Toys. What were your favourite ones as a child?

[wallacethepig]

Everything that wasn't school or chores was a toy.

GBA, Legos, and a whole lotta books composed my childhood. When I was really young, I played with a lot of Thomas the Tank Engine stuff. I like trains. I also had stuffed animals. While some kids would make their action figures fight, I would have epic battles between bears and elephants. To be honest, a real battle between a bear and an elephant would be 50 times cooler than a battle between two soldiers.

Now that I think about it, that really explains everything - why I like video games and why I have a good imagination. My desire to construct things with legos carried over to video games, and now I desire to construct those as well. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. It also explains why I was never a very good runner, I guess - I spent all my time inside reading, gaming, or building lego stuff.

-Wallace

 

[Touchfuzzy]

Legos did make me really like building stuff, and made me good at it. I worked for about 12 years as a building contractor working in additions and renovations.

 

[Bastrophian]

i was INSANE for "Beastwars"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think my favorite one back then was the Scorpion....dont remember what its name was. But i had ALLOT of them! Including Optimus. 

 

[Bribolox]

For me it was Star Wars action figures (original trilogy, btw).  I loved LEGO, but that was outside of my family's price range.

I remember I got a set of dominoes from somewhere and I would build a house out of them for Yoda, and the other characters would come an visit him.  No lightsaber battles or spaceship dogfights for me! LOL!  But then my imagination was sparked at a very early age by Fisher Price figures and playsets...

 

[OM3GA-Z3RO]

Good ol' lego's, had a whole treasure chest filled with them that could make up into a child size castle, it was great.