What is your favorite childhood toy?
 

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.

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

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/a...gq/drlaura.jpg

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

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.

THIS!

http://www.spookshows.com/toys/vacuf...ont-of-box.jpg

and THIS!

http://austinthompson.org/Thingmaker...Thingmaker.jpg

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

Santa brought me THIS when I was 12.

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

These were my 2 favorites as a kid

http://www.feelingretro.com/toys/images/edibles.gifhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

On days when I didn't visit my cousins bakery, I liked playing with this, http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/pict/1...20204040_1.jpg

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)

- weebles wabbles

- GI Joe and his gears

- minature tea cup set

- giant coloring books

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.

Childhood toys, eh.

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

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

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BSAbBpEk-9...l+keneivel.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BSAbBpEk-9...ckerman_13.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSAbBpEk-9...eco-PacMan.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BSAbBpEk-9.../big+wheel.jpg

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/Fr...BallBoxArt.jpg

http://figures.favorjoy.com/images/N...lodingMine.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xqLlkhN6yK...ph+vintage.jpg

http://atomicspacejunk.com/wp-conten.../stingray1.jpg

Oh Man!!

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/q...5/drum-set.jpg

Definitely This Old Gal
 

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

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MjsmyfMzQ3...easleydoll.jpg

http://www.petpeoplesplace.com/petst...0534323288.jpg

http://www.petpeoplesplace.com/petst...0808159309.jpg

http://www.pettibooks.com/images/IMG_5337.jpg

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

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/imag...spunkydogs.jpg http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...pkUFXm28r4v8s3
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.

http://www.thisoldtoy.com/new-images...41890893-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..

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2569585_n.jpg

pokemons ... LOL!!!

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._6813753_n.jpg

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

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...operation1.jpg

http://gi165.photobucket.com/groups/...63_390x191.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...ys_small13.jpg

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s...5274/wagon.jpg

http://i873.photobucket.com/albums/a...5HarleyM65.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.

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/petst...0598597287.jpg

http://www.journeytocouture.com/uplo...tes-719474.jpg

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...FyvHgXW9WE_ANT
ROCK'EM SOCK'EM Robots

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...GqgPA1qplgGf3n
POKEY AND GUMBY

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...UxHXtJ3RfGQRrg
MATCHBOX CARS AND AIRPLANES

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...O7P5GNTyVTKgng
PUTTING TOGETHER MODEL CARS, BOATS, and AIRPLANES

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...H7hCRr-hcE9OOA
And of course my RED RYDER BB GUN

Barbies
http://www.dreamdollsgallery.com/bar...de17120red.jpg

Tonka Trucks

http://www.toy-tma.com/wp-content/up...e1-280x210.jpg


The game of Life
http://thederringdos.com/wp-content/...07/11/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-008K9L0s...00/aurora2.jpg

one is not enough...