Your favorite toys as a kid?

[Gregg Axley]

As a young kid? Big Wheel.
My next door neighbor (same age) had one and we'd tear down the sidewalks everyday on them. Of course eventually the front wheel would have to be replaced because it wore down, and somehow my friend hit a curb with his so hard, it broke in half! After that I had a Green Machine, similar to the Big Wheel but with a handle on each side to control the rear end, which is how you turned it. Seemed too wide for the sidewalk if you ask me....

 

[nick123]

12" G.I. Joe with a giant nylon parachute attached. It looked so realistic when I threw him in the air. lol

 

[HudsonHawk]

My sister got her hair caught in a Whizzer once. It climbed right up one side of her head before it stopped.

Ouch! I'll assume that you had no part in that. At least she didn't get a lawn dart stuck in her head.

 

[Dragon Soldier]

A .75-ish scale S.L.R (UK version of an FN FAL) made for me by a friend's father. Combination of wood and plumbing supplies. His sons had an arsenal of modern and historic weapons in almost perfect scale to the size they were when their Dad made them.

My mother and my grand parents bought me many wonderful things, as an only child I was, in fact, a 'spoiled brat'. But I loved that rifle.

 

[rjb1]

For me it was a full-scale .45 auto. It was black plastic, and looked *exactly* like a real .45, hence the appeal. It had a detachable magazine, the slide and hammer retracted, etc. It looked so real I guarantee you could hold up any liquor store in the city with it.
No one would dare give it to a kid today. (I still have it.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

My little brother had one of those ultra-realistic toy guns -- solid metal, made to look like a police revolver, shot caps with a rotating cylinder, the whole bit. He came up behind me with it one day while I was sitting on the living room floor reading the paper, and pistol-whipped me across the back of the head. Knocked me out cold. A very effective weapon.

(He was about five years old at the time.)

 

[JonnyO]

As weird as this will sound, the garden hose and a wagon.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Ouch! I'll assume that you had no part in that. At least she didn't get a lawn dart stuck in her head.

Ahhhh! Such wonderful childhood memories!

 

[Shangas]

My little brother had one of those ultra-realistic toy guns -- solid metal, made to look like a police revolver, shot caps with a rotating cylinder, the whole bit. He came up behind me with it one day while I was sitting on the living room floor reading the paper, and pistol-whipped me across the back of the head. Knocked me out cold. A very effective weapon.

(He was about five years old at the time.)

My brother had one of those pistols! Solid steel cap-revolver.

...I wonder whatever happened to it. We also had a pair of handcuffs.

But you're right. They hurt like buggery if you hit someone with them. Or drop them on your feet.

 

[JimWagner]

I'm a little late to this party, but didn't want to start a new thread.

Christmas 1952 and I got two of my all time favorite toys. The first was my Lionel electric train.

My parents sold it after I went into the Navy. If they hadn't done that I'd still have it today. It would also be worth a LOT of money.

My second favorite toy was a Tom Corbett Space Academy set.

You can still find these on eBay, mostly incomplete, and spend upwards to $800-$1000 to build up a complete set. Probably cost $15-$20 new.

The moral of this story is to never throw away your (or your kids') toys.

 

[Trenchfriend]

@JimWagner

That's wonderful!

My favorite toys? I don't know really, but I think of my Lego-stones.

 

[Fading Fast]

JimWagner, that is a great picture of you with your train (we had those doohickies handing down from our shades as well when I was a kid). I didn't have an electric train as a kid, but had a friend who had one and thought they were awesome.

Fast forward, twenty or so years and I meet my girlfriend and her mom (yup, mom) loves electric trains and has a train track that runs the entire circumference of their den and she has several trains, cars, etc., and is really into it. Now I own a few trains (mainly gifts from her mom and dad) and love, just love, having one going around the room - not only the motion but the sound (the digital ones are, basically, recordings of real trains and sound fantastic) I find to be very relaxing. I don't do the layout, etc., just the track and train, but it can take me to another world to have it running.

 

[Stearmen]

I'm a little late to this party, but didn't want to start a new thread.

Christmas 1952 and I got two of my all time favorite toys. The first was my Lionel electric train.

I remember my Lionel train! I could only go down in the basement with my Dad, guise who ended up playing with it? Unfortunately, it got sold when we moved, a couple of years later.

 

[Bushman]

The "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" Thrasher T. rex. Still got it, too. Man, I must've played with that thing to death. It's a wonder it's still in any decent condition!

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

I loved anything dinosaur-related.

 

[ChiTownScion]

My favorite toy had to be my Johnny Eagle Magumba Rifle. I loved the realistic bolt action, and the scope that had crosshairs and actually magnified. The jacked rounds contained springs that enabled firing the bullets. The nine year old's equivalent of a Weatherby Mark V .460 magnum, so to speak.

 

[MisterCairo]

My Meccano sets.
My model trains (Hornby, mostly, and I STILL HAVE THEM!).
Not toys, but I loved doing models, aircraft mostly.

 

[Crocodiles]

Lego and lego alikes mostly.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Interesting question!

Lego was great, but at the moment, I can't remember a special favorite toy.

 

[The Jackal]

Transformers were big when I was a kid. I can't say for certain they were my favorite, but they are what I remember the most. Specifically the transformer SixShot, which was rated well above my age range, but I managed to convince my parents I would be able to transform it. I was wrong.