covetoys Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 Ok all, what was your favorite toy(s) growing up? Mine were definitly Micronauts and Lego.Let me here it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimberlyco Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 You wanna hear my story of my favorite toy...It was a little Gumby figure. I loved it, put it in my pocket where ever I went. Then one day my dog ate it. I cried for DAYS, and then... my wonderful single mother went outside for days searching for the gumby that she said would soon "turn up". After a little while my mom came in with... MY GUMBY!! She had spend hours searching then disinfecting my gumby for me... I love mommy. Hey, you asked... it's a sweet, yet yucky story.Oh, but other than that... wooden blocks were my favoirte, they were like legos but older. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p-poppin Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 Kim and those wood blocks. You are just sooo old. My favorite toy was Fonzie's Garage, and then The original star wars toys. I wish I still had them, they are worth a small fortune.------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angprncess Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 My favorite toy would have to be........geez there are so many.Shrinky Dinks, Colour-forms, Strawberry Shortcake dolls, Light bright, My Jem and the Holograms dolls. Oh to be a kid again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranceaction Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 hmmm.. lets see... a Nerf football.. slime.. silly putty..silly putty.. that stuff must have been developed by some UFO technology... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimberlyco Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 OH SILLY PUTTY WAS AWESOME!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diesel77 Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 Growing up in Europe i wasnt as spoiled as you American kids! Legos were a luxury....for me my favorite toys were ummm empty tuna fish can, and an old tire....peacetommy------------------"Nobody picks on a strong man." - Atlas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citybartender Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 I loved my starwars action figures! I remember that I prided them so much, that I wouldn't let my friends or cousins play with them. I think that my parents still have them in their basement. ($$$) Being a boy, I also prided myself in building the best treehouse/fort in the valley!------------------ "Take the red pill and stay in wonderland and then you'll see how deep the rabit hole goes..." Morpheus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranceaction Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 I grew up in Pittsburgh which is extremely mountainous and green.. when I moved to Chicago I felt so sad during the winter because there were no hills for the kids to go sledding..No real forests or backyards to build forts or treehouses..Probably one of my most vivid childhood memories is being about 10 years old, we just moved to a new house and my friend came knocking on the door after school and yelled at me to follow him.We proceeded into the woods and found this rundown, shell of a treehouse, falling to pieces.. he searched through the rubble and pulled out a box..And guess what was in the box???That's right boys.. dozens of playboy magazines... we had hit the gold mine.. this was the days before the Internet and when HBO was the only pay channel..Both my friend and I were too scared to take the playboys into our houses, for fear of getting caught.. so we left them there.Unfortunately, after a few days.. the "owners" must have come by and they were gone! Damn the shit we had to do back then to get a glimpse of some boobs.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimberlyco Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 That's what they were called LINCOLN LOGS!!!Tranceaction: I was born in Pittsburgh. Where were you buy? The city? Kick the can was the shit too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsis Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 Did anyone have a Hippity Hop? Those were too much fun. And (no comments out of the peanut gallery) but the Sit N'Spin was fun too although there was a lot of nausea after that.Barbie's ruled life for a few years and I'm w/Ang on the Shrinky Dinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back2basics- Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 Ha ha throwing stars!! A man after my own heart Marcel.Scalectrics were pretty good, and i was also in to the Star Wars stuff.------------------I want to go out blazing..not fade away.Trust in the currency of relationships, it's hard to earn but easy to loose - back2basics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranceaction Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 Kim... I was raised in the North Hills (Pittsburgh)..i just remembered what has to be the ultimate toy of all time.The Big Wheel..no kid should ever grow up without one.although i'm still kinda wondering why they had plastic tassles on the ends of the handlebars.. that was kinda gay.. after all, this is a lean mean racing machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsis Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 What about the Green Machine? I never had one but they were pretty cool too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimberlyco Posted April 27 Report Share Posted April 27 I had a pink big wheel. I skinned my knee on it once when a car almost hit me and I bailed. Trance:I am near North Allegancy. Do you know where that is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranceaction Posted April 28 Report Share Posted April 28 Originally posted by bigsis:What about the Green Machine? I never had one but they were pretty cool too blasphemy!! .. the green machine was a wannabee imitator!kim.. yes, North Allegheny is within a few miles of where i lived.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombat Posted April 28 Report Share Posted April 28 Yeah, you guys brought back alot of good memories. I think we all have alot in common. I loved lite-brite, legos, lincoln logs, my skateboard of course( actually still love it now), bicycle, I loved to go down to the end of my street and pile my skateboard up with wooden pallets from the glass shop, push them down the street and build a maze of forts under are cigar tree. In my yard we had two big trees, the cigar tree I just mentioned and a cherry tree we made two strory treehouses in both w/ trap doors to get into the 2nd floor. Yeah and it would be fun cause all the kids in the neighborhood wood steal there dads dirty mags and they'd end up in my tree house. You could really escape from everything up there. Did you guys have any caves in your home town? I also really got into chinese stars and other martial art weapons. I'm not a violent kid I just loved how the weapons worked in old martial art flix.peace------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scratchapella Posted April 28 Report Share Posted April 28 Awwww. I loved reading about everyone's childhood. I didn't have a favorite toy, but I remember doing a lot of crazy shit in playgrounds and climbing trees. It was like a competition of who could do the most fucked up stunt. I've got tons of scars to show! Hehehe, I remember once my aunt tried to make me "play like a girl" by giving me this Little Miss Makeup doll. When you wet certain parts of her face, makeup would show up. She had all these pretty hair bows and everything. Hhehehe, my friends and I decapitated it and buried it. oohhh, I wish I was 7 again, I would still be doing the same things. Hmm. . .(I still kinda am) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citybartender Posted April 28 Report Share Posted April 28 Originally posted by tranceaction:Kim... I was raised in the North Hills (Pittsburgh)..i just remembered what has to be the ultimate toy of all time.The Big Wheel..no kid should ever grow up without one.although i'm still kinda wondering why they had plastic tassles on the ends of the handlebars.. that was kinda gay.. after all, this is a lean mean racing machine.The Big Wheels were BAD!!! The tassels were the first thing to come off of it. That's the first time that I knew that I was a straight male!!!Months of riding it craked the wheels and gave it a deep guteral sound. I enjoyed waking up the neighbors on my early morning sidewalk drags...!------------------ "Take the red pill and stay in wonderland and then you'll see how deep the rabit hole goes..." Morpheus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmitch1114 Posted April 29 Report Share Posted April 29 I must admit, all your toys do bring back the memories, but I would have to say my favorite toys would have been J.I. Goe and Transformers, those things were great!! I had the Base, the fighter jet, the jeep, you name it I probably had it, and better yet, they had cartoons about these guys. And come on, Transformers??? You got the decepticons and Optimus Prime and the idiot bad guys who always mess up and have to answer to the boss. Man, talk about memory lane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimberlyco Posted May 1 Report Share Posted May 1 Transaction! That's cool! Small world huh. All my relatives are still living there and I visit all the time. Like I said, small world! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covetoys Posted May 2 Author Report Share Posted May 2 Does anyone remember the Green Machine! it was like a big wheel only it was huge and green and had a secret storage container in back.Ah the memories!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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