Your favorite childhood Toy/s?

[weslinder]

I grew up in the woods, with "dangerous" parents:

My favorite toys were the machete, hatchet, and hammer that I and my friends built forts and treehouses with, my bow and arrow, and my pellet gun.

 

[brandon]

My absolute favorite toy was my Elenco Mx907:

I had one of these when I was a kid! Then 12 years later I became an electrical engineer....go figure

 

[Kade]

I had one of these when I was a kid! Then 12 years later I became an electrical engineer....go figure

Yep, I was a kid but many years later in college, I started as a computer engineer, (ASIC and Architecture) but changed my major (and lost my scholarship in the process) to Psychology. When I transfered to Notre Dame, I pretty much became pure HCI, and took up supplementary degrees in theology and journalism.

I think it was boredom.

 

[sidster]

It's a fully functional integrated electronics lab!
You can pretty much create anything, schematics, breadboarding, circuitry, etc...

I used mine with a massive antenna for ham radio... I also made an alarm for my room.

A terrorist tool no doubt. I bet you even had wires sticking
out of it too..

 

[acptulsa]

I grew up in the woods, with "dangerous" parents:

My favorite toys were the machete, hatchet, and hammer that I and my friends built forts and treehouses with, my bow and arrow, and my pellet gun.

Nice. I remember watching The Jetsons as a kid and feeling terribly sorry for Elroy. I thought being a boy and being unable to get out of reach of your mother's voice was a terrible fate. Now this nightmare scenario has come true.

America needs more dangerous toys so our boys can be boys and our tomboys can be tomboys.

 

[LittleLightShining]

Me, too! MULE was my absolute favorite game to play on the Commodore and Lemonade was fun, too.

I remember that puzzle thing, too. There was another I remember with different colored rings that you solved sort of like a Rubik's cube.

I had a Quiz Wiz that I loved. Also Scrabble and Barbie. I used to make clothes for her out of stray socks.

I still play with Legos.

 

[Sandra]

Liddle Kiddles
Chrissy (doll that grew hair)
Silly Sand
Buzzy Bee pen
Lite Brite

 

[amy31416]

Nice. I remember watching The Jetsons as a kid and feeling terribly sorry for Elroy. I thought being a boy and being unable to get out of reach of your mother's voice was a terrible fate. Now this nightmare scenario has come true.

America needs more dangerous toys so our boys can be boys and our tomboys can be tomboys.

And on that note, my father the sadist taught me how to throw a screwdriver at someone's feet to scare the piss out of them, and he also taught me how to play mumblety-peg. In his defense, he did strongly advise against Russian Roulette when he let us watch The Deer Hunter.

 

[Truth Warrior]

Telescope, microscope, Visible Man, chemistry lab, Matched Lone Ranger 6 shooters w/holsters.

 

[Nirvikalpa]

Lite Brite
Glo Worms
Sockem' Boppers
Moon Shoes
My Little Ponies
Littlest Pet Shop
Power Rangers
Pound Puppies
Matchbox

 

[yongrel]

I had a pellet gun and lived on the edge of a housing development. My backyard was surrounded by a nice picket fence, followed immediately by thousands of acres of hilled forests. I had fun with that pellet gun. I stopped though when I saw a Cougar a few hundred yards away, and when I got home my father wouldn't let me upgrade to a rifle. *sigh*

And I can't begin to imagine how many pounds of homemade playdough I ate.

 

[mdmarino]

PlayDoh
Old textbooks for playing school
QuizWiz
Board games (Candyland, Trouble, Aggravation, Life, etc)

and a favorite of mine: SPIROGRAPH!!!!

 

[rancher89]

lincoln logs
tinker toys
Barbie

I can remember some other stuff, one year I got a fake fur cat that was so stiff you couldn't bend the tail, it was pretty, but spooky. I can remember having fako guns and holsters for a while and a set of little rubber farm animals that came with a fence. the list above were the favs tho.


That was about it, mom made clothes for barbie and my sister and i would make homes and other stuff out of the lincoln logs and tinker toy sets. we used our imagination for what we didn't have.

imagination, what a concept

we lived in the country too, but as girls we weren't allowed to have machates and stuff (I do now...)

 

[Perry]

Army men. Used to set mine up in strategic positions.
Now I just play Rome Total War.

 

[SeanEdwards]

I had some fun with legos.

But the all time most used toy of my childhood was a stick. We would get a bunch of kids together, with our sticks, and then whack each other in pretend sword fights. Good times. Bloody and painful but good.

 

[acptulsa]

But the all time most used toy of my childhood was a stick. We would get a bunch of kids together, with our sticks, and then whack each other in pretend sword fights. Good times. Bloody and painful but good.

Sounds like more exercise than an internet flame war.

 

[SnappleLlama]

Stuffed animals (mostly seals, sea lions, and dolphins), Pound Puppies, Electronics/Magnetism project kits, my brother's Commodore 64, and our beloved Atari 2600.

Oh, and Sea Monkeys.

There's much more than this, but I don't feel like reminiscing...

 

[yongrel]

But the all time most used toy of my childhood was a stick. We would get a bunch of kids together, with our sticks, and then whack each other in pretend sword fights. Good times. Bloody and painful but good.

Oh, the scars I have from shaved and sharpened stick fights... good times.

 

[richardfortherepublic]

1)Legos... my parents hated them cause they are carpet land mines that effing hurt.

2)GI Joes. EFF YEAH. The full sized ones though. With jeeps, boats, and fireworks

3)Small GI Joes+big rock=Wheee!

4)Too many Nascar 'Racing Champions' little cars. I had a lot of fun recreating Talladega pile ups.

5)When I was 10 and I wanted a computer, my dad set a bunch of computer parts and a case in front of me, and told me to build it. Got it working within a few days. Used it for a good 5 years. I was indeed the only computer geek in 5th grade. : /

 

[Joseph Hart]

Look at KNEX NOW! HOLY COW!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC_zcRJRy6Y