What is your favorite childhood toy?

[T4Texas]

Some years go, I ran a collectible toy store in a local antique mall. One of my favorite things was to ask my customers what their favorite childhood toy was. Not only did it give me information, but you could see the look of nostalgia in their eyes as they described their favorite and maybe for just a minute, no matter what their current problems, it took them back to a happier place and time.
So what is your favorite, the thing you remember playing with the most? I had mostly boy toys growing up and my favorite was the Marx Best of the West Geronimo and General Custer.

[Elijah]

I had a Flip Wilson/Geraldine doll...makes a lot more sense, now. *laughs

[Guy]

I had a few favorites growing up,

Rockem'Sock'em Robots

Hot Wheels and the track, the orange track with the power - paks to make them go faster

Slot Car Racing set, I still have the cars

The board game "Smess"

A marx shooting gallery, it shot small metal balls

and I had a rubber horseshoe game that I loved

[dixie]

I had a Flip Wilson/Geraldine doll...makes a lot more sense, now. *laughs

omg! I lovvvvved Geraldine! I still have my old records. :)


I'm not sure what my fav toys were. I think I'd have to go with my Tonka set. They were huge (well, huge to a kid lol) steel toys that were rideable and workable! I had the dump truck, backhoe and bulldozer. They were yellow. I loved them. I spent hours digging and hauling dirt and rocks. I still had the dump truck until a couple years ago when I decided to make a planter out of it for my gramma. Now it's sitting in her front yard full of pretty flowers...lol

[dixie]

I still have my Hungry Hippos game too. The game was ok but it was much more fun daring my younger cousins to shove those little balls up their noses...lol

[Ciaran]

My favorite childhood toys were typically elephant-related ... started out with the famous childrens' books about the adventures of Babar the Elephant. Even today, I find it hard to resist a cuddly elephant in a toystore.


I much more likely cuddly toys than dolls, whether boy or girl-themed, although I confess to loving this doll that I was given as a present only a few years ago .... I'm not necessarily sympathetic towards all of Dr Laura's views, or the way that she presents them, but I do confess that I've a bit of a crush on her, esp with her yellow stilletoes:

http://i926.photobucket.com/albums/ad103/ulyssesgq/drlaura.jpg

[AtLast]

Had two- Tonka Trucks and a Thumbalina doll. Hummmm... sort of carried this through adulthood. I like being a mix of female and male.

[Rockinonahigh]

Thats an easy one for me,I had Lincon loggs,farm and ranch sets.tou horses of all kind with every emagnal accesoire to be had.Onde I bought a huge toy pickup truck with a goose neck trailer with all the horses to put in it..I was about 9 or so.I built all kinds of ranch setups,rodeo arenas,pasture sceans with trees as well as horses..wasnt to long till I finaly got a drivers licence at 15 that I had my first real ntruck and gooseneck trailer that looks very much like the toy ones I had as a kid...only they were the real thing with real horses...Oh yes,I was on topof the worls with all that...liveing the dream.

[blackboot]

THIS!

http://www.spookshows.com/toys/vacuform/vacuform-front-of-box.jpg

[blackboot]

and THIS!

http://austinthompson.org/Thingmaker/Mattel/Packaging/4477-Thingmaker.jpg

[Guy]

I love the thing maker, and I still have mine :candle:

[blackboot]

Santa brought me THIS when I was 12.

http://scooter.lst1090.org/steen168.jpg

[Luv]

My schwinn bike with a banana seat,a sissy bar,and extended forks,,of course with a card being held by a wooden clothes pin hitting the spoke ! lol !

Other than that,,my slinky and my etch-a-sketch !

oh yea,,and my Johnny and Jane West dolls with the horses ( They used to beat up GI Joe and barbie ) :)

[WolfyOne]

These were my 2 favorites as a kid

http://www.feelingretro.com/toys/images/edibles.gifhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KV2TKQ2WL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

On days when I didn't visit my cousins bakery, I liked playing with this, http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/pict/1505962220204040_1.jpg

[Venus007]

OOOH!
I loved my:
Lincoln logs
Girder and panel set
Mousetrap game
matchbox cars

and the best of all were all sorts of little plastic animals -I had in several coffee cans full of them. I had hundreds of them and would play with them for HOURS.

I also loved my Jane West doll and would make her do "things" (insert eyebrow waggle) to my sister's Barbies and my Lone Ranger doll (the pervieness arrived early)

[Luv]

OOOH!
I loved my:
Lincoln logs
Girder and panel set
Mousetrap game
matchbox cars

and the best of all were all sorts of little plastic animals -I had in several coffee cans full of them. I had hundreds of them and would play with them for HOURS.

I also loved my Jane West doll and would make her do "things" (insert eyebrow waggle) to my sister's Barbies and my Lone Ranger doll (the pervieness arrived early)

lol you pervette !! lol !

[storyofmylife]

- weebles wabbles

- GI Joe and his gears

- minature tea cup set

- giant coloring books

[T4Texas]

OOOH!
I loved my:
Lincoln logs
Girder and panel set
Mousetrap game
matchbox cars





Wow, a girder and panel set! Those are kind of rare. I had one once in my shop and I thought it was the coolest thing.

[Chazz]

Childhood toys, eh.

Etch-A-Sketch
ViewMaster Classic 3D Magic Viewer (got it at a junk shop and loved it)

[Jesse]

Adventure books! Those were my toys pretty much. And trees, big, giant climbing trees where one could get away from it all.

[tonaderspeisung]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BSAbBpEk-9A/SKtoKL0Of2I/AAAAAAAAAE0/EW2dLrjdRA0/s400/evil+keneivel.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BSAbBpEk-9A/SKtpJFah8-I/AAAAAAAAAE8/UnF4Wnff-4M/s400/Suckerman_13.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSAbBpEk-9A/SKtqax6RcII/AAAAAAAAAFE/oj9kFmcu9oY/s400/Coleco-PacMan.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSAbBpEk-9A/SKtrSVrvxqI/AAAAAAAAAFM/t0F9K2fdA7U/s400/big+wheel.jpg

[Turtle]

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/FrustrationBallBoxArt.jpg

http://figures.favorjoy.com/images/NavySealwithExplodingMine.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xqLlkhN6yKk/TJfZVRCiyPI/AAAAAAAACBY/IihgBHA5434/s1600/spirograph+vintage.jpg

http://atomicspacejunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/stingray1.jpg

Oh Man!!

[chefhottie25]

it was tough to choose between my g.i. joe action figures and my drum set...but i had to choose the one that drove my mom crazy. it was more fun.

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q135/chefhottie25/drum-set.jpg

[Miss Scarlett]

my Barbies and my brother's GI Joe stuff - the uniforms and totally cool footlocker with all those lovely accessories...i used to dress Barbie in something very pretty and her "sporty" friend Midge would wear GI Joe's uniforms, etc. and Ken's clothes too...then they'd drive off in GI Joe's Jeep, a Tonka Jeep or a Cox Dune Buggy...

[hpychick]

I absolutely loved her. She is one of the few toys I can recall having.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MjsmyfMzQ3o/TVl1ygatUZI/AAAAAAAAADA/lA6pDP3KbP0/s320/mrsbeasleydoll.jpg

[UofMfan]

I have two, actually.

My collection of Matchbox cars and Fisher Price Little People :)

[StillettoDoll]

http://www.petpeoplesplace.com/petstore/pet-image-large/fisher-price-music-box-record-player-1971_140534323288.jpg

http://www.petpeoplesplace.com/petstore/pet-image-large/fisher-price-childrens-record-player-records_250808159309.jpg

http://www.pettibooks.com/images/IMG_5337.jpg (http://www.pettibooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=35&products_id=162&zenid=de5cd8863bb56e9909fa26df7b993477)

[bigbutchmistie]

Well I loved playing with my brothers race cars Lincoln logs remote control cars and dump trucks

[Kenna]

I don't remember many toys while living at Mom's; mostly I played on the farm (with tonka trucks & toy cars, a fishing pole or what ever was available to make mud pies) or on a trail in the mountains there.
But I fondly recall a couple toys that my Great Gramma ("lil Gma") gave me to quietly entertain myself while at church or when she had company....
http://dieline.typepad.com/blog/images/2008/01/12/spunkydogs.jpg http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRze4JIfa5PLGYaaMpe_JRefgqRpuSMl jSFEqpkUFXm28r4v8s3
With all I've been through or lost all these many years.... I still have these. I adored that woman.... her house was filled with many fascinating things and books that would take our imagination to all corners of the world.... but every time I hold these trinkets, I still feel her love and attention she gave me.

