What were/are your favorite toys?

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In summary, Moonbear got me to thinking about the toys I played with when I was little. Some of my favorite toys when I was growing up included Superball, colorforms, lincoln logs, etch a sketch, spirograph, creepy crawlers, erector set, lego, barbie, Mr potato head (back when you used a REAL potato), cootie, scrabble, monopoly, play doh, thingmaker set, silly putty, slinky, The Game of Life, and Water Wiggle. My absolute favorite toy was my Flinstone playset, which was the entire town of Bedrock. My favorite toy from the present was getting my nephew Weebles, which
  • #36
tribdog said:
best toy: empty refridgerator box

Or a few blankets thrown over the kitchen chairs to make a fortress! Or better yet, throw the blankets over the lawn chairs and launch a water balloon attack from behind the fortress.
 
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  • #37
tribdog said:
best toy: empty refridgerator box
We used to cut doors and windows into them to make forts.

Do kids now days do any of this stuff or do they just sit glued to their video games all day?

Whatever happened to the good old days when children were given dangerous toys to play with. Talk about weeding out the weak and clumsy. :rolleyes:
 
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  • #38
Evo said:
Paddle balls. Those wooden paddles with the rubber band stapled to it and attached to a small rubber ball on the other end.

If they outlawed kerbangers, or clackers, surely that contraption ought to be banned with it! I really used to bonk myself in the head with that one. I learned it's much easier if you cut the elastic shorter and restaple it to the board. Whoever came up with that idea was a genius though...take a small piece of wood, staple an elastic and rubber ball to it, and make a fortune!
 
  • #39
blanket forts it the kitchen are awesome. I might make one right now.
 
  • #40
tribdog said:
blanket forts it the kitchen are awesome. I might make one right now.

Those were also good places for playing "If I show you mine, you show me yours." :smile:
 
  • #41
that settles it. I'm building a fort. coming over?
 
  • #42
Mouse Trap
 
  • #43
We can have a sleep over and make blanket forts. I'll bring my easy bake oven and cook.

Moonbear, I'm shocked.
 
  • #44
tribdog said:
that settles it. I'm building a fort. coming over?

:smile: There's definitely more than one way to read that sentence. :smile:

Not to change the subject too much, but am I the only one who would find a fort in the kitchen romantic?
 
  • #45
mousetrap was fun.
 
  • #46
Evo said:
We can have a sleep over and make blanket forts. I'll bring my easy bake oven and cook.

Moonbear, I'm shocked.

I got my start studying anatomy early. Went well with the doctor kit.

Oh, yes, Easy Bake Ovens! My sister had an Easy Bake Microwave...I don't think it cooked those little pans of mystery batter any faster than my oven though.
 
  • #47
Evo said:
mousetrap was fun.
I found that using live mice added to the thrill and challenge of the game. The cats rather liked it, too.
 
  • #48
Moonbear said:
Not to change the subject too much, but am I the only one who would find a fort in the kitchen romantic?
I think it would be great. We used to make tents over the bed. I wouldn't mind one of those. :approve:
 
  • #49
Math Is Hard said:
I found that using live mice added to the thrill and challenge of the game. The cats rather liked it, too.

That's just pure evil! :smile: I liked that game too.
 
  • #50
Wheelo wheelo
a wonderful wonderful toy...
 
  • #51
Moonbear said:
I got my start studying anatomy early. Went well with the doctor kit.
I used to have play doctor kits. I loved giving people injections. :biggrin:

I always wanted a chemistry set, but my mother was afraid I would blow up the house. :frown:

I remember when they first came out with those play baby bottles where the milk would look like it disappeared. (I have always been easily amused).

BTW, I loved weebles, I named my dog Weeble.
 
  • #52
Evo said:
BTW, I loved weebles, I named my dog Weeble.

I just like saying weeble. I never just called them weebles though, I always called them weeble wobbles.

Oh, and I had one of those Fisher Price barns, that when you opened the door, it would go, "moooooo."
 
  • #53
When I was little, we used to build scooters. Nail a few boards together, take a roller skate apart and nail the two halves to the front and rear bottom of the base. Kids nowdays have no idea what it means to lose the key to your roller skates.
 
  • #54
What did the bull say when asked why the cows all fell over but not him.

"We-bulls wobble but we don't fall down."
 
  • #55
Anyone have one of those toy submarines that were powered with baking soda?

Monster Bubble was cool too.
 
  • #56
Uncle Miltons Ant Farm anyone? Not a toy but a favorite. I was really into the S. Ca, large, red ants. Potato bug ant wars were also great fun!
 
  • #57
hmmm.. I wonder if M-80s count as toys? I did use them to blow up green plastic army men, so maybe..
 
  • #58
Evo said:
Anyone have one of those toy submarines that were powered with baking soda?

OMG yes! That really takes me back.
 
  • #59
Math Is Hard said:
hmmm.. I wonder if M-80s count as toys? I did use them to blow up green plastic army men, so maybe..

Are you sure you were a girl? :-p
 
  • #60
Math Is Hard said:
I wonder if M-80s count as toys?

Back then they were. And wrist rockets too. I did some really bad things... :devil:
 
  • #61
Ivan Seeking said:
Uncle Miltons Ant Farm anyone? Not a toy but a favorite. I was really into the S. Ca, large, red ants. Potato bug ant wars were also great fun!

I caught my first boyfriend in Kindergarten when I helped him catch bugs for his bug jar (he had a very elaborate looking plastic one, not just a mayonaisse jar with some holes poked in the lid). :approve:
(Yeah, I guess I started pretty young).
 
  • #62
Ivan Seeking said:
What did the bull say when asked why the cows all fell over but not him.

"We-bulls wobble but we don't fall down."
:smile:

I had an ant farm! Do they sell those anymore?
 
  • #63
Moonbear said:
Are you sure you were a girl? :-p
LOL! :smile: Just a southern redneck girl. Fireworks could be bought about 10 minutes away just north of the state line.
 
  • #64
Evo said:
:smile:

I had an ant farm! Do they sell those anymore?

They DO! I saw them in the store today too...Uncle Milton's Ant Farm, so even the same brand! I decided I need to be patient and wait another few years before my nephew will appreciate that as a gift.
 
  • #65
Slingshots were fun.

Who here (as a child) had a

- microscope

-telescope

-invisible man or woman model that they built
 
  • #66
Evo said:
:smile:

I had an ant farm! Do they sell those anymore?
Wait til next summer, Evo, and I'll send you all the ants you want!
 
  • #67
Evo said:
...

-invisible man or woman model that they built

I had an invisible dog. A boxer, I think the breed was. The outer skin was clear plastic. I obsessed over what color to paint the various organs. :biggrin:

You know, some websites use a flaming pie (?) icon to indicate an ultra-hot thread.
 
  • #68
Math Is Hard said:
Wait til next summer, Evo, and I'll send you all the ants you want!
Don't forget skunks will take care of that problem!
 
  • #69
Evo said:
Slingshots were fun.

Who here (as a child) had a

- microscope

-telescope

-invisible man or woman model that they built

I had a microscope. Didn't understand the concept of stuff needing to be really thin to let enough light through to see it. It was an old one, one my dad had from when he was a kid, with a mirror instead of a lamp. I should ask my mom if she still has it around somewhere...it would be cool to display in my office now.
 
  • #70
Thinking about my childhood reminded me of "fizzies", fruit flavored carbonated tablets that you dropped into a glass of water to make a drink.

I don't remember the invisible dog. :frown: I would have liked one.
 

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