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Post by teancum79 on May 18, 2006 15:30:16 GMT -5
I was board the other day and went poking around a bit and found Battle Beast on Ebay. Anyhow long story short I was just wondering what toys everyone liked and what was so cool about them.
Anyhow, I was into GI Joe's, Lego (still get those out a lot), Battle Beast, Micro Machines, He-Man and Constructs.
Over all I like toys that encourage some imagination and don't provide the entire story line and sound effects for you.
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Post by dianaholberg on May 18, 2006 18:31:59 GMT -5
Lego for sure. Also Lincoln Logs, Barbies, stuffed animals. For the same reasons you mentioned -- imagination required.
I also loved the toys that let you make things like the EasyBake oven, the toy that spun a card while you dropped paint on it to make kaleidoscope-like pictures, and all the PlayDoh toys.
Oh... and I always wanted a Speak-and-Spell, a Magic 8-Ball, a lava lamp, and the game Clue, but never got any of them. ;D
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Post by Mestemia on May 18, 2006 21:32:01 GMT -5
one word
Slinky
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Post by littlepea on May 18, 2006 23:40:21 GMT -5
i was football mad when i was wee ... hang on, i still am football mad, and i'm not wee any more  i was obsessed with sonic the hedgehog on the sega mega-drive (that's the genesis to you), but i grew out of it by the time the made the 3d version (sonic & knuckles was my last sonic game). i also used to play with lego, duplo (like, the big version of lego for toddlers ... but they also fitted together with the lego, it was great), mechano, various chemistry sets (i used to like boiling methilated spirit in a test tube because it would become a purpley-steam and when it touched the flame it would create a fireball for a split second  ), an electronics kit, skelectrix (sp?), plastecine, playdoh and i used to love it when my mum made a mixture of cornflower and water which has that weird consistency (it was liquid if it moved slowly, but if you tried to jab it it was solid - magic!). i've always played games on the computer too. i like a bit of everything, really, first-person shooters, gta-type games, strategy games (mainly real-time strategy, not turn-based) and occaisionally i get an overwhelming urge to play an epic role-playing game but then get bored with it after a couple of days. i dunno if i had any toys that stayed with me for my entire childhood, at least i can't think of them at the moment if i did ... which probably means that i didn't. oh well  |
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Post by Tara on May 19, 2006 13:37:34 GMT -5
When I was little, I liked to play with stuffed animals, tea sets, legos and can you believe it...little matchbox cars.  I liked to push things and see how they moved. When I was little, I wished there were ways to make things move without you having to directly move them. I also wanted to see if somehow I can get it to move the way I wanted it to by altering various components to certain things. I guess that's probably why I like the The Sims so much.  I hated Barbies and the "girly" stuff. I couldn't understand what the hype was about those things. I hated seeing how girls would sit there and pretend that these Barbies were really their babies. It seemed so fake to me. But check this... I did the same exact thing I said I hated and played school with all of my stuffed (and real) animals... lol. In fact, when it came to imagination, it was difficult for my parents to punish me. I always found some way to entertain myself. And some of you mentioned videogames... yup. I played a lot of that too. diana, you mentioned the EasyBake Oven.... man that thing was the best! lol Hmm... now to think of real toys... I guess... I dunno.. I mean I guess I was never really a "toy" person. I've wanted many things and I'd end up playing with them at other people's houses and they were neat and all, but my interest generally subsided....I liked board games like Monopoly. It's still my favorite. In fact, sometimes I can play ongoing Monopoly games that'll last for about a week. Like, let's say we're playing a game and then me and the other person (or people) decide to go outside or something. We'd leave the game right where it is. Then we'd get sidetracked by something else. Then decide to come back and play. You know... stupid..silly things like that. #sillyjump# #lol# I think another reason the games last so long is because we add ridiculous scenarios to the Community Chest and Chance cards. ;D I always grew up playing and experimenting with musical instruments. I still whip out my keyboards every once in a while. The guitar has been left sitting b/c it's missing a string and I haven't taken the time to get it replaced. But what I want is a flute. I've got a recorder, but I'm not really interested in that. |
