Favourite Childhood Toy

Craguls

Inspired by my recent viewing of Toy Story 3 this should be pretty self explanatory, post your favourite childhood toy(s).

So to start things off;
When I was 2-5 I was fond of this plush dalmatian named Flex. I took him everywhere, he currently resides in my wardrobe.

The later half of my childhood was spent with various nerdy toys such as the Gameboy Colour (and later advance) with which I wasted many hours playing pokémon and levelling charizard to level 100 again and again.

So what about everyone else? Who did you spend your childhood with?
Also:

Pigwidgeon

I have a doll, that I got when I was about 6 months old that I played with for years. Its still on my shelf, I'll never throw it out. It's named meme, after my first words :P

I used to be obsessed with sylvanian families, had loads, but was never allowed get all the houses and stuff, but a girl in my estate had them all, I was so jealous.

Then my first bike "poppet", it was pink and I used to cycle it to playschool. I cried the day I got a new bike.

Extrasupervery

I too had an amazing dalmation. that guy, his name is Lucky and he too is still in my room. Let go of my childhood? Never.

I also had an AWESOME drum, the coolest trainset ever and a fisher price cassette player thing in primary colours.

Those were the good days, or at least they are far enough in the past that I have convinced myself that they were good.

Either way, wooo being 3.

norwegianwood

Had this little pink teddy called Karen (yeah, dunno why) that I got the day I was born, used to bring it everywhere with me till I was about 8. It's still in my room, on my bed, I'm never getting rid of it.

I had fairly shìt toys though, my best friend had way better ones. Well, she wasn't really my best friend at the time, I used her for her Barbies. Apparently she used to wake up in the middle of the night and I'd just be there playing with them. In the pitch dark. O_o

Ginja Ninja

I had [and it still lives on my shelf] one of those power ranger giant robot things that you can split into the other vehicle bits.It was a christmas/birthday present when I was 5-6 and I f*cking loved that thing, it was my go-to toy for about 4/5[who am I kidding 13 :pac:] years after I got it.

I suppose I should give it to my nephew,but feck him I don't wanna share and I'm bigger than him so I win.

Who said I was mature?

**Timbuk2**

I had a cute teddy I called Pinky! I left it in my granny's house in Mayo one summer, and I was so upset as I live in Louth! I had to do without the teddy for a whole year, but I was counting down the days until we went back to Mayo so I could get it. As soon as I arrived, I scrambled into the living room, and there it still was under a table (my granny couldn't bend over!), albeit slightly dust covered! I was so happy.

It's actually still in the house somewhere. No way am I going through the trauma of losing him again :P (although I haven't seen it in years my mother might have thrown it out)

*runs up to attic*

KnifeWRENCH

I have absolutely no interest in cars whatsoever these days, but as a child I had a huge collection of dinkies and toy trucks. I'd spend ages just racing them up and down the hall. Also had a yellow teddy type-thing called Fellow who had long arms and legs you could tie in knots and stuff. In hindsight, I have no idea what sort of a creature he was supposed to be.

Other than that, I didn't have that many toys. I was a quiet little nerdy child who preferred reading and stuff. I had the entire collection of Mr. Men books! :cool:

Any toys I do have have been passed down to my nephew, and he'll get the Mr. Men collection when he's old enough to read. (He better take damn good care of them though..)

illiop

I rarely played with dolls except for this one I got when I was a baby. Her name is Judy and she's one of those soft body ones...I still have her and all her clothes put away in my old room. Sometimes I take her out and dress her up.

I also had a soft toy that I got when I was 4. He was a dog named Hermie. He was the closest thing I had to an imaginary friend. He's still in my cupord but only comes out when I'm upset.

D4RK ONION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIP0TxIb8zg

That is all

Jamie Starr

I had an actual Woody doll, just like the one from the films, and I played with him tons- to such an extent, as a joke, my Mum bought me another one for my birthday this year.
It wasn't movie quality this time though.[/stepbrothers]

I also remember getting a Red Ranger toy from my godmother, coming home with it on the tube, and finding a Silver Ranger in the playground and keeping it for myself. You just can't pass up a Silver Ranger flippy-head toy. The GameBoy Pocket was probably the best toy I ever had, that thing was so good- why did I give it away?!

I also had the car from Ghostbusters, that was cool. The coolest toy I ever saw though belonged to my friend, he had a huge Millenium Falcon toy.

I think I wasn't giving many toys though because I had more fun drawing made-up ones most of the time.

Luno

It wasn't really a toy I wasn't really into them but I had a "blankie" that I brought everywhere! It was filthy but I just couldn't bare to get it washed!

KnifeWRENCH

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Nes.

I 'ED MY NES!!

It wasn't even mine; it belonged to my sister. But I played it way more often and so had squatters rights over it.

