Best toy(s) from your childhood?

I'd guess my favorites were Tinkerbell cosmetics and Legos. I had a Lego castle kit- sometimes my Barbie and Ken dolls would make out on top of the castle.

:P

we would spend days building entire cities out of them.

Wish I still had 'em.

I forgot about those!

Especially, if the Big Wheel was flattened on one side increasing it's traction and annoyance factor.

Man, those pedals could get spinning on a big hill! :)

I carried that thing around with me like a doll.

What a ripoff!

x(

It looked SORT of like Barbie, but I'm fairly certain it wasn't a Barbie product. It was a plastic head and shoulders, not life-sized, but much larger than a normal doll. It came with long blonde hair, but there was pink, brown, and black dye that you could dye its hair with. I think the word "pretty" was in the name, but I'm finding nothing on Google.

SOMEBODY HELP!

or they had one like it.

This one also, if I remember correctly - you could brush water over its eyelids and cheeks and it would "magically" become makeup. Either that or it actually CAME with makeup that you would put on it.

It was amazing to see the water change the colors.

I had several Hot-Wheels type cars which did the same thing, if you ran them through the 'car wash' they
came with they'd change colors.

You could change the hair color (add different yarn basically) and cut and style it....

Was her name Tressy??

loved those. Always wanted legos, but never got them. Made up for it by getting them for my son. :)

in order to move a disc around the board and get it in your opponents goal. Kind of like air hockey with guns. I don't remember what it's called.

Fisher Price castle, and the Fisher Price townhouse.

We all still have them in the attic. :D

Our driveway was on what had to be a 30 degree incline (tres fun in the snow).

When my bestest buddy got a Green Machine for Christmas, it was ON.

We tore the hell outta the back wheels on 'em.



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I was going to be a rescue pilot...till I got glasses at 9!!!! :cry:

I had a Dareplane myself, Dad was a private pilot and I couldn't get him awa from it Christmas morning so I could play with it.

I went everywhere with that thing. Still have him but the kids banished him to the basement, said it creeped them out having it sit on the mantle

Plastic model horses in an endless variety. I had close to a hundred. My best friend and I used to get scrap leather from a local tack shop and we'd spend hours making saddles and bridles, etc. for them. We even got to the point where we'd file out their mouths with a hacksaw blade so we could make bits out of paper clips. We got quite sophisticated.

Then we got real horses and abandoned the fake ones. :P

Still something I want to keep...just not at my own house. I am ever fearful that my dad will someday find them and insist that I take them home. I must have about 40 or so. I never did get the real horse yet, so I am just a bit jealous of you. :P:hi:

to myself! :) Cotton is so much fun! I've raised her since she was born!

I still have my model horses. I didn't have the Breyer kind though. I finally had to take them to my house when my mom downsized to a smaller home.

:hi:

I had the horses but never made bits out of paper clips -

(I also got a real horse ---- I think my parents were trying to kill me off.)

They were introduced in 1963, I think I got mine in '65. I remember it was blue and I loved it.

I did have a barbie and I'd save my allowance to buy clothes for her. I had some of the most beautiful ball gowns, not designed for her but for other dolls that size. I remember if I went into Penny's I could get an outfit for her for 77cents. When I was about 13 or so, I gave the wardrobe & my barbie to my brother's stepdaughter. She promptly cut off all the doll's hair and cut off all the ball gowns to make miniskirts.

Damn, I feel deprived.

Not the actual oven, but the light bulb inside did. There was plastic vent on top with rather large holes with the 100 watt bulb under it. Our kitchen was tiny and somehow I splashed water, don't remember now..but the water hit that hot bulb and shattered everywhere. My parents wouldn't let me use it after that.


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That's why my kid is an only child and going to stay that way.

His crank motor cycle....I got him, his bike, and his mobile unit all at once for my b-day. I was being naughty and used to strip the clothes off of EK. LMAO!!!

That and the splatter-painting one were wonderful.

Got me interested in math and art. Also Tinkertoy was essential to my childhood. I used to build little amusement park rides.

:P Wheeeeee!!!

My bike, my dolls, my miniature play kitchen with all the groceries,
my roller skates with that key around my neck on a string.

and i had fun growing up with those.


sigh

and my Sit N Spin!

