[Darla]

Well Christmas is almost upon us and we get tons of toy and game ads. Made me wonder about toys when i was a kid. (the thread by Internetchick made me think of this) Why don't you bring up some of yours!

the legos were already mentioned. and lets see there are still lincoln logs, but have you seen an erector set?


when i was little had the GI Joe but he always hung out with Daniel Boone for some reason. I liked the TV show so i even had the coonskin cap and the fake rifle. (no big worries about toy guns then)


and i only mention the last one, Girder and Panel because original sets are selling for hundreds of dollars. crazy!



and this too. this is one of the first James Bond 007 Aston Martin cars with all the gadjets, hubcab spinners, machine gun etc. I remember getting that one Christmas and recently saw one like it on eBay for over $500!
no still don't have it.

So do you have any toys you fondly remember from you childhood?

[esha]

Magnadoodle! I remember going through so many of them because me and my brother would be so careless and always step on them breaking the screen.
I can't find the original one but this is good enough.



Shaker Makers! Again, this is obviously a newer version but I had one with cats. It gave you a powder and you mix it with water to form a liquid and you put it in the mould and shake it or something and allow it to dry and then you could paint them after.



Polly Pockets. Self explanatory. None of the houses and add-ons they sell now.



And then those usual dolls that you can feel them and then you would have to burp it.


A lot of the times Christmas would consist of my brother getting a new video game for his N64 and then us spending the morning playing it!

[Tony-admin]

Here's mine!!!

[brewgrl]

Barbie Dream House... Greatest thing I ever owned.


Simon


Growing Hair Cher


Brooke Shields


a mass amount of Barbies...including this one that kissed.


Lite Brite
http://www.mrpotatohead.net/1990/litebrite.jpg

Cabbage Patch... The OG from the very first Christmas they came out... My aunt fought the crowd for one... Mine was named Adelia Heather, and she was blonde and had leg warmers.

[pinksugar]

haha, yes, polly pockets, barbies, leggo...


slap bands


tamagotchi


cabbage patch kids

and my favourite computer games:

commander keen


duke nukem


paganitzu


simon the sorcerer
LOL. Oldschool games

[Ricci]

Pogo stick



My Little Pony



Mickey Mouse record player (i had nightmares about it lol)



Oven lol!

[blueangel1023]

Paint by numbers book!



Silly Putty



Rubix Cube



Lisa Frank Stickers! I was a huge sticker collector



Battleship!



I had my own beading and lanyard making kit!



Illustrated classic moby books! OMG, I used to love reading these.



Choose your own adventure books!



RL Stine Goosebumps (you can tell I was a nerd since I loved to read) LOL



Sega Genesis! :P



Last but not least Casio magic diary! lol, tell me you guys had one. I used to do the matchmaker and play with my virtual pet dog all the time on it.

[S. Lisa Smith]

Wow, everyone had cool toys. My favorites were plastic army men and tanks...but I actually wanted girl stuff...

[Lucy]

oh what a cool thread!!

i had these things called fabulous hair friends, i couldn't find any pictures you wet their hair it it would change colour! amazing

quints!!! oh they were great.


and the barbies, of course. i had loads but these are the ones i remember most:


she had a dolphin!

little mermaid

tropical barbie! she had perfume and these gorgeous earrings i used to love.

[pinksugar]

haha, barbies... I had these ones:


barbie and the rockers - she had bent arms so she looked like she was dancing. Check out the hair. AND THE CLOTHES! LOL


we had this dress


bedtime barbie - she had a soft body and you could open and close her eyes with hot/cold water

And another barbie that was dressed in hiking gear... and in the sun her hair got streaks in it. Groovy stuff for a 8 year old man!

[StereoXGirl]

Oooh!


GloWorm


Popples


My Little Ponies


Easy Bake Oven

[StereoXGirl]

Paint by numbers book!

http://www.grandmabs3.com/PaintByNumbers.jpg

Silly Putty

http://www.brandchannel.com/images/F...sillyputty.jpg

Rubix Cube

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...ubix-cube2.gif

Lisa Frank Stickers! I was a huge sticker collector

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1058/...d40425e44d.jpg

Battleship!

http://blogs.zdnet.com/images/battleship%20game.jpeg

I had my own beading and lanyard making kit!

http://www.ape2zebra.com/images/thum...keTake_175.jpg
http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/...resized200.jpg
Illustrated classic moby books! OMG, I used to love reading these.

http://i14.ebayimg.com/02/i/001/21/e3/df90_1.JPG

Choose your own adventure books!

http://cdn.overstock.com/images/prod...1933390913.jpg

RL Stine Goosebumps (you can tell I was a nerd since I loved to read) LOL

http://www.tvshowsondvd.net/graphics...bumps_2007.jpg

Sega Genesis! :P

http://bluebuddies.com/gallery/Sega_...ga_Genesis.jpg

Last but not least Casio magic diary! lol, tell me you guys had one. I used to do the matchmaker and play with my virtual pet dog all the time on it.

http://www.virtualpet.com/vp/artwork...ts/jd-6600.gif

OMG...I LOVED my Lisa Frank stickers!!! lol!

[Karren]

Yeah... Erector set... Girder and pannel set the one with the tubes you could pump liquid around.... Lincoln logs.... trains... complete cowboy getup (we lived in Texas... lol) BB gun... No wonder I became an engineer...

[Orangeeyecrayon]

i had a wooden train set that i sadly played with untill i was like ten
my brother had a creepy crawlers, and i had an easy bake oven but we both used his creepy crawler machine more often.
we always played with tinker toys, but i remember my brother would always steal all the conector pieces and only leave me with one or two so my creations were usually kinda pathetic

yup me and my brother had one of thsee... except that ours was broken and one of the heads would pop up if you got to into the game.

i had really pathetic toys actually cause i grew up in the 90's

i had a furbie too... and it scared the crap out of me, and the only person who could get it to shut up was my brother. and it would wake me up in the middle of the night even though i would turn it to face the wall, it would start talking. i do not know why i liked that thing so much

[Panda816]

I totally remember the kissing Barbie! We had the Barbie camper van- and just about every Barbie (we are 4 girls)
My favorite Barbie was Magic Moves, she used to raise her arms up and down like she was modeling.

My Cabbage Patch Kid that I also got when the craze hit, she was a baldy with pink & white pj's and her name was Christina Doreen.

I also loved our Atari 2600 and Clue board game.

[Adrienne]

OMG I completely forgot about Lisa Frank Stickers, man I used to be obsessed with those things.

I remember the Furby but it scared me as well. I had the Little Ponies, the gloworm, the Casio magic diary, and I was crazy about the Giga Pets, I think that's what they were called. They're like tamagotchi but I can't remember how many times it sick on me lol

[Ricci]

OMG yes I forgot about my haunted furby!

[esha]

omg Tamagotchi's! I went through so many of those too, 1 fell into the pool, 1 i spilt coke on it, etc. I still have mine! stored away of course! But I remember school banned them so for my creature to not die my mom had to take it to work and made her feed it every 2 hours or something!

[LittleMissLilo]

I had Mr Potato and Mrs Potato head which is probably uncool for todays generation but i Loved putting together their faces

[Duchess Ravenwaves]

What a cute thread! I had some typical 80's stuff that the others have already mentioned; like Rainbow Brite, My Little Pony, and Care Bears toys. But, I had more action figures than anything.


















Just to mention a few.