for. It's DJ Jenga Valentine.

That's what it stands for. DJ Jenga Valentine.

Come on. Come on. It's what it is. Later. It's

a secret. It's been revealed on the show. I feel

like I was always the Jenga police. Like, no,

you can't do that. What are you doing? No, it

has to be lower. What are you doing? Let's start

at the top. Jenga here at number 71. So two board

games and then Jenga, which is the type of game.

We're going to let the action figures make a

tally to try to come back since they're behind

the board games here. This is number 70. This

one debuted in 1987 by the company Kenner. We're

talking about, and I did not think this would

make the countdown, but we're talking about the

Silverhawks toy line here at number 70. I obviously

had some of these with the wings and the little

fabric pieces of wings that you could put on

their arms, and then you could squeeze their

legs together, and they would flap, and then

you had the bird that came with them, or like

bluegrass, you had the guitar bird slash thing.

So, I mean, Silverhawks were cool. They had that

vacuum metal stuff, which, guess what, doesn't

age very well. For anybody that wants to know,

if you have some of the original figures and

they've ever seen air, Beast Wars, Transmetals.

Looking too good. Yeah, exactly. They don't age

well. They were cool at the time. I didn't vote

for Silverhawks, even though that's one of my

favorite cartoons, just because I don't think

the toy line stands out enough to maybe be top

100 worthy. But hey, enough people voted highly

enough on it. It actually only appeared on seven

lists, but everybody basically had it in the

top 50 that voted on it. I guess there's a lot

of Silverhawks fans out there. DJ, what do you

think? I remember Silverhawks, the show, vaguely

because it came for me and where I was. It came

on after Thundercats, and they would show the

commercials of the toys because all these shows

were... commercials and i was like oh i really

want a silver hawk and i never got i got i got

mumra and i got the you know lionel and stuff

but i can never get a silver hawk and the only

time i got to see one was when i was at camp

or something and i saw somebody else with one

and the one they had it was already the metal

was already flaking off of it i was like oh okay

i guess i dodged the bullet there so yeah silver

hawks i i get it because once the metal is not

flaking off they look really cool it's just don't

play with them for a very long time because they're

gonna they're gonna get naked hawks real quick

i had a few growing up i had bluegrass i had

monestar and at least so i had quicksilver and

i think one other one i do have a quicksilver

and monestar still um i don't know what ever

happened to bluegrass it's disappeared out of

my life so that's trauma there for me but mike

what do you think of the silver hawk when it

comes to a toy line i had everything the few

toy lines where i had All the heroes, most of

the villains, I had the Mirage. Ooh. That thing

is amazing. I don't care if it is VAC. I don't

remember if the vehicle was VAC metal or not.

I know the figures are, but that vehicle is one

of the best 80s toy vehicles, period, end of

sentence. It was just so cool. What do you think

of its appearance in Top 100? I don't know. It's

definitely warranted. I think it's one of those

toy lines where it is more ish that if you grew

up watching the cartoon and you had some of the

toys, or you had all the toys in my case, you

know, it definitely does deserve to be here because,

again, let's face it, folks, this is the Geekcast

Radio Network. We are all 80s kids for the most

part, and these toys are probably going to dominate

this thing for the most part. We had six of them

show up in the last countdown, a bunch of them

in the top. In the first five, we had wrestling

action figures, starting lineup figures, and

dino riders, and then it was a little bit later

on where we got things like the Star Trek line,

Battle Beast. I guess you maybe could consider

Stretch Armstrong a figure of some sort. I get

it. I'm fine with wrestling figures, starting

lineup figures. I think Star Trek, I don't necessarily

100 % see the dino riders, Battle Beast, and

Silverhawks as being warranted, but maybe I'm

alone in that. Steve, what do you think? I didn't

collect them, so it wasn't one of those things

I felt passionate enough to list. And obviously

didn't really stand the test of time. Right.

Yeah, they look cool when you saw them on the

commercials and stuff like that. They're very

shiny. Kids like shiny stuff. Shiny stuff. All

right. For our number 69, we had a company that

had two toys that... They didn't invent necessarily,

but they helped popularize in the last section

of the countdown. That was Wham -O with the hula

hoop and the frisbee. Well, let's go back to

them for a toy that kind of made its appearance

starting in the 1961 era. A finalist for the

Toy Hall of Fame that hasn't made it in quite

yet. We're talking about the Slip and Slide here

at number 69. Okay, everybody, come outside.

Everybody ready for a wild wet ride? Slip, slip

and slide. You can put it on your lawn. Turn

the water on. Then you run, run, run. And you're

sliding on your top. Slip, slip and slide. Slip,

slip and slide. It's a lot of fun to play when

the spray goes all the way. Slip, slip and slide.

Slip and slide comes with plastic slide and fasteners

from Wham -O. The slip and slide, also known

as... feel every bump in your yard and be injured.

Red ant slide is what we like to call it. You

had to really hope and pray that somebody had

a smooth yard when that thing got set down, but

I never had one. I've used one occasionally at

a friend's house. It wasn't something I really

had a lot of fun with, but maybe I'm just not

an extreme sport, throw caution to the wind type

person. I don't know. DJ, what do you think of

the slip and slide? I never had one. My neighbor

did. And my co -host on the Simplistic Reviews

podcast, we used to be camp counselors together

before we did the show for the YMCA. And the

YMCA didn't want to spring for one, so we got

a long garbage bag and covered it with dishwashing

soap to replicate what the slip and slide does.

Because kids love a slip and slide. But again,

just make sure you keep moving. Because if you're

not paying attention to your yard and you've

got some ants, they're going to get you. the

random rock bombs the bumps were true you could

you could like kind of figure out what is the

most flattest part of your yard and you can like

navigate that those ants man you don't know when

they're coming but they're coming steve what

do you think of the slip and slide i mean i listed

it because it's one of those things that's like

kind of a staple of the outdoors absolutely but

uh yeah i mean i didn't care for them as a kid

more so just because i was i guess i don't know

boring or something i don't know i just i didn't

like them and so it wasn't in our catalog but

now that i'm thinking about it we almost should

have put sprinklers in there yeah it came with

sprinklers but you connect your sprinklers to

them and they kind of make their own kind of

little sprinkler thing steve did you just have

the basic one or did i know there was other ones

too right there was ones with like things that

you could go through like little arches yeah

it wasn't yeah I think mine was generic or the

ones that I used. My kids, they had one for a

short stint, but it's one of those things that

they cared about briefly and just didn't anymore.

Yeah, it's one of those that everybody probably

has had an experience with a version of a slip

and slide, whether it be name brand or not, at

some point on a hot day, if you're living in

places that have hot days, I guess. Mike, what

do you think of the slip and slide? Advertising

lied to us all. That wasn't a pool at the end

of that. There's a version of it where you go

down the slip and slide and you end up in this

pool area, this small pool area. That thing was

tiny as hell. Hell no. And that's the only thing

I remember. I remember my cousins had one. I

think I remember a pool of some sort that would

be as well. Yeah, I was like, this ain't no pool.

And then you go to a water park and then you

never do a slip and slide again. Exactly. That's

the real thing now, guys. That's right. That's

right. Let's go to number 68. We're going to

a game that was brought to us by Ideal Toys in

1963. Now it's owned by Hasbro. Going back to

the board game land, I almost voted for this

one because I do think it is somewhat unique

and it's kind of a type of a gadget game where

it's been... done in a lot of different ways

in different movies you see these types of contraptions

i'm talking about the game of mousetrap and number

68 where you had all the different things that

you it actually took longer to set up the board

for the game than to play the game gather around

mice what are we doing boss we're going in for

the big cheese but it's every mouse for himself

so don't get caught So I think that was one thing

I had against it. Like you had to spend half

your time making sure you had all the pieces

in the right spot, but it was unique because

it was more than just moving. like a token across

the board, like you have in a lot of games, like

variations of stuff like shoots and ladder and

sorry, and things like that. So I give it points

for uniqueness. And I definitely thought it was

amazing when I got it for Christmas, I believe

one year. And we all, everybody in my cousins

was playing it like crazy that day. And I don't

ever remember playing it after that day, but,

um, mousetrap here at number 68, Mike, what do

you think? Yeah, I was very much like you, where

it was like, you sit, you spend all day setting

it up. Spend five minutes playing it. Okay, we

caught the mouse. Next. That was it. The replayability

is setting the thing up. And hopefully you haven't

lost a piece or broken a piece or something of

that nature. DJ, what do you think of Mousetrap

when it comes to board games? I could never,

I've never fully played it. I've had pieces of

it. Again, I can't, we had a whole bunch of board

games, but we're always missing pieces from the

game Mousetrap. I like to think Mouse Hunt with

Nathan Lane is kind of like the movie version

of Mousetrap. But I never got to play Mousetrap.

