I had a Pretzel Jetzel, sort of an EZ bake oven for boys. The only cool toy I still have from my youth is an original Emenee brand Mr. Peanut peanut butter maker.
One I wish I still had was a belt-buckle Derringer. Just stick out your stomach and the pistol would flip out and shoot a plastic bullet at your victim. Caps optional.
I had one of those, too!
Damn, toys were cool where I was growing up.
Captain Power ship/gun
Even now there aren’t toys that directly interact with TV in a physical manner.
Entertech battery powered water gun
No such thing as a super soaker then, this was the best you could get outside of a water weenie. Those were homemade squirt things made from surgical tubing and pen tops. They were my favorite toy.
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That felt like a real gun. The weight, the trigger pull etc. I was like 9, so no it wasn’t some psychopathic thing.
Roller Racer
I could have sworn they called it the Dragon something and renamed it.
Magic Sand
Hydrophobic sand can be fun? Kinda, for a little while at least.
I still have my Star Trek tracer gun. And it works, much to the cats’ annoyance. One of my brothers had the rifle version but it didn’t survive the passage of time.
My sister had a Merlin. I spent a whole afternoon programming it to play “I’m Called Little Buttercup” by Gilbert & Sullivan. It amused me but confused everyone else. Those were the days.
One of the best toys we had was a set of giant Tinkertoys. All plastic, some of the rods were nearly a yard long. We built a jail once and put little brother in it. Heeheehee.
On the other hand, my older brother had a plastic pistol with plastic bullets that fit into a clip. He used to shoot me with the bullets then make me gather them up so he could do it again. I did not enjoy this.
So many…one that hasn’t been mentioned yet is Mighty Men & Monsters Maker.
yoyo
pogo stick
bicycle
spinning tops
Had me one of these:
Until it just vanished one day. 
So true. I still have my favourite stick from kiddom; I even brought it over to the UK.
And a wonderful opportunity to link to a sketch from the delightfully bizarre Snuffbox (caution: contains the line ‘Buy your kids a fucking stick!’ But it’s spoken by a vicar, so that takes some of the edge off, surely.)
I was the first person in my primary school to have a lolo ball. I was actually popular for a day.
But my favourite toy was this. Very responsible and educational, I know. But I played with that thing for hours. It came with some Dutch children’s songs (I’m Dutch) and then some weirdly melancholy Russian songs.
I actually ended up playing the harp later. Maybe this thing’s to blame.
Which one are you, Felix or Oscar? 
My contribution to the thread: My most-used toy set, from age three all the way to thirteen, was a set of large-ish, unpainted wooden blocks of various shapes, made by Creative Playthings – some hippie commune (or was it one of those non-Amish Anabaptist groups or other?) in upstate New York in the early 1970s.
Ouch, I’m starting to sound like an insufferable hipster…but really, they were great. And durable.
You had sticks? When I was a kid . . .
Did you know that if you leave your Merlin in the car (In the sun) while enjoying a day at Disney World, it will melt?
Neither did I.
JKellyMap, Felix. Definitely.
Did they make good sibling defense weapons?
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So what cool toys did you have?
I had the purple one with the big spoiler in back. Cool toy!
Awesome toy! I had a track set with two of those babies. Did you have Sizzlers? These were Hot Wheels with a motor and rechargeable battery. They ran on the regular orange track or the black, ridged, multilane “Fat Track.” The track and curves were about 4 cars wide, and the curves were hella banked. Fastest car went to the top of the curve and passed the slower ones.
A moment of jealousy: my brother had a Blue Shark. I never won a single race against it. That was one fast Matchbox.
Did you try chea…arranging the odds to be in your favor? A drop glue on a wheel.
I remember having an electric slot cars set by Tyco. Can’t remember anything about it apart from all the glow in the dark stickers and decals it came with.
I had one of those! I think that’s what started my life-long interest in the AR-15 series. When my Marauder broke, I was disappointed that I could never find another toy gun that I liked as much.
Loved those! I don’t know how many I lost in one or another of the bamboo stands.
I remember those, and had some. I also got a battery-powered Beatles Yellow Submarine for a couple of box tops and a dollar. (Four to six weeks for delivery.) I wish I still had it. I haven’t even seen one since then!
Of course! Sizzlers were great. I had the gas-pump charger with the D-cells in it. My Super Charger set (California-something? Daytona-something?) had two Super Chargers.
The 1970s version of GI Joe, the 12’’ action figures that all had beards. And I had their Mobile Support Vehicle.
Also, I had a Tonka toy fire engine (back when toys where made out of metal, damnit!) which had an attachment in the back for a garden hose, so you could hook it up in the yard and play with the water cannon.
I had all kinds of toys (mostly Star Wars, GI Joe and Masters of the Universe) but the ones that made my friends jealous because they didn’t have them too were:
One Christmas I got a toy Godzilla, Rodan and Alien (from the movie Alien). They were each about two feet tall and the Rodan was especially Boss. It had wings that flapped, claws that picked up stuff (using Rubber bands) and a jaw that opened and closed. Best Christmas ever 
Dungeons and Dragons had come out with a toy line briefly. The figures were pretty boring but I got the two Monsters they released. A Hook Horror and a cross between a Lion and a Dragon called a Dragoon. The Hook Horror was especially cool and often served as my Rancor for my Jabba’s Rancor pit. The Dragoon looked pretty but had no moving parts so was not as much fun.
