Your favorite childhood toy

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

My word those people really knew how to make a buck, didnt they? Make little soft dogs with the SADDEST faces ever and no one can resist plunking down their allowance for the entire kennel!

so true!

oh and cabbage patch kids!!

My dad bought me mine when I was 2...right when they first came out. He waited in line because all of the stores were sold out and one store got an extra shipment of 100 and 100 only. He was number 37 in line.

Angianna Leoteen was her name..LOL

I still have her.

[Amby 490]

teddy rupskin...is that how it's spelled? dunno

Edited November 5, 2007 by Amber&Neil

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

teddy rupskin...is that how it's spelled? dunno

Teddy Ruxpin!!! I totally forgot!!

OH!!! OMG Cricket! Remember her? She scared the poop out of me.

SCARY!!! Click here

Edited November 5, 2007 by ~Laura and Nick~

[Mary Lou 681]

I SO loved my Barbies!!!

Board games like Hi-ho Cherrio, Don't Break the Ice, and Kerplunk lol god im dating myself now

[almaty 19]

my folks were poor..i am glad i was a boy..i always had a pull toy

[Empress of Groovy 373]

Oh dear, Cabbage Patch Kids. I was 10 when they came out and remember seeing news reports of parents beating each other up in the toy store. I never liked dolls growing up--I thought they were scary--but I did like Cabbage Patch Kids, probably because they weren't lifelike in the least. I asked my mother for one for Christmas, and she said, "You've got to be kidding me." Ha! New England mothers. Anyway, I actually did get one a couple of years later (at which point I was no longer interested, of course), as sort of a joke. It was from Sweden, and the box and adoption papers were in Swedish. Apparently they didn't sell over there, so Jordan Marsh (a now defunct department store) bought them from Swedish retailers sold them here for $50, which was about $20 more than the regular ones went for. Not a bad strategy for selling another country's unwanted merchandise!

I was able to acquire a Cabbage Patch Kid Koosa. Does anyone remember those? The box looked very similar to the CPK box, but inside was a hideous creature that was supposed to resemble a cat, I think. The one I managed to get my hands on had a brown plastic head and a body with horizontal orange and white stripes. He (she?) wore yellow shorts with rainbow suspenders. It was truly horrifying, but it was mine, dammit! I bought it with Christmas money, and when I brought it home, my mother said, "What the holy hell is that?!" "It's a Koosa!" I said, as if she was nuts for asking. A few years later, I gave it to a friend of mine to use in an art school project. I think my Koosa ended up mercifully decapitated but preserved for future generations.

My favorite childhood toy, without a doubt, was Intellivision II. It came with the BurgerTime cartridge. In fact, we got it the same Christmas that I was denied a Cabbage Patch Kid because my mother didn't want to get into a fistfight with mothers in suburban Boston.

Aw, the memories.

Score! I just found this picture on the Internet. The Koosa I had looked just like the one on the bench.

[rebeccajo 14]

my folks were poor..i am glad i was a boy..i always had a pull toy

*smacks Dean on the head*

How's your eyesight these days, brother?

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

my folks were poor..i am glad i was a boy..i always had a pull toy

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

Score! I just found this picture on the Internet. The Koosa I had looked just like the one on the bench.

I don't remember those...hmm...before my time I guess

They look cool!

[PlatyPius 5]

.22 Winchester rifle - 5th birthday

[Drew and Tik 0]

Nintendo, but before that was invented He-man and Lego was where it was at! Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys too.

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

Barrel of Monkey's!!!!

[MissStacey 1]

I remember my Cabbage Patch Doll!! Her name was Lynette Jacqueline- as far as I know it is still at my friends house when I brought it for her kids to play with. It still had it's original diaper on it when I first brought it over.

Pound Puppies, Pound Puppy Yuppies, Mon Chi Chi, Playdoh Barbershop, cookie monster with the googly eyes, lite brite, etc.

[yassmine2878 1]

OH!!! OMG Cricket! Remember her? She scared the poop out of me.

Evil! Evil Doll. I still remember the commerical "Hi Im Cricket and Welcome to my World. Lets be friends, we'll do things together, have a great ol time". AAAAAGGGGHHHHHH Little devil doll.

Board games like Hi-ho Cherrio

I loved that game. I cant remember if it was confiscated or just plain no longer useable, but I used to eat the cherries

! I remember those freaky things.

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

Here's Three:

Mr. Machine. (I don't know why.)

Tinker Toys (ONLY on a rainy day.)

Any big empty cardboard box.