What Was Your Favorite Toy as a Kid?

[Supervisor42]

I checked the forum and couldn't believe we didn't have a thread on this.
For me it was obvious, being a gear-head since age-6, The Erector Set.
Everything I built used the motor and moved.
Only tool needed, was imagination!

How about you?

 

[Mountain trapper]

I had an erector set and chemistry set, but my favorite was an old hand me down Steven's .22 single shot rifle.

 

[dademoss]

As kids, we all played with Hot Wheels track, could build quite a course if all the kids were around.
Otherwise, riding bikes or catching crawdads in the creek behiind the school.

 

[Amish Heart]

A stuffed monkey holding a rubber banana. I actually found a replica at Cracker Barrel. Also a rubber knife. And a skipping toy...put the plastic ring around your ankle, give it a swing, a jump over it.

 

[Bacpacker]

I had a erector set, and a bunch of hot wheels, both had a lot of time playing with. Lincoln Logs were fun, as were tinker toys. My favorites were my John Deere all metal tractors, balers, disk, etc. And All metal Tonka trucks.

 

[UrbanHunter]

I had a rubber-band gun, looked a little like a 1911, add toy army men and I was set for hours....

 

[LadyLocust]

Oh yeah, I had Lincoln logs too. We played Huck Fynn and tried to make raft to float in the irrigation ditch, climbed trees, rode our bikes. Those aren’t really toys, but that’s how we played. I loved anything art. I got a spiralgraph one year and loved it.

 

[Pearl]

Horses!!

 

[Bacpacker]

Oh yeah, I had Lincoln logs too. We played Huck Fynn and tried to make raft to float in the irrigation ditch, climbed trees, rode our bikes. Those aren’t really toys, but that’s how we played. I loved anything art. I got a spiralgraph one year and loved it.

I forgot about the Spriograph, That was fun too

 

[Mountain trapper]

From an early age I'd ride my horse with that old .22 rifle and bring my dog and spend days in the mountains. Camping out, hunting squirrels, trapping and fishing. Didn't need anything else.

 

[d_marsh]

This was it.

Actually I had a two gun set, one was an M1A1 and the other was a 1911. I played war for hundreds of hours with those toy guns. At the end of their life they were covered in both electrical tape and duct tape to hold them together.

 

[Mountain trapper]

This was it.

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Actually I had a two gun set, one was an M1A1 and the other was a 1911. I played war for hundreds of hours with those toy guns. At the end of their life they were covered in both electrical tape and duct tape to hold them together.

Every boy should have a bazooka growing up.

 

[dademoss]

This was it.

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Actually I had a two gun set, one was an M1A1 and the other was a 1911. I played war for hundreds of hours with those toy guns. At the end of their life they were covered in both electrical tape and duct tape to hold them together.

Sure, we had sticks

 

[d_marsh]

Sure, we had sticks

Single dad's don't buy a lot of toys, but when they do, they rock.

Found it!

 

[Peepaw from Tex]

Mattel handheld football game , had my azz beat many a time with Hot Wheels track don't know what hurt worse that or a cheap brown extension cord.

 

[Patchouli]

I had a white kitty that squeaked when you squeezed it. First toy I remember and cherished for a few years.
Little kiddles, they were baby sisters of Barbie. I thought Barbie was weird.
A small stuffed bear on a leash that I got at Skyline Drive when I was 7.
Yes, bike riding, running around outside, going down into the woods across the road, swampy, scary. Lol

 

[Supervisor42]

Single dad's don't buy a lot of toys, but when they do, they rock.

Found it!
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We sure had cool toys back then!
It's a shame they are 'forbidden' today.

 

[d_marsh]

We sure had cool toys back then!
It's a shame they are 'forbidden' today.

Also makes me wonder if the low military enlistments have anything to do with that. My toy rifle said US Army on the stock and I knew from that day on I was going to be a soldier.

 

[Supervisor42]

Also makes me wonder if the low military enlistments have anything to do with that. My toy rifle said US Army on the stock and I knew from that day on I was going to be a soldier.

Well, you triggered me (pun).
Who else had corkball guns?
Put a greenie-stick'em cap on the striker plate, drive a corkball down the barrel with the ramrod, and POW you could shoot your brother!
They had a vent-hole drilled in the side of the barrel near the breach because they knew it wouldn't take long for us to figure out 2 or 3 caps piled up worked much better than 1.
We just pulled the barrel out and turned it around to get rid of the vent hole.
Our weapon of choice:

When we got to be teenagers, we figured out by adding a little black powder, you could shoot more than corkballs.

(Yes, we were smart enough not to shoot them at each other, but tin cans were not safe.)

 

[Bacpacker]

Every boy should have a bazooka growing up.

Agreed. Someone got me a cardboard bazooka. It actually fired a plastic round maybe 20 to 30 feet.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Agreed. Someone got me a cardboard bazooka. It actually fired a plastic round maybe 20 to 30 feet.

Any kind of firearm is good for a boy growing up.

 

[Ekatarina]

I had Teddy Bears and I still have them
and a tiger

 

[Bacpacker]

Any kind of firearm is good for a boy growing up.

Yeah the Daisy lever action was a lot of fun too

 

[Supervisor42]

Yeah the Daisy lever action was a lot of fun too

BB-guns? "You'll shoot yer eye out!"
Also forbidden today.
No wonder we have so many boys today that want to wear dresses .

 

[Amish Heart]

I had a white kitty that squeaked when you squeezed it. First toy I remember and cherished for a few years.
Little kiddles, they were baby sisters of Barbie. I thought Barbie was weird.
A small stuffed bear on a leash that I got at Skyline Drive when I was 7.
Yes, bike riding, running around outside, going down into the woods across the road, swampy, scary. Lol

I really liked kiddles, too. I'd make them a little house out of an empty shoe box. I'd ride my bike everywhere, too, it had a banana seat with big flowers on it.

 

[Patchouli]

My purple banana seat and monkey handle bars. ha ha. And streamers on the ends of the bars. No helmets!!!

 

[Pearl]

Horses!!

And LAWN DARTS!!

 

[Ekatarina]

I had my Scottish Goat that I did love love love love

She was NOT a toy she was my friend