I see the commercial and I'm like, oh, that looks

cool. When we had it, we had like three of the

parts. So I was like, well, we can't really play

this game. I think that's like a staple of any

type of camp or like doctor's office or dentist

office or wherever it is. There is no board game

with all of its pieces. There is no puzzle with

all of its pieces. Who's stealing these pieces?

What are you doing? Steve, thoughts on Mousetrap?

I haven't played that in probably years now at

this point. I enjoyed it. I listed it on my list.

I can see why it's enjoyable. I remember playing

it and enjoying it, but nowadays I just don't.

12 people voted for Mousetrap, so that was enough

to make it here at number 68. And guys, we're

sticking with board games. They're starting to

dominate. So number 67 was a 2005 National Toy

Hall of Fame inductee. This one's been around

since 1948 from Milton Bradley. currently owned

by Hasbro, and we're talking about the iconic

Candyland. This is Candyland, a place you pretend

to visit when you play this game. The cards show

you how to follow the path through Candyland.

You'll discover the gingerbread plum tree, a

rainbow pass, and Gumdrop Mountain. But be careful

of the cherry pitfalls, and don't get stuck in

Molasses Swamp. You don't have to know how to

read or count to have loads of fun in Candyland.

Candyland, a game for people 4 -8 from Milton

Bradley. I never have owned this. I don't know

if I've ever even played this, but I know that

it's like the board game that comes to mind when

anybody is ever listing a board game from their

childhood, so I get it. Candyland here, I can't

talk about it. Like I said, I don't think I've

ever played it. Mike, have you ever played Candyland?

All the damn time. Yeah, we would play Candyland

all the damn time. Between all the characters,

and it was just fun at the time. It was one of

those games where... It was back in the... And

this is the thing. The 80s, we all know this.

I've stated this, and other people have stated

this in other of our podcasts before. The 80s

was a starting point for a lot of stuff. And

even though Candyland... I forget how old you

said it was, but even when we found it in the

80s, it was like, ooh, what is this? This is

cool. And it was just fun. I thought that was

going to be an interesting thing that was going

to happen during the course of this Top 100 was

the number of games that people attribute to

certain time periods that actually came out way

before them or a little before them or different

things. So it's going to be interesting to see

how those years and the decades play out here

because we've only had two this countdown so

far. This section of the countdown is from the

80s. That was Jenga and Silverhawks. But DJ,

what do you think about Candyland? Candyland

was... Concept -wise, I liked it. It wasn't a

game for me. I think I wanted more, I don't know,

strategery? Is that a word? No, it's not. It

wasn't my game. I remember playing it. I was

more chutes and ladders. I liked that better.

The thing about Candyland was very like... It's

like not a lot of strategy going into it. It's

like, oh, look, I got a purple. There's nothing

really going on with it. All right, Steve, thoughts

on Candyland? I didn't list it, but I guess I

kind of agree with the mentality of I would rather

have something with a little bit more thought

that goes into it other than just, oh, you know,

roll the spinner and see what happens. Well,

the point of the game was you had to find King

Candy, the lost ruler of Candyland. Oh, God.

Who the hell is King Candy? And thankfully, he

didn't turn into Turbo. King Candy. King Candy.

Who made him king? This is a monarchy? I have

to drive my go -kart. We're going to roll the

clock back even further here for number 66. Maybe

trace this toy back into the early 1800s, possibly.

There's really a gray area when it comes to when

this became a toy and when this became a thing.

We're going to go with something, though, that

I believe every kid has probably played with.

My daughter, even at the age of three, has already

played with these a ton. We're talking about

toy dinosaurs. So just toy dinosaur figures,

like whatever kind of... Dinosaurs are represented,

doesn't matter, just toy figurines of dinosaurs.

To help us in our never -ending battle against

the evil Decepticons, we create the incredible

Dinobots. Every kid has a dinosaur phase, right

DJ? Oh yeah, I had one. I was a big T -Rex fan.

This is before Jurassic Park. Steven Spielberg

didn't make them cool. They were always cool,

man. I had a Raptor and I had a I think they

call them the Ploticus? It was the long -tailed

one. I never got the T -Rex, so I used to pretend

that the Raptor was a miniature T -Rex. I don't

even know how my daughter knows the names of

stuff. She's like Spinosaurus and Pterodon, and

I'm like, you're three. Why do you know these

dinosaurs? Are you an archaeologist? Are you

a paleontologist? What are you? Exactly. She's

into it, though, and I feel like every kid has

that phase. Some last longer than others. My

cousin had that phase, and he is a paleontologist,

so it lasted his whole life. Mine was shorter.

Mine was like the Land Before Time era, maybe,

and a little bit of Jurassic Park. Uh, Steve,

what do you think about toy dinosaurs? Did your

kids ever play with those? Oh, heck yeah. They

still play with them. Um, mine, mine just happened

to be transformers. Ah, this is robotic dinosaurs.

Yeah. Touche. Mike, what do you think? Toy dinosaurs

at number 66. Grimlock agree. All right. That's

right. It's all about, it's all, it's all about

the Dinobots. All right. Well, we'll have to

see if some other toy dinosaurs show up later

on in the countdown. We're going to go to number

65 here. We had a bunch of these last time, or

at least, I think, four Toys with Wheels last

time, DJ, with the big wheels, the power wheels.

We had Lionel trains, and there was another one.

I think we considered skateboards in there. So

we haven't had one yet this portion of the countdown,

but we get that now here with number 65. This

one, you can kind of trace back to the 1940s.

Again, a very loose date on some of these because...

There's a lot of different variations of this,

but we're going to go with, and you could do

this with cars, planes, ships, whatever you want.

We're talking about the model kits, the model

cars, anything in that realm, something you had

a kit that you had to put together. You could

paint, you could do whatever you wanted to with

that type of stuff. And we just are calling it

model cars to encompass all of that. So I definitely

voted for this. I think this is something that

a lot of kids at least have some exposure to.

My dad was actually a huge model airplane builder.

The story that I'm told is that he had 300 of

them or so before I was born that he sold and

then started again. Our basement walls were lined

with model airplanes. The entire basement had

model. There's probably 150 of them from small

to large. He was an expert. He had the paint.

I'm going to butcher this though, like that you

sprayed on, it wasn't spray paint, but like the

shoot, there was like a whole machine that you

could like do the paint with. And he had like

all these tricks. Like he would take Hershey

kisses and take the candy out and then take the

tinfoil and smooth it out with like his nail

or something like that. So it would be like a

metallic paint. And then he would put that on

the planes and it was just crazy. So I was definitely

exposed to a lot of model airplanes. I did my

share of model cars as well. I was always frustrated

because I was never as good as he was at it.

Airbrush, I think, is what it's called with the

paint. Right, right, right. So we had a lot of

exposure to that. So I had to vote for this just

because I think it's like a part of growing up

is doing a model, even if you're not good at

it or if you become an expert at it. I don't

know. And there's all kinds of different things.

Like, Steve, I know you've probably done a lot.

You've done some Star Trek. kits i believe of

oh yeah and stuff like that so what do you think

of model cars or model kits being on here uh

i i love it and i think that it's definitely

a staple of the top 100 i mean models and doing

some sort of you know it doesn't matter what

kind but doing some sort of it uh along the way

is kind of just timeless like people have always

made models of something whether it you know

be a boat or a car or something i i personally

enjoy doing star trek ships and i mean for the

most part 3d printing too now with doing it but

i i paint all of my stuff i paint the transformers

so i mean it model making is is a lot of enjoyment

and kind of uh relaxing yeah and not that there's

anything that's like specifically for like necessarily

male female or any gender type no i mean thanks

for everything it was like the when we were growing

up like there was a lot of crafty stuff that

was more directed towards the female audience

and i think model kits was like one of the avenues

that you know the male audience could be creative

with could be crafty with and and kind of that

avenue to kind of like flex those creative muscles

i guess so to speak but uh dj what do you think

of model kits being on the countdown uh you know

hans gruber with the i always enjoyed making

models when i was a boy the exactness the attention

to every conceivable detail i never got into

models i never i never i did not have the hans

gruber patience i did not because i was like

i just want to fly the plane yeah there's a lot

of frustration for me on that that's for sure

a little dot Mike, what do you think of them?

Are they top 100 worthy? They are, but they are

from a certain generation. And that generation

was not our generation. Like you guys have said,

I just want to play with the damn thing again.

