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Favorite childhood toy
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:44 am
by MOthrows
Mine was my knight rider big wheel. I could pull off some vicious doughnuts with it. My GI JOE tank has to get an honorable mention, it could go anywhere.

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:09 am
by Ring
If always loved the Transformers! I had about 25 of them. I also was a big fan of Legos to. You could build anything!!
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:24 am
by Anakha
Die cast Megatron-
And-
Not this one, but the original 3' die cast, w/the figurines that actually fit inside the lions, die cast weapons and all.
Man, I would give
alot to have these back!

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:47 pm
by Friz-Rocker
Any type of toy machine-gun,anything you could attack the other kids with.{Star Trek Discguns,Dartguns,Carbide Cannons,etc.etc.}
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:22 pm
by Master Dyck
Massey Ferguson 175 Tractor with implements, (disc, plow, manure spredder and grain wagon) Growing up on the farm, we went through about 10 sets of those. My brother still has one set that's in fair shape. (Brand new set goes for $800 on eBay)
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:11 pm
by MOthrows
Friz-Rocker wrote:Any type of toy machine-gun,anything you could attack the other kids with.{Star Trek Discguns,Dartguns,Carbide Cannons,etc.etc.}
How bout lawn darts? I remember getting in a regular size dart war with my buddy and looking down at my leg and seeing a dart sticking out of my leg.
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:19 pm
by doc
Master Dyck wrote:Massey Ferguson 175 Tractor
Max weight...impressive!

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:15 pm
by Anakha
MOthrows wrote:Friz-Rocker wrote:Any type of toy machine-gun,anything you could attack the other kids with.{Star Trek Discguns,Dartguns,Carbide Cannons,etc.etc.}
How bout lawn darts? I remember getting in a regular size dart war with my buddy and looking down at my leg and seeing a dart sticking out of my leg.
LOLZ, being from So Cal, we used to make bow & arrows out of palm tree branches and blacktop sharpened sticks.
Now that I think back on that and the injuries we sustained,(those branches were perfect!) we came really close to killing each other.
Ah yes, good times, good times.

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:56 pm
by _dm4
Evil Knievel Stunt Cycle! Some kind of shooting range with a pump shot gun that shot darts (stuck to almost everything! Did not stick to my sister, but I kept shooting her anyway!). Got a GI Joe for a birthday one year and didn't like it much. Whamo super ball! Best "toy" was a coffee can full of worms and a fishin pole!

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:11 pm
by MOthrows
I really enjoyed my wrist rocket slingshot until I shot one of our cats with it and it died under mom's car in the garage.

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:27 am
by Nivek9
_dm4 wrote:Best "toy" was a coffee can full of worms and a fishin pole!

There ya go....
That's entertainment.....
Oh, and
Hot Wheels when you had to be at home. I loved the plastic track with the foam rubber spinning wheels inside the little building that would keep them whizzing around the track even through the loop-d-loop. Good times....
Used to have one of these....
http://cgi.ebay.com/1970-Hot-Wheels-Red ... dZViewItem
Wish I still had it. Mom sold it in a garage sale

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:31 am
by Master Dyck
Anybody remember the old SSP Crash-up Derby cars. When I got mine we had just moved a double-wide mobile home onto a poured, but unfinished, basement. Boy that was fun, watching those cars zip 60 feet and hit that cement wall at about 50 mph. It wasn't long before the pieces wouldn't fit back on the cars or they would fly so far we couldn't find them amongst all the junk down there. But it sure was fun while it lasted.
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:12 pm
by Friz-Rocker
Who knew you could take out seagulls from a hundred yards with a wrist rocket and a handful of arrows?
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:23 pm
by Ring
I loved BB guns...until my mom came home and found about 20-30 dead birds in our back yard

j/k
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:43 pm
by _dm4
I used to like those little gas powered airplanes where you had fuel, a battery, and the prop was spring loaded to start. Then it made that really high pitched sound, and you got fuel all over you, just for a thirty second flight of going round and round (plane was on strings). What were those called? No clue, but I am sure I about cut my fingers off with them trying to start um up!
Also had slot cars. They were ok, but I always wanted TCR, total control racing from Aurora! It was slot cars with no slot, and you could change lanes and pass! Also wanted a real Radio Control Airplane and Car! I guess now I can afford them, but just can't seem to make myself spend the money and time on them! Disc golf too important!