The old school GI Joe's! I had the aircraft carrier and everything!

I had a glow in the dark dinosaur and a small eskimoe guy. I used to make a cave out of my bed sheets and play with those. Man those were the days. The simplicity of life...

Wow, Adventure people! I forgot all about those :). I didn't much of them but my friend next door had a lot of those.

But for me, Lego's, Transformers, Gijoe, Matchbox/hotwheels, scale models, starwars.

Star Wars and GI Joe were my favs!! I still regret selling them in a stupid garage sale!!!

Transformers!! i can't remember the names of the characters i had but they were badass.

i also played with lego alot

Legos were the best by far. after that it would have to be my brown 4 door sedan matchbox car. cant even buy those anymore all they have now are ugly fake cars. oh and cant forget the tonka truck with the rusty sharp corners. that thing was a blast

Clackers (or klackers (?)). Two hard-resin plastic balls at the end of a string. You grab the string in the middle and move your hand up and down. The balls clack against each other back and forth (over your hand and then under your hand). I was damn good, and my wife still has hers.

What could possible go wrong with kids banging what amounted to pool balls back and forth over their exposed wrists?

I must be in a somewhat different age bracket [heh, "Dy-no-MITE!"], but I'm still surprised that *nobody* has mentioned MICRONAUTS yet. Man, those things were the ultimate! Way cooler than the Star Wars action figures, and a dozen times more modular. Micronauts were by far my #1 kid toy. Though I am talking serious old-school here: they hit their peak around 1978-9. They weren't cheap, and for some reason they didn't last long (despite major popularity), but they truly rocked.

My memories of the many Micronauts I played with are also tied up with memories of listening to Led Zeppelin and KISS, when "Battlestar Galactica" was brand new, and me & the other boys in my 5th-grade class wanting to be like Fonzie. [sigh]

Hell, Marvel Comics even had an excellent long-running Micronauts comic book series. I still have all of my issues today.

Lest you think I'm a heretic, before Micronauts I also worshipped at the altar of the almighty Lego. Gotta give props to the mad skillz of those Danish geniuses who created them.

Besides Barbies... My favorite thing to do was play pretend in my backyard. I'd dress up in my mom's night gowns, and put on the brightest red lipstick I could find and run around the back yard pretending I was a fairy/muse type girl...

Climbing trees and roof tops was also something I did almost daily in the summer.

Riding my bike too.

1) crayons & blank paper - glue, tape, staplers, markers were good stuff, too
2) dolls & barbies (& my brother's johnny west jeep & horse, thunderbolt)
3) bicycle & unicycle & roller skates
4) lite brite
5) swing set - used it more like a solo uneven bars
6) garage - great club house up in the loft
7) old grown up clothes to play dress-up with
8) my friend's tap & ballet shoes & costumes (she took lessons & taught the rest of us :))
9) old kleenex boxes & toilet paper rolls - could be transformed into virtually anything
10) BIG trees - climbing & hanging upside down from the limbs, etc.

oh yeah. and the YARD! countless hours turning cartwheels, learning to do back walkovers & back handsprings etc etc :thumbsup:

Legos, followed closely by Voltron and Transformers.

Legos, GI Joe toys, Transformers, and the metal yellow Tonka dump truck

My first RC car. And a M16 watergun. Fun times.

Legos. Legos. Legos. Legos. Legos. Legos. Legos. Legos. Legos. Legos.

I was a HUGE video game freak (still am), and I liked action figures.. However my favorite toy might have been the Hot Wheels Criss Cross Crash set. Or at least I remember it being my favorite for at least a wee.

Lego! It rocked...

Another cool toy from my childhood was a Six Million Dollar man action figure. It was so cool because you could look through is eye from behind his head and it looked like you could see far away things up close. I used to make that stupid noise that the show show used to make everytime he was using his bionic eye.

My mother never let me have Lego's. Aparently, they looked as if they could cause bare feet (her's) some harm. ;)

I do recall many an hour whiled away with my Lincoln Logs and my Tinker Toy set. Ohhh...and my Erector Set. Can't forget that. Wait...how come she let me have sharp pieces of metal with hundreds of tiny nuts and bolts...yet Lego's were verboten?

I don't remember having any favorite toys. I had random toys. I did have barbies, and legos (the castle sets), and stuffed animals, and pet rocks, and cars, and guns, and things that made a hell of a lot of noise.
I played outside all the time, mostly. I just kind of made things up as I went along.