Same thing with like, yeah, same thing with like

mousetrap mousetrap. Like we've said, you. Spend

five hours building it, you spend five minutes

playing it. Model kits, and I get it. They're

intricate, they're awesome, they have all these

parts, and it's cool if you're into making all

of that and you're into building all of that,

but most of us want to just crash the damn cars

together. We don't want to build them. Not when

we're five years old and six years old in the

80s. But they do deserve their time to shine,

and that's here. All right. Fair enough. Let's

go to 64 and back into the world of action figures.

This one was, Mike, from the 1980s. We're going

to give this one 1983. Brought to us by the company

Tonka. I love that it's here, Mike. We're talking

about the GoBot toy line. GoBot. Hey, Mart. Kmart

Transformers. I don't care if they came before.

They're the Big Lots. The Big Lots Transformers.

We're not going to let Mike talk this time. DJ,

what do you think? Yes, we are. Yes, we are,

David. They're the Big Lots Transformers because

at least the knockoff ones are worse than Big

Lots. They're like Dollar Tree. Am I coming?

Am I the GoBots lawyer here? They had a movie.

No, I like GoBots. I like GoBots. So what if

they had a movie? GoBots! You can pretend the

evil Psy -Kill has sent two renegade GoBots to

trap the Guardians. GoBots sold separately. You

cover the air, Zero. Tux, I'm picking up Leader

One on my radar. Renegade! Flip stop to the rescue!

Take this, Tux and Zero! Glad you dropped in,

flip top! Tux, Zero, Flip Top, and Leader One

each sold separately from Tonka. They also got

absorbed into Transformers. That's right. That

did happen. I had Leader One. I had the gold

nugget from the movie. I had that toy. I don't

know why. It was this old rock that transformed

into a robot. So, yeah. I like Psycho. Dang it.

Exactly. Psycho. The names are crazy. The names

are insane. Crasher. I like Crasher. It was like

a female Transformer and Transformer didn't really

have a whole lot of females. So I liked that

it was a main character. And I think Gobots is

way more worthy than Silverhawks or Battle Beast

or Dino Riders from being on here because yes,

they're similar to Transformers. Megatron would

tear through them so fast. Yeah, Megatron versus

Cycle. Cycle ain't got a chance. He'd start laughing.

Exactly. I'm a gun. Megatron would laugh at him.

Galvatron would just shoot him. Megatron would

just laugh at him as he pulls his head off slowly.

Yeah, he'd just rip his head right off. Alright,

if you're a Gobot fan and you need a support

line, call one of them we don't give a fuck i

like them send them to the day i die i like go

bots and i they actually transformers is always

my favorite toy line always my favorite show

but nothing takes me back to my childhood than

hearing the go bots theme song and like going

there like they're gone but it brought me back

to my childhood big time so I always have a soft

spot in my heart for go bots and they transformed

just like transformers. So maybe not as unique

of a, of a toy here because since transformers

obviously did it better, but I think it's worthy

of at least being involved in the conversation.

If we were talking about like, Oh yeah, your

lines and things of that nature. Anybody else,

any thoughts on go bots before we move on or

leader one. All right. Well, he became a mini

con and armada leader for the yellow Megatron.

And they just had a Crusher figure in one of

the lines last year, so that was kind of cool.

Yeah, well, they've got to keep that IP going.

Heaven forbid Hasbro forget to renew the trademark

on something. Mattel comes in and steals GoBots.

Can you imagine if... There's an alternate timeline

where Michael Bay is making GoBots movies, okay?

That's right, there is. At least it would be

interesting. Yeah, you should have done that.

It's true. Yeah, he should have done that. He's

the big lots of directors. Yes. I'm not arguing

with that. I'm not arguing either. All right.

So we've had three in a row that have not had

anything to do with the Toy Hall of Fame. We're

going to change that when we go to our number

63. And we're going to go somewhere we haven't

gone before in this countdown. The World of Balls.

What? For number 63, we're going to go to, they've

been actually inducted in two different forms

into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2009 and

2017. We're talking about sports balls. We put

them all together. So whether you play with a

baseball, a football, a basketball, a soccer

ball, just every kid has probably played with

one of those balls in their life. And you can

probably trace this back, I don't know, 1200s

maybe? Balls have been around for a while. I

mean. Technically, yes. All right, DJ, what do

you think? Lance Armstrong, your balls have been

around. I was a basketball player in high school,

so yes. Basketball, I played that. Football,

I played that too. Baseball, I did not like that.

I played that. My grandfather was a cricketer.

That's a sports ball. I just got into Premier

League, so that's a football. We don't call it

soccer. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a

minute. Cricket? You've got to know what a crumpet

is to understand cricket. Cricket is West Indies,

not just England, my friend. Get it right. We

didn't want to split this up because it'd be

too hard to identify which one are you going

to vote for, football, basketball, baseball,

etc. But they're all... Are you going to vote

for balls? Are you going to vote for sports balls?

Mike, what do you think? They deserve to be in

this conversation. They've been inducted in the

Hall of Fame twice. I don't know which one. Don't

ask me. My question, though? Yes, go ahead. Who's

the hockey puck going to rank? Because I'd rather

have a hockey puck than a ball. You're kicked

off of this countdown. Tennis balls, ping pong

balls, golf balls. Hockey puck's a two -dimensional

ball. It's a two -dimensional ball. It's a circle.

That's it. Steve, any ball thoughts? Tell us

about your balls, Steve. There's your favorite

Martian song about balls. And an ACDC song. I

mean, that's kind of the universal thing. Everybody's,

you know... done like the sports and whatnot.

So, I mean, it's, you know, soccer, basketball,

baseball, like, I mean, it's kind of that universal

thing. So I, I could see that being on here.

Now, the funny thing is, is if dirt or a stick

or a rock show up in the top 25, we're still

waiting to see if any of those show up. All right.

I love that. The fact that these two are coming

back to back. So our number 62 is Parker brothers

toy came around in about the 1969 period. There's

been a lot of different versions of this one

as well. It was a National Toy Hall of Fame inductee

this year, 2023. We're talking about Nerf Ball.

Nerf football from Parker Brothers. It's Nerf

or nothing. I was just going to say that. Only

a skiff deals in absolutes and a Nerf player.

What Nerf ball was something that you played

with or was popular when you were growing up?

Whistle football, man. The whistle football.

Mike? Same. Did anybody's gym class have Nerf

balls? Ours all had yarn balls. We had medicine

balls. Yeah, exactly. I don't know why they call

them medicine balls. If you can dodge a wrench,

you can dodge a ball. You guys invited me on

the show and I was at work with my friend and

I was like, yeah, I'm on a show. We're talking

about toys. He goes, are you going to have Nerf

on there? That's the first thing he said out

of his mouth. I was like, I'm pretty sure Nerf

is going to be on this list somewhere. There

we go. Number 62. Nerf balls. Beaten sports balls

by two. So apparently we want to be more safe.

Not as realistic, I guess. But yeah, the Nerf

ball was, it was like a great invention though.

Like let's do, it was like the parent at home

that was like always yelling at the kid for throwing

the ball in the house. And they're like, why

don't we just make one that they can throw in

the house? Let's get this over with. Let's, let's

make a soft one. That's not going to hurt anybody.

Not going to break any windows, that type of

thing. So there we have it. All right, let's

move on to something else here. Number 61, also

a Parker brothers toy starting in about 1949

national toy hall of fame inductee in 2017. This

one actually, I think, was originated in the

UK as well. Going back to the world of board

games here. For the game of Clue. A detective

has to be observant, cautious, and cool. When

you play Clue, you have to figure out who did

it. There are suspects, weapons, and scenes for

a crime. Mr. Green did it in the study with a

knife. Uh -uh. I got a Clue card. I know. It

was Miss Scarlet in the conservatory with a candlestick.

