Favorite toy...

[Mithrandir]

Hey All,
I just posted this in a welcome thread, and thought, "Hey, that would be a good idea for a more general get-to-know-people thread."

What is your favorite toy (kept or lost). Mine would have to be my transformers that mom threw out when I got older. I had lots of them, and not very many friends. Come to think of it, they were my friends. Great, now I sound insane. Well, just don't listen to the other voice.

[Technomancer]

lego

[LorentzForce]

i second lego. i built the not-so-powerful air powered Lego gun. it shoots nails, and other than the ammunition all the parts are from Lego sets.

[Mithrandir]

Good point. All my transformer bases were built out of legos. Hmm... Maybe I need to switch my fav...

[Razgriz]

I'd have to say GIJOE, the vehicles in there are real cool. Unfortunately though, the only one that I got was the monster truck with the gatling missile launcher.

[MasterDias]

I was a big fan of Legos myself. I used to subscribe to their magazine.

[MyrrhLynn]

MY BARBIE!

Actually... that's not true. Although between my sisters and me we had enough dolls, cars, clothes, and houses to make a Barbie City.

Actually my favorite toy was my Breyer Horses. They are sitting in a box in the basement right now but they are coming with me when I move into my own house. I would spend hours playing with those things. And I always cried so hard if one of them broke.

[Shinja]

yeah i also spent much time with legos growing up, fun stuff

[Mithrandir]

Actually my favorite toy was my Breyer Horses.

You will not be the only one to post this, I think.

[LorentzForce]

ahh, the days when i made my sis angry by shooting her dolls with my BB gun.

oh wait, that reminds me! i also had a BB gun. some weird AK looking thing that i can remember now. but oh boy, it was powerful enough to go through three of those wire meshes on my apartment windows. i love BB guns...

and i also have this miniture car that runs on 2 AA sized batteries. you know, those little racing cars. i still have one.

oh, and i used to do plastic kits. i remember saving up $5 to buy a kit. now that i think of it, i wanna go back to Korea. they have such cool kits at much lower prices than in Australia. aww...

[Ashley]

I had a toy kitchenette I was obsessed with. We have videos of me going ballistic if anyone messed with my play stove. -__-'

[shooraijin]

> We have videos of me going ballistic if anyone messed with my play stove.

*edges away nervously*

I had a Snoopy doll for many years, and I still have it around here somewhere.

[Mithrandir]

Was that the "Joe Cool" snoopy, or the regular?

[Spencer]

I used to have a lot of Ninja Turtles action figures, then I got some that had costumes on, then I got SHredder and April and Bebop and Rocksteady. And that big robot thing that put the brain in his stomach and it was always yelling at Shredder. I wanted to step on that stupid brain...

[Lightbringer]

Well, in general i cast my vote for GIJoes. I had many many many of them, and daily i set them up in a gigantic battle. But my most memorable toy that i ever had. was a super awsome cool Robo-cop toy........ One day i was out on sebec lake with my family (i was like 7) and i was playing with my awsome Robo-cop toy (wich had the opening leg holster with the big machine pistol, and also a removable hand so you could put his big machine gun flame thrower rocket launcher combo thing on it. and removable faceplate). anyway, i was looking over the side of the boat into the dark water, when suddenly the Robo-cop slipped from my little grasp......... it hit the water and i watched it instantly sink into the cold depths.........

Lightbringer // Aaron

[andyroo]

No favourite here. Just had lots-o-toys...cheap ones most the time. I liked the LEGOs; had GI-Joes that I would put in a toy C-130 that I "flew" around the house.

[Mithrandir]

......... it hit the water and i watched it instantly sink into the cold depths.........

:snif:

[madphilb]

Legos (or as their literature will tell you, Lego Building Blocks ).

I agree with the themed sets, I had a few of the original sets (like the space ones), they wheren't too bad, but most of the newer ones are more "custom" pieces than Legos... can't build much with them.

PHIL

[Link Antilles]

Micro Machines! I had and still have thousands of them, seriously over 2,000! I think it was around 56% Military, 14% Civy, and 30% star wars. I had tons of massive battle, skirmishes, and special operations played out across my bedroom floor. This died down a little when started playing with map editors for computer games. Currently, they're all in the top of my closet. Good times.

[Mimichan]

I played with my brother's toys...girl toys are so, well, GIRLY!! However, I _did_ like to play with my horses (don't know what company they were from, but I still have some: they are a collectors item I believe and you can get them through a catalog)Otherwise, Hotwheels, marbles,legos, and the original Star Wars toys...I loved to play with the lightsaber! It made a cool _WWWWHOoooosh_ noise ^_^

[EireWolf]

Actually my favorite toy was my Breyer Horses.

I second that! I have some of mine still, in a box in my garage. Come to think of it, they'd make good sculptures to have around the house... Maybe I'll go get them out again...

Yeah, I could play with those things for hours. I'd gather them into herds, and have some crisis come up that they had to escape from using their horsey ingenuity... I even had a Breyer unicorn. He was the coolest. I wonder whatever happened to that one...?

[Mimichan]

I second that! I have some of mine still, in a box in my garage. Come to think of it, they'd make good sculptures to have around the house... Maybe I'll go get them out again...

I just looked up a site for Breyer Horses. I am now 95% sure that that's what I have. A friend of my brother gave us (him and I) an entire collection+stable when we were kids. I remember that there was a catalogue included, but I lost it over the years and forgot the name of it. I still have some of them and they look very much like the Breyer Horses. Cool. I've always wanted to get more of them.

[Mithrandir]

Woah, this thread got WAY more responses than I anticipated. To all you who were willing to bare your souls and show us a bit of your childhood: "Thank you." To those of you who read this and decided not to post, "I can understand." To my wife: "Why do we have toy horses on the book case now, I'm sooooooo confused." No j/k. It's cool. But the horses, they really are there.

You people are cool, you know that??!!??!??