# Toys you enjoy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 3, 2000, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448 "2000-03-03T22:14:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/21 "2000-03-04T12:01:00Z")
I don’t know if you guys have Kinder Surprise, but they’re chocolate eggs with little assemble-able toys inside. I used to have reasonably meaty collection of those. My favourite is still sitting on my monitor 🙂 I also have a few Star Wars figurines, but they don’t do much but stand there. Unfortunately most of my toys are still in storage… * * * [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - **Shadow of the Pigeon** - Weirdo of the Night ---
**Author:** ![WillGolfForFood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/82dd89/32.png) [@WillGolfForFood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillGolfForFood)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/22 "2000-03-04T12:26:00Z")
I’ve always heard that the older the boys, the more expensive the toys. Does Golf count? I just bought myself one of those Bushnell laser rangefinders. Instantly gives you the distance within one yard for any object up to 600 yard away. Say, wanna know how far it is from my front door to my mailbox? How about from my mailbox to the corner? Wait a minute, don’t walk away… ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/23 "2000-03-04T13:45:00Z")
I loved playing with Legos, GI Joe action figurines (went pyro with one after I got tired with it), and wooden blocks (which I used to build stuff and then knock it over). I still wish I had a big bucket of lego’s so I could build buildings with them. * * * I myself am an incorrigible conlang slut. I love oral lex. ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/24 "2000-03-04T15:08:00Z")
I will admit to adoreing lego, and I am quietly addicted to pokemon snap too. I got it for the boys for xmas, and played for days till I had it completed. Very cool game. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/25 "2000-03-04T15:14:00Z")
Okay, wanna feel like a kid again? My roommate and I, totally on impulse, ran out to Meijer’s at 2:00 a.m. because we saw an ad from the paper that they had electric racing sets. Talk about fun! For months a part of our living room decore included ‘anti-gravity wall turns’, double-loops, and ‘criss-crossing crash track’. Unfortuantely, as it was when I was a youngster, it didn’t take long to break the cars… oh well, it was great fun while it lasted! ## MjS The Sleeper has AWAKEN! ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/26 "2000-03-04T15:18:00Z")
Puzzles are still my favorite. I did one of the 3-D ones of a castle. The more pieces the better. * * * _I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it._ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/27 "2000-03-04T15:23:00Z")
This is my favourite toy. [http://pw1.netcom.com/~heliboy/n61413crop.jpg](http://pw1.netcom.com/~heliboy/n61413crop.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![BrainWeasel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@BrainWeasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainWeasel)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/28 "2000-03-04T16:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by rubes: > **Two Christmas’s ago I was playing with Lego MindStorm (robotic discovery kit) and I think I blew 38 hours in one week playing with the thing. What do the teeming millions play with that was meant for youngsters?** ## I’m into the Legos, but I haven’t had a chance to try out the Mindstorms stuff yet. How complex does it get, i.e., how many commands are there? -BrainWeasel Squeaks from BrainWeasel’s Cage [http://brainweasel.home.att.net](http://brainweasel.home.att.net) ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/29 "2000-03-04T16:08:00Z")
Silly Putty and Play-Do are the best! * * * Teaching: The ultimate birth control method. **Poster You’d Most Like to Date–Female** Second Official SDMB Awards [Laura’s Stuff and Things](http://members.aol.com/lrconaway) ---
**Author:** ![AzRaek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/azraek/32/16739_2.png) [@AzRaek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AzRaek)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2000, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/30 "2000-03-05T06:55:00Z")
When I’m feeling real low and deprseed, I got over to my mom’s garage and climb up in the rafters where I keep my GI Joes, Tranformers and Fisher-Price people. Never really liked Barbie, as all my friends played theirs as mommies and mine were spies and assassins. Decepticons rule! * * * I’m not a fallen angel, I’m a risen demon. ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/31 "2000-03-04T19:48:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by PurpleCrackwhore: > **They never had any of cool toys like that when I was a kid.** Oh, come on! Youy mean to tell us that fresh dinosaur bones and living trilobites weren’t any fun to play with? Who are you kidding? 😉 * * * It’s people like me what cause unrest. :::running away as _fast_ as I can::: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/32 "2000-03-04T21:14:00Z")
