Favorite Toys - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Mistress · #1 10-09-2006, 01:41 PM

As a spin off from Larry Delore' s thread what was your favorite toy(s) growing up and what is your favorite toy now?

1. When I was little- Legos, Lincoln Logs, Barbie and GI Joe (action figure not a doll)

2. My Mercedes Benz, whip collection and cloths.

Dee8go · #2 10-09-2006, 01:54 PM

I don't think they had Legos when I was the age for playing with them. Lincoln logs, of course. Erector sets. I loved putting together models of any and everything.

Frieda

John Doe · #3 10-09-2006, 02:19 PM

Erector sets, chemistry sets, tinker toys and pick-up sticks, then guns and camping gear. I never had an atari, ect.....

I am such a non-toy person today. Most of the super nice stuff I have is gifts. If I need something, I usually buy the nice version, but toys are a means to an end for me--not something I covet. Example: I want to catch a large rockfish, I buy an appropriate fishing rod and real. I don't sit around looking at it all day, I just throw it in the boat and go!! Same with clothes, guns, tennis rackets, golf clubs......

I bought an X-Box and one video game about 4 months ago. Played it 3 times. Stupid purchase.

#4 10-09-2006, 02:36 PM

1. I went through 4 or 5 big cans of Tinker Toys, lots of Lincoln Logs, a plastic block set that was out long before Lego’s, lots of Matchbox type cars, and a few hundred pounds of toy agricultural equipment. I wore all of this stuff out. Not batteries required, but imagination was required. Today I design automotive chassis components. I believe that the toys were part of shaping my career. Plus I was always aggravating my father from tearing things apart to figure out what was inside and how it worked. Some of my other 'toys' starting at age 8 was operating my fathers tractors and a neighbors tractors. Yah, I was young, but that was life in my community in those days. I would not have traded them for anything.

I wish that I could remember the name of the blocks. They were white and clear and there where red white sets. I remember the back ground on the label of the can was blue and there was a man standing smoking his pipe as he watched over his children playing with the blocks.

2. Today my toys are cars and power tools. I wish I had the money to own and maintain an airplane. My choice would be a Waco biplane and I would go barn storming to shake off the gloominess of being in automotive supply.

Dee8go · #5 10-13-2006, 11:50 AM

1. "Poddy" my i Pod,
2. My wood working tools
3. Sirius radio
4. Treo (It's NOT a toy! It's an important tool for doing business!)

Benzadmiral · #6 10-13-2006, 01:18 PM

Favorites as a kid:

1) Guns! Mattel Shootin' Shell pistols, especially the Western ones modeled on the Colt .45 Peacemaker. Later, the Ideal version of the U.N.C.L.E. Special pistol, with all of its attachments. (I still have a metal-and-plastic version of it, full-scale, very realistic-looking, that I got some 20 years ago.)

2) Models -- first the Aurora monsters like Dracula and the Wolfman, then cars (only built 2 Benzes, though; MB kits were rare), then sailing ships and WWII submarines, the starship Enterprise, and one or two tanks.

3) Western figurines. Hartland Corp. had an entire line of TV Western heroes, such as Bart Maverick, Paladin of "Have Gun Will Travel," Roy Rogers mounted on Trigger, etc. Later Ideal (?) had actual dolls of the U.N.C.L.E. leads (I call them dolls because you could dress them in costumes), but I was a little too old to buy 'em.

The toy that hung around the longest was the large stuffed plush doll of Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, from "Beany and Cecil." My mother kept him as a decoration after I outgrew it, and still had him when she passed away 20 years ago. His "pull the ring" speech box had long since stopped working, but he still looked good. Wish I'd kept him when I cleaned out the house. . . .

Now? My Benz, of course, and its associated toys, like the Topsider oil extractor and the plug-in compressor for keeping my tires up to spec.

Can a computer be classed as a toy? Can a good quality watch?
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Larry Delor · #7 10-13-2006, 01:27 PM

I remember playing with Tinkertoys quite a bit. Once I moved to Germany, I played with Lego's alot, and when I was older with this stuff called Fischer Technik... I had a lot of fun with that, but they were even more expensive than Lego's. Once I moved back to the States again, I started putting together plastic models (If I found a decent Benz model, I might put one together nowadays).

Today's toys? Probably the Benz's, the yard, and two silver bells upon a string

R Leo · #8 10-13-2006, 01:56 PM

As a kid:
I had (have) a pretty fair collection of Corgi and Solido die-cast vehicles that entertained me for years. I was a confirmed Benzoholic from the day I acquired that black die-cast 230SL.

As an adult:
My 300TD (a practical toy), Berry Hill Farm and, before the farm, my 16' Jonboat: Barco de Juan.

