I loved these things when I was a kid, but my parents hated them because they came apart into all these little pieces that got scattered all over the house. I have a battlecruiser on my desk at work that I got on E-bay. It's pretty darned snazzy, even after all these years.

The comics were cool too. Princess Mari (scroll down to see the picture) was the first time I remember noticing that women were more than just irritatingly tall girls.

I was just 12 at the time Ellen. You can't get jealous of a comic book character I admired when you were 4. Or can you?