Bill, I had that Batman model kit! The figure broke off the tree and I ended up just playing with that. 

Oh god I had totally forgotten about Mobile Action Command.  I had the Mountain playset and loved it.

Big Jim was called Mark Strong in the UK.  I distinctly remember it because I was in hospital and my mum asked my brother to get me an Action Man (GI Joe) but he brought the wrong thing.  Enjoyed it although the rubber coated arms kept going black for some reason.

The toy I miss from my youth would be a line with characters called Cyborg, Muton and Android ( I think they were based on a Japanese toy line) and you could get all sorts of cool science-fiction-y add on bits.

I'm told that substance inside the Stretch figures was simply corn syrup.

This thread is bringing back a lot of memories! I had the Mobile Action Command police vehicle and routinely played with it as Logan's air-car vehicle from the Logan's Run television series. When What If#6 came out, I was so enamored of the Mandroid character that I painted the MAC action figure silver using regular model paints. I don't believe the figure ever dried entirely. He was always still tacky.

Those Remco Universal Monsters figures, large and small, hit home for me as well! I had the Remco Frankenstein with the grabbing arms as well as the 3 3/4/" Dracula and Frankenstein. A friend very kindly sold me the 3 3/4" Mummy he had as a kid not too long ago.

McDonalds, I believe it was, had a line of Universal Monster Happy Meal toys a few years ago that were very well done and somewhat reminiscent of those Remco figures.

The Star Trek phaser peg-toy squirt gun was also a much-played-with item in my toy box back in the day. I rarely if ever filled it up. I just used it as a constant prop.

Shogun Warriors were a long-sought impossible-to-come-by item. Just too pricey back in the day, but oh how I longed for a Dragun. I did finally come across one at a shady comic store where I often shopped. Fortunately, I knew the fellow behind the counter fairly well and he'd just rooked someone out of their three Shoguns for some ridiculous price like five bucks apiece based on how beat up they all were. But there was a Dragun, and of the three, he was in fairly nice shape. I agreed with him strongly on how beat up everything was and still expressed an interest in the Dragun one, despite its obvious faults. He let it go for about ten dollars, as I remember. The thing was, it was actually in really nice shape, aside from missings the additional weaponry and a few stickers. I mean REALLY nice shape... I faked a few stickers with double-sided tape and pieces clipped from a Parliament cigarette ad. He's standing proudly in my living room now.

When I noticed the other two still behind the counter months later, the guy went on for some time about how he'd managed to unload one that was in even worse shape to some customer awhile back. That guy, he assured me, was a real idiot...

The figures that I was most happy and excited to reacquire were a Mego Iron Man, a Gor, King of the Terrons, from the Super G.I. Joe line, and Zem-21, the faux C-3PO offering from the Ideal Star*Team. Zem was really cool... a refurbished J.J. Armes body with an alien head vaguely similar to that of the Animated Star Trek's Mr. Arex.

Before I really got into Star Wars figures I had the Adventure People. I had all sorts of those toys, including a TV news crew. I had the race car and believe me, it took a beating...