Wow! Elementary, my dear Betsy. Clue from Parker

Brothers. at number 61 this was one of my favorites

actually growing up and and the reason being

is because it had a lot of replayability because

every game was slightly different than the one

you had just played my problem with clue was

finding enough people to play clue with me because

you can't play this with one or two people like

you need a handful of people like four or five

six people is a lot better than two i mean you

literally can't play the game with two people

it's pointless But I loved this game, and there's

been a lot of different variations. This is one

of those, kind of like some of the other board

games that may or may not come up later, where

you have a lot of different themed versions of

this game in different franchises and things

like that. But I, for some reason, didn't vote

for this, I don't believe. But I have no problem

with Clue making the countdown. DJ, what do you

think? Again, I made a joke about Mousetrap being

the Mousetrap movie. To me, Clue, I knew about

the movie before the game. I watched the Clue

movie before I played the game because you were

a thousand percent correct. If you don't have

more than two people, it's like this has notebooks

and I got to write things down. And so, yeah,

but it's had the movie in the game kind of has

a resurgence. I know there's a digital version

of it now. So, yeah, Clue is kind of a game I

think isn't for kids. I think that's kind of

now, especially it's like. A good party drinking

game for me. I love Clue in that term. What's

the name? Amongst Us? Amongst Us is kind of like

a rip -off of Clue for me. It's interesting,

too, because there's another game that we may

talk about later that also, to me, always ends

in frustration. But I feel like 50 % of the time

that I've played Clue in my life, somebody has

tried to guess it and that's been the end of

the game because they screw something up. It's

like... they've given a wrong clue at some point

so you think you have the answer and you don't

and it turns into a fight like i believe that's

happened like in a good percentage of the times

that people play clue in the world like something

gets screwed up towards the end when you're guessing

what's in the actual packet and all hell breaks

loose that's at least my experience mike what

do you think about the game of clue absolutely

just like you guys have said really the film

for us is what kind of and then i went back and

my i think my grandma had a I had a copy of Clue.

But yeah, the film was great. The board game

is interesting. And they even did comics for

it. IDW did a miniseries. Clue Candlesticks was

released by them in 2019. The series was written

and illustrated by Dash Shaw. It's unrelated

to the 2017 series. It takes place in its own

standalone continuity. But it's one of those

things where the movie is really what we all

remember. Unless somebody was diehard trying

to find, you know, Professor Plum in the conservatory

with the wrench. Because that movie has star

power. Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Madeline

Kahn. Just everybody is in that movie. And they

play the characters so well. Steve, so far we've

had, I think, five board games show up just in

this part of the countdown. We've had Operation,

we've had Life, we've had Mousetrap, Candyland,

and now Clue. How do you think that works out

so far with the order? Is Clue worthy of being

ahead of all those other ones? I would say so,

because it does require paying attention and

some level of strategy, because you have to kind

of discern what it could be. I can definitely

see it being on the list. Again, that's another

one of those games that I play with my family.

It's especially entertaining when the kids set

the board game up and everything's wrong and

you end up having no clues that are correct.

We got through an entire game and I had all of

the characters crossed off somehow. And... Yeah,

and I was like, well, somebody messed this game

up because i know that i should have had one

right that's how half the game is in somebody

screwed up somebody lied to me you bastard lied

i remember clue again another reason was because

the version that was around in the 80s i believe

her name was mrs white the picture on it was

literally like the doppelganger of my mom and

i was like mom how how did you when did you posed

for this game. Do we have any money from this

game? Are we getting residuals? What happened?

Do we have any money for this game? I even grabbed

a picture of the original or of the Mrs. White

that existed and did a half and half picture

of her and my mom as a younger person and posted

it on Facebook once. What's going on here, people?

Maybe I'll post it in the episode post or something.

It's crazy. You'll have to send that to me so

I can put it in there. Yeah, we're going to go

somewhere we haven't been today for number 60.

You can probably trace this one back into like

the 1600s or so. And before you tell me it's

not a toy, it was inducted into the Toy Hall

of Fame in 2018, you bastards. So it's pinball

at number 60. Pinball. We're just taking an all

-encompassing. We're not talking about a specific

version of it. It's just pinball in general.

Um, Steve, what do you think of the game of pinball?

I like it, but I don't feel like it holds up

anymore. Cause I mean, where have you seen an

arcade? I mean, granted, I think us older people

like it. Uh, cause we went to like over the summer,

we went to a campground and they had like three

different versions. And one of them was like,

I think Ninja turtles version or something. And

the kids were like, what, what is this? And I'm

like, I'm like, oh, I'm going to destroy you

at this. But I loved how they themed it, reskinned

it every time with different music, different

sound effects, different characters in television

or movie series because it gave it new life every

time you played. I wasn't someone that grew up

playing a lot of pinball. I mean, I obviously

know what it was. And we did have quite a few

arcades actually around us. And I think we still

do, actually. But to me, that was one of those

things that I never 100 % understood, like all

the different things that could happen. So it's

just like you hit it and you just hope for a

whole bunch of like noises and sounds and lights

and things like that. And then just try to keep

it out of the hole at the end. You know, I don't

know what I'm aiming for. I don't know what I'm

hitting it for. I'm not an expert, but just keep

it alive and good things should happen. So DJ,

what do you think about pinball? It kind of missed

me because we had an arcade when I was younger

and it was like pinball games were there, but

so was Street Fighter. So it's like, what do

I do here? So I usually gravitated away from

it, but it's always there. And then I would play

like... computerized versions of pinball i i

liked it because it does require skill but again

it is i think you guys nailed it earlier is uh

it it's more it's not a kid's friendly no game

though that's what they came they started doing

the whole motif the alien pinball or teenage

mutant turtles pinball because they wanted to

get at man yeah the batman 80 the 89 one i remember

what the car was in the back i remember that

one and that would get you interested for maybe

for me anyway like maybe like 10 minutes i was

like okay hey tekken's over here so i would always

like fade away in the background yeah i feel

like it hit a little bit more maybe for the generation

right before us than it did for our generation

maybe but i i it also seemed like it was so like

and maybe it wasn't but it seemed like the detail

put into like building a pinball machine and

all the different stuff that like, how expensive

is this to like build one of these with all these

different gadgets and gizmos, but it takes a

lot of quarters to pay for that back. Mike, what

do you think about pinball? So pinball, I always

had to be super fast if I ever wanted to play

it because I only have one hand that can actually

play the damn thing. My right hand for those

that don't know, I have cerebral palsy. And it

has no, I have no real motor function. I know

real whatever in my right hand. So I was, I could

only ever use one or the other side, or I would

just have to keep going back and forth, which

again, like you guys mentioned about video pinball

and computer pinball. I like those DJ. I'm pretty

sure there was a street fighter pinball machine

some way. I wouldn't doubt it. They have every,

they had every version of a pinball. Please kids,

please play our game. Wasn't there, remind me,

because I'm old and I forget these things, wasn't

there a super, didn't Clark pass by a Superman

pinball machine in the original Superman the

movie at one point? I think he throws somebody

on top of it at the very end. That's what it

is. Yeah, so, yeah, pinball is cool. It very

much is cool. I just couldn't play it myself,

but it's just one of those things where it's

a staple. I think you're right, Kev. I think

it's just that generation right before us because

as the 80s progressed, they kind of declined

and declined. Like, ooh, pinball, it turned into

like a party favor kind of thing. Yeah, absolutely.

All right, so away from pinball, I guess that's

our venture into the world of quote -unquote

electronics for today because we haven't had

anything in that today yet. For 59, we're going

to go to something that we haven't had at all

in the entire countdown so far. We have not had

anything that would be considered a toy that's

based around cards. So, you know, think like,

I don't know, Uno, baseball cards, Old Maid,

War, you know, Skipbo, those types of things.

We haven't had any of those types of things.

And this is somewhat of a card -based toy. We're

going to go to a toy that was inducted into the

National Toy Hall of Fame in 2019. And it's also,

we haven't had this today, a toy that originated

in the 90s. So we're going to talk about 1993

and the fad that was Magic the Gathering. At

Magic the Gathering's research facility, experts

test combat strategies using subjects selected

from the general public. Geez! Where do you get

these kids? Play my card, you moron! I'm unbloggable!

What are you waiting for? An invitation? magic

the gathering the trading card game you ready

to feel the pain so magic the gathering here

skip me i've never played it don't care i have

never played it either but i did vote for it

because it was one of those that i voted for

based on the immense popularity it had it was

similar to like For last episode's countdown,

what I did with Tickle Me Elmo. I voted for Tickle

Me Elmo because of how hot it was at one point.

And I feel like Magic the Gathering has a similar

rationale for being involved in this countdown.

