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Favorite Toy Pollllll.

I'm currently rewriting a pretty old feature on one of my favorite action figures of all time. There's a shocker, but let's get a poll out of it. What's your favorite toy, ever? Try to stick with what you've personally owned.

Posted by Matt on 03/25/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 119 comments

Either my Sonic the Hedgehog plushie, my Prison Sideshow Bob or my faithful DVD player.

Chestnuts roasted by AngeFaitore @ 03/25/2004 5:17 PM

Anyone remember My Pet Monster? I think that was it anyway…there was a TV show and a cartoon for it. The boy would become a monster when he put on these orange handcuffs or something…It’s been so long so I don’t remember it too well. I had the toy…it was a big plush monster with blue fur i think and the handcuffs. I remember playing with that old thing for hours each day as a young lad.

Chestnuts roasted by Randy @ 03/25/2004 5:26 PM

Re: Randy’s comment — Jeez, I better get the archives together.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/25/2004 5:28 PM

Wow, Paul-
I was waiting for someone to bring up the ol’ TR.
I had a regular talking Teddy Ruxpin. He was my best friend. (And favorite toy, duh.) I carried him everywhere. I love Teddy Ruxpin, too.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 03/25/2004 5:30 PM

The Pepsi Truck Optimus Prime!
My cousin won it from collecting two halves of his picture in the cap liners and I inherited him shortly afterwards cuz he was "too old for toys!"
Hehehehehe, if only he could see us now!

Aside: I don’t have him anymore.. I bet he’s worth quite a bit too, pepsi logos on the sides et el.
Aparently he had red feet too but I don’t remember that.. *shrug*

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 03/25/2004 5:44 PM

Another great toy were those goblin puppets, the "Boglins"

Chestnuts roasted by The_Blue_Meanie @ 03/25/2004 5:45 PM

overall Barbies would probably win out but the Easy Bake Oven was great. Little bite sized cakes and brownies….and you made then by yourself! yay!

Chestnuts roasted by Emily @ 03/25/2004 5:46 PM

The Ninja Turtles pizza shooter-thing was great, though technically it was my sister’s, and Mom took it away…

I once had an "outdoor survival set" that I was thrilled about, but the dogs destroyed it before I could do much with it. And it was a major let-down that I couldn’t really cook with the plastic pot.

Chestnuts roasted by Goz @ 03/25/2004 6:02 PM

Meanwhile, click on my name for some Wacky Package stuff I found.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/25/2004 6:15 PM

Does the NES count? ‘Cause if it does, that’d be it.

Chestnuts roasted by Evin @ 03/25/2004 6:18 PM

I’m really not sure I could say which was my favourite toy. I know I gave alot of the ones I owned equal billing most of the time.

My favourite action figure-type toy was an old He-Man cycle with one of those rip cords. I was the one with enough finesse to always get it to go right, plus the floor in my room was nice and uncarpeted. Though I’ll always have a special place on my shelf for Nugget and Rath from Mummies Alive!. Rath makes up for the fact that I never had any of the snake-type characters from He-Man or GI Joe. Plus he’s a mummy. Can’t go wrong with that combo.

I figured I should mention that, because otherwise I would have to say the SNES (we got Super Mario World, Final Fantasy IV, and Secret of Mana for starting games, good choices all). Still got it, and in perfect working condition too.

Chestnuts roasted by Tonnica @ 03/25/2004 6:36 PM

I’d have to go with Ace McCloud of the Centurions line. I still want a SkyKnight suit.

Chestnuts roasted by G @ 03/25/2004 6:39 PM

The NES. Once I got that, I ignored all action figures, and even criticized my friends for wasting all their money on action figures when it could’ve been better spent on NES games.

I also had all sorts of cool Nintendo memorabilia, such as the calendars, SMB shoes, SMB underwear, SMB sticker book, Zelda hat, and more.

Hell, I annoyed my friends with the fact that I was such a Nntendoholic. Everything I talked about typically had some relationship to Nintendo, and my friends often wanted to talk about other things. But my answer to every question was still "Nintendo."

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 03/25/2004 6:46 PM

My favorite childhood toy has to be Buzz – Saw Hordak. Why? Because he’s the toy represebtation of Hordak, and since I have never seen an episode of POP (She – Ra) cartoon, my knowledge about him was based on comics and minicomics, and there he was portrayed as a much greater villain than Skeletor. Since I was totally obsessed with everything He – Man related, Hordak was "best of the best of the best" :) .

