Your favorite toy as a kid
 

Damn, this site must have taken a little while to put together. :)

I found a couple toys from being a kid.

http://www.thisoldtoy.com/L_FP_Set/T...childhood.html

My favorite other than Atari 2600 was micronauts and when I was younger "under 10" it was sit and spin

I don't think I was much of a fisherprice kid. I had a secret agent radio that turned into a rifle. I remember it because a teacher took it away from me on show and tell day. :)

Oddly I couldn't find Barbie Poo or Strap-on Barbie listed there.

There is one toy that I can remember is Mr Machine :)

Lego and Hot Wheels!

I was really into my lesbian Malibu Barbies. Malibu Barbies wore they Baywatch-style red one-piece swimsuits with low-cut backs, and I always made them wear it backward so they were basically topless. I have no idea why I started doing that.

I also had a Ken doll that had a Bicentennial red white and blue bell-bottom outfit, and I was really into that one as well.

depends on what age they mean by kid..

i played a lot with those figurs from transformers and gi joe back then.. but hey i'm 23 now so still young

Pet Rock :)
Actually I loved the Evel Kneivel motorcycle.

My favourite toys were Matchbox toys.

I remember that . had the wind up thing on the side right? Then it would take off and of course CRASH haha RIP Evel

Mattel Talking Football Game

My friends and I would play for hours.

I got this top from my dad when I was 6. You would wind it up and pull the string . It had great balance. It would spin on the tip of a pencil or your finger. I still ask the toy stores if they have them. I can't find a replacement. I guess they don't make em anymore.

Hey D - I had one of those, well several, they were called a Gyroscope - I loved mine, my Dad bought me first one for the Plane Flight to Ireland when I when I was 6 - They were great.

J-

PS - the above link is not a referral from me. Its the URL to the actual product page

My Dad worked at Fisher Price |bananna|

I was one of the kids they brought in to test new toys. I also had a shitload of Adventure People (but they always got killed by the Star Wars people)

My favorite gift as a kid was a trs-80 complete with the cassette deck. I spent hours writing dumb games in basic. Ah, the good ole days. If only my parents knew the path I was going down. :D

I always like stuffed animals. I had a pink teddy bear that was probably my favorite. We mostly got clothes. the only "toy" i remember was my brother bought me a real NFL football.. cuz I was an ACE at passing. Would spend hours shooting that fucker though a tire only to find out girls "couldn't" play football.

NY Jester - yep, that's the one.
Though I'm not sure what's more of a coincidence. That being my favorite toy, or the History channel playing his life story again and again over the past few months.
Either way he was an icon!

LEGO - I was a lego junky!!

photon even though lazer tag was better and lasted...I loved to shoot at people... =)

I spent my kids years playing outside, mostly with pretty simple toys.

Let's see...

Metal skates with metal wheels, and skate keys to adjust them.
A pimpleball and a fist for playing boxball.
A pimpleball and a wall for playing chink.
A cut off broom stick and balls cut in half for games of halfball.
Some cut up pieces of old garden hose for hoseball.
Flipping and tossing baseball cards.
About nine friends and a wall or a tree for a game of Buck Buck.
Some friends (and enemies) and a ball for playing Dodge ball
Same friend and enemies, the ball plus a wall for (Wall)Suicide.
A leather belt for Hide The Belt.
An old can for Kick The Can.
A basketball and hoop for playing Pig or Horse.
Bocce balls, Jacks, and Marbles.

Watching the girls playing high-speed Double-Dutch and Hopscotch.

I'm sure there were more but my brain is old.


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Never had too many toys - we was pooooor farm boys but I did get an old used POS 12 gauge shotgun when I turned 12..... and promptly got it taken away because.........After they took the shotgun away - I was stuck playing with myself. Got pretty good at it over the years - somehow, I never got tired of it. :D

(for those who's dad worked at Fisher Price - POS is Piece Of Shit - all of my toys qualified.... well, all but one)

I loved my trolls and one of my favorite toys was Incredible Edibles (sp) it made bugs you could eat..:D

I had all the Creepy Crawlers sets. I loved the edible ones. :)

I agree with Simon about playing outside. I did have toys but the best memories are from playing outside and using our imaginations nowadays kids have kinda lost that.

