What was your favorite classic toy as a kid

[geardaddy]

'Tis the season. What toy did you have that was your favorite?

Others not mentioned in poll:
Matchbox Cars
Lincoln Logs
Erector Set
Tinkertoys
E-Z Bake Oven

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	Lincoln Logs
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	Creepy Crawlers
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	GI Joe
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	Barbie
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	Legos
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[mopinko]

1. lincoln logs

to say nothing of crayons.

[geardaddy]

2. Dang!

I should have put Lincoln Logs in!

[geardaddy]

6. I replaced kite with lincoln logs.

[mopinko]

14. i loved kites, too, tho.

def a toy i had many, many of, including lots of homemade ones.
where i lived there were a lot of great places to fly a kite. i lived across the street from the fox river. there was a steep dropoff on every property on that side of the street. there was a big military school on that block, lots of open campus, in fact it is a city park now. great kite flying there.

fun thread. thanks

[geardaddy]

15. Are you in the Green Bay area?

My brother lives in Green Bay.

[mopinko]

23. no. i was raised in the chicago exurbs.

aurora. now in the city.

[LeftInTX]

38. The "other Fox River"

[geardaddy]

62. Yep.

I always thought they were the same, but I see now that they're not!

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. I had half a slinky, but I straightened it.

[geardaddy]

4. LOL

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I had one of these when I was around 4 or 5. I rode the wheels off it in our circle drive.

[geardaddy]

7. That is cool!

It's like a tricycle El Camino!

[Arkansas Granny]

9. Never thought about it like that. I know I was the only kid I knew who had one.

I felt pretty special indeed.

[blaze]

25. Oh my gosh, I LOVE this!!

I have never seen one of these before!

I loved my tricycle and honestly believe that I learned how to parallel park with it.

What fun it would have been to tote things around with a tricycle like yours!

[ashling]

59. I loved my tricycle

until my mother ran over it backing out of the driveway

[sl8]

8. Erector set. n/t

[SeattleVet]

26. Yes! And also a Chemistry set (that would be banned today).

I spent many, many hours with both of these classics.

[rusty quoin]

53. I played with the chemistry set at my friends and set their floor on fire.

[MyOwnPeace]

60. Never allowed

the set - probably for the same reason you stated!

Speaking of "not allowed" - how about that &$(@*^ motor that came with Erector Sets - can't tell you how many times I squished my finger in the open gears!

[geardaddy]

63. My neighbor in the 70s had a chemistry set.

I remember making stink bombs.

[Lindsay]

10. Picker-stickers

which were an earlier version of Colorforms. Thin pieces of flexible plastic in geometric shapes in various bright colors that you stuck against a black plastic surface to make designs and pictures.

I could spend hours arranging and re-arranging them.

[mopinko]

13. i broke my arm and was in traction for several weeks at age 10.

colorforms were the best gift i got, but every time they changed the sheets they were everywhere.
i loved them. i recall a big ole box of them, a house w people and furniture i think.

[FSogol]

11. Anyone have Major Matt Mason toys? One of my favorites.

Most of my friends wanted to play with GI Joes instead. The 1960s versions that were 12" tall.

My all time favorite was probably Legos which were simpler back them.

[geardaddy]

12. I didn't have them, but some of my neighbors did

I was so jealous!

[SonofDonald]

16. I guess you've never heard of "Hot Wheels"

I'd think more young boys had those than say Lincoln logs or magic 8 balls, and if you still have yours in excellent condition they are worth their weight in gold.

More than a few of the original line up are worth over $1000 each, I still have my collection from 1968 to the early 70's, seven of the 24 car rally cases full of Redlines and special editions.

If sold I could probably buy a decent house.

Old slot cars and unbuilt plastic model cars are also in high demand.

Just look on eBay and you'll see what I mean.

And they were fun to play with to boot.

[geardaddy]

17. Dang! I forgot those!

We had them. We used to use the tracks as swords! LOL

[SonofDonald]

21. So did I from what I remember, when you think

About some toys worth these days you just know there's a lot of hindsight about what happened to them in the end.

I've met lots of guys who when finding out what their old hot wheels are worth now turn white and start sobbing.

And that's not even mentioning Matchbox cars, some of which are worth a bunch also.

[geardaddy]

22. Remember Corgi Toys cars?

I had a few of those. My brother had the Jaguar. Great toys.

[SonofDonald]

41. Yes I do, didn't they make the James Bond Austin Martin

And the Batmobile?, that's what I remember, I bought both of those at FAO Schwartz in New York, both very detailed with moving parts, they were in a suitcase that didn't make it back to Washington with us.

I had a suitcase full of boys stuff including Heavy Metal and High Times magazines, the cars and other goodies from an entire summer round trip of America on Greyhound buses, Washington to Washington DC, down to Disneyworld the first year it opened, across to San Diego and back to Washington.

