What is/was your favourite toy?

[Sammy Boy]

Hi all,

What is / was your favourite toy?

If you still play with or collect toys, state your current favourite toy.
If you no longer play with or collect toys, state what your favourite toy was.

My (current) favourite is Lego.

Cheers!

PS. Sorry for the inexhaustive list of options. I am especially unfamiliar with girls' toys, being a guy.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

I never really had action figures etc but Lego was a huge favourite! I still enjoy it although I haven't played it for sometime now. But Lego rocks! And Mechano was very cool also.

[bigsleepj]

I loved Lego - but it was very expensive and we couldn't afford it. I was also proud of my Thundercats toys.

[Sammy Boy]

Argh! So that's what I left out! Thundercats and Meccano. Actually I thought of writing down Thundercats but then my dad came to say 'goodnight' as he was off to bed and I forgot after that. I must be getting old..

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Lego is expensive but we had a few small vehicles and the basic bucket set and that was it. But still it was great fun!

[LorentzForce]

LEGO. I saved up everything I had for them, and it was so worth it. I collected enough to make myself working guns from them!

http://lorentztheory.com/images/legogun/nailinator01.jpg

Mind you, that above model is ages old. The current one (Model name: Ruhe) is on my shelf proudly, and missing its barrel (so it can't fire).

I love LEGO. I don't know what else I would have done if I didn't have LEGO in my childhood and today.

[Rev. Doc]

Two come to mind. I had a teddy bear growing up that an uncle gave to me as a baby. My mother kept it for me over the years and I still have it in a box in the closet. Looking at it, it's well worn and one eye is gone and the fur is pretty much worn down so I can tell it was one loved teddy bear in it's day.

The other was called "The Getaway Chase Game." It was similar to a race track. It had two battery operated cars (a police car and a robber's getaway car). The object was to race around the track with the police trying to catch the robber. There were little switches that could be thrown that would cause the cars to go in different directions. I use to play that thing for hours on end with my friends.

[shooraijin]

I played with Slinkies, but I preferred the plastic ones because they didn't pinch as badly.

I do remember Legos, and I also recall a Fisher-Price "outdoorsman" kit my folks got me after my hernia surgery when I was five. I promptly managed to lose all the pieces within a couple weeks, as I recall.

But my favourite toy was Poley, a stuffed lamb (but I insisted it was a polar bear). My folks got worried that I was too attached to Poley, so they hid it and the working theory was that he had been stolen by Indians. I do remember Poley resurfacing when I was 10 or so, but I don't know where he went now.

[dragonshimmer]

Three childhood toys stick out most in my mind.

1. A stuffed Popple, if the children of the eighties can remember these. I loved that thing.

2. A black stuffed bear named Pooh, because it had a wind up key and it played "Winnie The Pooh". I still have it, and it's missing an eye and the fur is nice and ratty, but it still plays the song and still has a special place in my childhood memories.

3. A Kit car from the show Knight Rider. I could sit in it and pedal and it would zoom around. It even had working lights and sounds, just like in the tv show! My parents still have that in their attic n_n

[Mr. SmartyPants]

i was stuck between legos or starwars... starwars it was

[Mr. Rogers]

legos were the best. i still make stuff with those ocassionally... <_< >_>

[the_lizardqueen]

Well, when I was really little I used to play with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle figures over a barbie anyday.

Other than that, I still have my collection of Littlest Pet Shop sets. I'm talking the early nineties versions, not the big eyed cartoony versions of today. I loved 'em, I remember I got my first set when I was 7, it was two turtles and their aquarium, which at an island and palm tree in it, and their food. The one could hide his head and the other would move his feet when you slid him along the ground ^_^

I also played with my little brother's Lego alot, I'd always build really strange and over the top space cruisers.

[Syaoran]

I don't realy have a fav. toy.....I mostly like to be out doors.

[Azier the Swordsman]

I would have to say Transformers and Power Rangers.

