What was your favorite toy?

[Savonarola]

Tim's advertisement for Goldieblocks in the Youtube thread made me thing of an exhibit at the Detroit Science Center.  They had scientist and engineers list their favorite toy; invariably it was an erector set or a crystal radio or something which demonstrated that science toys develop scientists and engineers.  So what was your favorite toy as a child and do you think it had an impact on your career?

My favorite was Legos.  That might have had some impact on my interest in science as I liked the space sets the best.   

[Ed Anger]

The Navarone mountain play set.



The grey one however.

[Eddie Teach]

NES.

[PDH]

The Navarone mountain play set.

You are saying that to piss off Seedy

[PRC]

Lego.

[PDH]

Mine:

The Navarone mountain play set.



The grey one however.

[Ed Anger]

 

[Ed Anger]

The Navarone mountain play set.

You are saying that to piss off Seedy

My parents loved me

[mongers]

Airfix model kits and stacks of their HO/OO soldiers. 

[viper37]

Tim's advertisement for Goldieblocks in the Youtube thread made me thing of an exhibit at the Detroit Science Center.  They had scientist and engineers list their favorite toy; invariably it was an erector set or a crystal radio or something which demonstrated that science toys develop scientists and engineers.  So what was your favorite toy as a child and do you think it had an impact on your career?

My favorite was Legos.  That might have had some impact on my interest in science as I liked the space sets the best.   

My favorite were Legos, a castle given by my godfather and a Goldorak replica wich threw its fist.  God, I had so much fun with that throwing it at my older cousin

[Josephus]

I had a Fisher Price record player. i remember playing with that a lot.

[Admiral Yi]

I had a cannister of Lincoln Logs with about 3/4 of the pieces missing that I managed to extract some fun from.

We also had a construction type of toy, sorta like an Erector Set, except it had wooden dowels with holes in them and these plastic spokes you stuck into them.  Anyone know what i'm talking about?

Also got some good mileage out of the Etch 'n' Sketch.  Invented by a Frenchman!

But probably the single "toy" I got the most pleasure from was Risk.

[Jacob]

#1 - Playmobil
#2 - Lego
#3 - Airfix 1/72 scale plastic soldiers

[fhdz]

1) Etch-a-Sketch
2) Legos
3) Tinkertoys
EDIT: 4) Those green plastic soldiers you could order from the back of comic books.

[DGuller]

Building construction sets, as well as a chess kit.  I used parts from two construction sets to make a gun that fired bricks at the chess pieces, hard enough to knock them over at a range of up to 2 meters.  My most advanced design had a gravity-fed magazine that held 7 bricks, counting the chambered one.