What are/were your most memorable childhood toys?

[RepresentingCaution]

I'm looking for ideas on what to buy for my son. He's 2 now, but I'm setting a few things aside for later. I've got a microscope, a spirograph, a bunch of art supplies and coloring books, and I'm considering what else I can tuck away in my office for later. I'm open to "girl" toys as well. I'd like to teach him to crochet, and I gave him a stainless steel tea set for Christmas that he uses every day.

 

[Rorogan]

Lego

 

[DiscoDream]

A physical set of Legos. While not the most enjoyable, they are what I have the fondest memories of. Spending hours just plugging them together, trying to make the biggest staircase possible.

 

[TASTYLEADPAINT]

This white and red rocket. Made the shittiest rocket launch sound known to man but 5 year old me ate that crap up

 

[TheEldritchGod]

A chemical set with a wide variate of chemicals that you could mix and cause various chemical reactions. Those thrown pellets that exploded. Kerbangers because if you snapped off the handle they were effectively Bolos, A circuit board that was basically a primative computer, but you had to wire it together yourself and it had about a dozen different configuations including could play music like a syntheziser. A set of giant fresnel lenses that I used to make a solar cooker. Crossbows with suction cup arrows. Airsoft gun. Hobby Rockets. And Sodium.

Just Sodium. In a jar of Kerosene. You put it on a raft and float it out onto the water where nothing grows and shoot it. When it hits the water, it explodes. We later found out the place we used to play was abandoned because it used to be part of the Manhatten Project. They had Buried trucks there. Nothing grew except some very hardy weeds.

Oh. The water in the lake in the middle of that area where nothing grew? It burned for HOURS when the sodium hit it.

Not sure it if was entirely water. The rainbow sheen should have tipped us off.

Edit: Ooo! those rockets you filled with water, then you pumped air into the rocket and it built up pressure, and when you unlocked it, the air forced the water out and it FLEW! I remade it using gasoline I stole from the can dad used to fill the lawnmower. Set it off next to a candle.

Yeah... Apparently it caused such a bright explosion that they called in a helicopter. It was visible from about three miles away, and the dead area was smack dab in the middle of three doldrum hills. Not a smart move.

On Second thought. Don't buy your kid that last one.

MORE EDIT: You know, I was passing through my home town a decade ago. They built a Christmas tree farm over the dead area. I was puzzled, because the ground would periodically emit vapors that we could set off with the small exploding pellets. I mean, Pine tree sap is quite flammable when it gets dry. Surprised the whole place never burned down.

 

[Cipiteca396]

I still have a few stuffed/plastic animals and legos/bionicles/dragons that I really liked. Pretty much anything will entertain a kid. Just gotta make sure he doesn't eat it, lose it, or get it irreversibly dirty. Personally, I started to resent how many toys I had because I couldn't take care of them properly. They just sat around gathering dust and making my room a mess.

I think the most I've gotten out of 'toys' though was definitely my gameboy or my computers. Years and years of entertainment. Books, music-things and coloring books are obviously good too.

 

[Bobple]

I had three major toys that I remember fondly.
1. Thomas Tank engine track and trains.
2. Lego.
3. A teddy bear my nan made for me.

BUT, when it comes to giving a child toys... Hmm something they can build with is always fun. Very Big blocks (Not lego or anything else that small, kid me nearly ate that too many times).

 

[Iamnotabot]

Lego would be a go to option. Through for a girl, any barbie doll would do just fine.

 

[Syringe]

The big oversized Lego blocks and a massive 1.5 meter tall & wide stuffed teddy bear. Lots of fond memories reenacting a Kaiju rampaging through a city. Currently my 2 and a half y/o little brother's enjoying Hot Wheels and building blocks. Always fun to help them build, and to teach them the names of new stuff you build together.

 

[Deleted member 54065]

Memorable childhood toys? Hmm...I remember those toys that came from McDonald's Happy Meal, especially the 101 Dalmatians collection.

 

[Rhaps]

Lego, I just love creating things with Legos. In fact, I still do it now!

These are some of my most recent creations:

 

[CupcakeNinja]

I'm looking for ideas on what to buy for my son. He's 2 now, but I'm setting a few things aside for later. I've got a microscope, a spirograph, a bunch of art supplies and coloring books, and I'm considering what else I can tuck away in my office for later. I'm open to "girl" toys as well. I'd like to teach him to crochet, and I gave him a

i had a wooden spinning top i loved to play with, and a mechanical parrot but i was mostly raised on Gameboy and Playstation.