[JustJ]

http://www.thisoldtoy.com/new-images/images-ok/900-999/FP999-EB341890893-B.jpg

I used to love this thing. I still have the wand and my guess is the rest of it is in my parent's basement someplace..

[redrose]

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/73668_1660748596004_1155862807_1786949_2569585_n.j pg

pokemons ... LOL!!!

[scootebaby]

i dont recall having a favorite toy unless my basketball and ballglove counts..then from 6th grade -10th grade i lived in West Virginia so the mountains were my toy..when i wasnt on a ball court we were exploring the mountains..we would climb to the top and look out over the town for hrs..and winter time would of been my sled...i was rarely in the house to have any favorite toys

[redrose]

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/75134_1448815661591_1269199854_31007292_6813753_n. jpg

bionicles collection :)
(spiderman not included, :| LOL!!!)

[scootebaby]

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/73668_1660748596004_1155862807_1786949_2569585_n.j pg

pokemons ... LOL!!!



my son uesd to own the entire collection..i think the first 250 or so...and i had to know their names who they evolved into and their "powers" pikachu was/is my favorite to this day!

[violaine]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61dXWQxPmML._SL500_AA300_.jpg

[Strappie]

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c386/designsbydayzi/purses/ducttape/operation1.jpg

http://gi165.photobucket.com/groups/u54/LSWVGWIPDW/Tonka_Trucks_2563_390x191.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg304/Pat159/Toys/tinker_toys_small13.jpg

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s11/morgan5274/wagon.jpg

http://i873.photobucket.com/albums/ab296/DocsMotorcycleParts/Antique%20Motorcycles%20Antique%20Harley%20Davidso n/1965HarleyM65.jpg

This is the same year Harely that I grew up riding till I was mid teens (they realized it would be worth some money) ours was RED and WHITE... not gold.

[moxie]

Funny (ironic, not funny haha) thing about my favorite toys...all my faves were bought by my father, who was never around and bought me these toys to "make up" for not sticking to the visitation schedule. I didn't like him at all.


http://theswca.com/todd/Toys/WicketSitNSpin.jpg

Glamour Gals (they were kinda like little Barbies)

http://www.petpeoplesplace.com/petstore/pet-image-large/kenner-glamour-gals-showplace-w-dolls-and-accessories_200598597287.jpg

http://www.journeytocouture.com/uploaded_images/fashion_plates-719474.jpg

[Blade]

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSEjgZfzwn-j8Y9I8CGiBkB4CkBc_PM9I2IdRFyvHgXW9WE_ANT
ROCK'EM SOCK'EM Robots

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSD5L1pvc_d57JvrBj-7sOas6-b5I16Gri8UgGqgPA1qplgGf3n
POKEY AND GUMBY

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTb6Um5Vb2Z7ygotUTfqwlUBWgS-2ldQ6Lwal2qUxHXtJ3RfGQRrg
MATCHBOX CARS AND AIRPLANES

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQl3CdFWfxk6SIv_MkhPxpXJp8VGeX1j 28Nh5SqO7P5GNTyVTKgng
PUTTING TOGETHER MODEL CARS, BOATS, and AIRPLANES

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTF6yKXSj6-zwsk-bxpoWzL7VetcxFEe9Laj-UjH7hCRr-hcE9OOA
And of course my RED RYDER BB GUN

[Abigail Crabby]

Barbies
http://www.dreamdollsgallery.com/barbie/bride17120red.jpg

Tonka Trucks

http://www.toy-tma.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Tonka-Image1-280x210.jpg


The game of Life
http://thederringdos.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/life.jpg

Chatty Cathy
http://sixties60s.com/1960/chatty.jpg

And
Rock em Sock em Robots
http://the60sofficialsite.com/images/rockem1.jpg

And one of my most favs were putting together Model Monsters

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G-008K9L0s0/TF25e6-n6HI/AAAAAAAAEvg/D77VpjpqV0Y/s1600/aurora2.jpg

[Gemme]

Slinky, Etch a Sketch, Sit 'n Spin, various games, Weeble Wobbles, my trike, and a sundry of stuffed animals, including a Smurfette that she bought me on a trip to Washington D.C..

