Favourite childhood toy?

Adrian_Scope
Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,783 Online Community Programme Lead
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It's my middle child's birthday soon and while shopping I was surprised by just how many toys from my own childhood have made a comeback.

Did you have a childhood favourite? 
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  • April2018mom
    April2018mom Posts: 2,863 Championing
    I loved Lego. What was your favorite toy @Adrian_Scope? 
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,155 Championing
    I remember playing with Bayko more than anything else. You put rods into holes on a base, then slot in pieces which represent bricks, pillars, windows, etc. Should have kept mine; they're quite collectable.....https://www.baykoshop.com/

    My son 'blames' me for his getting back into collecting Lego a few years ago, as we bought him this as a child.....he's now 33!

  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    I loved catscradle, although I wasn't very good at it!

    A Tamagotchi was also another favourite.  :D
  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,783 Online Community Programme Lead
    I loved Lego but never had the room for anything I'd built to stay in one piece. My favourite toy (if you can use that word to describe it) was a grey torch, which I pretended was a lightsaber.
  • pollyanna1052
    pollyanna1052 Online Community Member Posts: 2,015 Championing
    cut out Bunty doll and made clothes from old catalogues
  • April2018mom
    April2018mom Posts: 2,863 Championing
    I also had Mr Frosty and Bop It as well given to me on my sixth birthday. I remember this toy called Perfection that was a educational toy. Who remembers Mr Potato Head and My Little Pony? I was a 90s child born in late 96. This article lists all of my childhood toys which are kept in a memory box in a closet at my childhood house now in Pennyslvania. What toys did you play with? 
    https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.goodtoknow.co.uk/family/best-toys-of-the-1990s-284143/amp


  • Ails
    Ails Online Community Member Posts: 2,237 Championing
    I loved my Tiny Tears doll, but I was a bit of a tomboy too and had a Tonka Cement Truck and a train set as well.  I remember Mr Potato Head and My Little Pony too, @April2018mom, but was a good bit older by the time they came along.   :)
  • M_Anthony
    M_Anthony Online Community Member Posts: 306 Empowering
    edited October 2019
    Mine was Optimus Prime from The Transformers cartoon, the fact that The Transformers toys could transform into vehicles like in the cartoon was amazing for kids my age. 
  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    I remember these @Ami2301!! I used to sit and play with it all the time!  :D
  • sleepingplum
    sleepingplum Online Community Member Posts: 11 Connected
    Hi I have just joined this community and still getting used to it but my favourite toy was my baby alive I don’t know whether it was because it was the last present my dad bought for us for Xmas before he passed but she was amazing eating and weeding 
  • Ails
    Ails Online Community Member Posts: 2,237 Championing
    She sounds great @sleepingplum!  Welcome to the Community!  :smiley:
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,160 Championing
    edited October 2019
    I’m going to exclude electric toys/games consoles from my decision, as I grew up with a lot of games consoles! And I will say my favourite toy was Airfix. :smile:
  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    Welcome to the community @sleepingplum. :)

    Something else I loved was my skipping rope. I don't know why I was so obsessed with it! I have cerebral palsy so found it really difficult, yet got a lot of enjoyment from trying.  :D
  • sleepingplum
    sleepingplum Online Community Member Posts: 11 Connected
    hi Chloe probably loves your skipping rope because it was a challenge for you and when you did it it was one to you nil to cerebal palsy
  • mrbuttons
    mrbuttons Online Community Member Posts: 221 Empowering
    my 'tiny tears' doll and a rag doll my mum made during her lunch hour at work were my favourites
  • laurasw
    laurasw Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener
    With me is Gyroscope Toy, I loved it when I was a kid. I recently bought Joytech Precision Gyroscope for my son, who seems to be quite hostile about him, curious about how the gyroscope works. This item is so well made that I am reminded of an item I had as a boy.
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    I used to love Thomas the Tank Engine trains and the Toy Story dolls :)  Woody was my favourite
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Air fix soldiers were my favourite.
  • Welshjayne2021
    Welshjayne2021 Online Community Member Posts: 85 Contributor
    I had a tin bungalow.  It had a kitchen, a living room and a garage with roller shutters doors.  The interior was pre printed with wallpaper, carpets and some furniture.  And it also had free standing furniture as well.  I loved it.  Don’t know what happened to it.  Got the feeling it came from the USA.

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