with a hint of He-Man Masters of the Universe. And always my friends toy guns cause my Mom never allowed them.
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OT: Thinking of Barbie, what were/are your favorite toys? Mine. Hot wheels and Matchbox
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Hot wheels, Matchbox cars, Tonka trucks, slot cars.
Transformers and He-Man, and no Transformers did not have anything to do with the trans community in 2023. Lol
Green Army men, wiffle ball, Kenner Girder & Panel building sets, slot cars
Sticks, Rocks, mud and fights with the neighbor kid next door. Good team-building exercise and learning to sort out your own life's problems.
Used to have one of these!
And a Remco Big Ceasar shop
and submarine
And a Remco Big Ceasar shop
and submarine
And I used to have one of these bad boys and I still have it somewhere in the house!
Football in the streets. Levittown was young enough at the time for every car to be parked in the driveway.
I had electric basketball, too. That was even stupider(pretty sure that's not a word).
I wasn't big on toys as a kid. Everything revolved around sports, so I'd say my football, basketball, glove and street hockey stick. I spent every free moment at the neighborhood playgrounds playing the sport of the season.
Growing up in Reading during the 80s was awesome. All the neighborhood kids knew when and where to meet each day for pickup games. We even got together for pickup baseball in the summer.
Growing up in Reading during the 80s was awesome. All the neighborhood kids knew when and where to meet each day for pickup games. We even got together for pickup baseball in the summer.
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Really little, matchbox cars, hot wheels and tonak trucks as well as micronauts green army men and other action figures when I was little…
APBA Baseball…I had the 1979 season. I played this game through high school…I had it until my boys were born…couldn’t get them interested…
Like others, rode bikes, played wiffle ball, football and basketball…
APBA Baseball…I had the 1979 season. I played this game through high school…I had it until my boys were born…couldn’t get them interested…
Like others, rode bikes, played wiffle ball, football and basketball…
Star Wars figurines then Transformers then these:
Then one of these bad boys at age 12. Once I had transportation toys were no longer needed but hunting rifles and fishing poles were necessary.
When not playing with cars, riding bikes, playing baseball/whiffle ball, and building forts in the woods.
At some point when I was a child I told my mother that I wanted an erection set for Christmas. My mother, who was stoic and didn’t not have much of a sense of humor at all, quickly said “You already have one of those. You want an erector set” without ever breaking stride.
I find myself laughing about that that line, and the delivery of that line, more and more as time goes on. Such a perfectly delivered line!
I think they were called Lincoln Logs. Anyone remember them?
Lego along with Matchbox and Dinky Toys cars and trucks. Went perfectly together. This was in the days of only standard Lego blocks, doors and windows (1960’s). When Lego came out with gears, I built a working 3 speed transmission based on a drawing in a book I had (Time Life science series). I built all kinds of things out of Lego and not just houses - battleships, vehicles, etc.
A supply of pimple balls and a broomstick and it was games on in the streets of Kensington.
Step ball, wire ball, king, *** ball, stick ball, box ball, half ball, ……….
Step ball, wire ball, king, *** ball, stick ball, box ball, half ball, ……….
Dinosaurs, then hot wheels, hot wheel planes, those pull the cord racers were awesome, army men and mini army men by the hundreds so I could put on civil war battles, bikes which I rode in state college everywhere including 3-5 miles each way to baseball out past waffle shop. Drove the kids the root so they understood lol.
Played every game we could make up back when Smithfield circle was woods then every game at Smithfield park that could come up with.
atari then came and that helps in winters.
Sled riding down easterly parkway school down that narrow path then kids would hijack your sled by jumping on you. The goal was to make it past the path where it opens up and take it all the way down to easterly parkway road. Sledding at Centre hills down number 6. Sleds had to be worked like a baseball glove so they were not so stiff and could turn on a dime. Then toboggans where we would bail right at 6 tee before branch road.
Oh what fun we had being creative back in the day.
Played every game we could make up back when Smithfield circle was woods then every game at Smithfield park that could come up with.
atari then came and that helps in winters.
Sled riding down easterly parkway school down that narrow path then kids would hijack your sled by jumping on you. The goal was to make it past the path where it opens up and take it all the way down to easterly parkway road. Sledding at Centre hills down number 6. Sleds had to be worked like a baseball glove so they were not so stiff and could turn on a dime. Then toboggans where we would bail right at 6 tee before branch road.
Oh what fun we had being creative back in the day.
Bulldog Tank, Tonka steel dump truck, American Flyer Train.
Do kids even play pickup games any more? Or, does everything have to be organized with coaches, parent supervision, uniforms, etc.
APBA was the best. Had the '63 and '64 seasons.
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