Poll: Best classic toy?

First Post!

Of course, in the category of toys I never had, but my friends did and man was I jealous, Brios were in the highest echelon.� They rated so highly that I wound up getting�them as an adult.� I just let everyone think�they were buying them for Andrew.� Hee.�

I'm agreeing with you, Lincoln Logs were my favorite childhood toy.

Dude.. I'm all about Lego's still.�
Also, you forgot GI joe's, you insensitive clod. GI Joe's are sort of a classic toy.

'Nough said.
:)

we are too damn young becca...i don't think that popples are quite classic in the same way as like silly putty and linkin logs (did you know that linkin logs were the first toy ever to be advertised on television?)

I don't even know what popples ARE!

Aren't they those little beads with an innie and an outtie and you can string 'em together by popping one's outtie into the other's innie?

No, they're the little stuffed animals that roll into balls by folding into a pocket on their backs.

oh!
Well, those are hardly classic... they were a fad toy in the 90's.

Dude...so what were the things I'm thinking of?

I remember them from the late '80's-early '90's... i don't remember the name though.

Ah, here they are! Pop-it Beads are what they were called. Close!

http://www.auctionworks.com/store/itemDetail.asp?sid=200309101433120000000038298330&sfid=24041&id=8516571

Ditto ... and I have a kid who's a few years younger than Chaya and Becca.

So ... I'm baffled in 2 different generations!

Popple lovers of the forum, please explain your fave plaything?

popples were yet another line of cute and cuddly licensed '80s toys who came with their very own cartoon. they were magical little creatures who could be rolled up into a ball. i think there were nine of them to start, and they each had a name that began with the letter p. someone with even more spare time than me has put together a crazy extensive site here.
oh, and they had an extremely inane theme song that still get stuck in my head: oOpopples, pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-popples! popples, living just for fuuuuuunnnnnn!Oo

Weebles.

'nuff said. :)

OK who else thought "Legolas" when they read Legos?

I didn't. {g}

*raises hand* meeeee! and i did it�twice, too. :D

(not! a fangirl. honest.)

I did. Sounds like a good "toy" to me...

From the adult toy catalogue?

it tasted good and bugged me bc nothing lasted. i tried to let it air dry and keep my creations. i was *SO* close once, but my freaking sister broke it apart. gr. i hate everyone. and hey, g.i. joe was pretty awesome too. i thought they had great hips..and made perfect girls, if they were wearing masks or had no facial hair. i had my own little horde of butch army "chicks". booyah.

is that weird?

I also voted for the 'doh, based mainly on taste.

I used to make doll house accessories out of play-doh. Especally food. They dried and lasted well.

Yeah, I called them Legos, too, but apparently, they're Lego bricks -- the pieces aren't called by the company name.

Reference: rec.toys.lego FAQ

Don't rail on me, I don't get it either. I'm just the messenger. :-P

-- Pauley

Bah!
They'll always be legos to me.
:)

(and, fwiw, that's what *I* voted for.)

Yeah, having been on r.t.l in highschool (and I still lurk around Lugnet) I was going to mention this off hand.

Of course, I still say Legos most of the time ;-)

And, yeah, this was a non-contest. The bricks always win! :-D

*sigh* its a good thing you're cute, geek boy. ;-)

by the way, lego makes kids jewelry now. I know what talcott's getting for Yule!

Tinker Toys. The old school kind. I tried to buy some a few years ago and discovered that they are now 33% bigger due to some morons letting kids who were way too young play with them unsupervised and the kids, having been raised by morons, then inhaling one of those toy plastic flags or something.

Or so they could sell more by lowering the age recommendation. Anyway, it sucks. Bring back normal-sized Tinker Toys! I'm still so desperate for my old set!

I loved Tinker Toys! I think I still have some in the garage.

I tried to buy some for my neice about 4 years ago�and found them to be...gasp...PLASTIC!!!! I guess they went back to wood but made them bigger anyway. I tell you, this�being adult thing sucks.

To quote Mr. Jimmy Buffet "I'm growing older but not up."

Blasphemy, tinker toys should be wood and slinkies metal.

and fire made by rubbing sticks together, eh grandpa?

Well considering that I didn't have Silly Putty or Play-Doh, managed to mangle any metal slinky that I ended up having, couldn't do much of anything with a yo-yo, and sucked with playing jacks and using the jumprope, then Legos would be my classic toy of choice. But boy could I build stuff, dammit! :) Seriously, they were an integral part of my childhood. I would spend hours/days building houses, robots, cities, or whatever my imagination fancied. Lots o fun.

I do however in general prefer the "freestyle" legos versus the sets where you have a pre-set thing you can build...sorta limits the imagination and creative spirit of a kid...oh well, just my two bits.

I always liked to take the heads off the lego people and stick them on bricks to be like...heads on pikes around the fort. :)

I did that with Barbie heads, legs and arms.� War casulties, when Ben and I were playing GI Joes.� It was cool, we'd throw a bomb at them, and all the body parts would blow off.� *grin* Not only was a a tom-boy, I was also a very disturbed child.

I liked Legos, but I found them a bit frustrating because the bricks often were hard to separate without some sort of complex lever action going on.���

That's why they didn't get my vote. You're supposed to be able to play with a childhood toy before you have a toolbox or an understanding of physics.���

I was born with a toolbox and understanding of physics :-)

I still hae the toolbox.