Oh yeah, there was nothing like a good neighborhood baseball game, football game, kick the can or even smear the queer :)

I forgot...
But, I am an only child. If there was nobody outside, I either had to look like the neighborhood weird kid talking to myself or play with toys :)

So very true MML. I even had to restrict the kids from being "inside" the house a few times one summer.

Matchbox cars, legos, logs, erector set, before 10 and motorcycle/drums afterwards were mine

special mention to the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle
Flashback to commercial Clips

OMG as soon as "chores" were done, we zoomed outside. I was laughing at reading Simon's list cuz "kick the can" was at the top of mine. Once we moved back to the states and lived in the "church/parsonage" combo we had this huge parking lot that was empty during the week ..and a magnet for all the kids to hang out. My sister and I had many hours of "red rover", hide and seek, cowboys and Indians (where the indians always won!!) We have a lot of kids in our neighborhood now but you'd never know it cuz they never come out of the house.

Just like Jim I was an "only" so I depended on playing outside - kick the can, freeze tag, running the bases, hide-n-seek, baseball/softball and basketball were always in the works - even the winter was full of outdoor actvities. I lived in a "neighborhood" so there were plenty of us to go 'round.

My two cousins and I played with matchbox cars in my front yard all the time, it was pretty much sand. Many years later still find cars in the front yard from time to time.

I remember at the babysitters, she had a TON of lego's, seemed a never ending supply. She also had these big plastic tinker toy set, so big we use to build like houses, least they were really huge to me back then.

I was an only child too and living in the country, so pretty much on my own. Remember climbing trees and later on riding my motorcycle in the woods for hours.

I remember that Evil Kenenvil wind up toy too. Seems I remember it had a ramp that you wound it up on.

My computer was the radio shack color computer, also with the tape deck, high tech back then. My game system was the Intellivision, that thing pretty much sucked.

I always liked the original transformers, and also the stomper. Anyone remember these bad boys? http://www.stomper4x4.com/

Stompers were coo but wasnt there a "rough rider or something like that..where you could run em on the side of the rims? 2 wheel style.

yeah, i always called those stompers too. It was so long ago, hehe.

Me too! Woke up 5 in the morning everyday and built until daycare/school.

LEGO today sucks!

/Thomas

Favourite toy had to of been my pecker, i was always fascinated how far it stretched, even though doing that payed off in later life i think the only thing i'd achieve by doing it now is watery eyes. :D

Nintendo Entertainment System. I nearly played that thing until my thumbs couldn't play anymore. Now I have a Wii, but I tend to play the virtual console more than the newer stuff.

You would just love my hubby .... he still has his talking football game. Has not taken it out in a while, but was working fine as of last year.

"The blitz is on! The quarterback is sacked - 10 yards back ...... FUMBLE!"

That phrase is embedded in my head forever. |jester|

If it could hurt you or burn you, or was sciencey, I had it and loved it.

Creepy crawlers, that vacuum forming plastic heating toy, I forget what it was called, bb guns, pellet guns, bows and arrows, chemistry sets, telescopes - those were what I remember most. There was this great shooting game, with a blowgun and a toy gun that shot these odd sticky darts, that we playd with for months.

Barn ball in the big open space on the upper floor of the barn - a basketball hoop nailed to the grain bin, and you had to figure out how to bounce the ball off of uneven floor boards.

Actual guns weren't considered toys, but I got my first shotgun at 12, a .22 at 14, and a deer rifle at 16. I grew up shooting clay pigeons from an early age.

Grew up on a farm mostly as well, and my great grandfather gave me his .22 for my 12th birthday, it's still a great gun, about 100 years old, semi-auto, great for partridge.
I really enjoyed the chemistry set though, the instructions said NOT to mix two particular chemicals together, so I did. No explosions, but it did make a helluva mess!
Hot Wheels and model airplanes were my other favourites.