What was one of your favorite childhood toys? (post a pic)

So do I! My grandma had one among the various toys she had in the box she kept for us grandkids. Used to be my uncle's. I remember the little Luke Skywalker figurine was superglued to his seat in the cockpit, the window of which was itself superglued shut. I think she did that because it was a potential choking hazard.

Anyway, my favorite were always Legos. I had tons of them, but one of my more favorite sets was the Blacktron Aerial Intruder. It came out in 1991. I remember saving up my allowance for weeks and then mail ordering for it. It was probably the one of the first things, if not the first thing, I had ever saved for and bought on my own.

When it finally came, my mom started helping me assemble it, but she never did help me finish because she started to go into labor with younger brother.

 

These were pretty awesome too:

 

Someone please tell me that you had one of these.

 

Jeebus. 1991? I was graduating college.

 

Hey old man, if it makes you feel any better that brother I mentioned will be turning 21 in a few days...

 

Well he is the youngest...

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... and he oh so lovingly referred to myself as old man on my birthday recently.

As did my younger sister. Even though,ahem, she is only two years younger than myself.

 

Remember: age and cunning will always win over youth and inexperience..

 

Yeah I said something like too. They'll just both laughed at me.

 

This wast favorite toy growing up. So much so that one morning my brother started a fit in the kitchen while my mom was next door. As the fire climbed the wall I ran to my room grabbed a metal toy tool box and filled with spare under wear and grabbed my G.I. Joe. Then I ran next door in my skivvies to tell mom about the fire. Had to save Joe first!

 

There were so many awesome toys...

 

Mine was a Tonker Toy Dumper Truck, I played with it for ages, in fact I vaguely remember getting told off for excavating a portion of the front lawn and moving it in this to the back yard!!!

 

I loved Matchbox cars as a kid. I had a huge box of them, and I wish I had not gotten rid of them now. I used to buy at least 1 new car a week, that was back when they were about a buck a piece and they came in cardboard boxes.

 

I loved Rock'em Sock'em Robots!

 

I cut myself sooo badly on that exact model of Tonka Truck as a kid. Now that I think about it...far worse than any shaving nick I've had! Metal truck bed plus finger = ouch

 

I keep thinking of things I used to play with, like this Gnip Gnop game:

 

I even remember this commercial. After skidding through 2 tires my parents quit buying them for me.