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I liked all of those, but the Slinky was my favorite.

Yeah I liked those but could not get it to do the cool stuff they showed in the TV commercial. It was then that I began to learn about advertising.

As a little kid I had a folding wing balsa wood glider that my dad bought for me when we visited the Wright-Patt Air Force museum. From what I can remember it looked a lot like this:




I played with it for a long time, finding endless ways to launch it, throw it, tweek the tail for different flights, etc. I think I eventually wore it out. It was probably a $5-$10 toy and I learned so much about how things fly by messing with it. I had so much fun with it that I eventually moved on to real R/C airplanes as I got older, many of which I still have gathering dust in the basement.

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Thanks for posting that. I had some of those as well and played with them a lot. I had forgotten about that.

My Daisy BB gun.

Tonka trucks and Ertl farm toys. Dad would buy one farm toy every year at the Ionia Free Fair, usually a John Deere of some sort.

When the collection got big enough (I was 8 or so) he built a barn/tool shed for me to keep them in. Raised a LOT of corn and soybeans on the bedroom floor.

What was left of my older brothers' (plural) erector set and a couple of sets of Lincoln Logs built all the outbuildings and any implements I felt I needed.

Transformers. I broke all kinds of em. Collectors would weep. I weep.

And those die cast cap guns that were detective special clones with the orange cylinder. The 12 shot ones. Me and the guys would go to war at recess.

Vertibird.



or maybe 2-XL.

Child of hte 80's here.

We had GI Joe's and not just hte "action figures" but he vehicles. The cool ones, that had spring loaded "guns" that fired missles as well.

We had NERF guns... or at least the very early ones. I remember one year the NERF "bow and arrow" was the hottest toy, and our parents bought them for us, or at least got the rain check for them... I think we actually got them in July. But it was fun, since we could shoot foam arrows 40 feet of so at each other.

Lazer tag... One year, the entire family got this. WE all got the guns, and vests, and helmets. Not just the 9 cousins at the family gift exchange, but the 4 dad's too... It ended up in a huge yard/surrounding 40 acres of woods melee that was absolutely awesome!

Before Lego's there were "Construx" Similar concept, except you built everything at 90 degree angles, and later, 45 degree angles. It was all up to the imagination and I build everything from skyscrapers to aircraft carriers with them.

WE also had a complete arsenal of toy guns, everything from toy M16's, Beretta 92's, M60's, 1911's, Colt Peacemakers in cowboy rigs, and toy cap grenades that would shoot the little red black powder caps... They were weighted on the bottom so would land on the cap and "pop." I was the best damn armed 9 year old in the state!!!!


(Ya, my parents woulnd't buy us a Nintendo, so we had to make do.)

Probably this when really young, then plastic army men and toy guns.

Fort Apache
Lincoln Logs (multiple sets)
Anything Star Wars

Tonka trucks, Märklin trains, and any toy gun with a working trigger.

Trucks are gone, trains I still have, and toy guns have been replaced with real guns

- Legos
- Hot Wheels
- Star Wars action figures and my Millennium Falcon
- Micronauts
- Toy/Cap guns

I think I had the siren hooked up most if the time

Mattel or somebody make an M14 rifle that made noise when you pulled the trigger. It took batteries and was so cool that nothing else came close. Also, I rode my Schwinn bike into the ground from so much use. And lastly, my daisy bb gun which has I still have. Oh yeah, brings back know memories.

Yes a Schwann "Stingray" and growing up when Evel Knievel was a role model.

Major Matt Mason astronaut stuff. Moved on to Hotwheels, the Sizzlers being my favorite. Erector set was a pretty high use toy as well.

Erector Set, Lincoln Logs, Tinker toys and my Lionel Train.

Still have the train from about 1960 and my son and my grandsons have no interest. They're all about Legos.
Mike

Memorable ones through the years:

Lincoln Logs - Erector Sets

Cowboy Cap pistols and holsters

Johnny Reb Cannon






GI Joe's

Sgt. Saunders - and another army men

Man From Uncle Attache Case


Hot Wheels

Schwinn StingRay

Daisy "Red Ryder" BB rifle and my double Roy Rogers six shooters.

"Lunar Rover" erector set, Lincoln Logs, American Building Bricks, B-52 Ball Turret Gun.