The best toy you ever owned

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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed

The other day I posted a question on “answer bank” and had a really good response. It seems that there are loads of people out there with fond memories of the various toys that they owned back in their childhoods.

My question was what do you think was the best or most entertaining toy you ever owned?”

The first response I got back was “etch a sketch” I too remember having one of those and got hours of fun out of it.

Next up was “Hungry Hippos” probably a game that many people have either owned or heard of. It’s an addictive game and one that you never seem to get fed up with.

Someone else said it was a yo yo and another “juggling balls” which kept them amused for hours.

Football was mentioned often using Mums washing line to make your own makeshift goalposts in the back garden. Also a boomerang.

Another real old favourite was lego which I suppose really took over from mecano.

For the girls out there it was of course “Sindy”, “My Little Ponies” and the “Barbie Doll”.

It seems that a lot of the girls were lucky enough to have their own dolls houses. Very often they have been kept in the family and passed down to further generations.

One thing I do notice is that out of all the replies there is only one game which requires more than one to play.

I wonder what that says about our childhoods or do we just prefer our own company? Maybe we were just used to amusing ourselves better, that’s my theory anyway!

When I look at all the different toys I think what strikes me most is the lack of computer games. It looks like the good old fashioned traditional toys are the ones that seem to stand the test of time and its those that we remember best!

What do you think?

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