The Denver Zoo, Cincinnati Zoo, Chicago Field Museum, New York Met, Washington DC and Arlington, two days at the Smithsonian, Disneyworld, Daytona Beach, St Louis Arch, Savanna Georgia, Disneyland, The Queen Mary, etc, etc.

Man that beings back memories, but they lost my cars.......

[geardaddy]

64. I remember the Batmobile and James Bond Austin Martin

We didn't have those, but some friends of mine did. They were excellent toys.

[LeftInTX]

18. My little brother had Tonka Trucks, Matchbox Cars, and Hot Wheels

I loved all of them.

My sister and I played with Tinkertoys, Etch-A-Sketch and Barbies. However, I preferred my brother's stuff. Those Tonka Trucks were also lethal weapons.

[Runningdawg]

19. I'm old LOL

Etch-A-Sketch
View Master
Jacks
Creepy Crawlers - Anyone else remember that one?

[geardaddy]

20. We had all of those!

[earthshine]

24. I've played with them all, even the Barbie.

Legos win. No close competition.

Legos are a meta-toy. Make your own stuff.

I would build Star Trek starships, and then smack them into each other. (The Barbie would freak out when I did this. I would just tell her it was GI Joe's idea.)

Hot wheels, anyone?

[stonecutter357]

27. Big Trak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak

[geardaddy]

29. That looks cool!

I wish I had one of those!

[Binkie The Clown]

28. Erector Set

This is why I ended up being an engineer.

[hunter]

45. My grandpa was a wizard with exotic metals...

... skills he mysteriously acquired as an Army Air Corp officer in World War II. He fancied himself the daring fly boy but the Army recognized he'd be much more valuable on the ground, not to mention less dangerous. A certain autistic spectrum clumsiness was one of his more endearing traits, but he couldn't deal with that and overcompensated, playing the part of a manly man. My grandma saw through that.

My grandpa's mad metal skills later landed him a job as an engineer for the Apollo project.

My dad did not follow in his father's footsteps. He's an artist.

Thanks to my grandpa, me and my siblings had multiple Erector Sets to play with and we'd spend many hours building fanciful machines, but none of us became engineers. I started college as an engineering major, but I switched to biology partly because (I confess) there were so few women in engineering classes, usually one or two, and none I figured would ever notice me.

One of my brothers builds exotic motorcycles, another is a building contractor, and I do stuff with computers. I guess those are sort of like engineering. But mostly me and my siblings are artists.

My grandpa never embraced electronic computers. He was much more comfortable with his slide rules, tables, and graphs. When I was in college the student bookstores still had a magnificent selection of highly specialized graph papers and entire books of tables useful for all sorts of calculations.

[lame54]

30. Real Metal Tonka Trucks

[geardaddy]

31. I got this one for Christmas one year.

[lame54]

32. I had that one too

[geardaddy]

33. I loved that crane

My parents sold it at a garage sale when I was in college.

[Eugene]

55. I got the Mighty Dump for Christmas

It was passed on to relatives about 20 years later.

[dr.strangelove]

34. cowboy gun belt

we played cowboys and indians a lot as a kid. Westerns were popular when i was young.

[Iggo]

35. Them little plastic Army Men.

Viet Nam guys, Cowboys and Indians, GI's and Germans. Whatever...

Every kid on my street had hundreds of those little fuckers.

[geardaddy]

36. We did too.

We used to cut out parachutes from breadbags and tie them to the army men.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

37. Easy!

[VOX]

49. "You'll put your eye out, kid!"

Getting a Daisy was a big event!

[trueblue2007]

39. TINKER TOYS

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

40. You forgot Mr. Potato Head!

Back in the olden days we used actual potatoes.

[SonofDonald]

44. I remember those, real potatoes too.

So many toys I've forgotten about over the years.

Way cool thread by the way, the memories still exist but have to be tickled a bit to come back.

[SeattleVet]

56. We still use a Mr. Potato Head once in a while when we feed the octopus.

OK, now that I've confused pretty much everyone...

I volunteer at the Seattle Aquarium, and every so often we will use a Mr. Potato Head (the newer one, that comes with a plastic potato body). We open the back, wire the rest of the body parts on, and put food in it, and let the Giant Pacific Octopus figure out how to get the food out. GPO's are really smart, and inquisitive, and they eventually figure out how to get the food from the inside.

A few years ago the first time we gave it to one of our octopuses it took him about an hour to figure it out. After a few repetitions over several weeks he pretty much had it down. Just before we released him to the wild (for breeding) he was able to get the food out in 45 seconds.

Not too bad for an animal with a lifespan of 3-5 years!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

68. Cool!

I've been reading a book, "The Soul of an Octopus." They sound like fascinating creatures.

[geardaddy]

65. Oops!

Completely forgot that one!

[surrealAmerican]

42. also not mentioned in the poll ...

