What were your top 10 childhood toys?

[~tiny~]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 8:05pm

1. Hula Hoop
2. Slinky
3. Silly Putty
4. Pogo Stick
5. Twister
6. Mr. Potato head
7. Clip on metal skates with Key
8. Mousetrap
9. Pick up sticks
10. Jacks

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 8:24pm

I'm not sure if I can think of 10, but I'll give it a try.

1. Barbie Dolls
2. She-Ra Figurines & the accessories
3. Lego Blocks
4. Polly Pocket
5. Cabbage Patch Dolls
6. Tricycle
7. Kitchen Playset
8. Little People
9. Dolly Pops
10. My Little Pony

Updated On: 4/3/13 at 08:24 PM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 8:30pm

1-10: My ding-a-ling
Everyone Sing!

[Wildcard]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 8:32pm

1. Masters of the Universe
2. LEGO
3. GI Joe
4. Star Wars
5. Transformers/GoBots
6. Micromachines
7. Board games
8. Super Powers
9. M.A.S.K.
10. Hot Wheels/Matchbox

[theaternut]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 8:33pm

1. Operation
2. Slinky
3. Hula Hoop
4. Barbie
5. Twister
6. Mr. Potato head
7.The Towel
8. Mousetrap
9. Pick up sticks
10Big Jim



Updated On: 4/3/13 at 08:33 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 8:38pm

1. Operation
2. GI Joe
3. Colorforms
4. Play dough
5. Monopoly
6. Candyland
7. Mr. Potato Head
8. Don't Break The Ice
9. Hugo: Man of A Thousand Faces
10.Checkers

[best12bars]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 9:09pm

I had my share of the standards, but it's the random, lesser known (or at least talked about today) that I remember the most:

Major Matt Mason
Which Witch?
Colorforms (several sets)
Bing! Bang! Boing!
The Brady Bunch Game
The Wizard of Oz Game
Groovie Goolies (plastic figures)
The Monkees (finger puppets)
Walkie Talkies
A plastic Super 8 projector that ran five-minute episodes of The Munsters

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 9:17pm

Wow. I forgot about colorforms. I had a few sets of those as well.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 10:58pm

Best, which Wizard of Oz game did you have? There was one in a book I had about Oz works (or it may have been an issue of The Baum Bugle) as a kid that I was obsessed with, but in the 80s anyway it was long gone. I remember making my dad take me to flea markets hoping I'd find one.

Off the top of my head--and in no order--the top games I can think of when I was 4-8 (so mid 80s) for me:

Capsela It was a sorta of motorized construction set--you join different spheres that have different gears in them to form boats, cars, etc (or car like) things, and they had batteries so would move. One of the few "typically masculine" things I was obsessed with as a kid was anything to do with cars or trains.

He-Man The only action figures I really got into (I prob found He-man hot, plus I remember seeing the movie where he finds his twin sister She-Ra, and I had a twin sister so, you know, completely identified.) especially liked the playsets like Greyskull

My Little Pony The one toy me and my sister both loved (I did have a Ken doll--one with real hair--but found him and his clothes pretty dull, except for how odd his built on y-fronts were.) I was always annoyed they didn't have boy ones--I did have one of the junior Ponys, Lucky who was a boy, and I remember having to look everywhere to get one of the other boy ones which were an unsuccessful set of male clydesdale style ponys (how butch.)

Lego (again mainly the sets--I had a pirate one and a Tower of London one--which included a ghost--that I loved)

Board games--I was pretty obsessed with them. My aunt gave me all her old games--an old 50s set of Clue, Monopoly a Skipper (Barbie's sister) game that I still have, etc. I also remember getting really into the "sequel" games they were making--I still have some somewhere like Clue-The Museum Caper and Monopoly--Boardwalk but I haven't looked at them in ages, and I remember they always seemed overly complicated.

Atari 2600 (Frostbite was *the* best. We also had the infamous ET disaster of a game that nearly bankrupted them, and all I remember is trying to spend hours getting out of a pit in it.)

My Pet Monster. If you don't remember it, don't ask.

PogoBalls!

