Favourite Childhood Toys

[mongers]

So if we exhibited that the same style of play, how many of us would have been shot if modern cop practices were in use back in the day? 

Limit your douchebag ignorance to a single thread, please.

And I would shoot you for pissing on trees, and leave a drop spork at the scene.  Dumbass.

We should make a wager on when the first 10 year gets shot for brandishing a bow and arrow whilst wearing an ethnic headress.   

[derspiess]

My brother & I played the hell out of that.

My first memorable toy that was mine only was Stretch Armstrong.  Took that thing with me everywhere.  Then my brothers finally did what all older brothers did to poor Stretch-- they each took one arm and stretched him across the hallway and broke him in two

Star Wars figures and vehicles were a big deal for my brother and me.  We also had this "robot" called 2XL that did trivia games and ran off of 8-track tapes of all things.

This was also rather kick-ass:

[Pedrito]

Playmobil, tons of it. Mainly Old West and Pirates. I went to the point of burying the pirates' treasure (full of splendidly shining plastic coins) in a plant pot for a later treasure hunt, but this happened a couple days before we moved, and when in the new house I was never able to find the booty again. Probably it's still rotting in a croton vase at my mom's, and I'm still regretting my idea.

Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars, slight preference for the Matchbox series.

Micronauts, the White, black, green and red sets of knight and Mount.

Small plastic animals, a crude version of the Schleich ones, from the brontosaurus to the hen. Used mainly as obstacles for the Matchbox races.

When I was 10, the Atari 2600 VCS cancelled everything else I was playing with at the time.

L.

[crazy canuck]

I had a mechano set and a monopoly game that took up most of my play time when I was young.  When I got a bit older and earned money doing odd jobs and mowing grass I bought marbles.  I spent a lot of time in the grade school playground playing with(and winning a lot more marbles.  By the time I finished grade 7 I was able to sell the whole collection and buy my first dirt bike.

[Grey Fox]

I was always lonely on the weekends when I was younger(mainly because 2 households) and I wanted to play Monopoly. Had my father buy me a electronic one. It was in French, france french. Took me hours to understands how francs worked.

[Josephus]

Ah yes, marbles. Went through a phase with them too. I sucked though, so I lost all my marbles pretty quickly. I got turned off gambling at a pretty young age.

[Savonarola]

so I lost all my marbles pretty quickly.

At least make it a little more challenging than that, Jos.  Honestly.



I wasn't much of a marble player either; and in lower grades that's what mattered.   

[Savonarola]

My favorites were Legos; that's pretty common among engineers.

That would explain why my wife buys so many Legos for Tommy.  She's obsessed with him becoming an engineer.

Why does she think he'll be an engineer?

One thing that I did, (and still do,) is eat dishes one at a time.  That is if a meal is turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans and salad; I will eat the turkey, then the mashed potatoes, then the green beans and then the salad.  Nearly all the engineers my parents knew did the same thing, and I did well in math and science; so my parents encouraged me to consider engineering when I was in high school.

[derspiess]

Why does she think he'll be an engineer?

Her dad's an engineer, so I guess she wants Tommy to be one as well.

One thing that I did, (and still do,) is eat dishes one at a time.  That is if a meal is turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans and salad; I will eat the turkey, then the mashed potatoes, then the green beans and then the salad.  Nearly all the engineers my parents knew did the same thing, and I did well in math and science; so my parents encouraged me to consider engineering when I was in high school.

That's exactly what I did as a kid.  I eventually got tired of people asking me why I do that (plus mom remarking about how cute it was) that I made it a point to stop.  But I'll still do it every now & then.

[Josephus]

so I lost all my marbles pretty quickly.

At least make it a little more challenging than that, Jos.  Honestly.

You don't think that was intentional? Self-deprecation is a fine art.

[Agelastus]

My favorites were Legos; that's pretty common among engineers.

That would explain why my wife buys so many Legos for Tommy.  She's obsessed with him becoming an engineer.

Why does she think he'll be an engineer?

One thing that I did, (and still do,) is eat dishes one at a time.  That is if a meal is turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans and salad; I will eat the turkey, then the mashed potatoes, then the green beans and then the salad.  Nearly all the engineers my parents knew did the same thing, and I did well in math and science; so my parents encouraged me to consider engineering when I was in high school.

Sav's a Romulan!

[Well, a novel one anyway.]

[mongers]

so I lost all my marbles pretty quickly.

At least make it a little more challenging than that, Jos.  Honestly.

You don't think that was intentional? Self-deprecation is a fine art.

Yeah that's a line I use to0, though true in my case, possible in both senses ; I had a lovely collection of marbles from a place called house of marbles, when they had just started, then one day I couldn't find them, no idea were those marbles went. 

[Norgy]

Lego. And later Airfix figurines and models.

[Eddie Teach]

One thing that I did, (and still do,) is eat dishes one at a time.  That is if a meal is turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans and salad; I will eat the turkey, then the mashed potatoes, then the green beans and then the salad.  Nearly all the engineers my parents knew did the same thing, and I did well in math and science; so my parents encouraged me to consider engineering when I was in high school.

I do that.

[The Brain]

Freaks.