What were your favorite toys as a child?

[2 many chickens]

Barbies and Polly Pockets!

 

[drumstick diva]

My brother, youngest of the litter of 3 - got a bus driver set for a gift. The hat, the hole puncher and a coin holder. He loved it. He had anyone that rode the bus(any bus) save the transfers for him. After studying them, he learned the streets and could tell folks how to get anywhere. Smart kid.

BTW I ended up with his coin holder and hole puncher, ssshhh I don't think he every noticed.

 

[drumstick diva]

I know what Barbies were/are but, not Polly Pockets. Gosh, I'm thinking Barbie sure put on a lot of years since I first heard of her. I'll bet she dyes out her gray hair. Ha! I love mine.

 

[drumstick diva]

My niece has collected Breyer horses since she was a kid. Don't know if she still does, she lives many states away now. She's in her 50's now and still loves horses- real ones.

 

[Kgbao]

@drumstick diva awesome thread!!!

My favorite as a kid was trains anything to do with trains, I’ve never done it but still want to build a train track system in a room or through the hole house (wife would kill me). Trains now a days aren’t what they use to be, but I can still sit at a crossing and just watch as it passes and not be like most the world and get upset because of the delay. We have a restaurant close by, and the trains run on that track like every 20 minutes, family loves the food, so we go there and I’ll eat and watch the trains, ya I know little big kid thing going on.

My most memorable collection, that I had was the California raisins from Hardee’s back in the day. I was probably preteen at the time, but a great family friend was manager at the local Hardee’s, for his after retirement from the army thing to do. I would ride my bike up there and see him once or twice a week, and he would have any new or special editions held out for me. To this day I still don’t know what happened to that collection, I have to assume it’s somewhere in dads attic..

 

[Pasha838]

I had two guys like that

And they had the horses.

I built a town, and they was there as the mounted police, that was fun - toy town, there are cars, one toy crane and two guys in medieval robes on horseback as a police force.
I took them to serve in the police when my parents gave me such a machine

 

[DiYMama540]

I remember the California raisin figures at Hardee's!!

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

I loved my Cabbage Patch kid! Her name was Winona Lily. Remember the craze??? People almost killed each other to get their hands on one! Kinda like today with Toilet Paper!!!!!

 

[itsasmallfarm]

i was the kid who never really got much out of toys,

(as i was born in the late 90s) my childhood was the game-boy system (the advanced model for those who know the line up)

played them all the time with the ninja turtle games and Mario games. played it so much the back lit screen died.

 

[Abriana]

Calico critter dollhouse! Oh my goodness, so many tiny little things (little food, a toaster, spatulas, books, sodas) and all these cute little animal families. The lights in the house actually turned on and off. I got mine when I was around 1 or 2, my mom had more fun with it than I did I think! I still have everything tucked away for when I have kids.