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What was your favorite toy? - 2/26/2011 10:38:44 AM   
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What was your favorite toy when you were growing up?
I hated dolls, but loved Barbie. However she was not my favorite toy.

My godmother always used to bring me things that no one else considered. One year it was colorforms, the next an art kit. But my favorite toy really was not a toy, it was a bank.

It was one of those tin banks that had action if you inserted a coin. This one was about 12x12x8. It was a cute scene of the three bears. When the coin was inserted, the baby bear would clap and watch as the papa bear did some fishing in the painted hollowed out pond. The end of his fishing rod had a small magnet which picked up the small fish in the pond. Then his body would swing over to where momma bear stood, with frying pan in hand. The magnet in the pan must have been stronger since the fish often ended up in the pan. Her body would swivel over to the fire to cook the fish.

I would bet if I still had that toy it would be worth a bundle. I have looked for it over the years on Ebay but havent seen anything as elaborate as that bank. I wish I could find another. It was my favorite most memorable toy from childhood.

What was yours?

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/26/2011 10:53:04 AM   
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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/26/2011 11:04:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		To the OP: you had me intrigued, and fuzzily searched:
http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-1950s-TIN-BATTERY-OPERATED-FISHING-BEARS-BANK-MINT_W0QQitemZ150482974714QQcategoryZ736QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m263QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%252BC%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D10%26pmod%3D390289083797%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D7364971992345859239


In the meantime, my favourite was Spirograph. Fractals long before they were fashionable!

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/26/2011 11:22:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		That was very similar!
I believe mine was more foresty. I think she bought it in Yosemite.

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/26/2011 11:25:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm tempted to say my die cast USS Enterprise, or my Optimus Prime. But when I think about it, hands down it's LEGOS. Oh my god did I love LEGOS. The perfect toy for a kid with a hyper-active imagination.

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/26/2011 11:34:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		we didn't have a lot of toys growing up except what my dad found or we were given from others but my most memorable was the purple and banana seat bike that my dad built for me from scraps that he found at the scrapyard where he worked for awhile.

I loved that thing and rode it into the ground. It was something he built for me with his own two hands.

I also loved the kites he would assemble for us from string, sticks from the cherry tree in the backyard and garbage bags. Those things worked better than any kite I've yet to see come from a store.

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/26/2011 1:29:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		I love plastic kites. They were the only ones I could fly. And I am a lego fan,.. unless it is 3 am and I step on one on my way to the bathroom.

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/26/2011 1:34:40 PM   
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and my fake guns!!!!!!! and bow and arrows...

Yes I was 100% boy as a kid.

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/26/2011 5:07:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ditto on the boytoys: Lego, Hot Wheels and toy train tracks, Walkie-Talkies [invented by a Canadian!], and GI Joe; the latter articulated and much cooler than barbies, leading to a life-long appreciation of male recti muscles and loathing of breast implants; lifejackets should be worn EXTERNALLY, not internally. The first time I saw a woman sit in a hot-tub in California and watched her breasts float up to her chin, I burst [hah!] out laughing.

And the ones banned today: wood-burning kits, chemistry sets, and only because they're dangerous, Easy Bake Ovens!

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/26/2011 5:39:04 PM   
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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/26/2011 5:55:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		my absolute favorite toy -- toss up between kites (i still go kite flying now; i have a turtle kite with little turtles down its tail) and a remote control walking horse; white with a pink mane and girly little leg warmers. =p i always wanted a horse but they take a boatload of money, so my little walking horse was the next best thing. =p


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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/27/2011 2:26:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		OP..Like you I was not a doll person and I really never got into Barbies either but I loved troll dolls for some reason...My pogo stick, skateboard and Blue Huffy bicycle with its banana seat with gold sparkles were all favorites...Does anyone attaching playing cards to your bike wheels with wooden clothespins...who knew those would have another use when we were older! ha ha 

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/27/2011 2:35:26 PM   
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She was a stuffed velvet tiger that was loved dearly. I literally cuddled the velvet off her. I had to make a "cervical collar" for her when she couldn't hold her neck up any longer. Mom gave her to me on my <not mentioned> Bday, and I have her still. She's 51, do the math.