Digits

Had a remote control firetruck thing that ran on like 6 huge batteries but would still only last like 5 mins loved it so much...my cousin got jealous one day and tried to break it :mad: things have never been the same since seriously. Its still in my bedroom.:o

Novella

Baby Born. I was actually obsessed to the extent that looking back now, I think it was a little bit creepy! That doll was never out of my arms. My mam then made me give her to my younger cousin who unfortunately didn't shower her with the same affection... and wrote all over her face with permanent marker.

I also had a love for Barbie and my brothers Action Man. Oh, and playing some kind of show-jumping game on PlayStation. Good times...

QueenOfLeon

K'nex ftw Me and my brother made monstrosities of machinery out of it. That and board games like Monopoly and Risk kept us entertained. I never had Barbies, I went through one Baby Born phase where I looked after it for a week and made my mother swear she'd feed it when I was at school

Banjo Fella

My favourite childhood toy was a little brown teddy bear called Jerry, or Jerry From Germany to use his name in full! Here's a pic:



My dad used to go away on lots of international business trips when I was very young, so I wouldn't see him that often. He had to go on a particularly long ESB escapade in Berlin when I was 3 years old, so he was missing for some of the weeks coming up to Christmas. I was anxiously looking forward to him coming home and was so happy when he came back with a toy for me! I can exactly remember the moment he presented this my teddy to me in our house's kitchen. Such a joyous moment... ahh, to be young, etc.

I was obsessed with that little bear! He'd go everywhere with me - I'd bring him to school, in the car, and tuck him into bed with me every night. If I did a drawing it would likely be of him, with each detail included down to the brand tag poking out of his right leg. My brother was similarly fond for a toy puppy he owned and we used to play together with them, having conversations and imagining adventures with them. If I remember correctly, Jerry could hop onto Puppy's back and soar through the skies by flapping Puppy's oversized ears.

Watching Toy Story 3 brought all of those memories back for me. I was 7 when the first film came out, and the idea of a film about toys that were real and had lives of their own was so magical for me. Andy's toys were represented just as I saw my own toys, which made their adventures so exciting! I fell in love with the characters (especially the utterly endearing Rex) and they became a part of my childhood too. 15 years later, while sitting in the cinema with 3D goggles of the future on my face, I couldn't believe that it was over! You never really reach a point where somebody politely declares "you are officially and irrevocably an adult now!", it's something that occurs gradually. The end of the Toy Story series perfectly mirrored my own coming of age, and allowed me to reflect on my own childhood experiences.

I'm considering going again and bringing Jerry with me for it, embarrassing as that may be. Luckily, there's still room for childishness when you're no longer a child.

CCCP

MASK CRUSADORS!!!
CORPS! (the cheap G.I joe that had anatomical leg to torso ratio problems)
DINOSAURS!!!!
ROCKLORDS!

SarahBeep!

I had about 20 Barbies and only one Ken haha looking back, there must have been some exciting stuff going on in my dreamhouse when I folded it up! I loved that house! When you folded it out all the rooms were huge and I had loads of (pound shop) furniture for it. And her pink remote control convertable! And a camper van! And a school set with desks and a blacboard and Shelly and 2 of her friends!

And one year Santa got my a Hunchback of Notre Damme huuuuge set with like 3 million tiny pieces. Mam defo regretted that one!!

Dad taught me to read

My uncle aaaaaaaalways either got me books or book vouchers which was always epic.

I remember when Tesco was Quinsworth, my local one was called crazy prices. Aaaaanyway, for a few weeks if you spent so much on your shopping you got a hand puppet/teddy think for like 5 quid. Dad got me the lion, tiger, hippo, bunny and elephant!

And he got me 3 animaniacs teddys, 20inch Wakko Yakko and Dot they're still in perfect condition!

Loved my gameboy colour. It was purple. I purple.

CCCP

SarahBeep! wrote: »

I had about 20 Barbies and only one Ken

I wish I was that KEN:P

suitcasepink

I was one of those annoying little kids that would throw tantrums for toys and then not care about them soon after Happend with many a toy... I cant act remember one that I loved for ages, and not just until the novelty wore off.
Well I used love stuffed animals, I had loads of them, and I had my fave one or two but they were still mehhed at I think and I just wanted them to say I had them.. Same with my stables of schleich horses. http://www.schleich-s.com/en/action_figures/collectables/product_range/world_of_nature/farm_life/horses/index.html
Still have them though, they look purty

What an annoying fecker of a kid I must have been though :L

soccymonster

I had a clown teddy called Lucky since I was born. Threw him into the fire a couple of times, chopped off all his hair and coloured him with markers. But i him.

Oh and you were always cool if you had a baby born that wizzed :cool:

Bobalicious93

I had two rabbit teddys called Paul and Barry. None of these fancy names. Good manly names.

johndoe99

my favourite was Big Trak:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak

I can hear the sound now just thinking back when you hit enter after programming it.

