hot wheels is the only indoor toy i remember. outdoors, my bike, my bat, my baseball glove.
bottle rocket wars in the back yard, kick the can games that never ended. (when someone was "it" that we didn't like, we wouldn't hide we'd just go home.)
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Originally posted by ena
Hot Wheels (back when you could find a basic kit that didn't include slime or lesbian alien flame launching incubator pods)
very true! i just want some track, and a loop to loop for my four year old and three year old to race, and it's all EXtreme this and FLAMING EXtreme that. all i want is a bit of track!
i will not buy anything that has the word extreme or a large flaming red x on it.
I had an el cheapo slot car track once, then something even cooler (made of tin) back before that. My Dad had a penchant for "finding a deal" on clearance aisle toys, they were weird castaway things but sometimes they were more fun than the toys that I'd requested.
But for me, Matchbox and Hot Wheels meant playing in the dirt in a neighbor's yard, under a fir tree...making highways and stuff in the dirt.
Good times.
We also had writing rocks, those were an absolute necessity. Anybody else have writing rocks?
Little People (the old ones, not the new ones that all look seriously overweight)
Barbies
Monopoly
Payday
Battleship (before the flashing lights/buzzers)
my little brother (although he considered it more "torture" than "playing", we were in the middle of nowhere so he had little option but to go along. )
Well, we used them like chalk. They're a white sedimentary stone, maybe they have a lot of lime in them...soft enough to easily draw on pavement. Kind of native to the Atlanta area. They're great for drawing bases, tennis net lines (boy were we surprised when we finally got to play tennis over a net....boy those things are tall!!), car interiors or anything else you needed to draw on the pavement. Living on a sleepy, little-traveled court allowed us to use the street as much as we did.
....They're a white sedimentary stone, maybe they have a lot of lime in them...soft enough to easily draw on pavement. Kind of native to the Atlanta area. They're great for drawing bases, tennis net lines (boy were we surprised when we finally got to play tennis over a net....boy those things are tall!!), car interiors or anything else you needed to draw on the pavement. Living on a sleepy, little-traveled court allowed us to use the street as much as we did.
..Johnny West action figure....a boy's toy with cool accessories....
...Micronauts!!!
Star Wars...
some kind of robot on treads that rolled out of a spaceship....
Six Million Dollar Man, better yet, Felix Goldman with exploding briefcase (back when that wasn't scary)...
G.I.Joes with kung-fu grip...
MEGO action figures....
....more, but I'll let you guys take a turn....
OSCAR Goldman, Damnit! OSCAR! :0)
I had a Johnny West figure too.
GI-Joes, yup! (I had both the older fuzzy-headed 12" guys and then the small cheap-o figures, which are back on the market BTW)
I loved Micronauts, too. I loved the bigger magnetic ones the most. I forgot their names, one was white (the good-guy) and one was black (pre-Darth Vader even). They had horse parts that were interchangable. Remember them?
Well, we used them like chalk. They're a white sedimentary stone, maybe they have a lot of lime in them...soft enough to easily draw on pavement. Kind of native to the Atlanta area. They're great for drawing bases, tennis net lines (boy were we surprised when we finally got to play tennis over a net....boy those things are tall!!), car interiors or anything else you needed to draw on the pavement. Living on a sleepy, little-traveled court allowed us to use the street as much as we did.
Well, we used them like chalk. They're a white sedimentary stone, maybe they have a lot of lime in them...soft enough to easily draw on pavement. Kind of native to the Atlanta area. They're great for drawing bases, tennis net lines (boy were we surprised when we finally got to play tennis over a net....boy those things are tall!!), car interiors or anything else you needed to draw on the pavement. Living on a sleepy, little-traveled court allowed us to use the street as much as we did.
Mine was TOTALLY fire. I almost burned my house down a couple of times. Ah, good times.
Is this a Canadian thing? I almost got suspended from school when I was seven for lighting the field on fire (Maintenance had mowed the lawn and left oodles of dry grass for me to burn). Tragically, I melted the soles off my kick-ass velcro sneaks trying to stomp it out.
Geez, I guess I'll have to find a writing rock this week and snap a photo of it and post it here. Never knew we had such special toys!
Sorry, OSCAR Goldman!
I also have the Custer figure from that Johnny West line (I think that's what they're called....anyway, I see that they're coming out with them again.....)
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baseball
basketball
NES
bottle rocket wars in the back yard, kick the can games that never ended. (when someone was "it" that we didn't like, we wouldn't hide we'd just go home.)
