What was your favorite toy?

[Syt]

LEGO, Star Wars figures, RoCo Minitanks, toy soldiers.




When I was very little we had cowboy figures ... no idea the brand. They were mix/match kind of figures - torsos, heads, guns, belts etc. could be mixed and matched and they were somewhat realistic looking. From the same line we also had some Roman Legionnaires and a few figures of the French Foreign Legion. But since they had a lot of little parts (hands, heads, guns ...) a lot of the bits were lost quickly until we chucked them all out).

[MadImmortalMan]

I had a set of plastic army men that came with a mat map of Anzio. I brought it to my grandpa's house and had him explain the battle to me and where he was. He got a silver star at that battle. Of all the soldiers in my pack that I had available, he said he was the one crawling on his stomach---up the beach to throw a grenade in the German position. WTF.


Yeah, at first I thought it would be cooler if grandpa was the guy with the bazooka, but that was when things kind of clicked for me about what those guys did.

[Admiral Yi]

Cool story Mimsy.

[11B4V]

LEGO, Star Wars figures, RoCo Minitanks, toy soldiers.




When I was very little we had cowboy figures ... no idea the brand. They were mix/match kind of figures - torsos, heads, guns, belts etc. could be mixed and matched and they were somewhat realistic looking. From the same line we also had some Roman Legionnaires and a few figures of the French Foreign Legion. But since they had a lot of little parts (hands, heads, guns ...) a lot of the bits were lost quickly until we chucked them all out).

Marder IFV

[The Brain]

If I have to pick one probably Playmobil.

[Vricklund]

Probably Lego but later on it was Anna. Still have the Lego in my basement for my kids to enjoy, Anna skipped town.

[Sophie Scholl]

GI Joe and LEGO were probably my top two and the top two in my neighborhood.  We all pooled our collections to create massive campaigns and towns.

[Agelastus]

Lego.

So much so that I still occasionally buy some (I won an auction for a small set that I hadn't had as a kid from E-Bay last week - finally completed my collection of wall sections from the Eighties Castle Range!  )

[CountDeMoney]

The Navarone mountain play set.

You are saying that to piss off Seedy

You're both assholes.

[Josephus]

I also had a really cool yellow Tonka truck that carried a bulldozer on its trailer. I loved that indestructible machine.

[Maladict]

1. Lego
2. toy cars
3. my dad's H0 trains and my 1/700 waterline ships.

[Maximus]

Probably lego, but we didn't have any sets, just blocks, however my favorite things to play with weren't toys.

Not that either, you pervs

[PDH]

You're both assholes.

My ex-wife has your back on this one.

[mongers]

1. Lego
2. toy cars
3. my dad's H0 trains and my 1/700 waterline ships.

[Savonarola]

Lego.

So much so that I still occasionally buy some (I won an auction for a small set that I hadn't had as a kid from E-Bay last week - finally completed my collection of wall sections from the Eighties Castle Range!  )

I have a friend who is in a group that builds massive Lego structures.  They've done models of some of Detroit's buildings.  Here is the mid-town area:



The large building in the back is the Fisher Center; which has a number of shops and a theater.  The group put so much attention into the details you can even read the marquee of the theater if you move in: