Favroite Childhood Toys

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Favourite toys.. hmm...

Lego
Simon (ancient MB games one, bout the size of a dinner plate with big light up panels)
Rubiks Twist, by far the coolest toy I've ever had (and still have)
old pooter games (Starting with the spectrum, through to the Atari ST and onto the PC)
Big Loader, could watch that for hours at a time!

Once I hit my teens I switched to toy soldiers and scale models (Star trek mainly). And around 15 I started collecting CCGs.

- Stuffed animals

- Littlest Pet Shop (the ones from Kenner)

- My Little Pony (I was born in the early 90s, right on the heels of Gen 1)

- Lite Brite

- ViewMaster

- K'Nex

-Pound Puppies/Purries/Bunnies

- Dress-up clothes (though not anything frilly or princess-y)

- Raggedy Ann and Andy

- a talking Barney doll

- My baby doll, Baby Alice

- Those inflatable animals/characters you could buy at the fair

- A "Keypers" turtle that I got from the girl down the street

- My little plastic toys of different Disney characters, like Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger, Pinocchio, Figaro, and Jiminy Cricket....I carried them around in a red vinyl purse with Pooh on the front. I also had plastic toys of Snow White, her Prince, the Wicked Queen, and all the 7 dwarves. My little toy dwarves kind of freaked me out, tho, cuz it seemed like certain ones were always "multiplying" (mostly Doc, Dopey, and Grumpy) and I'd find them in different places all over the house.

- and of course, all the little assorted objects I carried around with me to help me feel safe and secure in various situations.

When I was a teenager, I started collecting die cast Cars - mostly die cast toys of the characters from the Cars movies, but also Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and Johnny Lightning Cars (I would glue "eyes" to their windhshields so they looked "alive," lol). I still have my Cars, my Gen 1 My Little Ponies, and of course, all my stuffed animals.

1. Dogs. All kinds of dogs: plastic, stuffed, ceramic and glass figurines, breloques - it was a collection actually. I loved laying them out, sorting by types, but I also played kind of roleplaying games with them, mostly based on the books I was reading.

2. Chess. I used chess not only to play chess but also to build labyrinths. Then, the smallest toy dogs went to explore the labyrinth, and most of them died

1. I had a talking Mickey Mouse doll that had a pull-string that makes him talk. It stopped working after the pull-string broke.

2. I also had a talking ALF doll who talked via tape cassette, much like Teddy Ruxpin. It would tell stories, tell jokes, and say random things.

3. I had a collection of puppets that I love playing with. They range from animals like birds and cats to fictional characters like ALF and Sesame Street characters.

4. I had a collection of TMNT action figures and vehicles that I shared with my brother. I would sometimes role play with these based on various episodes.

5. I also owned a collection of Hot Wheels. When they come in a boy's McDonalds meal, I would get them (even though I'm female) because I liked the sights of the toy cars. I also owned a race track with the loops at one point.

Matchbox cars

Hotwheels cars

Corgi cars

Bicycle

Motorcycle (got my first when I turned 15)

I was an avid reader since the age of 2...do books count? For most of my childhood, I strongly preferred books in a series and they had to be with anthropomorphic animals...and I was adamant about this. When I was 5-6, I was really into these books:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity_(book_series)

I loved things that I could line up and sort: that was how I played for most of my childhood. I had colorful collections of animals, dinosaurs and other things that I would sort into groups in my play. My logic took over my imagination and I would do things like have a school and sort the "students" into groups, or have an apartment building and have certian members on each floor.

My parents, who loved my creativity and uniqueness, didn't think this was weird, but any other parents might insist that something would be horribly wrong with me. I hated playing with other kids and would sever our interaction if they gave an alternative way to play or suggested other ideas: I only wanted to play my way.

I also loved polly pockets...but again, would get them to vividly immerse myself into their worlds...there was no storyline or partners involved in my play.

I would also get fixated on getting very specific toys: often from below my age group. There was this Barney train station thing that I wanted more than anything when I was 8, though it was meant for a 2 year old. The reason I wanted it? I wanted to see what the back of it looked like...there was a picture in a catalog and I could only see teh front. My mom got it for me and I played with it a few times, but quickly lost interest.

Legos

Spirograph

Hot Wheels

Tinker Toys

Etch-A-Sketch

Bike

Lincoln Logs

Erector Set

Lite Brite

Books

Model Cars

Model Rockets

I had a lot of stuffed toys and absolutely loved them, but also
-stamp collection
-those marble ramp kits
-an electronic hangman game
-polly pocket dolls
-tamagotchi
-toy keyboard
-dress up clothes (I made up this character which was neither a good nor a bad person and they'd "appear" every month or so, when I lost the mask I used for this character I pretended they got a face transplant)
-tent
-binoculars
-small bouncy balls
-lego
-an egg slicer (there was this egg slicer that had metal strings which were used for slicing, but you could pluck them and they each had a different tone, I actually got so much entertainment from this over the years trying to play songs on it)