Originally posted by ena
Hot Wheels (back when you could find a basic kit that didn't include slime or lesbian alien flame launching incubator pods)
very true! i just want some track, and a loop to loop for my four year old and three year old to race, and it's all EXtreme this and FLAMING EXtreme that. all i want is a bit of track!
i will not buy anything that has the word extreme or a large flaming red x on it.
But for me, Matchbox and Hot Wheels meant playing in the dirt in a neighbor's yard, under a fir tree...making highways and stuff in the dirt.
Good times.
We also had writing rocks, those were an absolute necessity. Anybody else have writing rocks?
Barbies
Monopoly
Payday
Battleship (before the flashing lights/buzzers)
my little brother (although he considered it more "torture" than "playing", we were in the middle of nowhere so he had little option but to go along.
Originally posted by drewprops
We also had writing rocks, those were an absolute necessity. Anybody else have writing rocks?
Chalk?
Originally posted by drewprops
....They're a white sedimentary stone, maybe they have a lot of lime in them...soft enough to easily draw on pavement. Kind of native to the Atlanta area. They're great for drawing bases, tennis net lines (boy were we surprised when we finally got to play tennis over a net....boy those things are tall!!), car interiors or anything else you needed to draw on the pavement. Living on a sleepy, little-traveled court allowed us to use the street as much as we did.
Chalk?
I?ve been up for 21 hours, my perception of reality (and humor) is severely distorted (more that usual) & I just found that terribly amusing.
Almost considered taking a picture of one....
Originally posted by Scott
Legos for sure. Can't wait to have kids so I can play with them again.
Sundry star wars figures. I even had the death start thing.
You mean to tell me you're still not playing with them???? You don't need kids for that.
trains (marklin or something like that?)
no toys (i.e. meditation, a kid's refusal to the overcommercialism among toys)
what i hated instead, the baby dolls & accessories, and the girly household various accessories (ovens, cooking stuff, vaccum cleaners, irons etc).
this train set that allowed you to build long winding railroads, that you pushed trains along...
fisher price toys were good for cars...
Originally posted by drewprops
..Johnny West action figure....a boy's toy with cool accessories....
...Micronauts!!!
Star Wars...
some kind of robot on treads that rolled out of a spaceship....
Six Million Dollar Man, better yet, Felix Goldman with exploding briefcase (back when that wasn't scary)...
G.I.Joes with kung-fu grip...
MEGO action figures....
....more, but I'll let you guys take a turn....
OSCAR Goldman, Damnit! OSCAR! :0)
I had a Johnny West figure too.
GI-Joes, yup! (I had both the older fuzzy-headed 12" guys and then the small cheap-o figures, which are back on the market BTW)
I loved Micronauts, too. I loved the bigger magnetic ones the most. I forgot their names, one was white (the good-guy) and one was black (pre-Darth Vader even). They had horse parts that were interchangable. Remember them?
"They came from inner space"
jijijijiji
Originally posted by drewprops
Well, we used them like chalk. They're a white sedimentary stone, maybe they have a lot of lime in them...soft enough to easily draw on pavement. Kind of native to the Atlanta area. They're great for drawing bases, tennis net lines (boy were we surprised when we finally got to play tennis over a net....boy those things are tall!!), car interiors or anything else you needed to draw on the pavement. Living on a sleepy, little-traveled court allowed us to use the street as much as we did.
Gravel?
only $19.99 parental supervision advised.
oh and matches, magnifying glass, bugs, firecrackers
Originally posted by drewprops
Well, we used them like chalk. They're a white sedimentary stone, maybe they have a lot of lime in them...soft enough to easily draw on pavement. Kind of native to the Atlanta area. They're great for drawing bases, tennis net lines (boy were we surprised when we finally got to play tennis over a net....boy those things are tall!!), car interiors or anything else you needed to draw on the pavement. Living on a sleepy, little-traveled court allowed us to use the street as much as we did.
Porn?
Originally posted by murbot
Mine was TOTALLY fire. I almost burned my house down a couple of times. Ah, good times.
Is this a Canadian thing? I almost got suspended from school when I was seven for lighting the field on fire (Maintenance had mowed the lawn and left oodles of dry grass for me to burn). Tragically, I melted the soles off my kick-ass velcro sneaks trying to stomp it out.
Oh yeah, Transformers were pretty cool too.
Sorry, OSCAR Goldman!
I also have the Custer figure from that Johnny West line (I think that's what they're called....anyway, I see that they're coming out with them again.....)
Here's the KICKASS link so you can see him (Johnny West that is)!