It's just how crazy it got in its popularity

in the 90s. And like I said, it did make the

Toy Hall of Fame in 2019. So it had a little

bit of staying power as far as popularity and

things of that nature. So this was brought to

us, I believe, by... Wizards of the Coast is

the name? Which Hasbro owns it. Hasbro has been

butchering it over the last several years with

a lot of their questionable tactics with how

they are handling the franchise. I've played

the game. I played it back in high school and

it was funny because we used to do it at lunchroom

and the teachers would think that we were gambling

and we were like... showing them the cards and

they're like oh you're just a bunch of geeks

and then they just leave us alone let us play

i had a friend that showed me how to do this

you know play the game and i didn't own them

myself it was okay like it wasn't something i

like just loved doing but it was entertaining

enough and i could see the the following behind

it i did vote for it but it's not something that

i necessarily gravitate towards dj thoughts on

magic the gathering As you guys might know or

may not know, I collected comic books like a

crazy fiend back in the day. So every time I

went to a comic book shop, they always have a

back room where people were playing Magic the

Gathering, and I didn't know what the hell it

was. It was almost like that Dewey cock. You

don't want to know a part of this, Dewey. I was

like, what are you guys doing over there? Get

out of here. But they were so serious. I have

never played it, but I've seen Magic the Gathering

players, and it ain't no joke. The fact that

you have a back room like some kind of Yakuza

mahjong room or something like that where you're

playing Magic the Gathering. I respect it. Like

you kept said, I respect it. I don't want no

beef Magic the Gathering people. I understand.

I get it. I love it. I love it. So that was our

number 59. We've had some weird things happen

in this countdown so far. Like we started off

with starting lineup figures and professional

wrestling figures, which are kind of similar

like Kitty Corner. cousins or something like

that and then we had the teddy ruxpin and the

teddy bear were like next to each other and then

we had sports balls and nerf balls next to each

other and now we have magic the gathering backed

up with dungeons and dragons your dungeon master

has placed you in a dreadfully precarious position

you're playing the most palomino game ever created

your skin grows cold from your first glimpse

of the enormous beast it's a product of your

imagination Number 58 is Dungeons & Dragons.

It was a 2016 Toy Hall of Fame inductee. It's

been around since about 1974. It was originally

by a company called TSR, and then Wizards of

the Coast got involved with that as well. And

the funny thing about this, guys, is it's actually

tied. Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering

tied. Dungeons & Dragons wins the tiebreaker

because of our tiebreaking system, but that's

crazy to me that both of these tied with each

other because it seems like they're in the same

universe, so to speak. DJ, what do you think

about Dungeons & Dragons showing up here? I mean,

it's the OG. It's probably back in the zeitgeist

because of things like Stranger Things and, you

know, the live action movie and Jeremy Irons

raining from the sky and all that stuff. But

I do. I remember hearing about it when I was

younger, and then when I got a little bit older,

I was like, that's, you know, nerdy or whatever.

And then we have Vin Diesel, the huge Dungeons

& Dragons player. Joe Maginello, he has, like,

rooms where I was like, really? Is it cool now?

And then Matt, again, my co -host, huge Dungeons

& Dragons guy. And I was like, oh, okay, maybe

I should get into this. Then I watched Legends

of Vox Machina on Prime, which is essentially...

them doing that as like oh maybe i should i i've

always i think it's on my bucket list of things

to do i've never played it like fully the campaigns

because it seems like it's a lot of work it's

like it's up there with the clue thing where

it's like i gotta like come up with a script

and i mean i write it all the time but it's like

man i gotta put some effort into this iris again

there's another one i respect i get it it's the

i everybody who is into it is Not half -ass into

it. They are into it. So yeah, I respect it.

Steve, what do you think about Dungeons & Dragons

and how it backs up with Magic the Gathering?

I never got into it. I never cared to get into

it. I'm familiar with it, but it's not something

I really care about. But I can see why it's there.

I mean, it's kind of evolved gradually over the

years. Yeah, it kind of makes an interesting

question that comes up kind of too, because one

thing that... two different things. One is how

popular it is with a certain individual group,

and does that make it warranted on the countdown?

And that's what I've done when I voted for something

like Magic the Gathering, Tickle Me Elmo, some

of the pogs, things like that. But then there's

the other argument that's like, should it get

more points if it's more universal? Because there's

a lot of people that have never played Dungeons

& Dragons compared to somebody that's played

with Toy Dinosaur or something like that. It's

kind of an interesting dilemma or question that

you have to answer when you're making these lists.

Mike, what do you think? I'd rather play with

the toy dinosaurs. Okay. I feel like Dungeons

and Dragons, I was too young. He wants Barney.

No. Oh, Megatron wants Barney. Let's not go into

that. Don't make me throw that clip in here,

because you know I will. I love you. Shut up,

bitch. I'm not done. But with Dungeons & Dragons,

I just never got into it. And then, and I know

Kevin's going to kill me for this, but then there

was the crappy cartoon in the 80s. And then,

for some stupid reason, I saw the second Jimmy

Olsen, Justin Whelan film in 2000 in theaters.

I don't know why. I think Jeremy Irons was the

only reason why I saw that film. The film that

just came out got really... Wasn't that this

last year that got decent reviews? Yeah, but

I'm talking about the old one. He's talking about

Jeremy Irons. I was just saying there's also

a current... Yeah, there's a current movie. I

haven't seen that one. I won't ever call that

cartoon crappy again. It's very crappy. It's

actually a decent cartoon that was put together

pretty well. I really know. Going on to number...

They actually just redid the... toys that were

based on the cartoon they had a toy line that

came out last year it was kind of fun to collect

anyway we're going to go somewhere completely

different with number 57 but we're going to stay

in the same decade so dungeons and dragons originated

about 1974 these can kind of trace i think i

traced it back to 1979 and i'm so happy this

made the countdown because i for sure voted for

it even though it may not be like something you

think about right away we're going with happy

meal toys Because why not? I mean, what kid hasn't

gotten a Happy Meal toy? My daughter loves them.

She just got a C -3PO today out of a Happy Meal

because, yes, we're bad parents. Get McDonald's

from time to time. Your kids will love McDonald's

Happy Meal. It's food and fun in a box. It's

a hamburger or cheeseburger, regular -sized fries,

regular -sized soft drink, and a McDonaldland

cookie sampler. It all comes in a Happy Meal

box with games, puzzles, jokes, and a prize.

A prize? It's a hamburger or cheeseburger, regular

-sized fries, regular -sized soft drink, a McDonaldland

cookie sampler with games, puzzles, jokes, and

a prize. I said Happy Meal. Nobody. Happy Meal

toys. These things are collector's items. Some

of them are worth a bunch of money. There's been

so many different franchises that have been touched

by Happy Meal toys in some way, shape, or form.

I think they're great. Even the Happy Meal itself

became a toy during Halloween. You can get the

Halloween pail and stuff like that. That's a

different version. I think they're great. I'm

glad they are. I voted for this and cereal box

toys. I don't know if that's going to make it

because I can't remember the whole list right

now, but I think they both are warranted. Mike,

what do you think? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Food

Fighters were the best Happy Meal toys of the

80s. They really were. And like you said, they've

touched almost it. We've had at least four or

five different Transformers Happy Meal things

over the years. It's been, like you said, Star

Wars and other things, but it's always that quintessential.

I just wish the Happy Meal was still $2, not

$5 .69 or whatever the hell it is now. I'm sorry.

A tiny -ass hamburger. That's right. Get off

my lawn. A busted old toy. A cheap old plastic

that you can't even find. Hey, look, there ain't

nothing greater than a 59 -cent hamburger or

a 69 -cent cheeseburger. It ain't that no more.

I know, that's the point. The toys are crap by

comparison to what we used to get, too. Yeah,

some of them aren't very good. DJ, what do you

think about the Happy Meal toys? I know they're

important because, forgive me if I'm incorrect

here, they're the reason Tim Burton didn't do

Batman Forever. Because they got the Batman toys

for Batman Returns and thought it was a family

-friendly film. And then you got Penguin ripping

off a man's nose saying, at least I'm not gushing

blood. They were so important that at the time,

movies were like, especially like comic movies

or kind of like, let's say kid -friendly movies,

were like marketing their movies. around the

happy meal toy i think you kind of still do pretty

much but not as back in the 80s and 90s it was

the thing like can you make toys out of this

can you make happy meal toys out of this can

i sell this in the store and i remember uh i

do remember i remember that vividly like why

did tim burley batman oh because uh he made it

too dark he made that every time they can't market

this for mcdonald's okay what are you doing so

i got a question for you dj if happy meal toys

comes in here at number 57 Does that mean cereal

box toys will not make the countdown or we will

see them still to come? I think it will. I think

it will. Because it's almost like, not the word

cliche, but you know about them. At least I didn't.

If you're old head, you had cereal box toys.

So I think it might sneak in here. Steve, what

do you think? I don't think we're going to see

them, but that's just personal. He's a pessimist.

