What Was Your Favorite Childhood Toy?

Legos are still fun.

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does the gameboy color count?

Sure. i was starting to wonder if anyone was going to mention a gaming console.

yeah I played that alot more than anything else...ah pokemon yellow and gold.

A knife.

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Haters Gonna Hate.

LOL. not hating, I don't hate on anyone

My favorite childhood toys were "wood projects" and "movie records."
Most young people here do not know what these were.

For well under a dollar, the local five cent and dime would wood provide a sheet of balsa or pine wood, a one page plan, and a carbon paper. Using the carbon paper, you would trace the plan onto the sheet of wood, cut or whittle it out, sand it, glue it together and paint it. You could make all kinds of things. Girls, who were into this more than boys, usually made dolls, doll houses, and doll furniture. Boys made airplanes, cars, boats, and wild animals.

A movie record has to be seen to be understood. Please see this URL:
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When I was in Kindergarten, I had a collection.

Wow! I had never seen those movie records before. I would have loved those!

Most of the toy airplanes made this way didn't fly.

Legos.

When hula hoops came out in the 50's I had a yellow one. It was cool. We also enjoyed homemade wooden rifles that shot rubberbands with a clothespin trigger. Had a farm set with rubber animals made like the army men, would bunch up a throw rug for a mountain and play for hours. Until my sister would raid the farm with her Fort Apache set.

my favorite? i would have to say my giant Pooh bear

light sabers :D

Tiffany Taylor doll years ago. It was around the 1970's.



Lincoln Logs



Marie Osmond Doll

This was my daughter's favorite.

Your daughter knows what fun is.

Hoola Hoop!

Star Wars figures and Micronauts!

My imagination. Too bad the kids today no longer have that to play with.

My sister played with Barbie and friends, I prefered the little Shelly dolls instead.

Also played with Lego a lot, but come on, who hasn't?

Ertl farm toys for me!!!! Still have quite a few from my childhood yet!!! (I guess I'm still a child at heart, as I have over 500 pieces of toy farm equipment now!!! All colours and brands!!

300 in 1 electronic projects set.

Oh that is FUN!!

Yeah it was and I never burned the house down either. lol

. . . Girls . . . Probably . . . . ? ? ? I am not sure . . . ? ?

a cardboard box

Refridgerater or washer boxes are THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Yeah we built some nice forts out of them and the first place I kissed a girl.

What happened to the creativity in kids. Did it get lost in the technology?

I think so. Kids spend SO much time with toys that are specific, computers, PS3, and TV that they loose the imaginaion....that spark of magic from making their own play world. My kids have toys, but spend most of their free time playing in the weeds and dirt in the back yard....making their own games, painting, building mud wallows, mud huts, rock fortresses, war games(yes my kids play good guy/ bad guy, cops & robbers, cowboy/girl & indians) wonder around making salad from the herb garden...and actually eat them(parsley, mint, rosemary, basil, chives) making pretend fires(think camp fire set up which we do a lot in winter) and make science experiments which is HUGE at our house!
My daughter broke our tv and dvd/vcr player a few years ago and we never got around to fixing them or replacing them so they watch very little.
Our home is cluttered/messy but it's where all the kids around here want to be:)

Hot wheels cars, lightsabers, and Legos :D

Army Men. Green and Tan.

Lego! I bought them, build them, and take them apart, then build somthing else.