Cabbage patch kids ( was never allowed one)
Pound puppies
All barbie and cindy stuff
I had a mr frosty but really wanted a soda stream
Operation and mouse trap were my fave games

TMNT and G.I.JOE were always my favorites.

But also building toys, like Pipeworks and Legos were great.

Mostly though just building things out of ordinary stuff. I remember my best friend and I used to make a haunted house in my basement, we'd created like a tunnel system out of carboard boxes, and put fake spiders and cobwebs through it, and we'd try to scare my little brother when he'd go through it. it was a alot of fun. Also we used to put on shows, use flashlights as spotlights, and do parodys of movies and stuff.

Most of the stuff we did really didn't require toys or anything, we'd use ordinary stuff. toys were more for when yu were alone, and i'd have battles between all of my TMNT and GI Joe action figures... but with my friends we never really played with toys.

I remember we used to also try to make our own comic books, and we'd try to come up with all new characters and draw them, and we really believed that we were gonna be the new Marvel comics. we really believed the characters we were creating would be as big as X-men or SPider man. It was exciting. We even drew a barcode on it, lol it makes no sense, but it just made it look more professional, so we'd put a barcode on the cover lol.

I miss it. *gets all nostalgic and stuff*

..yeah, never underestimate the childhood occupation of building things...my favourite thing was to build dens...and then fill them with anything I could find....I could believe they were anything from a pirate ship to an Arabian palace..the imagination was the most valuable 'toy' to have.....

..they always eventually got 'wrecked' and then I'd build another one..a much more ambitious and better one....

<immediately rates this thread 5/5 stars> Great stuff, everyone. :D

I remember when Jurassic Park came out, We created like a safari ride, where we'd put my little brother in a wagon, and then he was like in the car on Jurrassic park, and we totally set up the whole back yard like Jurassic Park. and then there'd be different areas where the wagon would stop and then one of my friends would jump out as a T-rex, and we made all sorts of costumes and had the whole thing planned out. it was so cool.

Gawd, thinking about all of this is really making me want to have kids!! It's totally making my biological clock tick louder. I forgot how cool it was to be a kid.

I'm gonna be such a cool Dad some day.

toys really are **** though, none of my favorite memories as a kid involved toys. Building other stuff out of nothing was far more fun.

Only when interwoven

Does anybody remember the Coca Cola spinner craze?

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Does anybody remember the Coca Cola spinner craze?

http://wheresgrandad.files.wordpress...05/spinner.jpg

it's called a yo-yo in America. yo-yo's were far before my time, but we did have a toy like a yo-yo it was like a sphere that had the same purpose but i forget what they were called though. It was in the 80's. It was like a sphere that had a string, and you were meant to play with it in the same way as a yo-yo, but unlike a yo-yo it had like an automatic system so that it would come back even without doing the correct motion. I'm not explaining it correctly... but it was like a sphere with a mechanism that automatically wound the cord back into it. Like if you pulled it all the way out, it would automatically come back to yur hand. I can't explain it properly, nevermind.

Yeah, they're called yo-yos here too, but this particular craze was marketed as "spinners". I remember EVERYBODY in school had one circa 1990! There was loads of tricks to learn, but I have to admit I dint get quite as obsessed as some did.

Mr Penguin?!

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i remember there was a yoyo we all had in the late 80's early nineties that was like a yoyo that wound itself back, like you didn't have to wind it back up again. I don't know if we are talking about the same thing.

It was around the same time as slap bracelets, remember those?

I remember having a Stretch Armstrong and me and my sisters all took one limb each and stretched it across the whole room and it's insides started coming out

I remember dissecting my stretch armstrong. I cut it open like a surgery though lol, i didn't even bother stretching it that much, i just cut it open and remember what looked like ooze at the time, but now as an adult i think it's basically the same stuff breast implants are made off. Like silicon gel.

Nah, the coca cola ones were proper yoyos... they were really heavy though and easy to control.

I vaguely remember slap bracelets, I don't remember having any though...either because I thought I was too cool for them or my mum wouldn't buy me them, I'm not sure :)

It was some brown stuff IIRC :laugh: was a bit of a discovery considering we thought it was indestructable!

Shag Bands!

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I remember my sister and I totally ****ing up Mr Frosty by putting flump sweeties through him :bored:

..that's one of the great things about being a parent Alex...you get to be a child twice....

...Oh LOL..how could I forget Stretch Armstrong..my boys did that as well...it actually totally freaked me out and I couldn't watch...I'm not sure why really...

TY beanie babies

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Omg what a way to go though

oh gawd, that makes me think of Troll dolls, i never got into the beanie babies, but I did go through a troll phase! (no troll jokes please, it would be too obvious)

http://www.livinginthelightms.com/troll1.jpg

TY BEANIE BABIES omg
i had about 80 so they had to be put in a seperate toy bag

and troll dolls <3 i had about 5/6 i think and they all had different names :P