Category: Teen Topics
any of you guys remember an old toy that used to be your favorite and you couldn't go anywhere with out it?
Hm. When I was little I had a stuffed animal rabbit that fit the bill.
I think though my favorite toy was the sit and spin. Couldn't really take that with you everywhere though.
When I was little, I used to love those Fisher-Price Little People ferris wheels. I won one on Ebay earlier this year and its now in my quarter century memory chest under the window across the room, along with a couple of those Fisher-Price pocket radios (both wood and plastic versions) and a couple of those animal cot toys and one of those teaching clocks which were all my favourites when I was little. I didn't have the little people ferris wheel, but a couple of friends had these in their toy collections. In fact, almost any music box, big or small was my favourites, stemming, I guess, from when I spent a fair amount of time in hospital especially in my early years and my mum used to put one in the cot or on the pillow next to me in bed to help me get off to sleep, but this resulted in bad habbits where I still, fall asleep with my headphones on or the radio on in bed next to me every night. I suppose I just need to feel as secure as possible so I get in the mood for sleep. Back on topic though, anything that connected together, anything I could build up, make other things from it, especially Duplo, Sticklebrix, Connects, luna park or whatever those flat slotty things're called, lmfao, I'd sit and play with any of those for hours. Incidentally, can anyone remember what this other kit was called. Similar to Connects, it has these long rods with little plastic pegs on the ends, these're all various lengths with big or small wheels which fitted on to the ends of the rods before you slotted the pegs in the ends, then there were these flat plastic squares which were tucked in on two sides so they in turn, slotted over the rods between the wheels so you could make vehicles, shopping trolleys, strollers or wheelchairs, things like that out of it? I guess its a type of Mechano, but I know for a fact, that's metal, not plastic.
Jen.
I don't remember bringing any toys with me, but I do remember having one of those kitchen sets. you know, the ones with the plasticware, plates, cups, bowls, and the food. Speaking of pretend food, I had a rubber representation of whipped cream with a cherry on top, and it used to scare me every time I touched it for some odd reason. oh, and lots of baby dolls and a collapsable stroller.
I had a favorite stuffed animal. But my all-time favorite toy had to be the Sit And Spin, even though I couldn't exactly take it everywhere. Those things were awesome. And they were durable. I got one for my friend's daughter a few years ago, and they're so flimsy now.
Damn, wish I had a sit and spin toy while growing up. I would have sat on that thing and gone in circles for hours. lol
I didn't need a sit and spin, lmfao. I had one of those turtle potties, so I just took the lid of that, sit in it and spin round and round the living room floor. Also, I loved and still do love, swings. Whether they're those wooden rope swings, rope ladders, disks with a rope in the middle you hold on to while you fly round and round through the air, those big plastic swings in the park or if you went to a special school, practically on your doorstep, I couldn't get enough of them, lmfao. Mum said we had one in our back garden when I was a baby as she has photos of me on it when I was still in nappies (diapers) but apparently, I grew out of it, so I don't really have any memories of it. Anyone remember those Fisher-Price record players though? They were just so neat. They even have a storage space in the back for the records that come with them. You can still get them on Ebay and you can hear samples of them on YouTube. If you can find one with all 5 records though, they're apparently collecters items today.
Jen.
O, and I kind of made up my own kitchen set. I had a casserole, two saucepans different sizes, a frying pan, a deep fat frier, which you wound up with a little key at the end of the handle nearest the pan, switched it on and it wound down making this crackling roaring noise like the reall thing, I had a hand blender which came with its own blades, stand and mixing bowl but only ran on one speed, fast speed, lmfao, I had six dinner plates, four cereal bowls,one of those dolls tea sets with the multicoloured cups and saucers and a cuttlery tray that would go in the drawer if I'd had one for it, with knives, forks, table spoons and dessert spoons and this really cheapy crappy cooker/sink/worktop unit, not one of those fancy hi-tech things with the pop up toaster, microwave, fridge, split level oven and hob like all my friends had, so I remember always having to improvise and use the draining board/worktop as a hob when I wanted to do a fry-up. My kitchen was a fast food kitchen as I only had pretend fast food, lmfao. Typical Greasy spoon, lmfao.
Jen.