[Canela]

I absolutely loved her. She is one of the few toys I can recall having.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MjsmyfMzQ3o/TVl1ygatUZI/AAAAAAAAADA/lA6pDP3KbP0/s320/mrsbeasleydoll.jpg

Mrs Beasley!!!!!

I loved her, too!

[Kenna]

Gemmie reminded me....

my huge gray stuffed mouse with big floppy ears...that I received for an Easter gift when I was 3 from Mom when she forgot to get me any Easter bunny stuff before she arrived at Lil Gma's to pick me up after work (Gma made her go back out, but all she could find was that mouse)... that mouse was so well loved for years, that he got very flat and thread bare. Then there was my favorite sock monkey that a church lady made me before she passed away from cancer. Both the mouse and monkey were lost during a move from Indiana to Virginia when I was 10. But I loved them, memories about them and the people who gave them to me. Sometimes, for me, it's not the toy that I'm so fond of.... it's the link to special people and special memories.

[Canela]

I loved my dolls...anything from Timey Tell to Barbies, to Doll babies....

I liked the accessories like the Barbie RV and the cars and the horses...oh and the pool! That was the coolest...

Oh! And my Barbie record player was the coolest thing I owned! Wait, my EasyBake oven, too!

Woohoo!

[Lynn]

Reading all the posts helps me remember some favorites.

I loved Etch-A-Sketch, Viewmaster, and Spirograph. I still remember receiving my Easy Bake Oven--a favorite for many years. My mother was a teacher, and I liked playing "school" with all of the crafts and teaching tools that she had leftover from school. I also liked using her craft books to make stuff--still remember a whole village made out of cereal boxes and oatmeal canisters.

I had a lot of dolls, but I don't remember playing with them very much. I did like to pretend that Barbie, Ken, and family were really alive and living in shoe boxes in my closet. I think I was eight or nine, and I constructed a whole drama about them, ala' "The Borrowers." I think I loved reading more than playing with toys.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[RockOn]

From ages three to six, I tried my very best to wear my cap gun and holster to bed. I was a cowboy and certain others thought the same of me. I was almost seven when I got my first BB rifle. The cap gun became instant history.

[Spirit Dancer]

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z191/katyzitah_18/Twister_Game_Lakewood_Ohio.jpg


http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/oo138/sunlips12/large_Hula-Hoop_1958a.jpg

http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo68/RubberDuckyDeals/Toys/PocketGames.jpg

[EnderD_503]

I mostly liked to play sports as a kid so my favourites were probably my hockey sticks, my purple and white Raptor's basketball, and my world cup '94 soccer ball. Even if I had no one to play with I'd spend hours on with these. I also liked my bike a lot, think it was a supercycle.

My mum used to get me lego, and she got me this medieval lego castle that I played with excessively.

Also had this blue Disney train set my parents got me fro X-mas one year (maybe 3 or 4) that I played with for years. Was a regular trainset, with merry-go-rounds and such along the track, and the figurines that fit into the train were all the disney ones like donald, mickey, pluto etc.

Couldn't find any pics of these online.

[femmennoir]

I was given a white rabbit when I was not yet walking, a stuffed animal, but it had a zipper on the belly to hold the battery for its eyes which lit up! The eyes were red. I loved that rabbit for many years, and later the zipper was the perfect element to practice "surgery"! I also got as a toddler a Pinocchio which I loved because I loved the story. But my favourite toys were always those my grandfather made for me, and all the interesting things I would find in my grandparents haberdashery store (buttons, ribbons, sewing notions, bits of fabric.....)
My grandfather was a recycler and re-user before his time, and the favourite toy he made us was a kaleidoscope, with toilet paper cardboard inserts, bits of glass and interesting buttons, and the three strips of mirrored glass. He would decorate the outside with fabric or metallic paper, and we never tired of watching him make these "miracles"!
All this was a long time ago!

Elle*

[T4Texas]

I'm really enjoying all the responses and especially the pictures. It's great to see what other people like. Some of my other favorites were GI Joe and all his accessories, matchbox cars, a mickey mousegetar which had little plastic disks you put in that played the different songs and duncan yoyos.

