Favourite toy ever.

Archeron

Excluding video games (coz there's so many cool ones) what would have been your favorite toy ever? A proper old fashioned toy as carved by Santa's elves that brought you memorable joy that you remember to this day?

For me, its a close call between my Fisher Price in association with Matchbox parking garage. It had a lift, so you could drive your little cars on, twist a handle on the roof, and raise the car to a vacant spot. Then you could lift the plastic runner on the edge of the parking spot to make the little car roll back into the lift. Or into oblivion which is what normally happened. The other contender is a blackboard that was shaped like an owl, and had a bird shaped duster. Used to love drawing and writing on it for hours and hours and hours.
I think the fisher price parking garage wins though!

So what was your favorite toy?



Ooh, ooh, I just remember the train set I had that actually belched real smoke out of the engine stack! Imagine that, real smoke!!!!

Susannahmia

My Lego and big red bus got by far the most usage.:)

Ruu_Old

We had a train set that had some smoke but it didn't last very long. The manual send to put cooking oil in the stack and it worked for another while longer.

wotisthere

All things star wars of course .

gollyitsolly

My cutting-out dolls and my brothers James Bond car. It had an ejection seat and little spikey things that came out of the wheels.Deadly.

callaway92

All those wrestling figures when i was younger..they were brill like..:D:D

Super Sidious

Transformers/mask/teenage mutant ninja turtles... they were all cool to play with!

Hungry hippo.

Hagar

A song from my youth. The Marvellous toy. ( needs sound )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3YabDAZtXU

Zaph

Action Man. The proper one with guns'n'stuff, not the watered down version the kids have to make do with these days.

eamon234

No contest

Terran

My MASK vehicles, especially the semi that transformed into the command centre and the VENOM Nissan that could turn into a plane.

Xavi6

MASK, Turtles and Lego. All absolute essentials

Crumble Froo

was this the garage? i had one similar, i think, though i remember a lot more blue. and i think the colours were kinda papery, i remember it not doing so well in water and there being rips and stuff on it by the time i was finished with it. i played with that loads, but one of my favourites (apart from jigsaws) was this plastic track you could fix together. average piece size was about 12inches long and about 2inches wide, i think. then there were ones half that size, and corners, and railtrack pieces. the road pieces were blue with yellow lines, and you couldnt actually fit two cars side by side, and the railtrack pieces were yellow with black railtrack. they were a bendable plastic, while the bridges (yes, there were bridges too!) were blue, yellow, red and green and hard plastic. there were crossroads pieces too, and small metal cars. i had about 10 cars, maybe about 2inches long, but my mam laughs now that i'm properly diagnosed with OCD about how i used to move the cars, in a line, from the first one a couple of centimetres, then the second one the same amount, then the third... i would get really flustered even then if someone even knocked my cars out of order, or suggested moving them otherwise

minidazzler

Dinky's were well cool you could do anything with them and they were completely indestructable.

Little plastic soldiers nice cheap and cool.

but Walkie Talkie's take the cake. You could play army with them.
I learned Morse code by myself when I was about 9 (forget it now) because of Walkie Talkies. The little dots and dashes were on it!!!!

Donegal57

thats mad when I seen the thread title I though ah my fisher price garage, and low and behold it was the first toy mentioned. Great thing about it is that its still going strong, got it out of storage two years ago for my nephew to play with he loves it, he is still playing with it. They don't make them like they used to, that was about 28 years ago I got it from santa.

xzanti

My Barbie Bus and second to that was my extensive 'fancy page' collection.. The girls should remember these... I had hundreds of them... my pride and joy they were lol..

Raekwon

Oh tough question! I had a few favorites actually.

Jackhammer from M.A.S.K. plus the AT-AT & X-Wing Fighter from Star Wars.

Lots more actually come to think of it. Oh the memories

chopperbyrne

Lego

Optimus Prime and Metroplex

MASK and TMNT toys.

bullets

Crumble Froo wrote: »

was this the garage? i had one similar, i think, though i remember a lot more blue.

I remember that but never had one.
What is very weird is that I can actually remember the actual
feel of everything for this toy, I know exactly how fast the car
goes down the ramp and know how everything winds.

The petrol pump had a black elastic fuel line that would slot into one car.

The stand alone Car jack/hike thing had a red lever that you would
to make the car go up and down, It always felt short.

There was a wind up lever at the right hand side of the station
that allowed you to wind a car up the elevator and at the end there
was a ramp that would tip tha car out and make it travel down the ramp
via force of gravity.

I remember the red circle at the top level of the carpark where the car
would rotate 360 degrees by winding a red lever it was painfully slow
and the least favourite part of the toy.

~B

Archeron

Crumble Froo wrote: »

was this the garage?

Its very similar. The one I had was like that but made for matchbox or dinky cars instead of those big ones with the little bubble headed people.
I used to call the people in the cars in your link "Bobbler men" for some reason, and I had hundreds of them. There were bobbler cars, bobbler planes, bobbler buses, an entire bobbler civilisation

Jay P

My little bro got the best ever toy last Crimbo.
Best Present Evurrrr!!!!


Flippin brilliant. We had the most fun out of that than any other toy any of us ever got, and there are 4 of us, all boys, and Santa always goes well beyond his means for us

Skellington

This

Pigman II

Star Wars all the way baby. Just recently bought myself a complete set of the vintage figures from 1977-85. Terrible when you have to buy yourself your own toys but I guess times were tough on the aulds in the 80's.

Liked all the other typical stuff He-Man, MASK, Transformers, Lego etc but here's some that stick in my mind that others may have forgotten
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_%28game%29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru1K82jp7SI
http://www.kidsera.com/links/0598.htm
www.mantaforce.co.uk
http://www.i-mockery.com/roboforce/default-ns.htm
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/sectaurs/sectaurs.html
http://www.nemesisworld.com/starcom/home.html
http://www.modojo.com/features/20060724/95/retromo_the_tomytronic_titles/1/
http://www.stratosmacca.com/visionaries/
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/voltron/voltron.html
http://www.zoids.ch.vu/

chopperbyrne

Oooh how I could I forget Voltron!

Estella

My faves were the original My Little Pony toys, I think somewhere along the line they mutated, and managed grow wings. Fantastic.

Also Keepers, they were these animal toys were you could keep all your valueables ( they being fancy paper and scented rubbers) inside, under plastic lock and key. I think mine lasted all of 3 days before there was a security breach by my brother and my 2 fun size Milky Ways were stolen.

phasers

my sesame street dollhouse

it had furniture and little bert and ernie figures

I played with that thing for about 5 years

Doctor DooM

Optimus Prime.


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feylya

Crumble Froo wrote: »

was this the garage?

I had that!

Crumble Froo

haha, a popular one, apparnetly.

WindSock

Back in my day, we didnt have toys. I used to play with the bugs and insects i found in the neighbourhood and make little homes for them. commadore 64 for when the weather wasnt fine.

Crumble Froo

did any one else race snails? my nana used to have loads of raspberry bushes in her garden, and me and my cousins would go up there every friday, and race the snails we picked from the bushes, and put hte winner in a little 'paradise' full of leaves and half eaten raspberries.