So I had a touch and tell I think it was called where you put these pictures on this little machine and touch different parts. I had a record player from fisher price and also a yackback.
ah man, I soooo loved swings. I always went strait to them at the park. I also had a tickle me elmo (witch I hink everyone had back then), lots of spinn tops, beany babies, man I loved thoughs. I have all of mine in a glass case so no one could get to them.
Ah the yackback. Damn, I wanted one of those, but when i finally managed to play with one at a friend's house, it bored me. lol
swings are still my favorite playground thing. Let's go swinging Ray.
I also played barbies a lot. I liked making up different sanarios for them to role play, and doing voices for them.
so, I guess those are my two favorite things.
My favorite toys were Legos, modeling clay, a microphone that did weird things to your voice, Bop-It, Torx, tape recorders and fake food. I didn't care much about the kitchen set itself, i just liked feeling the fake food. I also liked the See and Say, and this one Sesame Street toy that when you pushed a button, flipped a switch or turned a knob, the little characters would pop out of their little holes. Loved it. I also loved spinning and swinging, and hanging upside down. My other favorite thing to do was to dig these massive holes. Just sit for hours outside under a tree in my backyard and dig huge holes. And my mother would yell at me to cover them up, and I'd keep them their until someone covered them for me. I also liked those battery-powered cars and trucks that you can drive around. Can't remember the name of them, but my cousins had one, and they would drive me around in the streets and stuff. I never got attached to stuffed animals, never cared for them, really. That's about all i can think of for now.
I had a sit and spin. But i think my favorite toy was this baby doll that came with a carrier that could be changed in to a cradle, high chair, and a few other things. I also had a yackback and used it to annoy my oldersister.
oh and Beay babies, yes, I had a few of those.
My favorite things were probably legos, matchbox cars, and I had some stuffed animals that were special. And I also would go to swings first at a park etc. Oh and bath boats. Those were neat.
I saw See-&-Say's mentioned earlier here, and have to agree that they were cool. *smile* I recently found a Mickey Mouse one, but what I really want is that one where the man says "the (whatever animal) says," and then the animal makes the sound. That would be my favorite one. *smile* I specifically still remember the coyote sound but yeah, I would love to have and use that one again.
I also remember having a Mother Goose reading light where the light bulb went under her beak and the neck was bendable so you could adjust the light, and she had a plastic book that she could hold and a tape of nursery rymes that were told like little stories.
I also used to (and actually still have a Father Time clock. (Actually he sounded more like a grandfather thing to me.) Anyway, he's supposed to have a plug (not sure whether he can work on or even uses batteries but anyway I don't know what happened to the plug now.) And he also came with a tape where he would tell stories. I'm not sure how it worked exactly, but the stories seemed to be meant to go on a schedule as he would announce when it was time to go to bed and other times. So yeah, he was a clock but also had a built-in tape player.
We also had an elephant slide that my older sister also really liked. It looked like an elephant head, and because it was rounded at the top, we (also including our brothers) would flip it over and use it as a rockable car or just to flip each other, or when I had a little playhouse my uncles had made for me, we would use it as a type of elevator entrance into the house or if right-side-up it'd still be a unique entrance/exit, but there'd be a little room underneath.
I also used to love this old phone I had. It would probably be considered cheaply made but you could hear a ping/bell-type sound inside it when you jarred or moved it. It was shaped like one of those oval wall phones with the buttons on the base and a plugged but detachable (of course) receiver.
Another favorite toy I had (and still have) is a doll. I've always thought it was a boy because of its short hair, so I had named it Jesse. His head and hands are plastic and the rest is stuffed material and he has no actual feet. What I especially liked/like is that he has yarn hair and a wide chubby face that doesn't exactly look like a typical doll's, and small hands.
I also used to have a lot of cool household things including apliences that had a battery-operated "outlet" to plug them into, 2 small fridge/freezers (a metal 1 and a plastic 1), and of course the toy foods (wich included a small plastic box of pretend ice cream and another one of pretend cookies I think). All I have left of that are some dishes and the top to the blender, and the stick of butter.
We also use to have some constructional toys including one called Waffle Town, and some unrelated little action figurines, and what's left is I think a Mario or Luigi figurine, a Wizzard of Oz 1 (Glenda), and I think there might be some others but not sure at the moment.)
