The top 100 rated toys from our childhood. What was your favorite?

[Quixote1818]

This site will take you back a few years and bring back some magical memories of looking through the magical photos in the Sears catalog before Christmas. I actually had a number of these toys.


http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/index.html

I noticed they left off most of my favorites including my Dinosaur set complete with rock caves and cavemen. My elaborate Army set, train set, Western Fort with Cowboys and Indians and King Arthur's Castle! How is it that a Dinosaur Set didn't make it on the list?

[arwalden]

1. Superball, Wheelo, Mousetrap Game, GI Joe, Whizzers, Hot Wheels,

Operation game, Creepy Crawlers Thingmaker

[Quixote1818]

2. I am surprised GI Joe didn't make the top 100 list

EVERYONE had a GI Joe and a 6 Million Dollar Man that you could look through the bionic eye!!

[RetroLounge]

3. Jarts!

RL

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. KER-PLUNK!

It was named Cai-Não-Cai (Fall-Won't-Fall) in Brazil! I had one of those when I was 6!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. SIMON! (Was called "Genius")

[CanuckAmok]

5. Lego!

I still have my childhood Lego... it's still fun!

[ashling]

8. Legomaniacs unite!

Lego is the one true way to world peace.

[Briarius]

9. I agree, legos!

I used to build all sorts of stuff. I never got the monorail for christmas like I wanted though :cry: If anyone ever gets the chance to go to legoland, it's amazing and I highly recommend it!

[buzz93]

11. Legos

I like the legos the best and then it would be a good ole duncan yoyo

[blondeatlast]

14. I got my first set while recuperating from a childhood coma.

I was in the hospital for a couple of months and those things kept my sanity for certain.

The whole family played with them together, we ended up with literally thousands of pieces.

I wish they'd make ordinary sets again without all the fancy stuff. I still enjoy them with my little one.

[nonconformist]

15. Legos are both timeless and ageless.

My oldest son wants to be a designer for Lego when he grows up.

[DS1]

6. 41

[ashling]

10. Licoln Logs, Erector Sets and

Gilbert Chemistry Set . . . really added something to Rockem-Sockem-Robots: Kabooom!

[Quixote1818]

30. I liked Lincoln Logs as well nt

[NV Whino]

12. Cigar boxes

They superseded all manufactured toys.

On edit: Except the Erector Set.

[jmowreader]

13. Especially the ones with the cigars still in them!

:evilgrin:

[NV Whino]

16. I only got the empty ones.

Which is probably just as well.

[samplegirl]

17. Ok what happened to Cootie, Mystery Date, and my all time

favortie toy........Flower Power and creepy crawlers

[AlCzervik]

18. legos and board games, i loved Clue and Risk and Battleship!!

i bought battleship for game night at my house and my daughter and husband love to play--they never give me a chance. :cry:

[Quixote1818]

20. You sunk my Battleship!!!!

nt

[HEyHEY]

19. Where's "Throwing snowballs at cars"?

[Scooter24]

21. I don't know if anyone remembers these

form the late 80's. The Food Fighters!! With Burgerdier General, Private Pizza, Lieutenant Leg, Sergeant Scoot, and others. They even had their own villains like Fat Frenchy, Taco Terror, and Mean Weener. :)



I used to play with these all the time :P

[Z_I_Peevey]

22. Clackers, man, clackers.

Mine were purple.

[Ptah]

23. I could only find an advertisement for this one:

Dr Suess Zoo - plastic pieces of various bizarre creatures.

[Awsi Dooger]

24. Battling Tops

Spinning plastic tops that toppled each other or knocked each other out of the little arena. Last top still spinning wins. I was always Hurricane Hank.

[Ksec]

25. Sonic Blaster..remember that one?

I also liked Rockem Sockem Robots.

Sonic Blaster looked like a bazooka and you pumped it up and it made a huge boom and a rush of air came out.

[Ksec]

32. Heres a Sonic Blaster

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:Gf7ep4fnyd8J:wesclark.com/am/sonic_blaster.jpg

[Ksec]

33. nevermind/

[Faygo Kid]

26. Dinosaurs - Me too! With the cavemen, and rock cave.

You must be old like me, or a supporter of the new Creation Museum in Tennessee. I lectured (poorly) on dinosaurs to the rest of my elementary school in 5th grade (JFK was president). Thanks for the post. My TV cowboy figures were important, too, and I was a charter member of the Huckleberry Hound Fan Club. So there.

[Quixote1818]

29. Yes, I actually always left the cavemen out because I knew

they lived at different times than the Dinosaurs. I was a stickler for realism.

[Faygo Kid]

34. Since I named my dinosaurs, realism wasn't a concern

But, I was a voracious reader in elementary school, and Roy Chapman Andrews was my hero. Still, I was a kid, and I still have my rubber dinosaurs from my 5th grade lectures, and I look forward to my senility, when I can break them out again.

[Darth_Kitten]

27. I always wanted an Eazee Bake Oven...

But I guess Barbie and her clothes have to win out. I also loved my board games.

:)

[Quixote1818]

28. I am a guy and I always wanted an easy bake oven

The photo of the chocolate cake inside the oven always got me. This is the first time I have ever admitted I wanted a girls toy.

[Darth_Kitten]

35. it was too cool....the little cake packages and the icing.....

you could put on it. :)

I always loved cake. :)

Hey, many of the greatest chefs are men, and where did they start? with their easy bake ovens, no less. ;) :evilgrin: LOL

[Beware the Beast Man]

31. I actially saw a commercial for Weebles the other day.

And like the new Fisher Price Little People, they have arms. That's just not right.

[Bluzmann57]

36. Holy Crap! I still have a few of those toys!

Rubik's Cube, which I still haven't figured out, and radio controlled car. Also another fave was Hot Wheels. Now those were toys! On a side note, the radio controlled car I have now isn't exactly a toy. It's not quite a typical toy store radio controlled car. There, now I feel more grown up or something.

[obxhead]

37. Construx!!! kicked Lego ass.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

38. Conspicuously Missing?

EZ Bake Oven
Etch a Sketch
G.I. Joe
Barbie

Though they did get some good ones in there.

[Quixote1818]

40. Etch a sketch is their I think, but G.I. Joe and Barbie missing???

I mean come on! Those two toys were HUGE!!!!! Everyone had one.

[Poiuyt]

39. Matchbox cars

Whenever I was sick, I could play with them in bed. I would pretend that the folds in my quilt were roads and hills.

I think I still have mine up in the attic.

[Nikia]

41. What about tinker toys, lincoln logs?

And of course, as others have mentioned legos. I liked building things when I was young.