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What was your favorite toy as a child? I enjoyed this homemade fire station and also Shock-A-Jock which they now make again and which I still can spend hours playing. Of course now I play against my friends and there is money involved, but still, childhood memories. Priceless.
Lite Bright
ReplyDeleteLegos. I would build all kinds of crazy stuff. And GI Joe dolls that I inherited from my uncle. They came in crates with all kinds of cool accessories.
ReplyDeleteLite Brite, Legos, Barbies (suck it, feminists! the clothes were awesome!), my stuffed animals....
ReplyDeleteBarbie, Ken, Midge, Skipper, and Tuti.
ReplyDeleteBarbie's Dream House with three stories and an elevator. i love Barb.
ReplyDeleteMy Barbies with their condo and furniture and clothes. My baby dolls (my fave was Rub A Dub Dub doll you could take in the bath with her own floaty thing and bath her.
ReplyDeleteEasy bake oven...sign.
ReplyDeleteLincoln logs!!!
ReplyDeleteLite Brite fans, you may appreciate this. It's a 15-century tapestry recreated in Lite Brite.
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I played with my baby dolls and made my mom babysit when I had my day job of being a pretend schoolteacher. I was going to be a teacher until the semester I enrolled in curriculum classes. :-(
ReplyDeleteSea wees, Jem dolls, Barbie, She-Ra and play-doh
ReplyDeleteBaby Alive, Lite Brite, Barbie with all of her dresses and her friends and the town home with the KICK ASS ELEVATOR and jump rope. Hell yes we were jumping rope and double dutching!
ReplyDeleteAnd hell yes EASY BAKE OVEN!! Does anyone remember when they had the Pizza Hut oven too? And-Snoopy SnowCone maker!
ReplyDeleteI can't remember! Raised in the country, we played outside a lot. Had a pony, and the closest family had seven children to play with. SEVEN.
ReplyDeleteI DO remember wanting one of those big barbie heads that you could put makeup on and style their hair, I begged my parents for one. No go.
SEA WEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYES, @shelly! I had them all and I loved them to DEATH!
My dollhouse.
ReplyDeletePaper dolls - I had over 100 of them. Do they even still make them?
ReplyDeleteMatchbox cars, all the way, back when they were still made in England.
ReplyDeleteHands down, my Adventure People Daredevil Sports Van from Fisher-Price. It was a van that came with two figures, a dirt bike (that you could load in the van), a kayak (that you could strap on the van) and a parachute. Even after I lost everything else I still played with that van like crazy. I'm pretty sure it's still at my parents' house somewhere.
ReplyDeleteMy kitchen set. I had sink, fridge, oven/stove, a small cabinet for dishes and fake food. A small table. And at Christmas I had a tree and would make a fake fireplace. Plus all of my dolls. Lite brite, legos, loncoln logs, shrinky dinks, skates a and my bike.
ReplyDeleteMy favs were: Lite Bright, My Little Ponies, Barbies/Jem, Pound Puppies, Cabbage Patch Dolls, Care Bears, & Rainbrow Brite. I sang "Make Room for a Rainbow Inside" in an elementary school play. :-/
ReplyDeleteNot sure what Shock A Jock is? Off to google....
Easy Bake oven, toy soldiers with my brothers and my bike with the baseball cards stuck to the spokes with wooden clothespins and rockem sockem robots
ReplyDeleteYes! The Barbie Dream House with the elevator. I made my sister sit on top as a dare and she crashed through each of the floors. No more Dream House for me. I also loved Fashion Plates, my She-Ra doll, Skip-It and all of my Strawberry Shortcake stuff.
ReplyDeleteOn a sidenote, does anyone remember Giggles cookies? I loved those things and actually tried to find them recently, but they have been discontinued.
Raggedy Annie - My mother tells the story that one night at the dinner table when I was about 5 . . . Raggedy wouldn't sit up straight in her chair. I'm told I hollered at her, G-damnit, sit up!
ReplyDeleteLoved my Raggedy Annie!
easy bake oven and legos.
ReplyDeleteIt was Sweden in the 70's - my parents made sure that my toys weren't all "girl toys". I had this yellow toy Volvo...which I put in my doll baby stroller, tucked it in a blanket, and pushed around *L*. After a while, I realized I could take it apart...and put it back together. I took it apart, put it back together, over and over and over again.
ReplyDeleteI also remember an odd-looking doll named Elinor, and a brief love affair with My Little Pony.
Bryer horses, small plastic animals, stuffed animals, anything animals.
ReplyDeletePlayed Barbies once in awhile but by the time i set up the house i was bored.
Micronauts. Star Trek figures. Planet of the Apes figures. Marx "Battle of Navarone" playset. Mattel "Heroes in Action" army men. Star Wars figures.