And finally 2 other favorites (that I still have) are a dolphin puppet and a little stuffed penguin gotten at a sea world field trip, and a little stuffed teddy bear that my dad had bought for me that used to play "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" when you press the button on it's chest.
I'm saving my favorite toys I do have and for now I just have them in a drawer to take out and look at.
i love those beanie babies they used to have at mcdonalds. you know, the lizard, moose and i forget what the other ones were. i also still love swings. i can sit on one for hours and swing all day long. and the bath boats were pretty awesome as well.
The Sit-and-Spin is an awesome invention, and the See-and-Say. I never actually owned either, but my cousins did and I loved them. Most of my favorite toys were ones that didn't really do much of anything--I liked to make up scenarios for my stuffed animals and dolls and little plastic figurines. And I loved jump ropes and Legos. Especially Legos. I still have some. I used to have a dog that walked and barked and did a few other things, and also a dog with wheels on the bottom that had a leash so you could pull it around, and there are probably others that I can't remember. I was a spoiled kid and had lots of toys.
Wow... This is a fantastic board. I used to pllay with barbies, baby dolls, and I also did the scenario role playing with them and my stuffed animals. I also had beany babies, lots of cats, dogs, and bunnies, barbie phones, play instraments, and tons and tons and tons of disney cassette tapes with stories on thm... IE, Whinney De Pooh, Mary Poppins, 101 dalmatians, Lion King, Little Murmaide, Ciinderella, Lady and the Tramp, and others. I also had lots of dress up clothes, an a dollhouse from fishr price. Loved that thing. I also had a kitchen set, and that was my pride an joy. Swings are the coolest thing at the playground, I definitely concur. What else did I have? I never had them, but i always wanted legoes, cars, and boy toys... I want to give my kids all the toys I never got to have plus thetoys I did have and loved.
I had one of those record players from Fisher Price. I can't believe that's a collector's item if you have all of the records. I'm almost positive I still do. Not like I would ever sell it though, I would want to give a lot of the toys I had to my kids because I think toys suck today. They're not as well made in my opinion. Either that or they're trying to push education on babies. Come on people, what happened to having fun and being a kid? I also had a sit and spin, loved that thing. I had a kitchen set too, but I lost most of it. It had so many pieces of silverware that I didn't care if I lost one, so then what happened was I ended up losing most of it. I had a whole bunch of food too, I remember a steak, sausage, cupcakes with icing that you oculd take off the top, a little thing of vanilla ice cream, eggs and bacon, and hamborgers with like 3 different types of rolls. I have that animal see and say too, I also have another one I can't remember off the top of my head. I used to have a lot of those Disney tapes too, but I think I wore a lot of them out because I played them so much. I used to have a lot of tapes of the Chipmunks too, they were my favorite when I was little. I was definitely spoiled, because I had (and still do have the majority of it) stuff. If I think of any good ones, I'll post back here.
This is really cool. I got one of those sit n spins when I was 5. I loved it. I remember having a little wind up elephant which I took to the school for the blind with me. I wound it up in the middle of the night because I felt homesick, and the night watchman came in and took it away from me. Mostly though, my favorite was records and record players. I was always fascinated by the way the arm would lift itself up and bring itself back, then after the new record would drop down, the arm would settle back down on to the record to play it. I also loved tape recorders. Telephones were pretty neat too. hahaha, There were a lot of things to keep me entertained. I used to rade the kitchen, looking for a pan lid with just the right kind of knob on the top. I could sit in the floor and spin that lid for hours and hours.
now you're asking. i remember transformers, thundercats, that kinda thing. i had some of that stuff myself. waht I do remember though, and wish i still had today was a pajama case in the shape of a lion. he was actually a glove puppet as well as a pajama case, and belonged to my grandmoter, who passed away in 91. i wonder where that lion is now?
I actually like the toys that are made today better than the ones that we remember growing up. To me, the more educational they are for a child, the better. at least the kid who is playing with them doesn't realize he or she is learning. this is ow they learn; through play, os if you can incorporate numbers, letters, and so on, then great. *smile* To them, it's pretty fun.
I had a bopit when I was younger. I could sit and mess with that for a long time. I got real good at it too. Lets see. I had matchbox cars, and pieces of i'm guessing plastic, that I could put together to make road for them to travel on.