It's okay. Do you think Happy Meals is a more

deserving one? I think Happy Meals, yes, are

more deserving. And I feel like they're more

widespread. I feel like depending on what came

with the cereal, like some of them had like you

might get a Hot Wheel car. Some of them you might

get a spoon that's special or like a lightsaber

spoon or something. Or, you know, some of those

specialty things. And then there were other ones

where you had to mail away for it where I feel

like. Some people did, some people didn't. I

feel like the Happy Meal toy was kind of a universal

that everybody got. Yeah, I'm happy that they're

here. So we're going to do one more before we

have a quick ad break. So our number 56, we're

going to go back to the world of wheeled toys.

So I didn't say it like I did before, but our

number 56 is a 2019 inductee to the National

Toy Hall of Fame. It's a 1953 origination. Currently

owned by Mattel, but it hasn't always been that

way. And we are talking about Matchbox cars.

Matchbox announces 10 cars America has been waiting

for. We're looking for a family car that's sporty

enough for me, yet practical for me. I need a

car that's built the way I use it. Like every

Matchbox car, each of our 78s has a sticker price

of about a buck. No matter who you are, Matchbox

has the car that says you. I want a car that

lets me express the real me. So Matchbox cars

here at number 56. It was always like the battle

growing up. Matchbox or Hot Wheels? Hot Wheels

or Matchbox? Which one are you going to go with?

And Matchbox lands here at number 56. DJ, are

they a top 100 worthy toy? I get it, but I'm

in the Hot Wheels camp, my friend. You're the

enemy, Matchbox. You're the enemy, Hot Wheels.

Superior, Matchbox. Superior. Anymore, it doesn't

matter. Anymore, it doesn't matter. Because Hot

Wheels owns Matchbox. They bought them. They

bought them. And the toys... I feel like some

of the Matchbox toys, they were like, depending,

like they had more of a realistic variety than

Hot Wheels. Like Hot Wheels, yes, they had some

that were kind of, you know, within the realm

of realism, but a lot of them were just kind

of, eh, this is a cool idea, let's go for it.

And so when Hot Wheels bought them, I felt like

the quality control got better. on matchbox and

we got some more uh real world vehicles out of

matchbox and then hot wheels just kept doing

what hot wheels does yeah i feel like with hot

wheels like that's a kid that wants a toy that's

a car and with matchbox that's a car that wants

a toy like a car fan that wants like a toy that

represents like it's like almost coming from

two different ways like as far as that goes uh

mike what do you think i said before Matchbox,

inferior, Hot Wheels, superior. I have a, this

came out a couple of years ago. It's a little

dusty right now, but I have a, in my hand right

now, a Hot Wheels, even though we're talking

about Matchbox, a Super Pursuit kit car, and

it's just made so much better than the Matchbox

toys ever were. The new stuff is much better.

The old stuff, I totally get what you're saying.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, just Matchbox

in general, like, I just, like, I wanted to,

quote -unquote, gently play with the Hot Wheels

toys. I didn't want to crash them into each other

because die -cast metal, it's a lost art. But

the Matchbox toys were like the junkyard of toys.

They're essentially the GoBots of the cars, essentially,

really. I don't know. Matchbox. All right, we're

going to take a quick ad break. When we come

back, we're going to give you our final five

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Transform and roll out! All right, there's only

time for five toys left. We left you on a wheeled

toy. We're going to start you back with another

one. So this was a finalist for the National

Toy Hall of Fame, but it has not made it in there

yet. Originate somewhere around the 1966 when

it really became a popular toy. Probably the

most famous ones or the most known ones are brought

to you by a toy company called Tyco, but they've

been made by lots of different companies. We're

talking about remote control cars. So remote

control cars, planes, boats, whatever you want

to call it, anything that's remote control, we're

putting it right here at number 55. Use Tyco

60 Premium Pack for maximum stunt power. Tantrum

from Tyco RC. Maximum heat battery pack sold

separately. Steve, what do you think about that?

I like remote control cars. I find them fun.

My kids have like a dozen of them, so I never

have to buy them if I want to play. I feel like

remote control cars and cell phones, the number

one and number two things that you get frustrated

when the battery runs out. Oh, yeah. Well, I

feel like cell phones last longer. At least you

can charge the battery on the cell phone. You

can't if you're screwed with the other one. The

pain with remote control cars were you only get

maybe 20 minutes out of them before they start

kind of chugging along. Yeah, and they just kind

of slide to a stop. I will say some of the newer

rechargeable ones, the more compact they are

and like some of the ones that are more versatile

where they can kind of go over rocks and flip

over and do all these things. They will last

about 30 minutes, like usually longer than your

attention span to continue using it. I feel like

if you've got one that's like a race car type

setup, which I normally did growing up, you were

lucky to get 15 minutes out of it. And that was

that was on rechargeables. Yeah. I felt like

it was super fast, but yeah, it didn't last super

long. Yeah. I mean, I remember going to radio

shack and getting them and they were, you know,

and that's another thing of the past, but yeah,

the, but going to radio shack and picking those

up and then, uh, driving them all over the place.

And yeah, I, I just liked the super fast cars.

It definitely became a whole new game, too, when

they did the ones with those big wheels, like

you said, that could just flip and hit anything

and keep going. Because otherwise, remote -controlled

cars were also a lot like a kite. You played

with it, and then it was stuck somewhere. You

had to go run up to it and get it out of the

rocks or whatever you had accidentally run into

and hope the battery doesn't run out in the middle

of the street so it gets run over by a car. But,

DJ, what do you think about remote -controlled

cars making the countdown? I didn't get my Power

Wheel. I did get a Grasshopper RC car in 1984.

Five, four, somewhere around there. And it was,

I loved it. But the batteries, I mean, batteries

have made such an improvement over the years.

Because back in the 80s, there was, it's like,

maybe because I was running it ragged, I get

like 15, 20 minutes. Maybe. It's like, oh my

God, the thing is dead already? But yeah, I used

to do craziness. I used to set up book ramps

and I had like a gravel backyard kind of thing.

rocks would get stuck in the wheel but i it was

a i loved it i love that car uh so much lime

green yesterday i'm sorry i'm murmuring this

and yes yes grasshopper remote control car my

one of my favorites the precursor to drones mike

what do you think about remote control car whoa

he's not wrong actually he's not wrong jesus

yeah well you know it is what his control cars

were great and like you already said they are

the The main ones that were just a remote -control

car, they were very much like a kite. I remember

when, seven or eight years old, we were having

our house built at the time in Kingston, Massachusetts,

and we had a gravel driveway. Like, we had a

full -on rock driveway, and you could not drive

a normal remote -control car down a bunch of

rocks. Now, once we eventually smoothed it out

with the paint, like... Less than half a second.

You know, don't live my life a quarter mile at

a time with rocks. How dare you quote Vin Diesel,

sir. Ah, dude works. No, I always used to love

remote control cars. I used to love playing with

those things. And what I loved was, oh, I forget.

I don't know if it was Tycho, but they had a

Knight Rider track on. I forget which one. There's

multiple Knight Rider car track things. I remember

having that and it was just so cool because you

just had one remote in your hand and all that.

It's so fun. Love remote control cars. Alright,

that's our number 55. Let's mark our way to number

54. I'm going to need you guys' help on this

one. Going back into the world of action figures,

but another toy line I didn't vote for because

I just don't know enough about them. I don't

know if they've been as big as they have been

in recent times, but they trace their origins

back to around 1972. We're talking about the

action figure lines that have anything to do

with Marvel Comics. So any action figure that's

in the Marvel Comic Universe fits right here

at number 54. Mike, I'm going to let you go first.

Are they worthy? And tell us a little bit about

why, if they are. There's new action in the universe

from Marvel Super Heroes. Spider -Man! Dr. Octopus!

I'll bend Dr. Octopus in half, Captain America!

My shield will cut him down to size. Meet your

doom, surfer. Not so fast, doom. Take him, surfer.

Marvel superheroes are each sold separately from

Toy Beasts. Yeah, they are. They've improved

greatly over the last X number of decades, but...

everybody still loves the was it the when the

90s when those started the marvel legends line

like that's still going today and the figures

only get better is it more of a toy line that

has been popular with collectors or has it ever

been like something that like kids just really

gravitated to i remember having a spider -man

a batman i mean obviously batman is not marvel

but like i remember having like spider -man wolverine

that kind of thing as a kid because in the mid

90s, early 90s to mid -90s. 92, we had X -Men,

the animated series. 94, we had Spider -Man,

the animated series. We had other Marvel cartoons

later. And you wanted the toys from the characters

you saw in the cartoons, and they had versions

of those. They still make versions of those specific

characters today, as far as from those cartoons,

but they also make other ones. I think it's a

mix of both. I think now it's more about the

toy collector claiming the childhood and owning

what they used to have kind of thing and just

loving the way that the Legends line is working

now. At least most of the people I know that

collect Marvel Legends really enjoy it. I know

my buddy Dan, who's from Rock Nerd Radio, he

loves his Marvel Legends. So, Dan, this one's

for you, buddy. But, yeah, no, I never really

collected them, because by the time they were,

like I said, 92, 94 is really when I kind of

started noticing a lot of the Marvel figures,

and I was kind of in the midst of some transitioning

with various life events, and I was kind of out

of toys by 1995 for a while. Just was. We haven't

had any toy this countdown that it was somebody's

number one, but this was somebody's number two,

as was Sports Balls and was Dr. Seuss books.