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Post by littlepea on May 19, 2006 16:33:19 GMT -5
i play guitar as well. my dad always played guitar in church and still does (just a small church, not a big cathedral or anything, he has a 12-string acoustic which is pretty nice but really difficult to play) and then at my first year in highschool they taught us to play a few chords on guitar in music class, and then one of my friends who played guitar himself taught me to play "smells like teen spirit" by nirvana, and then i picked up a tiny little acoustic guitar that we had lying around in the house and started learning some rock songs and stuff from guitar tabs on the internet. i kept asking my dad to get me an electric guitar but he kept saying "you'll just get bored of it after a few weeks and it'll be a waste of money" but one day (when i was 13 or 14) my brother took me down to the local music shop and i got an electric guitar while my dad was out and i've never given up since now i've got a few electric guitars and a bass guitar and i still want a couple more (i really want a fender strat standard and a good acoustic guitar, but they'll cost about £600 each) but it's great to be able to play a musical instrument and it's great fun being good at guitar and impressing people at parties and stuff (though it's mainly the guys that are impressed with the guitar, i still need to rely on my natural charm to woo the ladies ... no wonder i'm so lonely ... ) |
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Post by dianaholberg on May 19, 2006 21:41:13 GMT -5
littlepea, you should switch to acoustic and sing ballads... makes the ladies swoon  Tara, I was never into baby dolls either. I had several, but we used to line them up as bowling pins.  I had Barbies but never babied them. My brother had male dolls (like GI Joe, the $6M Man, Geronimo, etc.) and we re-enacted scenes from the soap opera Mom watched. ;D |
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Post by Tara on May 20, 2006 14:19:27 GMT -5
lol The little GI Joes and army men, I found, were actually more interesting to play with. lol My brother and cousins and I would always play war with them just for the heck of it. Like we'd have stupid matches between a figure of the Incredible Hulk and like... Mickey Mouse or something. It was real dumb, but it was fun. ;D
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Post by Tigress on May 21, 2006 17:49:50 GMT -5
Lego for sure. Also Lincoln Logs, Barbies, stuffed animals. For the same reasons you mentioned -- imagination required. I also loved the toys that let you make things like the EasyBake oven, the toy that spun a card while you dropped paint on it to make kaleidoscope-like pictures, and all the PlayDoh toys. |
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Post by karen84 on Jun 7, 2006 12:06:30 GMT -5
Barbies and pogs, they were just great.
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Post by calyrelf on Jun 8, 2006 11:20:33 GMT -5
Knex are really cool. We got a set on ebay that made a 7' tall carnival ride. On the Knex site it cost like $130 but on Ebay it was $60.
You put the balls in on the top and watch them go down a chute, into a ferris wheel, around a maze, and various other things, then into a little cup that brings them back up to the top to repeat the process. You can turn it by hand crank or have a motor to keep it in motion continuously. It was so fascinating, and the best part was building it themselves. My boys, age 9 and 18, took 3 days to build it together, and it was the first time in ages that they have worked together without a single argument, lol! Although it belonged to the 9 year old, I think my 18 year old really enjoyed helping him with it.
The thing was fascinating for about 2 weeks, then son got bored with the carnival. But then he found other things that you can make with that same set, so he just took it apart and made more stuff. That set entertained him for a good year or two, and was his favorite toy.
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), an electronics kit, skelectrix (sp?), plastecine, playdoh and i used to love it when my mum made a mixture of cornflower and water which has that weird consistency (it was liquid if it moved slowly, but if you tried to jab it it was solid - magic!).
I liked to push things and see how they moved. When I was little, I wished there were ways to make things move without you having to directly move them. I also wanted to see if somehow I can get it to move the way I wanted it to by altering various components to certain things. I guess that's probably why I like the The Sims so much. 
