Favourite Childhood Toys

[mongers]

Yeah Matchbox Cars, Superfast etc. Goes without saying I guess. Yes, Mongers, remember those Clankers very well.

None of you were Subbuteo players?

I wanted some, put for some reason never got given them. 

I suspect because parents thought they were an insubstantial present, just a green mat with some small plastic figures, ignoring the real play value and skills involved/developed. 

[Savonarola]

My great-grandfather had started a moving company.  My great uncle managed the company and he had gotten all his grandsons and great nephews a remote controlled moving van for the seventy fifth anniversary of the company, complete with the company logo on it.  I've still got mine.   

I had some model rockets; those were a lot of fun.  I had a trick kite that was a pain to get airborne but once up in the air it would do all these spins and loops.

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

[MadBurgerMaker]

Voltron (the cat versions not the shitty Gobot type car garbage or whatever those were), Transformers, GI Joes (the small ones), and Lego were my favorites as a kid.  Oh and Micro Machines.

[Neil]

I had tons of Transformers, as well as He-Man, Star Wars figures (I had the Millennium Falcon, which was super cool).  I also had two Voltron lions, which was lame if you didn't have all five, but I still thought they were cool.

[Scipio]

Lego.

[Syt]

Lego, by far. Before they had all those ready made parts.

And the old Kenner Star Wars figures.

A friend had rich parents, so he had all Masters of the Universe Figures, and later all Transformers, and Mask. We spent quite some time playing with his Masters otU figures.

[CountDeMoney]

Some assholes in this thread played with their own shitty ass diapers.   

[Martinus]

Lego by far. First I had "Fabuland", then graduated to the mainstream lines (my favourite line was the medieval one; had tons of that stuff). Never got into Technics though.

[Monoriu]

Nintendo. I used to play this game day after day. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88SENZe6Z3I

[Syt]

Lego, by far. Before they had all those ready made parts.

And the old Kenner Star Wars figures.

I should add, that I inherited a lot of Legos from my sisters. As I mentioned, Legos were a cheap toy when I was a kid. From Star Wars I got what was on sale, and any vehicle was practically out of range. I built space ships out of shoe boxes for them.

Another friend, a bigger Star Wars geek than I, finished the old Kenner collection in the early 90s, before the hype was renewed, and then sold it off for a high 4 digit amount. He's now collecting not for completion, but rather for figures he likes, though he will snatch up any high value item if he sees it for cheap somewhere. He recently became a Dad, and his son is called Luke - he made a point of saying that the name was his girlfriend's suggestion, not his.

[MadImmortalMan]

A kid my brother was friends with had the GI Joe aircraft carrier. I hated that kid.

[Grey Fox]

I was never a pure brand kind of kid.

I played with Playmobils + Gi joe & legos. Use my sister's barbies as victims of kidnapping.

[derspiess]

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.

[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? 

[CountDeMoney]

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.