Toys! Remember when.....

[2Hot4TV]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Someone asked me today if I had ever played Mystery Date when i was a kid.....

Now I vaguely remember a board game with a door and three clean-cut guys and one loser type. I'm assuming he was the one i wanted to "date". Don't remember really..... I was very young and don't know if I played it or if the memory exists cause my older sister had it or what.

Anyway, between this conversation and the images of oracle in his plaid (sorry!) pants i got to thinking..... when you were a kid, what were some of your favorite games, toys, objects, tv shows?

Let's go back in time.....

I don't really remember playing with too many toys as a kid(we were considered poor). I grew up in Kidsville USA (La Puente Calif ) around the time people were putting bomb shelters in their back yards around 1962. I remember watching Bonanza in color, thats how far I go back. Red Skelton Hour and Dick Lane covering Roller Derby

[whorstman]

Oh my God. Hot wheels!! Baddest 69 camaro ever! GI Joe was the sh1t, Transformers. Anything Star wars!! I was an action figure junkie. Had some rock em sock em toys too. Man, I could go on and on. I LOVED toys as a kid. Army men, setting them up and having battles in the sand. Evil Knievel bike that had a zip tie thing that NEVER worked!!! I couldn't jump that SON OF A B1TCH fo nothing, always fell over. Of course I couldn't leave out Legos! Can I toss out PLAY DOE? FUZZY PUMPER BARBER? WOW, I want to be a kid again, I may be a little sad now.

[GPK]

how about the following:

Operation
Chutes and Ladders
Big Wheels (everyone owned one of those, right?)
Connect Four
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Silly Putty
Transformers
My Buddy ( come on..sing it..."My Buddy....My Buddy....My Buddy and me )
Tonka trucks

[somerfrost]

Well, lets see......I had one of those vibrating football games, also a horse racing one, and an auto racing one. little felt ball...kicker was spring loaded. Lots of toy guns, toy soldiers. My favorite TV show was "Winky Dink"...they sent you this clear plastic sheet which stuck to the TV by static electricity and you used crayons to draw houses, walls etc for Winky...really cool! Sling shot...got in all kinds of trouble with that! Collecting Baseball cards....those were the days!

[timmgirvan]

Only really neat toy I remember was these wind-up race cars called Ronco racers...Metal bodies with real rubber wheels....THEY HAULED ASS! Other than that...if it was daylight I was playing ball or shooting marbles..or building a serious treehouse...sigh....life was so much simpler then,eh?

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by GPK

how about the following:

Operation
Chutes and Ladders
Big Wheels (everyone owned one of those, right?)
Connect Four
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Silly Putty
Transformers
My Buddy ( come on..sing it..."My Buddy....My Buddy....My Buddy and me )
Tonka trucks

I've come full circle Kev. I now play Chutes and Ladders with my daughters. Yes, it is still around.

Operation was awesome. Spent way too much childhood time working on that funny bone.

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

I've come full circle Kev. I now play Chutes and Ladders with my daughters. Yes, it is still around.

Operation was awesome. Spent way too much childhood time working on that funny bone.

I spend way too much time now working on my funny bone....oh wait...we are speaking of a different funny bone...LMFAO

[brockguy]

LEGO - what time I enjoyed with it!