My faves when I was a kid: Creepy Crawlies. Mmmmmm! Plastic Goop! And you can still get 'em… but I haven seen any Incredible Edibles. Strange Change Machine. This was a heating element with a truncated cone over it that opened up. You’d put a 1" square of plastic in it and as it heated it would unfold into a dinosaur. There was a vaccuum-formed plastic “world” for you to play with them in. When you were done, you’d heat up the dinosaur until it was soft. There was a “crusher” (similar to what they crush cars with) that you put the softened toy into. Crank it down, and you’d have a 1" square with the Mattel logo again. Cox U-Control airplanes, and the Testor’s competition. Testor’s had better planes, but Cox had better engines. Guillow’s flying balsa models. Estes rockets. Army men. I used to paint them. My friends and I would set up sides and shoot rubber bands at the opposing sides. Matches. Tinkertoys. I had this riding toy. It was a thick yellow plastic disc you sat in, with large red plastic wheels you sat between. The wheels had cranks on them for locomotion. Don’t remember what it was called. SSTs. Plastic dragsters with a big gyroscopic wheel in the middle. A toothed T-handle was inserted and you’d yank it out to get the wheel spinning. Nice’n’fast! Frisbees. Had to be real Wham-O ones. Sizzlers. Hot Wheels cars powered by a small rechargable battery. Don’t know the name of this one… A notebook-sized platform with a vertical control stick. A nylon line ran from the top of the stick to a clamp. You’d hook a plastic airplane onto the line. When you pulled the stick, the plane would release from the clamp and “fly” toward you. Try to land on the cardboard runway. Vertibird helicopter (yes, even then!). Freon-powered “jets”. These were styrofoam gliders with an aluminum, nozzled, cylinder in them. You’d stick a tube into the nozzle and fill the cyl. with Freon. When the tube came out, there was the thrust. Froze my thumb a couple of times. Oh, those heady days before Freon was bad! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/33 "2000-03-04T22:26:00Z")
Pokemon, the TV show, the figurines, the cards . . . its sick. I’m an addict. Help me. Just don’t do it 'til after “Pikachu’s JukeBox”. ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/34 "2000-03-04T22:33:00Z")
Three Bunny Mama! _Where_ on earth did you get a Merlin?! Mine died in '80, and I’ve never been able to find one since! PLEASE LET ME KNOW! 🙂 🙂 * * * VB Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. ---
**Author:** ![upstatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ce73a5/32.png) [@upstatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/upstatic)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2000, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/35 "2000-03-04T23:48:00Z")
The Greatest Invention Known to Man: NES(Nintend)-the original That system is amazing! If you haven’t played it, go to [eBay.com](http://eBay.com) and you can buy one with several games for under 50 bucks. (The most underestimated game: Duck Hunt.) Ohhhhhhhhh the memories. Thankyou for posting this, now I’m off to play Mario, which I haven’t played in 5 years. * * * R.J.D. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2000, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/36 "2000-03-05T09:36:00Z")
I have a Wheel-O. It’s hard to describe, but some of you may have had one; a handheld toy, composed of two bent pieces of metal, which form a track for a gyroscope-looking wheel. You fling it forward and back to roll the wheel along the track. I had the devil’s own time finding one; I finally got it at that old-school-toys shop the Southern Cal dopers may remember seeing on the CitiWalk. It’s the ultimate trippy toy (well, if lava lamps don’t excite you). * * * If life were always like this…if they took your guns and left this stuff…we’d live a lot better. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/37 "2000-03-05T19:25:00Z")
Oh such memories!! some of my favorites were: Harri-canary, a blue and yellow biplane attached to a cable you cranked. The crank would turn the propeller and you could control it’s flight around a circle. Similar to above and unfortunately it only worked for a day was an aircraft toy that consisted of a central pedestal with arm and cable that was attached to a plane. You had several different planes with detachable motors. A control consol was connected to the pedestal by a cable and it controlled the planes. When you worked the controls the planes flew by the thrust on the prop and you could fly the planes around the circle and up and down at high rates of speed and bring them in for a landing on a big plastic sheet that was placed on the floor to resemble country side and the airport. I really loved it but it broke Christmas day and it never work again. ☹ PS Johnny L.A. I had SST’s, Sizzlers, Verti-birds and also that yellow disk vehicle with red wheels and a believe a white swirl around it as well. ---
**Author:** ![bunnymom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@bunnymom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunnymom)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/38 "2000-03-06T10:18:00Z")
VB - I recieved the Merlin two years ago, for Christmas.It came from Target, but I don’t know if they still carry them. Love those wheel-os, and I had a ball when both my sons got race tracks this year. Too bad the cars didn’t have headlights, though… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/39 "2000-03-06T13:46:00Z")
_singing for Ril_ Wheel-O! Wheel-O! Whee! It’s a lot of fun! Icerigger, Yes, there was a white spiral on the wheels. 🙂 Remember the “Powerhouse” for Hot Wheels? The track would plug into it and there were two foam wheels inside. A T-bar on the side of the “house” varied the speed and the “motor” sound it made. The Hot Wheels car would hit the foam wheels and be shot along the track, make the circuit, and go back into the Powerhouse. I used to turn a wooden stool on its side, attach the Powerhouse to the side, crawl in, and _voila_! I had an airplane! ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2000, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448/40 "2000-03-06T13:59:00Z")
LEGO. LEGO. no S. just LEGO. * * * _what is essential is invisible to the eye -the fox_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-you-enjoy/14448.md?page=3)