ReplyDeleteMy pogo stick. :)
ReplyDeleteTwister (although that's a game). I LOVED my Easy Bake Oven! Now they're pink microwaves. :(
ReplyDeleteLoved my brother's reel-to-reel tape recorder. We recorded things from tv (usually Looney Tunes) then crank-called people and pretended they were on a game show.
Barbies always. I still have containers and containers full of Barbies and Barbie clothes and shoes and accessories. Plan on passing them down and giving them to my unborn daughter. I always wanted an Easy Bake Oven, but my mom was afraid we'd start little fires in our play room. I was also obsessed with coloring, Cabbage Patch Dolls, Pound Puppies, and My Little Ponies. Oh! And my Strawberry Shortcake vanity. When it was so worn down my parents made me throw it away, I cried for days.
ReplyDeleteFashion Plates!
ReplyDeleteStar Wars toys. The scenarios that I cooked up to play with the figures were the stuff of legend...and much better than any of the new SW films might I add.
ReplyDeleteI totally forgot about Fashion plates! What about Shrinky Dinks or instead of paper dolls-which I totally loved too-they had the doll, then the clothes/accessories were a vinyl material?
ReplyDeleteBlock City. It was somewhat similar to Legos, little interlocking white blocks, with red windows and doors and roofs, and I would build houses and then play with small dolls in them. I used to have to hide my Block City creations when guys came to pick me up for dates.
ReplyDeleteAlso my bicycle. I went everywhere! This was in the 1940s and 1950s when it was safe for kids to be out and about without supervision or guardians, and I would ride downtown, across town, out into the country, it was wonderful and free.
And I was a bookworm. My favorite thing was to climb up in the cherry tree and read and eat cherries.
Oh man I love this question! Sooooo many favorites: Sammy Skates, Popples, Pamela & Cricket (both large, talking dolls) Alphie, Lite Brite, a movie projector (no idea what it was called) happy meal Barbies, My Little Pony, Lovely Lady Locks, Whiz Wheel...I could go on.
ReplyDeleteMy absolute favorite though was a fake bee in a little plastic jar jar that would fly around when you shake the jar. Mom sold it a garage sale when I was still a kid & I was crushed. Still can't find anything like it to this day.
Loved my barbies. And I could spend hours coloring and reading. I never envied the kids who had ATARI, it looked boring to me. Now I have sons who love Nintendo, XBOX, and computer gaming.
ReplyDeleteOH! And Magic Nursery Baby, heheh.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Lite Bright and Barbies. Tons and tons of hours of fun!
ReplyDeleteBarbies and the game of Life...also my doll house. I still have it, though my niece is kinda beating it up a little bit.
ReplyDeleteBarbie and Ken, no doubt, and Barbie's Dream House... The ORIGINAL one made of cardboard, where you had to put all the furniture together (with slits and tabs) after you popped it out of the cardboard!
ReplyDeleteOh, and I loved my Give-a-Show Projector, and my toy sewing machine... My parents worked mucho hard for all that loot, and I still am grateful for my childhood.
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ReplyDeleteGawd, I feel so old. I had to google Lite Brite to find out what it was....
ReplyDeletemy digimon toys
ReplyDeleteMrs. Beasley doll.
ReplyDeleteFisher and Price house and farm. LOVED them to death. Crayons, I loved to color. Books my parents believed in giving books for every birthday and Christmas. Santa brought toys, my parents brought books
ReplyDeleteI had He man and She ra galore. Ha the crystal castle and castle greyskull and all the figures, horses, swans? And the like. An my nintendo
ReplyDeleteDO NOT GOOGLE SHOCK-A-JOCK! Trust me, you're eyes will never be the same. I couldn't find the toy in question ENTY is referring to (even though the name slightly rings a bell). I even tried "Sock a Jock" (Again, I DO NOT recommend you do the same ;-)).
ReplyDeletePerhaps ENTY was referring to Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots or something similar?
Anybody else got anything or know what this SHOCK-A-JOCK toy is?
Oh my favorites were lego (no "s"), fisher price adventure people, little green plastic army men, and star wars action figures. My friends and I also spent a lot of time dressing up as army guys in our father's old army stuff and carrying out or own missions. (This was the late seventies/early eighties).
Ok, after various google searches and head pounding, I've decided ENTY must be referring to "Super Jock" the plastic football kicking toy. Basically you would pound the football player's head and he would kick a ball through the field goal (ideally). Here's a link, as well as a listing of other great toys from the 80s:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ilovethe80s.com/toys_toys_superjock.htm
mr patato head
ReplyDeleteMatchbox cars and of course Barbie
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