We'd spin in circles til we just about puked. We killed so many big wheels as kids, those things were awesome, we'd ride 'em until the wheel wore down to nothing, flattened wheels (from spinouts), jousting (don't ask), races, jumping them on ramps.

I had dozens of them in the 60's -- this was one of my favorites.

And Shrinky Dinks. Whatever could kill you--sharp objects, chemical fumes, you name it--that would never fly these days, because nowadays we only allow lead from China to get near our kids. :P

don't recall the name of it but damn that was fun.

but do you ever remember actually PLAYING a game on the damn thing? It was fun to watch the little plastic guys vibrate but I don't remember actually ever getting them to do what you wanted them too.

Shooting little felt wads at the wall, then turning on the vibrating gizmo's switch so the men would run the bases. I had one man on my team that could only run in circles, I called him stumpy. Dumb waste of time and effort, that thing was. Heck, we discovered canasta that year, and that occupied all our time after that. Two decks of bridge cards and we'd be in business for hours.

I loved a tractor trailer toy that was big enough to put Barbie and Ken in the trailer (laying down on top of each other in the trailer!) I put them in there and drove them around.
:)

edit: I loved my Crisy doll. Her hair went from short to long! My Crissy was a blonde!

http://www.feelingretro.com/toys/Girl-Toys/crissy.php

Velvet had blonde hair and came in a velvet purple dress. I had her too.

I don't remember Velvet. I wasn't really into dolls. I had a baby doll named Suzy when I was really little and then the Crissy doll when I was in grade school. I also had Barbie and Skipper. My sister had Barbie and Ken. SOmehwhere, my mom has a box with my toys and dolls in it. Maybe Crissy doll is in there!

I liked horses better than dolls!

My brothers had a Big Wheel and Tinkertoys.

Lego Lego Lego Lego Lego Lego Lego Lego Lego Lego Lego Lego Lego Lego Lego Lego Lego.

Especially Technic Lego. That was the king of toys. I had a kit for making an earth mover digger sort of thing. It could also be built into a bulldozer, but I never managed to get that to work. Must have lost a piece. The bucket and arm of the digger was pneumatically operated and everything.

I still have all 92 of them that were released from 1977-1983

:D

You tossed it around. The object was not to be holding it when it "Exploded".
Just imagine going through TSA security with one of those.

many hours of playing with them.

Back in the day they were made with super dangerous real metal parts!

Lesson learned from toys: Strip mining is good. :-)

What's more, my mom had to tie a pork chop around my neck just to get the dog to play with me.



Seriously, though, I remember having a huge box full of wood scraps of many shapes and sizes, and I would build wondrous cities with them. A little later on, it was Hot Wheels, back when they first came out.

Dangerous but fun!

When they banned them, my mom threw them out. I wonder if you can get them in Canada, still, like you can get "The Song Of The South" there?

at my house. Way too dangerous.




And when I googled this, it came up as one of the 10 most dangerous toys.

And "CandyLand".

Then I learned poker, and it was Katie, bar the door! ;)

was my Superfriends, Superman toy...then GI Joe's, Heman, Starwars, Voltron, and Visionaries....

Was a horrible plastic vanity with a light-up mirror and a bench that was tufted to look like satin. My mother, though, thought it was cheap and tacky and absolutely refused to buy it for me.

I did love my EZ Bake Oven, though. And a doll called Tippy Tumbles that turned somersaults.

I stayed in my grandparent's basement playing Legend of Zelda for a couple weeks after Christmas morning. :D

mom sold it at a yard sale many years ago :(

that's what i'm telling my dad i want for christmas this year :)

there are so many classic games like Zelda, Metroid, Castlevania, The Mega Man series, Punch-Out, Super Mario......the list goes on and on :D

I got my NES the christmas of 1986, I believe it was. (21 years ago holy shit!) Before that, almost all of my friends already had one, and I was forced to go to their houses and watch them play. There was some serious anticipation involved here. The only thing that pissed me off was that Robbie the robot never worked.

And my Legos.

