Most Loved Childhood Toys

Don't forget the Rubik's cube, but it was much easier to just pop it apart!

Ha ha, my brother and I did that a couple of times. They may have changed the design where you can't do that anymore...?

I still have the stuffed monkey that was the first toy I received after I was born. Other than that, the boy next door and I used to play with his GI Joes and his Lego all the time.

Uno cards. Lots of good memories on my french exchange trip and scoobies! X

Don't forget the Rubik's cube, but it was much easier to just pop it apart!

Yeah, just turn one of the top sections, and pop off
a corner! Then we used to WD40 them. :bigsmile:

LOL, ahem, we used Vaseline...

My grandma used to have these old Matryoshka dolls on the shelf.
I used to sit there and play with them for hours, making up a family and story and everything.

It's funny, my brother is the one that had one of those. He was too little to say Matryoshka (if we even knew the word in the first place). He named it a "girlie-girlie doll." He was also the one with all the stuffed animals, all of whom had their own personalities. Grandmother made some sock monkeys, then some of those stuffed dogs that were really just pilllows made from printed fabric.

We had these cardboard bricks that were a foot long each. We built all kinds of stuff with those. We also had something called "American Bricks," that were apparently less expensive or less socialist than Legos. Then there were Tinkertoys and Lincoln Logs. Lincoln logs were pretty lame, because you couldn't make anything that could fly around the room with them. I had lots of fun with a set of dominos building buildings with sides in multiples of 4 and 7.

We had Matchbox cars and a few Hot Wheels. We had these cities that opened up like suitcases where you could drive around and the cars would have their little adventures together. We also had metal versions of the suitcase becomes city for a knights castle and a frontier fort with soldiers and indians. Or we just built outlines of buildings with those cardboard bricks and our "men" (politically correct term for plastic figure dolls when your brothers are playing) would have their adventures in them.

The best toys are multigenerational. I had a 45 RPM record player that was my dad's when he was a kid -- no close an play crap for me. And there was an entire set of his records, including the original Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and a set of Spike Jones records that must have been promotional items, since they had old time commercials on them in between Spike massacring the Nutcracker Suite.

My Holly Hobby oven !!
Ran out of cake mixes within a week,......my sister and I then used it to cook bologna, Lol
Good times

We put all kinds of **** in our oven LOL!!! I'm glad that we were not the only kids that totally used it to cook whatever worked and was handy.

We had the orange colored Easy Bake oven. I think our bulb was too hot because I remember it being melted. Either the bulb or something we put in it! LMFAO at this memory.


I know ours was too hot too,....but man we had fun and good warm snacks till that bulb blew. Lol

We had the "Thingmaker" for those creepy crawler toys. We ran out of the expensive "goop" pretty quickly, and became proto-recyclers chopping up plastic that was going to be thrown out. We'd melt that down and make plastic bugs instead of the rubbery ones. We grew up in Wilmington, Delaware where little kids could tell polypropylene from polyethylene (since everyone's dads worked for chemical companies), so we actually had a pretty good idea which plastic would work.