Childhood toys you wish you still had

THIS!

I dropped mine and it broke.

THIS!

THIS!

THIS!

THIS!

THIS!

THIS!

And, of course,...

THIS!

All badass, but I will say that knowing "Evel" Knievel(aka Bob) as I did, my parents would never had bough that for me.

you forgot these...

THese were a favourite



and it actually played well with this stuff



This was also a favourite when visiting my grandparents. My uncle was only a decade older than me, so we got all his old toys to distract us.

I played a lot of backgammon, card games, and Atari as a kid. I can't remember too many toy-toys. I suppose I was quite fond of my lite-brite!

As cool as that would have been when you were a kid. What use would you have for it now??

OMG! I had one of those too! It used to do battle against the Big Track!

Mine had the rockets that were supposed to fire permanently glued in because some dummy went and choked himself to death.

To play with it.

OMG, yes!!!! I had almost all of the Major Matt Mason stuff back in the day. My last MMM was lost when we moved - I think it was in a bin that my father dumped in the trash to use for something else. Oh, how I loved those toys. Endless hours playing in the sandbox with the Major and his pals.

yeah, if you pulled the rubber off, those had pretty good range.
they were pretty big though... might have been an eyeball?

now, the BSG toys... they had some spring loaded choking hazards (probably lead paint on the figures as well :/)

I've got a shit ton of 20 year old Lego for that exact purpose...

GI Joe Space Capsule
Zero-M Sonic Blaster
Johnny 7 One-Man-Army

I still have my GI Joe Jeep, but it's a mess.
I still have my Mr. Machine, but he's kinda yellowed and warped.
I still have a Johnny Eagle Lieutenant .45 automatic, but the grips are missing.

I had one of those. Ah, the wonders of shooting my sister with a plastic anti-tank projectile . . .

There was a bazooka toy that I had, too. It was plastic and cardboard, with a spring in the tube that launched soft rubber "rockets." Always liked that one as well. And an M-14 that could shoot plastic bullets, again via a spring. In fact, I had a lot of toy guns as a kid. At least two sets of "old west" cap pistols, squirt guns, a Star Trek thing, a Tracer Disk gun, at least one tommy gun that you pulled back the "bolt" and it went "bbrrrrrrrt" . . .

I had the Major Matt Mason Moon Mission stuff! Also the original? GI Joe around 1967 or so. Yes, with the big scar on his face and the giant car license-plate sized dog tag! Damn that's one big dog tag.

This

Not exactly a toy but I do miss these!

Really I just want my Win '95 machine to continue functioning indefinitely.

My railroad track might have been something the baby would appreciate when he's old enough, but I'm sure he'll have better toys by then.

YES! The last set of lawn darts I played with was on a camping trip in Arizona in the 1980's. One of the coolest games ever, if not a tad risky. Definitely not a game to be played while consuming alcohol.

It's been banned for purchase in the US.

Speaking of things that can put your eyes out...

had this! The eye patch from my trick-or-treat pirate outfit came in handy that year!

I seem to recall a version of those that resembled a saturn 5. Fucking thing would plant itself in the ground!

I had that one too. It even had two stages.

Me and my Johnny Seven!
(And my Texaco Fire Chief helmet with PA!)

wow - you missed out on your true career calling! Firemen get all the hot women.....wait, you did that anyway. Never mind!

You can always make your own.

I had these as a kid.



And wound up buying them about 14-15 years ago again, still have them too. In the box.

There are people who actually do this but it's not easy. You'd need to get the fins somewhere and then do the rest. Why would someone have only the fins, or why would they give them up if they had the whole jart?