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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: eskimo2 on December 06, 2001, 02:17:00 PM
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List and describe your favorite pre-teen (elementary school age) toy:
For me it probably was a crank-up Evil Kinevil Motorcycle. It had a base with a crank on it. Rev it up like mad and it would load E into an inertia rear wheel / fly wheel. It could jump and wreck just like the real guy. The bike was about 10 inches long.
My cousin (Kraz) had a Verti-Bird. It had a motor and batteries in a base that would twist a 2 foot cable that would turn a real propeller on a little plastic helicopter. You could control the pitch of the chopper as well the power. It could hover, fly around in circles at about 900 mph, or anything in-between. The sound and wind from that thing was so cool.
Later elementary school:
A runner sled. I rode each one to complete destruction (it was either the sled or me).
eskimo
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Anything that had "Estes" or "Cox" printed on it. :)
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For me it probably was a crank-up Evil Kinevil Motorcycle. It had a base with a crank on it. Rev it up like mad and it would load E into an inertia rear wheel / fly wheel. It could jump and wreck just like the real guy. The bike was about 10 inches long.
That was the first thing that popped into my head when I read the title of the post :)
#2 would be the adventure people parachute. throw the dorky adventure people guy away and grab you favorite GI Joe instead. Argyll and I chucked that thing around till our arms fell off. We got the HALO thing down to a science :)
#3 Those styrofoam airplanes you get at the corner store with the goofy blue propeller.
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Contribution: Firecrackers. I cannot think of a prize more sought after during my youth.
Condemnation: This really should be in the O'Club
AKDejaVu
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firecrackers AND G.I.Joes on a dirt/sand road in east texas.
then came BOOBIES :D ( . y . ) :D
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A High Standard "Sport King" .22 caliber semi auto pistol with extra 10 round clip.
lazs
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Originally posted by Ripsnort:
Anything that had "Estes" or "Cox" printed on it. :)
Rip, that comment just gave me a big'ol woody!
My brother (0osik) used to blow $100 on rockets regularly.
eskimo
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Originally posted by skernsk:
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#3 Those styrofoam airplanes you get at the corner store with the goofy blue propeller.[/QB]
I bought one of those at the flight museum this year at the con. Its kinda funny how they have like 8 different models, but they all look alike. :D
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Legos
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Dang, forgot about my #1 favorite: BB gun. Red Ryder I believe was the make? Someone help me here....
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Originally posted by eskimo2:
...My cousin (Kraz) had a Verti-Bird. It had a motor and batteries in a base that would twist a 2 foot cable that would turn a real propeller on a little plastic helicopter. You could control the pitch of the chopper as well the power. It could hover, fly around in circles at about 900 mph, or anything in-between. The sound and wind from that thing was so cool...
900 mph??...sound and wind should have been awesome indeed :p
Firecrackers and 3" tall plastic Star Wars characters...I still have the latter somewhere, but most of them bear ugly burn marks ;)
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". . . an official Red Ryder carbon action bb gun, with a compass and a stock and this thing that tells time."
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The Evel Knievel deal was one of my favorites too.......used to line it up with my sister's Barbie dolls, crank her up tight and ole Evel became a miniature Hell's Angel, sent Barbie and her wimpy boyfriend Ken flying when I set it loose. :D
Then there was this ship/helicopter deal, where you pretended to do air/sea rescues...the ship was white styrofoam, the helicopter was attached to the ship by a 2 foot metal rod, a cable ran through it to the rotor, and you could control forward/backward and up/down. Used to move it near my sister and buzz her over and over with it, that is, until I hit her hard head with the rotor and made her cry....then I found out the ship flew too! My dad threw it out the front door, was a week before I was able to sneak it back in the house.. ;)
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Ah, missed the "elementary" word...BB gun wasn't til age 8...rockets and planes at 10... At 6 it was Boobies and GI joes (Serious, friend and I found a Playboy mag at age 6, gawked at it for a week, they didn't show much in 1966... hid it in the bushes..then it rained :( )
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Legos and BB guns!
I used to spend entire days making stuff out of Legos!
Used to spend about an hour a day shooting BB guns as well!
eskimo
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Pellet gun, Had may a good pellet rifle battles with my brothers and neighborhood kids. Of course, if you had the pump type, there was a one pump rule.(we all broke it of course, don't tell anybody) It was all cool til I popped my brother in the neck with a 5 pump shot when he raised up above cover for a sec. He started yelling and callin me these nasty names. Then my position was assaulted with a barrage of pellets. I was fearing for my life. Then I did the manly thing and ran like crazy for home. Mom and Dad woulda kicked our butts if they knew half the crap we pulled.
