Best Childhood Toy?

[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!

[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.

[SideShow Bob]

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.

Gawd ! I remember having the M1 BB gun,my brother and I wore that thing out so bad that you could track the BB with you eye when it exited the barrel. There was plenty of places to shoot it living on the edge of the desert in YPG, AZ.