Toys

Havelock

I was wondering about child development (After the cartoon discussion on this forum), and we all seem to have gone down one path after watching the same cartoons, while others watched My Little Pony etc.. Just wondering what toys did you all play with?

Personally I was Lego, all the way. And Technics from about 8 onwards. Great stuff.

So where you a Barbie boy/girl, G.I Joe, An apprentice torturor of bugs and small creatures, a baby doll that urinated, or turning cardboard boxs into any all places in the universe kinda person?

Mystic Fibrosis

I only liked toys that did bitchin' things, like Transformers. I also loved Lego, I still do, actually. I also still love Gundams. Unf.

My favoritest toy everer would have to be my teddy I've had since I was 4. 'Cause he was the first toy I ever personally picked out, and I still have him, after 12 years of cuddly bedsharing. I'm such a child.:)

stevanavich

toys eh?
as a youngster i played with many a delicate object, vases, glassware, etc.
though not toys exactly, they were what i played with. but with that said, i used to have a fine collection of little figurines, most of which did nothing but stand there.
thats where the awesome power of imagination takes control.

Aliminator

Lego all the way. still use it . sometimes.
the odd batman figurine. they were/are deadly.
football.
Nintendo came along some time after these.
ah the joys of childhood. they were my best years. why didn't i ever listen?

smiles

lego.

dinkies (aka little cars) with my brother.

:shrug:

<< Fio >>

Zukustious

Ah lego, it was a new toy every day. It was the greatest toy ever. Who didn't love lego? I mean really now, how can you not love it?

malecO

Lego, Lego and more Lego (until the PC came).

Liquorice

I played with lots of toys-Barbies, Lego, Sylvanian Families, Polly Pockets, Teeny Weeny Families, Pound Puppies, farm animal figures, toy cars....the list is endless. Then there were lots of games on the computer(s) that raised me. Is it just me or does it seem that I wasn't paid much attention to as a child? Perhaps I was, perhaps I wasn't, I can't remember. Either way, the computer played a small part in raising me.

Zukustious

I had some captain planet toys as a younger version of me. I had some car, the captain himself, and some evil pig guy.

I also got a NES when I was eight years old which I loved.

alucard

lego, knex, explosives.
i liked to create things.................and then destroy them.
I'm not crazy! Really!

Squeee

Erm, I'll start with the less humiliating. I played with a "MASK"(IT was a cartoon) mountain thing with a boulder on top and a garage which all turned into a secret hideout. I played with X-men figures and scalectrix (i think that's how it's spelled) electric racing track for those minute little cars. I had some ugly doll that piddled all over itself and I somehow liked it and <sigh> I had some barbies. I also liked to smash wine glasses and bottles of wine together regularly. I mostly just played games like "Bulldog" and "Tip the can" on my road.
However, the best sort of dolly thing had to have been either Sylvanian Families or Polly Pocket (she made me feel big and you could sneak her to mass)

Dalamar

Some mask toys, Lego., kennex and some transformers i think.

Zukustious

Of course Keenex! How could I forget obout that. And Zoids! A whole new array of memories has been set off in my head! And Sylvanian Families!

Yep, I played with them. What'cha gonna do about it? Huh? Who's to say they were for girls? HUH?!?

Squeee

Originally posted by Zukustious

Yep, I played with them. What'cha gonna do about it? Huh? Who's to say they were for girls? HUH?!?

I'M TO SAY THEY WERE FOR GIRLS!!!! Girls girls girls girls! It sounds like I'm advertising some red-light district.
THE BIG RED FUN BUS. Damn that was a fine toy, english.
I also had a NODDY car. It was brilliant, until my "charming" brother took it out and broke it. That was a sad sad day in NODDY land. And no, I not was one of those infernal children with those mofo electric cars, mine had peddles. Ahh, they were hard times. Damn all the infernal children. How do you sleep at night?
---on a big pile of money and jewels.

So-on

Excessive use of Lego made me the man I am today. Lego good. Lego very good.

(I had green hair)

Havelock

Red Light District?

Why is it Aoife that only you (or me or Sven) could turn a thread about toys into the red light district???

