Toy Fads from my childhood days

Voltez V. The robot which captivated the hearts of many 70's children. I can vividly remember I was in grade school then and when my classmates brings with them a 12" tall Voltez V. I am literally drooling in envy. As we were very poor that time, trying to buy that toy is like sacrificing our family's food for an entire month. We were so poor that I contented myself with watching that robot in the display window of our small community store whenever I had the chance.

That toy was the ultimate dream for every kid of my age that time. We spent long hours watching the animated TV series of Voltez V. had it been a food, we literally chew it from breakfast till dinner. That's how loco we where. Even just having a t-shirt with the voltez V picture on it is already considered cool.

I remember sometime during the late 1990's and early 2000 some crazy thirty something people of my age born on that Voltez V era actually thought of and tried to revive the childhood fantasy. But as time would have its way. it did not pick up and eventually the dream vanished silently behind the noise and hype of later model transformers, gundams and other modern robot icons of the internet era.

The famous adage that time was....Let's Volt In!

Life Size Superheroes

Stumbled upon these life size figures of Marvel superheroes at the Toy Kingdom in SM Megamall Ortigas. The details and the dimensions of the figures were so lifelike so we bunch of friends turned into goofing around and posing with the figures.

The photo on the left, Incredible Hulk is one of my most favorite character. It also happened to be my most watched TV show during my childhood in the 70's. That was the time when we used to watch TV on our well to do neighbor who happened to be one of the very few who owned TV set that time. After playing all afternoon and quickly having dinner, we bunch of kids rush into the neighbor with the TV set and watch till we were told to go home by the house owner. I can still imagine the worn out slippers strewn all over the front door of the house and after the night's show, everyone is scrambling to find the other pair of their slippers. Those slippers belong to the ones who were lucky enough to be accommodated inside the house and slumped all throughout the "salas" watching with awe the black and white show in full glory. The not so fortunate kids are contented in watching the show on the wooden jalousie windows and trying to pull each other out to have a glimpse of the superhero on the screen. " Don't make me angry...you wouldn't like me when I'm angry....the famous lines of the lead actor is still very vivid in my mind...for a while, we are transported into another world but the instant we hear the whistle of our father, it's back to reality and if we don't rush home on that first loud whistle, somebody will be very angry....