What was your favorite toy as a child?

Oryx, I know what you mean...my kids have fantastic imaginations...they make up imaginary lands in their playroom, mazes, jungles, pirate ships, desert camps, ice kingdoms, underwater lands, etc...my husband and I really love to play with them...there is so much fun and happiness in their innocence and energy...that's why I can never leave them, even for one night...I would miss them too much...

ok so I couldn't tell the difference...I was only 3!

Loved Mr Potato Head but that was when you used a REAL potato!

i just might do that diamond girl...for some relaxation therapy.

i was little way before all the electronic stuff and i was happy with scissors glue paint and old cardboard boxes

younger members will think this is hardship and a deprived childhood but actually it was so creative and my imagination ran riot.

i also grew up in northern scotland and we played endlessly in the forest - making dens etc

i acutally feel sorry for all these kiddies with play station

hey Oryx...you can get a version of Fuzzy Felt at the Early Learning Centre. My kids love it! so do I...I remember having Fuzzy Felt Farm when I was little...

but i have a pet...his name is harry ( Talking Parrots )

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P.C-Shmmeeseee.

Political Correctness is so last year.

i don't care what anyone says, golliwogs are cool!

x mp

I keep starting posts, get half way through and realise what I'm saying may no longer be politically correct, or whatever.

sheesh

I don't remember a toy.

Just my (now) battered old Teddy bear given to me when I was about 2 years old and probably larger than I was at the time! and who still lives with me.

I think I had some of those coloured balls which you slotted into a square piece of cardboard to make patterns, but I didn't like the reaction of the blue and yellow together, so I didn't play with them anymore.

oh and maybe a glove puppet and a marionette puppet and a walkie-talkie doll (went 'mamma'a'a'a' if you turned her upside down a lot until you found the bit that made the noise, then she stopped) but I think I was more likely to be out playing hop-scotch or with my skipping-rope or playing 'sevens' with a ball against the back wall. Hool-a-hoop was good.

ah! ok - hool-a-hoop - I liked that, but by then I was probably beyond toys and thinking it was shaping my 11 year old waist ;P

I loved my bicycle and my books, I was a real bookworm.

LOL....maybe thats why...I have to say, it took me years to get over the trauma..puppies were banned from my room after that.

i remember giving away Zara, my cabbage patch doll, when rumours started going around Australia that they were possessed hhahah! Maybe that explains why your puppies tore them to shreds hehe

x mp

lego

matchbox cars - i gave them names! I still remember them

fuzzy felt - what ever happpened to fuzzy felt??? great

my Daisy doll by Mary Quant I was never a sindy doll girl

Cabbage Patch Dolls....I had 4 until our puppies tore them to bits :(

Mr. Potato Head

I used to love my G.i Joe's n all my cars and a huge lego collection ... as my man darude had as well :P

Man i miss my childhood ....

I live in South Africa moving to Qatar an 2 months

I loved micro machines and even had action mans and who of you guys remembered biker mice from mars puppets they were the absolute most extreme toys to own here in S.A

golliwogs. So I'm guessing its not banned in the US...now some other terms are...but won't mention them here. I hadn't heard that term until my flatmate was talking about some of the little dolls she had in England. I had to ask what the heck she was talking about...lol

lol i dont even remember the name its lego right small blocks bricks type and puzzle :D

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and Majorette too!

I had loads of them!

My second best toy was Playmobil!

missmoneypenney =)

Cheers

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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable solitude. - H.D. Thoreau!

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x mp

The players decide who goes first, perhaps via ip dip, (American: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe) or a variant, then the jacks are scattered loosely into the play area. The players take it in turn to bounce the ball off the surface, then pick up jacks, then catch the ball before it bounces twice.

There are variants on this procedure. Sometimes the ball is thrown into the air rather than bounced. Sometimes it is bounced against a wall or target, if that is in the vicinity of play. Sometimes no bounce is allowed at all.

In some variants, the players must pick up as many jacks as possible in each turn. Perhaps more commonly, the number of jacks to be picked up is pre-ordained and sequential: at first you must pick up one (onesies), next two (twosies), and so on.

In most versions of the game, only one hand may be used. To simplify play, both may be used; to make it harder, or to impose a handicap, a player might be required to use their off-hand (eg, the left if right-handed).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacks

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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable solitude. - H.D. Thoreau!

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i'm looking at the picture..and i'm baffled, what do u do with them?

and my BB gun.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Mahatma Gandhi

I had loads of gear for them.

Then Airfix soldiers, I had millions of them

Then Lego

Then my farm set

Then I found girls and never looked back.

Call me Maninibat!

was Jackstones.

Cheers

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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable solitude. - H.D. Thoreau!

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