But anyway, I had the Evel Knievel bike too, and the little vinyl van that went with it. :)
A few other favorites: methanol powered P51 string guided airplane. Methanol powered dragster that ya tied to something heavy and let it go in circles. Man, that thing was loud. :)
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Originally posted by lazs1:
A High Standard "Sport King" .22 caliber semi auto pistol with extra 10 round clip.
This was your favourite pre-elementary toy???? Ugh...some parents are pretty confident in their family's guardian angel.
I have to admit that it would have been my fav toy too at this age...that or a Porsche...
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de Selys, I had my first shotgun at age 9, and later that fall, I shot my first duck!
Its a different world we live in today (and drastically different parental values)
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I was toting a Smith and Wesson revolver to 2nd grade. What's the big deal?
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ROTFLMAO!!!! Hblair!
eskimo
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Anyone remember U-Fly-It?...Basically it consisted of a control stick,a runway with catapult,a 30' length of fishing line tied to the control stick on one end a door knob on the other.The plane would launch off the runway and scoot up the line,then a swivel connection would turn the plane 180 and with carefull stick adjustments you could do a 3 pointer!I would always pretend the plane was an F4U(not the supplied Piper Commanche) and the runway was a carrier deck!(Not an unfurled black piece of cardboard).. :)
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For me it probably was a crank-up Evil Kinevil Motorcycle. It had a base with a crank on it. Rev it up like mad and it would load E into an inertia rear wheel / fly wheel. It could jump and wreck just like the real guy. The bike was about 10 inches long.
I had one of these (my brother too). Man that was a cool toy... till I blew it up with firecrackers.
Then there was this ship/helicopter deal, where you pretended to do air/sea rescues...the ship was white styrofoam, the helicopter was attached to the ship by a 2 foot metal rod, a cable ran through it to the rotor, and you could control forward/backward and up/down.
I had one of these too. It had a hook on the helicopter that picked up either a basket with a soldier or just the solder with some kind of wire contraption (can't really remember). That toy was awesome... until I blew it up with firecrackers.
Eventually, every toy would wear out its welcome, then it would meet the ultimate toy: firecrackers. It was the only fitting way to dispose of a device that had served you so well.
The only toy to escape the firecracker distruction graveyard was our bb gun. One day my brother tried to shoot a fly off of our picnic table in the backyard. The BB ricoche'd off of the wood into our livingroom window... a 4'x5' (one of 3 sections) piece of plate glass. My dad came home and broke that bbgun into a few hundred pieces while I asked him if he'd rather be using firecrackers to do that.
AKDejaVu
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Aaah good old Eval Kneival. Now THAT was a toy :)
I remeber that base creaking and whining as I put all my weight into revvin it up. That bike could smack straight into a wall at full speed and keep right on ticking. And what with that huge flywheel and exposed gears it taught a good lesson about stickin fingers where they dont belong :)
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". . . an official Red Ryder carbon action bb gun, with a compass and a stock and this thing that tells time."
"You'll put your eye out, kid."
A Christmas Story, 1983
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Legos, Star Wars, and GI Joe were my fav elementary toys. Middle school involved shooting the various elementary toy figurines with the BB rifle. :)
Of course, playing "doctor" with the neighborhood girls was my favorite elementary school diversion! ;)
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That bike could smack straight into a wall at full speed and keep right on ticking. And what with that huge flywheel and exposed gears it taught a good lesson about stickin fingers where they dont belong
LOL! I was just thinking how this toy taught me what a "blood blister" was.
AKDejaVu
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S!
Two favourite toys:
1) My parents had a cottage on a river in Ontario Canada. One summer at age 10 I found a tiny 8 foot homemade plywood Hydroplane (without an engine) drifting upside down and full of water, on the river and rescued it. After posting notices and having no one claim it, I took possession. Putting the family 6 hp on it yielded a boat which would do around 35mph. I had more fun on that boat than just about anything... :) Only problem was that because it had no keel, it took about 200 ft to turn around doing full speed. Half that time you were going sideways.
2) A best buddy of mine when I was 11 had a grandfather who was an ACE machinist. (He was German by descent and had spent WWII in a Tank Factory and was still an ardent admirer of Uncle Adolf... :eek: )
Anyway he built his grandson a 3 horsepower Go-Kart, complete with a 2 speed gearbox and clutch, racing tires etc. We raced that Kart in empty parking lots all over our neighbourhood, (illegally :) ) We also took it on the street a few times, but gave that up after a Cop car chased me for 4 blocks. (I lost him in the park by taking an exit route that lead through the `Jungle Jim` and Monkey bars... ;) )
Ahhhh the good old days :D
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Originally posted by Nifty:
Of course, playing "doctor" with the neighborhood girls was my favorite elementary school diversion! ;)
Ahh, yes. The old days of the 'private' medical practice.