[Turtle]

http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/51vxse85rXL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://www.hdforums.com/forum/attachments/general-harley-davidson-chat/86187d1262257238-tales-of-the-rat-fink-brother-rat-fink.jpg

http://cdn2.iofferphoto.com/img/item/199/919/470/0fM3.jpg

http://www2.antiquesnavigator.com/ebay/images/2011/250784654155.jpg

I had the Weebles boat, but I couldn't find it - the 70s version anyway...

[Andrew, Jr.]

*Lincoln Logs

*Tonka Trucks, Matchbox Cars

*Astronaunt Helmet

*Football & Uniform

*Army Men and Tanks

*Tennis Racket

*Freddy, my sock monkey

*Fishing Rod & Tackle Box

*Baseball Glove & Pitchback

*GI Joe and the suba diving outfit

[Blade]

Mom played a lot of board and word games with me when I was home from school or the weather wasn't fit to be outside.

Master Mind
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRH0QNImRoN8lnurPlXaiht320Rew-NDfz-q_of63NLMw3Zuhop

Parcheesi
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTKrFw496hFq9u6sKcc7GohvsSKhgkpf MJQTyCN_qDP_-VQ4vtRZyuGXwlW

Stay Alive
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSGMOfspQGFWIxhu9Zr1ZabV502chgPB eIA5m_hIURffWqAAQI6_Q

Sorry
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSn0SpvvsAZsOxqKSFe5ZbjT0oOBvH7-bAIvdAcaAQoMWw9PP1Iuw

Scrabble
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSYyfa1rl25rG-GiJpnNnD8hTuVUA1slFzLIz_Sw97nvfFSAfWB-Q

Aggravation
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBwirjkVkYrF_inmJBj1hVEb7siw5mU 6IZV5qn2h8zXRHHPzEr

Yatzee
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQuXqKuDyytOisP5T1Jx6jsN9w2Wh5rm cZCSxkdnpyOGKuazGTi

[JustJo]

Not a lot of toys growing up....but I had one of these and practically wore it out. Still love to bake...some things never change :)

http://beancounters.blogs.com/daydreams/easybake_oven_ad.jpg

...and used to kick my sister's butt at this regularly...best word game ever...

http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/ff/50/Cardinal_Perquacky_Game_Toys-resized200.jpg

...and the thing that I played in, rather than with, constantly until we moved out of the apartment building when I was about 12 or 13...

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/35307_406289513067_163930848067_4431069_6592479_n. jpg

[diamondrose]

my favorite toy was my baby alive. I thought I had the best baby doll ever made lol

[Kenna]

Lil Gma knew I loved horses; this was a birthday present and LOVED for many years....
http://images.marketplaceadvisor.channeladvisor.com/hi/50/49514/1286_misty_and_stormy.jpg Misty's story is still very endearing to me.

Then there's what Lil Gma would bring out at Christmas time for us to set up around the entire living room...
http://i45.tinypic.com/30wrp50.jpg
(this isn't a picture of her exact set... I've looked but can't find pictures of her blue and dark green Lionel Streamliner set...what I wouldn't give to have her train sets, and have her here to help me set them up again. )

[girl_dee]

Fishing pole, and my easy bake oven.

[StillettoDoll]

I had many sets of these!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8wfQ8xMyF2w/SRJSxEYFS9I/AAAAAAAAAWs/gjeWgjDStdM/s320/charliebrown.jpghttp://www.rainbowbrite.net/collect/colorforms.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zgIXYas2NfQ/TZHaRZ4MZvI/AAAAAAAABok/m5IoH92UhQA/s320/barbie-dream-house-colorforms.jpg (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zgIXYas2NfQ/TZHaRZ4MZvI/AAAAAAAABok/m5IoH92UhQA/s1600/barbie-dream-house-colorforms.jpg)

[weatherboi]

My dad bought my brother an erector set when i was like 6. i was fascinated by it. It had battery powered motors. By the time i was nine my mom had put a small table in my room so i could tinker with it. That erector set had me hooked and i played with it for years!!! i also stole my brothers chemistry set and learned how to start fires without fire.

[Corkey]

My football, my glove and hardball, my basketball, and going to the beach every weekend in the summer.

[DapperButch]

Tonka Dump Truck

Clyde's Car Crusher

Adventure People

Rock'em Sock'em Robots- I was always red, my sister blue

These blow up boxing gloves. There is film of me knocking my sister out when I was like 5.

everything on Blade's lists except the Red Rider

anything I could ride (big wheel, bikes, etc.)

