Nostalgia: what were your favorite toys when you were a kid?

WinnerVictorious
WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,733 Member
i had a few, but these stand out.

i fought lots of battles with my box of these:
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i got all of the originals when they movie came out in 1977. wish i had them now in box and in mint condition. i suspect they'd be worth something to collectors.
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this made the school bus rides fun.
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i played the baseball game on this a lot. A LOT. even wore out the joysticks playing it.
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  • SoViLicious
    SoViLicious Posts: 2,633 Member
    My white Ken doll Brian.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    I loved my Fisher Price castle.

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  • danasings
    danasings Posts: 8,218 Member
    Probably my Barbie dolls and their accessories (like the Dream House and pool). My parents still have all of my toys in their attic...worth something today? Maybe...
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,733 Member
    i had this too, which was a really cool toy back in those days...

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  • theCarlton
    theCarlton Posts: 1,344 Member
    My Little Pony
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    Rainbow Brite
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    Barbie & the Rockers
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    Jem & the Holograms
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  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    My pinto pony.
  • theCarlton
    theCarlton Posts: 1,344 Member
    Rose Petal Place dolls (and I had the tea kettle cottage too)
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    Sweet Secrets dolls
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    Strawberry Shortcake dolls
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    Big Wheel (mine was Strawberry Shortcake themed)
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  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    My hockey stick and puck
    Weebles haunted house
    little horses and a castle (at daycare)
    my little pony, hello kitty, strawberry shortcake, rainbow bright, sad sam
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,733 Member
    My hockey stick and puck
    Weebles haunted house
    little horses and a castle (at daycare)
    my little pony, hello kitty, strawberry shortcake, rainbow bright, sad sam

    my sister (1 year younger than me) had the weeble's tree house. i thought that was kind of cool.

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  • The Lost World toy.. I played with this every day after school..
    Memories..

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  • matt2442
    matt2442 Posts: 1,259 Member
    Im still a kid...MFP and tiny chat are my toys
  • danasings
    danasings Posts: 8,218 Member
    Im still a kid...MFP and tiny chat are my toys

    I was gonna say...Matt, you still have all of your childhood toys, don't you? :bigsmile:
  • aekimz23
    aekimz23 Posts: 112 Member
    My Little Pony
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    In Kindergarten this girl was waving a My Little Pony around by it's tail and it smacked me in the head pretty badly. I hated those things after that experience.
  • Sharkington
    Sharkington Posts: 485
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  • links_slayer
    links_slayer Posts: 1,151 Member
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  • theCarlton
    theCarlton Posts: 1,344 Member
    Sorry, last one.
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  • alipene
    alipene Posts: 945 Member
    My Spacehopper :happy:
  • matt2442
    matt2442 Posts: 1,259 Member
    Im still a kid...MFP and tiny chat are my toys

    I was gonna say...Matt, you still have all of your childhood toys, don't you? :bigsmile:

    :grumble:
  • sccrmama8
    sccrmama8 Posts: 27
    I've always been quite the nerd (and maybe a bit of tomboy) so I loved my Rubik's Cube, Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, and Erector Set :) (I guess I played with my share of Barbie too)
  • avababy05
    avababy05 Posts: 930 Member
    Derry Daring who was the female counterpart to my brothers wind up Evil Knievel doll
  • jmc0806
    jmc0806 Posts: 1,444 Member
    Micro machines, Legos and TMNT
  • links_slayer
    links_slayer Posts: 1,151 Member
    Micro machines, Legos and TMNT

    Sounds like my toy closet too!!!
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    My hockey stick and puck
    Weebles haunted house
    little horses and a castle (at daycare)
    my little pony, hello kitty, strawberry shortcake, rainbow bright, sad sam

    my sister (1 year younger than me) had the weeble's tree house. i thought that was kind of cool.

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    Yeah, I just played with the weebles haunted house when I was 5 and under. It made haunted sounds, too.
  • Ashwee87
    Ashwee87 Posts: 695 Member
    I have most of the Jurassic Park/Lost World toys still in a box in my parents attic. Need to get those, clean them up and give them to my son. Oh with my toys, I would get logs and stuff from outside, bring them in and make like little terrariums for the dinos and play with them that way.

    I also had some TMNT toys that had a ribbed pull thing that you stuck in their shell and pulled out and they talked.

    Oh and my remote control 4-wheel monster truck. I drove that thing till it literally broke.

    Yeah, I was not your typical girl growing up....>.> Yes I am straight, married and have a kid. LOL I just happen to really love all the actual COOL toys which were 99% boy toys.

    Ohhhh and I was also Michelangelo for Halloween one year!! :D
  • Railr0aderTony
    Railr0aderTony Posts: 6,803 Member
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    Yea I am old but this was a Awesome toy.
  • LavenderBouquet
    LavenderBouquet Posts: 736 Member
    Oooh, I love nostalgia :happy:

    Some of my favourites that I can still remember:

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    and

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    Good times :drinker:
  • MercenaryNoetic26
    MercenaryNoetic26 Posts: 2,747 Member
    I had She-Ra & horse figurines, lite brite, my little ponies, cabbage patch kids, trouble & uno were cool games, I tortured my barbies. Played tag, freeze tag, oijia, bloody Mary...

    The Garbage Pail kids collector cards were the bees knees. I love the 80's!
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    The Garbage Pail kids collector cards were the bees knees. I love the 80's!

    Yeah, we were really into those. And we collected Bazooka Joe comics (from the gum), so we could send away for spy gear, to spy on our neighbors to make sure they were not plotting to take over the world.
  • Amy106Days
    Amy106Days Posts: 172 Member
    I had an older sister who often took my funner toys so on the whole I would have to say my very favorite toy was a plastic lifting spatula called spatula Bob. Spatula Bob had awesome adventures until one day he was mistaken for a common kitchen spatula and mistreated causing some melting to his spatula head. He was half-heartedly replaced by my father by a green spatula I named Spatula Sue. Spatula Bob had trust issues after his disfigurement so his relationship with Sue was tense and never evolved fully. They both retired to the utensil drawer and ultimately became inanimate.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    I was a child in the 50's. I don't remember any" toys" from my childhood, at all. I remember playing in the creek, catching snakes, toads, frogs, butterflies, once a muskrat, swinging on a rope over a creek or from the hayloft, riding my bike or my pony, building a fort in the woods, playing with and caring for the ducks, geese, peafowl and pheasants that my dad raised, flying a kite with my dad, and going hunting with my dad.. I had cousins who wore dresses and played with dolls. I always thought that was such a waste of time.....I've never played with a doll in my life, or wanted to.