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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

I Love Toys!

VH1 is running a new show in it's highly popular "I Love" series. This time it's "I Love Toys" and they are counting the top 100 toys of all time. Last night they showed numbers 100-81, including such favorites as Spirograph (#97), Chutes & Ladders (#95), My Little Pony (#85) and the Little Golden Books (#82). I decided to make a list of my top 20 favorite toys (I have not included toys that I love now but did not have as a child such as a nintendo, care bears...)
  1. Barbie
  2. Wooden Blocks
  3. My Little Pony
  4. Baby Dolls
  5. Pound Puppies
  6. Baby-Sitters Club Books
  7. Sweet Valley Twins Books
  8. Lite Brite
  9. Crayons
  10. Candy Land
  11. Chutes & Ladders
  12. Legos
  13. Teddy Bear
  14. Etch-A-Sketch
  15. Spirograph
  16. Little Golden Books
  17. Play Dough
  18. Jump Rope
  19. View Master
  20. Goosebumps books by RL Stine
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12 comments:

  1. gimletTuesday, March 07, 2006 10:41:00 AM

    My list is a little 80s-centric, but hey, that's when I grew up:

    20. Marble ramp that my grandpa made
    19. Dominos
    18. Hungry Hungry Hippos
    17. Rubber band guns
    16. Cap guns/grenades
    15. Tinker toys
    14. LEGO
    13. Hot Wheels
    12. Risk
    11. Monopoly
    10. Battleship
    9. See n Say
    8. Water balloons
    7. Plastic machine guns
    6. Big Wheel
    5. Little green army guys
    4. Transformers
    3. Axis & Allies
    2. GI Joe
    1. Game consoles

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  2. froggiegirlTuesday, March 07, 2006 10:43:00 AM

    Rubber Band Guns, Cap Guns, Plastic Machine Guns...such violence!

    You're such a boy! ;)

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  3. gimletTuesday, March 07, 2006 11:04:00 AM

    Water balloons make great grenades!!!

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  4. JBear1982Tuesday, March 07, 2006 2:56:00 PM

    I am not going to be creative and make a list but here are my faves; My Little Pony, Barbie, Cabbage Patch Dolls, Littlest Pet Shop, Pound Puppies, Candyland (I always used to cheat) Battleship, Water ballons, squirt guns (Super Soaker anybody?), Micro Machines, teddy bears (hello my nickname is bear so of course I loved and still love teddy bears), stuffed animals, Marble works (shared one w/ little brother), Sheera and He-Man. My little brother took the heads off of several of my toys, he decapitated my first Barbie, and then later broke her legs. He would take off the heads of My Little Ponies, take off the heads of his He-man guys and switch the heads, arms, legs with appendages from Teenage Munant Ninja Turtles, GI Joe, basically anything Golem could break, or take apart he did.

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  5. elizabethTuesday, March 07, 2006 9:12:00 PM

    where are the smurfs at? I figured out about five years ago that I could seel my collection of smurfs and it would pay for almost two years at SLU (which would include tution, fees, room and board.)

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  6. Merc ManTuesday, March 07, 2006 9:53:00 PM

    My list is a little 50s/60s-centric. Yes, we actually had toys back then:

    1. Lionel Train
    2. Aurora HO Car set
    3. AMT Models (cars)
    4. Revell Models (planes)
    5. Monogram Models (ships)
    6. Schwinn bicycle
    7. Roy Rogers 6 gun/holster set
    8. Toy Thompson Machine Gun
    9. Toy Bazooka
    10.Hoola Hoop
    11.Slinky
    12.Yo-Yo
    13.Super Ball
    14.Play-Dough
    15.Marbles
    16.Tonka Trucks
    17.Mr.Potato Head
    18.Pick-up Stiks
    19.Balsa Rubber Band planes
    20.Balsa Glider planes

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  7. JBear1982Wednesday, March 08, 2006 10:53:00 AM

    I remember Mr. Potatoe Head!! He was soo much fun. I also liked Lite Brite, Puppy Suprise, and board games- 13 Dead End Drive was a fave game of mine. So much fun

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  8. froggiegirlWednesday, March 08, 2006 12:35:00 PM

    HAHAHA Puppy Surprise...what a weird concept...the stuffed dog has a velcro stomach where you would get either three, four or five small "baby" dogs out of...you didn't know when you bought the package. I didn't have one but my sister did. Hers only had 3 "baby" dogs inside.

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  9. froggiegirlWednesday, March 08, 2006 12:37:00 PM

    As for the smurfs...I know that I watched them as a kid, and I had smurf bed sheets, but I really don't remember the show much. My grandma had the little smurf figurines (for some reason...) that we'd always play with as a kid.

    Some of the guys here at work have started recording the smurfs on tivo and watching them during lunch lately.

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  10. gimletWednesday, March 08, 2006 1:05:00 PM

    Ahhh, reading my dad's list, I realize that I left off the Aurora HO cars that we used to race. It was a ton of fun, my favorites were the 71 Camaro and the Dodge police interceptor with flashing red and blue lights. Good times.

    It was pretty cool turning all the lights out in the basement and having the police car "chase down" the bandits. I watched "Smokey and the Bandit" wayyyy too many times. (But I suppose I'm ready if another CB radio craze hits...)

    I think I gave it up after over-oiling the little electric motor and then never being able to beat my dad. And nothing's worse than losing to your dad every time!

    Surprisingly, I can't remember what car my dad used to race. It might have been a Corvette or a '79 Trans Am.

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  11. elizabethWednesday, March 08, 2006 5:27:00 PM

    Puppy Surprise is back again ...but now by a different name. My cousin Loren got one for Christmas or maybe it was her birthday. But I think she only got One doll.

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  12. Merc ManWednesday, March 08, 2006 5:39:00 PM

    My favorite HO cars were the '63 Corvette and the Rolls Royce. The Rolls was really slow, but it looked real cool lumbering around the track.
    Maintenance was pretty high since we had a Golden Retriever whose fluffy hair would float onto the track and get knarled up in the axles. Same thing would happen to Tom's Hot Wheels cars. No wonder we nicknamed her Fuzzy Wuzzy!

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