# What toys do you still have from your youth? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 11, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742 "2006-12-11T22:34:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/1 "2006-12-11T22:34:57Z")
I just found my first Teddy Bear. He was given to me my first Christmas, so that would make him 45 this year. He is bald (I used to pull his fur out and blow on it to watch it float) and missing and eye, but he is still kicking (probably in better shape than I am. 🙂 ) What do you have from your youth? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/2 "2006-12-11T22:39:59Z")
Most of the games: Monopoly, Cluedo etc. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/3 "2006-12-11T22:53:53Z")
One day my brother and I decided while playing Legos that any “guy” with more than one head was more powerful than a guy with only one head. I quickly assembled a guy with 26 heads who was the most powerful guy in Lego land. This was over 20 years ago. About 6 months back my mother found it somewhere and mailed it to me in a plain envelope without any note or anything. Mom’s a stitch. 26 headed Lego man lives on my bookshelf now. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/4 "2006-12-11T22:54:51Z")
I still have many of my stuffed animals. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/5 "2006-12-11T22:55:59Z")
I still have the yellow stuffed bunny my father gave me when I was 1 hour old. It’s seriously lacking is stuffing, and desperately needs a bath, but I’m afraid any sort of cleaning would cause it to disintegrate. So it sits atop a bookcase, out of reach of the cats (I hope.) It’s going on 52, as am I. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/6 "2006-12-11T23:05:34Z")
I still have a “Liddle Kiddle”, one of the first types of micro-dolls created by Mattel. She’s a little cowgirl-type of doll, and she came with a little rocking horse to ride, which I also still have. That must have been around 1968 or so that I got her. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/7 "2006-12-11T23:11:41Z")
I don’t have them, they’re at my sister’s (formerly, my parent’s) house. Anyway, my rocking horse (which is on springs) is there, and a pair of stilts. There’s also a death machine that involves a board with a tongue sliding over a roller with a groove. The object is to stand on it and go back and forth, trying not to lose balance and thereby be sent through a plate glass window. That’s probably it, unless there’s a Dinky car hidden somewhere. My mother gave away my trains (a Marklin and a Lionel), which is a crime against humanity. They’d be worth thousands. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/8 "2006-12-11T23:32:26Z")
I still have my beloved Jacquie, a stuffed dog that looks like a cross between a rabbit and a poodle, and is missing a tail and one eye. He got his name because he has a music box inside that plays “Frere Jacques”. At the age of two, I used to sing the song as follows, demonstrating my flawless french toddler speak (with a wee scottish accent): Frere Jacques Frere Jacques DooBeeDoo? DooBeeDoo? La la la la la la La la la la la la Ding Dang Dong Ding Dang Dong He is 30 years old. I also have a doll and a baby blanket made for my doll. ---
**Author:** ![NJ\_Kef\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b487fb/32.png) [@NJ\_Kef\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NJ_Kef_1)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/9 "2006-12-12T00:49:19Z")
None. My family moved every two to three years and we were obliged to periodically purge ourselves of unnecessary possessions. I would love to have artifacts from my childhood, but alas, they have been swept away by the raging currents of time, save for a few snapshots and the occasional odd item (such as, an ice-cream scoop, a canvas print of Renoir’s _Knight in a Golden Helmet_, my mother’s _War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things_ pendant). I envy those with visible and tangible links to their childhood. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/10 "2006-12-12T00:55:18Z")
None. We had a fire. Except my ding-a-ling… does that count? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/11 "2006-12-12T01:22:06Z")
My teddy bear. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/12 "2006-12-12T01:44:36Z")
