Favorite Childhood Toys

[Jill]

I thought it would be fun to talk about our favorite toys from when we were kids!!!

I was born in 1969, as a point of reference, and these were some of my favorite toys:

• Barbie and Barbie's Townhouse -- I used to love to play with those, and of course, my Breyer horses were Barbie's favorite rides. I used milk lids and toothpaste caps as plates and cups for Barbie
• Big Wheel ride on toy with those fat, bald, plastic back tires
• A doll that would pee -- I did NOT play with baby dolls, but with this one that could pee, I would sink her in water to fill her up and use her as a squirt gun
• Legos -- so much fun!
• Speak and Spell -- this is actually what made me think of this thread, hearing Dane Cook joke about how it sounded like the devil
• Milky The Marvelous Milking Cow -- this was a plastic cow that came with a plastic fence and a bucket. You unscrewed her udder and put this tablet that looked like an aspirin inside, screwed it back on, put her head in a little water bucket, pumped her tail to make her drink and then milked her -- yeah, I was easily entertained

What about you all? What are some of your favorite old toys?

 

[Mona]

I was born in 1962.

My favorite was a big "walking doll". She must have been close to 3' tall and you would hold her hands and she would "walk".

I also especially like a special stuffed toy I had...it was a hand knit/crocheted monkey made especially for me by our elderly neighbor lady that I adored. She was like a Grandma to us.

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A couple of little "neat" things I remember playing with that I liked, were "Gumby", a green rubbery bendable stick man type thing, and I believe he had a red dog as his partner, but Gumby was the one I had, and also Silly Putty. I can remember copying comic strips from the newspaper onto that stuff and also bouncing it all around, and stretching it into such fine pieces of string! :bgrin

 

[wade3504]

Barbie with summer house I think it was with everthing that went with it (grandparents spoiled us)

Of course the Breyer horses- my sister and I both had our own stables and she fell off my bed once and smashed mine then refused to share hers

Simon Says-I still want this game

Jacks-thought about these the other day and wanted to try again

Chinese jump rope

Tinkertoys

Sled

Paper and pencil/crayons/paint/colored pencils-still play with these

roller skates-tried again a few years ago-not like bikes you just can't get back on or in this case into them and skate no problem-at least I can't

Atari-Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Pong, Space Invaders, Kaboom, Breakout, Asteroids

I was born in 1975

 

[Russ]

Hey Jill, I had a Milky the Marvelous Milking cow too! :bgrin I forgot all about that cow till you brought it up. Geez, somewhere my folks have that packed away...hope that cow is worth money someday...ya know a ''cash cow''

I had some Breyer horses and a Fisher Price Barn with farm animals. Lots of John Deere tractors.

 

[Bess Kelly]

Oh, definately my farm set!! Barn, fences, animals. YEP!! Now I have the REAL THING !

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I like pick-up-sticks, too. Climbed a LOT of trees, rode my bike.

Hmmm, born 1946.

 

[Steph_D]

LOL, I just HAD to see this cow, Milky, too funny. I want one!

I was born in 1977, my favorite toys were lincoln logs, tinker toys, my little pony's. I also loved my bike and other outdoor toys, including the tree in the backyard

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[FairytailGlennMinis]

1976

My Little Pony....100% all the way--I was obsessed!

Strawberry Shortcake--but only for helping or riding the MLPs.

Breyer model horses

yes....my life has ALWAYS revolved 100% around horses. I had my first real pony at age 5--does that count? He was my $50 wonder pony, trail, show and jousting buddy. Man it is a wonder I am still alive...

-Amy

 

[iluvwalkers]

[SIZE=14pt]what fun to remember! i had forgot about many of these toys until i read this. i liked Barbies, i had a town house that opened up into 3 sections it was made of plastic covered cardboard i think. Jill, i used tooth paste caps and milk lids to, i would have never remembered that. i made alot of mud pies and baked them in the sun too. i was born in 1971, seems like a million years ago, Nikki [/SIZE]

 

[RedWagon]

Jill, thanks for this thread! I had totally forgotten about Milky The Marvelous Milking Cow! That brought a HUGE smile to my face! I was born in 1973 so not sure if it was mine or one of my older sisters'. I loved my Green Machine, though! Way cooler than a regular ol' Big Wheel. (Did you know you can buy them adult size now?) I played with Barbies and Strawberry Shortcake more often than I care to admit! I loved Legos but didn't have many; my step-brothers had tons and actually competed in building competitions. I still don't let them forget that they never shared with me!

Oh! Don't forget Weebles! Remember, weebles wobble but they don't fall down! My grandmother still has weebles and their treehouse for all the kids to play with!

 

[nootka]

Breyer horses.

Anything horse shaped, but of course the ride-on "Wonder" horse was king as well as my tricycle/bicycle (pretended it was a horse, made reins out of string and steered it that way).

A Radio Flyer wagon.

My brother's Tonka trucks and Nylint trucks (the one with the horse trailer was MINE though).

Marx horses/sets (heck with the riders I only wanted the horses and their gear).

Roller skates.