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/27/2011 3:53:40 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Tantriqu
And the ones banned today: wood-burning kits, chemistry sets, and only because they're dangerous, Easy Bake Ovens!


I am confused.  All of these toys are easily available.  The only current issue is the incandescent bulb for the easy bake oven.  That is recent with the ban on those bulbs which had nothing the ovens.  Hasbro says not to worry they have a solution.

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/27/2011 4:21:28 PM   
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I had a lot of fun handcuffing the girls in the neighborhood to a tree surrounded by bushes.
I started "early."

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/27/2011 4:50:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		A second-hand walking black doll, 2'' tall named Sambo ( yeah, yeah, spare me the yikes, I was a kid)

He was my beloved.......but equal to my catapult and my pen-knife. Life swung between loving and carefully tending to my beloved Sambo (I spent hours and hours at village jumble-sales finding him the perfect soft comfy clothes) and time spent climbing trees, carving rural graffiti in tree bark and firing pebbles at cow's arses.

We also spent a lot of time collecting shotgun cartdriges and lining them up in categories, but they never did anything remotely violent, it was all about having found them (scouring the fields after a shoot) and the prettiness of them.

I did have a *Tressy* who's hair grew, but a moment of curiousity made me cut it off and she became as boring as hell within moments when I *got* reality.(her hair only grew on a winch)It was probably already late to have realised that stuff anyhow ...lol Everyone seems to think of Barbie but she was SO boring and dull compared to Tressy.

Lego-wise......when we were little-ones, Lego was made of rubber and not that interesting as it was all dark red and didn't have the super-duper shapes and components my children got to enjoy.( Ok, I was right in there with them)

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/27/2011 5:03:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am the baby girl out of a family of 8, so while there wasn't always a
whole lot of new toys, I was blessed with getting all the hand-me-downs!
My favorites were the Hula Hoop, and Lite Brite.
Ohhh...and those silly plastic cup looking things that you walked on.
Anyone remember those? You had to hold the rope tight so they would stay put.

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/27/2011 5:09:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		I never was in to many toys, except lincoln logs and such.  We spent all our time outside, playing forts and climbing trees and hunting bugs and such.

But....dad bartered and got me a 5 hp mini bike when I was maybe 8 or 9.  I wore out  2 sets of tires on that thing.  Then we got a Hodaka 100, but that lil minibike, that I crashed and ran under a chainlink fence and jumped ramps while my momma screamed "She is gonna kill her self!", that was good times.

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/27/2011 6:10:49 PM   
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I am the baby girl out of a family of 8, so while there wasn't always a
whole lot of new toys, I was blessed with getting all the hand-me-downs!
My favorites were the Hula Hoop, and Lite Brite.
Ohhh...and those silly plastic cup looking things that you walked on.
Anyone remember those? You had to hold the rope tight so they would stay put.


Yep....but made out of old paint tins and string. No idea how we all escaped without broken ankles :)

We  also made tin-telephones made out of baked bean tins and string and sneaked out of bed to *talk* to the kids next door, Of course we all got spanked as we always got caught.

We also didn't have many toys, we didn;t have much to call our own actually. But in *our* world that was how it was. We had *Just William, The Famous Five, Little Women etc) and shared a bike with our Mum, we just never got to sit on a saddle..:) We had trees and home-made rafts, tree-houses made in the woods and we knew everything there was to know about wild food.
My most dearest and besty friends were a boy and girl who'd grown up in China..They had a real rickshaw in their private garden and we did *rudies*.

Also, summertime was when we built forts out of hay bales and had *wars* with corn-clumps, pulled up as missiles after harvesting. We protected our *homes* and they felt awfully real to us.

Swallows and Amazons....To Kill a Mockingbird were a world away from life in the UK as a council house kid............but I WAS Scout and even now it makes me grin to see her dressed and behaving as I did all those years ago.

I think my favourite toy was my crazy view on life even as a small kid. I would get up at silly'o'clock, don shorts and Tshirt, run off across the fields and climb trees just to ensure that school was just a PART of my day, not dictating it.

Grin.....even then I didn't like to be told anything........:)

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RE: What was your favorite toy? - 2/27/2011 6:22:46 PM   
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