ShrinkyDinks (unfortunate name) which seem to be back--I noticed some when birthday shopping for my nephew.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 11:22pm

Gi Joe
a teddy bear (which I still have dry rotted as he is)
Fascination http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0efICEuB0pM (Loved this game!!)
Don't Break the Ice
Slinky (always got tangled though).
A weather boy colorforms set
Lincoln logs (those green roof planks really stained your hands)
an HO train set (with an engine that would puff smoke)
Leggos before there were theme sets.
A knitted drink cozy, which I ended up turing into a pet alien by sewing up the ends, stuffing, adding pipe cleaner antennea and gluing on googly eyes. Had that damn thing for 4 years!

[John Adams]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 11:23pm

1. Strange Change Machine
2. ThingMaker: Creeple People
3. Erector Set
4. Lincoln Logs
5. Tinker Toys
6. G.I. Joe
7. Super Ball
8. Footsie (including the home-made kind, made from a plastic coffee can lid, some rope and a rubber ball.)
9. Mystery Date (Yup, I'm Gay!)
10. Legos Updated On: 4/3/13 at 11:23 PM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 11:27pm

Oh and I forgot number ten--Mousetrap!

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 11:31pm

1. Probably my Barbies
2. My bitchin Zeonizer

3. Zeo Cannon

4. Blade Blaster

5. Delta Megaship/Megazord


You get the theme here. :3

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 11:37pm

I forgot My Little Pony too. I guess I would take the various dolls out to add them, since I can't remember every single special doll I had.

[madbrian]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 8:46am

Roller skates
Stickball bat
Frisbee
New York City

[SNAFU]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 8:57am

Did anyone ever really play the game mousetrap via the rules or just put the thing together to make it work?

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 10:32am

My sister and I had the Barbie Ice Cream Shoppe, which actually made ice cream and it was probably the greatest thing I've ever owned in my whole life.

[Patronus]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 10:40am

He-Man
She-Ra
Monchichi
Transformers
Shrinky Dinks
Hot Wheels
GI Joes
Lincoln Logs
Mousetrap
Comuptron

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 10:40am

Micronauts
Star Wars Droid Factory
Legos
Tinker Toys
Lincoln Logs
McDonald's Playset (I never met anyone else who even heard of it)
Spectograph and Spirograph
Superfection
Merlin
Atari 2600 (we had the first model the year it came out with Combat and Outer Space)

[blueroses]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 12:13pm

1. Boggle (which has carried into my adulthood in the form of Scramble With Friends)
2. The Game of Life
3. Barbies. The dreamhouse, the townhouse, the beauty salon, the pool, I was obsessed. The Cher doll and Donny and Marie dolls were their friends. The Sunshine Family dolls (which were small and included an adorable little baby) were their kids. I also loved to cut their hair and make them clothes.
4. Hoppy ball
5. Jacks
6. Connect Four
7. Etch-a-Sketch
8. Tinker Toys
9. Hungry Hungry Hippos
10. Lite Brite

[blueroses]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 12:20pm

I also loved Weebles--especially the treehouse! And Fashion Plates. And when I was really little I loved that Fisher Price toy popper--it was plastic, filled with balls and fun sounds when you pushed it. I also loved my plastic supermarket shopping cart (and plastic food).

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 12:46pm

Besty, I preferred Matt Mason's friend from Jupiter, Callisto

GI Joes
Shrinky Dinks
Creepy Crawlers
Mousetrap - probably only played it once, but put it together alot...that damn basket would never fall on the mouse, though.
Clue
Lite Brite
Spirograph
Operation
Hot Wheels - my favorite

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 1:08pm

Mister Matt-That McDonalds playset reminds me of the one I wanted for my Little People. But, I looked & it is a little different. The one I wanted was from Fisher Price.

Speaking of, I am so disappointed that they updated those.

I liked playing with these:


This is what kids play with today:

[blueroses]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 1:15pm

Did anyone have Colecovision? It was SO much better than Atari.

[D2]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 1:27pm

1. Legos
2. Crayola Crayons
3. Colorforms
4. Rub-ons
5. Pollock's Toy Theater
6. Hot Wheels
7. Etch-A-Sketch
8. Light-Bright
9. Disneykins
10: Slinky