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[Hoya Destroyer]

This shit too.

Ooh, Crossbows and Catapults!? Ha. I had that too. It was cool.

 

[synchronicity]

I guess it depends on the time frame of childhood.

My first answer would be a baseball bat, ball and glove because that consumed me, but if we're just talking traditional toys you played with when you were really little, I'd say Adventure People:

 

[Tesseract]

i had some xmen figures, wolverine and rogue

 

[EverydayBeast]

Hot wheels

 

[Cravis]

My parents didn't get rid of many of my toys but we sold the firehouse at a garage sale. I really wished I had kept it. I still have the Ecto-1.

 

[Alx]

Lego. I could make any toy I wanted with them. I made my own Transformers that (sort of) transformed into airplanes, a Mask base, all kinds of guns, a submarine that wouldn't sink because it was made of hollow plastic, bumpy race tracks for marbles, ... (oh yeah I was into marbles too).

 

[Manus]

Loved me some of the Earthworm Jim toys too.

 

[Super Mario]

So many memories here. I forgot about my Z-Bots. I loved those!

How about some attack pack?

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

LEGOs, bikes, basketball, cap-guns, GI Joes (the small, cheap ones), and fireworks.

We weren't poor but let's just say I got toys at birthdays, Christmas, and everything else was bought with allowance and chore-money.

 

[SirTerry-T]

Disclaimer
I'm an old fart.

 

[Alter_Fridge]

Transformers first, then Turtles second. The two massive toy obsessions of my kidhood

I also loved those guns that shot goo

 

[Frito_Pendejo]

Rambo and Ninja Turtles. My parents still have most of my ninja turtles in their storage but I lost all of my Rambo toys to a babysitter unfortunately.

 

[NahaNago]

he-man and those rubbery ninja turtle toys is what I can remember. I rwmemeber that we had a ninja turtle with a huge shell that would transform. I always wanted the technodrome when I was a kid.

 

[ILoveGTR]

Purple nissan skyline toy i used to play with it everyday good old days

 

[Setzer]

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

My wife still has a bunch of Ninja Turtles stuff. For our first anniversary I bought her an April O'Neil because that was the only one she didn't have as a kid. She has the Pizza thrower, multiple versions of all four turtles, Shredder, Splinter, Casey Jones, and a few of the news crew friends from April O'Neil's station. She told me she didn't have any of the bad guys (except Shredder) because who wants the bad guys as a gift?

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I hated this thing initially but grew to trust it. Anyone else have one?

 

[thefool]

 

[haxan7]

I completely forgot about those. I wonder if mine was bought for me or was a hand me down from my older sibling.

 

[G-Toasty]

I had a great, fricking hell of a time with yo-yos.

 

[bucyou]

trolling the fuck out of my family at like 6 with this

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Transformers, all day

I had so many, shoulda kept them in a box

 

[Jooxed]

 

[Thing on a Spring]

I was in on the OG VR.

 

[MetalAlien]

I guess it depends on the time frame of childhood.

My first answer would be a baseball bat, ball and glove because that consumed me, but if we're just talking traditional toys you played with when you were really little, I'd say Adventure People:

I have video of me getting that firetruck for Xmas. They weren't my favorite but I did enjoy them.

around the 2:50 mark....

 

[Doom85]

Sure, I enjoyed my Power Rangers and Ninja Turtles figures, but LEGO was my #1 childhood toy.

 

[Celcius]

When I saw this thread I was going to come in here and talk about my robot 2XL but then I see that the OP has that covered

 

[Dthomp]

He-Man
GI Joes
TMNT
WWF figures

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Am I a bad person for looking down my nose at you plebs who played with "action figures". I'm not joking. At no time in my life did they ever appeal to me.

Instead, I played with the far superior...

Setting up different ambushes around furniture and blankets was the best.

 

[morelan]

Saint Seiya and Playmobil. I don't know how popular Playmobil was in the US, but a lot of kids had them in Brazil.

 

[synchronicity]

Hot wheels

I was one of those weird kids that preferred Matchbox cars. They always seemed to have more doors that opened and movable elements.

 

[Hazzard4life]

Action Man - Talking Commander. I have no idea if this popular outside of the UK.

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

Transformers, all day

I had so many, shoulda kept them in a box

I want to go back in time and play with you

 

[thequestion]

Top 5 toy lines that got the most play when I was a kid:
1. GI Joe (this toy line got way more playtime then the others. From the scale to the articulation to the vehicle designs - everything was brilliant and perfect for my young creative mind)
2. MASK
3. Starcom
4. Superhero toys (Kenner DC Superpowers)
5. Lego (pirate, castle, space) the space sets that had the figures with black suits and solid black visors we're my favourite.

Honourable mention would go to transformers, but I enjoyed transforming them more than actually playing out adventures with them, so they got significantly less play - time overall.

 

[lingpanda]

 

[Karma Jawa]

Ghostbusters figures, Ecto-1, and the fire station.

I can't overestimate how much I loved being a kid in the '80s.

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

Bionicles and Nerf guns were my jam in my younger years!

 

[The Lunch Legend]

 

[GoldenEye Samurai]

All of my Power Rangers toys were my favorites. I also loved any Spider-Man and Batman figures I could get my hands on. Later on I also took an interest in wrestling figures too.

 

[Tesseract]

Am I a bad person for looking down my nose at you plebs who played with "action figures". I'm not joking. At no time in my life did they ever appeal to me.

Instead, I played with the far superior...

Setting up different ambushes around furniture and blankets was the best.

the best, endless hours with these things

we hunted grasshoppers outside with darts, these were our front line soldiers

it was starship troopers for kids

 

[SpiceRacz]

Loved TMNT as a kid, like a lot of others in this thread. My favorite was the Movie Stars line. They had a more rubbery texture and better articulation.

On another note, 90s Legos were the fucking shit.

 

[GymWolf]

I was more of a "let puppets fight" instead of Lego guy.

I loved mighty max and street sharks

 

[Laptop1991]

delete please

 

[Laptop1991]

my image isnt loading sorry

 

[Radical Dreamer]

Lego.

or this lmao:

 

[Ikutachi]

Lego.

 

[Dural]

My favorite toys were OG Star Wars, He-Man, MASK and GI Joe.
The Warthog was so amazing....



It had lots of great detail, came with that cool Sgt Slaughter figure, could seat a bunch of extra Joes in the back and it FLOATED! I spent hours playing with this thing in my backyard pool.

This was me, MASK being my favorite of the bunch. Still have several MASK toys though my nephew and my kids have lost a bunch of the pieces.

 

[EightBit Man]

I had so much toys, I don't even know where to begin. I had stuff from Playmobil, Fisher-Price (including Construx later), multiple M.A.S.K. sets, He-Man, GI Joe figures, Matchbox cars, Hotwheels, Micro Machines, Battle Beasts, lots of LEGO (including Technic later), a figurine from the animated series BraveStarr, the Marshmallow Man from the Ghostbusters film... I probably missed a lot, but that's what is on top of my head.

 

[EightBit Man]

Am I a bad person for looking down my nose at you plebs who played with "action figures". I'm not joking. At no time in my life did they ever appeal to me.

Instead, I played with the far superior...

Setting up different ambushes around furniture and blankets was the best.

I had these too.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Fire.