What was the coolest toy you had as a kid?
When I was a kid I had one of these it made candy whistles out of Tootsie Roll candy and I still think it is the most awesome toy ever! What do you remember as the best toy you had as a child?
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My bike.I went everywhere on that thing!
I think I had the most fun with our lawn sprinkler. seriously =)
That and a skateboard that looked something like this
Piles upon piles of Legos.
My tire swing and my tree swing hanging from the two big oaks in my dad’s back yard. I spent hours upon hours on theose swings.
@SuperMouse That Tootsie roll machine looks like it musta been a blast!
Lincoln Logs, I still have them. The all wood ones not the ones with the plastic pieces.
Yes. A second vote for tons and tons of Legos.
I carved out my own slingshot.
I thought it was super cool because I made it myself.
My parents did not share my enthusiasm.
@SuperMouse Totally envious of little SuperMouse. That toy looks rad.
Red rider bb gun… What? It’s not a toy?
My Dungeon Masters Guide and dice.
fuck you! whoever that was that snickered . . .
My Matchbox cars, and Hot Wheels, when they were mostly metal.
Spider-Man, Venom, couple Wolverines.
I don’t count it as a toy, but the favorite item from my childhood is my official Boy Scout pocketknife.
Legos. Several tubs worth of them.
I still have them and play with them sometimes. If I ever breed, I’m passing them on to my chitlins.
A miniature John Deere tractor with a mini rolling tiller attachment. You peddled it.
@woodcutter It is still sharp as ever, but there is only about half the blade there used to be. Over the years I have used and abused that knife.
An apple tree in the garden that I used to climb all the time. When I was 13 my dad had to cut it down to make way for an extension to the house, and I grieved for that tree.
Lots of cool toys in the 60’s.
I had a Spriograph, an Etch-a-sketch, a ‘Baby Secret’ doll that whispered to you when you pulled her string.
There was “Incredible edibles”, you made edible insects and other things in candy molds. The “Easy Bake oven”...lots of cupcakes baked under a light bulb. haha
There was this “Flubber” stuff, it came in a cottage cheese type container and was a pink, blubbery goopy concoction that did nothing except feel weird.
There was “Lite Bright” a lighted board background with little peg holes that you made pictures with clear, colored pegs on.
Barbi of course, and, my alltime favorite, Breyer horses. I spent hours and hours playing with my model horses in the grass, creating corrals out of sticks and pretending they were wild horses.
The 60’s rocked!
STRETCH ARMSTRONG. How this isn’t still out I have no idea. . . I wish I could get one that WASN’T 200 BUCKS OR MORE!
Erector set. I built the coolest stuff with that toy and had more cuts on my hands than you can imagine…and LOVED it!
@Coloma: We had the Breyer horses in the 70’s too and made our Barbies ride them. Our parents would build shelves of pierced cinderblock squares & plywood planks, spray painted to whatever colors we wanted to showcase all those models. So much fun to play outside.
Forget toys.
I had siblings.
My radio flyer wagon. I would take it to the top of the hill and attempt to ride down. I miss those days.
@Coloma I had the flubber stuff! In the 70’s it was called Slime and once my sister and I got it stuck on the ceiling while the rest of the family was at church. We took as much as the texture of that ceiling as we did slime, plus there was a purple stain there forever. If my parents ever noticed, they didn’t say a word.
@mrrich724 my sister had a Stretch Armstrong, what an awesome toy!
@AshLeigh I grew up with five siblings and still needed wanted all the toys I could get!
@SuperMouse,
There were five of us as well. :) They were more fun than toys though! :D
@Neizvestnaya
I love Breyer horses, I have my daughters collection still in my garage.
I also invented ” White water Barbi” haha
I’d tie a string to my Barbis and send them off down this raging little creek. lol
@SuperMouse
LOL
Oh, Silly Putty, we would make “prints’ with it from the comic section of the newspaper.
@Coloma Silly Putty prints were like magic to me when I was very little. I loved doing that!
@AshLeigh most of my siblings were kind of jerks. Gimmedat is not one of the jerky ones.
I still love blowing soap bubbles and Play Doh! :-P
I had a gumby and pokey when I was kid. We loved playing with them.
My TurboGrafix16 my dad got me for Xmas, with three games.
I may have been a successful and wealthy person today, were it not for that thing.
But I don’t regret a thing.
