Favourite Childhood Toy/Toys

[KittenNoir]

A thread for everyone to share they favourite childhood toys




Pixel Chix

My top favourite childhood toy would be Pixel Chix. They first came out with a little toy house there was different houses you could collect. I had the yellow below but I can remember spending hours playing.

Spoiler: Other Pixel Chix Toys

Tamagotchi
I loved collecting Tamagotchi's and I loved all the different generations. I have a lot of memories playing with friends and exchanging items and gifts.

Bratz

I LOOOOOOVED Bratz!!!! My favourite girls are Jade and Sasha.

I will probably keep adding more toys to the thread.​

 

[Dunquixote]

I used to collect TY beanie babies; I have over 200 of them. They don’t have the weird eyes like they do now.

I also loved the Littlest Pet Shop; again, their eyes looked different and not all as cartoony as they do now.

Polly Pockets, Power Rangers whose heads flipped to with and without their helmets (my dad sold them and some other stuff of mine at a garage sale one year without my permission; I’m still angry about that).

Those just are just some. I had a lot of toys that I loved

 

[ShawnFuzz]

Transformers, G.I. Joe figures, and the lesser known M.U.S.C.L.E men figurines. They were great for throwing at my brothers.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

I was definitely a stuffed animal kid growing up and I remember trying to collect as many Webkinz as I could.

 

[Midoriya]

Legos were pretty much my favorite thing as a child, as well as Hot Wheels.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

Loved all kinds of toys as a kid but TOMY Pokémon figurines were my ultimate #1, so many memories

I lost most of my figurines somewhere around middle school but I began building my collection back up in high school and college!
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[Sheando]

This is a fun idea for a thread!

• Stuffed animals. I had literally hundreds of them, because my grandparents were obsessed with garage sales and we always went to a ton of them when they visited. My parents kind of hated it, because I'd be spending 50 cents on an entire trash bag of slightly smushed plush wildlife that smelled like someone else's house, but I was a No Animal Left Behind kid. I collected dogs especially, and at one point I had a giant lion and a giant sheepdog that were both larger than my body, a stuffed dinosaur made entirely of leftover quilt fabrics, 13 obscure Star Wars aliens in plushie form, and a whole lot more. Here is Figrin D'an for your amusement:

• Lord of the Rings and Star Wars trading cards. There was a store near my house that sold the cards loose based on their rarity--10 cents for commons, 25 cents for uncommons, and a couple of dollars for rare ones. I was able to amass quite a collection via loose change since I just liked organizing them in my binders and didn't need the super-powerful ones. Sometimes I'd also buy bulk sets. The owner of the store liked me (I certainly never saw another 9-year-old girl in the building, or really any children of any age) so he'd save cards he knew I would like. I even had a set of LOTR cards written in Elvish--I memorized the content of the cards in English so I could impress people by translating.

(Big fan of the balrog when I was 9.)

• LEGO sets. I exclusively collected the Star Wars ones because I really liked that the ships were all their own separate, playable item that could be flown around, destroyed, rebuilt, etc. Childhood favorites included:

My trampoline, my costumes, and my GameCube were my other favorite toys as a kid, but since they don't seem as toy-ish, I've lumped them together here as an addendum to stick to the spirit of the question.

 

[princess.looking.for.frog]

i loved littlest pet shop so much as a kid and i still do! i collect them now still because they are so nostalgic and adorable. i have over 150 of them, mostly generation 2.

i collect them because they were my favourite toy to play roleplay and i created so many stories. now i have two which represent me and my boyfriend hehe

 

[BetsySundrop]

Had to go find vintage pic for mine.
This thing-

You put it around your ankle, then swing it around in a circle, hopping over it when the lemon swings around. I loved that thing.

Also, my bike. I spent hours and hours on my bike.

 

[tarepanda3ame]

One of my favorite toys in the 90’s were the cupcake dolls whose skirts turned them into cupcakes . They smelled so good, & I treasured them when I was a little girl.

 

[Corrie]

Tamagotchis, lego, play-doh, pokemon cards, beanie babies, hamtaro figures and clubhouse, skip its, bop it, litebrite, beyblades, sidewalk chalk, plastic buckets/shovels/molds for the beach, bubble wands, hot wheels dinky cars, discmans, aqua pets, poo-chi, idogs.

 

[Kamex]

My favorite stuffed animals as a child were Webkinz. I also collected Pokemon plushies and beanie babies.

I also collected a lot of Pokemon action figures as a child, as well as Legos. Never cared about Hot Wheels because they're so generic compared to other car toys.

