Best Childhood Toy?

[jmg8550]

Legos.

[RCCrawler]

Started with one of these YZingers, and always had a motorcycle of some sort.



Also rode bikes a ton, this pink Kuwahara freestyle bike was my prized possession.



Also always had BB guns, and my grandpa let me shoot his .22's whenever I wanted.

I remember one time a friend and I went out to my grandpas ranch, we were both about 10 or 11. We asked if we could shoot rabbits, he told us we could shoot as many of them as we wanted, but we had to clean them and eat them. After many hours of hunting we probably had 25-30 rabbits, we loaded them up in a wheel barrow and took them to the house. My grandpa showed us how to clean the first one, and then left us alone to do the rest. We got it done, and took them inside to grandma to cook up. I was so sick I couldn't stand even thinking about eating one, and sadly I have never been hunting again.

[Drucker]

Tinker Toys and Major Matt Mason

[Bailey Guns]

I had a toy DC-7. It was far and away the favorite toy I remember. Very similar to this one:



Put a couple of batteries inside and the props turned and the landing gear retracted. It was awesome. I also had an entire city's worth of Matchbox cars and trucks.

I wish I still had that airplane...the one in the picture sold for $899!

[StagLefty]

Huge box of Army guys,Lionel train set,six guns (cap),some kind of cork gun that came with crow targets,and yeah I loved books too.

[hatidua]

My childhood was about as far from a "toy" store as you could get (five hours from nearest micro-airport, down muddy road surrounded by jungle in the Southern Philippines - needless to say, I was the only blond kid in school) so all the kids made their own 'toys'. We made our own kites from split bamboo and paper, slingshots were best made from guava wood, bamboo canons, etc. Oddly, my favorite (and only thing I still have from back then) is a top I carved. We'd cut a fairly round branch off a tree, hammer a nail into it and then carve a top with a knife. -Not exactly Toy's R Us fare:

[Robb]

From early on it was guns, First one was a plastic .30-30 that shot plastic bullets. I hear I drove my grand dad nuts with it, the story goes I slept with it. After that it was a Crossman M1 Carbine bb gun. It resembled the real deal pretty closely and frankly I wish I would have hung on it. I've looked and they're still around but there seems to be a mag shortage for those as well.

[Ah Pook]

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.....

I had one of these. Got it at a garage sale for a couple of bucks. Big fun! The gun never fired the white bullets but the missile would shoot 20 feet. The periscope was handy for spying on the cute girl next door.

I forget how young some on this board are. He Man.

Legos
Hot Wheels
SST Racers
Slot cars
Skateboard

This was my first bike.


This was the one I rode the most. Pulled off the banana seat and put on a road seat. Painted it flat black. I still wonder how I survived some of the jumps we made.

[Big Wall]

I'm the oldest of six kids and we didn't have much money growing up. I had a couple after school paper routes and got to spend some of the money. When I was 11, I saw a guy make a bow string at a boy scout camp. I went home and made my own bow string jig out of 2X4s and some long nails that were in the garage. A bow string jig needs a slot down the middle of the bottom board so that one of the top pieces can slide to adjust for different length strings. I cut about a 1 ft slot in the 2X4 using a drill and a drill bit. When my parents saw what I had made they must have thought I was serious about archery. My Mom had an old Bear recurve bow and 4 or 5 arrows. We went to the local archery store and found out how long of a string it needed and bought the materials to make a bow string. With the help of the boy scout archery merit badge book, I made my own bow strings and could shoot arrows in the back yard after finishing my paper routes.

[bogie]

Black cat bottle rockets

no safety glasses, helmet, kneepads