What was your favorite toy as a child?

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My all-time favorite was Spirograph, though I also enjoyed Lite-Brite and Etch-A-Sketch... but I never became an artist. I also spent hours with Tinkertoys, building amusement park rides, and built many a cabin with Lincoln Logs. But Spirograph was the greatest child's toy ever, it seems to me.

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. Lego's

I had a million of them and they would keep me busy for hours. My mom on the other hand hated the little pieces that got "forgotten" to put away and she would always end up stepping on them with bare feet

[Beware the Beast Man]

4. Legos were the shiznit.

:thumbsup:

[sakabatou]

13. Legos rule

[CanuckAmok]

15. Yeah, I still have my Lego!

My mom saved it for me. It's about 40lbs or so, and all the instruction books are in the box, too!

[Swamp Rat]

24. Loved them!

:D

[justabob]

33. I still have legos

I buy them for my son, but I have my own stash. :) When they came out with their electric trains I had to have one, and so I do.

[Dr Fate]

2. Really loved this one:

[DanCa]

3. My old drum set and Lite Bright.

Actually it was a box of Quaker oatmeal and a wooden spoon but hey I wasn't the sharpest pencil at the time. I also loved the Lite Bright. You take a piece of black paper, place it over a white hot screen and shove plastic colored pegs into it and make a picture It's really amazing that I never started a house fire with it.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. These...

Britains plastic farm and zoo animals

[Dr Fate]

7. Those are cool. n/t

n/t

[Pithlet]

35. My boys have a big box of animals like those.

They love them.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

48. I passed mine along to my kids...

and they added various critters to the collection. :-)

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Legos and Lincoln Logs

Kenner Girder and Panel, Bridge and Turnpike Building Set.

Matchbox cars and Hot Wheels.

I built towns.

And I always picked 'em up. O8)

[CanuckAmok]

17. Girder and Panel!

I forgot all about that. I had one of those sets. It was pretty great, and I wanted to be an architect then.

I think Lego kept my atention longer, because it was better made and far more versitile.

[saged52]

8. Barbie -

I adored her - then. In later years when our daughters were playing Barbie they put her head on a Ken doll - and we called it testosterone Barbie.

[Ptah]

9. Suess

[amitten]

10. Sit n' Spin.

I spun around like wild for...too long.

[enigmatic]

11. I went through 4 of these

My best friend and I both Super8 cameras, and we used to film Evel jumping the roof of 2 houses, and off bridges 200 feet high to the river valley below; we were sick kids:)

[Jamison]

12. Transformers and Legos n/t

[SeattleGirl]

14. The doll and cradle that belonged to my great grandmother

And I still have them!

[barb162]

16. a doll with a light green dress as I recall

[Extend a Hand]

18. a stuffed cat that I named "rosiebell"

was my most favorite. Follewed by
a pogo stick, barbies, and monopoly

[leftofthedial]

19. the other kid's

LOL

[leftstreet]

20. Creepy Crawlers! (Egads, you're all so young)

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34. I also had "Creepy Crawlers," my parents gave me that when they gave my

sister the Easy-Bake oven

[blackcatpgh]

38. i had a set of those!

they were hand-me-downs, and the "oven" was lost somewhere along the way so we melted crayons and canning wax and made wax (easily breakable) creepy crawlers. thanks to ebay, i have the oven now and some of the molds proudly displayed on my shelf of junk.

complete sets go for a lot of money these days.

[hickman1937]

21. Lincoln Logs.

And the encyclopedia britannica. We had all the volumes. When our parents went out to dinner on friday nights we built them into a ball return for our bowling set.

[Common Sense Party]

22. Erector Set.

Cue the Beavis and Butthead snickering...

[Swamp Rat]

25. Yeah, I had one.

Cue MORE Beavis and Butthead snickering. :D

[applegrove]

23. I loved my stuffed dog the most.

[applegrove]

30. Was an ugly thing. But he lasted the longest. And was the right size

for a bear hug.

[Robeson]

26. Major Matt Mason....

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[fizzgig]

27. legos were rad

lincoln logs were rad

barbie and ken i liked to dress up in each other's clothing

but these guys...i still have these guys







edit: oops, forgot these guys

[Fox Mulder]

28. My Ninja Turtle figures.

And not the new crap that's out today. I'm talking about classic, old-school Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Oh, and Legos. I loved Legos!

[d_b]

29. Hot wheels!

[Redstone]

31. The Marx-A-Copter. Only good toy I ever had. Anyone have one?

I can't find one anywhere, for any price. Yes, I've checked Ebay. Over and over.

Redstone

[ET Awful]

32. Lock Blocks . . . which were like legos for poor kids.

Cheaper plastic, didn't hold together as well, but just as fun for me (what did I know, I was a kid.) :P

[mikeytherat]

36. Shrinky Dinks!

http://www.shrinkydinks.com/

mikey_the_rat

[weeble_wobble]

43. Yes! and Colorforms!

[justabob]

44. colorforms were great! nt

[Patiod]

37. Liddle Kiddles

They're big on ebay now, but alas, it seems that those with weimereiner-nibbled feet, "creative" haircuts and missing clothing just don't bring in the big bucks

[Burma Jones]

39. My Younger Siblings

Pliable, yet still solid....

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40. LOL

[Xithras]

41. This should be popular...my .22 rifle.

Seriously. I used to spend hours each day behind my house target shooting with my friends (I got it when I was 9), and mowed laws & raked leaves to make enough money to buy bullets. That may sound odd to many of you, but it was perfectly normal when I was a kid :)

Other than that, probably my Atari 2600 and the little 10 inch black and white television I played it on! I tried explaining that to my kids once, and they thought I was full of it when I told them that I used to play video games in black and white. So I pulled it out of the closet, flipped the B/W switch, and SHOWED them. Funny thing was, they played Asteroids and BarnStormer for HOURS that day...in black and white :D

[weeble_wobble]

42. Strawberry Shortcake dolls!

and the plastic animals my great aunt had at her San Francisco home, in the sunroom...part of a Noah's ark set that kept growing, I luved those animals.

[RandomKoolzip]

45. My dad's records.

I used to draw my own designs on his bootleg Bob Dylan albums.

[Omphaloskepsis]

46. I was seven....

But, the toy I spent the most time with was my...


Oh how MacPoker kept me occupied.

[SpeedwayDemocrat]

47. More fun than a barrel full of monkeys!

Play-doh was pretty cool, too, but those monkeys were good for some fun.