What were your top 10 childhood toys?- Page 2

[Kad]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 1:30pm

Legos
Star Wars figures
Gameboy Pocket
Dinosaur figurines

Jenga

Etch-A-Sketch

One of those Playskool kitchen set things that actually marketed to girls but whatever

K'Nex

Mensch ärgere dich nicht (it's a German board game, very similar to Sorry. My father is German)

Beanie Babies

Transformers/Beast Wars


I also had this kit of wooden blocks... you would essentially construct a maze for a glass marble to roll through. I loved that thing so much.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 1:42pm

1, Hot Wheels and track
2. Legos
3. Lincoln Logs
4. Erector set
5. Slot cars
6. The Game of Life
7. Monopoly
8. Decks of cards (for building structures)
9. Clackers
10. My sister's Barbie, Midge, Ken, Skipper, Todd, Stacie, Krissy and Francie. Yep, gay, gay, gay! And, sombody had to live in all those buildings and cities I created.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 1:55pm

Then I'll add my sister's Skediddle Kiddles!! They walked!

Updated On: 4/4/13 at 01:55 PM

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 2:09pm

mine are the same as many of your who were children of the 80s

i will also add (and i'm forgetting a lot of the name so i'll describe)

those portable video games that were miniature version of actual arcade machines

hot wheels and the various tracks

that domino building set

that game where the penguins would go up the mountain then just go down the slide... that was just fun to watch

that game where it was a plastic container with water and you'd press this button that would make these plastic rings inside go up so you can place them on little rods like a ring toss

I second Caleco Vision

Fireball Island

the alternative to my Transformers toys... THE GO BOTS! ha

[~tiny~]

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

forgot:

Gyroscope.

I LOVED this thing....I think my parents bought it at the Planetarium.

Also, not a toy, but learning and excelling at Double Dutch up in the Bronx where my cousins live

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 3:40pm

I would LOVE to have learned how to do Double Dutch. I can barely jump in with a single jump rope, so I feel like Double Dutch would be lethal.

[supportivemom]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 6:27pm

Mia- The doll who could "grow" hair and then shorten it back
Dawn Dolls- 6 inch dolls that had long hair and were very pretty
Spirograph
Mystery Date- Board Game
The Game of Life
Pogo Stick
Twister
Little Kiddles
Barbie/Skipper/Midge...

I'll have to remember more! There were no video games or computers or gaming systems back then! Guess what- I survived!

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 6:38pm

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

I am sure we did a few times--but mostly, know, we just set it up and would watch it, or put various different things in it.

Oh I also had an EZ Bake Oven (back when they were a gender neutral orange and not hot pink ) and a Snoopy Ice Maker

And these two Little People Playsets which I think I got used but I remember every kid with older siblings had:

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 6:39pm

[SNAFU]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 7:06pm

Oh, could I ave forgotten the board game RISK! ? So many wonderful fights with siblings!

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 7:16pm

I got into Risk when I was a little older--my older brother and cousins would play games that would last days, it seemed. And yeah, caused a ton of fights...

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 7:41pm

My sister and I also loved Lite-Brite.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 7:41pm

I had the Parking Garage and the Sesame Street Playhouse as well as the Weebles Treehouse. Loved them!

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 7:47pm

I never really understood the Playhouse--though I loved it. Why would they go on the jerky conveyor belt only to fall down a storey into th playhouse? Didn't that hurt? Either way--it was still one of my fave toys (I think a jump rope thing was attached to it.) The only other Little People thing I had, and this may not even be Little People, was a barn where when you opened the doors a "Mooooo" sound would come out.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 7:48pm

*edit* the conveyor belt thing led to the slide. It was the revolving hole in the roof I was confused about...

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 7:52pm

Yes, the Little People had a barn. All the sets here I played with at other people's houses. I had a fold up house though and the playground set. I also had the airplane. It was fun trying to spin the merry go round so fast to try to make them fall out. The slide seems cruel now because they would fall down head first. And the donkey and airplane things on the springs. Me and my sister liked to bash those into one another. Fun times.

Oh, and if anyone wants ridiculous fights over toys, my sisters fought over a ridiculously tiny puppy from a play set & the Little People baby, claiming that they owned them. No idea about the puppy, but the Little People baby belonged to all of us.

Updated On: 4/4/13 at 07:52 PM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 8:03pm

"It was fun trying to spin the merry go round so fast to try to make them fall out. The slide seems cruel now because they would fall down head first."

Ha! So true, I wonder what the designers were thinking--and yet I loved it.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 8:08pm

Ugh, this is too much. I had to google my My Little Pony memories about having to buy the male Clydesdale Ponys they made--since there were basically no other male toys. I still have them somewhere in a box, but don't remember them being quite this, well, Village People inspired. I guess I'm not too shocked they seemed so hard to find...

[~tiny~]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 12:44am

PeZ! Candy AND a Toy.