Favorite old school toy from your childhood

[TZ]

Poll question: Favorite old school toy from your childhood

Too much frustration in here lately. We need something fun. All this talk of childish behavior has made me nostalic too....

[LeftyMom]

1. LK is obfreakingsessed with legos.

I saw lite brites at the store the other night, I'm wondering how he'd like one.

[TZ]

2. They still have lite-brites? Thats awesome.

My personal faves.

[Arugula Latte]

4. Definitely. And lincoln logs, and slinkies, and Easy Bake ovens, etc.

All those old retro toys are still around; we middle-aged folks like to buy them for our kids.

Sometimes I've gotten excited about a birthday present or a X-mas present for my kids, thinking they'll love it because I loved it as a kid, and they're kinda like: "Oh. Okay. Thanks..." It's hard to predict what's going to float their boat. :)

[quip]

3. Define "obfreakingsessed"

Me, too, BTW! :hi:

[TZ]

7. One can only imagine

What you construct with Legos....grapefruits? 18" Stonehenge?
:rofl:

[quip]

14. How about this:

[TZ]

19. Whoa. I am seriously impressed....

That must have taken a lot of time and energy and PATIENCE to do that.:wow:

[quip]

24. That was taken in Philadelphia for the NMRA National Train Show a couple of years ago.

It is a hobby I've shared with my son over the years. But it doesn't take much patience; otherwise I probably wouldn't be able to do it! :D

[TZ]

27. Serious question then...

Have you taken your son to LEGOLAND in California? I've always wanted to go myself. I did play with Legos too, just not to the extent of you....

[quip]

30. We went the year after it opened ('99), and again in 2000. I have also been there 2 additional

times. We might go back this summer.

Not many families have "played" with LEGO to the extent we do! :crazy:

[KitchenWitch]

49. Let me know if you all come down.

We have yet to take KW Daughter to LEGOLand. Oh and I know of a GREAT mexican place in San Diego! It is called Taco Bell!

:P

[LeftyMom]

9. ALL he wanted for giftmas was legos.

LeftyKid loves him some legos.

I asked him how many legos he has, he says "a million!"

[quip]

18. Sounds like a great kid. I am an HUGE fan of LEGO as a toy for children-- it is the ONLY

toy worthwhile IMO. My son is a math and science whiz, and I attribute a lot of that aptitude to his growing up playing with LEGO. Really.

I, OTOH, who also grew up on LEGO, but took the artistic route, and I think LEGO as a creative medium fostered my artistic growth. LEGO is so versatile, it really is for everyone! :D

[lost-in-nj]

76. when my son was growing up

his Xmas list consisted of legos,legos,legos
and


WW2 plane models....

he could tell you about any plane in WWII

lost

[quip]

94. I LOVED building WWII model planes as a kid!

Thanks for that little stroll down memory lane! :pals: :hi:

[lizziegrace]

5. Spirograph and any book I could get my hands on

:)

[KitchenWitch]

6. Rock em Sock em Robots.

[lizziegrace]

16. Those were used on the top of a wedding cake

in the movie Sweet Home Alabama...

;)

[Dr. Strange]

50. Huh...that's not what mine looked like.

[TZ]

51. ..........

O-M-F-G!!!!
You really are a twisted old fruit. And temeah calls ME wicked!!!!!!!!
:spank: :rofl:

[Dr. Strange]

55. You are wicked!

Me, I was just an innocent kid. Imagine my surprise when I opened the box, expecting to see rock 'em sock 'em robots!

[mitchum]

65. I was heartbroken when I found out that the mob had paid the blue one to take a fall in 66

[quip]

8. Hate to be a pedant, (not really:-) but the proper term is "LEGO®"

That's right-- the name of the company is LEGO®.... all caps, and in the singular form. LEGO produces LEGO bricks.

I will not be a party to your blatant attempt at brand dilution. :P

[TZ]

11. ....

Yeah. You know all about "copyrights" and "trademarks" don't ya? There is a certain...art... to that (oh noes...your gonna get me going again if you are not careful ....) :rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

17. Ya know, I used to love to go rollerblading with a bunch of Kleenexes

I once Xeroxed my ass at work.

[quip]

20. Rollerblades® (a Minnesota invention) aren't even around anymore:(

Brand diluter! :D

[KitchenWitch]

21. Yes, I know...

[quip]

26. Of course you do, as a good Minnesotan would. Will miss you this afternoon!

:hi: BTW, it snowing hard nowx(

[KitchenWitch]

37. Our high temperature was 80 yesterday!

:P

[quip]

40. I couldn't be more green with jealousy! This has been a particularly long winter

given the short ones we've had in recent memory.

World be damned-- bring on global warming! :D :hide:

[KitchenWitch]

43. I hear you all have had a bumper crop of snow this year

too bad snow is not marketable.

