Do you remember?

[Dream_Chaser]

(Yes, folks, I am living proof that given sufficient time, *anyone* can be trained.)

Anyone? not I , not ever

 

[Guest]

I played with Barbies, but ended up mutiliating them after I began going through puberty because she was too "perfect," lol.

LMAO
oh god how i love Lit !!!

 

[bluemuse]

My daughter had a Glow Worm and a Teddy Ruxpin......scary thing, that.

What about a "Close N Play"? I had one of those. What an awful thing to do to a perfectly good record.




bluemuse

 

[explain]

Hot Wheels! We used to lay the track out the second story window down to the neighbors carport. Awesome!

Lincoln logs were cool, but they ended up like all my model cars, burned and blown up with firecrackers and M-80's.

Also playing army with the neighborhood kids with my wooden, handsculpted genuine army rifle... And in the winter, building snow forts and snowball fights (lost a couple teeth doing this, cause we usually froze the snowballs overnight.) I do remember this time I captured Gary's sister Sue (blue team's nurse) and tied her up in the basement. (That turned into something special later in life though.)

Lastly, Silly Putty was neat, lifting cartoons off the Sunday paper!

Oh well, I'm an old fart!

 

[Dream_Chaser]

Hot Wheels! We used to lay the track out the second story window down to the neighbors carport. Awesome!


Oh well, I'm an old fart!

Even better than hot wheels were "slot cars" where my pals and I would spend all day at a Revelle raceway racing each other on tracks like LeMans. We'd carry our cars and trigger controls in these little boxes. Fun times

 

[MysticSwing]

My Easy Bake Oven and my Barbie's.

(Still collect Barbie Dolls. I just use my Daughter as an excuse to do so. )

 

[bluemuse]

I didn't mutilate my Barbi dolls...

...I DID stick pearl ended straight pins into their heads to simulate earings, put airplane glue on their faces to make them shiny..........oh, and I gave my Malibu Barbi a "Mrs. Brady" shag haircut.

Maybe the haircut counts as mulitilation.......?



bluemuse

 

[Dream_Chaser]

Re: I didn't mutilate my Barbi dolls...

...I DID stick pearl ended straight pins into their heads to simulate earings, put airplane glue on their faces to make them shiny..........oh, and I gave my Malibu Barbi a "Mrs. Brady" shag haircut.

Maybe the haircut counts as mulitilation.......?



bluemuse

bluemuse is scary once again. scary scary scary

 

[bluemuse]

Re: Re: I didn't mutilate my Barbi dolls...

bluemuse is scary once again. scary scary scary

LOL! Don't be afraid, silly!! Now eat the damn apple!



bluemuse

 

[Dream_Chaser]

make that both scary and bossy. and the answer is no apples right now

 

[unclej]

we were real poor when i was growing up so i didn't have many toys...i remember one christmas morning if i hadn't had a hard on when i woke up i wouldn't have had anything to play with...ok, maybe i made that up...

my favorites were wooden tops that you wrapped a string around and threw (that looks funny...is that how you spell it) onto the ground into a circle setting it spinning...next guy in line threw his and tried to hit yours and knock you out of the circle...you could play for funsies or for real...if you played for real and you hit your opponents you got to keep it...

marbles, of course and steel street skates...

green army men...not gi joes, before those...

bb guns and of course a bicycle with a playing card pinned to the wheel to make it sound like a motorcycle...

 

[explain]

green army men...not gi joes, before those...

!HAH! I remember those! Most of them ended up in my model cars being blown to bits with firecrackers and M-80's!!! Also, my parents would bring home those really large rubber bands, set up the army scene, and shoot away! Yeah, I forgot about those little guys! Seemed like there were more gernade thrower dudes than anything else in the bags though. And they didn't stand up all that well.

 

[c.fey]

fav toy....

rocks leaves shells dirt....
I spent a lot of time outside, built a lot of forts and faerie houses...hmmmm...I still do that....

 

[Dream_Chaser]

!HAH! I remember those! Most of them ended up in my model cars being blown to bits with firecrackers and M-80's!!! Also, my parents would bring home those really large rubber bands, set up the army scene, and shoot away! Yeah, I forgot about those little guys! Seemed like there were more gernade thrower dudes than anything else in the bags though. And they didn't stand up all that well.

I remember those green plastic army men also. My sister and I would stand them up and then take turns shooting them with our bb guns. or rather trying to shoot em

 

[explain]

Re: fav toy....

...built a lot of forts and faerie houses...

Faerie Houses?

 

[paphian]

Anyone? not I , not ever

On reflection, that statement should have said "can actually learn". Much more to the point I had in mind. All tongue in cheek anyway...

 

[unclej]

for absolute, top of the line fun with the green army men you had to line a bunch of them up roughly in the configuration of bowling pins...take an empty roman candle tube...inser a black cat fire cracker leaving the fuse sticking out...force a marble firmly in the opening....aim, light and just blow the shit out of the little guys...i have no idea why i still have both of my eyes...

 

[riff]

Hot Wheels.

 

[riff]

All of this talk is making me want to get married and pregnant and make little riffs

 

[dreamer]

Well, there was lincoln logs, and legos, then transformers and comic books, oh yeah and play dough HAS to be mentioned...

But in the end, if I look back at what I drew the most pleasure from, and still to this day do...it's books.

I had the good fortune to take to reading at a really young age and I'd not give that up for anything. Although those old transformers were really cool....hehehe

 

[just pet]

Loved my Barbie doll and Tressy. She was the doll that when you pushed a button on her stomach, you could change the length of her hair, Lincoln logs, jacks, and Chinese jump rope, especially playing Cat's Cradle with it.

 

[explain]

...and Chinese jump rope, especially playing Cat's Cradle with it.

Cat's Cradle with a Jump Rope? Damn, how long are your arms?

 

[RTWudder]

for absolute, top of the line fun with the green army men you had to line a bunch of them up roughly in the configuration of bowling pins...take an empty roman candle tube...inser a black cat fire cracker leaving the fuse sticking out...force a marble firmly in the opening....aim, light and just blow the shit out of the little guys...i have no idea why i still have both of my eyes...

I lost most of my hearing in my left ear that way. The Daisy air rifle was a good piece of field artillery too. You could pump it up and stuff all kind of objects in.

 

[Lovepotion69]

I played with marbles, doll houses and drew like crazy. I liked to draw since god knows when!

Then I grew up and had Barbie, Cindy, My Little Pony (have you seen the ones out now? They're anorexic! I demand the chubby ones back ) and even one Transformer.

Of all things though I think my childhood consisted majorly of drawing equipment, making my own bows and arrows, reading Marvel Comics and I was addicted to He-Man and She-Ra!

Ah! Those were the days...

 

[Pamela]

I loved my Lite Brite and my Spirograph best of all. I even used to play with Fashion Plates...that was about as feminine as I got.

I forgot about Fashion Plates! I loved those! And Spirograph too....but my absolute favorite was my dumptruck!