What toys did you have as a kid?

Started by besilarius, February 18, 2012, 10:29:12 AM

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besilarius

How many of these toys did you know about as a kid?

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/60stoys.html

Come on!  Be honest.  We're all old farts here!
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Barthheart

I had about 8 of those items.... including the vintage rotary desk phone, in black, which is still in use in my workshop!

Epee1

What the heck, those were all GIRLIE toys.  I had toy firearms up till I was allowed to go hunting with my father which was around 10 years of age.

The toy firearms in those days looked like the real thing.  Not the crap they put out for the girlie boys we have now.  There were toy machine guns mounted on tripods, cannons that shot projectiles 30 ft.  turretts with twin .30 cal machine guns, missle silos, nuclear subs that shot torpedos and missles, plastic knives you could practically kill someone with.  Tripwire gernades with caps, and handgernades.  Ahhh, those were the days that shaped boys minds toward manly things.  ;D ;)

Steelgrave

I had rocks.

Ok, just kidding. GI Joe, the original...hell yes! Tons of accessories, a locker filled with uniforms and weapons (kinda like Jarhead's house, no doubt!). A couple of the land vehicles. The accessory I wanted the most I never got, but there was a Gemini space capsule for your GI Joe astronaut. Seriously cool!

Legos, a phonograph record player, God knows how many Matchbox cars...the Spirograph was one of the few things my sister and I both played with. The Hot Wheels racing set had an additional bonus in that you and a sibling could each take a piece of the plastic track and swordfight (pre-Nerf days), beating the crap out of each other before Mom yelled for us to go outside.

Martok

I played with roughly half the toys listed on there, although I only actually owned a few of them.  I had a bunch of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, of course, and our family owned the CandyLand game. 

However, for me, Legos easily dominates that list.  Between your standard Basic sets, a bunch of Space and Star Wars sets, and a few City sets, I easily own (yes, present tense!) over 10,000 bricks. 

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Barthheart

Quote from: Martok on February 18, 2012, 03:50:02 PM
... I easily own (yes, present tense!) over 10,000 bricks.

>:( I'd have about the same if my mother had not given (not even sold!  :P ) them all away when I was gone for my first year of university!!!!

MIGMaster

Ihad had a fewof them,  but my fav was the GI Joe jeep with the recoiless rifle. I loved that thing man ! I used to fill up the jeep and trailer with my GI Joes and Big Jim's - remember those !

bayonetbrant

OK, look, I wasn't born 'til 72, but I did play with a handful of those things - either in updated form or with ones laying around family houses.

Spirograph
GI Joe
Ideal Printing Press
Mousetrap
Legos
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Steelgrave

Quote from: Keunert on February 29, 2012, 02:36:55 PM
Commodore Amiga 500
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MIGMaster

You guys have me there - the first PC I used in any serious fashion was an 8086 with the groovy 5.25 drives.

Barthheart

My first computer my Dad and I bought was a Sinclair ZX80 1 kb of RAM. We splurged and bought the 16KB RAM upgrade for $200!

First computer I bought was a Commodor C64 with a cassette drive! Later added a floppy drive. Used that to the end of University, even writing my 4th year project on it....

Epee1

Had one of these when I was just a lad.  The great Mighty Mo Howitzer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svet_A0I65w

Epee1