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Topic: Coolest toy for the guys

Posted By: Finnforest
Subject: Coolest toy for the guys
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 20:53

Ok, the young guys are probably thinking, where's the Xbox or Ipod LOL

These choices probably apply to the over 35 set.

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Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 21:08

Effect Pedals.

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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 21:12

Well by the time I was 10 I had already become a bit of a nerdy person, so I think I enjoyed books the most. I think that's when I first read Lord of the Rings. Legos come in a close second from the list (and video games are option which could easily win but I'm going to omit).

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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 21:14

Lego!!!!

Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 21:16

It was my N64 for me. Tongue

Out of these... board games, I loved playing them. Especially Monopoly and Clue.

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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 21:17

By the way, loving the Snoopy avatar Jim. Charlie Brown/Peanuts are awesome.

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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 21:26

^

I know, I'm reading the Charles Schulz bio right now and it is amazing to me how cool the strip was, and how complicated the man was. Smile

Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 22:03

I love Legos, but board games were (are) my thing. I would even play them by myself- going so far as to mix and match different pieces and elements to create entirely new games. Smile

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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 22:19

Of the specifics above, Legos I think were the toy I enjoyed as a kid that lent themselves to the most creative impulses. Not that I didn't have fun with my GI Joes (the big ones), toy soldiers (on one occasion setting fire to them with cologne (I did not ever burn down the house)

http://ak2.static.dailymotion.com/static/video/890/301/103098:jpeg_preview_large.jpg

I may have had an ant farm briefly and the same with the sea "monkeys" (dammit they were just brine shrimp and looked nothing like the pictures in the comic books Cry

). Train set briefly. Had Matchbox cars and a used Hotwheels racing track set. Loads of board games. Never got a hand on my Dad's Playboys, I do think he must have had some, got introduced to Penthouse as I was "maturing", but of course, "other" wins hands down and I'm not specifying (unless I am sent an adequate sum of money up front non-refundable).

Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 23:28

Lego was my favourite thing to do pretty much between 8-12, so that gets my vote. Sea Monkeys are amazing too though.

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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 23:38

For a guy who works in the video game industry, I have a lot more respect for Lego than for video games as entertainment for kids :)

Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 04:35

I always liked board games (this has not changed during the last 40 years). Back in '69-'70 it was Monopoly. Nowadays I prefer The Colonists of Catan.

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Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 04:44

Legos rock. Funny enough, I play more boardgames now in my late 20's than ever before.

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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 04:57

Legos. Batman figures were pretty cool too.

Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 06:04

Epignosis wrote:

I love Legos, but board games were (are) my thing. I would even play them by myself- going so far as to mix and match different pieces and elements to create entirely new games. Smile

I did that too.

I also had the notorious ability to play Mario Tennis on the N64 against myself. No one could ever beat me at that game. Evil Smile

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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 07:19

Wow! This is pretty much exactly what I do/ did.

Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 07:23

Well, I'm not a guy, but I used to LOVE Legos when I was a kid. Board games, as far as I can remember, came a bit later, as did card games (NOT gambling Wink

!).

Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 07:58

I never had Lego when I was a kid - back in 1960s Britain we had stuff called Betta Builda, which was like Lego but the bricks were much smaller.

For us old Brits the other toy missing from the list would be Meccano ... but I didn't have any of that either - I had a construction set from Germany called Trix ( http://www.trix-metaal.nl/ - http://www.trix-metaal.nl/ )

...

... Looking back now every toy my Dad ever bought me was not the playground-standard - while all my friends had Scalextic I had Airfix, when they had Hornby Double-O train sets I had a Tri-ang TT gauge- they had Revel and Airfix kits, I got Monogram, they had football boots, I got a fishing rod. No wonder I grew-up to like Prog.

Anyway I lived in the countryside and all the girls I liked lived in the neighbouring villages - my bike tops my list

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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 08:21

Anyone play with an Erector Set?

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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 08:23

Slartibartfast wrote:

Anyone play with an Erector Set?