Hmmm! My cousin had something similar when he was small. They were like well, ramps and stretches of road which you just put together on the floor, on the table or wherever and drive your matchbox vehicles up and down them. I still have two of my bopits, the two Extreme ones. I think my cousins got my baby's bopit.
Jen.
I use to carry my Raggedy Ann doll everywhere. I also loved my Velvet doll, for you youngsters, she was a doll when you pushed her button on her stomach her hair would pull out long and on her back was a turn knob to shorten her hair. I also loved my Cabbage Patch doll, I had one of the first ones to come out. Another favorite was a big doll head and you could put make-up on her and play with her hair. Oh, and my Stretch Armstrong doll.
Do any of you remember when we played with toys made out of steel with sharp edges and all that stuff? Thankfully toys are much safer but even though the older toys were unsafe, we lived threw it, didn't we? *Smile*
Oh, and speaking of dolls, I had one o those ring round the rosie ones, a stretching suxie doll, and some barbies. I kept losing their accessories. lol
Hmmm! I guess I had a newer version of this Velvet doll. She was called Surprise, wonder why that was, and her hair used to gwo and you could wind it back in also. You basically moved her right arm up, there was a click, then this motor would start whirring away inside the doll's head as the hair simply shot out of the top and down the doll's back, then you'd wind the left arm round and round and round to reel the hair back in to Surprise's head again. I got her for my Birthday from a friend when I was oo, 'bout 7 I think.
Jen.
wow! I had lots of those old toys. I used to have a lamb, and I would cry if I had to sleep with out it. lol. I always liked toy boats too.
lmfao. I'm trying to track down an old fisher-price toy for this memories box I'm creating. It is a music box with a strap to attach to a crib if you want it to, It has the classic round fisher-price knob to wind it, it's shaped oo, bit like the shoe in the famous nursery rhyme about the old woman who lived in a shoe, it has a chimney, it's shiny, but I wouldn't know what colour it was. I think it plays either of two tunes. Let's go fly a kite or Beautiful Dreamer. My friend had one. When I went to stay with her, I couldn't resist picking it up and having a good look at it and I've always wanted one of these myself.
Jen.
Wow, I was a real spoiled kid. I had a whole lot of toys. I loved things that did stuff. I loved bopits, and yack back when I was little. I had these techno animals, they were robot animals, and they walked and made sounds and stuff and you could feel them and train them and stuff. I had tuns of those. I was always getting a new toy, god I was spoiled. lol. I loved dolls that cryed and talked and that you could feed and give different things. I also loved legos, I could build anything. I had so many. I also remember nano pets. I was so jelis everyone could play with them but me, and then they made the talking ones and I was so happy. And I loved ferbies and shellbees to. Like I said, basically anything I could teach or get to walk and do things is what I loved. I had some barbees and dolls that did nothing that I would make do different things as well, and a few stuft animals i loved and stil have.
And at the play ground I loved, and still love swings. swings rock.
i remember something called the big yellow t pot, which was a house in the shape of a t pot. there was a slide in it. hehe. twas really fun to have a look inside one of those, as much as one could of course.
Wow I had many of the toys that were mentioned on this board, I use to play with the Fisher Price people and houses amd things for hours and I'd play with barbies and legos and linkin logs tinker toys and those kinds of things I also remember the see and say with the animals, I want to find it! I have to agree the toys that were made back in the day were so fun. I also had these rubbery things called tub blocks for the tub man those were fun! I had so many toys I liked them all for different reasons.!
it almost makes me want to type in big yellow teapot to see if they're still made. off to google this one.
I loved the yakback! I just loved recording myself in general doing anything I could think of that would be worth listening to later.
what the hell was a yakback?
Heaven knows what a yackback is, lmfao. The yellow teapot house though sounds kind of similar to a toy I used to like and wish I'd owned as a child. It was like a treehouse with a pop up roof and the design was a bit like those fisher-price little people garages and airports, the way the plastic platforms spiraled up to the top. I had a fisher-price garage with a whole managerie of matchbox cars plus the Little People cars which came with it, plus fixed car ramp, lift, turn table thingy. The lift with the bell was my favourite part, lmfao. You'd turn the handle faster and faster and faster, the two cars that you could fit inside would shoot up, the lift floor tipped on the top level and upended the cars down the hill so fast that they rocketed several inches or even several feet across the floor. Aah! Those were the days. Does anyone remember what those marble run things were called. You built all the plastic connections in to a tower with these saucery things at the very bottom to catch the marbles, then you'd build it as high as you could, drop the marbles in the top so they clattered downwards for what seemed like ages and ages before doing a full circuit of the saucer and coming to rest. Those would keep me occupied for hours on end. After all, it was in the days before internet access was available to all, lmfao.
