What are some of your favorite toys from your childhood?
Let's name some of our favorite toys from our childhoods. Do any of you collect them or still have some of them around?:cool:
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That would depend on the age as to the toy. Slingshots, BB guns and Hot Wheels for a while then came fishing and after that girls :D after that I can not think of much maybe real guns and hunting.
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Here's a favorite!Attachment 997 I adored Liddle Kiddles! This is just one of many different ones!!!
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Mine was a piece of rope and a bag of rice.:)
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Well i would say the original nintendo, mainly Mike Tysons Punch Out or Kung Fu(because that was the only games we had. Does a bicycle count:shoethrow: :shoethrow: :question: :question:
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Okay Pokie, where I lived as a child we had alot of pidgeons. So I would make me a loop in one end, put it out in the yard and put some rice or bread inside the loop. I would take the other end of the rope and hide inside our shed at the back of the house. When a pidgeon would go in the loop I would jerk it to catch him. The bird would fly and I had the other end of the rope yelling DADDY! He would come out laughing because I would not let that rope go. He would put the pigeon in a bird cage, when I wasn't looking he would let it go and tell it got out, so off I'd go with the rope and the rice again. I would sit out there for hours waiting on a pidgeon. It taught me patience.:laugh:
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Everyone had a "slinky" didn't they? And an "eight ball". And what about those damn paddle and attached ball on a rubber band? I couldn't work that any better than I could the "hula hoop", but I had both at one time or another.
Never played with rope and rice but we did play a game in the woods called "three steps to Germany." The little kids would hide and the big kids would find us and question us.... ( which included some roughing up ) I never understood the game and it went out of style by the time I was old enough to be one of the "Germans". |
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I loved my Chatty Cathy doll! You pulled a string in her back and she could say all kinds of things like...." I love my mommy.":) |
I had this Nerf Tri-Plane, you know, a Fokker (no jokes, please), just like the "Red Baron" flew. I loved the damn thing, but it didnt fly worth a crap. Legos, and modeling clay, had a blast with those. And of course, the toy guns. Had this one toy gun in particular, was clip-fed, and shot these white plastic lozenge- shaped projectiles...been lookin for one of those ever since. Guess they dont make em anymore. Slinkies sucked, you could never get em to go down the stairs by themselves as they were advertised to do, which we all concluded to be bullsh*t. But some of the best stuff was what ya made yourself. If ya had a pocket knife, you'd just hunt around for a block of wood and whittle somethin out of it...sometimes it turned out great, sometimes it didnt, but it was fun gettin there.
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Barbies!!!! Lots and Lots of Barbies. I am sure JoePole probably played with them too!
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When I got a little older I ditched the dolls and began to play with bigger toys! My siblings and I would ride these all over the surrounding neighborhoods and the streets. I'm a small town girl so we just got a warning if we got caught. :D |
Johnny Astro!
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rockem-sockem-robots
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I loved those rock em sock em robots too. It was good having brothers because I got to play with the girl and boy toys!:cool:
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Actually, not a pageant girl first. Tomboy first. I believe I was hunting with my Daddy by the time I was four years old. I was my brother's football, yes they practiced football by throwing their infant sister across the room! It was great being the sister of EIGHT brothers! Don't mess with me much more Isaac. They do have my back.
I loved Atari!!! We had a whole lot of fun when that came out. |
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Hey little boy when are you going to learn to read?????????? Did I say that I was still a Tom Boy? I think not. I am a girly girl through and through. I love shoes (lots of them), girly clothes, and on and on it goes. Powder puff? NOT. You can take the girl out of the country but you can't take the country out of the girl which translates into "I can't whip your butt anytime, anyplace."
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Here's a fun toy that could occupy me for a long time provided I had many of those round slide photos. They were cool because they were in 3D too.:cool: |
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Super Ball by Whamo http://www.octhen.com/uploaded_image...all-753082.jpg Super Stuff by Whamo (no pic) Monster Magnet by Whamo http://wesclark.com/am/monster_magnet.jpg but the Water Wiggle by Whamo I did not like. http://www.geocities.com/MusicForNimrods/newwiggle.jpg enough for Whamo I liked slot car tracks and Cox airplanes and Revell models. Erector sets, Lego were cool too. |
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I have been wracking my brain to remember what the pink goo was called! Thanks! I found a photo of the packaging. Nowadays this would be the equivalent to that green slime. I just remember when the super stuff got debris in it it would get really funky and nasty!
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Rhertz reminded me of the old "Slip-N_Slide" by Whamo that we'd break out every summer. Remember? It was the forty foot long, 3 foot wide strip of yellow vinyl that ya hooked up to your waterhose, then took a runnin dive onto for some bone-jarrin, skin-bruisin fun! And how about those "Jarts" giant lawn darts that ya threw up in the air and ran like hell? Now thats entertainment!
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Yes I do remember those view-masters. they were pretty cool.. the images looked so sharp in those things.
Who would have known it would lead me into the world of 4-color process work and the scanning of slides in the printing business and a love of photography :) oh yea, speaking of Lawn Darts.. HOW FREAKIN' CRAZY was that.. I remember being all of 7 years old, me and friends, unsupervised.. "Hey, lets throw lethal lawn darts around the yard!" man was that fun :) |
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Yes those slip n slides are just an accident waiting to happen but a fun one at that! My parents hated how it killed the grass too. :laugh:
I remember the super stuff being pink but I had forgotten you have to mix it up an wait and wait for it to gel! As for the lawn darts I remember my dad and his friends having these big lawn dart tournaments on holidays and thinking that was cool to watch those giant darts go sailing across the sky! We played with them too...it's amazing we are all still here to talk about these so called toys from our past!:) |
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You two sound like you lived under the same type shell :laugh: Did either of you go to private school :D
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Yes I lived in a very nice shell and went to private school! Any problems with that? :rolleyes:
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Life is a journey not a destination ;)
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Now that sounds like a line from a song I have listen to. My favorite toy would be ......
Attachment 1096 guess which one ? :rolleyes: |
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