Got caught in the closet when I was five with the preachers daughter by the preachers wife. She did not take kindly to my gynecological pursuits.
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Anybody remember the "Sizzler" race cars and track? They were rechargeable and the track didn't have slots. Fun stuff there. :) Then there was the "TCR" set. Slotless race cars, first I remember that didn't run off batteries. You could change lanes and the whole bit. We had some cools toys back then huh? :)
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Star Wars, GI Joes, & Transformers, but the most used had to be the legos. :)
SOB
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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.
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Evil Kinevil Motorcycle
Legos
G.I. Joe (the talking one with the 'real' beard)
Slot Cars!
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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 :D
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
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I can't believe no one has said matchbox cars, so I'll say it now...matchbox cars. And of course, lego.
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Legos, micro machines (spiffy cars and military stuff :)), falling off bluffs and dunes :D (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 :D. OH! And, the mother of all toys, the first Atari game console (later nintendo).
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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
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Don't get me started on home-made bombs. ;)
How about "rock-em sock-em boxers" Huh!? :D They were fun, of course me and my brothers always ended up disageeing on who won and a fistfight would ensue. :D
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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
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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
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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...
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heh...i still play with my evil kinevil motorcycle and .22 :D 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 :D
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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.
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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!* :eek:
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!]
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SOB and I are apparently kindred spirits. (At least when it comes to pre-junior high toys.) Loved the legos.
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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
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HO scale race cars by Aurora. I had a track setup that covered 2 ping pong tables, replete with grandstands, lychen bushes and trees, telephone poles with thread "wires" connecting 'em. I can still trace the track layout on a piece of paper.
The whole thing got wiped out when hurricane Agnes visited SE Pennsylvania and flooded our basement in 1972...sniffle. :(
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PEPBOYS Sold mini-bikes. I had the E-Z rider purple 4HP w/ the 'sissy' bar and large front spoked tire.
NUTTZ
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Right Guard cans in the campfire work well to wake up your buddies.
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Reading through this I can hardly believe any of you guys are still alive.
Then again, my favourite early school toys were matchbox cars and petrol/metholated spirits. Would set up an elaborate crash scene, complete with wrecked family car with caravan then light the whole thing. Must have gone through 50+ matchbox cars that way... :D
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I am very disappointed that no one has mentioned a Green Machine. Those things were cool as chit. My other favorite hobby was building snap-together models, then pouring model glue all over them and setting them on fire. Was a blast until I melted the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier to the bottom of our bathtub :)
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"Sizzlers" were part of the "Hotwheels" line - no surprise they were slotless. "Rock-em Sock-em Boxers" were known as "Rock-em, Sock-em Robots" round these parts.
How about the "Johnny Eagle" gun series?
The guns that fired plastic bullets from spring-loaded cartridges (and ejected the cartridges. I recall (and owned) a Winchester lever action rifle, a Colt 45 auto and a double barreled shotgun. They definely would be a major contender on the "dangerous toy" list nowdays. :D
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Originally posted by hblair:
Anybody remember the "Sizzler" race cars and track? They were rechargeable and the track didn't have slots.
How about "rock-em sock-em boxers" Huh!? :D They were fun, of course me and my brothers always ended up disageeing on who won and a fistfight would ensue. :D
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Legos. I would make huge castles and inmerse myself into imagination like I was on acid. Funny how we always acted like on drugs when we were tardlings.
Then came the BB rifle. Oh, the bird shooting ultra-violence, real horrorshow..
Then came the Nintendo, and it ruined everything. I no longer needed an imagination. Even the BB gun was put aside..
must... play... nintendo...
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Legos! To be more specific space legos! Would follow the instructions and build what was in them and 2 seconds after I was done take it all apart and slap something together of my own creation. I have a younger brother and when I was just turning 20 or so he got space legos for christmas, and I found myself playing with them again :D I also remember a similar thing called mechano or something like that. Pieces of metal and nuts and bolts. Only got that one christmas, must have been expensive. And who can forget the good old cardboard box. When the parents got a new fridge or stove then woo hoo, you got to play with the box. :)
When I was 6 or 7 I got a heifer calf for helping with chores and when I sold her a year or so later I took some of the money and bought a CR 80 dirt bike. My first vehicle :D Not sure if its really a toy or not :)
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BARNEY!!!!!!!!! naw mine was micro machines !!!!!!!!!!! and fireworks... stick some m80s around a dirt mound with little inf and tanks and light and watch the fun... OOO and find some slugs and shoot bottle rockets at them THAT is the funny shiet ever!!!