... Spirograph.

[hunter]

46. Damn, I'd obsess about neatly finishing at the exact point the pattern began to repeat.

[geardaddy]

66. Yes!

I forgot about that one too!

[AllaN01Bear]

43. model toy trains , matchbox and hotwheels cars . gi joe errector set. :)

other

[Stuart G]

47. Electric Trains that ran with a transformer...

The trains went on a table in the basement, had switches and lots of track. And other extras...

[VOX]

48. Marx Play Sets: Robin Hood, Civil War, Ben-Hur...

They came in a carton box, and had buildings, tents, trees, wagons (and chariots), fences, and dozens and dozens of figures. I would spend entire days moving everything around. Inside, outside, it didn't matter. I would just get consumed.

[OAITW r.2.0]

50. James Bond 007 Briefcase - circa 1964

Cannot find in Google Images, but, damn, it provided a lotta of thinking stuff. interaction-wise.

[Turbineguy]

51. Meccano

Wind up motors.

[MontanaMama]

52. A Big Wheel?

Insane fun in the cul de sac! A Chrissy doll and an E-Z Bake Oven.

[geardaddy]

67. All my friends had those.

I was so jealous. I got a hand-me-down two-wheeler from my brother.

[rusty quoin]

54. I liked G.I. Joes and then went to Hot Wheels. That was in the 60s.

I got a G.I. Joe Space Capsule

[SeattleVet]

57. That one is a much-in-demand collectible.

I've seen some in pretty poor shape go for huge prices.

It's one of the ones that many collectors are searching for.

[Doreen]

58. Breyer plastic horses.

I would bring up a picture but I have no clue how to post pictures from the net onto this site.

[geardaddy]

61. These?

My neighbor had some of those.

[Doreen]

69. Yup, those are it.

I still have some for decoration. At one time I had 100 but my flippin father left half of them in Germany. The SOB knew they were my favorite toy. I was never a doll girl.

[geardaddy]

70. Sorry your father was such a jerk.

I always wanted those. My friend had the armored horse with the knight. His sister had tons of western ones.

[Nay]

90. Oh, man. I had the white stallion, mare and foal. I loved them! I saved milk carton points

for MONTHS in order to pay for these horses; the dairy had a little catalog of things you could order and these horses were in that catalog. I was obsessed. I never knew what happened to these horses -- my mom probably gave them away.

Mom, that was mean.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

83. That's my answer too!

Between us my sister and I had dozens, including these four mares and their "families" (which included matching foals, stallions, rearing stallion, and ponies).

[Doreen]

87. Yup, I had the palomino and the white one.

I also had Misty and her foal stormy. I had a Thoroughbred mare who had a foal nursing from her.

[Rhiannon12866]

88. Oh, I had some of those, too!

[jpak]

71. Johnny 7 OMA

[geardaddy]

72. I would have killed to have that.

My parents were no toy guns kind of people.

[jpak]

73. You'll shoot your eye out kid.

But yeah - it was awesome.

[FakeNoose]

74. Did anybody mention Hula Hoops?

Those were big in my family when we were growing up, and just about every kid in the neighborhood had one. We had 3 or 4 that we'd swap around among my sisters and brothers, but I wasn't very good at hooping. Probably they'll become popular again, everything has a cycle.

[Nay]

91. Oh, hell yes. We played with them all the time. Also, has anyone mentioned yo-yos?

Some kids got crazy good with them -- "walk the dog," etc.

[FakeNoose]

92. Yo-yo's!

My cousin was so good with his yo-yo! We all tried to do it, but nobody could beat my cousin.
It's one of those things that are great when you're 10 or 11 years old.
After that we had too many important things to do.

[red dog 1]

75. Electric Train

Also Slinky and model airplanes that you put together with glue.

(I also had an Erector Set)

[Va Lefty]

76. Nerf football

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

77. Mine was this golf game...

that you would spring load and aim the golfer to hit the ball into 9 different holes... my older brother broke it the first week. Would LOVE to find a used one... it was my "Rosebud." (Citizen Kane reference for you movie fans.)

[guillaumeb]

78. I received a bag of coal every year.

I never learned to behave.

[ocd liberal]

79. Liddle Kiddles

and Barbies!

[Hoyt]

80. Yo-yos, tops, erector set, mechanical toys, chemistry sets, customized bicycles.

[Lunabell]

81. Good old Hobby Horse

When I was real little and big wheels when I was older.

[onecaliberal]

82. Mrs. Beasley

I have 4 brothers and it’s oretty much the only girl thing I had.

[lostnfound]

84. Chemistry set and some rotating jump rope thing

[Pachamama]

85. Playmobil

Had amazing themes including the Wild West and Castles....

Great German toy set....

[shenmue]

86. Lego Farm

[Nay]

89. Jacks! We played them all the time. Also, roller skates that clamped to your shoes. nt