Best Childhood Toy?

[wctriumph]

Geek!

Mine was a plastic M14 with spring loaded cartridges and magazine my mom got from G.E.M.
And then the cousin gave me a cap powered muzzle loader that shot cork balls.

I remember those, I had the Mogambo Hunting rifle set and later on the Johnny Seven OMA, it even fired various projectiles: bullets and rockets, grenades. I had a Mattel Tommy Burst which was a full auto cap gun and a lever action that you loaded a bullet into a cartridge case under spring pressure and it shot it across the room and at 10 feet would punch a hole through a paper target. Terrific toys for sure.

[rondog]

Some more I remember.....no wonder I'm such a gun freak now. When I was a kid, the only place that sold many of these was the local Safeway grocery store. And guess where I always went with Mom to.....

[Jmetz]

Micro Machines rocked! Numerous cap guns, "realistic" squirt and airsoft guns, Ruger 10/22, Transformers and MASK, Star Wars toys (I'd be rich if I kept them), Honda z50r and Yamaha YZ80... So many.

Good thread!

[WETWRKS]

My parents decided that I would be raised without guns. At 2 years old I had seen the neighbor kids playing guns. The next morning at breakfast I picked up the spoon and went "bang, bang" with it and they knew it was all over. They promptly went out and bought me a toy gun.

As for favorite toys...
legos were always big.
The original G.I. Joes. I even had the helicoptor and the jeep. I moved into the smaller ones when they came out as well.
Micronauts were a huge favorite
Star Wars figures
I had a bunch of Mazinger Z type of metal action figures from Christmas one year.
any sort of weapon...guns, swords, etc.

[jhood001]

A Tonka Truck and a piano. I banged all of the ridges off the piano's keys with a hammer at the age of 5. I was then forced to play it daily for the next 13 years.

[SAnd]

sounds sad, but various Books.

Books are food. My Erector set was my most used toy. I spent as much time devouring books as I did playing with the Erector set.

[asmo]

The one I was born with.. I used to play with it constantly.

[BPTactical]

The one I was born with.. I used to play with it constantly.

^^^Win!



Ron, awesome pics! I think the M14 was the same one you showed!

Not really a "toy" but one of the greatest things was growing up in a place with LOTS of open space. Wander for hours..

[nikolatesla19]

The Fall Guy set, my Knight Rider big wheel, and He-Man stuff (which is crazy but I still have a bunch of including Castle Greyskull)

[HoneyBadger]

Hot wheels, TMNT, and definitely Legos!