[quip]

44. Yeah, it started, if I can recall that far back, before Thanksgiving and we've had snow cover

ever since. Usually I get away on a vacation of some sort, but not this year. But that's just ME. The rest of my family has been or will be globe trotting without me x( :nopity:

[TZ]

48. Awww...I know the feeling

My dad is currently on a two week cruise of the Carribean..All of the Carribean. Wanted to text me from the ship..but that would be just a little too much frustration for me at the moment. Haven't been on a vacation of any sort for 18 months now.*sigh*

But I'm happy to keep you company when you are feeling lonely......:hug: :hi:

[quip]

58. ...

:hug:

[Neoma]

10. Can't beat legos.

[Gormy Cuss]

12. Pick up sticks. n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

69. Ooh, I think that was one of those "Grandma's House" toys we had.

Stored in a cardboard tube as I recall.

[Gormy Cuss]

88. Yep.

One of those early 20th century games that didn't disappear from toy stores until the 1970s or so.

[AngryOldDem]

13. Jarts. Somebody had to say it.

:evilgrin:

[quip]

22. As a kid, my wife stabbed her older brother with a Jart. Not seriously, but intentionally!

I try not to anger her much.... :scared: :D

[Tindalos]

15. Weebles!

I'd totally forgotten about weebils. I remember having one in a boat that I pulled behind our real boat, a dinghy.



lol, spell check wants me to change it to "weevils". As cute as they may be, I've never played with them.

[lizerdbits]

31. I loved them but they destroyed my confidence

"You can do anything you put your mind to!" But I could never make a weeble wobble fall down. Obviously I was a failure. :cry:

[TZ]

36. LOL!

That there is DUzy worthy if you ask me....:rofl:

[mitchum]

64. Roadrunner cartoons destroyed my confidence...

as poor Wile E Coyote demonstrated the futility of persistence :)

[Tindalos]

89. Blatant false advertising.

I hope they're paying your therapy bills.

[mitchum]

23. Clackers...because I really miss those bruises on my inner forearms

[TZ]

25. I just realized another one I forgot: Silly Putty!

I loved the whole press it on the comic strip and get a color copy thing......

[quip]

28. For that matter: Where are Barbie and G.I. Joe? And Hot Wheels?

:shrug:

[TZ]

True. And Tonka trucks

I had a big blue Tonka truck that I loved (and was a great weapon to throw at annoying sisters but thats a different story).
;-)

[quip]

35. Tonka Toys. The name "Tonka" comes from a suburb next to the one in which I live where the

company factory was located: Minnetonka. :D

Tonka weapons???? Oh, wicked, bad, naughty, evil TurtleZoot! :rofl:

[TZ]

39. Huh. Interesting. You learn something new everyday

As for the weapon things..they had it coming..Pick the lock on MY bedroom door and come to bug me will you?!! Incorrigible, all three of us (sisters);-)

[quip]

41. (all three)??????

:rofl:

[TZ]

42. Damn. I missed that one entirely. Nice one.

:thumbsup:

[Dr. Strange]

54. And Stretch Armstrong?

[quip]

95. I never had a Stretch.... nor a

Jesse, either! :D

[gemdem]

29. Other

Including Tonka trucks (all metal), Matchbox and HotWheel cars, and cap guns.

[Redstone]

32. The Marx-A-Copter. Can't find one ANYWHERE anymore.

Redstone

[Fire Walk With Me]

52. eBay and Google. There are vintage toy enthusiasts everywhere.

Although you might have to pay more than you'd wish..

[midnight armadillo]

33. Crossbows and Catapults!

That game ruled.


Legos were a constant toy too. It's remarkable how many scientists & engineers that I know who also were obsessive Lego builders when they were kids.

[MedleyMisty]

34. My Little Pony

[quip]

57. You must be young. How about Polly Pockets?

:hi:

[AwakeAtLast]

38. Little People

We didn't have Weebils. We were deprived!!! :cry: :cry:

My parents still have our Little People house. My favorite was the airport.

[porphyrian]

45. Hippity Hop. -n/t

[TZ]

46. another good one....

:)

[porphyrian]

47. I want a grown-up sized one now.

I wonder Gallagher's prop guy makes them or something.

[HuffleClaw]

82. what ?

the heck is a hippity hop?

(other than a rabbit i mean)

[TZ]

85. This is a hippity hop

[ulysses]

53. all about the big wheel.

[Inchworm]

56. Evel Knieval pwned all toys.

You could pull the ripper, turn it loose and each ride was unique. Add snow, mud, other toys, firecrackers and you are golden. :P



:hi:

[NewWaveChick1981]

59. Dawn dolls!

:bounce: :woohoo: Dawn, Angie, Longlocks, Jessica, and Dale kicked Barbie and Friends' collective ASSES! :D

[Kutjara]

60. I've forgotten the name, but...

...they were these toy cars that had a big flywheel in them. You'd use this toothed plastic strip with a T-handle at the top to power up the flywheel and make the car go. The harder you pulled the strip out, the faster the car would travel. We'd really get those things flying down the street. Add a ramp, and you had a pretty lethal airborne weapon system. Even better, they were made out of some incredibly rugged plastic: you simply could not break them.

