Favorite Childhood Toy

AquaticAmbi · #1 11-06-2005, 06:10 PM

So what were some of your favorite toys when you were a kid? Today's choices seem pretty crappy for children. Why the hell do little girls love these disturbing Bratz dolls?!

I was so sheltered and didn't have many friends, so my stuffed animals were basically my company. Pretty good times we had. Like any typical little girl, I played with barbies and loved playing with doll houses. Cheap, plastic train sets kept me occupied for hours. Giga pets were great towards the last years of childhood, and I still love them today.

I collected Lisa Frank stationary from kindergarten until... well, present really. But the new stuff sucks now. They've stopped concentrating on fantastic animals and began making crap with characters that look almost exactly like Bratz dolls. (Not that anyone will know what I'm going on about, or care.)

Now, get in touch with your inner child.

SeaRex · #2 11-06-2005, 06:43 PM

Around pre-school, I was, like, crazy about toy trains.

Elementary school, Power Rangers.

After that, Sega Genesis, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and I never looked back.

Dipstikk · #3 11-06-2005, 06:58 PM

My collectable Dinosaurs (that old ABC comedy with puppets) figures, and my old stuffed animal collie.

But then my toy collection branched out and I lost track of the Dinosaur figurines. And I think my stuffed collie's eye-button came out.

used:) · #4 11-06-2005, 07:16 PM

lol, I just couldn't have one, I had a whole family of stuffed animals that took up the entire second bunk, and even some of the first bunk on my bunk bed! But out of my family there was one that stood out. He was a burgandy colored teddy bear named William and was my mother's when she was small. He pwns every other toy anyway

. I will pass him down to my kid someday as well.

Joshy · #5 11-06-2005, 09:54 PM

Pokemon Cards.

Splat · #6 11-07-2005, 07:08 AM

Despite having 4 older sisters I was generally left to entertain myselft so i had a lot of stuff. buckets of lego, toy dinosaurs and farm animals, a wooden trainset that I loved. Then my mum stuffed it up in the loft cus she said I didn't have room for it and I was miserable for days.

Take the lego! Anything but the trains!
I'm getting nostalgic, nice thread Ambi

Biggy Bro Slig · #7 11-07-2005, 08:38 AM

Playdough. Until I found out I was allergic to it. It makes me spew.

Mojo · #8 11-07-2005, 09:01 AM

Yarr! I used to eat that stuff. But anyways:

For me it was building-blocks, combined with plastic roads, and model cars, to make the ultimate highway. Which I destroyed later.

Then I got my NES. Most fun ever. Also, I played outside, I had this kick-ass electric car.

After that, it was Lego, combined with K'Nex. I still have that tho. Then I got my computer, and I got hooked. And then my Xbox. And I still use them.

dripik · #9 11-07-2005, 09:43 AM

I liked Lego the most, I played a lot with a Lego Technic kit I had since the age of 6, I think. I created so many things with it, like a submarine cut in half with detailed interior, or a tank-like vehicle which shot Lego bricks with a slingshot-method.

It's good to recall these old memories, cool thread, Ambi.

Oddish · #10 11-07-2005, 10:22 AM

I liked Lego aswell. Building was fun, and it was addictive. I aslo was a big fan of Dinosaurs,so I had a few of them, and the modern Godizilla was one of my favourites.

Statikk HDM · #11 11-07-2005, 10:56 AM

Toy cars and especially this toy tractor my granma got me.
Also, lots of stuffed animals. Action figures, too, like green army men and comic book characters and the like.

Mojo · #12 11-07-2005, 11:23 AM

I didn't do action-figures. I was a constructor, and not an "actor".

metroixer · #13 11-07-2005, 12:02 PM

I had and still kind of do have a stuffed pikachu which I held close to my heart. No kidding man. Also I had this nice collection of plastic frogs. Then I would make pikachu and the frogs fight each other. Great fun for me it was.

AquaticAmbi · #14 11-07-2005, 12:34 PM

Thanks, Splat and Dripik. ^_^ Heh, I'm one of the most nostalgic people I've ever met. [EDIT: and slightly schizophrenic apparently...]

Playdough! I loved that stuff. I still do! I spent SO many hours playing with it, makin' stuff. I also drew/colored a lot. I was a pretty creative kiddo. I always ended up mixing all the colors together and ending up with a nasty brown color though...

Legos and other building type things were great too.

***Nate*** · #15 11-07-2005, 02:43 PM

I liked building stuff with lego but I never had enough imagination to do anything cool. I guess that's why I never became an architect/civil engineer.

When I was very little I used to go to sleep with my 'Blue Bear', which was a teddy bear that was coloured blue. I'm a very literal person. It was actually stolen (name and all) from my brother when he grew out of it. One day it was gone, when my father decided that I was too old for that sort of thing.

