The Glade 4.0

We've had this thread before...it was such a happy thread!
What were some of your favorite childhood toys that you miss?

I'll start with one:

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Legos

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Dart Pistols, Red Ryder BB Gun.

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"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." Charles Mackay

Bags of green army guys. For the 4th, I would set them up in battle array and make them endure an artillery barrage of tossed firecrackers.

Legos, Transformers, Star Wars figures

This, and snipe them with the Red Ryder.

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"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." Charles Mackay

Hot Wheels die cast cars.

My brother and I would each pick a team of five cars of our favorites and sit across from each other on a flat surface. We would then each take a car from our selection and run them at each other and see whose car survived the "crash". If a car stayed upright, or crashed and landed upright, it was still in. Otherwise, that car is out. Last one left with any vehicles was the winner.

This is when Hot Wheels were made out of actual metal. Those cars were some heavy sumbishes and the crashes between them were quite awesome.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Yeah, but for me, artillery barrage was more fun.

I had so many damn toys when I was a kid.

Army men (with jeep and tank), two full cases of Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars, wind up Evil Knievel bike (as mentioned in an earlier thread), 6-million dollar man action figure along with the Venus space probe (who remembers that!?), Battlestar Galactica viper and cylon raider with small red plastic "missiles" you could fire, tons of Micronauts with all their various vehicles (definitely among my favorite), Voltron(?) or Transformers or some other type of small metal robots with movable parts (I can't recall what they were exactly), legos, the electronic Simon game, Rubik's cube, many board games, other stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting.

Oh wait, you asked for our favorite childhood toy. Hmm...okay that's easy - when I was a teenager and got the Commodore 64 and discovered computer gaming.

Quick little funny childhood story. When I was I believe under 10, can't remember the exact age, I do remember sitting in a room on my birthday opening presents with my family including my grandparents gathered around. I opened a gift from my grandmother and it was...a Wonder Woman action figure doll...

I have this vague memory of saying something like "What is this?! I don't want this", tossing it aside, and grabbing my next present, followed by my parents' embarrassed looks and nervous laughter, and grandmother's red face.

Commodore 64. Ah, memories. Our computer lab in grade school was full of them...we played the most awesome games.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Lincoln Logs.

Where my geek roots started...

Massive collection of Space Legos.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

G.I. Joe and Transformers. I had the most bad *** collection of G.I. Joe action figures, I swear to god. It was so bad ***. I wish I still had them, I would totally play with them every day.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Hot wheels, I loved them, I had a huge collection.

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

Still have my favorite toy from childhood. He sits on my desk.

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Hokanu
Duty is a magnificent blessing because it is the sign of trust from the universe.
END OF LINE.

But most of all:



I wore that sucker out.

The best thing about Speak & Spells was circuit bending them.

Circuit bent furbies are just creepy, though.

"aaahhgvhcjxhkhghzkxhbzkxkhb.....WHOOOOOAAAAAAH!"

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Hot wheels, matchbox cars, green plastic army men, my trs80-color computer and my Big Trak.

Holy crap I remember that!

Star Wars figures, Legos, the Starbird, and Girder and Panel building sets...

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Women are from Hoboken, men are from Trenton. ~ Jimmy Kimmel

My father had one of these ... 64kb of memory and cost an insane amount of money. I'll never let him get rid of it. It was my first computer.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

I had all of them. All the Superfriends, the Batcave play set, The entire crew from Star Trek and the Enterprise play set.

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Raell Kromwell

Not exactly a toy, but I had all of the Calvin and Hobbes books when I was little. My grandma used to read them to me

Lil Hop: "Whats a transmogrifier?"

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Loved the Pogo Ball

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"None is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people safe as they are the
ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"Yeah, I'm rehearsing my poker face. I don't handle stupid well. *sigh*" - Farsky