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Anyone else get this for Xmas? :)
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Originally posted by Raubvogel:
Green Machine. Those things were cool as chit.
Yeah those were great. :) We used to play "chicken" with them in the street. We would ride toward each other as fast as we could and see who turned first. Another thing we used to do was jump ramps on our bicycles...at least until my nieghbor damn near lost an eyeball doing it. He was jumping on a bike with no rubber grips on the ends of the handlebars and crashed and almost stuck the end of the handlebar thru his eyeball. He ended up with 6 stiches right on the edge of his eyesocket where the handlebar pipe hit him.
Damn Tonka trucks were the cool watermelon too. We used to get in the bed of the dumptruck and ride it down my aunts driveway in Kingsville, TX. It was on a big hill. Was fun, but you had to stop quick at the bottom or you would hit the lip in the concrete that went into the garage and that wasnt very fun. :D
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I had a nice race track. Not the TYCO or HO series, the big cars in a figure 8 race track. Thansformer weighted about 10 pounds!!
I also remember a toy called a "Mighty Mike" which was a battery powered 4-wheel off-road that could fit in your hand.
Also the Crash Bang Smash Em Up Cars. Ya put the toothed pull strip in them to make them go and when they hit something the doors, trunk, wheels, and hood came flying off!!
Ah! Those were the days!
:)
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Originally posted by eskimo2:
Legos and BB guns!
I used to spend entire days making stuff out of Legos!
Used to spend about an hour a day shooting BB guns as well!
eskimo
dude i was the lego king. i played with the stuff until i was in grade 9
and i m not talking about once a week for a bit. i played with lego far more than i play aces high.
i would have one the "arthritic knuckles award if they had one" (akin to our pasty skin award)
a great sadness comes to me as i see todays prefabbed crap lego.
back in my day we built our walls!
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again, i post
i had u fly it.. i augered it in so many times...
wheelo diddlyin sucks, but i know where it is in a box at my parents house, i am going to break it out next time i visit them
i will prolly puke from watching the design on the wheel spin around
man i miss being a kid
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Marx Bros. electric train - anybody else remember those?
And a couple of Ringmaster jr's, and a Ringmaster with McCoy Red Hed .35 :)
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"This was your favourite pre-elementary toy???? Ugh...some parents are pretty confident in their family's guardian angel.
I have to admit that it would have been my fav toy too at this age...that or a Porsche..."
I got the Sport King when I was 8 is that elementary school? (been a while) Was only allowed to shoot it in the summer when we visited my grandparents. Got a "brick" of ammo for mowing his acre big "front lawn".
I did actually bring that gun to school for show and tell when I was in the fourth or fifth grade. Luckily it was unable to get loose and run amock down the halls killing kids. The teacher thought it was a cool gun and wanted to get one for himself.
I wanted a motorcycle but couldn't even have a wussy 650 triumph till I was 13.
lazs
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Yep arlo had the whole set of these guys but can't remember what the heck they was called.
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Of course the vibrating football game was kewl too, click that puppy on and ya couldn't even hear yourself think.
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I was handed stuff down from my older sisters, so I had to make do with playing with dolls. I used to make some wings out of cardboard and stick them on the dolls and pretend they were planes. I remember my favourite "plane" was this big fat blonde doll. I shaved her blonde hair off and drew a propellor on her big fat bald head and I stuck an undercarriage made from the wheels of a toy pram (another hand down) up the dolls bum.
Yeah...that was my favourite toy!
Worst was when I used to get my sisters clothes as hand downs. :mad: :mad:
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Erector Sets--great fun, w/ lots of little parts
Lincoln Logs--Legos were later
Large magnifying glass--for burning ants
1st pocketnife--fer whittlin
dh
(the ancient)
There was also this cool "gun" that had a funnel as a barrel--you pulled a lever attached to a bellows and u could shoot tennis balls (or hampsters) amazing distances--fergot what it was called
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lioniel trains,gi joes,and slotcar tracks
oh yeah will never forget those bottle rocket and bb gun fights in the woods behind our house those were classic :)
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Originally posted by FlyingDuckSittingSwan:
I was handed stuff down from my older sisters, so I had to make do with playing with dolls. Worst was when I used to get my sisters clothes as hand downs.
Well, that explains a lot about your posts here.
