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

[mauconnfan]

I inherited a bunch from an uncle. Got involved in a cut throat game of marbles and lost some. My parents took the rest away and grounded me.

Crystal Poppers!! LOL

 

[intlzncster]

Little did we know back then ....

Also had an original huge Millennium Falcon which my mother gave away after a few years ...

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Still got mine. Too banged up to be worth anything though. I used my toys.

I preferred the trash compactor anyway.

 

[dsturdy5]

For as long as I can remember, I had Matchbox Cars/Hot wheels.

As I got a little older I got into GI Joe and Transformers. I even had the aircraft carrier!

Finally the WWF action figures. Those were damn fun. Between my neighbor and I, we could reenact most Wrestlemania matches.

As for outdoor toys, I was always on my bike or scooter. Snow forts were a necessity, especially living on a corner where the plows piled up the snow.

 

[DaddyChoc]

a game of 2-hand touch, kickball and hide & seek

 

[RS9999X]

In no order:

Monster Magnet
Superball
Beanie and Cecil hand puppet that talked.
Fireball XL-5 model
Astroboy anything
Matches (long story on that one)

 

[epark88]

Back in the day, it was all about Big Wheels and Green Machines in my neighborhood.

And if you didn't have one (like yours truly), you built your own ride: a large plank of wood, a cut-out milk crate for a seat, two smaller sticks for the axles, some steering rope, a braking lever, a bunch of old nails to hold everything together, and wheels of course - if you were lucky enough to find them, you rolled with baby-stroller wheels up front and old Big Wheel or Green Machine wheels in back.

We kids used to ride in packs and race each other, and with all the steep hills in Waterbury we had big fun with those things. Until we had to haul them back uphill, of course...

 

[RichZ]

A spaldeen.
Growing up in NYC, a spaldeen was a must for stick ball and stoop ball.

So I guess NYC got the good ones. In Bridgeport, all we got was the ones marked "second". Never saw the real thing in any of the store in my neighborhood in the fifties.

 

[GlastonTim]

I loved my Johnny Reb cannon.

 

[GlastonTim]

Anyone remember these http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...EIisaeV4y6TSM:;nwqF3X5IaFMNzM;9EIisaeV4y6TSM:

 

[Kitaman]

Ok I was just a little degenerate at times. I did pitch a few pennies in my youth (yes pennies). Not sure if youngsters know what I'm talking about.

 

[huskiesnyc]

GI Joe and ninja turtles

 

[temery]

Ok I was just a little degenerate at times. I did pitch a few pennies in my youth (yes pennies). Not sure if youngsters know what I'm talking about.

The trick was to aim at the ant hills against the wall. It's like landing a horseshoe in a horseshoe pit.

 

[Horatio]

1 The old GI Joes
2 Big Jim
3 Micronauts ( Toys and comic book).
4 The Adventure People
5 All comic books drawn by John Byrne , John Romita jr
And George Perez.

 

[DaddyChoc]

Back in the day, it was all about Big Wheels and Green Machines in my neighborhood.

And if you didn't have one (like yours truly), you built your own ride: a large plank of wood, a cut-out milk crate for a seat, two smaller sticks for the axles, some steering rope, a braking lever, a bunch of old nails to hold everything together, and wheels of course - if you were lucky enough to find them, you rolled with baby-stroller wheels up front and old Big Wheel or Green Machine wheels in back.

We kids used to ride in packs and race each other, and with all the steep hills in Waterbury we had big fun with those things. Until we had to haul them back uphill, of course...

our "go-carts" were made from the bottom of grocery store carriages... souped-up

 

[superjohn]

I was either in the woods or playing sports. Wiffle ball, football, basketball. Had a ping pong table in the basement, we would play all the time.

 

[husky8273]

Nok hockey
Hot Wheels
Lincoln logs

 

[DaddyChoc]

Evil Knievel wind up stunt cycle was awesome:

the best toy ever!

 

[BearJWS]

Not sure what was better, the cars or the music to the commercial...

 

[CAHUSKY]

Not sure what was better, the cars or the music to the commercial...

Loved these; only problem was it was impossible not to lose all the small parts that flew off when they smashed into eac other.

 

[Greathusky]

My favorite toy was the Cadaco All Star Baseball game. Each all star would have a disk with numbers around the outside. Each number stood for a baseball play. For example, the number one was a home run. The number three was a triple. Babe Ruth had a huge number one. The larger the width, the greater chance for that play.

I had teams setup in a league and kept very detailed stats on paper. This was before computers and the internet back in the late sixties.

 

[Dove]

My favorite toy was the Cadaco All Star Baseball game. Each all star would have a disk with numbers around the outside. Each number stood for a baseball play. For example, the number one was a home run. The number three was a triple. Babe Ruth had a huge number one. The larger the width, the greater chance for that play.

I had teams setup in a league and kept very detailed stats on paper. This was before computers and the internet back in the late sixties.

I used to invent my own dice game for a solitaire baseball game. I am amazed at how I perfected it over the years. Rainy days were fun by myself sometimes.

 

[CAHUSKY]

My favorite toy was the Cadaco All Star Baseball game. Each all star would have a disk with numbers around the outside. Each number stood for a baseball play. For example, the number one was a home run. The number three was a triple. Babe Ruth had a huge number one. The larger the width, the greater chance for that play.

I had teams setup in a league and kept very detailed stats on paper. This was before computers and the internet back in the late sixties.

LOVED that game. Jim Rice had a huge home run area too. Haven't thought of that game in years

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Stratomatic Baseball was big for us.

 

[IMind]

Ok I was just a little degenerate at times. I did pitch a few pennies in my youth (yes pennies). Not sure if youngsters know what I'm talking about.

The trick was to aim at the ant hills against the wall. It's like landing a horseshoe in a horseshoe pit.

Man I have vague memories of this from elementry school. Hadn't thought of it for years. This was in the early 80s...

 

[temery]

Man I have vague memories of this from elementry school. Hadn't thought of it for years. This was in the early 80s...

Late 60's, early 70's for me. Teachers didn't seem to have a problem with it.