Anyway I remember that MASK mountian top, my older cousin had one and I was really jelouse!

Yes they were 'fer girlies, but it was a good way of getting to talk to them, and getting them to paly doctor...<sighs> ah, all my preciouse innocent childhood memeories. Oh wait, damn i don't have any ..... where did I leave them, nope there not mine, no thats Boy Meets World, no thats Little House on the Praire, wait I never watched that, what's it doing in my head? *Goes off mumbling to himself*

Zukustious

Originally posted by Squeee
I'M TO SAY THEY WERE FOR GIRLS!!!! Girls girls girls girls!

Ehhh........ NO!

They were never for girls. There were... unisex toys... yeah.

lordsippa

Erm... I used to like them too. Actually I saw them in the window of either toymasters or smyths recently and almost through a fit.

But then I am a bit of a girly at times.

Liquorice

Nothing wrong with being girly Much better than being macho and aggressive. Better to play with Sylvanian families than all those WWF toys. *shudders* wrestling.

Spenguin

Hmm... toys eh? I played with those trolls with the freakishly big hair. They were brilliant. I played with sylvanian families. Mostly I played with toys that couldn't do anything, like we had this big dinosaur and I (or it might have been Richard) stuck a marble down its throat. Its still there but now the dinosaur is my sisters. Ah yes, marbles, they were also great, I didn't know how to play with them, but they were shiny and I was young. Shiny things are fun.

mentalimplosion

you big rich kids with your private education and your sylvanian families. in my day all we had was a lump of coal, if we were lucky. and we'd draw faces on the coal and make them talk to eachother

nah, it was lego, barbies (i thought they were damn cool, thank you), cabbage patch dolls (with their freakishly big heads), trolls, anything alive etc.

i always wanted to do the whole burning ants with a magnifying glass, but i could never figure out how...

lordsippa

Hmm... Just remembered GHOST BUSTERS! The toys rocked! As did the alien toys.

Squeee

Originally posted by Zukustious
Ehhh........ NO!

They were never for girls. There were... unisex toys... yeah.

You're a unisex toy! And F U C K you buzzby (pronounced buzz-bee, It's what I intend to keep calling you) there are none of your evil minions around me. I despise you and everything else that buzzes or looks like it wants to buzz, just waiting for me to close my ears so it can start, BUT I'LL KNOW! Oh, I shall know. Anywho hope you're keeping well. Stupid bees. You know what, I'd laugh if you ever get attacked by a swarm of killer bees. I wouldn't help or nothing, I'd just sit there and laugh and perhaps take the occassional picture. MWAHAHA:p

Crash

...oddly enough, the previous post makes no sense WITHOUT me having to edit it.

Zukustious

Originally posted by Squeee
I despise you and everything else that buzzes or looks like it wants to buzz, just waiting for me to close my ears so it can start, BUT I'LL KNOW!

Oh don't worry, you'll open your ears. You'll have to breath some time!

Spenguin

I can't remember what happened to all the trolls... one day they just disappeared. * sniff

Barry Aldwell

Must...resist...temptation...to...mock

Spenguin

YAY!! Trolls. But they weren't that weird looking. Ah, they were the best toys ever.

So-on

At a certain point in my life I possessed a deep loathing for trolls. I carry that loathing and hatred to this day. Visions of the little plastic heathens melting slowly into a pile of ash filled my mind. Those beady, round eyes... starring at me from beneath that cascade of purple hair... Grrr - how I love the smell of burning plastic in the morning...

Trolls must die.

Die,

Die,

Die....:D :eek:

Havelock

Breath in, Breath out, Breath in, Breath out, Breath in, Breath out, Breath in, Breath out.

Ah-ha now you've ingested so much toxins from the burning trolls that you will now die too.

Muwahahahahaha!

Evil:cool:

PurplePainter

Transformers, Lego, (yes Im a girl grrrr) Dolls, Trolls, (but I didnt collect them) musical instruments, My doggie, dry rice and sieves and cups etc, sand pit (cheap old wooden box, with natural sand. noneyer ELC stuff), And.. I.. er... tested... the pull of gravity with melons, and eggs, and various other crackable items from the upstairs window.......

