Your favorite toy as a kid

[secretagentwilly]

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

[papagmp]

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.........

Originally Posted by easymama

I loved to shoot at people... =)

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.

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

[sue-fl]

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

[Jim]

Originally Posted by sue-fl

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

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

[Simon]

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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[MrMaryLou]

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.

[Jim]

Originally Posted by MrMaryLou

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

[JustRobert]

Originally Posted by MrMaryLou

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.

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

[docholly]

Originally Posted by MrMaryLou

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.

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.

[Jim]

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

[NY Jester]

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.

[ronnie]

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.

[Murderous]

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

[NY Jester]

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.

[Murderous]

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

[Bobc01]

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.

[maximos3]

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.