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October 2011 Moms
SarahOrca
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What was your fave toy as a kid?
SarahOrca
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A co-worker & I were just reminiscing about some of our favorite toys we had as kids.I'm a girl of the 80s... I loved my Lil Miss Dress-Up doll....where you filled metal-tipped wands with either hot or cold water & could draw on her clothes & part of her hair (turning it pink or blue). I was also a fan of Barbies & telling stories with Barbies (i.e. creating weddings, dates, playing house, etc.)So, on this random, sleepy Thursday afternoon, I ask.... what was your favorite toy/toy theme? I love hearing what other people have to say...it often sparks my own memories of long-forgotten toys 
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Re: What was your fave toy as a kid?
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Mud.
Sticks.
My tea set that I used to make 100 mud pies (I was very proud).
We lived on a farm and I was a tom-boy.
I did like my hand-me-down Barbies but I have never once in my life had a new Barbie all my own. Oh - and my hand-me-down plastic horses.
Hot Wheels. Remember those plastic bikes with the big front wheel? I had a pink one, and rode that thing all over the place.
Oh I had soo many of those toys!! Cabbage Patch for sure, Lite Brite (I used to write messages to Santa and leave it in my window!!)
Also, my BFF and I had these bikes...sorta? We called them Big Wheelers cuz they had HUGE wheels and you were basically sitting on the ground and when you pedalled your knees would come up to your armpits.. but they were awesome. Mine was Mickey and hers was Cabbage Patch.
This! I loved all those things and also Barbie and Strawberry Shortcake dolls.
My favorite were these cloth dolls with hard plastic heads, shoes and hands.. Playground Kids. My sister and I would play with those and Barbies for hours a day. Too fun. Can we transport back in time for a day and play with all these toys?
Oh yeah can't forget Strawberry Shortcake! My whole room was decorated this way. Remember how they use to actually be scented? I smell that fake strawberry now and it takes me right back!
I also was a child of the 80's/early 90's. I have many:
My Little Ponies
Teddy Ruxpin
Popples
Pound Puppies
Barbies
Rainbow Brite
Lite Bright
All of those above, plus....
MONCHICHI!!!
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
~ Winston Churchill
Ahhhh! I had a mom one & a baby one!! I totally forgot about these little guys
Pound Puppies
Lite Brite
Cabbage Patch Kids
Alfie (the thing that was shaped like a robot and talked to you telling you shape and math and you had to pick the correct answer - they now sell them again at Toys'R'Us)
I loved playing outside so I was a fan of the mud and making mud pies, drawing in mud with sticks, making grass "forts" after my parents mowed the lawn, etc.
legos
Barbies
glow worms
rainbowbrite dolls
rose petal dolls
match box cars
funny remeber all the old cartoons, my husband is downloading a bunch for my kids they love Smurfs, Gummy bears, Rainbowbrite, just as much as we did as kids.
I LOVED my Teddy Ruxpin to death. I was infatuated with that toy, lol.
I also loved this stuffed Catz plushie. It was a black cat with white paws and mouth. I named her Boots. It had accessories that made sounds when they came in contact with certain parts of the cat. The brush made the cat purr. The bowl of food made the cat make munching noises. I loved that thing. Since its mysterious disappearance many many years ago, I have found a gray one on ebay in great condition but without the accessories. I have it around to remind me.
I used to write books about Boots. And my brother and I would use his Knex which were also awesome toys... and we'd build things like elaborate cars to transport Boots and his Dogz plushie around. It was so fun.
Most of my favorite toys were stuffed animals. I had a vivid imagination and would just create worlds with them as its inhabitants.
Aah!! I had one of these but I called it "Monkey Doodle"
I had this awesome stuffed animal that was a big purple bunny. His ears and tails tucked in and he had a jellybean design on his tummy. My stupid neighbor stole it and I don't know what it was called
I also LOVED strawberry shortcake and my little ponies. I had this little strawberry house and a strawberry shortcake doll with accessories etc. Loved it! Oh, and the stuffed animals that had a velcro opening in their stomach and had babies inside I had a dog, my sister had the cat, and my oldest sister had a bunny.