- Legos: I built some bad-ass houses, let me tell you.
- Yak bak: Oh, the countless hours I spent annoying my mother.
- Tamagotchi: Mine usually died of parental neglect within a couple days.
- Those tiny plastic beads that came with those little plastic patterns that you ironed together: Edit: They're called Perler beads!
- Maple Town set: Families of rabbits and bears living in harmony.
- Miniature farm animals: It was an obsession.
- Breyer horse collection: I mostly just liked to stare at them on my shelves. They were too nice to play with.
- Polly Pocket: These days she's like 2 inches tall and has completely lost her appeal. I feel sorry for the children of the large Polly Pocket generation.
- Troll dolls: And an awesome cave house for said trolls that my artist uncle built me.
- Paper dolls: They came in every issue of my American Girl magazine.
- Computer games: When they were in their 2-D, large pixelated glory. Pepper's Adventure In Time, Oregon Trail, Amazon Trail, Number Munchers.
- Books: Even when I couldn't read, I dragged them around with me. Really, there's pictures of me "reading" books upside down to prove it.
- Old school Nintendo: Two words...Duck Hunt.
- Pogs: Really, who would have thought that stacks of small cardboard discs would be a successful toy?
- Kooshballs: Fun to throw at people. Not fun when you snap off one of the rubber tentacles in your eye.
- Colorforms: The Beauty and the Beast colorform was my personal favorite.
- Board games: 13 Dead End Drive, The Game of Life, Candyland, Guess Who?, Mousetrap.
- Creepy crawler machine.
- Sand art: Although, 9 times out of 10, I dropped the bottle upon completion thus shaking up and ruining my meticulously planned sand creation.
- Lite-Brite: I never seemed to have enough little light pegs to complete the masterpieces I envisioned.
- Crimp n' Curl ponies: The were part of the Cabbage Patch brand and had wiry hair that you could style.
feb 14 2008 ∞
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