OT: Favorite toys while growing up....

[businesslawyer]

Born in 1959. Most favorite toy ever, with nothing a close second, was one of the table hockey games with the players on rods.

 

[SoFla Steve]

Also, chemistry sets! Always made my mother a bit uneasy . . . and not without some justification.

 

[87Xfer]

Also, chemistry sets! Always made my mother a bit uneasy . . . and not without some justification.
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Oh, yeah! I nearly asphyxiated, poisoned or blew myself up with mine on a number of occasions!

 

[CHIROMIKE]

Not good at posting pictures. But I amused myself with the vibrating football game. Players would move across the board haphazardly. Had small felt football

 

[Spaceman213J]

Only old farts will recognize this toy:

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My dad had his from when he was a kid and when I was placed in the gifted program at my school, he dusted the collection off and encouraged me to build stuff. He also got out his old train set and we built elaborate bridges and sets to go with the train sets.

 

[Spaceman213J]

I grew up on Transformers, G.I. Joe, M.A.S.K. and they were a quick fad... key cars. But the Christmas I received Optimus Prime, was the Christmas I had bragging rights over my friends. I still have it. It's a little worn, but it's up on the shelf in one the rooms of my house.
I also love that they are reissuing some of these. I'm getting my great nephew into them. He has his own OP now without the trailer. We also build the Lego Speed Champions cars. I get one every few months.
Now, I'm waiting for Hasbro to reissue G.I. Joe and M.A.S.K. because I know he'll love them.

For sentimental reasons, I loved my SNES. I was assure my parents couldn't afford it. It was the last time I was truly surprised on Christmas day.

 

[RichZ]

Toys? We didn't have no stinkin' toys. We had jobs.
Seriously, I was one of three brothers, and don't recall any toys that were specifically mine. I had a hunting knife, does that count? I threw it through my foot playing mumbletypeg.
Oh, I remember one. A parachute. A big, orange one. I saw it coming down from the sky one day. It landed on the roof of a neighbor's house. Told my father, and he called Town Hall. They sent the fire department to retrieve the black box from the weather balloon. Before satellites, they used balloons to gather data to help forecast weather. So I asked the fireman if I could have the parachute. He gave it to me. We used to take it and a 5 gallon paint bucket full of trap rock to the top of the scaffolding on a billboard and toss it off. That's what passed for fun when I was like 10.
Then the weird little kid from the corner, whose over protective mother had finally allowed him to play with the other kids in the neighborhood decided to dump the rocks,put his feet in the bucket and hop off the scaffolding. We all told him he was going to get killed. But he just broke a whole bunch of bones. The cops took the parachute away.

 

[Bezzz]

...and:

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No wonder I wanted to be an architect. (I did not become an architect)

So, I had them all, and loved them. Tinkertoys, Lincoln Logs, Bricks and the Erector Set. Then i grew up and became an architect. Go figure.

 

[Deepster]

Dove the picture of a kid in the woods acting like Chuck Connors but wearing satin shorts? Just don't see it sorry.

He shot his eye out for SURE.

 

[8893]

Not good at posting pictures. But I amused myself with the vibrating football game. Players would move across the board haphazardly. Had small felt football

That would be near the top of my worst toys list. That game was terrible.

 

[JB75]

I grew up on Transformers, G.I. Joe, M.A.S.K. and they were a quick fad... key cars. But the Christmas I received Optimus Prime, was the Christmas I had bragging rights over my friends. I still have it. It's a little worn, but it's up on the shelf in one the rooms of my house.
I also love that they are reissuing some of these. I'm getting my great nephew into them. He has his own OP now without the trailer. We also build the Lego Speed Champions cars. I get one every few months.
Now, I'm waiting for Hasbro to reissue G.I. Joe and M.A.S.K. because I know he'll love them.

For sentimental reasons, I loved my SNES. I was assure my parents couldn't afford it. It was the last time I was truly surprised on Christmas day.

Yes. Ahhh the mid 80s when transformers and GI joe ruled the boys wishlists and cabbage patch dolls for the girlies. Lol. Brings back some great memories, when toys r us was king.

 

[RichZ]

Not good at posting pictures. But I amused myself with the vibrating football game. Players would move across the board haphazardly. Had small felt football

My next door neighbor had one of those.

 

[B1GEast]

The sound of this ball hitting someone was joy

 

[Devland]

Only old farts will recognize this toy:

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The first thing I thought of when I read the title of this thread was the erector set. What is more kid friendly then sharp edged pieces of metal and small screws and nuts? Well, maybe a game of Jarts.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Stretch Armstrong’s arch nemesis Vac-Man

 

[HCCForever]

My next door neighbor had one of those.

I had one of these as well. What a joke. Supposedly, you could adjust the little white pieces of plastic under the players to make them run routes. Never worked for me.

 

[CL82]

That would be near the top of my worst toys list. That game was terrible.

Well yeah, but he amused himself with it while it was vibrating so...

 

[Devland]

Head to head baseball from Coleco

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Connecticut Leather Company- Talk about a company that evolved. They started out making shoe parts.

 

[B1GEast]

 

[UC313]

I grew up on Transformers, G.I. Joe, M.A.S.K. and they were a quick fad... key cars. But the Christmas I received Optimus Prime, was the Christmas I had bragging rights over my friends. I still have it. It's a little worn, but it's up on the shelf in one the rooms of my house.
I also love that they are reissuing some of these. I'm getting my great nephew into them. He has his own OP now without the trailer. We also build the Lego Speed Champions cars. I get one every few months.
Now, I'm waiting for Hasbro to reissue G.I. Joe and M.A.S.K. because I know he'll love them.

For sentimental reasons, I loved my SNES. I was assure my parents couldn't afford it. It was the last time I was truly surprised on Christmas day.

Key cars!! I totally forgot about those.
Them hard plastic wrestling figures were the most violent household weapon my brother and I ever had.

 

[Hoophound]

Not sure if it counts as a toy, but if any one of you sat down to a meal with my mother and asked about Hoophound as a kid, she’d tell you how many Big Wheels I wore out. She insists those were so far and away the best thing they ever bought my brother and I and frankly, I wish I had one right now, so she’s probably right.

 

[Hoophound]

We also liked Stompers and Nerf footballs. Playing “diving catches” with a Nerf football on a nice lawn or in the snow is a classic CT boy activity.

 

[Kitaman]

I was a teen when I got addicted to this game. My friends and I would play for hours:

 

[8893]

Playing “diving catches” with a Nerf football on a nice lawn or in the snow is a classic CT boy activity.

In my neighborhood--and family--you had to be careful that some jackal didn't dip it in water and freeze it before throwing it to you.

 

[8893]

I was a teen when I got addicted to this game. My friends and I would play for hours:

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Started smoking dope that early?