Jen.
it is this little toy that fit in your pocket, it was kind of shaped like a half of a heart, or an ear. lol. the top was a round speaker, and under that were to buttons, a record and a play. it would only record for like five or ten seconds. lol. it was fun though.
i remember all of your toys Jen: the tree house, the garage, ehehehe twas so good that garage! yay! they're still available now me thinks.
eheheheh brings back memories.
and lol I think I still have some of those mettle toys with the sharp edges...
hmm, I had legos, cars, a train track, a tent type thing filled with plastic balls you could sit in, one of those rocking horses, fuck...what else? hmm. stuffed animals, a big stuffed bear(god knows what happened to it), and more...
oh, and those old simon games where you had to match the colors, well for me was beeps. lol
Omg the marbles! i used to play with the marble toy Jenn has explained every day back in kindergarten. wonder if they still make those ...
i remember something called daz pronto, which was a kind of modelling clay which went rock solid after about an hour of being out of the packet, so you had to be bloody quick when modelling with it. dam good though. and stuffed, or plush animals, ah yes, i have some from my younger years, and of course the collection I now have, which have grown up. hehee. paws up to all those who collect plush animals!
aww, favorite toys? omg, bring back memories. lol. I used to be a kid who didn't play with toys a lot. Whenever I came home from school, I would get engrossed in to a book more than anything. But I remember I used to have a really beautiful doll that had a wedding dress and it walked and it played the wedding song. It was like the best thing I had when I was little. I still remember the doll, I wonder where it went. lol
I forgot. I used to have one of those poochey things where the head was square, and had a single button, and it sang songs and stuff. I used to love that thing. I also had this thing called "shadow" where it was a stuffed dog, but you could actually give it commands, and it would actually obey you. It was awesome, until I lost the remote control. I wonder how many kids misplaced their toys. lol. O, and the other thing about the yackback is that not only did it only record for about five or ten seconds, but it didn't even sound like you. lol. The bitrate must have been really low. lol
yeah. it sounded pretty bad. But I didn't care. lol. I had a pootchy to, and a meow chee, and a cherpiechee. lol. I loved that stuff. I remember when my friend Caitlin and I got in an argument over who's poochy bone was who's. lol.
Wish I had that treehouse and this blimming music box toy I'm after. I've only seen two on Ebay and one of those was overwound, no use what so ever. I had something similar to a yackback, now I know what it is.
Jen.
I had a yack back when I was about ten or elevin and it czme in really handy when I wanted to annoy my little sister!
Favorite toys... stuffed animals, dolls, Barbies, kitchen sets and food, bunch of Disney stuff, beanie babies, Furbys, swings and slides, and I had a YakBack too.
I think the marbel thing was called a marbel wirl, not sure to be exact though.
I had a stuff ernie I liked.
i had a big bired. smile and other toys.
When I was little I wasn't a little people fan but I loved legos and still love them even though I'm 13 and feel a bit old for them. I had a really durable sit and spin which I loved, then I had this educational toy called a leap pad, which came with books that my friend brailled for me which had a story then pictures you touched with the pen and it told you what they were and you could play games and learn phonics and stuff. I took it everywhere with me and loved it. I had most of the books for it. I still have it, it's still pretty awesome, though I don't play with it any more. I wasn't much of a connects person. I used to love this fisher price series of toys called rescue heroes, really bulky action figures which were esentially a rescue squad but they had no one to rescue, I had practically all the sets, but then just got too old for them. I also really liked thomas when I was really little, especially the books on tape about him. I also had a stuffed frog that I loved.
I also had some bop its and I think amazon still makes marble runs, quesetti is the company that makes them. I also had these cylindrical mth toys called twist and shouts, I loved anything made by Leap Frog until they went all technology and did not make any material for higher grade levels.