Favorite toy you got for Xmas as a kid

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waggy

waggy

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highland145 said:
Damn youngsters with your electronic crap.

Tonka truck. Quality. Not the cheap crap you get these days. Would ride it like a skateboard.

Bike with a banana seat. I was the MAN. 7 years old.

Skates that attached to our shoes. Kinda sucked until concrete was invented and my folks paved the drive.
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I loved my old Tonka trucks. You can still find the good ones but they are NOT cheap. i got my son one last year and he beats the crap out of it. he sits on it and rides it around. in the summer it spent a good amount of time in the dirt and sand. It still looks new.

I had the dumptruck and the bronco .

i remember the bike with the banana seat too. it had a stick shift gear shifter on teh crossbar.
 
Oyeve

Oyeve

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Oct 18, 1999
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Ok, heres a real fucking blast. Verti-Bird. I had a few different versions of it as a kid. Really cool. Google it.
 
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Sonikku

Sonikku

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Ecto-1 car on Christmas eve, Firehouse on Christmas day. Asked for the ghostbuster figures with their tv show jumpsuits and proton packs, only got one of the gazillion spin off variants. Still pretty sweet Christmas ;)
 
mmntech

mmntech

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waggy said:
I loved my old Tonka trucks. You can still find the good ones but they are NOT cheap. i got my son one last year and he beats the crap out of it. he sits on it and rides it around. in the summer it spent a good amount of time in the dirt and sand. It still looks new.

I had the dumptruck and the bronco .

i remember the bike with the banana seat too. it had a stick shift gear shifter on teh crossbar.
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Every kid had the dump truck. I don't know what happened to mine. Probably in a box I the garage. I had a set of small construction die casts too. Bull dozen, road resurfacer, and a front end loader. Used to play with them in my friend's sandbox. I also had the die cast Thomas the Tank Engine toys. They sadly don't seem to make them anymore.
 
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classy

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Oct 12, 1999
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My red 3 speed bike. Back then they called them trucks. I remember so many times polishing and waxing ole girl :)
 
GrumpyMan

GrumpyMan

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May 14, 2001
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That thing that made GI Joe men and parts out of rubber was really cool too. It was kind of like an Easy Bake oven for GI Joes. You could make guns, vests, etc. from molds. Loved that but can't remember what it was called.
 
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Gigantopithecus

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MotionMan said:
http://classictoymuseum.blogspot.com/2010/02/gunfight-at-ok-corral-skill-game-1974.html

It is quite literally the only Hanukah gift from my childhood that I remember receiving though every year I received many gifts.

MotionMan
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LOL @ "fires steel balls" and "harmless." From an era when boys were more manly than most men are now.
 
zinfamous

zinfamous

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Jul 12, 2006
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LookBehindYou said:
I can't believe you remembered the name of it. I wish I still had my vehicles, no idea what happened to them. I recently gave my 7 year old all of my men though. Giant tupperware container full of about 100 and some odd men with acessories. On some of them their legs and waist fell off because the rubber band dry rotted. One of these days I'll have to see if they sell or make something that would work to fix them. I surprisingly still have all the pieces to the men.
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For whatever reason, the name of that one just popped into my head at that moment. Probably because I would watch every ad, look at all the photos, whatever, b/c I really wanted it, heh.

I think all of my figures are gone, unless they are somewhere at my mother's house. Eventually, I would start taking them apart and mixing the pieces. you could unscrew the thighs and mix those with 4 different leg halves, take off that rubber band and stick one dude's torso onto another dude's legs. I think you could exchange the arms, too. But I don't remember.
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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Hmm that's a tough one. Probably K'nex. I loved those, I had large containers full of em, and could never have enough. I would build all sorts of stuff from rollercoasters, trains, cars, random machines etc... Out of all toys that was probably what kept me the most occupied. It would almost be tempting to play with them even now!

I had legos which were also fun, but I was more deep into K'nex.

I wanted to buy K'nex for my nephews as they seem to really enjoy playing with mine which are at my parent's house, but it seems they don't make them anymore. The company still exists and they do make kits, but it's not the same as what I had as a kid. Even lego has changed so much. What ever happened to kits containing tons of generic pieces? Now it's all specific kits to build specific things, that's not as fun for kids as what we had as kids.

If I had to pick a second favorite, it would probably be the SNES. It was a console I always wanted but never ended up getting, till one Christmas, I did get one. I was almost like the Nintendo 64 kid.
 
eldorado99

eldorado99

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Hmm. Toss up between SNES/Legos/BB gun(s).

I do still regret not having a PowerWheels when I was young. /firstworldproblems
 
eldorado99

eldorado99

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Actually I got a remote control bulldozer that had "realistic smokestacks" that somehow produced smoke if you added gun oil to the resevoir. That was pretty cool too.
 
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