Author Topic: Poll: Your Favorite Toy... (Read 5305 times)

Regurge · « **Reply #30 on:** December 06, 2001, 04:04:00 PM »

Always wanted one of them slotless tracks but never got one *sniff*

I started with a basic figure-8 slot car track and bought about 30 more pieces for it. Taking the magnets out made the cars wicked fast on the straights.Not too good in the turns but at least you could do some cool power slides. I played that so much I wore holes in all the metal contacts.

Mox · « **Reply #31 on:** December 06, 2001, 04:09:00 PM »

Evil Kinevil Motorcycle
Legos
G.I. Joe (the talking one with the 'real' beard)
Slot Cars!

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #32 on:** December 06, 2001, 04:26:00 PM »

The slotless racecars were OK... but they weren't that good. Slotcars are still the king. Can't even count how many different track setup we had.

We also had a train-track for some time. It was more driven by my dad. It was the next size up from HO and all my brother and I liked to do was to put a tin can on the tracks in front of the train and turn the lights out and watch the sparks fly

I really can't believe how many different toys I had when I was a kid. Almost everything mentioned above we had. Now I'm gonna have to call the folks to say hi again.

AKDejaVu

Thrawn · « **Reply #33 on:** December 06, 2001, 04:31:00 PM »

I can't believe no one has said matchbox cars, so I'll say it now...matchbox cars. And of course, lego.

Octavius · « **Reply #34 on:** December 06, 2001, 04:36:00 PM »

Legos, micro machines (spiffy cars and military stuff

), falling off bluffs and dunes

(not a toy, but it was something we did), and any sort of explosive! Be it fire crackers or firecrackers soaked with gasoline, you name it we burned it hehehe

. OH! And, the mother of all toys, the first Atari game console (later nintendo).

eskimo2 · « **Reply #35 on:** December 06, 2001, 04:47:00 PM »

I used to stretch steel wool across the contacts in slot cars. In the steel wool I would place a fire-cracker, or alcohol soaked cotton ball or whatever would burn well. Some times they would make an entire lap around the track before catching fire / blowing up. The cool part was to see how far it would go before... total meltdown.

eskimo

hblair · « **Reply #36 on:** December 06, 2001, 04:55:00 PM »

Don't get me started on home-made bombs.

How about "rock-em sock-em boxers" Huh!?

They were fun, of course me and my brothers always ended up disageeing on who won and a fistfight would ensue.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #37 on:** December 06, 2001, 04:56:00 PM »

I was deprived of fireworks as a kid.
Managed to smuggle a few firecrackers home once, treated them like gold, but still mostly missed out on the whole thing. I still burned things and blew things up regularly though.

I made up for it by opening my own fireworks stand when I was in high school. In seven years my brother and I had the biggest and most well known chain of fireworks stands in Alaska. My brother still owns and operates it (Gorilla Fireworks).

eskimo

eskimo2 · « **Reply #38 on:** December 06, 2001, 05:00:00 PM »

Hello, this is Mrs. Eskimo...
We are expecting a baby in less than two months, and until now I really didn't care if we had a boy or a girl. But after reading all of these... I'm definately wishing for a girl! (although with my husband's genes, a girl could turn out the same way)

Mrs. Eskimo

gavor · « **Reply #39 on:** December 06, 2001, 05:02:00 PM »

We didnt have toys here when I was a kid. Sometimes my dad would save up for some string and tie it to a stick. Those were the days...

memories, pressed between the pages of my mind...

pimpjoe · « **Reply #40 on:** December 06, 2001, 05:04:00 PM »

heh...i still play with my evil kinevil motorcycle and .22

seriously tho i still do play with the 22. and even with you guys bein like 100 years older than me i did play with an evil kinevil motorcycle when i was still dwarf sized. and the pellet gun that i've had since i was about 3 still gets used to shoot cats

-ammo- · « **Reply #41 on:** December 06, 2001, 05:11:00 PM »

Man you guys are bringing back memories

My brother and I destroyed my mothers album collection with firecrackers. We would tape the firecracker to the record and sling it. It looked too cool when it came apart in mid-air.

I also had a wrist rocket that got me in as much or more trouble than the album/firecracker trick. That thing was big time for a youngster like me.

I can remember getting much enjoy ment out of lincoln logs too, those were great for all kinds of contraptions.

Dux · « **Reply #42 on:** December 06, 2001, 05:21:00 PM »

Lol, Eskimo... first thing I thought of was the Vertibird! That thing could mow down green army guys like no tomorrow. I had the version that could pick up the little astronaut from his liferaft, and then pick up the little space capsule (hmmm, now that I think about it, that astronaut was bigger than the capsule...?). I used to see how close to my nose I could hover it *ouch!*

Second would have to be those water-pressure pump rockets.

[Edit: FYI, all you firecracker guys... models and toys blow up a whole lot cooler if you duct tape a plastic bic lighter to the firecracker first!]

[ 12-06-2001: Message edited by: Dux ]

majic · « **Reply #43 on:** December 06, 2001, 05:27:00 PM »

SOB and I are apparently kindred spirits. (At least when it comes to pre-junior high toys.) Loved the legos.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #44 on:** December 06, 2001, 05:44:00 PM »

Dux,
Do Not!
I Repeat, Do Not,
fill one of those water rockets with gasoline and then launch it 12 inches over a burning rag!
If you do, your hands, arms and shirt will instantly ignite!

I can still remember looking straight up, searching for my fire-breathing rocket, and then suddenly feeling warm all over.

eskimo