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

National Toy Hall of Fame ^ | 12/24/06 | National Toy Hall of Fame

[devolve]

Right out of the Nativity!

[potlatch]

Right out of the Canteen, sorry you missed it.

[aruanan]

The Mattel rifles that you could load with plastic bullets with adhesive caps that would make a bang when shot and shoot out of the barrel.

[devolve]

FR's Pager does no work for me as you know

[The SISU kid]

any large appliance box

FF (Favorite FReepers) ping.....

8^)

[potlatch]

How do you manage to get to people's small comments without that pager? Must be very hard.

[devolve]

I'm cutting down

Signing off

[Slings and Arrows]

any large appliance box

Hey! My cats too!

(Any cats, really.)

[Roccus]

The web has definitely made the world smaller. };^)

[Maximus of Texas]

I never had a toy.

[ken5050]

Today, the three words that all parents and grandparents fear most at Christmas time are:

BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED

Back when we were kids, the three words our parents feared most were:

SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED

BTW, thanks for the great thread...hope you had a very Merry Christmas, and got all the "toys" you wanted..

[pissant]

Merry Christmas!!

I was all over the large appliance boxes as a kid. Here's a "new" classic received by one very happy 2 y.o. on monday. American made too! Cheers.

[Daveinyork]

I fondly remember a Zorro outfit - a black hat, black mask, and black cape, and a plastic sword with a piece of chalk on the tip so that we could put 'Z's on everything without doing permanent damage.

[Salamander]

Any kind of art materials, Breyer model horses, toy guns and tree houses.

[I was sorta all over the place, toy-wise, it seems]....:)

[potlatch]

And 'stranger' too, lol!

[Cornjonny]

Here are my three favorite childhood toys, A Red Rider BB gun, A Johnny West set, and a Superjock football player.