Never cared for that, but I loved Tinker Toys.

http://www.presenthunt.com/images/brands/5733.jpg

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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 08:27

Epignosis wrote:

Slartibartfast wrote:

Anyone play with an Erector Set?

Never cared for that, but I loved Tinker Toys.

Yeah, had those, too. LOL

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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 08:38

Kite fighting!

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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 08:43

^ Kites are still cool

...never got involved in fighting though.

...except with trees and overhead power cables.

...never won any of those battles.

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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 08:57

From this list I chose bike because I remember getting some cool-ass "futuristic" looking bike (read: it had these gray plastic covers on the wheels to make it look some faux moon rover or something LOL

). Plus it was my only way of getting to various houses to play with my friends - for all you younger folk, we played these really bizarre "analog" games outdoors! With crazy names like basketball, baseball, and football!

Though around this age too right up there with bike would be any Nintendo game. And yes, that's right, I'm talking original NES. This was the late 80s.

Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 10:04

Oh man, Tinkertoys rocked!!

Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 11:33

The plural of Lego is Lego. Geek

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Posted By: Luke. J
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 11:36

Finnforest wrote:

Ok, the young guys are probably thinking, where's the Xbox or Ipod LOL

These choices probably apply to the over 35 set.

I must have grown old over night.. I never really got that much into Xbox (dislike especially this one immensely) or most other video games..
Lego is my choice without question out of those. Don't ask about details, just let me state that lego is the winner for me. Wink

Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 12:15

Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 12:18

Air Hockey at the arcade???

Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 12:31

Hell, the arcade itself - that's dating you now. LOL

Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 12:36

I know, such a shame the 70s/80s arcade vibe is gone, such dens of festivity they were, at least in American culture.

Now kids mostly play video games in their homes I'd assume. As with the record stores, wonderful social adventures lost to the dustbin

Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 12:46

We used to walk up to the bowling alley on Saturdays to hang out at their arcade (or ride our bikes, but it was shorter to cut through the fields and climb brick walls than it was to ride the bike out to the main road).

From the above list, my vote goes for my bike. I never really had that cool of a bike as a kid, but I used to ride it everywhere.

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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 13:57

Nuclear Plant Set!

More seriously, I used to play with my Smurfs, pretending they were some aliens reigning over a whole galaxy. A strange crossover with my Star Wars toys happened very quickly.

Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 13:59

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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 14:12

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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 14:30

Ian, yeah!! Hotwheels and Matchbox cars!!

Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 14:36

I had this Indian friend when I was little. His family used to play Karom and I learned how. It doesn't look like much but its really fun.

Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 14:41

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_football - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_football

I keep some 'players' until today.

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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 15:52

Lego's no doubt. As a kid I had plenty of them and loved to play with them, specially with Star Wars series of Lego. You can let loose your imagination with Lego's.

Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 15:54

Vibrationbaby wrote:

You mean this?:

Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 15:54

I spent endless hours playing with these guys.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Marxfigures.JPG">

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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 15:55

How about this one?:

Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 15:57

Yep, he was probably there too.

Not to mention these guys:

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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 15:58

Hell yeah!!! Army guys!!! Thumbs Up

We had such a blast with those things.

Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 15:59

^lol, I didn't see yours. You beated me to post these awesome soldiers....

GO SOLDIERS!

Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:01

Epignosis wrote:

Cool

OH HELLZ YEAH

I had all of these, Castle Grayskull, Snake Mountain, etc.

Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:06

rushfan4 wrote:

I spent endless hours playing with these guys.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Marxfigures.JPG">

Yeah those were the ones I set on fire. LOL

Man that brought back memories. I also used to have this tall plastic fort thingy that you could use when playing with them.

Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:07

Oh that is fantastic Brian....if you still had it I'd be coming down this weekend to play.....we can argue politics and then play Army Guys LOL

Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:11

I can't believe I still remembered the name of the thing so I could look up a pic - Marx Navarone Playset Mountain. LOL

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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:13

Slartibartfast wrote:

I can't believe I still remembered the name of the thing so I could look up a pic - Marx Navarone Playset Mountain. LOL

Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:16

Let's not forget about the tanks:

While searching, I found this:

That's the coolest birthday cake, isn't it??!?!

Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:18

Totally awesome Pablo, the kids face says it all!! Clap

Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:39

Although I fit into a younger generation category (I'm 24), I didn't really get into video games until I was around 11 or 12. At 10 years old, board games were a big activity for me.

Here's one that my brother and I played constantly, Siege:

We had plenty of board games growing up, most of which were fairly mainstream with nothing too obscure. Some of the ones I remember include Monopoly (obviously), Mouse Trap, Back Off Buzzard, Stretch -Out Sam, Forbidden Bridge, The Inventors, Clue, Frustration/Trouble (essentially the same game), Outburst Junior, and dozens of others.

Here's another cool game I have great memories of, The Tower Of The Wizard King.

We also had a game called Go For Broke, which was sort of like the opposite of a game like Monopoly where the objective is to lose all your money through investment and gambling.

I discovered this website, which has lots of images, rules, and information about most board games out there, past and present. http://boardgamegeek.com/ - http://boardgamegeek.com/

Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:47

^oh yeah, I remember Siege, a friend of mine had it or somebody... It was really cool.

Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:53

The Quiet One wrote:

Lego's no doubt. As a kid I had plenty of them and loved to play with them, specially with Star Wars series of Lego. You can let loose your imagination with Lego's.

Lego's what? Geek

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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:55

Lego my leg, of course.

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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:58

Snow Dog wrote:

The Quiet One wrote:

Lego's no doubt. As a kid I had plenty of them and loved to play with them, specially with Star Wars series of Lego. You can let loose your imagination with Lego's.

Lego's what? Geek

I had this:

Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:59

Books for me Geek

Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 18:44

CPicard wrote:

More seriously, I used to play with my Smurfs, pretending they were some aliens reigning over a whole galaxy.

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 19:00

love seeing those army men.. the third set posted by rushfan were the best - was it Airfix? - anyway, great company, European I think, and they made many armies from around the world, very authentic (not like the cheap crap in the plastic bags) -- I also tended to be a sci-fi lover so any cool space-age stuff was right up my ally; Micronauts (remember those?), Star Wars, or any of the good imported Japanese stuff like Transformers (the real Japanese stuff, not the American knock-offs), Ultraman, etc.

Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 19:08

Had this one but it didn't last long

http://www.plaidstallions.com/evel/ektoys.jpg

Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 19:10

Finnforest wrote:

Had this one but it didn't last long

What happened, did it fail an attempted jump of the Grand Canyon?

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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 19:11

Had this one too. Clipped the coupons from a comic book and sent it in.

http://www.tomheroes.com/images/COMICAD%20sea%20monkeys.jpg

Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 19:14

I just noticed the father seamonkey's tail conveniently hiding his naughty bits

Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 19:14

Of course you need the cool orange track for the hot wheels

Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 19:15

Jon, never needed the Grand Canyon. I was just good at general toy abuse. Wink

Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 19:24

Ah, alright. Tongue

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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 19:32

Atavachron wrote:

I just noticed the father seamonkey's tail conveniently hiding his naughty bits

Thankfully....I'm sure the order rate would have dropped were the tail not there LOL

Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 19:56

I had to vote for the bike, which was prelude to the car. Mobility.

Things I had but weren't as good as a bike:

Board games.

Things I always wanted but never had:

Ant Farm

Sea Monkeys

Things I had but were generally disappointing:

Train set (and I had a Lionel!). You can only watch a train going round in an oval for so long.

Race car set. Damned things never stayed on the track a high speeds.

Things my kids had but were generally disappointing:

Legos. The complex ones always fall apart for no reason.

Playboys came a bit later...

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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 07:14

I used to have this useless thing.

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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 07:16

Its Lego folks.......Lego....Lego.......LEGO!!!!

NOT LEGOS!!!!

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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 07:17

Had this beauty....

Amd these...

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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 08:28

Snow Dog wrote:

Its Lego folks.......Lego....Lego.......LEGO!!!!

NOT LEGOS!!!!

