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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 Flip Wilson/Geraldine doll...makes a lot more sense, now. *laughs
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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 |
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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 |
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
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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.
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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.
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I love the thing maker, and I still have mine :candle:
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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 ) :) |
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) |
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- weebles wabbles
- GI Joe and his gears - minature tea cup set - giant coloring books |
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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.
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