-SW
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That little guy is a Matt Mason!!!
Had him with the space station...was cool :)
Hotwheels and sizzlers were a must when I was a boy.
Remember those Klackers...to big plastic molded balls on the end of two strings with a ring in the center to hold on to? You would smack these balls together and almost break your arm in the process.
go-carts, Skat Cats, dirt bikes.
Slot cars...the big ones...you had to go to a track and race um.
Had BB Guns, but the real fun were the shotguns :D
CREEPY CRAWLERS!!!!
Those cheap balsa wood rubber band powered planes for $.25...hours of fun.
Of course, my bike...lived on it...couldn't shoot the breeze with my buds without sittin on it and pullin wheelies.
Wrist Rocket...my ice cream man sold us M-80's and Cherry Bombs..the real ones :)
Bein a kid was a mighty fine thing...being a grown up is good too, just far too serious.
When I was about 8 yrs old, my mom( a real estate speculator and business woman, a tough person she was) pointing her finger in my face, said the following and I've never forgotten it.
"There's two kinds of tired boy...ditch diggin tired and worryin tired...you'll live alot longer diggin ditches!"
Well, I don't dig ditches for a living, but sometimes I wish I did :)
Thanks for the thread...this one was a good one!
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Fort Apache. Accept no substitute. :)
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www.realdoll.com (http://www.realdoll.com) :D
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5-speed stick-shift stingray, metalic purple with a black banana seat and 4 foot sissy bar. woof woof woof!
The 60's.......muscle cars and muscle bikes :D
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OK, now for the airplane content! I started building model airplanes when I was 6. Every allowance and spare buck I earned went into my private airforce. Had 'em hanging from the ceiling and covering every flat surface of my room. When I was in my early teens I blew 'em up with firecrackers.
GronK
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Oh My God! ARLO,
Monster Magnet!
Wheelo!
The X-15 riding rocket!
I'm tearing up now. :(
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Yep, Matt Mason. We called Klackers "K-nockers". Could hear those things clear on the other side of the mall. Remember the cap grenades? :)
Originally posted by Rude:
That little guy is a Matt Mason!!!
Had him with the space station...was cool :)
Hotwheels and sizzlers were a must when I was a boy.
Remember those Klackers...to big plastic molded balls on the end of two strings with a ring in the center to hold on to? You would smack these balls together and almost break your arm in the process.
go-carts, Skat Cats, dirt bikes.
Slot cars...the big ones...you had to go to a track and race um.
Had BB Guns, but the real fun were the shotguns :D
CREEPY CRAWLERS!!!!
Those cheap balsa wood rubber band powered planes for $.25...hours of fun.
Of course, my bike...lived on it...couldn't shoot the breeze with my buds without sittin on it and pullin wheelies.
Wrist Rocket...my ice cream man sold us M-80's and Cherry Bombs..the real ones :)
Bein a kid was a mighty fine thing...being a grown up is good too, just far too serious.
When I was about 8 yrs old, my mom( a real estate speculator and business woman, a tough person she was) pointing her finger in my face, said the following and I've never forgotten it.
"There's two kinds of tired boy...ditch diggin tired and worryin tired...you'll live alot longer diggin ditches!"
Well, I don't dig ditches for a living, but sometimes I wish I did :)
Thanks for the thread...this one was a good one!
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Originally posted by SWulfe:
Well, that explains a lot about your posts here.
-SW
You have something against cross-dressers, buddy? :mad:
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Sandman: Fort Apache....jaayzuz that snapped me RIGHT back....
And gentlemen, lets get it right: MAJOR Matt Mason :)
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Originally posted by hblair:
I was toting a Smith and Wesson revolver to 2nd grade. What's the big deal?
lemme guess, it shot Tater rounds? ;)
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The list would not be complete without the mention of a Big-Wheel screaming down a huge hill or Roman candles for indirect fire support during night BB-gun fights.
Good I loved to snipe the little green army men with the trusty daisy.
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Guys...eskimo2, in particular...
See the O'Club thread I started...The Verty-Bird Lives (yea I spelled it wrong there too)- for some reason I couldn't find this thread this morning...not enough coffee I guess.
I just bought the modern version at lunch for my little guy! It is practically the same thing!!! It's gona be an "Olde Fashioned Christmas" at my house!!
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Well I was only considering legal toys.
Any of you ever melt Hot Wheels down to slag or blow up a water meter? Those toys were fun.
