If you look at my avatar, you'll see it would have to be "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" if anything, although I go back to the radio show more often than the books. The whole series is brilliant. I stopped taking science fiction so seriously, which is always a danger. Adams is by far my favorite author, and…

I went to a book signing when Max Brooks (of World War Z fame) was launching his latest book, The Harlem Hellfighters, which was a graphic novel about an american regiment of black soldiers in WWI. It was fascinating to hear him talk about his research process and one of the books he mentioned was All Quiet on the…

Norton I was also the subject of an issue of the Sandman. It was a good story.

Has anyone noticed that no one has picked this:

I guess J.J. Abrams is an Inhumanoids fan too.

I still have mine somewhere. Great transformer

Wow. That's awesome. You'd get shot for something like that nowadays.

My parents just dug my Speak & Spell out of their attic last summer. It still worked, even with batteries that were at least a decade old (we dug it out about 10 years ago for my niece, who thought it was dumb).

Okay, that is just the awesomest thing I've ever seen.

Ria, you've made this very difficult to pick just one. Here's another:

I always wanted a G.I. Joe aircraft carrier, but it cost $100 and that was 30 years ago! There was no way my parents were getting me that thing, although I had a friend who had it. It was glorious. He got it right at the age when he was starting to transition away from toys so he was hardly interested in the thing,…

Oh, the soundtrack was awesome- especially the heavy metal theme song. Still haven't forgiven them for killing Prime though.

I had space lego from the late 70's and early 80's- just like the character in the Lego Movie. Those were the best, the absolute best. Unlike the Star Wars legos (or whatever licensed property is hot at the moment) you get nowadays, the generic nature of the space legos let you be more creative. You were never…

I just remembered these: Capsela and Robotix.

Construx were awesome!

Since you already put up lego, I'll choose something else. Had a few:

Flying cars. The 21st century was supposed to have flying cars. Do we have them? Not even close. Here's why- right now if you have a mechanical breakdown in car, you pull over and call a tow truck.

Well, it's largely because Kyuzo was talking about someone from 1985, not the 1950s. Computers were already becoming a part of everyday life. Just consider some of the entertainment from the 1980s:

I disagree. Sure, we would have been blown away, but not much more than we were when the iPhone was actually released. Remember that grandparents in the mid 80s lived through an era that went from the end of the horse-drawn carriage era to man setting foot on the moon. Society was more prepared for rapid leaps in…

I actually remember liking Pandamonium, but it was on for such a short time. Looking back, I think I must have been out of my mind.