Originally posted by http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/faq.html

http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/faq.html wrote:

Which is correct as the plural of LEGO: 'Lego' or 'Legos'? Neither, actually. The word 'LEGO', when used as a noun, should only refer to the company that makes the product. Otherwise 'LEGO' is supposed to be used as an adjective. Thus, when referring to the pieces, neither 'lego' nor 'legos' is correct... rather one should say: 'LEGO bricks' or 'LEGO pieces' or whatever (using LEGO as an adjective -- and one should really capitalize all of the letters, and put the little 'circle-R' symbol after it (®)). This is all a matter of protecting the trademark of 'LEGO' for the company (using it otherwise degenerates the strength of the trademark). This is not to say that I use the word correctly 100% of the time... but that's the answer to the question (it's always fun/painful to read the near-flame-wars that start at http://slashdot.org/ - slashdot.org over this topic... and generally, both sides are wrong).

Originally posted by http://www.faqs.org/faqs/LEGO-faq/

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/LEGO-faq/ wrote:

Subject: 7) Plural of LEGO

   While most people point out that they just say LEGOs,
    mailto:[email protected] - [email protected]  (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex) dug out:
   
   One catalogue, dated 1980, has the following on its back page:
   
          Dear Parents and Children
          The word LEGO(R) is a brand name and is very special to all of
          us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your
          help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our bricks
          as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will
          be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very
          proud and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!
          
                            Susan Williams
                            Consumer Services (Susan's name is a
                            pseudonym for the service dptmt.)
                            
   Matthew Miller,  mailto:[email protected] - [email protected] , added:
   The above quote from the catalog is often cited as evidence for "Lego"
   as the proper plural, but in fact that is misreading it. Trademark law
   in the US at least is easiest if the trademark is used as an
   _adjective_. The point they're trying to make is that you should say
   "LEGO Bricks", rather than calling the product itself either "Legos"
   _or_ "Lego".
   
   In fact, they seem to assume that "LEGOS" is the natural plural, since
   that's the only one they bother to correct. So, in formal usage, both
   "Lego" and "Legos" are wrong. To me, that means people shouldn't make
   such a big deal about it in informal use!

Read more: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/LEGO-faq/#ixzz0fzZN5hXs - http://www.faqs.org/faqs/LEGO-faq/#ixzz0fzZN5hXs

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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 10:06

Ian, those Batmobiles were great!

Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 12:17

These early hand-held games were quite popular in our neighborhood

Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 12:36

I always did enjoy playing with my matchbox and hotwheels cars and my Nintendo 64 when I was a kid.

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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 12:46

Finnforest wrote:

These early hand-held games were quite popular in our neighborhood

I still have all 3 of those and recently broke them out a few months back. Being a Michigander, I also have the Mattel Hockey.

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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 12:50

Lagos?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos

Those Legos people are way too sensitive. LOL

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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 12:57

OK, these toys belong to my generation, though it's rather a modern spin-off the old, wooden ones:

The old ones:

Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 13:27

Snow Dog wrote:

Had this beauty....

Amd these...

Wow ! Had those and also this :

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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 18:03

One toy from childhood that I still posess is a toy microscope that looks very much like this one:

I also still have the tweezers and scissors that came in the set. however it has been superceeded by one of these:

No, I don't know why I have it either - except it cost me £30.

But I without a shadow of doubt the toy that "changed my life" was this one:

(but in English of course)

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Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 18:09

A German BAUKASTEN Shocked

in English - I'm surprised really ...

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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 18:36

Rivertree wrote:

A German BAUKASTEN Shocked

in English - I'm surprised really ...

I couldn't find any pictures of the english kit on the internet, but they existed and were very popular through the early 70s... without that kit I don't think I would have chosen electronics as a career.

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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 18:41

I voted other. For a guy, the best toy is obviously a blow up...errr...wait. You said 10 years old.

My Star Wars toys were the envy of the neighborhood when I was 10. I had it all, the Millenium Falcon, the Death Star, all the figures, etc. Those were the coolest. And worth quite a bundle now. Gonna have to go with those as the best. And since you didn't mention those, my other vote is still valid.

