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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.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Snowballs.

Made every snow day a great day.
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And making snow forts on opposite side of the street and having snow ball fights with your friends. Loved those days.
 
Kitaman said:
Garbage Can shields ruled!
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When the sun came out we used to try and blind the guys on the opposite site just before pelting them!:)
 
King of the Hill/Mountain anyone? My very first strong man competition.
 
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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"
 
Good god, how could I forget Legos. Greatest toy ever made. And plastic swords.
 
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 .
 
Rigging my bike like this ...

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mauconnfan said:
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"
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RAT patrol and whippin' dirt clods....the good ol days
 
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.
 
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Kitaman said:
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.
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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!!!!:oops:
 
Not sure if anyone mentioned, but I did enjoy wresting a bit when I was a kid in the 80's...
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UConn Dan said:
Not sure if anyone mentioned, but I did enjoy wresting a bit when I was a kid in the 80's...
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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.
 
Evil Knievel wind up stunt cycle was awesome:

Stretch Armstrong

For board games I liked Chutes & Ladders and Operation
 
Star Wars figures. Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker did some very bad things together. Who knew they were brother and sister?
 
Kitaman said:
Was lost in youtube the other day and checked out old toy commercials of my time. And I remembered playing with (pre-computer days):

Colorforms
Silly Putty
Etch a Sketch
Mouse Trap (my favorite)
GI Joe

Just a few going back memory lane. I'm sure young kids nowadays would probably last 10 seconds with some of these.

Anyone out there remember their non-computer toys when they were a kid?
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Mattel Fanner 50 cap guns with twin holsters. I killed a lot of guys with those bad guns.
 
When I was a youngster, the family was too poor to afford toys. Dad would cut holes in my pants pockets so I'd have something to play with.
 
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IndyMutt said:
When I was a youngster, the family was too poor to afford toys. Dad would cut holes in my pants pockets so I'd have something to play with.
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Strange, my parents sewed all of my pants pockets closed so I would play with my toys....
 
We used to take rolls of caps and smash them with a hammer. Or we'd fire caps in a gun really fast and inhale the smoke
 
I am so old .. that there were no computers when I was a kid.... and no "action figures" or any stuff like that. I was like IMind... my favorite plaything was the great outdoors... we just ran around out there all day... and made up all kinds of silly games. In the winter, my favorite "toys" were my classic "Flexible Flyer" sled (all wood and metal -- no plastic) and my ice skates (which I used on ponds .... never on an indoor or outdoor rink, mainly because there were NO rinks in my small semi-rural hamlet). Wow, it sounds like I grew up in the 19th century.
 
I am surprised nobody has mentioned marbles. I still have bags from the 60's.


Kitaman said:
Was lost in youtube the other day and checked out old toy commercials of my time. And I remembered playing with (pre-computer days):

Colorforms
Silly Putty
Etch a Sketch
Mouse Trap (my favorite)
GI Joe

Just a few going back memory lane. I'm sure young kids nowadays would probably last 10 seconds with some of these.

Anyone out there remember their non-computer toys when they were a kid?
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Our attic was the place to be all-day AFX slot car racing. Loved painting the cars to outdo the neybahood kidz.

Also, green army men and the Revolutionary War set. Plastic dinosaurs, too, as previously mentioned.

Daisy bee bee gun was vital for partaking in the war games out in the back woods.

A tobaggan. And a Rupp mini bike.

Ice skates.

Trac Ball. Frisbee.

Stratego, Monopoly, Battleship, Gnip Gnop, Mille Bournes (card game)

NFL Strategy game, StratoMAtic and APBA baseball games and of course...Wiffle freaking Ball !!
 
BB guns were long before paintball. We'd chase each other around using a metal garbage can lid as protection. No eye protection, which kind of seems dangerous, at this point. The trick was pumping your gun without dropping your shield.

Dove said:
Our attic was the place to be all-day AFX slot car racing. Loved painting the cars to outdo the neybahood kidz.

Also, green army men and the Revolutionary War set. Plastic dinosaurs, too, as previously mentioned.

Daisy bee bee gun was vital for partaking in the war games out in the back woods.

A tobaggan. And a Rupp mini bike.

Ice skates.

Trac Ball. Frisbee.

Stratego, Monopoly, Battleship, Gnip Gnop, Mille Bournes (card game)

NFL Strategy game, StratoMAtic and APBA baseball games and of course...Wiffle freaking Ball !!
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