When I was stuck inside on rainy days, my bridge playing parents used to have tons of decks of cards which would keep me entertained for hours, I used to build enormous houses and villages of cards in the living room. Every so often, I still do now, it's a nice destressor.

The only girl thing I ever really had was a jump rope.

The tire swing in the back yard was also lots of fun.. We had two in one tree, and we'd play bumper tires, take a kid on each tire, dont get in the tire yet, but pull it as far back as you can, aimed toward each other, jump on the tire and wait for the collissio, if you fell off, you lost.

I lived two streets off of a main road, the first street off the main road was a pretty steep hill that evenually turned into my street. (if I ever went back to that town< i'd probably realize ithad a not much of an incline, but when you are 8, it was huge) We'd race down the hill on our bikes... No brakes... and if you were really brave, no hands, It's amazing I survived childhood with all my teeth, and without scrambling my brain.

Erector Set, Cap Guns. Model Cars. The set is gone ,can't hardley find a cap gun for my son and have to be 16 to buy airplane glue!

Incredible Hulk inflatable Muscles!

I would have to say Legos or Lincoln Logs or some type of building toy.

Also my awesome Super Hero action figures.

Barbies and toy horses.

The ninja turtles and legos are some of my best memories, but I think the best, by far, was the Transformers

my beautiful little Commodore 64
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GI Joes, Legos, and Stretch Armstrong...

Throw a tarp over a picknick table and you have a sweet fort for your GI Joes!

star wars imperial walkers http://www.kolumbus.fi/antti.lusila/...lkersfront.jpg

Welp, that would be between He-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.... legos were pretty high up there though.

Never had Lego's. I remember Rock em Sock em Robots were big. What I really wanted was a robot that rolled his eyes and shots balls out of his hands and missiles out of his chest. Man, I asked for that for years. Just recently priced one on ebay and they wanted like $100. So I still don't have one.

GI JOE
 

the original gi joe - even had the ones prior to king fu grip and fuzzy hair: matchbox/ hot wheels and tonkas were cool - and also the crazy car

The whirlybird!!!!!!Damn I forgot about that!!Rock'em sock'em robots

i couldnt live without my general lee 69 charger... i had em all the hot wheels... the bigger scale ones.... the soap on the roap i had it all... lunch boxes bead spread curtains posters u name it dukes of hazzard owned me... still does..lol

How to I pick just one? My tastes changed with my age as well as my brother's age. I gotta say the one that seemed to outlast all the others was my collection of dressup clothes.

There were lots more including: legos, BOOKS, and a flag and flashlight.
From about 3rd grade on I read constantly. I almost failed our reading book reports in 6th grade because I decided I wanted to read my mom's collection of shakespeare plays and the teacher who listened to my verbal book reports didn't know them all that well. She would not believe that I had actually read them until my mom got the principal involved and he listened to my "reports". Finally they accepted them as legit books for me to read. For pitys sake I'd already read anything in my grade level that I could get my hands on. Every one of the boxcar children series that I could find.

The flag and flashlight were when my brother and I were older and free to stay up after dark in the summer. Our neighbor kids would all be knocking on our door around supper time or dusk. We'd head out with our flashlights and camo gear and the whole 2 residental blocks with their trees and bushes and houses was our light tag/capture the flag arena. That was a blast. It was the precurser for us to paintball. Awesome hot, sweaty, dirty, rough fun.

What raeanna74 said; my favorites changed over time. As a little kid, my Pooh bear (we were inseparable); later on, probably my GI Joe (I loved that you could pop the limbs off). And I remember labyrinth making a big dent for a while...

My brother's Hot Wheels, and a small white rabbit with a music box inside that played "Here Comes Peter Cottontail"

I remember this remote control Godzilla that I had that I always played with. I use to buy army men and pretend Godzilla crushes them by hitting the army men with a hammer......the good days.

I would agree with the people who chose Legos. I have spend insane amouts of money on Legos, and I still love playing with them ocassionally so that I can remember old memories.

Legos is the best. I love legos. They are the building blocks of fun!

Legos! I had the huge sets where you built a humungous castle. Then again, it was mainly my dad building it while I played video games and then me running over there and playing with it after he spent hours building it.