Different toys and entertainment is gonna influence your kid alot. Since i was into games, i picked up on problem solving skills pretty early but was never the athletic type until like the tail end of highschool when we started a weight lifting class.

I have a niece whom i have been raising and Im tryna make her more well rounded than i was. .Her entertainment is Youtube Kids. Working really well, that. Can sing all the ABCs, count to 30 and recognize any color you throw at her. Girl isnt even in preschool yet. For sport, she likes to copy whatever i'm doing so she's been doing exercises with me. She can do 13 decent enough squats and hold a plank for half minute. Fucking insane. For her toys i bought her an electric piano. Which, its a real one i found for cheap at a Goodwill. She can almost play Little Star perfectly right now and is working on Black Sheep.

stainless steel tea set for Christmas that he uses every day.

i used to buy those for my niece but she made such a damn mess with them. Do you give in and give him real liquids and food too?

 

[Vnator]

Buzz Lightyear action figure. But to be fair, I watched Toy Story 2 and "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins" on repeat nonstop when I was 3-6 years old. Oh yeah, and Space Jam whenever I saw it available at the library.

 

[proxybaba]

lightning McQueen car, hot wheels set

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

I'm looking for ideas on what to buy for my son. He's 2 now, but I'm setting a few things aside for later. I've got a microscope, a spirograph, a bunch of art supplies and coloring books, and I'm considering what else I can tuck away in my office for later. I'm open to "girl" toys as well. I'd like to teach him to crochet, and I gave him a stainless steel tea set for Christmas that he uses every day.

PS 2 controller. Also happy birthday for him

 

[Gibbs505]

A chemical set with a wide variate of chemicals that you could mix and cause various chemical reactions. Those thrown pellets that exploded. Kerbangers because if you snapped off the handle they were effectively Bolos, A circuit board that was basically a primative computer, but you had to wire it together yourself and it had about a dozen different configuations including could play music like a syntheziser. A set of giant fresnel lenses that I used to make a solar cooker. Crossbows with suction cup arrows. Airsoft gun. Hobby Rockets. And Sodium.

Just Sodium. In a jar of Kerosene. You put it on a raft and float it out onto the water where nothing grows and shoot it. When it hits the water, it explodes. We later found out the place we used to play was abandoned because it used to be part of the Manhatten Project. They had Buried trucks there. Nothing grew except some very hardy weeds.

Oh. The water in the lake in the middle of that area where nothing grew? It burned for HOURS when the sodium hit it.

Not sure it if was entirely water. The rainbow sheen should have tipped us off.

Edit: Ooo! those rockets you filled with water, then you pumped air into the rocket and it built up pressure, and when you unlocked it, the air forced the water out and it FLEW! I remade it using gasoline I stole from the can dad used to fill the lawnmower. Set it off next to a candle.

Yeah... Apparently it caused such a bright explosion that they called in a helicopter. It was visible from about three miles away, and the dead area was smack dab in the middle of three doldrum hills. Not a smart move.

On Second thought. Don't buy your kid that last one.

MORE EDIT: You know, I was passing through my home town a decade ago. They built a Christmas tree farm over the dead area. I was puzzled, because the ground would periodically emit vapors that we could set off with the small exploding pellets. I mean, Pine tree sap is quite flammable when it gets dry. Surprised the whole place never burned down.

Hmmm, self glowing christmas trees, interesting!
My favorite toy was my bike, road all over town and other places with that!

 

[greyblob]

physical yu gi oh dueling board. i used to play on it with my brothe

 

[gaylolis]

super nintendo, playstation 1 and pc.

back then i still prefer video games than physical toys.

 

[RavenRunes]

Lego, but not until he's about 8. I don't know how much lego is down my floorboards!
A gardening set if you have a patch of earth to dig, if not get a window box or planter, a little trowel and fork set, and a packet of pea seeds
My son LOVED WWE. Played with those things for almost 5 years straight. Constantly. Now he's almost 10 he's all over the Lego.
We also had a big wooden train set, like the ones Brio do. Takes up a bit of room though.

For me, it was 80s toys. I loved my Hornby train set, and my Lego castles. I didn't really have much else but to be fair, we were always outside playing on bikes and skates and mucking about with dens and going home with black arses from sliding down the old slag heap. We would roam, we never took drinks or food with us, no mobile phone, as long as we didn't set anything on fire or mow anyone down on our bikes, our parents didn't give a shit.

 

[Gryphon]

That one playmat that it seemed every kid had and I had two huge garbage bags of hotwheel cars. I would regularly get them out and crash them into each other at high speeds cause I found it entertaining how high they flew.