KnifeWRENCH

soccymonster wrote: »

I had a clown teddy called Lucky since I was born. Threw him into the fire a couple of times, chopped off all his hair and coloured him with markers. But i him.

Good to know that you had such an appreciation for irony even at that young age! :P

CCCP

johndoe99 wrote: »

my favourite was Big Trak:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak

I can hear the sound now just thinking back when you hit enter after programming it.

DUDE, thats so fu&$ing cool!

Fad

Lego was probably the greatest and most played with toy I ever got. Loved it.

I had these amazing Sonic shoes that provided a silly amount of entertainment, I know your thinking, shoes? Really Conor? But I loved them, I was also under the impression that they made me run faster >_>

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Lego was fairly epic, and me tractors and animals. I used to use the guard for the fire as a shed. I was a right builder/farmer as a chung'fileh.:cool::p

Craguls

Fad wrote: »

I had these amazing Sonic shoes that provided a silly amount of entertainment, I know your thinking, shoes? Really Conor? But I loved them, I was also under the impression that they made me run faster >_>

This is why we are friends.

CCCP

Anyone remember LA-LA bikes??

ohthebaby

This is one of my favourite threads ever.

I had two teddy bears, a brown one and a panda one, who were very imaginatively named Teddy and Panda. I loved them so much and they led to a much wider teddy bear obsession which carried on longer than it should have. But them two were always my favourites. I still have them in a box under my bed and will have them forever.

I was also obsessed with Barbies. I had so many of them, too many of them when I think back now. They all had cars and houses and motor home things and swimming pools and classrooms and horses and so on. My sister and I had a massive cardboard box filled with their clothes and shoes. I would spend all day dressing them up and putting different outfits together. Oh and playing weddings with them. Weddings was the best Barbie game ever. I miss being small.

Slow Show

My Pikachu teddy. I loved that little dude...not to the point of bringing it everywhere, but I was pretty fond of it and took it to every Teddy Bear Picnic at school :P I also had a Barney teddy too, who I took to bed with me every night until Barney became uncool...

I had a few Barbies and dollhouses and pink cars in my time too, but pretty soon people began to realise that dolls really weren't my thing :P

So yeah, all in all, I was never really that mad into toys, bar a few. Except for Pikachu and Barney, of course.

Wolfe Tone

Lego!!!!! You could play any game you wanted with that! I still have a HUGE crate of it in the atttic!

Chuchoter

I remember one of the best games being taking all my brothers power-rangers, pretending to be a doctor and bandaging them up with flour, water and toilet paper. Wasn't being 4 a great time?

Otherwise, I think I have a big bag of Betty Spaghetti dolls somewhere

herisson

i loved creating little buildings out of lego

oh and puzzle 3d i loved creating stuff out of it

i had the best teddy ever!! he was a lil green fluffy frog teddy named hopper....he still lives on my bed

AND my beloved sindy doll!! she came with me anywhere i went shes still somewhere

Arcade Panda

I had a big doll house which I loved.

I wasn't much of a toy's girl though, I loved playing rounders when I was a kid. All my best childhood memories are from playing rounders!

Konata

QueenOfLeon wrote: »

K'nex ftw Me and my brother made monstrosities of machinery out of it. That and board games like Monopoly and Risk kept us entertained. I never had Barbies, I went through one Baby Born phase where I looked after it for a week and made my mother swear she'd feed it when I was at school

Ah Jaysus, remember our Game Of Life days?

My favourite childhood toys were probably Beanie Babies. I had HUNDREDS of them (no exaggeration >.>). They were so awesome



TalkGirl kept me entertained for years... playing tapes (oh tapes!), recording myself, making up plays and interviews... oh the lulz were had

SarcasticFairy

QueenOfLeon wrote: »

K'nex ftw Me and my brother made monstrosities of machinery out of it. That and board games like Monopoly and Risk kept us entertained. I never had Barbies, I went through one Baby Born phase where I looked after it for a week and made my mother swear she'd feed it when I was at school

I made my Mam take my Tamagotchi to work to keep it alive

I never liked dolls at all really. I did have one, named Pebbles, which I dragged everywhere with me for a while. And I got a Baby Born at one point but all the feeding and nappy changing got pretty old pretty fast. I had some Barbies but they remained in a drawer under my bed from like, the moment I got them. Had a pram to put my dolls into too (It was like a real pram, that you could swap around depending on whether you wanted your baby facing you or not ) but I used that to teach myself to rollerblade, more so than push babies around >_>

I had a plastic rainbow trolley filled with plastic food, a cash register and a plastic kitchen with various kettles/microwaves/ironing board/hoover/other appliances/household items. I did love my kitchen/supermarket set up

Also had billions of cars and a town map mat thing that kept me amused for a long time when the only other child around was my brother. He also made a good housewife though - He loved that kitchen more than I did.

