Favorite toy from your childhood

[ianoconnor]

Do they make Lincoln Logs still?? I really want to get some for my daughter, and haven't found any! I loved those!

Amazon.com: Lincoln Logs Classic Edition Tin Lincoln Logs: Toys & Games

 

[Angie]

(Girl here) I would have to say Cabbage Patch Dolls. I was in 4th grade the year they were the "it" toy. Little did we know, but my parents had people looking for them for my younger sister and I for Christmas. We each had 2 or 3, including one we recused from the side of the road--he looks like a Frankenbaby because my Mom had to sew his head on. There were homemade-knockoff's and my Dad won/bought one at a Cyclone wrestling event. The doll came with a custom made ISU singlet, wrestling shoes and a ISU robe. We had homemade ISU cheerleading outfits and sweatsuits for our other CPK dolls.

My own girls now play with them when we go to Grandma and Grandpa's house.

I think we must be right about the same age. I had a "preemie" the year after they first hit. I wonder if those old ones would be worth anything these days.

 

[Angie]

Amazon.com: Lincoln Logs Classic Edition Tin Lincoln Logs: Toys & Games

You just saved Christmas! :smile:

 

[ISUAgronomist]

You just saved Christmas! :smile:

Be sure to shop around. $/log can vary widely.

 

[urb1]

Anyone have one of these bad boys?

Awesome! I had one or the original versions of these. The above looks way too safe! Mine had iron molds that were lifted with something equivalent to a pair a tongs. The molds were placed in an open super-hot cooker. Had to be one of the most unsafe toys ever made. They even came out with flavored "goop" and called them Incredible Edibles. Our fun ended when we tried putting all the goop into the waffle maker!

 

[ISpyCy]

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I terrorized my neighborhood with this thing...until the balls went missing.

 

[KFitzy87]

Be sure to shop around. $/log can vary widely.

Is that a male prostitution joke?

I keed I keed

 

[cybsball20]

I would say either my first set of golf clubs, cut down to my size or my bike... I can't really think of any actual toys that really stick out.

 

[Cybirdy]

I think we must be right about the same age. I had a "preemie" the year after they first hit. I wonder if those old ones would be worth anything these days.

A preemie was my second doll. I always kept the names they came with, my sister "legally" changed the name of one of hers. I bought small CPK's for my older two girls when they were little and they barely got played with.

 

[BigBake]

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Wow, I think they even had a cartoon on for a short while.

 

[Tailg8er]

- TMNT Van
- Legos
- Bike
- Hot Wheels

& I'm kinda surprised nobody has mentioned Stretch Armstrong!

 

[BigBake]

Transformers, GI Joe and ERTL tractors.

I had an Atari 2600 but that was the last console I got until I was 30 and bought the PS3 for myself.

 

[MNCyGuy]

There is no correct answer besides Legos.

This is the correct answer, but what kind of Legos?

I was split between the Castle Legos (Had a sweet fire-breathing castle at one point) and space Legos (The best of course being the ice planet ship with detachable pods)

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[twistedredbird]

 

[DistrictCyclone]

This is the correct answer, but what kind of Legos?

I was split between the Castle Legos (Had a sweet fire-breathing castle at one point) and space Legos (The best of course being the ice planet ship with detachable pods)

Ice Planet was cool, but I really liked the M-Tron legos with the magnets, too.

 

[CLONECONES]

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for sure

 

[kevdiv48]

LEGO bricks
That was my childhood

 

[ianoconnor]

This is the correct answer, but what kind of Legos?

I was split between the Castle Legos (Had a sweet fire-breathing castle at one point) and space Legos (The best of course being the ice planet ship with detachable pods)

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I had that set in the top picture. Freaking awesome.

 

[MNCyGuy]

Ice Planet was cool, but I really liked the M-Tron legos with the magnets, too.

M-tron was ever so slightly ahead of my time as a kid. In fact, I remember thinking they looked sweet in those cool catalogs they'd throw in the sets (must have had one older set in my stuff) but then I never actually saw them in the stores.

 

[kevdiv48]

There is no correct answer besides Legos.

Mine was probably legos.

This is the correct answer, but what kind of Legos?

I was split between the Castle Legos (Had a sweet fire-breathing castle at one point) and space Legos (The best of course being the ice planet ship with detachable pods)

Ice Planet was cool, but I really liked the M-Tron legos with the magnets, too.

The whole space series ones from the early to mid 90's were the bomb. The castles from the mid to late 90's and of course cowboys and Indians from around then, too. Heck, pretty much all of the series from the 90's were awesome, shame I wasn't a few years older at the time and bought even more of them.