BS: What was your favourite toy?

Subject: RE: BS: What was your favourite toy?
From: frogprince
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 07:14 PM

I had a wind-up caterpillar tractor, with a sheetmetal shell. It was hefty, powerful, had a two-speed shift, and ran quite a while on a good winding. It would pull a little trailer full of stuff like toy building blocks up a fairly steep slope. It lasted for quite a few years, until some "governing" mechanism gave out so that the spring would unwind too fast, without much power. I don't know that you can get a windup toy anywhere near that good anywhere now.

Subject: RE: BS: What was your favourite toy?
From: Bee
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 07:05 PM

Unfortunately disappeared when i was about five: my painted tin 'Four and Twenty Blackbirds' crank musical pie. It had five or six slots in the top, and at the appropriate moment in the song, tin blackbirds popped up out of the slots. You could crank it as slow or fast as you liked. I was utterly fascinated with that toy.

Subject: RE: BS: What was your favourite toy?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 06:32 PM

Mom gave away all our beanbag frogs, without anybody's permission, while I was away at college. All of us minded terribly. We had whole families of them, all but one (Aunt Sandy) made by Mom...

Subject: RE: BS: What was your favourite toy?
From: artbrooks
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 06:30 PM

It went zip! when it moved and bop! when it stopped
And whirrr! when it stood still.
I've never seen such a marvelous toy
And I think that I never will.

Subject: RE: BS: What was your favourite toy?
From: Becca72
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 06:21 PM

I loved Barbies and I still have a trashbag full stored away. I also really love my Zippy doll...stuffed monkey with plastic face, hands and feet. He had a banana in one hand that would stick in his mouth. I still have him, too. Well, I still have my 2nd Zippy.. the first one was placed just a tad too close to the fireplace one day and got a bit charred.

Subject: RE: BS: What was your favourite toy?
From: bobad
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 05:39 PM

My ding-a-ling.

Subject: RE: BS: What was your favourite toy?
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 05:36 PM

Without a doubt my Big Wheel!
And no, it was ground to dust long ago.
I wish they made an adult version.

Subject: BS: What was your favourite toy?
From: Polite Guest
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 05:28 PM

Do you still have it/them?

I still have my Trolls, Paddington Bear and Aunt Lucy.