Nowadays, my favorite toy = my newes t toy, so, for today at least, my favorites are four Insecticons i got in the morning…

Chestnuts roasted by Papa_Taz @ 03/25/2004 6:56 PM

MERLIN! Oh man, that little electronic game kept me company on many a family road trip and the beeping drove my parents nuts…

Chestnuts roasted by Keri @ 03/25/2004 7:06 PM

Favorite toy? Simple, my WWF LJN wrestlers. Junkyard Dog specifically got the most use. Since I worshiped Hulk Hogan (still do to be honest), that figure was only brought into battle for special circumstances, because he was never allowed to lose. For me, it was always action figures or nothing as a kid, no fancy stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Rob @ 03/25/2004 8:19 PM

On it being time to get the archives together: Damn straight! The My Pet Monster article(s) weren’t even that long ago, were they?

Picking one toy is way too hard, so I’ll just say my Ahh! Real Monsters Ickis stuffed plushie. I always regretted not getting the Krumm w/ detachable eye balls.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 03/25/2004 8:35 PM

It would have to be my Mr T A-team figure complete with a crap toolbox and the ability to move his arms up and down. Anyone who said I was a boy for owning him was just jealous. I wish I still had him, but when we moved a few years ago my mum chucked out my collection of crap.

Chestnuts roasted by chakaflange @ 03/25/2004 8:48 PM

Gosh, this is very hard. My toys are the closest things I’ll probably ever have to children at the rate I’m going, and I loved all my toys as a kid.

I guess I’ll say my very first typewriters. Yeah, I’m fond of my dolls and action figures (including the ones I have now), but the typewriters introduced me to the world of creative writing, my hobby, life’s work, and way of keeping my sanity. Even as a kid, whenever I had a problem, I would turn to my typewriter or diary and put it on paper. It always seemed to make things so much clearer.

I got my first typewriter when I was about four or five. It was blue and white with orange keys and orange trim. It was a play typewriter and didn’t really type. Three years later, my mom got me a cheap but working plastic one for Christmas. There’s a picture of me in the one of my mom’s old bar shirts I used for pajamas, clacking away at the typewriter surrounded by unopened presents that no longer interested me. This was all I needed in the world. I’m still happiest when I’m writing, but the typewriter has now become a computer.

Other toys I loved during my youth include several Barbies (Sweet Roses PJ, Happy Birthday Barbie), Battle-Armor Skeletor, Lion-O from "Thundercats," Lady Curly Crown and Duchess Raven Waves from the now-little known "Lady Lovely Locks," Pizzaz from "Jem," and Mary, the rag doll Mom made me when I was little.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 03/25/2004 9:02 PM

My custom panited Optimus Prime.

He was orange.

Or rather, he IS orange. [I still have him in prime condition.]

Chestnuts roasted by Lincoln @ 03/25/2004 9:35 PM

I’ve had lots of toys. Hell I’m practically a grown man and I still buy toys. Most of the best toys, most the toys in general, I’ve every had were action figures.

But what wins over everything else are the LEGOs. Hours and hours of unstoppable trance like fun. I love LEGOs. And always will.

Chestnuts roasted by Don't Touch, Willy. @ 03/25/2004 9:36 PM

If I was counting Videogames as toys The NES would totally be the best toy ever followed closely by the SNES. Nintendoes what Sega Don’t.

Chestnuts roasted by Meatwad @ 03/25/2004 11:58 PM

Yes, after Nintendo came out there wasn’t much else on my mind.

Chestnuts roasted by Goonie4Life @ 03/26/2004 12:02 PM

naturekid- I also had a texas instruments computer. It rocked.

My favorite toy? I’d have to go with the NES, only because I spent more playing playing with it then doing anything else as a kid, including eating and sleeping.

My favorite toy that wasn’t video game-related would have to be my RC off-road vehicle from Radio Shack (I forget exactly what it was called). It made for countless hours of fun, especially in the snow.

Chestnuts roasted by El Bandito @ 03/26/2004 12:47 PM

definatly has to be my old computron transformer. with my ghost buster toys commin’ in all tied for second. i owned EVERY ghost buster toy and accesory so its hard to chose.

Chestnuts roasted by troy smoe @ 03/26/2004 2:05 AM

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