LaughingGravy · #9 10-13-2006, 09:56 PM

Small reel to reel tape recorder(same one still), which has since turned into a working collection of just about every available home recording or playback medium available for the past hundred years for audio, visual, and both.
I'm missing a wire recorder and an Edison Cylinder machine.

Hatterasguy · #10 10-14-2006, 12:23 AM

When I was real little I liked to build entire construction sites in the huge sandbox we had out back. I had a complete fleet of CAT and John Deer equipment.

I would spend afternoons digging foundations and laying down utilities for my "projects". Building runs in the family blood I couldn't escape it.

I also had tons of Lego's, built some amazing stuff with them. Lots of tinker toys, loved those things. Also had quite a large number of toy guns.

Now my toys are: cars and fishing gear, well boats to.

The only difference between adults and kids is our toys are real and cost more.

#11 10-14-2006, 12:59 AM

Model trains.
It turned twards cars and later narrowed into Diesels and turbo/supercharged gassers.

I still love trains. I get goosebumps when I feel the vibrations of 3,000-36,000+HP rolling past me.

pj67coll · #12 10-14-2006, 01:47 AM

As a kid. Model airplanes, construction toys. Mostly I was a bookworm apart from that. Now. My Mercedes Benz 240D, my rifle collection - especially my Mauser K98's. Still making model airplanes though. My girlfriends stilletto collection

- Peter.

t walgamuth · #13 10-14-2006, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by ncof300d

1. I went through 4 or 5 big cans of Tinker Toys, lots of Lincoln Logs, a plastic block set that was out long before Lego’s, lots of Matchbox type cars, and a few hundred pounds of toy agricultural equipment. I wore all of this stuff out. Not batteries required, but imagination was required. Today I design automotive chassis components. I believe that the toys were part of shaping my career. Plus I was always aggravating my father from tearing things apart to figure out what was inside and how it worked. Some of my other 'toys' starting at age 8 was operating my fathers tractors and a neighbors tractors. Yah, I was young, but that was life in my community in those days. I would not have traded them for anything.

I wish that I could remember the name of the blocks. They were white and clear and there where red white sets. I remember the back ground on the label of the can was blue and there was a man standing smoking his pipe as he watched over his children playing with the blocks.

2. Today my toys are cars and power tools. I wish I had the money to own and maintain an airplane. My choice would be a Waco biplane and I would go barn storming to shake off the gloominess of being in automotive supply.

this could be my post.

i think there were block sets in the fifties called "american bricks" or similar. we didnt have them but my first cousin had them and when at their house i went nuts building things with them! they were really great. your description sounds like them. i think i will google for some.

ok i googled them and they are called american plastic bricks. that is the set my cousin had. i had this strong urge to build something with them as soon as i saw the picture! i think i will ask for some for christmas. what a pleasant flood of memories.

tom w

Austin85 · #14 10-14-2006, 11:10 PM

Kid: Strat-O Matic Baseball
Stadium Checkers
Aurora race cars

Now: Bballl
Under the hood of the 300D

mgburg · #15 10-15-2006, 12:44 AM

First toy I remembered...

MARX "BIG TOW" - It was a white tow truck, had 2 or 4 D-cells that ran the light(s) and powered the truck around the room - it had a working "jack" that was used in conjuction w/a companion "pick-up" truck that had a swapable "good/crinkled" left front fender and a "flat" tire that used a "cap" nut to hold either the "good" or "bad" tire on the axle.

After that - a "Johnny Speed" Indy car - This thing was about 18" long, you would stand in the middle of a large, open, flat area and with the attached string, spin this thing in a circle (it had an "engine" sound-box" on board that operated in conjuction with the car's movement) 'til you'd either fell over from being too dizzy or you'd puke.

Then...a Shwinn Sting Ray "Crate" bike - I had the model w/the 5-speed stick shift on the cross-bar only...not the "springer-fork"/16" front wheel model (Those were about $50.00 more)...had that 'til I traded it in for a Shwinn 10-speed in '75...still have the 10-speed.

Lionel 027 guage train set (circa '46-'48, w/electric couplers) - This "toy" was handed down to me from my mother - it had been her brother's when he was 12-13 yrs. old, he died when he was 17 and she hung onto the set to pass on to her own boy. Most collectors don't care for this particular series too much due to "operational problems" w/the couplers themselves - my set doesn't have those problems...still works 100%, just missing ALL the catalogs and assembly instructions for the engine itself! (D*mn!)

Outside of that - the 12 guage, 22 LR, Daisy BB guns - Motorcycle ('75 Yamaha 650XS Electric) and the MB...

Yep, the big-boy toys are sure expensive...

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