Poll: Can you remember your favourite childhood toy?

[Insert Comedy Here]

Dirt..... and we where HAPPY!! if we wanted to play tennis, then we whent outside to swing the lame thing, not all that wii-wii crap. playing guitar, there where strings, not some colored bottens. and here where no shoot-em-up games, so we whent outside and killed the assholes

Hello Walter.

Hard to talk without Dunham's hand up your backside isn't it?

 

[slipknot4]

Not sure. It's called After Birth I think.

It's going on Snafu right?

Is snafu a word?

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

I have a plushie hammerhead shark and a plushie dragon, one from my first trip to Drayton Manor theme park, and the other from my first trip to Wales, both of which I undertook when I was around 2 or 3 years of age, my parents informed me. I still have them. ^__^

In terms of non-plushies, I still have my massive collection of LEGO, although the Bionicles got sold, and I lost my most played console of all time, my Game Boy Colour.

 

[Rosee]

A sort of anthropomorphic lamb which I called Doggie. She's in my bed right now. When ever I casually 'rediscover' my childhood toys, it fills me with a kind of dread of how easily they have slipped from my thoughts after being so important to me as a child.

 

[Insert Comedy Here]

Not sure. It's called After Birth I think.

It's going on Snafu right?

Is snafu a word?

Yep, it's army jargon.

It stands for: Situation Normal, All F***ed Up.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Not sure. It's called After Birth I think.

It's going on Snafu right?

Is snafu a word?

Situation Normal, All Fucked Up.

Anyway, my favorite toy was easily my big ass box o' LEGO's. It's not really missing but it's...mentally missing, as in I lack the innocent, childlike creativity with wich I could transform a seemingly random pile of LEGO's (all kinds of theme's mixed together) into mechs, planes, castles, boats, you name it. I never really bonded with plushy bears and stuff as much, I prefered to let my imagination rip through LEGO's, Knex and all that stuff.

 

[Time Travelling Toaster]

Yeah I do actually, it was a Gromit teddy
It's in the endless expanse of my loft now though so he is lost.

 

[Insert Comedy Here]

I didn't really expect Lego to be chief in the people's favourite toys, I always thought people would like cute and cuddly toys over potential choking hazards.
Oh well, when you assume and all that crap...

 

[eatenbyagrue]

As a kid, I was always one of those "over-privileged twats who always had the newest bestest toys". I had everything: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, GI Joe, Power Rangers, Batman, Legos, Micro Machines, etc. But by far, the GI Joes were my favorites.

I use "were" in past tense because as I started to get older (mind you, I took real good care of them, and I was 18 at the time), my mum was trying to make me throw them out (she has issues with my room: its a monstrosity filled wall-to-wall with stuff from my childhood like old game consoles, posters, game magazines, toys, etc.). It came to a head when I told her I'd never throw them out. Not even one.

So one weekend, I was on a camping trip with my cousins and brothers, and I cam back home Monday afternoon to find.... everything gone.

Everything. My old toys, books, game systems, comics, EVERYTHING. I freaked out. I ran and yelled at my mum who said she had it all "cleaned up".

To this very day, I can never forgive her for that. Never. Ever.

Christ, I only removed everything in my room cause it was in the way, most of the stuff only got moved a foot or so.
Seriously, if all the stuff I had ever had and liked got thrown away, murder would be done...

It still reflects badly on me that what I have the most difficulty coping with is the fact that my last link to my childhood is now gone. The walls just seem bare now, and my display cases just empty.

I've gotten a measure of revenge though: after my embarassing Japanophile stage, I took down the numerous anime posters (save for the cheescake ones. God I love cheescake posters), and replaced them with other posters. The display cases are now full of tabletop RPG books, my new comic collection, and painted 40k models. My desk has all sorts of stuff, and I went through a lot to remodel the room.

Even bought an HDTV when I went and hunted down some of the older consoles. I still bring them out, because Turtles in Time is a great party game.

 

[Terrik]

I was into action figures. My favorites was Beachhead from GI joe and Soundwave from Transformers. I miss those guys

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

I have pretty much all of them, a few got lost in the many house moves I've had and a couple got sold because I was stupid (Littlefoot ;___; WAAAAAHHHH! *sniff*).

I still huggle my little koala-ina-babysuit at night. ^_^

 

[Insert Comedy Here]

I have pretty much all of them, a few got lost in the many house moves I've had and a couple got sold because I was stupid (Littlefoot ;___; WAAAAAHHHH! *sniff*).

I still huggle my little koala-ina-babysuit at night. ^_^

So a little from Column A and a little from Column B?

 

[New Troll]

I had several of those little thumb-sucking gorillas. I called them all Gonga and they were my best friends. My mom still has one of them preserved in an airtight bag somewhere. The rest got eaten by dogs.

 

[Raregolddragon]

A teddy bear that is train driver.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

I have pretty much all of them, a few got lost in the many house moves I've had and a couple got sold because I was stupid (Littlefoot ;___; WAAAAAHHHH! *sniff*).

I still huggle my little koala-ina-babysuit at night. ^_^

So a little from Column A and a little from Column B?

Pretty much. If I had the choice I'd still have all of my old toys. X3

 

[Fairee]

I voted for the first option, mainly because it was closest. I did have a favourite childhood toy, a knitted fireman (anyone else remember Fireman Sam? XD) which my mum made for me, and I still have it in bed with me every night. I don't HAVE to have it though, he's just there out of habit.

I also have a large bunny rabbit my gran gave me the day I was born, but that's too big to have in bed. It must be about 2ft tall, including the ears.

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

I have a small stuffed lion that I named Lancaster for a reason lost to the mists of time. I keep him on a shelf where I can see him...I also have a small green blanket that I keep under my pillow...for luck.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Yes. I had 2 teddy bears. A big one and a little one, imaginatively named Big Bear and Little Bear respectively. I still have them in my room by my bed.

 

[joshhewer]

as far as cuddly toys goes it was a crocadile with rollerskates and it was awesome! Think its in my mum and dads attic! that and lego, but not really the same thing

 

[jimduckie]

lego and tonka's not the plastic crap from the late 80's 90's the metal ones from the 70's , i would of said my ding a ling but mine is a dong is long but that would cause so much giggling that the earth would emplode or get shit from the escapist mods