my uncle back in the day bought two sets of these for my birthday and they are awesome to this day. have been trying to remember the name of these guys for the past few years ... now i can sleep in peace lol tonka should remake them for my kids

I remember when I got a tonne of these for my birthday. My parents got me two massive sets, one red, one blue. I had no idea what they were and was mortified because I was unsure whether or not they were "cool". None of my friends had them and that wasn't a good thing. As it turns out, I ended up playing with them a lot. Regardless of their popularity with the other kids, I thought they were pretty cool.

The quality and sturdiness of the parts (TONKA packaging, but the toys are all labelled as made by BANDAI Japan) was amazing; better plastic quality than LEGO (if you can believe it). The tiny figures were a bit lacking, but the main construction toy itself was perfection to a 9 yr old.

I really enjoyed how you could make the vehicles into almost any form. I would spend hours just changing parts back and forth to see with what I could come up with.

Come on..who else made giant robots like the film Robot Jox out of them? :)

I made Johnny-5 out of mine. Sorta...