s/o your favourite toy as a kid

[jag01]

What was some of the popular toys when you were a kid? 
We loved the cabbage patch dolls, Care Bears, and My little ponies.

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My all time favorite was my Nintendo. I still remember the sound of super Mario brothers! Also Barbies, my little ponies and Legos. I also loved my doll house.

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We had some weird ones (it was the 80's and I'm Canadian) like Keepers and Puffalumps. I loved my Cabbage Patch dolls. I also had Potato Head Kids, which my mom kept and my kids are now playing with.

[jag01]

I forgot about keepers! I wanted one but never got one. I also loved my Popples and Pogo balls.

[penguingrrl]

I loved my little ponies when I was little and then was really into American Girls for a long time!

[cna]

My little pony, pound puppies, popples. Oh, and I loved my skip it.

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Jan 28, 2016 21:44:39 GMT -5 jag01 said:

I forgot about keepers! I wanted one but never got one. I also loved my Popples and Pogo balls.

Oh, Popples were awesome! I remember thinking my grandparents were pretty cool because they gave me one that was bright orange and lime green. I wish I still had that thing. Also, remember Koosas? Those weird Cabbage Patch animals? My sister had one and it kind of freaked me out.

[cna]

Jan 28, 2016 22:23:51 GMT -5 @leftie22 said:

Jan 28, 2016 21:44:39 GMT -5 jag01 said:

I forgot about keepers! I wanted one but never got one. I also loved my Popples and Pogo balls.

Oh, Popples were awesome! I remember thinking my grandparents were pretty cool because they gave me one that was bright orange and lime green. I wish I still had that thing. Also, remember Koosas? Those weird Cabbage Patch animals? My sister had one and it kind of freaked me out.

I broke a window with a popple.

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Jan 28, 2016 22:24:46 GMT -5 cna said:

Jan 28, 2016 22:23:51 GMT -5 @leftie22 said:

Oh, Popples were awesome! I remember thinking my grandparents were pretty cool because they gave me one that was bright orange and lime green. I wish I still had that thing. Also, remember Koosas? Those weird Cabbage Patch animals? My sister had one and it kind of freaked me out.

I broke a window with a popple.

Do tell! Now I'm curious.

[jag01]

Jan 28, 2016 22:23:02 GMT -5 cna said:

My little pony, pound puppies, popples. Oh, and I loved my skip it.

DD has a skip it. I give it a whirl every now and then to make sure I still got it

[cna]

Jan 28, 2016 22:26:25 GMT -5 @leftie22 said:

Jan 28, 2016 22:24:46 GMT -5 cna said:

I broke a window with a popple.

Do tell! Now I'm curious.

We were playing catch and I threw it really hard at my brother's head. He ducked and popple goes the window.

ETA: why in the hell did my phone change ducked to fucked? That was awkward.

[abs]

My Little Pony was probably my all time favorite. I had a million of them and my interest lasted several years.

Cabbage Patch Kids of course. I still have my 1983 original. Well, I did. DD claimed it a long time ago. Sylvanain Families (Calico Critters of today), Strawberry Shortcake, Speak and Spell, any and all stuffed animals, Shrinky Dinks, Spirograph....I could go on an on. I still have my Popple.

When I was 11 I got a Nintendo and that got played with for the next 10 years. I still have it and would love to find a way to make it work again! We are missing a lot of cables though.

I was too old for American Girl but I would have been all over that if I had been born a few years later. I'm making up for it by indulging in DD's interest.

[momin2013]

Jan 29, 2016 8:37:32 GMT -5 abs said:

Cabbage Patch Kids of course. I still have my 1983 original. Well, I did. DD claimed it a long time ago. Sylvanain Families (Calico Critters of today), Strawberry Shortcake, Speak and Spell, any and all stuffed animals, Shrinky Dinks, Spirograph....I could go on an on. I still have my Popple.

When I was 11 I got a Nintendo and that got played with for the next 10 years. I still have it and would love to find a way to make it work again! We are missing a lot of cables though.

I was too old for American Girl but I would have been all over that if I had been born a few years later. I'm making up for it by indulging DD's interest.

Well, we must be the same age, because literally of all this! I still remember the day my dad calling from work to say he heard that there were going to be a limited number of Cabbage Patch dolls at a certain store, and my mom literally ran out the door to go get me one. It was one of the originals and I loved it more than anything. I still have it, and the other couple I ended up getting, along with a Koosa (it was my brother's but I swiped it).

I still have my Sylvanian families. I used to have them all lined up on my dresser with the little sticker under each family. I also still have a few of my Strawberry Shortcakes, but my favourite of all time is the Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak. Would you believe he's been in a storage bin for probably close to 30 years and he still smells amazing (the last time I checked, anyway)?

I sold my Popple in a garage sale many years ago, and I still regret it.

Once I got into Nintendo around age 12 or so, I was addicted to that darn thing. I remember sitting in my friend's basement playing a bootleg version of Super Mario 3 for days on end until we finally beat it.

[L From The D]

Barbies
Cabbage Patch
Care Bears
My Little Pony
Sweet Secrets (anyone remember these?)
Koosh Balls
Fashion Plates
Sticker Books
Atari

[lattelady5]

Barbies and dolls when I was younger. I had an awesome doll house.

I was also pretty obsessed with my bike. Furby. Crash bandicoot on Playstation.

Eta those digipets. My sister and I had a lot.

[expectantsteelerfan]

I think I mostly played dolls with a cabbage patch doll, barbies, board games like mall maddness, but my favorite was my heart to heart bear (it had a battery powered heart that thumped when you hugged it). I was also really active and used to roller skate outside or in my basement.

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Jan 29, 2016 14:01:28 GMT -5 L From The D said:

Barbies
Cabbage Patch
Care Bears
My Little Pony
Sweet Secrets (anyone remember these?)
Koosh Balls
Fashion Plates
Sticker Books
Atari

I remember Sweet Secrets - those were the little ones that the head and hands folded into the body, right? My sister and I were just talking about those!

[L From The D]

Jan 29, 2016 19:00:20 GMT -5 @leftie22 said:

Jan 29, 2016 14:01:28 GMT -5 L From The D said:

Barbies
Cabbage Patch
Care Bears
My Little Pony
Sweet Secrets (anyone remember these?)
Koosh Balls
Fashion Plates
Sticker Books
Atari

I remember Sweet Secrets - those were the little ones that the head and hands folded into the body, right? My sister and I were just talking about those!

Yes! I found some on eBay and bought them to pass down to DD.