Top 3 Favorite Childhood Toys...

[floyd]

I was watching a documentary on Netflix about the unusual development of Star Trek toys today, and I got me to thinking about the toys I enjoyed when I was a kid. Since the forum has many members around my age, I thought it might be fun to see what others enjoyed playing with as a kid.

I never got into action figures or GI Joe, but here are my Top 3 favorites:

1. Hot Wheels was far and away my favorite toy. I probably owned a 100 yards of orange track and as many cars.
2. Slot cars (and to a slightly lesser degree, electric train set). In my basement, atop an old ping pong my best friend and I would log hundreds of miles with our AMT slot cars. Racing was cool, but bringing the car in for a pit stop, taking it apart and oiling it was the BEST! I remember my favorite car had "Gulf" written in orange against a pale blue finish.
3. Toy soldiers. Many battles were fought in and around the living room fireplace.

Honorable mention:
Tonka Trucks
LEGOs
Daisy BB Gun (not sure that's a toy, though)
(Fantasizing about) Girls

 

[Porky]

I didn’t have 3, I was a spoilt brat...
Loved my action man, not in that way
Train set, fascinated with trains at a young age
Maccano set, loved building things.
Scalextric, thought I was a racing car champ.
Oh and a Chopper (bike) don’t know if you had these in the states

The list could go on but you did say three and I’ve already put five down, sorry

 

[BD0G]

Helicopter from Mattel named the VertiBird was one of my favorites!

Slot Cars as well! I remember they were made by Tyco . Hundreds of miles on the track as well.

Pump Up Water Rocket was a "blast" (pun intended)

 

[BD0G]

I didn’t have 3, I was a spoilt brat...
Loved my action man, not in that way
Train set, fascinated with trains at a young age
Maccano set, loved building things.
Scalextric, thought I was a racing car champ.
Oh and a Chopper (bike) don’t know if you had these in the states

The list could go on but you did say three and I’ve already put five down, sorry

Our chopper bikes were the original Schwinn "Orange Crate". They now sell for $3500 - 4500 Dollars in excellent condition!

 

[Porky]

This is our version of the chopper bike, same here it now goes for mega bucks

There’s even a chopper club now in the UK..

 

[Tofino]

My top 3

Tyco electric train set....I still have it in a box in storage in the garage.
RC Car. But back then it had a long wire attached to it, not true R/C
Slot car racing. Even had a 20 foot long drag strip set up in the basement. Like you say floyd the best part was taking them apart oiling the small motors and changing the contacts on the bottom of the cars and trying to make them run faster. Do you remember the yellow guard rails that clipped onto the turns. I think it was AFX Slot Car Racing??

 

[Tofino]

This is our version of the chopper bike, same here it now goes for mega bucks

There’s even a chopper club now in the UK..

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Ya that was really " Cool" back then.
I remember cutting the front forks off one bike and then adding them onto another to make a long chopper and hope like hell the forks did not come apart riding the bike....With a big "Sissy Bar" and Banana Seat...Wow sure brings back allot of old memories of "Tunder Bay" Ontario...

 

[Chip]

Johnny Helmet 7:



Steam Engine w Whistle:



Jet X Wren



Jet X in action (notice that dad takes lighter from kid and lights fuse himself):

 

[Slim.slamma]

I remember cutting the front forks off one bike and then adding them onto another to make a long chopper and hope like **** the forks did not come apart riding the bike....With a big "Sissy Bar"

I thought that was just an Alabama thing

Banana Seat

 

[Slim.slamma]

Do you remember the yellow guard rails that clipped onto the turns.

You just bust me in the head wit that!

 

[Tofino]

Who remembers the balsa wood planes with the rubber bands that you would wind up to make the propeller turn...another toy from back then.
Also a mahogany r/c boat that used a Cox .049 engine to power it.....that's a little later on..

 

[Slim.slamma]

 

[Tofino]

I am back in the '70's

 

[Porky]

So many memories come flooding back, people add what they’ve had then you realise, I had one of those, lol

Oh the good old days

 

[Former Member]

• GI Joe with scuba gear
• Rockem Sockem Robots
• Spalding punch balls
• Matchbox cars
• Borrowing my sisters Ken and Barbie dolls, stripping them down, and making them practice the kama sutra

 

[Porky]

I lost count how many time I got thrown over the handlebars on my chopper

 

[Tofino]

Yup the good old days, no worries, no stress, run down the street playing till your mom would yell out the door to come home..

 

[Former Member]

Lmao

As I got older, the dolls just kept getting bigger.

 

[Tofino]

You knew the neighbors, played with the kids next door, laid out on the lawn at night and watched the stars, ran to the corner store to get a whole bag full of candy for 10 cents, and got a sore stomach after you ate it all..........

 

[Porky]

Borrowing my sisters Ken and Barbie dolls, stripping them down, and making them practice the kama sutra

Sorry rob had to amend my post to make it clearer