I.....totally don't remember submitting this poll. It must be reeeeeally old then. Or something. :)

Anywhoo...I picked silly putty because I still adore it. It's great for stress relief at work. And Mike gave me cool varieties. :)

Glad you liked the silly putty. :)

Some of the new variety stuff is really kewl. Just don't mix them or you just end up with brown.

Mike

i voted for play-doh, altho years of babysitting and daycare have taught me to hate it...seriously, have you ever tried to clean that stuff up? impossible.
i always preferred dolls above any other toys, tho. something about making up stories and being able to control my own little world.

� Yeah,� my fondness for playdoh died when I worked daycare. But I did love the stuff when I was a kid.� Maybe too much-- I broke my sister's Easy Bake Oven when I jammed it up with play doh!

�Dolls were the best. Pretend was way more fun than any game that required any level of physical coordination, such as legos, yo-yos, or jump rope.

�Although I gotta say that Chinese yoyos and jumpropes were oodles of fun.

Although I gotta say that Chinese yoyos and jumpropes were oodles of fun.

Not to mention Chinese Jump-Ropes.� Mostly used for playing Cats' Cradle.

�Actually I was talking about chinese jumpropes!� I sucked at the regular kind

I just found my chinese yo you yesterday and was playing with it.

what is a chinese yo yo?

Here you go Chinese Yo Yo

It was hard for me to decide between Play-Doh and Lego...Play-Doh wins though because you can eat it too

come ON people!!!

slinky lovers, REPRESENT!!!!!!

it walks down stairs, alone or in pairs....

it's fun for a girl and a boy!!!!!!!

plus, i gotta tellya. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrodan knew i was looking for a metal slinky the other year and sent me one for my birthday and i was so touched, i cried.

my $0.02

I was torn between slinky and silly putty. Silly putty is so random I picked it. I mean you strech it, bounce it, and pick up comics with it. How can you beat that versitility? Plus it appeals to the nerd in me. The name is derived from "silicone putty." It is also a classic example of a glass, simple one much less viscous than we are used to.

Erector Set?� I don't even know 'er!!!

What rolls downstairs, alone or in pairs
Rolls over your neighbour's dog.
What's great for a snack, it fits on your back,
It's LOG LOG LOG!

It's log! It's log! It's big, it's heavy, it's wood.
It's log! It's log! It's better than bad, it's good!

(Actually, I am of the underrated jumprope minority... c'mon, it's the classic girly toy. And I perfected the art of jumpropin'!)

Everyone loves the log!

You're gonna love it log!

Come on and get your log!

Everyone needs the log... LOG!� From Blammo!

�Personally, I've always been partial to Log For Girls.

(Actually, I am of the underrated jumprope minority... c'mon, it's the classic girly toy. And I perfected the art of jumpropin'!)

word. i was the best at it in my class. although i always really really wanted to learn how to do it with two ropes like they did on sesame street, but no-one else knew how to either. bah. :P

your mom!

My mom is NOT a toy. Put her down now before you put somebody's eye out!

*puts andrea's mom down and backs away with her head lowered* *wilt*

Mom always said: "Don't play me in the house!"

Whoa..... WTMI.

For me, it was collecting Star wars, transformers, and GI Joes. Are they classic, I guess it depends on which circles you find yerself in.

come ON, people.

oh, and barbies. yay.

For the smell!

Did anyone else have one of these? It was the most fabulous thing. It had colourful plywood critters with moveable plastic legs, that fit into one of two circus rings or you could just stand them on the floor. It also had an assortment of ladders and poles for the clowns and aminals to climb or hang from in death-defying feats. It had a seal with a plastic ball for its nose! Of course, you could put the plastic ball on ANY aminal that had a pointy enough nose.

*sigh* It was *WUNNERFUL*. The only thing it was missing was a ring of fire.

Lincoln Logs and Weebles. Now I'm all nostalgic and want to go play in the basement, except now I live in a place with a really foul basement.

like a gazebo but small and plastic with little doors around the outside that where color coded to a set of keys, in the top of each compartment is a hole that a particular animal can fit thrugh, and in each door besides the key hole is a hole that a particular shape can go through.i think it is hexagonal so it has six such compartments. i refer to it in the present tense cause, I STILL HAVE IT!

Well� I know someone mentioned weebles and I am all for that! What about Lite Brite?! I am I that old?� I used to play with that for hours!

~K

OH!� My older brother bought me a light brite when i was like 9. I loved that.� Someday, when I am all rich and have things like non-plastic eating utensils, and a dome light, i'm SO getting a light bright!

Ooh, good call. :)

Me too!� Only I never used those pattern sheets that came in the box cos it was way more fun to come up with your own designs.

I used to play with mine until the ends of y thumbs bled from pushing the little lites through...

Lite Brite rocked. Also fashion plates. Everybody looks better colored green.

Loved 'em

then

but now I want to know why anyone would make a toy that encouraged children to use the oven to bake things. Not the easy bake oven with a lightbulb but a real totally-can-burn-you-way-bad oven....

I had a jewelry kit that made enamel-look jewelry (it was really plastic) but required heating the over to 400F or so. I had this thing when I was about 8, and it was considered age-appropriate -- by some not-so-bright toy testers, I guess.

How about Color Forms? Did I spell that right? I loved those as a kid. I also loved the toy with the iron filing and the magnet that used to put a beard and hair on a face.

i actualy have one of those within arms reach at this very moment.....hey look! he's got an afro...now a mullet. hee hee hee!