What did you play with as a child?

[Mysterian]

Fisher Price Little People, Barbies, Stuffed animals, Cabbage Patch dolls, Nintendo, board games (Pay Day, Monopoly, The Magnificent Race, Mad Magazine Game, paper (created our own little games).....

Oh man, I forgot about FP Little People. The space stuff alone was wonderful. I still have some of them. X-Ray Man, some robots, astronauts..

 

[EllieJedi]

Barbies, dolls, books, board games, card games, FP little people. My absolute favorite though were Lincoln Logs and then Legos when those came out.

 

[BrianL]

I had Go-Bots, He-Man, and MASK too. My favorite MASK was the evil guy's helicopter/plane. Starcom was pretty ambitious. I also had a jeep and a mini-starship, and either one could fold up and fit in the storage of the larger ship.

We took toys outside too, of course. I recall a friend and I strapping an M80 firecracker to Zartan from GI Joe, who was nestled in a small evil truck from Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. Kapoosh! So many pieces!

Oh yeah - I had soem Wheeled Warriors, but I didn't like the the toys didn't have the characters from the show. They didn't plan out their multi-pronged marketing scheme far enough out. Still, the vehicles were cool! I liked the Starcom stuff because it was so NASA inspired, but also the magnets were cool. I had a couple of the really cool bad-guy ships - they were super sci-fi!

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Barbies! My sister and I used to take my mom's good towels and washcloths and lay them out on the floor making 'house plans' because we didn't have an actual Barbie house. We had lots of old Barbie furniture and clothes from an older cousin.

 

[firefly_ris]

My Little Pony (surprise).

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Barbie, and Fisher-Price stuff when I was smaller.

 

[design_mom]

Legos, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys. I was a fan of building toys.

Also... my dad had a coffee can full of nails, and a box of wood scraps. I would pound nails into wood and make "computers" to control my spaceship (my bed, or my swingset glider).

 

[DodgerGirl]

When I was a little girl I was very much into Barbie and had almost every Barbie made in the 90's but my first Barbie was the Fun-To Dress Barbie from 1988 and I loved to dress up my Barbie dolls a lot with my mom. I also was a huge fan of plushies and I had several plushies of my favorite animals and I just loved them a lot and my prized plushie was a stuffed polar bear that my grandfather brought for me from Alaska during a solo trip there. As I grew older I started playing with action figures with my cousin and he had Marvel action figures and DC action figures too and this is probably where my Marvel action figures obsession began because when he would visit us my cousin always liked to put his action figures in my dollhouse and it was so fun to see Barbie ride in her pink car with Green Lantern or Wolverine action figures and we would make up stories with our action figures and dolls too. Then for a short time I loved craft sets and making things and drawing stuff too

 

[Notreallyaustralian]

Oh man, I forgot about FP Little People. The space stuff alone was wonderful. I still have some of them. X-Ray Man, some robots, astronauts..

I didn't know there were Space related FP Little People!!! Very cool!

 

[Notreallyaustralian]

Legos, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys. I was a fan of building toys.

Also... my dad had a coffee can full of nails, and a box of wood scraps. I would pound nails into wood and make "computers" to control my spaceship (my bed, or my swingset glider).

That's so clever, creative, and cute!

 

[DodgerGirl]

My mom also wanted to be an artist and when she was little she loved doing coloring books and drawing pictures but she disliked coloring books so much because my aunt who was little liked to break my mom's crayons and if she wanted to color in the same coloring book that my mother was using my aunt would throw a tantrum and rip the book from my mom's hands so Mom got her own coloring books to play with. As my mom grew older she was very much into Lite-Brite and had always wanted one for Christmas but she never got one until two Christmases ago I surprised Mom with a Lite-Brite of her very own and she is very happy with it and sometimes we make pictures together with it

 

[Smugpugmug]

I played with a lot of things. Stuffed animals, my bike, Legos, Lincoln Logs, Playmobil (my aunts bought these for me when I went to the Netherlands) and game systems such as the Gamecube and Gameboy Advance. I still have that Gamecube, though the eject button for discs is broken.

 

[Mysterian]

I didn't know there were Space related FP Little People!!! Very cool!

Doh! My mistake, I was thinking of Fisher Price ADVENTURE people!

 

[SandyinMonterey]

I like dolls. Baby dolls then Barbie. After that, board games. Monopoly, of course, Life, Clue, Connect Four, etc. My friend (neighbors) and I would play for hours at my house. I also played outside a lot. Riding bikes, kickball, playing games. It was the best!

 

[BrianL]

My Little Pony (surprise).

You know, when I was little I had a little birthday money I was spending in the toy aisle, and while I bought myself a few toys, I bought my sister that exact My Little Pony in your avatar - pink with the blue lightning bolts. I picked it because I liked the colors. I am not sure she even had any of them when I got that for her, but she eventually had a small collection.

 

[DodgerGirl]

I was also a My Little Pony fan when I was a little girl and even though I started with one My Little Pony figure I really was into the cartoon series of My Little Pony and I even had a My Little Pony bed tent as well. It wasn't until Hasbro relaunched the My Little Pony line in 1997 that I regained my interest in My Little Pony and so far I have five My Little Pony figures and I still am a My Little Pony fan today. Other toys I had was a PJ Sparkles doll that was a soft version and I LOVED that doll to pieces and I still have it today and then I had a Kid Sister doll too

 

[Notreallyaustralian]

Doh! My mistake, I was thinking of Fisher Price ADVENTURE people!

Oh!!!!! I hadn't heard of those!!! They look fun!!

 

[Sacahara]

Stuffed animals! I still have my stuffed Pongo that I got for Christmas when I was six, still in pretty good shape for all he's been through! He's an educated man now, went with me to college and everything.