Best Toy

[spazvas]

What do you reckon was the best toy you ever owned?

[natalie_1982]

It was my brother's actually - an Etcha Sketch :-)

[4getmenot]

I had a toy called carla loca or something like that where you stuck nose and ears etc onto a face and then turned a handle and they span round. Sounds rubbish but thing is I can only remember playing on it once and there is a photo of me with it and it just disappeared.

[natalie_1982]

And Hungry Hippos!

[spazvas]

I remember etch a sketch and hungry hippos how times change its all computer games now

[Ethel]

My yoyo.

I played with it for years.

[tell-me-more]

Juggling balls. Kept me amused for hours, even when I was on my todd.

Football was pretty good too. Having a goalpost in the late 1980s was unbelievably good (well from my point of view, perhaps not from the neighbours'!)

Boomarang was good until it came dangerously close to hitting someone.

I feel a theme developing here, so I'm going to stop now!

Good question.

[spazvas]

No please carry on!

The strange thing is if you notice out of all the replies there is only one game which requires more than one to play.
Wonder what that says about our childhoods or do we just prefer our own company?

[natalie_1982]

No, I just didn't like playing with my brother LOL

Lego used to keep me and my brother amused for hours though, literally we would empty the box on the floor on a Saturday morning and sit there all day building things.

I also loved Sindy's and My Little Ponies.

[Postdog]

Meccano - kept me quiet for hours.

[spazvas]

I remember my brother gettting a mecano set one year for Xmas, he got hours of fun out of that.

[BIG BIG JOHN]

BIG BIG JOHN
Thurs 22/06/06
22:05 My most favourite toy was called WILLY and I played with him all day, every day. Whats more, I still have him and I still play with him lots!

[spazvas]

Probably because you had no friends except "Little Willy" thats sad Big Dick,............. sorry I mean Big John.

[joggerjayne]

Dolls

[natalie_1982]

The best toy my friend ever owned, and was perhaps the main reason I was friends with her, was the whole f*cking Sylvanian family village. She had all of the families, plus the school house, the village shop, the post office, everything.

[joggerjayne]

Sybian ?

[natalie_1982]

Eh?

Sylvanian?

http://www.sylvanianfamilies.com/

[spazvas]

Fancy still remembering! You must have really been green with envy :( Sounds as if she was a bit spoilt to me!!

[annie0000]

clackers - I think they are banned now due to all the broken wrists. I also had an Emu puppet and a big tall teddy bear with elastic on its feet so that you could put your feet in the straps and dance together.

Another favourite was a wig - I played with that for hours and hours - god knows why!

[Bobster-cyw]

Without a doubt .... Evil Knievel. Every child of the 70's know's what Im talking about !