nurse said:

oh my god, i had an action figure carrying case SHAPED LIKE darth vader!

Lincoln Logs
Play-Doh
cap guns
paints
chemistry set

I had a magic set that came with a hat, cape and assorted other magiciany doodads. It was my best-loved toy for years. I wanted to be the next Doug Henning.

DanceWme said:

I dunno. Any requests?

Anx said:

Do u wanna be Dan's whore?

Anx said:

I had that, too. Between my little brother and myself, we had almost everything Kenner came out with for the Star Wars line...except an AT-AT. I'm still pissed we didn't get an AT-AT.

I had a nintendo 64 when it just came out...yeah..I was spoiled.
and a ps one
and i always loved my cat...until he ran away

LEGOS
smurfs
barbies
yoda figurine
plastic ferrari

Barbie and Sindy dolls. I want one of those 80's Sindy dolls..i would buy one if i knew where i could get one. They changed her in the 90's and made her look like Barbie

Ghostbusters!

TMPletz said:

i soooo wanted an AT-AT, but i knew better than to even ask for it. my family was so poor, i had to campaign for months to get a dagobah playset for christmas.

WillyWonka said:

Did the magic set come with a psychadelic jumpsuit?

I had every Barbie there was, Hot Wheels, Easy Bake Oven, Lego's, Play’ Doe, one or two Tonka trucks those and the Hot Wheels...great for playing in the dirt and mud. What can I say, I was an equal opportunity toy kid.

I don't remember playing with toys much. I remember really enjoying Tinker Toys at my grandparent's house and legos at my aunt's, and I LOVED making clothes for my barbies, and I'd play a handful of board games with my brother, but other than that I was much more apt to read or play outside, climb trees, build forts, play school, write stories, put on "shows" with my friends for our parents, tape songs off the radio...
I wasn't much into toys then and I'm not much now.

Stax said:

my mom tried to get me into playing with matchbox/hot wheels....i've never liked cars, and when i was a kid i much prefered robots and superheroes and spaceships and such...so when she'd buy me hot wheels i'd just put them in a carrying case and every once in a while take them out and polish them. my mom got really mad at me once when she walked in on me wiping my hot wheels down with a damp cloth and she asked what i was doing and i said "playing!"

Anx said:

I remember playing "cars" with my brother and cousins once or twice but it seemed so stupid to me. Driving them around on things seemed pretty pointless.

CarrieMpls said:

The best thing about playing with cars were the car accidents...especially if you had a model railroad going through the little town, too.

matchbox & hot wheels cars (i had a ton of them friggin cars when i was a kid), my little pony, g.i. joes, transformers, barbie, and damn near anything that had to do with dinosaurs...especially dino riders (any other '80s babies remember those?).

CarrieMpls said:

TOTALLY pointless. you can't have domestic altercations and unwanted pregnancies with hot wheels the way you can with action figures. under our roof, princess leia led a pretty rough life.

AND the trains!!!! we had the Lionel Train Set







I'm actually thinking about getting this now for a hobby.
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CarrieMpls said:

for me, it wasn't so much having the cars to play with but to just have them. i'm a bit of a car freak/geek anyway.

Barbies, My Little Pony, She-Ra dolls, Cabbage Patch dolls, Etch-A-Sketch, board games (Candyland, Monopoly, Clue), Pac-Man, Nintendo (mainly Mario Bros. and Tetris).

And lots and lots of paper. I liked to draw and paint and make paper dolls and so on and so forth.

When I was very young (till about 8) I played with my skippingrope and elastics (elastieken) or my barbies.

But when I grew older I mostly played with my brothers playmobile, lego and toycars.
I loved making bildings and towns for my brother to play with till I was about 15 I think.

i had all of these too - i LOVED mego superhero dolls!

Whateva said:

OMG, I forgot about elastics!

I was too klutzy for that kind of thing, but I thought it was fun to watch.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

We called it Chinese Jump Rope!! We played every day at recess!

CarrieMpls said:

Yeah, that's right, couldn't remember what it was called.

I tried once or twice, but I sucked at that kind of thing. Still do. No coordination.

CarrieMpls said:

You obviously have never combined the matchbox car with a few yards of orange plastic hot wheels track and a bottle of lighter fluid!



Imagine the car on fire jumping over your sister's barbies.

Pointless?

Stax said:

No. No we didn't.