ETA: colorforms rocked too... Peanuts!

[TickledPink]

http://clean-sweep-pool.com/clean-sweep-the-best/files/recommended.jpg

&

http://loveisdope.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/bike.jpg

[Starbuck]

http://www.retropedalcars.com/images/Marx-Big-Wheel.jpg

I guess you could say this was my first "motorcycle" because it had a slide button that you could turn on a sound that made it sound like a motorcycle. I loved this thing!

[Abigail Crabby]

So these weren't exactly toys.........they were things I collected...would love to have them again they were so cute,

They were called Japanese Shibaten Dolls - the myth was late at night you might hear them calling to you to wrestle with them.

The paper that came with them told you to never accept because you'd be wrestling the rest of your life lol

Being the gullible child I was......I was sure I heard them *wink* (oh Wait I'm still gullible) needless to say I never accepted their offer.

Below are a couple of pics I was able to pull off the internet - I had these dolls for so long well into my adulthood, I wish I knew where they ended up :(
http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/trinketsandtreasures/april_14_173.JPG

http://www.dollprice.com/images/12032007/l8138.jpg

[Liam]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PI9AgwaTqf4/Ss4LbFnMskI/AAAAAAAAB8U/gG5Kw7KEqzg/s400/radio+flyer.jpg

[homoe]

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/dUQAAMXQ-9hRFhbg/s-l400.jpg



Forever and ever my Mr Magoo car......

[VintageFemme]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/KrS1_v550Hxi_j36Gf5GbXKZ_3zwBfg-dB1rNaEo0n628rwf2W457TYoZG-P6j8WNx3CbUcTf24CWdS_JGl2wlwmwS7KS9dwjvHcHis
I took this doll everywhere I went, dragging her along with one arm.
I played with her so much, the voice box stopped working and I still loved her as much.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71G%2BNFPkLrL._AC_SX425_.jpg
I just bought this for my grandson's fifth birthday.
I loved it when I was his age and am hoping he does as much.

[homoe]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/KrS1_v550Hxi_j36Gf5GbXKZ_3zwBfg-dB1rNaEo0n628rwf2W457TYoZG-P6j8WNx3CbUcTf24CWdS_JGl2wlwmwS7KS9dwjvHcHis
I took this doll everywhere I went, dragging her along with one arm.
I played with her so much, the voice box stopped working and I still loved her as much.

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I just bought this for my grandson's fifth birthday.
I loved it when I was his age and am hoping he does as much.

Isn't that the Mrs. Beasley doll of Family Affair TV show fame?

[Stone-Butch]

Herdy gurdy and a rolly polly

[nhplowboi]

I think it was my spring horse. I would put Wagon Train on and ride along with the cast. The older models didn't have stirrups so I took a short piece of rope and made loops on each end and threw it over the saddle area. Voila.....stirrups!
Oh and let's not forget my Ken doll which I still have. He got to make out with all my friends Barbies. ;) My grandmother was so mad at me when I took $5 out of my Christmas money to buy him a tuxedo. Sorry Gram....clothes make the man.

[PlatinumPearl]

A few favourites were....

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[Kätzchen]

Our family had a rather large acreage. We has cattle, a big garden and an orchard and my mother even reserved space for her flower garden. Because of that, we had very little time for toys because our responsibilities on the farm came first. But....

Mom and dad bought a slide and swing set, we each had a bicycle, but as for personal toys, we each only had a few.

I had dolls. Little dolls, big dolls, rag dolls. My grandmother bought an ancient crib, it was wooden, and I kept it on my side of the closet (I shared a bedroom with my only living sister) and inside the crib is where all my dolls lived safely.

I loved all the dolls I had back then. Each doll was very special to me.

[Stone-Butch]

A tiny childs record player that only played the records found in a book which were paper but played.

Marbles (still have them) some are even clay.

lots of years between marbles and record player.

[Vincent]

As a todler
A toy mower,I used to follow my dad in the tread the mower made
even now the smell of fresh cut grass,brings me feelings of the love I felt for my Dad and how much I miss him

34 yrs is a long time

[~ocean]

Barbies and play dough , and arts and crafts w/ my own imagination ~

[Stone-Butch]

ocean, I just bought play dough and cookie type cutters for the little one. She loves it. She loves doing things with her hands to construct.