Paints, crayons, pencils and paper (or the walls, even my pillowcases worked good for "canvas.")

Books!

Liz M.

 

[sfmini]

I forgot about Jane and Johnny West! Had them and the horses, just loved them.

Purpy the purple poodle, this was a stuffed purple poodle that stood on all fours. I used to take him for walks, guess I wore him out as he didn't survive my childhood.

I still have my teddy bear, a bit rough now, but ol Gregory the pear bear is still with me.

The breyer horses and we had loads of china horses too. They used to make them to look like famouse race horses. I remember I had Kelso, and many others.

 

[Soggy Bottom Ranch]

I have thought about this all afternoon, and I just can't remember what any of my toys were. It's not that I'm that old, I'm only 38. It's just that I remember most of the stuff we got as kids was horsey related, and we always each had our own horse. Money was tight for us, so the horses were a big thing for us. I remember we used to play alot of cards with each other. I also remember when mom and I ordered our first ever record album. We were sooooo excited! Can't for the life of me remember the name of it, but I remember the day it came in the mail. We danced and sang, and just had fun!

I remember having toys, but living out in the country, we always seemed to have more fun making up our own games.

 

[Sterling]

Oh fun thread! I have'nt read any others replies yet, but I will. I always wanted a Penny the Poodle, it was a little hard plastic poodle dog (maybe about a foot and 1/2 inches tall) that had a connecting "leash" and handle at the end of that leash where you could make it sit, walk and bark. ~Penny the Poodle by Marks --arf arf~ is how the song used to go....

: :bgrin I never got one but I played with the neighbors!

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My farms sets were my favorites...I had, and still have all kinds of neat little animals, plus I had the little metal farm house and barn with the fences and everything.

Some of my other favorites were, jacks, marbles, Tuttie doll, Skipper and Ricky. And then some of the bigger items we enjoyed were our swimming pool, tether ball, slip and slide and bicycles. But I was always the one that had to have the toy animals, be them stuffed or plastic.....To this day I still have many of my old toys. I even have my birth Pluto doggy!!

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Oh wait...how can I forget my Thunderbolt and Flame horses!!! And my Jane West doll that could ride them with all the neat little tack and equipment that came with them!ANd thought of one more!!! Creepy Crawlers....the little open oven type thing where you could bake your own little spiders, lizards and bugs...loved it!

 

[MeadowRidge Farm]

OHH Jill, this post is fun but I'm REALLY dating myself here...I remember the Milky, the big black and white holstein milking cow

: ....but it was MY SONS! Yup~~~ I'm a oldie on here, I was born in 1950. My favorite toys were a red-white and blue rocking horse that I still have, not sure what it is made out of but its cute, and stands about 34's, and my breyer horses, still have them too, and of course my Barbie doll, and my Shirley Temple doll, that was my mothers, I also have this pull behind horse, which is about 22's tall, and it belonged to my grandmother, its made out of horse hair, has glass eyes, and metal wheels, and has a real mane and tail.I would drag that poor horse everywhere. I still have my toys! But a few of my breyers did get broken legs, guess from too much running... :bgrin :bgrin :bgrin :bgrin Corinne

 

[eagles ring farm]

great fun thread

I grew up in the city Philadelphia

no horses or cows there but as long as i can remember I wanted a horse

played alot of city games step ball wall ball rode bikes alot my bike was my horse

but I grew up watching all the old westerns on tv

bonanza, maverick, wagon train, fury, flicka, even mr ed

it seems like the tv was filled with horses back then

balls and bikes were the best in my book i was quite the tom boy

and i still am

born in 1952

 

[Matt73]

1973 child here.

1. Ewok Village

2. Millenium Falcon (pretty much anything to do with Star Wars)

3. Monchichi (remember those? LOL).

 

[Jenn]

Born in 1980.

I loved books, legos, tinker toys, construx, barbies, my little ponies, and I remember playing a lot of Monopoly with my brother. We didn't have video games until we were teenagers, then it was all Super Mario and Tetris, because I'm cool like that.

 

[JO~*]

Lets see hummmm well Troll dolls, I still have my first old one.

Playing in the creek with the moss that came off the bottom and the clay from the banks.

Playing with the frogs and toads. Catching pollywogs (do kids do that anymore?)

I was the only kid on the dairy where I grew up.

Born 1955

 

[Lisa-Ruff N Tuff Minis]

Troll dolls

My pretty pony or little pony whatever they where called

Bryers lots of Bryers with bridles made out of yarn

army men the little green ones my brother and I would play with those for hours

 

[JennyB]

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I was born in the____

: ....anyway my first memory was pick-up sticks, but my Mom said, it was stuffed ponies, nothing else stuffed, just stuffed ponies

: ...then the top off the tea kettle! I used to get in trouble for that one!

Drive them NUTSssssssss

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As I got older it was plastic horses, pictures of horses I could color on...anything with a horse! :lol:

I was LUCKY enough to get my own real horse when I was 12....and that was the coolest TOY I had ever had...WOW!! He is in my avitar!

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Jenny