I have a metal WWII soldier driving a brightly colored jeep. It’s a wind-up toy and he drives the jeep about the way that I drove mine. I got him in the mid-1940’s.) A wind-up metal piano with Daisy Mae at the keyboard, Pappy Yokum on drums, Little Abner dancing, and Mammy Yokum sitting on top. Some of the pieces are missing. What is the name for where they all lived? I can’t think…This was also from the mid-1940’s. My doll from when I was eight. ( Christmas, 1951) My mother threw out all of my Superman comic books. :eek: There’s much more. I never throw anything out. Sometimes I play with them. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/13 "2006-12-12T01:52:13Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] I just found my first Teddy Bear. He was given to me my first Christmas, so that would make him 45 this year. He is bald (I used to pull his fur out and blow on it to watch it float) and missing and eye, but he is still kicking (probably in better shape than I am. 🙂 ) What do you have from your youth? [/QUOTE] A balding baby lamb with it’s four legs splayed out. It came home with me from the Childrens’ Home in Jax, FL - it turned 45 this year & still can play Brahms’ “Lullaby” 🙂 VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/14 "2006-12-12T02:45:53Z")
Count me among the “still have my teddy bear” people. He sits on my shelf, torn to tatters, but still very loved. He’s 23 this year. My aunt made him out of fabric scraps and patches, so he’s mainly red and blue, but the ratio has changed many times over the years as my mom has patched his “wounds.” I also re-stuffed him when I was about 13. His name is Briar, and I’ll probably have him sitting in my room, wherever I live, for decades to come. ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/15 "2006-12-12T03:02:49Z")
I still have my Fisher-Price village, camper, and schoolhouse, with all associated Little People, furnishings and vehicles. All from the very early 1970s, back when Little People were wooden, rather than plastic. (Unfortunately, I no longer have the airplane, the circus train, or the tree-house.) My two oldest kids still play with them. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/16 "2006-12-12T03:05:40Z")
I have a double-sized Care Bear (Bedtime Bear) named BearBear that I got when I was 4. He’s 23 now and we still sleep together. I can’t sleep unless he’s propping my chin up. I think it weirds my boyfriend out, though, so the bear goes up on the shelf when he stays over. I also have all my dolls (especially my Cabbage Patch dolls) at my house and some at my folks’ house. And my dollhouse & accessories. I guess I’m too young yet (27) to have gotten rid of all of this stuff 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/17 "2006-12-12T03:20:58Z")
I collect toys (action figures) so I still have most of my childhood ones as well as plenty of newer ones! > **[Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](https://www.yahoo.com/)** > > Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo! ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/18 "2006-12-12T03:28:14Z")
The only things I have are both my late mother’s and my late grandmother’s Scrabble games. I still have all the pieces of both, including pads of paper where they each kept score of games - some with each other. The first is probably from the early '70s, but the latter is from the '50s. My wife and I play one or the other now. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/19 "2006-12-12T03:54:15Z")
[QUOTE=MissGypsy] I still have my Fisher-Price village, camper, and schoolhouse, with all associated Little People, furnishings and vehicles. All from the very early 1970s, back when Little People were wooden, rather than plastic. (Unfortunately, I no longer have the airplane, the circus train, or the tree-house.) [/QUOTE] I have the camper too, along with the rest of my Fisher-Price stuff. Most of mine are the mid-70’s when they switched to plastic instead of wood. I’ve got a bunch of those dogs (I forget his name) and the boy with the freckles and the red baseball cap. I actually have all of my toys and stuffed animals with three notable excpetions: 1. My Star Wars figures I gave to the neighbor kids because they couldn’t aford any. 2. My ‘main’ stuffed animal I gave to my first girlfriend. 3. And my suitcase of legos that I gave to my older brother when he was in college, never to see them again. This is the toughest one because my kids are in the lego-years now. I would have really liked to build some of my old sets with them. Especially the Galaxy Explorer… ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742/20 "2006-12-12T03:54:22Z")
I have a bunch of old Board games. Chess Sets, Stratego, Monopoly, Scrabble, Life, Clue, Careers and others. My orange hot wheel tracks are in the basement, I was just thinking about breaking them out for my son. I guess my collection of lead figures that I built up between 6th and 12th grade would count. I also still have my D&D, Travellar, Space Opera, Gamma World, Boot Hill, Top Secret, and other RPG books from my school days. I still use the AD&D books about 9 times per year. I still have my old baseball glove, but it is in terrible shape and I have a barely used one I picked up new 3 or 4 years ago. Outside of the Hotwheel tracks, the rest of my kiddie toys went either to my Niece and Nephew or the kids I babysat for when I was a teen. I think a few of my matchbox cars and Legos came back from my nephew for my my kids. Jim [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-toys-do-you-still-have-from-your-youth/383742.md?page=2)