Most fun toys were my friend's dad's pickup truck and shotguns and rifles when we were about 14. We used to drive downtown and buy 12 ga. and .22 ammo, then go hunt (sometimes legally) pheasant, quail, doves, jackrabbits, gophers, sea gulls (heheh) on various farms and vineyards. Funny, it never crossed our minds to go shoot up our schoolmates. Although we did scare the crap out of a kid on a bike once. But we got chased by a cop once and shot at by a farmer, so we stopped doing that stuff. Went on to other toys like legal driving, booze, and boobies. :)
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Wow some cool memories here. I had the vertybird thingie, I seem to recall it had a hook on the bottom and plastic crates you could pick up. other favourites include something similar to the U-fly thing Sirloin mentioned except mine was a Phantom Jet and it did land on an aircraft carrier, complete with hook and string catch wire. That one got heavily modified with added weight and eventually had one end attached to the bedroom window and the CV up the other end of the garden The trick was to initially dive very steep and pullout just above the ground then pray it didn't brake your fingers if you missed the trap. :D
Anyone remember "TrickTrack". Battery powered cars directed around the house by placing corners etc in front of them as they ran? No? Didn't thing so - must be getting old.
TTFN
snafu
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A hoop with a stick. :) If you even know what I'm talking about, you're older than dirt. If you actually played with one, hell, you might be older than me. :)
AKcurly
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Great thread!
Originally posted by eskimo2:
List and describe your favorite pre-teen (elementary school age) toy:
The most fun toy I had, has got the be my Kettler pedal car. It looks like they still make the car (http://www.patiostore.com/toyshop/Kettler_Toys/ket_ped_8858590.jpg), after about 20 years. Cool. Mine had a yellow tube frame, though.
I got it at around 5 years of age. For the first few summers I remember being happy pedalling around the yard, after which the slow speed kinda grew old.
I yanked the chain and pedals out and made it a down hill car. Oh the thrill! We raced the car down the rocky slopes we have back home, its quite a miracle that me or any of my friend werent killed or seriously injured, in all the triple somersaults and other aerobatic maneuvers we did with the car. ;) My trusty Kettler finally broke when my friend drove it into a tree at about 30kmh. :(
But oh the memories. :D
On second place has to be Legos.
Camo
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The orange version i beleive called the "Orange peel" was selling at the Atlantic City car show for 1600 bucks!!! That bike brought back memories.
OH, he did say elementary school age, I had that mini-bike at age 9 :)
NUTTZ- was too old when legos came out.
Originally posted by Tah Gut:
5-speed stick-shift stingray, metalic purple with a black banana seat and 4 foot sissy bar. woof woof woof!
The 60's.......muscle cars and muscle bikes :D
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I had one of those bikes....they were made by Schwinn and called the Apple Crate and Orange Crate...very rare these days :)
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Hey Curly :)
I used to make mine.
I would use a picket fence rail, cut a tin can(no aluminum back then) and bend it in shape, nail it to the wooden picket and use a metal hoop from a small barrel.
Ran around the neighborhood for hours :)
I guess I am getting old...thanks alot Curly!
:D
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Star Wars Tie Fighter with the wing panels that popped off.
Memories...like the times we use to love....silent pictures...of the way we were...
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Playmobile
Technical Lego
Model airplanes
C64 and geek ever since
Broes
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-Lincoln Logs
-Legos
-Plastic cowboys and soldiers
-Model airplanes (I didnt display my models, I played with them! They usually didnt last long because of this but I would just make more. lol)
-Toy 6 shooters
-Red Ryder BB gun
-Matchbox cars
-diecast WW2 airplanes, I had lots of them, spitfires, bf-109s, corsairs, stukas, and unlike AH i had P-40s!
-GI Joes
-Transformers
-Wooden sword and shield that my dad made for me, nice and heavy duty, suitable for real fights with my cousins resulting in several injuries!
-Tandy 16 color computer with "Their Finest Hour, Battle of Britain"
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Oh my God, the Wheel-o. What a stupid toy. Brings back memories though... I can almost taste the stale candy at Grandma's house again... :(
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Bump, its the toy time of the year again.
eskimo
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yep had to be the vertibird, or my Swat playset All my friends had one too I always fought to be TJ because I could wear my swat cap backwards.
And looky here I love Ebay:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&krd=1&from=R8&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&query=vertibird
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Originally posted by Raubvogel
I am very disappointed that no one has mentioned a Green Machine. Those things were cool as chit.
Totally :D:D
Originally posted by Thrawn
I can't believe no one has said matchbox cars, so I'll say it now...matchbox cars.
well u "matchbox" queens suck:D HOT WHEELS are where it's @ i still have some diplayed in my room on a bookshelf :D
somone else mentioned transformers...i loved those too but what the heck was the name of those other knock-off generic transformers?!?! i had some of those too ... mom didn't know the difference one Christmas.