 

[ShawnFuzz]

Stuffed animals. I had literally hundreds of them, because my grandparents were obsessed with garage sales and we always went to a ton of them when they visited. My parents kind of hated it, because I'd be spending 50 cents on an entire trash bag of slightly smushed plush wildlife that smelled like someone else's house, but I was a No Animal Left Behind kid.

This made my day! I also went to many garage sales when my grandparents visited. Although, I am pretty sure that my Nana was just buying me 50 cents of "trash" so that she could send me into people's yards to gather clippings of plants and flowers so she could root new plants without paying full price for plants at the store. She taught me how to not get caught, and if I did, what to say, (Like it was a big crime stealing pieces of plants... I will always wonder about my Nana's past though hahah).

My parents also weren't too happy with the box of garbage (treasure!) I brought home.

It always disappeared in spring cleaning.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

One of my favorite toys in the 90’s were the cupcake dolls whose skirts turned them into cupcakes . They smelled so good, & I treasured them when I was a little girl.
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I’ve always liked these dolls as well because of their simple yet clever gimmick of being able to turn inside out to become a totally different toy. I’ve also always liked the 90s Barbies because of how creative a lot of them were and also because it was one of the last times they had turning waists and bright bold makeup and earrings on almost every single doll. The fashion packs were also the best when it came to details and accessories. Now Barbie has become cheap thin fabric and the clothes often have pockets or zippers literally printed on which looks horrible and it’s even worse that outfits with patterns only are on the front half and the back is completely blank so you can’t even display the doll from the side!

Take a look:

Do you see the problem here? The pocket is so obviously a print that the spoons look too fake. There are dolls that have printed on overalls. The printing of details on Barbie clothes is getting absurd now that they’ve even printed belts on the front half of outfits!

 

[VernalLapin]

• Plushies - I especially loved my bird plushies. I had a bunch that made the birds’ calls too. I also had a penguin named Twiddle I deeply cherished. And Webkinz!!!!! Decorating my pets’ rooms was a blast.
• Etch a sketches! My mom got me two because she’s the best mom ever fr
• My Twinn - this is a defunct company now, but this was a doll that’s even nicer and bigger than American Girl dolls and it’s custom made to look like you. I named mine Aris!
• Chatimals hamster- I had so much fun with this guy, and my aunt especially loved him too. (You record a short voice message and he says it back in his hamster voice!
• Honorable mentions: Littlest Pet Shops, Polly Pockets, Lite Brite, Fijit Newbies, and that barbie stand I pretended was a smoke detector lol

 

[daisyflowers]

i had a really massive brio wooden train set made out of 3 sets that i loved to bits. also added a zoo to the train set with some animal figures. there was a crane that i got from somewhere too

used to collect gogo figures and beanie boos. was super proud to display all of them

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

The one toy I remember loving playing with are the G1 MLP toys. My older cousins had a lot of them and the castle and I’d play with them for hours mostly because they were the only toys in their house as I was four or five and they were a couple years older than my sister who was about nine. It was really innocent and I just viewed them as toys and nothing else and just made them sing and walk like little kids do with toys and even tried to have weddings for the Ponies. But because I was a boy, my sister and cousins decided one day to pack all of the toys up and keep it all locked up in my cousin’s closet which literally left me with nothing to play with and of course it upset me because I had nothing to play with. My favorite Ponies that they had were the flocked Surprise and this one I kept calling “Moonbean” because I didn’t realize that it was an M at the end of the word and it wasn’t the actual name of the Pony. All I remember is that she had purple hair. This is why I hate the idea of gender specific toys. I was doing absolutely nothing wrong or disturbing with the Ponies and only saw them as toys and used them for their intended purpose. I wasn’t having tea parties with them. I was just making them talk to each other and occasionally put on a show.

 

[Chronos314_XD]

This thing was the **** as a kid.

 

[ShinyDungeoneer]

Oh my God, Flip-A-Zoos were my CHILDHOOD. those and Flashlight Friends, I loved them. I actually still have my old Flashlight Friend.
Here is a picture of the one I own (taken from Google images, as I couldn't find a picture of my Flip-A-Zoo)

 

[Yanrima~]

When it comes to childhood toys, I'd say that I used to like Barbie dolls along with Bratz dolls and Polly Pocket. I also love the toy tea sets and I used to love collecting those.

I also like to collect Hello Kitty toys especially the plushies they used to offer at McDonald's. And lastly, the handheld water game toys in which you play ring toss and other fun little water games on.