Another toy thread!

[mrblanche]

As most of you know, I'm in the "toy biz," sort of.  OK, I drive trucks full of toys around, but that counts, right?

So, another thread asked, "What toy did you always want, but never got?"

I have another question, sort of related.

What was your all-time favorite toy?

For me, it was a marble maze.

It was wooden, and made by my sister's grandfather (her dad's dad).  He was a great carpenter, and a Jewish refugee from Germany just before WWII. 

The same year he gave me and my brother this marble game, he gave her a really nice, hand-made doll house (which I saw a number of you ladies mention in the other thread).

Now, this marble game doesn't sound all that exciting.  It was about 3 feet long, with a zig-zag marble track making 4 runs between two uprights.  You could let a single marble roll down it, or put together a long line of marbles, or whatever.

The only way it could have been improved would have been for it to have two side-by-side tracks, so we could have raced marbles!  I played with it until I was out of high school; I lost track of it sometime after that, probably given away by my mother in one of the many moves she made.

How about you?

 

[Winchester]

I think that my absolute favorite toys were usually books. Even as a very young child, I loved to read and my parents always gave me lots of books.

 

[kailie]

I think my Cabbage Patch dolls were my favorite toys when I was very young. As I got older it was my Nintendo.

 

[kookycats]

My favorite was a doll house.    It had tons of furniture in it and I especially remember a little toilet and a little doll sitting on it!

I absolutely loved the doll house and when I was around 14 or so and baby-sat I gave the doll house to my favorite little girl that I took care of.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

The dollhouse my Grandpa made me!  He put electric lights in and Gram made all the curtains and bedding.  Grandpa built some of the furniture I had too.  The dollhouse is at my Mom's right now waiting for it to be "safer" for me to bring it home.  It's on a lazy susan and stand my Grandpa also built for it.  I have all the furniture and things packed in a tote.  I used to decorate it every year for Christmas along with my bedroom.  Inside and out!  One year I found lights for the outside.  It was sooo cute!  Grandpa built one for each of the Granddaughters.  He made us doll cradles when we were little too.  They are treasures for me!