Which says a lot about my childhood, really.

Abe16 · #16 11-08-2005, 04:23 PM

There's this Larry The Cable guy toy I have. It's pretty funny. Says lots of the stuff he actually says.

CheeseOfGlory · #17 11-08-2005, 08:38 PM

Ah... legos, jenga blocks, and of course the greatest invention of modern man: computer (games). Doom, Masters of Orion, Wolfenstein, Battle Bugs, Lords of the Realm, the list goes on.

Rabble rabble rabble

Leto · #18 11-08-2005, 11:01 PM

I used to treasure the Watties knock-off of a Mogwai they used for an advertising campaign. Something like if you sent in x number of barcodes you recieved a super Mogwai fake. I LUVD DOZE GREMLIMS

And yeah, who didn't play Doom back in the day. That and Rise Of The Triad, and the Mortal Kombats. I still remember when I saw my first fatality, I ran screaming upstairs.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been playing those games as such a young'n.

used:) · #19 11-09-2005, 02:50 AM

Ayy! You got that line from AIM Letoz0rz!

Fuzzle Guy · #20 11-09-2005, 06:44 AM

Oh god, where do I start. Well first I used to carry my Cuddly-Toy spud everywhere with me! He is still my favourite toy, weather or not he is stuffed in a binbag up in the attick somewhere.
Then I used to love my Buzz Lightyear. The Lumier toy, then my Crash Bandicoot Cuddly-Toy, then my Kinder Egg Pixie, who would always be in my pocket until he fell into the vending machine at B&Q the other day

Oh yeah, and when I first started making movies, Lego. Because of Lego Studios. now though, it has to be plastercene, because I am making a full leangth film out of it.

***Nate*** · #21 11-09-2005, 09:04 AM

I can't stand the way that toys today are all robotic with moving arms and cameras that recognise you and shit. Remember the day when a toy that made a noise when you pressed a button was amazing technology?

All these 'improvements' do nothing but erode children's imaginations. It used to be fun when you would play with your superman doll to make it fly around the room. Now it does it on it's own, whether you're there or not.

Splat · #22 11-09-2005, 09:59 AM

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It used to be fun when you would play with your superman doll to make it fly around the room. Now it does it on it's own, whether you're there or not.

lol

I too had fun with plastercene and too discovered the nasty brown colour between red, blue, green, yellow, purple, black, white...
I used to mold it all together into one big blob, then shape it into a big cliff or rock or something and nick the toys from my sister's polly-pocket and make them walk round it (they were the only things available that were small enough!)

I used to do a similar thing with mashed potato actually, that was a lot easier to shape. And I use to dig paths in a plate of rice and imagine it to be a racetrack. Then I'd eat is as slowly as possible, one grain at a time to keep the course in tact. I didn't get into computer games until I was 8 or 9.

Leto · #23 11-09-2005, 06:53 PM

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Ayy! You got that line from AIM Letoz0rz!

WTF are you on about? 'Peace out niggaz' is a most common saying.

Just on the subject of infancy and toys/things for enjoyment, at the kindergarten that I went to, there was a woodshop type thing, for toddlers. With hammers, nails and the like. I'm surprised we all survived that place. ^_^

Dino · #24 11-09-2005, 07:16 PM

^^ Leto was my childhood toy.

I remember when I was younger, I wanted some of those little gremlin thingies, but my dad wouldn't let me have any because he said they were satanic or something. (my dad has since perished on a cross, risen from the dead, and floated up to heaven... IN HIS MIND)

ANN NEELY · #25 11-10-2005, 02:37 AM

My Poke'mon action figures. Jesus, I could play with those for HOURS. I used to make these totally rediculous mini-dramas with them.
My N64 (hot graphics back then!)
A Fisher-Price dollhouse

Ok, I confess, I still sleep with a teddy bear (Actually, it's an Alien stuffed toy, named Quoren)

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In'nit just adorable?

Fuzzle Guy · #26 11-10-2005, 02:41 AM

I want that Alien! On the subject of Alien, has anyone got the chestburster plush toy?

Cyber-Slig · #27 11-10-2005, 07:24 AM

PS1/Gameboy. And Pokemon Cards, damn those things were great.

ANN NEELY · #28 11-10-2005, 12:11 PM

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Pokemon Cards, damn those things were great.

I totally agree with you! I still have two big boxes of them, and play against my younger cousins.

used:) · #29 11-10-2005, 12:18 PM

Yeah, Pokemon cards were fun, but most people didn't actually play the game, they just collected them. I played it though.

Leto · #30 11-10-2005, 04:17 PM

I used to have some alien action figurines, but shite, that thang is kool.

I am Dino's plaything.