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I saw Rock Em Sock Em Robots on the shelves again if you can believe it..Lol!..Except now it comes with interchangable blocks.Included was Al Gore,Osama,Saddam and GWB and a few others.
There were even addon blocks sold seperately(Micheal Jackson,Sylvester Stalone,Lance Bass,Trent Lott...etc)
Man,I wish I was young again...:)
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I was a lego freak, mainly space lego,
Airfix ring a bell?
I built loads and loads and hung them on my ceiling,
I still have the very first model I ever made on my bookself at my parents house, its a p-51, which i made in about 1978-79, when i was 5-6 (my brother helped me) :D
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A battery powered jeep-like toy called the Mighty Mike.
Crash-Bang-Smashem up cars. You would pull this rip cord which made this wheel in the center go around. The cars would smash and the doors, hood, and trunk would fly off.
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Anyone else have a Big Wheel? I did so many handbrake turns in that thing the wheels ground away and collapsed.
They were post-elementary for me but Construx and Robotix were loads of fun. Hell I just realized me and my brother invented Robot Wars back in the 80's with that Robotix set.
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-The vibrating football game. I used to love kicking field goals.
-Legos
-Model trains (my dad built a track on wood going around my room, with removable bridges across the door and closet) It was that medium scale, M if I remember right. Had the Lionel set for xmas time too but nowhere near as much track. When I grow up (never) i'm gonna build a lionel set to go from the garden behind my house to my deck and stuff, just like in the magazines.
-my bike!
-slot cars
-sleds for winter fun
-fising rod for the pond we lived on
-8' net for catching turtles
-tree fort (isnt a toy but might as well have been)
-wiffleball bat and hockey sticks
damn, i'm nearly 21 but thinking back to those days makes me feel much much older.
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I used to cruise around the streets in my BIG-WHEEL
Also, GI-Joe and Star Wars action figures w/ the firecrackers were fun(and I'm kickin myself now for doin it)
Anyone rememer Transformers?!?! and HE-MAN?????
BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:p
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IIIIIIIIIIII HHAAAAAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVEEEEEEE EE THE POOOWWWWWWWWEEEEEERRRRRRR!!
::begin He-Man music::
(PS - Skeletor was a studmuffin)
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Pointed stick, sharpened with a rock and fire hardened.
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Didn't have many toys growing up so my favorite would have to be the the ball and bat that I was born with.
Now a days my wife is my Fav-o-rite Toy!
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Gotta be LEGOs
I had many sets, plus a big box of miscelaneous parts. I used to build many boats, cause when I was a kid I liked boats more than planes. Not having mnay boat parts to make the hull, I'd have to improvise, and the result would be a boat with a stepped hull. I wanted that big pirate ship, but it was too expensive and I never got it. Good thing though, as it let me use my own imagination in using the parts I had.
Next fav toys were Ninja Turtles Action Figures. April was so cute :)
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I had Three best toys, scratch that four. number one, big wheel.....Man you could hit that break and sling your arse around like the tires were made of teflon. Had a blast with that thing, number two, The big bellybutton ship from space 1999. sucker was about 4 foot long and had a removable front for a little spacecraft. Probably that strongest toy I ever had. Third was not model rockets, just the engines, you could glue the little guide tube to the engine and let me go, no telling where they would go.
Lastly and probably the most fun was shotgun shells. My dad reloaded so we always had some around. Used to tape marbles to the end with the primer, throw em in the air and run like hell. Its a freaking miralce im still alive, cause i wasnt that fast;) As a teen a friend loaded up some rock salt rounds and we paced of 100yds and shot at each other. Rock salt stings and leaves huge marks............nuff said
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Originally posted by lazs1
A High Standard "Sport King" .22 caliber semi auto pistol with extra 10 round clip.
lazs
Wow I have a High Standard in mint condition...I had a blast with
it when I was 9 years old.... It was given to me by my dad and I held onto it since then... Been in a box for 20 years...
Good toy for a kid! :)
T0J0
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you had the extra clip !!!??? bastage!
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Gotta be my full-size GI-Joes (with jeep), a bunch of firecrackers and a huge sand pile at the back of the sub-division. Ahhh... mammaries.
Opps oh yea, loved my Tie-fighter with pop-off side panels when hit by my X-Wing. :)
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My programmable Big-Trak toy tank was the coolest thing.
