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?
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?