[the_lizardqueen]

Eep! I forgot! I also loved the Beast Wars Transformers figures, robots that can turn into animals = teh coolness

[TurkishMonky]

AAK! I LOVE LEGOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ahem, that about says what i like to do...

[~Natsumi Lam~]

definately TMNT.... the original... oh yea. I loved Donitello[sp?]. I wanted to be smart like him and TMNT made me hungry for pizza... but there was also barbe and GI Joe/// but i used to chew on their hands <:D

~NL~

[Fireproof]

A good amount of Power Rangers action figures now reside in my basement. ^^;
(And a big 'ol pile of super-loved stuffed animals that's still in my room.)

[kazekami]

I loved my legos. My sister and I would make ducks. Not sure why ducks. And build houses for them. It was fun. heh

I also liked my little ponies.

[Yumie]

When I was little I was really into stuffed animals and dolls ^-^; I was really sensitive when I was a kid-- I can still remember times when I slept with in excess of fifteen stuffed animals because I was afraid that they would be sad if they had to lay on the floor all night . But my favorite things to collect were American Girl Dolls. I had like five, and I can still remember this one time when a friend and I were tugging on one of my Bitty Babies (a baby doll created by American Girl) and she had the head and I had the feet. . . and the head popped off! I remember holding the little headless corpse in shock and horror, then jumping up and running out of the room to my mom crying like a baby. Luckily we were able to re-attatch the head . . . good times.

[Sammy Boy]

Wow people! I really enjoyed reading all of your responses, I feel I've known you all a bit more through your favourite toys.

In hindsight I should have added "soft toys" as another option, since so many people seem to like them. I had forgotten, mostly because as a kid I was afraid of soft toys. I can't tell you why that is, since I don't know myself. But yeh .. soft toys scared me.

[Technomancer]

Definately Lego, but also Mecano (which isn't on your list).

[Sonic_13]

Other- My NES was my favorite toy as a wee child =) At 3 years old I was beating super mario bros, double dragon, and all these other games ;P I actually believe that at that age I was a lot better at those games than I am now.

[cbwing0]

Argh! So that's what I left out!

There are so many different toys that no poll could adequately cover all of options. Still, it is a fairly good list.

I voted for Tranformers, but I also liked to play with Legos, K'nex, Erector Sets, The old Toy Biz Marvel figures, TMNT figures, G.I. Joe, Hot Wheels (not on the poll), Stretch Armstrong, and many others.

Still, my absolute favorite toys were weapons . Anything from plastic swords, toy guns, and Super Soakers to hammers (yes, the kind you would find in a toolbox), long sticks, bb guns, and pocket knives. There was no better game than sword fighting; unfortunately there was no one in my neighborhood who would play . I also used to get in trouble for smashing rocks, bricks, and cinder blocks with a hammer. I guess I was a violent child .

[Dante]

Toy army men, I have (save those eaten by the vacuum cleaner) approximately 950 of em (I actually sat down one day and counted them all.

[Alice]

Stuffed animals, and some Star Wars toys. Other than that, I don't remember very well.

[mitsuki lover]

I loved my teddy bears literally to death.

[umathurmanlover]

hmmm....i used to love my toy army men...at my old house, the next door neigbor girl whom i always played with was moving out...and right before she left she left a huge bucket of brand new little green army men on the porch of my house. I think I might have been her first ever crush..and i too was quite smittened...but within a week or so i forgot about her and bacame obsessed with ninja turtles...i was only about 4.

[dragonshimmer]

[quote="Sonic_13"]Other- My NES was my favorite toy as a wee child =) At 3 years old I was beating super mario bros, double dragon, and all these other games ]

Oh yeah, I left mine out too! xD My NES was also one of my favorite toys...but I wasn't a wee child when it first came out, lol

[shooraijin]

I dunno, I think we'd *all* put consoles if allowed to. How about non-console toys?