National Toy Hall of Fame (w/ pictures) What were your favorite toys as a kid?

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[MotleyGirl70]

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[MotleyGirl70]

I think we all still have a little kid in us, so for those memories of Christmas I thought it would be fun to post what your favorite toy was as a kid.

I used to play Pong all the time with my older brother. Winters in Wisconsin are long and cold so we played alot of Pong, Simon and other board games.

[cardinal4]

Verti-bird!

[proudofthesouth]

Slinky, crayons and coloring books, books, bike, roller skates, records and record player, dolls.

[MindBender26]

BB gun and the rockets you would fill with water, then hand pump pressurize with air, then launch.

[xcamel]

any large appliance box

[socal_parrot]

As I was a kid before the electronic age, my favorite toys were tinker toys, Lincoln logs, little army men and toy rifles and pistols.

Back when boys were allowed to be boys.

[Dog Gone]

All my parents ever got me were clothespins.

Made a nifty rubber band gun out of them, though.

[mdittmar]

Got an toy Elephant gun one year,it was cool,fired little red bullets.

Probably goes for $100.00 in an antique store now.

Guess I'm lucky I didn't shoot my eye out;)

[MotleyGirl70]

Ping and

From ~MG70~

[digger48]

Actually, my brother got this, but we both got a lot of miles out of it...

[xp38]

[Dmitry Vukicevich]

Had to be the Evil Knievel Cycle, can't tell you how many times I scraped my knuckles on the pavement with that toy.

[DollyCali]

What an absolutely NEAT thread. Thank you for the ping.

Well, she says, scratching her head. I DO NOT REMEMBER fav toys.. I am now & always have been an "outdoorsy person".. never really into dolls..

guess if I would have to list anything it would be "cards" as in card games. I was taught early & attribute my strong math skills to my dad's teaching me card games..(pinochle, canasta, poker).. later as I was an adult I played bridge.

As a child to a lesser degree board games(this is the pre electronic era donchaknow).. monopoly, chess, checkers, clue etc.

[GSlob]

A very young kitten, eyes not yet opened. Techically, he was a pet, and not a toy, but if one was to define a toy as "something one plays with" then he'd qualify.

[MotleyGirl70]

My older brother had a Stretch Armstrong. I always wondered was the goo was inside him to make him stretch.

[MotleyGirl70]

I bet you had a Big Wheel. I had this pink and white bike and I would ride it all day long. It was probably my all-time favorite toy as a kid.

[jdm]

Unnngh!

[Moonmad27]

A few favorites -- the game Mousetrap, Mr. Machine, Flintstones town of Bedrock playset (one is for sale on ebay for $200 starting bid - sigh. I have one piece left, a gas station sign).

[bannie]

The one on the far right. :-)

Later...

...which smelled good.

and DIRT to play in.

[Taxman]

Lincoln Logs

Erector Set

Chemistry Set

(Now, that one was a blast, literally! We could make explosives, and there is still, 50 years later, a stain (showing through the paint) on my mother's kitchen ceiling my youngest brother put there early one morning!)