I had the coolest neon lime green Schwinn 10 speed…I loved my Schwinn!
@tranquilsea I still have Pokey
I did have Gumby but it lost an arm and a leg and ended up in the trash. :/
Gumby & Pokey! Great cartoon!
Gumby and Pokey, is that that cartoon with that weird green sponge looking thing?
Superballs. How’d they make them so bouncy?
SSP Racers. Never enough room in the house to really wind one up.
Battling Tops, Wore that game out.
COX gas powered dune buggy, An oily mess but it would go anywhere.
Mattel Virtibird helicopter. I could’ve been a pilot if I stuck with it.
Estes Rockets, I think we used the motors for everything but the model rocket(which we lost) My friend and I developed our own RPG. We never got the bugs worked out of it..like how to not get solid rocket blast fragments in our faces, but it was badass.
I had the original GI Joe soldier dolls——American soldier as well as German soldier GI Joe dolls. They were cool because they had authentic type uniforms, and there was a pull-string on the back of the soldier so you could make them talk. You can only get these “dolls” today in antique shops and collectible stores.
@MRSHINYSHOES Did you have the one with “life like hair and Kung Fu grip?
“He once was a little green ball of clay..GUMBY!” ;-)
That’s him! He was flying around in a hot air balloon or something. He looked like a sponge when I was little, dammit. XD
@MRSHINYSHOES I never knew of the German figures, that looks real as heck there. I had the guy with life like hair but not Kung Fu Grip. The KFG ones had more rubbery hands that would grasp weapons and the like. The old original ones had moulded on plastic hair. Some of the later ones had fuzzy beards, Nowadays they could be used as Muslim extremists Jihad fighters but who in their right mind would try to sell one of those now?
I also had a “Stoney Smith US soldier, same size as GI Joe http://www.ebay.com/itm/Marx-Stony-Smith-Toy-Action-Figure-/370539803001?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5645e4b179 All his gear was classic WWII and he had a jeep that was more of a 60’s era model however most of the military hardware used in WWII was also used in the 1960’s. This guy was amazingly factually accurate. He was the lesser known figure made by Marx and I think GI Joe was a Mattel product. I think they are worth a lot of $ now if you still have one in good condition. Toys back in the 60’s were cool but due to tort law I imagine many of them would not pass muster today. Kids and parents had much more common sense to Not get hurt by their own toys.
I imagine my mom’s attic is a treasure trove of toys of a bygone time.
@woodcutter Yes, I had that one too! I liked the old figures, so life-like. Not like the GI Joe figures today, so small and hard plastic pieces, mass produced. That American one was my fav too.
Did anyone have “Clackers” the first generation glass ones? They were so outlawed by the EPA because of shatter potential. Then they came out with the lame plastic ones that just weren’t the same.
I’m sorry to hear that, it must’ve been rough.
@woodcutter ??
You mean the clackers? Yeah, they were actually banned a few years later, because kids were playing rough with them and getting hurt by the balls, which would hit them in the face, knock their teeth out, etc. Lol.
@AmWiser Don’t worry, my sister was playing with paper dolls as recently as 2002.
K.O boxing game!
I had several of them, coz they kept breaking. One I smashed on the floor on Boxing Day coz my mum got in the way of the telly when The Red Hand Gang was on, not good. The toy on the other hand was cool as fuck!
Talkboy. Endless hours of madness and fun.
@MRSHINYSHOES
Hahaha..” I had the blue balls ”...lol
Wow! I forgot about “Clackers” yes…I had pink ones..of course, and my friends brothers were always getting pervy with our Barbis and their GI Joes. haha
@jonsblond He has been retired for a long time, his SSI just doesn’t go as far as it used to.
@jonsblond the economy sucks & there aren’t many jobs for horses these days..he’s on his own
@Coloma I wasn’t thinking when I wrote that. Egads. Now @woodcutter‘s comment makes sense. Ergg…
@Blondesjon – I didn’t giggle. I still have my Monster Manual, multi-sided die, and countless dungeons mapped out on quad paper, somewhere….
@HungryGuy . . . And seriously, how fucking cool were the illustrations and back stories in that and the Fiend Folio?
Thing is I got the Book, didn’t like any of the pantheons listed so made up my own.
@Blueroses
Oh yeah… I forgot about those!
Remember those tiny little “Kittles” dolls?
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