Then I got a gameboy, and lost my imagination.

Jay P

Hotaru wrote: »

TalkGirl kept me entertained for years... playing tapes (oh tapes!), recording myself, making up plays and interviews... oh the lulz were had

I had one of those! Except it was a Talkboy....

When I was really young I had two rabbit teddys. One was called labels, because he had the same kind of fabric as clothes labels have for the straps of his dungarees. I liked to rub the labels and suck my thumb My other one was called Brownie, because he was brown. I loved them both, and always wanted a pet rabbit. Then my childhood dreams were dashed when my brother got one for Christmas a few years ago. Evil little bastards, they are.

Jako8

Lego was awesome, I used to build crazy stuff out of it and make up stories as I went along.

I also had a load of wrestling action figures and a Smackdown ring. I'd put all of the wrestlers into different positions around the ring while, again, making up a story as to why they are where they are. I'd do the same thing with my action man and his jeep.
I was more about the story behind the characters rather than just smashing them into each other as a fight. My friends would hate playing with them with me because they want to throw them into each other where as I'd want to set them in place in a scene.

Also, I remember spending hours on Donkey Kong Country and Mario Cart on the SNES and then hours on a load of different games on my Playstation. Spyro was definitely my favourite game when I was younger.

A Neurotic

I'm struggling to think of any cherished childhood toys

I had a few Action Men and stuff like that, but no toy in particular earned my love, that I can think of. Tragic.

almostnever

Apart from my telescope, I didn't really play with toys all that much. They "impeded the development of my imagination." :pac: I didn't like dolls or anything like that, but I do remember getting a Talkgirl one Christmas and having great fun with my friends using it. I had a rabbit too, can't remember his name but he was green and had a red jumper and I took him everywhere, until I was seven and my dad threw him out. I also had a bag with my name on it in glitter glue, not a toy but I LOVED that too.

Colm!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boWbYg0-WIw

That laptop loaded with games from the 80s was some epic piece of work. The games were way before my time, but still fun. Video related. Digger ftw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdEJkJ5OX9k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqghxSRN-1g

We also had the commander keen games, wolf3d and duke nukem, who needs a NES?

Insect Overlord

I've still got a few of my favourite soft toys lying around in my room

Might upload a few pictures later.

It's threads like this that make me wish I'd never sold my Sega Mega Drive

Pygmalion

Lads.



tbh.

Konata

:eek:

I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THAT SHOW!

I loved it! I went to see a live show of it even!

What the hell was it called??

almostnever

Sooty and Sweep.

Pygmalion

almostnever wrote: »

Sooty and Sweep.

I named my dog Sooty, because he's black and reminded me of the guy I'm pictured with above as a puppy.

It was several weeks later I realised that it was in fact Sweep he reminded me of, and I'd gotten the names backwards.

This event did indeed happen.

Konata

Oh Sooty and Sweep! And strange man! Oh how awesome ye were with yer high pitched voices and merry antics!

Thank God for YouTube

jefreywithonef

I came across a few photos of me as a wain earlier on, two of them featured a lovely brown teddy that I clearly loved at the time. Yet I can't remember its name or even having it. Poor teddy.

I have better memories of my little sister's teddies; I invented personalities for them and even gave each of them their own distinctive voice. My sister has since grown up a tad and put an end to my ventriloquism. Someday in the future though Super Paddy the orange rhino will return as the irascible yet lovable superhero, saviour of all teddies.

QueenOfLeon

Colm! wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boWbYg0-WIw

That laptop loaded with games from the 80s was some epic piece of work. The games were way before my time, but still fun. Video related. Digger ftw.

We also had the commander keen games, wolf3d and duke nukem, who needs a NES?

Omg, digger, such a classic. That music was so annoying but so addictive. Keen was like an ancient mario type thing, him and his pogo stick :P

Edit: Just watched the video...you could SHOOT them??? I feel deprived of ever doing well in that game, I never knew that

Pygmalion wrote: »

Lads.



tbh.

This photo was made even more epic by my stupidly slow internet, that downloaded the top half of the pic, got stuck there and then about 30 seconds later the teddy just suddenly appeared :P

storm2811

I can't chose!
One of those barking/flipping electric dogs,furby,my bike,etch-a-sketch type thing,my little pony,polly pockets,barbie, nes and playstation then.
Does a sandpit count?I loved my sandpit.:pac:

I'd have to pick polly pockets,wtf is with the new ones?They're effing huge!
I'm surprised more people didn't eat the smaller ones though.:pac:
Ahh..nostalgia.

Edit: I forgot Binx,my teddy/best friend untill mam threw him out when I was 5,he was in the sandpit a lot too and was probably filthy.The more I read this the more I think people will mistake sandpit for something dirty...:pac: Sorry,insomnia causes me to ramble...