Your favorite childhood toy?

[HEFFA]

My wife and I just got a Sit 'n Spin for our daughter. Of course, it's much more advanced than the one I had as a kid, because it plays music and has lights on the "steering wheel," but I still remember fondly all the times that I spun myself silly on that thing....
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[Catfight]

1. Weeble Woobles school house

and my pogo stick...I might have to use it again soon if gas prices keep getting up there. Pogo my ass to the office, that'd be fun.

[teach1st]

2. Lincoln logs

Lincoln logs first, then tinker toys.

[AndyP]

4. ditto

I can't even count the number of space ships and mansions I built with those things.

When I got a little older I was in to the little race cars on the electric track.

[Turbineguy]

3. My German made erector set.

kept me quiet for years.....


Then I grew up and got DU!

[NewHampster]

8. I still have mine

Its a little rusted but I bet it still bolts together

[markus]

11. Another vote for Erector Set

Man, I spent hours with that toy.

Next closest was my walkie-talkies and basestation.

[Faygo Kid]

5. My dinosaurs; my Tootsie Toy cars; my cowboys

Best as I can recall, in the '50s to early '60s. Loved 'em all. Have a few around the house, yet. My brother has a collection worth thousands, of the toys we had as kids.

[solinvictus]

6. Star Wars

My Star Wars stormtrooper rifle that doubled as a sub-machine gun.

[gyopsy]

14. I loved all the Star Wars toys

The guns, the action figures. Today, those action figures are worth a lot of money so hang onto them if you still have them!

[nuxvomica]

7. American Bricks

I made houses, castles, circular high-rises, theatres, robots, space ships, whatever. They were superior to Legos and the ones I had only came in two colors: red and white. The door and window inserts were remarkably well detailed and even the garage door could be easily opened and closed. If I ever win the lottery, I'm buying all the rights and re-issuing American Bricks and Aurora monster models.

[NewHampster]

9. My homemade Skateboard

We tore apart a pair of clip on skates and bolted the wheels onto plywood that my older brother cut on a jigsaw.

My elbows hurt just thinking about it but we sure had fun.

[7th_Sephiroth]

10. 2 lil fun things

legos an transformers

[Kadie]

12. Kerplunk, Tiddlywinks,

and Flinch.

[gyopsy]

13. My Fisher-Price record player

I loved watching the record as it went around and around. And the sound quality was surprisingly good for a toy that people bought for their 5 year olds.

They're lucky they got away with it. Nowadays, they'd probably have to pull the product from the shelves bk people might be afraid their kids would poke their eyes out with the record needle or something. :eyes:

[mvd]

15. I LOVED Masters of the Universe

Had all the figures like He-Man and Skeletor. Played out my own battles, mostly based on how the TV shows went. :-) Had friends come over to play with me a lot. I treated those figures like I treat CDs now.

[Cush]

16. do you have Castle Greyskull?

My brother and I went through a bunch of our old action figures last year. I had forgotten how many characters those old cartoons had (GI Joe, He-Man, Transformers, M.A.S.K, etc.....)

No way are we getting rid of them :-)

[mvd]

17. Yep, in the basement

It was a big deal one Christmas.

I have all the original figures. I'll keep mine and maybe in 20 years or so I'll start selling some.

[frylock]

18. hot wheels

[Career Prole]

19. It's a toss-up...

between Mr.Machine and the Hippity-Hop


I'll go with the Hippity-Hop after we discovered jumping off furniture with it to grab air... :bounce:

[BlackVelvetElvis]

27. I found this pic this weekend

Me and my cousins about 1970. Hippety-Hop is resting. Don't laugh at my shorts!

[Career Prole]

29. Cool shorts!

I'm not making fun of 'em, promise. I was a child of the 50's...had a Hopalong Cassidy outfit. I covet the shorts! The little car made me shudder, though. My cousin had a car like that and a steep driveway that he used to blast down and then continue out into the street. I tried it just once...got to the bottom of the driveway and the front dug in at the edge of the street. I never let go of the steering wheel and just plowed my face into the asphalt. Cheeks nose forehead chin...even my lips were scraped. My aunt set to work with iodine...

Spent the next week looking like a blue-eyed scab...

[Skittles]

20. my Golliwog

as a child in England I just loved my Golliwog but they are considered terribly racist now.

[CanuckAmok]

28. My mom has her Gollys still...

a little set of painted plaster Golliwogs in a Dixieland band. They were prizes in tins of Tetley Tea (pre-WW2).

Yes, there are terribly un-PC, but you can't 'whitewash' history, I guess. Even Rupert and Noddy have been removed from culture because they have Golliwogs in them, even though (in the case of Rupert), they are sometimes strong characters.

[CanuckAmok]

21. Lego...

so versatile, so painful under one's feet...

[Endangered Specie]

30. Here here... by far the best kids (and adults) toy...

Also known as archbusters.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

22. Rosebud..............

:evilgrin:

[CanuckAmok]

24. I wasn't allowed to have one, my mom was afraid I'd get sled poisoning

sorry.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

25. That was good!

;-)

[CanuckAmok]

26. Thankyouthankyou...I'm here all week...try the veal, I hear it's fabulous!

n/t

[DemoTex]

23. The platform in the sweet-gum tree in the back yard.

God, what a great place. That's where Kitty C. told me all about sex at age 12. Scared the shit out of me! She and I dated later, in high school but "never did the deed." Kitty is a high powered, left-leaning, criminal attorney on the west coast now.

[bif]

31. I still have mine--my penis!

[bubblesby2002]

32. I had two - a red fire engine car that went like crazy - I was five

and a rocking horse when I was about two. It went fast too.

[fortyfeetunder]

33. A Spirograph

I wore two sets out...and then really appreciated it when I was in Algebra 2...hey these are mathematical functions! A couple of Ebay auction wins later, I have a couple of sets to teach the new generation.

[shawmut]

34. Tonka Trucks

There was always some kind of road construction going on in the dirt in my backyard.

[arwalden]

35. Lego, Whizzers, HotWheels, ThingMaker, Mousetrap, Wheel-O, Slinky

And you thought I was going to say Malibu Barbie. LOL!

I did have a GI Joe (the big one) and little green army men that were fun to play with.

-- Allen