What was your favorite toy as a kid? Maybe you still have it, even.
For me, it was my stuffed animals until I got a Nintendo. Then it was my Nintendo until I got a Gameboy. I still have the Nintendo, but I gave the Gameboy to my sister. Now I wish I hadn't, I miss it.
I loved my play McDonalds. It was so cool. It even had a little tray return in the side of the building.
It reminds me of a story from when I was a kid.
My mom took me shopping at the mall, and apparantly I was misbehaving, I don't recall what I was doing, but I'm sure it was related to my frustration at spending five hours looking at womens clothes
ANYWAY, when my Dad picked us up at the mall my Mom commented to him that I had been really bad. As usual, my dad didn't really say anything. He was usually a pretty quiet guy. Him and my Mom just went on with some other conversation and I attended to whatever business a 7 or 8 year old has in the back seat of the car.
Then, about ten minutes later, when we're almost home, my Dad asks me very casually what my favorite new toy that I got for Christmas was.
I remember thinking about it out loud before saying "It's gotta be the McDonalds".
He replied "Good, I'm taking it away for two weeks, next time you're with your mother maybe you'll behave".
OUCH!
To this day I can still clearly see that McDonalds up on top of the fridge, just out of my reach for two weeks.
I gotta hand it to the man though, it was a well played manuever. I just wonder how long he'd been saving that one up for!
Operation! I just thought it was so neat how it buzzed when you hit the side. What a challenge. I don't have it anymore. In fact, I think I had to go to my friends to play it. I won't deny my own children of such an educational game.
Did you know they make checks w/ Operation on them? True story.
I can beat you on that one Jeremy. There was one time that I took something of my step-father's to school for show and tell (though he was still "my mom's husband" at the time), and I was doing homework at the kitchen table when he wanted it back. He asked where it was, and I couldn't remember (hey, I was busy at the time), so he got mad, hunted down my Gameboy and threw it down the stairs. (He had some anger management issues that I won't go into here.) I was devistated.
I think he felt guilty about it, because I got a new Gameboy that Christmas.
I'm sorry MZ, I was actually laughing out loud on that one! I can just imagine the look on your face seeing an "adult" act like that. You must have been stunned!
MZ I hope that you realize that his day will come, if it has not already. He has lost your mom, but if that did not hurt, something else will. That hurt my feelings!
Back to our favorite toy, mine was my brothers Planet of the Apes set. He had a huge collection of toys and I was so jealous! He got them when he got pneumonia and was in the hospital. I prayed everyday to get sick so I could get my own set.
After that I loved my dollhouse. My parents got it at a flea market in WI. It was awesome, it was handmade. It had a pool and tennis courts! My brother got mad at me one day and took a baseball bat to it! So MZ I feel your pain. However, my brother is still a big loser, so that helps somedays! Somehow we are turning this into how messed up people can be.
Hot Wheels baby! They were the best. My borther and I would set up track all over the backyard or basement. We'd play with them for hours. We still have a box loaded with cars. We still have some track and now we get them out so our nephew can play with them. We even had two or three that were still in the package. I sold them to a friend who collects them. I think he paid me $75 for them. I bet they cost .75 cents in the day. Ahhh memories.
My mom' still married to him (which baffles me, but...). It wasn't until I moved out that I would even acknowledge him as my stepfather. I used to refer to him as "my mom's husband." That was the closest relationship to him that I wanted at the time.
I had the Legos, Matchbox, Tinkertoys and even the Lincoln Logs. All of which I used to leave lying around the house. My mother would be the most upset if she stepped on one on the small legos. They hurt. Playing with most of this stuff I guess it is strange that I didn't become some kind of architect. I still have a great deal of my legos and my neice has the all the matchbox.
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I'm with Ray, Hot Wheels! Yards 'n yards of orange track all over the living room. Didn't you hate it when you ran out of track tongues? Those were more valuable than the cars! Close behind that were my G.I Joes. These were the tall ones, with Kung-Fu grip. Not those tiny ones from the 80's. You could really batter those things and not ruin them.
Legos were definately up there. I had some matchbox and hot wheels, but I preferred the cars that you pulled back to go. I would drag race them together all the time!
I was a barbie girl... had the house and the pool and the car and the horse... i even had a piano that actually played music.... my favorite was the curly haired barbie ( i have curly hair). She died an unnatural death when my cousin broke her head off. poor barbie.
Hey Riggs my brother had that mcdonaldland thing too.
When we were about 11-12 yrs old, we took M-80s and bb guns to a lot of our toys and had fun with them that way. In hindsite, it'd be cool to still have these around.
I had batman everything! that was cool- this 6 story building thing with the batcave in the basement.
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My mom was big into rummage sales when I was a kid. She came home one Saturday afternoon with two 5 gallon buckets full of legos she bought for a buck each. I thought my mom was an Angel sent from the big lego cloud in the sky. Have you priced these things today? A 6 inch box of legos with 12 little parts costs about 6 or 7 dollars.
The best thing is when I go to my parents house I can go down to the basement and play with any toy I ever owned! They vowed they would never throw away our toys like their parents did to them. I have every lego, matchbox car, tinker toy, dump truck, lincoln log, weebles, etc that I ever had. Antiques of course now!
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Most of my toys went to Goodwill. My parents said I couldn't leave anything behind when I moved out, and I didn't have room for most of it. I doubt any of it would really be in a collectible condition anyway.
