Very OT: Favorite non-computer toy(s) growing up

[BearJWS]

My favorite "stuffed animal" was my Flipper the dolphin!!...........I played Sandy on my bed the floor was the ocean.....LOL

LOL - Sometimes there's just things you shouldn't reveal. T.M.I.
Did you also play Lassie and fall in the well like Timmy did?

 

[EricLA]

My Big Wheel. Used to ride that thing everywhere. I'd even hook up our German Shepherds to it with their leashes and get them to pull me. MUSH!

 

[Chin Diesel]

Snowballs.

Made every snow day a great day.

 

[John]

I was big into The 6 Million Dollar Man and loved this:

Gotta do the sound effect

ChhhhChhhhChhhhhChhhhhh

 

[mauconnfan]

http://voices.yahoo.com/top-ten-toys-yesterday-1960s-681247.html

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/60stoys.html

Holy crap how could I forget about my Rock'em Sock'em Robots? And the Hot Wheels..........

 

[ctchamps]

Lincoln Logs,
PlaySkool Wooden Train,
Lionel Santa Fe Train (O Gauge) simple oval circuit,
Green Army Men,
plastic dinosaurs,
Chutes and Ladders
Mr. Potato Head
Balsa JetFire Wood Glider
Wiffle Ball
Chalk to play street games such as Four Square and Hop Scotch (Yeah as an 8 year old I loved beating the girls in my neighborhood who were in their preteens)
Jacks
Slinky
Paddle Ball Toy
Croquet
Hide and Seek
Tag
Ringalerio
Roller Skating
Cowboys and Indians with my buddies starting with sticks as guns but later getting:
Cap Guns
Paper Cap rolls (loved to try to explode entire rolls)
Tag Football
Swings
Sledding
Yo Yo's with most of the time untangling the string.
Romper Room Stick Horse
Ant Farm
Erector Set
Cards
Rolling down hills to get high
And just staring at the clouds.

 

[ctchamps]

Snowballs.

Made every snow day a great day.

And making snow forts on opposite side of the street and having snow ball fights with your friends. Loved those days.

 

[Kitaman]

And making snow forts on opposite side of the street and having snow ball fights with your friends. Loved those days.

Garbage Can shields ruled!

 

[ctchamps]

Garbage Can shields ruled!

When the sun came out we used to try and blind the guys on the opposite site just before pelting them!

 

[Poe]

Transformers
T.M.N.T.s
Super Soakers

 

[Kitaman]

King of the Hill/Mountain anyone? My very first strong man competition.

 

[mauconnfan]

Just playing "army" with the machine guns and fake grenades in a nice pile of dirt with your buddies and making the noises was great...........Rat Patrol w/o the Jeep....or Combat I was "Cage"

 

[intlzncster]

Good god, how could I forget Legos. Greatest toy ever made. And plastic swords.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Erector sets
Lincoln Logs
Cap and BB guns
Wrist Rockets (sling shots)
Toy Hockey Game (Leafs vs Canadiens)
Models, WWII stuff
had a palstic rocket you pumped up with water pressure, later an occasional Estes rocket.
balsa, rubberband driven airplanes
slot cars
train set
Dont know if it qualifies as a toy but I loved my old Robin Roberts baseball glove .

 

[ZenConn]

Rigging my bike like this ...

 

[seanmc94]

Just playing "army" with the machine guns and fake grenades in a nice pile of dirt with your buddies and making the noises was great...........Rat Patrol w/o the Jeep....or Combat I was "Cage"

RAT patrol and whippin' dirt clods....the good ol days

 

[Dogbreath2U]

Dirt clod fights with other groups of kids was just about the best. There was a big construction site that became a mini-mall, but when it was all dug up, it was the greatest battle ground ever. Amazing that no one ever seemed to really get hurt.

 

[Kitaman]

Rigging my bike like this ...

That's depressing, Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and so on, went with the bike in the trash. Modified bikes at today's value would be worth thousands of dollars.

 

[seanmc94]

Ever take your bike off any sweet jumps?

 

[mauconnfan]

That's depressing, Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and so on, went with the bike in the trash. Modified bikes at today's value would be worth thousands of dollars.

How about the 3-D baseball cards in the cereal boxes.........hate to say this but my friends and I were so addicted used to stand on each end of the isle at Grand Union and Meriden while one of us ripped bottoms out to tget the cards.........OMG that was terrible.........wish I had them all because I did!!!!

 

[mauconnfan]

Ever take your bike off any sweet jumps?

Of course the banana seat and sissy bar!!! It went any and everywhere!!!

 

[UConn Dan]

Not sure if anyone mentioned, but I did enjoy wresting a bit when I was a kid in the 80's...

 

[Vuce]

I was big into The 6 Million Dollar Man and loved this:

I had this too Deep. Plus a six million dollar man lunchbox!

 

[seanmc94]

Not sure if anyone mentioned, but I did enjoy wresting a bit when I was a kid in the 80's...

We used to turn the lights off in the basement and throw handfuls of Musclemen at each other. When my buddy bought his parents house and ripped up the basement; we found dozens of these things.

 

[CAHUSKY]

Evil Knievel wind up stunt cycle was awesome:

Stretch Armstrong

For board games I liked Chutes & Ladders and Operation