Your favorite toy

[mjs warlord]

I know thier is a thread about board games but i dont want to be accused of high jacking it so made this posting.

So , as the thread says what was your favorite toy.

My parents were not very well of and i never had a scalectrix car track or a hornby train set , they were always no name battery equivalent.

BUT in 1964 as a 9 year old i got a johnny 7 gub for xmas WOW just what i wanted , the springs that fired the weapons were so powerful if something hit you then you just know it was going to hurt. I dont thing they would be allowed to make such a powerful toy today.

A funny one .... i was playing round at my mates house with his subbutio football game , his paerents were well off so he had all stands and other stuff , one day he was loosing so he jumped up and trampled on everything shouting pitch invasion and he broke everything ..... then he realised it was his set up he had destroyed

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Honestly, and not just saying this because its a gaming site, but my favourite toy was always my ZX Spectrum, and then my Atari ST. Got my first PC when I was 15.

I had some He Man, MASK, Thundercats and even some of the original Star Wars toys which my parents sold at a car boot sale without consulting me. I had an X wing, a Tie Fighter and the Millenium Falcon, would be worth something now I think.

 

[BeardyHat]

I had a TMNT Raphael stuffy that I really loved and came everywhere with me. I actually still have it, probably the one thing I kept from my childhood, besides my LEGO.

Ended-up giving both the stuffy and all my LEGO to my kids. My kids obviously don't care about stuffy, but they regularly play with my LEGO, which has now grown substantially with their own contributions to all of it.

Then yeah, what @Kaamos_Llama said. Somewhere around 4th or 5th Grade, my PC became my favorite thing when I discovered Doom and it's been all over for me since then.

 

[Alm]

I will probably echo everyone else. In the 80s/90s there were a lot of very cool toys. I had He-Man, Thundercats, Centurions, Visionaries, MASK, Transformers, Starcom, Lego, TMNT.

Once my Dad got a Gameboy in 1989, I was hooked.

My first own game console was a SNES in 1993.

 

[Zloth]

Well... my computer obviously. You may say it isn't a toy, but neither are seat/sofa cushions, and we all know how much fun those can be with a little imagination.

 

[Johnway]

my fav toy were toy soldiers. They were cheap and i got them in the market for pennies and amassed a sizable amount (i counted something like 450ish) and unlike toy soldiers these days they were far better quality. Spent my child hood with my twin brother creating shoot em ups in a similar to commando. We made scenario with duplo lego and any blocks we had to spare.

we did have medieval robin hood toy soldiers as well. Thankfully, each pack came with knights and scenary and for some reason sailors and pirates. We used them to make RPGs or epic medieval combat. in our more creative side, we pulled together other toys to form additional units. A popular solution was to use the trees as monster trees and we had a whole load of dinosaurs thrown into the mix.

When i was around 4, my go to toys were toy cars. mainly matchbox as hotwheels didn't seem to make it into my collection whats so ever. Throw in more stuff from the flea market and that was that. Got rid of those when i switched over to the toy soldiers.

Never really did get the high end or popular toys, so i had to go with cheap ones or ones that could be played by multiple people as we shared presents. There were plenty of toys i wanted, like action man but i never got one of those and frankly was probably better for it. Did want the Aliens action toys like the flying alien queen but again, never got them.

 

[JCgames]

Its kind of a toss up between colleco vision, smurf, donkey kong, lady bug, mr do i played a lot. Or a ti 99 computer that has tunnels of doom and parsec.

I still have both, but i need an adapter yo use on new hdmi screens that im gonna grab soon. if it works well i just might buy add atari 2600 with some games. The local pawn shop has pitfall, defender, centipede and berserker that ive been eyeing.


Toys? Stuff i dont have, old shogun warrior diecast figure, laser attack and crossbows and catapults board games.

I do still have my gridlock tranformer, its one of the few toy survivors. But hasbro has been realeasing lots of really nice transformers, starwars and gi joe stuff. Itsa tually quite nice and reasonably priced, or should i say was.
Thanks to tarrifs from our lovely resident prices have gone from 12.99 to 20 20 too 28, 40 dollar range is now 60+, so the stuff is no longer worth the price IMO. At that cost id rather buy vintage from collectors.

 

[Pifanjr]

Besides the PC, I also enjoyed playing board games, but there wasn't one specific one that was my favourite.

I did play with pens a lot as a kid. I would hold two pens in each hand, one being the knight and the other its sword, and did all kinds of cool sword fights. Of course to my parents it looked like I was just mashing pens against each other, but in my imagination those were epic fights.

As a teenager I carried around a Rubik's Cube for a while and would practice with it whenever I had nothing else to do. Same thing with a Magimixer. If I was a character in a typical American high school movie I'd be relentlessly bullied for being a nerd.

 

[Frindis]

My first favorite toy as a kid was the Atari 520ST/Nintendo and the board game Mastermind. I also liked collecting different toys that could be found in Donald Duck comics. I was lucky as a kid to be able to jump into a container with tons of different comics that were going to get destroyed for whatever reason. So I was there collecting all the toys that were still inside the Donald Duck comics.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

My first favorite toy as a kid was the Atari 520ST/Nintendo and the board game Mastermind. I also liked collecting different toys that could be found in Donald Duck comics. I was lucky as a kid to be able to jump into a container with tons of different comics that were going to get destroyed for whatever reason. So I was there collecting all the toys that were still inside the Donald Duck comics.

Is Donald Duck really big in Norway too? I thought that was a Finnish thing, I hadnt seen a dedicated Donald Duck comic book before I moved here.

 

[neogunhero]

I'll say the Nintendo 64 and GameCube growing up, although those are consoles not particularly toys, but I've been entranced by video games since a young kid haha.

As for actual toys, I was a huge fan of Legos and army men. I loved setting up massive armies of green army soldiers vs red army soldiers and throw in other action figures in there too. I'd use the Lego guys as the "kings" which the armies had to protect. I'd set up along the floor and the bottom of the bookshelf to add some verticality to the warfare. I also remember having a massive plastic tub full of every loose Lego piece I had, nothing organized with the sets they came from, but this allowed for unlimited creativity as I had so much fun making random stuff.

I also really loved the board game Mouse Trap. My brother and I would almost never play it the way it was meant to, instead you'd just set up all the traps and watch it go. I never got tired of watching that cage fall down on top of the mouse.

 

[Frindis]

Is Donald Duck really big in Norway too? I thought that was a Finnish thing, I hadnt seen a dedicated Donald Duck comic book before I moved here.

Probably more of a collector thing now. I know my nephews loved to read it also, but they mostly read it since my mother used to pick up a lot of the comics from second-hand bookstores. I know it was very popular in the 80s/'90s and many would register in book clubs to get the comics.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Probably more of a collector thing now. I know my nephews loved to read it also, but they mostly read it since my mother used to pick up a lot of the comics from second-hand bookstores. I know it was very popular in the 80s/'90s and many would register in book clubs to get the comics.

The hard back comic books are all over here, I honestly thought it was something to do with him being the same color as the Finnish flag lol. No one cares at all about Mickey Mouse or Goofy or whatever and I dont think Ive ever seen anything much from Hanna Barbera or Looney Tunes either.