Happy CTYI guy

Tansformers ruled!!! And the old power rangers toys. They were big robots that joined to form bigger robots!!! Not the new toys. Theyre crap. And those lego train sets, and the derailing thereof.
And fire. I had many a good time with fire.

malecO

One of my friends gave me one of those trolls for my birthday.
It scared me.

PurplePainter

Ahhh Alex My friend, you make me laugh. I can just picture you shivering in a corner at the painful memories.. And Happy, why didnt you tell me you were also a pyronmaniac? I nearly had to be strapped to my seat during X-men, gazing adoringly at pyro.. not cos hes fine (cos hes ugly) but because FIRE IS THE BOMB (no pun intended) Its hot, frisky and fun.. I love fire.... I loved birthdays.. they meant candles.. and candles meant fire.. ooooooohh fire

Liquorice

I be a pyromaniac as well. I LOVE FIRE! It's just so...fiery. Anyone want to go set various things on fire with me?

:D mags :D

My mam was scared for a while because when I was a kid, in the evening while everyone else was watching tv, I used to sit at the table with a candle in front of me burning various objects just to see them burn. She thought I was gonna end up setting my school on fire or something.

Raphael

I remember when i was young i once missed my favourite tv show 'cause i was breaking hardened wax off a candle then melting it again

Liquorice

I remember putting my Barbies into plastic cups filled with water and putting them in the freezer.

Squeee

I used to get a candle and use it to light and re-light matches after I'd blown them out until the whole room was like a hot-box. Now I'm a smoker......how very unexpected.

Happy CTYI guy

I remember i put our poker into the fire and walked off. 20 minutes later i came back and took it out and the end was drooping over like a wilting metal flower. I took it outside and hammered the point over some more. i now use it as a back scratcher. My parents were unpleased to say the least.

Havelock

Huph, fire, how simplistic.

What was really fun was chemistry! I got a chemistry set at age 8, those were the days. I put holes in desks, carpets, floors. Gased a wasps hive, kida sucessful, was more liquid than gas. Sticky petrolium gel (thats what I called it, well jelly, but I never ate any), was proably my favourate.

sionnach

i played lego and technic all day every day until i got my first pc. I never played with action men r any sort of action figures, and i dont think lego men count

PurplePainter

I couldnt use those science kit thingies.. they were too much for me to fathom.. and I would sometimes sit and watch My bro use his kits and concotions and make wee explosions and the like, but most of the time I couldnt because we would beat eachother up so much (*cough*harmlessfun*cough*) that she usually kept us away from eachother when we were aged 5-9. Lol. Apparently we were a danger to eachother...

Havelock

Siblings, a danger to one another, get away. Never.

My poor sister sports two scars, from our fights as kids (ages 4-8, she was 3-7), and I once shot her in the head with a shot that rochetted 3 times with an airgun. But she kicked me a good few times in the crotch, so we are equal.

Alaronshannara

Anyone else here remember the Starcom toys? They were a complete american-cold-war thing with the virtuous blue and white good guys and the black and red bad guys, but political brainwashing aside, they were fantastic toys!
The figures all had magnets on their feet, and there were metal strips everywhere so they could stick on! And all the ships and vehicles transformed in some way and they were all mechanical, so batteries weren't required; closing them up into their compact forms wound them up for their transformation sequence! They most inspired toys of all time.. proof that war breeds some of the most amazing solutions to life's problems, such as ADHD children!
I played with other things in between games with Starcom; toy cars, transformer toys and 'rock lords', and one of the first non-tape-memory personal computers to emerge on the market, known affectionately and condecendingly as a 'BBC'. It used an early text based interface and struggled with the concept of resolution higher than 360X400.
I also, of course, played with Lego. It probably looks like all the smart kids are using Lego, but I'd like to see a cross section of all demographic groups and their childhood preferences before I passed judgement. It does look suspiciously frequent among us brainy folk however, this Lego fetish..

sionnach

methinks we should have a ctyi lego poll.......see if there really is a connection