We were so poor we couldn't afford the store bought toys. So we had to make our own. When a cat would get run over by a car, we would drag the body over to get full sun. After about a month it would get all hard and we would thorough them like a frisbee.

(okay, baseball stuff. We played all year aorund. All we did mostly.)

had a Francie (relative or friend of Barbie) and a lot of clothes, tinkertoys, Lincoln logs, and a few other cool toys, but the best was playing with stuff out in the dirt. Cooking or engineering.

Clackers



Creepy Crawlers




I REALLY wanted a chemistry set, but my parents wouldn't get one.

:)

We use to have contests and stayed preoccupied with them for hours.

(can't recall it's official name)that you could use to make cool shapes from Tootsie-Rolls.
Fun and tasty!
And, of course..'HUGO, Man Of A Thousand Faces'.

and Kerplunk was always fun.

We used to get huge blisters playing that damn game.... and loved Pick-up sticks. Favorite board game...Life.

one; first for my older son, then for the younger one, but there aren't any, anymore.

And too bad. I'd play with one now myself, if I could.

Redstone

But we used to have a top battle game where you would launch the tops and let them knock around until one top was left standing.

We played a Mexican variation of hide and seek called "Salvation"

Instead of counting, we had a can full of pebbles which was tossed, and whoever was "it" had to retrieve it and bring it back to "base", while the rest of us hid.

The object was to capture everybody and bring them back to "base".

When somebody was found, "it" had to run back to base, bang the can three times and call out the name of the kid he found. The kid would come out of hiding and become a "prisoner" near the base while "it" went searching for the rest of the kids.

The trick was that if "it" strayed too far from base, one of the kids he hadn't found could sneak into "base", bang the can three times, and all the "prisoners" would be released, and the game would start all over again.

Funny how the simplest things can give us the greatest pleasures.

We used to try to bounce the ball over our rooftop to the kid in the backyard, wound up losing it more often than not.

I also used to quietly get out of bed at night and assemble Erector Set objects in the dark.

You really could make just about anything with them.

Tinkertoy and Spirograph were essential to my childhood. Far superior to a kid's development than modern video games.

and Lincoln logs. The best toy I had was one my parents made for me: a box of building blocks. My folks rescued pieces of discarded wood from building sites and sanded them smooth. There were a lot of them, enough to build a castle or three, including moats.

I think the best toys are things like that, that encourage a child to use her imagination. Building sites don't seem to have that many chunks of wood left over these days, but legos strike me as pretty neat.

The best toys are those that develop a child's skills, creativity or imagination. Tinkertoy, Lincoln Logs, Lego and Spirograph are all great for kids.

We had a long, fulfilling affair.

inhaling all of those lovely fumes from my VACU-FORM

Nothing was more fun than building forts with sheets and blankets strategically draped on furniture.

They were all fun. But, my favorite was a very short lived toy called the Sonic Blaster. It looked like a bazooka, but fired a ball of air. Very loud and probably caused a lot of hearing damage, but boy was it fun to flatten the cardboard enemy.

Regards, Mugu

and those big air filled boxing mits we wore on our hand to pretend box with. Hungry hungry hippos was fun too.

Rock 'em Sock em Robots, Legos, Star Trek phaser that shot hard plastic discs, Strange Change Machine, and SSTs?

I think that was their name. They were metal and plastic race cars that had a central wheel you revved up using a flexible plastic line with a handle on it. Man, those things hurt like a sonofabitch if you got nailed in the ankle with them.

A lot of these would never make it to the market now....too dangerous.

with. I remember it to this day. Then, not really a toy, but my dad built me a great tree house that got a lot of use as well. It had walls and a roof. I used to sit on the roof and build model airplanes.

You put "goop" in these metal molds, and put them in this heated chamber and took it out a certain amount of time later. I loved that thing, and they came out with different molds. They looked sort of like gummy bears. I made monsters, and bugs, and all sorts of things. Of course, the metal mold got really, really hot, it was put on something like a hotplate. I burned myself several times on it, but I never worried about it. They made different molds for boys and girls, came out with creeple people, creepy flowers, etc.

I really should be dead by now.

I was a bad motherfucker

I loved that game. :)

That and Pente. And Chess.

I was equally obsessed with both. :)

And we were happy.

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