So three number twos that have fallen today.

Steve, what do you think about Marvel action

figures? I think that they have a decent place

on this list because they're still pretty packed

in the toy stores today. Absolutely. But yeah,

I mean, I'm not a collector of them anymore.

I was back. when I was a kid, so it resonates

with me still, but I just don't have anything

that I care to collect in it. But the quality

has definitely gotten better over the years with

Hasbro doing it. And what's nice is if you collect

various things of the Hasbro lines, whether it

be the Lightning Collection of Power Rangers

or with the Marvel Legends or things like that,

you can do head swaps on the different figures.

So you can actually like kitbash out of them

because they're all in the same universal size.

Nice. DJ, final thoughts on Marvel action figures.

My, my nerdy comic book collector mind used to

ruin them for me. Cause I mean, I collected many,

but I remember when they had, I went to toys

for us and they had the Spider -Man and Iron

Man vehicles. And I'm sitting there like, Spider

-Man doesn't need a vehicle. He has webs. Iron

Man is literally a man that could fly. Why do

they have cars? What are you doing? Spider -Buggy

was awesome. Shut your mouth. But what is the

point? He has webs. That's the whole point of

Spider -Man. He's swinging. He ain't driving

in traffic. It's New York. All right. Well, maybe

he lost his powers. No, Mike. That has happened.

Maybe he lost his powers. Iron Man is literally

a rocket dude. Have you ever seen Spider -Man

in one of the movies? No. Have I what? Have you

ever seen Spider -Man driving anything in any

of the movies? Dr. Ock, I'm coming for you. Let

me get my keys. I mean, what are you talking

about? In the movies, he got on the bus. He didn't

drive anything. He didn't drive anything. All

right. He tried to buy a car. He became Spider

-Man instead. That was the Tobey Maguire one,

part one. Right. We only have three left on this

side of number 50 here. So let's get to those.

We're going to one that was inducted into the

Hall of Fame in 2002. Originates probably in

the 1760 era, but could be earlier. It really

depends on which. Definition, you want to go

by this? It is found in most toy sections of

the stores, so I think it qualifies. We're talking

about the classic jigsaw puzzle. So jigsaw puzzle

here at number 53. They come in all sizes, shapes,

and counts, and everything else. So there's a

lot of different versions of this. Who hasn't

put together a puzzle? DJ, what do you think

of jigsaw puzzles coming in here at number 53?

I didn't have the patience. I would watch people.

My stepfather would be like, you've got to get

the corners. I'm like, what? How are you figuring

that? It was like watching somebody do a magic

trick to watch somebody put a puzzle together

for me. It can be painful, though. Here's a puzzle

that's all black. Here's outer space. Funny you

say that. My wife and I were doing one. It was

of a mountainside thing. It literally had, you

know, like the stars and the moon and stuff in

it. And you cannot tell the difference in those

pieces. And they all went in the same quadrant.

And there was like there was like at least 200

pieces because we did a thousand piece puzzle.

It serves so many different purposes, though.

You can have very simple ones that are more educational

for little kids. You can have crazy ones like

Steve's talking about that are super hard. You

had the 3D puzzles that came around in the 90s

or 2000s. You've had so many different versions

of that that can speak to different age groups.

It makes them very universal because you can

do a 10 -piece puzzle or a 5 ,000 -piece puzzle

or whatever you want to do. I think that makes

them pretty universal. able to be used by a lot

more people than like i don't know like what

we're talking about with like dungeons and dragons

where you're gonna have to like memorize the

rules and learn a campaign and strategize and

write and things like that like you don't have

to do any of that actually work to play yeah

right with a puzzle you don't have to do that

and like you just said i'm glad you brought that

up because That's where I found my fun, was in

the 90s, was with Puzzle 3D. Oh, my God. Those

were so good at the time. You could have a miniature

Empire State Building if you wanted, or you could

have the Golden Gate Bridge or whatever. It was

so cool. I love Puzzle 3D. Puzzles in general,

eh. I guess they're okay. I like it when they're

finished. Just recently, a YouTube channel that

I follow, Slapshot Pops, they put together a

Funko puzzle, and they are collecting all of

the Funko -style puzzles because they're Funko

collectors. But once they are putting them together,

they are putting them in frames, and they're

going to hang them up as wall art because they're

so cool, as far as that goes. I think puzzles,

you could do that with any puzzle. It doesn't

matter what it is. If you wanted to have it as

a piece of wall art after it was done. That would

be cool. I like the ones that are like a collage

of movies of the 80s or TV shows of the 90s or

whatever it is where it gives you a bunch of

different things like that. Those are kind of

fun. Anyways, big hitter there with Jigsaw Puzzles

coming in at number 53. We're going to go back

to another possibly big hitter and back to the

world of board games inducted into the Hall of

Fame in 2004. Trace it back to 1938. We're talking

about the game Scrabble. Who hasn't played Scrabble?

That actually used to be a holiday tradition.

My brother and myself and probably two or three

other family members, we would play this every

Christmas and they would get really frustrated

that I would beat them because they have trouble

with... It's a game for people that can spell

and smart people and stuff. Right. The little

brother beating us. I don't know. strategize

the hell out of that like where you're going

to place your triple words and double letters

and all that kind of nonsense but then we actually

had a scrabble tournament in school that i also

placed very well and so i'm a scrabble nerd so

but i didn't vote for it i don't know why but

uh scrabble here number 52 dj what do you think

i have it on my phone right now I play Scrabble

occasionally when I've got some downtime. It

helps me with my vocabulary. It is not just for

smart people and stuff. I'm not that smart at

all. I'm being sarcastic. Hey, I learned how

to spell the alphabet. alphabet and letters and

things no uh when i it's a kind of a uh endorphin

rush when you drop a word on somebody they don't

know and they go that's not real and they look

it up and they're like oh crap it is you're like

yeah yeah i got you i'm like not only is that

a word but it also connects to this other word

and there's right Mike, what do you think of

Scrabble? I am so smart. S -M -R -T. I mean S

-M -A -R -T. I love Scrabble, especially when

Chuck Woolery is hosting. Scrabble is always

fun. Like you guys have already said about the

double letter score, double word score, triple

word score, all that stuff. It's super fun and

it's always fun to pull out. Words that somebody's

like, wait, what? Yeah, it is. Trust me. I know

what I'm talking about here. Like I said, you

learn all the two -letter words that exist in

the... In the four -letter words that exist.

Yeah, the four -letter words, not the two -letter

words. At the end, you always got to make two

-letter words out of stuff. But it's also been

video games. It's been game shows. It's been

mobile games. It's been board games. So there's

a lot of different versions. We had the cool

one that had the base that you put the board

on and then you could... swivel it spin it around

to whoever's turn it was so that was always fun

it was like the deluxe version that i got a long

time ago for i think from target steve last thoughts

on scrabble before we reveal our last one for

the day it's for smart people no um how dare

you um anyways uh no i mean i that's another

game we have too uh it's fun because Once in

a while, we'll try and pull like a word that's

not a word. And my wife's like, is that a word?

And I'm like, no. And then I'll try to do the

same thing to her. And then she's like, that's

not a word. And I'm like, but it could be. But

yeah, it's like I invented my own vocabulary.

Yeah. So, I mean, it's a fun game. I do enjoy

getting to. Try and rack my brain and see what

words I do remember and trying to see if I can

get the most points. Typically that it is something

that you have to kind of have a vocabulary of

some kind or have heard the word at some point

to be able to pull from. And of course, it depends

on what the other people playing put in there,

because if you don't have the space, you cannot

do the words. It's always fun when you have like

four O's and I and A and E and you're like, I

just need a U. I just need one U. All right.

So there's only time for one more for today's

version. One more on this side of the 50 mark.