I think they were made by Mattel. They might have been called "SST". Google has been no help with this.

[Brigid]

61. Lite-Brite.

I always had fun with that one. :)

[Brigid]

62. Anybody else remember "Liddle Kiddles?"

They were little bitty dolls that came in plastic lockets you could wear. :)

[maveric]

63. "ThingMaker"

I had hours of fun burning my fingers making "Creepy Crawlers".

[mitchum]

66. Loved it and its companion "Incredible Edibles"

[Gidney N Cloyd]

68. LOVED "Thingmaker"! Especially the Mini-dragons edition.

Also had Creeple People and Fright Factory.

[NC_Nurse]

80. I had the "Fantastic Flowers" one...

When we got tired of making flowers, we'd fry bologna on it for sandwiches. :D

[greenmutha]

97. HA! I totally forgot about that toy.

What fun!

[Meshuga]

67. Playmobils n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

70. The nuclear accelerator I built with Legos and Lincoln Logs

[RainDog]

71. ya'll can come play legos at my house

I never got rid of my kids' and my sister gave me her kids' -- and confess -- who didn't get legos for their kids cause they wanted to play with them.


:hi:

I'm raising my hand.

[doc03]

72. Here is my favorite old school toy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ_B62k9sQk

[CorpGovActivist]

73. Mistrial.

All of the above, plus many, many more.

But a big fat K&R anyway.

:hug:

[ornotna]

74. Other

Log.

It's better than bad, it's good.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=dPHtKarae2Q

[HuffleClaw]

84. new! Civil War surgeon's playset ! n/t

[lost-in-nj]

75. BEANY AND CECILE

you don't go back long enough!!!


LOL



:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

many more
but I slept with beany and cecile




lost

[LostInAnomie]

77. I would have destroyed all your toys with my BB gun.

I went through one of those 500 BB containers a week I think. There's a tree in my parents yard that probably has about $1000 worth of copper in it.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

78. Britains plastic zoo animals...

I loved those things. I kept them for my kids, though Schleich makes even nicer ones now. :-)

[Skittles]

79. it is definitely un-PC now but

as a child in England I adored my golliwog

[qnr]

98. self-delete, replied to wrong post n/t

[qnr]

100. Hmmm I guess it's un-PC, but still, in the sense of a simple, stylized doll, it's

much like others - Raggedy Anne (Ann?) and Raggedy Andy, for example.

[Skittles]

106. that's all it was to me, qnr - a black doll

I was just crazy about that doll :)

[Greylyn58]

81. It was a tie between

my Spirograph and my LiteBrite. I loved both of them.

[fortyfeetunder]

83. Spirograph

I loved that toy, and appreciated it more once I took advanced mathematics.
Went on Ebay a few years back and bought a couple of sets so I can relive my childhood.

[Bennyboy]

86. Sail Cat!

back in my time we was so poor we didn't get no store bought toys. So we had to improvise! we used to see a dead cat alongside the road and then wait a couple of days till it got good and stiff and throw them things like a frisbee. Dead frogs used to work in a pinch.

[HuffleClaw]

87. Lego is THE toy

though of course i'm referring to OLD SKOOL lego, not that new-fangled stuff the kids are playing with today. when i was a lad we had only maybe 30 different pieces to play with and thats the way we liked it!

[Akoto]

90. I'm a little divided on how to answer.

I was crazy about Legos. As a child of the 80s, though, Nintendo was also a very big deal!

[Klukie]

91. Milky the Marvelous Milking Cow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdS9ZJ_Wf4k

[TZ]

92. Hey! My sister had Milky!

Totally forgot about that one. I just liked to pull the tail and make her go MOOOO!:thumbsup:

[Rosemary2205]

93. Sissy bars and banana seats.

:)

[PassingFair]

96. Jacks.

I used to KICK ASS in Jacks.

[qnr]

99. Well, I was poor, but I always /wanted/ a Lionel train set, or some slot cars.

I had favorites, but they've been mentioned - I notice that these haven't been.

[enigmatic]

101. Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle

The greatest toy ever:

[Inchworm]

102. werd!

:P

[enigmatic]

103. I told my wife I want one for my birthday

She's looking on ebay; I don't care if I'm going through a middle aged crisis, I want my Stunt Cycle, dammit!:D

[BrotherBuzz]

104. Wham-O™ slingshot

I still have mine and it looks exactly like this one. The gum rubber died decades ago, and all I can find is surgical hosing that isn't compatible with the design, so it sits and collects dust.

[Fox Mulder]

105. I'll be 26 in a few months and I still love Legos.

[Robeson]

107. Matt Mason...

...

[Broken_Hero]

108. my 1984 Superfriends superman toy...

greatest toy I ever had...he kicked GI Joe's ass, and handed He-man a severe beat down....:D