Favourite toys

[Swift]

When you were young, say 5-15 years old, what were your favourite toys, hobby's, pasttimes, ...?

thx
Swift

PS: As for option 17, I liked to make Medieval Weapons, like swords and shields, from old material, shelfs, broomsticks, etc...
My other hobby's were playing with Lego and making models of tanks and airplanes.

[Garyincinci]

My imagination was and still is my favorite toy.

[bmw318tiChic]

I always liked educational type stuff. I enjoyed (and still do) reading and writing. I have a microscope. Legos were always fun. I also enjoy doing ballet. I've done that the majority of my life. Another thing I love to do is work on my car.

[Edmond Zedo]

I don't know about you, but my favorite toy is fishing. (wtf, anyone? anyone?)
Edit: Sorry, I didn't realize English probably isn't your primary language.

[Swift]

I don't know about you, but my favorite toy is fishing. (wtf, anyone? anyone?)
Edit: Sorry, I didn't realize English probably isn't your primary language. I still know the difference between a noun and a verb. I just made my title shorter than necessery.

[Edmond Zedo]

Well, then. Why didn't you employ this valuable knowledge when crafting your poll? (No answer required)
Edit: Did you edit in that second sentence? Less than necessary is correct.

[Swift]

Well, then. Why didn't you employ this valuable knowledge when crafting your poll? (No answer required)
Edit: Did you edit in that second sentence? Less than necessary is correct. It's really sad that a lot of discussions on this board have to involve nitpicking. Such a waste of time. But then again, precision in thought and logic is a characteristic of an INTP. But still, that was a lame remark Edmond.

[Boneca]

Actually, my favourite "toys" were probably coloured stones, seashells, pine cones, buttons or whatever. They represented things in my various fantasy worlds. A simple wooden stick can be a thousand different things!
I also liked building cubby-houses and other things out of old chairs, broomsticks, tables or whatever else I could find in the vicinity. Same principle there - nothing is what it looks like.

It was even better when I was playing outside in the woods, then I didn't need toys at all. A boulder would represent a castle, a specific tree a watchtower, a brook a huge river...you get the point.

[Lee]

Transformers were great.

[Edmond Zedo]

It's really sad that a lot of discussions on this board have to involve nitpicking. Such a waste of time. But then again, precision in thought and logic is a characteristic of an INTP. But still, that was a lame remark Edmond.
I'm sure it was unnecessarily sarcastic, but where's the humor in a direct statement? Fwiw, I still think the poll title is ridiculous.

[Clara]

Wow, Boneca, my siblings and I were the same as you !

We also spent part of our time outside looking for my youngest brother, because if he went off on his own, we knew he might forget everything, and wander too far. (He climbed out the window regularly).

[Boneca]

We also spent part of our time outside looking for my youngest brother, because if he went off on his own, we knew he might forget everything, and wander too far. (He climbed out the window regularly).Haha, that would have happened to me too had my parents not insisted that I should always have a dog with me - the dog would bring me home when it got hungry. :D

[mgb]

Mine was this electronic thing. It gave you a map of circuts so you could make certain things happen. I can't remember what it was called.

[ohnoaninfp]

Art supplies! I also love Airplanes. I have a bunch of models hanging from my ceiling. I also tried to restore one of my dad's airplanes. I t was a b17 fortress.

[Sackanaka]

the "favorite" part threw me off; I did play with legos, a bicycle, board games, read fiction books (holy crap Goosebumps was addictive), and watching cartoons/anime.

[Zero Angel]

Ah, so thats where your Yahoo SN came from.

My favorite toy was legos, then strategy (board) games, though there was this one strategy videogame for Sega which was very fun to play with my father. It was called Gemfire. I also liked dogs, but stopped becoming attached to them after most of the dogs I owned died, from not being fed (nah, from chasing cars).

[Solo]

Legos were awesome. I would spend hours constructing something only to take it down to build something better. Video games have always been a great time kill and reading never gets old.

[Swift]

Art supplies! I also love Airplanes. I have a bunch of models hanging from my ceiling. I also tried to restore one of my dad's airplanes. I t was a b17 fortress. Cool! I have a B17 and a Messerschmidt hanging from my ceiling.

[Miss Anthropic]

Well, then. Why didn't you employ this valuable knowledge when crafting your poll? (No answer required)
Edit: Did you edit in that second sentence? Less than necessary is correct.
Edmond you can be such a twit at times. I know, its carefully cultivated....

I liked to read, especially in the summer when it was really hot outside I would go to the library, pick out a stack of books, find a nice window seat by an airconditioning vent and read my day away. I also liked to do puzzles, 1000 or 1500 piece jigsaw puzzles. I would get obsessive and try to do them in one sitting. I am still very particular about which ones I'll do--the picture has to be a collection of things (I have one that is all different types of shoes, another that is different varieties of eggplant) because I have a specific way of putting them together. (The more I post on here the more OCD I feel--that is a cue for Lexaphonic to sneak in and post 2 odd sentences following a quote of mine that will make me feel paranoid!) Did anyboy ever have a Creepy Crawlers set? Or Mad Libs?

[CapnEnnui]

Crates full of Legos. Those things were the best.

[Vagabond]

Building blocks, drawing/painting, board games/card games/role playing games, video games/PC games, reading comicbooks/reading fiction/non-fiction... as a very little kid, I'd play with (fake) guns and trucks, lol... eventually my mother hid that stuff and they started getting me dolls, but I enjoyed making scenarios and fantasy stories with them. So consequently, I played alone, lol. (Changing doll clothes to play grown-ups was the epitome of boredom for me. :p Better playing alone).

Obviously I didn't have any particularly favourites.

[synchronous]

(Thread title aside,...)
One item i should have checked off but didn't was listening to music. I spent alot of time outside in the woods. The toys I always wished I had was a chemistry set and a microscope. Edit: MTV Channel, Video games, PC games and game boys didn't exist during my childhood. Mind you I played Atari's video ping-ping game. It was fun to play but not too stimulating.