Favorite Childhood Toys... (Page 3)

I was a huge tomboy and loved the ATeam. I had all the action figures and a van they could drive in. I even got a tent that was an ATeam van. Man I loved that thing. My parents were very patient, even letting me dress up like Mr. T for Halloween one year. I think they were happy when I stopped making people call me "Face".

Possum, you still get those Garbage Pail cards? Where do you get them? I loved those things!

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Legos hands down.

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I had a Mrs. Beasley and GOSH did I love that Chrissy doll. I also was the freaky kid that roller skated EVERYWHERE. I skated to and from school. I had those white skates with the red, white and blue stripes with the red clay-like wheels. I would wear the wheels down to the metal. I remember one summer I wore down two pairs of skates. Whew. Never been a lazy girl.

I also had the growing hair doll but I think it was Crissy's sister. I can't remember her name.
Fisher price little people-the wooden ones.
Jump rope was always fun. I could never do double dutch though.
Chinese jump rope, jacks, cards, Monopoly and Life.

Lincon logs, GI Joe, Matchbox & Corgi's, slot cars, playing war in the woods behind my house and treeforts.

anybody remember Yo-Balls. They were like yo-yo's but had a mechanism inside that would bring the ball back after you let it out. So it was like a yo yo without the work.

Speaking of balls....what were those hard plastic ones that had a string and loop attachment and you would try to get momentum enough to "clack" them together over and under your hand?  Talk about dangerous!  And how about YARTS or JARTS or whatever they were called......were they trying to kill us off?

Tania, they were called Clackers! I loved clackers! http://www.bigredtoybox.com/cgi-bin/toynfo.pl?clackersindex

Oh, did you play with the thing that had a ball at one end and was attached by a string to an egg cup looking thing with a handle? The object was to swing the ball up and have it land in/on the egg cup. Eye to hand coordination thingy.

Edited by Renee 2005-10-11 8:24 AM

Yes...I wonder how many skull fractures were attributed to those things...

Same could be said about a bicycle, Jim.

Speaking of which... this looks like my first bicycle (at age 7, I believe). My younger sister would sit side-saddle on the topbar and my baby sister would sit behind me. We went everywhere on that bike.

Edited by Renee 2005-10-11 8:42 AM






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Yeah I guess that's a good point. Ya think if clackers were still around, there would be warning stickers suggesting the use of a helmet?

This probably predates many of you but as a kid one christmas I got a "Johnny Seven, O.M.A" toy rifle. The OMA stood for one man army. It launched plastic grenades and several kinds of plastic rockets, fired little plasic bullets and had a detachable pistol that also launched plastic bullets. Totally unsafe and inappropriate for kids by today's standards but at the time I cleaned up in all the war games with it.

I also used to have lots parts for something called Meccano. I just did a search and found that the US version was known as an Erector Set.

I am so tired of this liberal clap trap.

Heh.

Seriously, I bet it'd be big with the militia set.

Courtney - You must be pretty close to the same age as me because you remember exactly the same things that I do.

Jen