Your Childhood Toys

Me · Post by Me » Sun May 11, 2008 5:36 am

I know I am one of the older guys on the board however there are a few gray hairs here besides me and I'd like to hear from everyone young and old.

I was making up some jigs for my up coming fishing trip and reading some of the warning lables it got me to thinking. I guess I was a bit spoiled when I was younger or a guinea pig? I'll except being spoiled with
those fantastic old chemisty sets that I nearly blew the house up with. Or the wonderful landscapes, clowns, still lifes and animal master pieces I made with all those paint by number sets. I don't remeber the name of the plastic bugs, worms, snakes a creepy crawly something or other. And of course I can't forget Mr. & Mrs. Potatoe Head a lot of long hours was spent with these wonderful toys, or were they really so wonderful after all now being inflicted with arthrtis and all sorts of wonderful conditions that required medication from morning till evening and in between. Nevertheless what did you all play with and please, beside what's between your legs or your neighborr's legs, we all did that.

Thanks,
Kev.

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Sun May 11, 2008 10:23 am

WE, my brother and I had all the cool stuff. My sister was 10 years behind me, so all the cool stuff went her way after that. Dang girls anyhoo.

Let's see, hot wheel cars, and the tracks to go halfway around the house, (mom used them to whoop up on us when we needed it), and slot car sets, lego's, (How many IS too many lego's?), Lincoln logs, GI JOES!!!!
Bikes, scateboards, all the sport stuff we wanted, well they could afford to get us. A Military paycheck and what mom made working at the base bowling alley or the local "just off post" cafe.

During the summer we spent 8 hours a day at the base swimming pool, scateboarding down the 2 mile slight decline all the way there, or whacking golf balls thru the play field there was the funnest.

Then my sister came along and it all changed.

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Sun May 11, 2008 6:48 pm

well, I hope this is relavent to this thread, since I am still a child and this is my toy, plus since Me started this thread, he will like these pictures. I let my boy take my truck to his senior prom, so you get a picture of him as well. He is a stud, or so he likes to tell me. The good news is that the truck survived.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Sun May 11, 2008 8:35 pm

Wow, beautiful truck, Soups. And your son is a handsome young man.

"Me" and Leon, I had some very similar toys and a few that weren't mentioned. Here are a few things I can remember from back in my childhood.

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I loved Freakies Cereal. And I collected all the toys.

There are so many more. And I love this topic. But I've taken too much web space already.

zepboy · Post by **zepboy** » Sun May 11, 2008 9:32 pm

I had a bag of rubber bands . . .

Orlando's LOVESLAVE · Sun May 11, 2008 10:11 pm

I remember hotwheels and the tracks. My younger bro and I would set it all up in the basement and race.
We had the Lincoln Logs, Mr Potato Heads, pick up stix, just about any outdoor sporting type stuff the parents could afford. I had my easy bake oven, the doll that you could feed, barbie head that you could do the hair up and put make-up on. And lots of books.

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:25 am

boy, does that picture of the Schwinn stingray bring back the memories. I had a blue one, complete with the 3 speed shifter, banana seat and hand brakes. somebody stole it though.

those bikes are worth some money today..

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:27 am

Man, I can't believe I forgot about all the superhero stuff.

EVEL!!!!!! Yah, had that stuff too.

And any one remember the original Star Trek action figures and the Enterprise bridge???

Kares4Rush · Post by **Kares4Rush** » Mon May 12, 2008 8:57 am

Walkinghairball wrote:Man, I can't believe I forgot about all the superhero stuff.

EVEL!!!!!! Yah, had that stuff too.

And any one remember the original Star Trek action figures and the Enterprise bridge???

My brother had that!! He still has a model of the Enterprise and a Klingon ship and other things like that. Tribbles. He had GI Joes and all that too.

I remember click clacks, hula hoops, hot wheels, playing with my brother's tonka truck, lincoln logs, legos (OUCH if you step on them), Kerplunk, Operation, I had a GREAT farm with realistic-looking animals. Etch-a-sketch, color forms. Oh so many things I'll think of later.

I wasn't really into the whole "dolly" thing like barbies, baby-this-or-that, easy bake oven, etc. That was my more "feminine" sister.

I had HORSIES!!!

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:17 am

Oh good gravy where to start....

I was a kid during the "golden age" of video games- Atari, Intellivision, etc. I had an Atari 2600, and about 15 games. My cousin and I beat Warlords into the ground every time we got together.

Had a bike (Huffy Wrangler) then a 10 speed cuz I got too big for the Wrangler.

We'd play street hockey out in front of my house in the winter and in summer we'd play kickball or wiffleball. - these days, Harvard bought the land and its college housing, and you can barely move down the street.

As a younger kid I remember having some of the Star Trek figures and the Eagle ship from Space:1999.

Saw an Eagle on eBay about a year ago going for $200...with three days left to go- made me nauseous to know what my dad had given away.

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:07 pm

This is a fun thread! Quite the trip down memory lane. (With a cool set of pics of Soup's boy, who, I agree with other posters about this, is quite handsome. Got a baseball bat to beat off the girls, Billy?)

I had many but not all of the toys you folks have mentioned so far. Most of my time was spent out of doors, so most of the toys I played with were the Hot Wheels or bikes, things of that sort. Had some of my mom's old military gear that I used when hiking. Always had a knife in my pocket, and, as a wee kiddo, tended to have lizard tales or beetles in there too! lol My poor mom.

Summers were spent hiking in the mountains or swimming in the river. Up river of us was not much more than just the wilderness, so the water was good.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Wed May 14, 2008 6:53 am

I too was all about Hot Wheels and tracks. I had a beautiful collection.
When I was 19 my mother gave the whole collection to a couple of my nephews behind my back! *mumble grumble*
I asked my sister about it a couple of years ago. She said the stuff is all gone and doesn't remember where it went.

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:19 am

ElfDude wrote:I too was all about Hot Wheels and tracks. I had a beautiful collection.
When I was 19 my mother gave the whole collection to a couple of my nephews behind my back! *mumble grumble*
I asked my sister about it a couple of years ago. She said the stuff is all gone and doesn't remember where it went.

Sounds like someone put your Hot Wheels collection on eBay and made a mint....

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:26 am

YYZ30 wrote:
ElfDude wrote:I too was all about Hot Wheels and tracks. I had a beautiful collection.
When I was 19 my mother gave the whole collection to a couple of my nephews behind my back! *mumble grumble*
I asked my sister about it a couple of years ago. She said the stuff is all gone and doesn't remember where it went.
Sounds like someone put your Hot Wheels collection on eBay and made a mint....

Better that than the trash...

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:36 am

My mom used to grab up 3 or 4 of the track sections and hold them all together..........then let my bro and I have it.

Only when wwe needed that spanking that is.

After a few years of getting Hot Wheel tracks with the cars, we asked Santa to forget the tracks for a while.*wink*