So we're going to go there right now to a category

we haven't had anything from yet. That was the

category in our toy catalog that was entitled.

building toys we haven't had a single one yet

guys so this originates somewhere in the 1916

range toy hall of fame inductee in 1999 currently

owned by hasbro my research said that john lloyd

wright invented this and we're talking about

lincoln logs here at number 51 so the first building

toy We'll see if we have any others. Probably

for sure we'll have at least one. But Lincoln

Logs here at number 51. There was a lot of different

options when it came to building toys. I mean,

you can probably all think of them, but things

like Blocks, things like Duplos, Bristle Blocks,

Connects, Legos, Mega Blocks, Playmobil, Tinker

Toys, Lincoln Logs. There's a lot of them. Lincoln

Logs is the first one that shows up here at number

51. Mike, what do you think? Lincoln Logs are

just as much fun today as they were when you

played with them. And they're still made of wood.

Lincoln Logs from PlaySchool, a Milton Bradley

company. I'm saying this as 8 -year -old me,

not as 43 -year -old me, but 43 -year -old me

agrees with 8 -year -old me. Lincoln Logs superior,

red, yellow, and blue. Legos inferior. Oh my

god, I could not... You gotta remember, folks,

in the 80s, Legos were just bricks. They weren't

what they are today. There was no build the Millennium

Falcon. There was no... None of the stuff that

they have today with Legos. And I always liked...

Yeah, exactly. They weren't franchised. That's

right. I always loved... Huh, what? What decade

were you referencing? Were you saying the 80s?

Yeah. Because the 80s definitely had all the

pirate Legos, the pirate ship Legos. It did,

but it didn't have Marvel and DC. You're building

a pirate ship, you're building a generic spaceship,

whereas today you have... They're still cool.

At least with Lincoln Logs, you could actually

build a pretend log cabin. The girls have the

Barbie Dreamhouse, the guys had the log cabin.

I like it. I like them both. I think Legos have

been more than just bricks, though, for a while.

For a while, yes, but when I was a kid, they

weren't. I loved Lincoln Logs, though. I remember

having these. I remember building all kinds of

different cabins and stuff like that, but like

I said, you were a little bit limited because

you could basically build houses and cabins.

You couldn't build... everything that you could

build with Legos, just to use an example. But

I still thought they were cool and kind of unique

and fun. We always had the Tinker Toys and the

Lincoln Logs, so that to me was what the debate

was, which one was better between the Tinker

Toys and the Lincoln Logs. But DJ, what do you

think about Lincoln Logs? We used it to build

little bases for our army men and stuff. I remember

I was very young. I remember Lincoln Logs. I

was like, this is actually made of wood. And

we would build the, we wouldn't make the log

cabins. We would like, well, I got these army

men. I want to make a base. And we'd just use

them to make like a fortification. But yeah,

Lincoln Logs to me were a staple of that. It

deserves to be on this list. I would think it'd

be kind of higher just for, let's say, importance.

I think of, you know. precursor to a lot of stuff

that we've gotten later on because Lincoln Logs

were kind of... They're not the originators,

I don't think, but they're up there, I would

say. I play with them many, many times. 1918,

you said, right? That's a long freaking time

ago. I don't know if John Lloyd Wright is...

Is he related to Alexander Lloyd Wright? I don't

know. I don't know who that guy is. I'm going

to say yes. Prove me wrong, critics. What do

you think of the Lincoln Logs? I used to have

those and I used to enjoy them. My kids had them

for a little bit and I had to teach them how

to use it because they were more familiar with

Lego and things like that. I do think there is

some limitations to them compared to Lego. Obviously

because Lego you can pretty much build anything.

Those you're kind of limited to rectangles and

squares. Uh, and depending on what pieces were

still there. Right. And if you got, and if you

somehow got, uh, a different brand of them, they

will not click together. Whereas Lego, you can

do, you can do a knockoffs and they'll still

work. Right. All right. Well, that does it for

this section of the 76 through 51 or 75 through

51. I guess that's how math works. Just to give

you guys some quick stats before we end here

today, and then we'll go around and give everybody's

final thoughts on what was revealed today. But

when we're going to our categories, this is how

it looks after the first 50. So board games had

six last time, had six today. So that's 12 total

for board games. They are in first place. Action

figures had six last time, only three this time.

So they're down at nine. Wheeled toys had four

last time and three this time. So they're at

seven. Then we have outside toys with four. stuffed

toys at three, and electronics at three. Everything

else is less than that. We did have our first

one from the games, cards, balls, craft toys,

books, building, educational, and our miscellaneous

category. They didn't appear at all last time,

but they all had at least one representative

today. From a decade standpoint, we had seven

additional ones that were from the 1900s or before,

so they have 12 so far, which is the highest.

So the 1900s or before is actually leading, guys.

We had our first from the 1910s. 1930s is up

to three. 1940s up to three. All of them appeared

today. 1950s only had one today, so they're at

five now total. 1960s is up to eight. 1970s up

to six. 1980s up to nine. Three for the 90s,

one for the 2000s and beyond. As far as toy companies

go, we're up to four for Parker Brothers. We

are up to one, two, three, four, five, six for

Milton Bradley, two for Ideal, one for Tonka,

three for Kenner, one for Takara, three for Tyco,

three for Wham -O, one for LJN, zero for Mattel,

zero for Hasbro. Although I think they're going

to be pretty heavily in the top. They're coming.

I will say though, that out of the ones that

revealed, even though Hasbro was responsible

for bringing zero of them to the market, they

currently own at least 11 that we've talked about

in this first half. So, and that could be higher.

They seem to own everything. Um, they are making

their impact now, even though they didn't necessarily

originate a lot of these toys, which is something

I didn't know about before going into this countdown.

Um, DJ, any surprises or what do you think so

far this first half? I'm surprised by your balls.

No, uh, the 84, the thing I think is, I don't

know if you guys have already discussed this

before, but this to me feels like this list is

going to be eighties dominant because I think

then that decade was just so toy heavy with,

all different types of things that would qualify

for this list so that that's what i would assume

was going to happen is like we're going to get

a lot and the fact that you didn't mention mattel

and i don't know if you guys have been paying

attention the number one movie in the for of

the year is a toy made by mattel so uh i think

uh i think 80 is going to take this list over

Yeah, currently, like I said, they're behind

the 1900s and before has a three toy lead on

them. So you're saying that the top half is going

to be 80s heavy. Oh, yeah. Any thoughts, Steve,

on surprises or any of the data that was just

doled out? No, I think we're going to definitely

run into some heavy 80s and some 90s stuff. We'll

have to wait and see on that. What about the

categories, Mike? Are board games going to take

this one over action figures? They have a three

toy lead. I don't think so. I really don't think

so. Because again, I've said this before. I'll

say it again. The 80s started the action figure.

I mean, it really like the action figure movement

as far as taking off and being popular. The 80s

is it. Like, you have all the franchises we know

and love, between Transformers, He -Man, Thundercats,

whatever, all that stuff. Most of it started

in the 80s. Obviously, some of the stuff started

before that, but look at us, folks. Even though

there were 21, 22 other people besides the people

that are on this recording right now that helped

create this list, it's the Geekcast Radio Network.

Do you people expect anything less from us than

going back to the 80s? Come on! So last question

before we close this out, I'll give it to DJ

here. So back to category still. So we were talking

about the top two. We're kind of debating on

board games, action figures, blah, blah, blah.

The current third place one is wheeled toys.

Are they going to remain third place or is somebody

going to take that from them? I think someone's

taking it from them. Cause I think, I mean, off

the top of my head, it's only a couple more I

can think of beyond there that high. I mean,

uh, yeah, I, I, I think figures is going to knock

that down real fast. Real. I really think that

real stuff. When you said that, I was like, well,

it can only be like six things to me. That's

it. Right. All right. So that is the first half

of the countdown. Now, if you listen to last

episode in this episode, Mike, anything else

they need to know? Yeah. You're going to hear

some, some ads and some other stuff. And we'll

come back to close the show right after this.

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else we need to add. I think the second half

of the bottom 50 has played out really interestingly,

to say the least. A lot of stuff I was not expecting,

and some stuff I was surprised that, like you

said, Kev, you were surprised that it even made

the list, and I'm really liking this one. I think

this is going to be one of our most unique ones

that we've done in the last 14 years. yeah i

can tell you too and we haven't mentioned this

probably as much as we do in the other top 100

countdowns but nobody knows the the list except

for myself so nobody has like a heads up on as

to what's coming so that's kind of a dynamic

as far as how this all goes but i'll say i i

can see the top 50 and i'm just glancing over

it right now and i don't think there's many that

i have an argument against so i mean like these

we got some Big time toys coming up, and I think

they all are top 50 worthy. Absolutely, absolutely.

DJ, Steve, anything you guys want to say before

I run through the closing? I don't think so.

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