What was your favorite toy/thing to do...

[handy]

Lovely's thread on Shrinky Dinks got me to thinking about toys and stuff from when I was a kid. You know what I mean, Jacks, "Chinese Jump Rope", Yo-yo's, Silly Putty, and the ever disappointing (unless you had a really great staircase) Slinky.

One of my favorites was Etch-A-Sketch. My brother was really good with it. He could make ships and animals. I tended to make a lot of houses with little box windows and squigglies for flowers. If you started at one end and patiently worked the knobs back and forth, you could clear the entire window and see the mechanism inside.

Another of my absolute favorite were my plastic horses. They were only about 4" and I had a whole herd of them. I would make pastures and paddocks with blocks for them, or if I was playing outside, just trace the ranch in the dirt on our driveway. Hours and hours of play with them. And, plastic horses are my daughter's favorite toys as well. Even with TV and computer games, she still drags her plastic animals out and plays with them all the time.

 

[WiLdAtHeArT]

Legos. And lots of them. Space legos, primarily. I played with those all the time. I played a lot of sports and didn't spend a lot of time with action figures. I played Dungeons and Dragons for a while (didn't get very deep into it - and I would probably frown if my kids play it when they grow up). So, to answer the question - mostly Legos.

 

[lovely]

I liked drawing. I also liked bike riding a lot. I had a lemon twist one year and annoyed my dad and neighbors to no end with that thing, but I just loved it. I also liked a lite brite that my cousin had.

 

[JoJo]

I had a lemon twist one year and annoyed my dad and neighbors to no end with that thing, but I just loved it.

Lemon twist!! I loved those things!

I played Barbies with my sister for hours and hours and hours. We used our encyclopedia set to make walls for our Barbies' house. We were the best Barbie decorators in the neighborhood.

Sometimes I like to go on Ebay and look up retro toys just to see them again. It's so fun! One of these days I am going to buy the Beauty Secrets Barbie just to set on my shelf! (okay, I admit I might play with it for a few minutes first) lol

 

[Lewis]

Mine were GI, Joe's, Hot Wheels, toy soldiers, playing James Bond, or my favorite In Like Flint, making go carts, and another favorite playing Steve Reeves as Hercules, I really loved that one. And also pinning a towel around my neck, and playing a super hero, And when the Green Hornet show came on TV I was now Kato, who was Bruce Lee. Then I was the Cat 1966 Tv show Robert Wagner, and the usual cowboys and indians. And I wanted a Dolphin, can you say Flipper, and I wanted a Collie, can you say Timmy and Lassie.
and Captain Kangaroo shows.

 

[Lewis]

Oh I forgot to tell you, I still play cowboys and Indians.

 

[Nick]

Lego. Kept me entertained for hours. Stilll does!

 

[Works4Him]

Legos. Lots and lots of legos. I almost hate to admit it, but here I am, going on my third decade of life, married, and expecting our first child in just a few months,and I still have many of my childhood legos. Go figure.

I was also a big fan of Hot Wheels, Micro Machines, lincoln logs, and my erector set.

Ah, the formative years

 

[Nick]

I still have my Hot Wheels track! Ahhh...good times.

 

[Dave Slayer]

I like Thundercats back in the day!

 

[handy]

I have to admit, I had a bit of a crush on Lion-o.

 

[carbon]

lots and lots of toy horses

 

[jasoncran]

I love thundercats, I have robotech, D&D(cartoon), 90's xmen, and exosquad, Captain Power and Soldiers of the Future on dvd, Who said you have to grow up. I miss the old GI JOE ,and Transformers.

Jason

 

[Lewis]

Astro Boy

 

[Nick]

ahh, Astro Boy was cool. But it shows its age.