Your favorite toy as a kid

Bill · 2007-12-29, 05:03 PM

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.

SheepGuy · 2007-12-29, 07:11 PM

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.

Useless · 2007-12-29, 07:30 PM

Kerri - the girl next door.

2007-12-29, 07:11 PM	#2
SheepGuy It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 2,527	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. __________________ If the Environment was a bank, they would have saved it by now.

2007-12-29, 07:30 PM	#3
Useless Certified Nice Person Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Dirty Undies, NY Posts: 11,268	Kerri - the girl next door. __________________ Click here to purchase a bridge I'm selling.

2007-12-29, 05:03 PM	#1
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	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.