Your Favorite Throwback Toy as a Kid...
 

What was your favorite throwback toy as a kid? I'll start. I loved the Transformers and G.I. Joe. Not to mention He-Man..."By The Power of Grayskull..."!:D

It was this puzzle made by the Rubik's cube people, but it was flat.... you had to somehow flip the panels and unlink the rings.

ETA: It was called Rubik's Magic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik%27s_Magic

EATA: I also had Rubik's Snake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik%27s_Snake

Random thought...I have been wondering this for a while...what does ETA mean? By the way...Atarie (sp?) was the lick too with Donkey Kong and Qubert.

ETA = Edited to add
EATA = Edited again to add (I made that up just then)

I didn't have Atari, but I did indeed have ColecoVision, on which I played Donkey Kong, Zaxxon, and Smurfs religiously!

transformers and jem (shana and aja, specifically).

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Jem and Misifts RAWKED my world

you couldnt tell me that Teddy Ruxpin wasnt the baddest toy ever... that and Lite Brite, which i never really got to play because mom wouldnt let us get the pieces in the carpet.

how could i forget lite brite? that was the hotness right there.

Teddy Ruxpin... lawdy... memories...

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I LOVED my Lite-Brite...but I had to beg my momma to go get the new designs once I finished the ones that came with the original box. :)

girl, ya could have used mines, sitting in the box collecting dust!

oh, and cant believe i forgot easy bake oven...i was gettin my Emeril on at an early age lol!

I used to love a good game of "trouble"

we still break out trouble when it snows...its a great game.

I LOVED Jem!!! I had the doll that came with an audio tape. I would beg my mom to play it in the car and we would listen to Jem everywhere we went (in her Chevette hatchback)!!

i'm going home and watching some old Jem episodes (i have the boxed DVD set season 1 & 2). you all had me reminiscing all day!

I wish I had Jem DVDs:(:(:(:(

My Little Pony!!

I literally had over 100 ponies.

Oh, and Rainbow Brite.

Just Barbie. She was the best.:p

I forgot to mention my Easy Bake oven. I loved it. It's somewhere in my mother's basement. I'll bet it still works too.:p

looking back, i cant believe how excited we were to bake cookies by the heat of a light bulb lol! how medieval does that seem now?

oh and i didnt get excited about Barbie until Kenya, that first black one came out...that was the only one my family would buy for us:rolleyes:...i still think Malibu is the prettiest though!

My parent's couldn't afford most of the cool toys; had fun with a box and markers or pencils and paper (When I could use a pen, I was on cloud 9). But, on Christmases and birthdays, we would manage to get something cool--Cabbage Patch Kid and a Jem doll.

But, I did like playing with my friend's My Little Ponies and "Get In Shape Girl" toys we got from a Happy Meal.

^^^I loved Get In Shape Girl! Espeacially the song *singing* "get in shape girl...oh what a feeeel'in"

My favorite was my Atari!

http://www.nwcomputers.com/atari2600.jpg

most of my things were family hand-me-downs, we couldnt afford it either, except for birthdays/christmas. we also had a Keds shoebox with pencils and markers, i think that is why to this day i love the smell of a fresh box of crayons...lol!

i also think that is why my parents spoil my daughter, and i do too. i still make her take days off to use her mind, like we did as the "poor kids"...turns out all that time we spent writing and drawing developed one hell of a talent for my sister, who won a full art scholarship 2 years ago...

SOOO i nominate a box of 64 count Crayola crayons with the built-in sharpener!:) and a nice fresh coloring book...

That's funny. When I was a kid (back in the 80's) we would invent our own icecreams. We took vanilla icecream and put crushed up twinkies or snickers in them. Where would we be if we had a marketing team?

I co-sign. There was nothing like a fresh coloring book. Sitting with my friends trying to spot who went outside the lines, even a lil bit...:D:D:D

twinkies? in ice cream? i think im in love...lol! hell, we made our own "frosty's" with nestle chocolate milk in the freezer. if i knew then what i know now!

It was all about being creative! We played Hide and Go Seek amongst other versions...lol.

True. I used to tape pics of famous ppl on my "play phone"...
:mad:<-Plans to sue iPhone for stealing my idea!

Yes the other versions were the best!!!!

you know what was TRULY the sh*t?

4 chairs + 2 blankets + 1 flashlight = the best playhouse EVER!!!

Clearly, my favorite throwback toys aren't real "toys" at all.

Someone gave us one of those old tape recorders--you know the ones with the handle. My sister and I used to have hours of fun taping ourselves! We had our own radio show!

My sister has always had a great singing voice and I would do back up by singing into a fan. I KNOW I'm not the only one!

I know you not talking about "Hide & Go Get" are you???!!!??

Where did days go when you used to play "doctor"? Or was that just me and the lil' girl across the street? She helped shape my career choice as a child!:D

ctfu! we were doing that waaay before tpain figured he sounded good doing it lol!

Right! my mom used to say,"if y'all don't stop that! When I was really little, I used to swim back and forth in the bathtub! Water would be everywhere!

I can support this statement 100%. We had active imaginations and always played in fantasy. I think that shaped my talent as a writer because I've always been able to let my imagination run free.

girl we READ...the library was our home away from home. books everywhere, always had a 10 cent fine...and im still content like that.

We played all the made games but there was nothing better for a long car ride like (Nashville to New York every damn summer because flying was out of the question:mad:) the green football game and the brown baseball game. The grandparents to the PSP and gameboy. I still have them both and my 8 year old thinks they are the best thing going. When I get off work I am going home and playing game.:D

Made up games: hide and go get it (all time favorite), Fly and the bounce, freeze tag, we also used to make bugs fight (going to shrink as we speak) :rolleyes:

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Wait a minute. Did anyone else spoon fight or wrap two pencils w/ a rubber band and let them go crazy? That was the ish!

and that's why i'm a librarian today.

^^im too loud to be a librarian:), but i definately have a serious love affair with books...my fiance says i ignore him when i get into a new one, which is true. soo i bought him a playstation lol, i get ignored now!