Lincoln Logs first followed closely by Erector Sets after I got a little older. At least until I discovered Cindy the girl across the street with the bluest eyes.
@pmarin Alas, her dad was transfered out of state…I was left bereft of Cindy. But, happily, Jana moved in with her Mom and siblings. Lol. We’re still friends to this day
@ciraman
I didn’t have any when I was a kid but I did get my son a Tonka Dump truck the metal kind. He’s grown ,no kids. The truck remains in the garage waiting for child to love it.
Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle And Creepy Crawlers hot plate spider maker. Got my first serious burn! The fun of less government control. Ha ha Then there was Incredible Edibles! Burn baby burn.
@Cerridwyn
I buy them all the time for my nephew and nieces. I have a whole bunch of Xmas ones I have to give. They live books as much as they love toys, they won’t go to bed without reading a few books. The older ones I can’t to read for shit but I never got them hooked on books like the little ones.
When I was really young it was he man action figures, Star Wars wicket the Ewok food catering game and universal monsters mini play case. I never played with Barbie or girl stuff, I was a real tomboy. Only girl in a pack of boys.
Non-Barbie dolls (my mother disapproved of Barbies so I didn’t have them.) Books. Art supplies. A couple of my mother’s old formal dresses for playing dress-up & pretend.
We had a lot of the classics. Lincoln logs/tinker toys. When I was younger my grandpa gave me a box full of duplo/lego brick mix wrapped in comics.
I remember later figuring out if was a beer box. But they didn’t drink. Just a yardsale find I’m sure. I had to go dispose of a mouse in the storage area so.
I’ll skip the picture of the mouse trap. Lots of books. Mid 90s goodwill had a bunch of nerf guns and tyco RC cars/boats that worked perfectly. So we used to get those.
Lego.
Hot Wheels.
@Pony Hotwheels were the expensive ones. I got Matchbox sometimes.
@Pony Micro machines. I had 4-6 of them, iirc.
The so called action figures were the 1ft tall G.I. Joe. for the boys & Barbie for girls.
Brix Blocks. My parents couldn’t afford the luxury stuff.
@hchavers couldn’t afford those and especially not legos
Erector set and Sizzler Hot Wheels. I still have tons of the Hot Wheels track in the original orange.
Lincoln Logs first followed closely by Erector Sets after I got a little older. At least until I discovered Cindy the girl across the street with the bluest eyes.
@therealjrn seems like a good collectible. Do you still have her?
@pmarin Alas, her dad was transfered out of state…I was left bereft of Cindy. But, happily, Jana moved in with her Mom and siblings. Lol. We’re still friends to this day
Simon, Teddy Ruxpin, Lego, Hotwheels, pogo balls, erector sets, game boy, NES followed by countless different consoles.
An oxygen - acetylene torch.
@BioBill We used to make bombs with the torch and balloons. Amazingly, we survived with all our fingers intact.
All of the above. I don’t remember any one type being favored more than the other.
Fisher Price Little People
I attribute some of my ability to “feel” when something mechanical is going together or coming apart properly to playing with LEGOs.
My Red Rider B B Gun! I loved it up to a point. ~ Tex “One Eye” Marcs.
Matchbox cars
Tonka trucks, and not the plastic ones they have now.
@ciraman
I didn’t have any when I was a kid but I did get my son a Tonka Dump truck the metal kind. He’s grown ,no kids. The truck remains in the garage waiting for child to love it.
@ciraman @jkawaguchi
Maybe this is the year for that truck to find a home? The Marines do a toys-for-tots thing and they specifically don’t want wrapped ones.
Transformers & Star Wars
The 80’s editions.
Erector set, Tinkertoys, Lincoln Logs, stuff like that. (I wish I still had them, honestly.)
@werehatrack That was going to be my list. But I would add the chemistry set where you could ‘make’ fart smells in a test tube.
@rancho @werehatrack Shoot, we never needed no dag gum fancy kit to do that!
@werehatrack yes I had them too. I would not be surprised if the erector set is in the attic. I know that the G. I. Joe is with a Mercury Capsule.
A stick.
@accelerator
@therealjrn I really should have added my Tonka, steel constructed, front loader and backhoe. That and a stick were all the toys I wanted.
Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle And Creepy Crawlers hot plate spider maker. Got my first serious burn! The fun of less government control. Ha ha Then there was Incredible Edibles! Burn baby burn.
My Ginny dolls.
Thomas the Tank Engine
Are kids books toys? At least the little golden type ones
@Cerridwyn
I buy them all the time for my nephew and nieces. I have a whole bunch of Xmas ones I have to give. They live books as much as they love toys, they won’t go to bed without reading a few books. The older ones I can’t to read for shit but I never got them hooked on books like the little ones.
@Cerridwyn I loved the Little Golden Books. They also had some science books for kids that were really interesting:
https://www.librarything.com/nseries/28122/The-Golden-Library-of-Knowledge
When I was really young it was he man action figures, Star Wars wicket the Ewok food catering game and universal monsters mini play case. I never played with Barbie or girl stuff, I was a real tomboy. Only girl in a pack of boys.
Non-Barbie dolls (my mother disapproved of Barbies so I didn’t have them.) Books. Art supplies. A couple of my mother’s old formal dresses for playing dress-up & pretend.
Lite Brite!
We had a lot of the classics. Lincoln logs/tinker toys. When I was younger my grandpa gave me a box full of duplo/lego brick mix wrapped in comics.
I remember later figuring out if was a beer box. But they didn’t drink. Just a yardsale find I’m sure. I had to go dispose of a mouse in the storage area so.
I’ll skip the picture of the mouse trap. Lots of books. Mid 90s goodwill had a bunch of nerf guns and tyco RC cars/boats that worked perfectly. So we used to get those.
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Sand and dirt
@pakopako Sand and dirt? Look who lives the life of luxury. All we had was used kitty litter.
Books.
I was a nerd. (if you couldn’t tell already)
@Wollyhop NERRRD!!