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 19:00

those vintage UFO cars are beautiful, I had the Interceptor jet (in the ugly but cool green and orange instead of white) .. Corgi made great cars and toys, I recently purchased several of the Batmobile DC Comics classic series, very nice though not quite up to their 1970s standards

Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 20:07

King By-Tor wrote:

Lego!!!!

That

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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 21:36

Gotta go with the Legos.

Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: February 19 2010 at 23:25

Lincoln Logs, Tonka Trucks, baseball gloves. These are other remnants of my youth.

Also had an Erector set. Really that was pretty disappointing, as it was easily bent and was not all that fun in terms of the quantity of nuts and bolts required to assemble any decent object. As for the plastic army guys, I liked the ones toting the bazookas, who it was generally agreed could take out three of those who were merely toting rifles. Depended on who you were playing with.

Need to find a link to those old magnetic football (U.S.) fields.

Marbles were cool for a few years too.

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Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 01:31

Had the bike,my dog and Handball was very popular. All you needed was a flat Wall and a good ball. Board Games were great, heaps of reading and generally getting into trouble in amongst it all

Meccano was the thing,no lego then..........Gave me the sh*ts but I did love building model aircraft and Battleships etc.

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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 01:45

I spent most of my time outside as a kid, so the bike was something extra important - you need to get where the action is. Other than that - slalom skis, and before that snow blades. Countless hours spent on those things. And downhill skiing is still a very much alive interest of mine. The microscope was a good friend for a while as well (still is, to be honest LOL

). Also had a cheap telescope that made some dark winter nights so much more fun.

But when it comes to toys proper : Lego and SNES.

Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 02:35

Drum Set or Bass Guitar when Morrison sang "Light My Fire" in '69 I was eleven

Best bike got stolen No time for legos at Ten Years old

Wanted slot cars and train sets Playboys were just on the Horizon

Good Thread

Finnforest, This was your idea?

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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 07:39

cool toys? Great game and still playing ..after all these years haha

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Posted By: Luca Pacchiarini
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 07:52

As a spoiled kid during the 90's, my parents and relatives used to submerge me with every sort of toys - but I enjoyed them all...

the ones I remember most fondly are:

Subbuteo (not mentioned so far)

Model Cars

and.... Lego Racers (I was damn good at building my own cars (not the ones suggested by Lego) I'm surprised I didn't become an engineer later

and of course...

Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 08:03

Kudos for mentioning Subbuteo (It was sex before we even knew what sex was dammit) and was named after a bird (strange but true) and why didn't we notice the ball was bigger than the players ?

My version of Action Man wasn't the one with the beard and the real gripping hands (Pah that was the girl's version) but if ya pulled his dog tags he spoke (cooool)

Despite Blowing Free's claims Phideaux ain't god, it was, is now and will always be.... Captain Scarlet

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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 08:44

Microscope, yeah!!!
Bikes rule, too.
Sleds if you're in a snowy area.
Model airplanes:

http://www.giftofwings.com/images/modelplanes/B17.jpg

I had glued together something like this, but I think much bigger.
I had a big one of these a long long time ago until the cat knocked it off the dresser. LOL

http://www.acepilots.com/german/stuka-model.jpg

I used to take my models out to the air conditioner blower unit to get a feel of the wind and let propellers spin. I may have put together one jet model once but I don't remember the model.

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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 09:11

halabalushindigus wrote:

Good Thread

Finnforest, This was your idea?

I think so. Tongue

Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 09:19

When it comes to board games, these are unbeatable:

Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 09:24

Matthew T wrote:

Had the bike,my dog and Handball was very popular. All you needed was a flat Wall and a good ball. Board Games were great, heaps of reading and generally getting into trouble in amongst it all

Meccano was the thing,no lego then..........Gave me the sh*ts but I did love building model aircraft and Battleships etc.

Matt, My best friend lived in Australia as a young child and he had a boomerang. The first time we played with it I got whacked on the shin... and i've still got the mark to prove it! Needless to say it didn't get brought out again

Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 09:39

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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 09:42