Found a link...
http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/toys/bigtrak/ (http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/toys/bigtrak/)
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After Christmas shopping for my daughters (ages 3 & 5) recently, I must admit that the only real disappointment of having daughters instead of sons is that girl toys suck. At least they like Legos (Duplos) and dinosaurs.
eskimo
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Schwinn Black Phantom 26-inch-wheel bicycle.
Big expense, especially at the time for my parents, but that indestructible beauty lasted through several nephews and is still rolling somewhere.
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Honda XR-75. At that time, we lived right at the edge of the desert and the Phoenix city limits, so I could take off down the block and be gone all day on it.
Also loved my Daisy 880 bb gun. Many a bird met it's fate by my hand.
Had a .22 bolt action, but could only shoot that when dad was around.
Also, kites. I loved making my own kites.
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Millenium Falcon
Mongoose (from way back when the only place you could get one was a high end bike store.)
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my sisters stuffed animals.
i used to go up on the third floor and throw them out her window.
she would scream and plead until finally she would go down and try to catch them as they plummeted to the ground.
she still hates me for that.
but shes a doctor now.
so i just say that i built up her character.
note: last time we wrestled, she nearly kicked my ass.
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*Head down*
I had Mud. Some rocks.
I grew up poor in the late '50's early '60's. Dad was laid off from the Glass Factory..Libby Glass. I remember one Christmas '62 when some of our toys were slightly repainted. That was how we lived. Had to ask for milk from the Fire Department to feed my lil Brother. I woke up early in the morning to jump fences and gather empty Pop bottles to cash them in at the local store. Going to bed hungry.. just to dream of food..Man this watermelon hurts...
I promised myself that I would NEVER let my children feel the pain that I felt as a child.
Today, I make enough and no one goes to sleep hungry EVAR!!!
May you all take some time today and thank the Lord that you are safe and warm. There are many out there that do not have either.
Mac
BTW I had a G.I Joe same one for 6 years...I'm Retired U.S. Army.
Go Figure...
God Bless our American Service men and women!
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All my brother and I got was a ball of string...we had to fight the cat for it.
Actually...these are some of my favorite Christmas memories;
The smell of fired caps from a cap pistol.
Stockings stuffed with firecrackers, candy canes, nuts, and fruit.
A lionel train set that I wish I still had.
Plastic model P-38, B-26, B-17, P-51, and Me-109s.
Red Ryder BB gun ... and a host of tin cans to plink.
All of it winking slyly at my brother and I under the glow of the Christmas tree lights.
Tackle football games in my Grandparents' yard with my army of cousins...(someone always got a new football.)
Well...this wasn't actually a toy...but it is one of my fondest Christmas memories...fried apple pies that my Grandmother always hid to keep the early arrivals from devouring before the other relatives could show up, and which one of my uncles invariably found anyway.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Dang, forgot about my #1 favorite: BB gun. Red Ryder I believe was the make? Someone help me here....
Be careful! You can put someone's eye out with that thing!:D
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If ya didnt have a Benjamin .22 cal pellet gun you didnt get off the porch in my neiborhood :D
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thye neighbour lady with the big rack was my favourite toy growing up.
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I still have that Lionel train set (or is it American Flyer?), copyright 1964. Restoring it is a project that I never quite get around to.
J_A_B
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Super Slider Snow Skates!
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another vote for lego...and those matchbox cars (we had that kickass floor mat with the streets)
thats mostly because by summer they were the only things left intact
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LEGO's,noodle,GIJOES'S
Any war theme toy during the 80's and early 90's kicked butt!:cool:
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Ki-Nex!!!!!!! I spent hours on end building things out of these. My own inventions never ceased to amaze me.
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it wasn't until i turned 15, then a girl named heidi found it fer me.
before that it was mechano...
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Fishing rod was my my favorite.
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Originally posted by AWMac
*Head down*
I had Mud. Some rocks.
I grew up poor in the late '50's early '60's. Dad was laid off from the Glass Factory..Libby Glass. I remember one Christmas...
As as kid, we were so poor we had to borrow dirt from the neighbors. In fact, we were so poor that if you looked up "poor" in the dictionary, you did not see our picture. Nobody in the family owned a camera at least until we were teenagers.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
As as kid, we were so poor we had to borrow dirt from the neighbors. In fact, we were so poor that if you looked up "poor" in the dictionary, you did not see our picture. Nobody in the family owned a camera at least until we were teenagers.
yeah well, we were so poor that we didnt so much play with our legos ( and i use the term loosely, they were cheap knockoffs we stole from the charity store) as build our winter hut with them...then the taxman would steal the "log" we were using to keep warm.