I loved my Lincoln Logs! I had so much fun building with them. I bought some for my boys when they were small, but they didn’t find them as much fun as I did. I have 2 large totes of them saved for my future grandchildren. Lol
Slot cars. I would hop them up, devise track layouts or just set up a drag strip. I've even looked into getting one now for the kids and I to play with
Slot cars was very nearly my answer. We did all those things.
The Aurora Super G+ cars. They were totally the shit.
Later, I did larger scale stuff at a commercial 8 lane track. Great fun, too.
@ScottAHurst Aurora Super G+ were almost like cheating after the AFX cars. Lots of fun though.
G. I. Joe, Star Wars, Atari, bikes. Nothing else really comes to mind. Transformers. Computerized things.
A stuffed dog. I slept with even while in college. I still have it.
Mine was a stuffed teddy bear.
Books. Never was much for toys.
Oh yes. I was a bookworm too. I still have a house full of them, although now they tend to make me fall asleep. Lol.
I had a terrific Meccano set: built lots of cranes and bridges and so on. But It wasn't a toy, really, and I never liked anyone referring to it as such. I think it is a great pity such things aren't available now.
We literally rode the wheels off of our Big Wheels.
I actually had 2 favorite toys that worked together. I had a Lego block set and a plastic atomic cannon toy that shot rubber tipped missiles. I would build something with the blocks and see how many times firing the cannon it took to wreck it. That doesn't fit my personality but, hey, I was a kid.
Scrap lumber, a hammer, saw, and nails. We had (and I still own it) about 5 acres of trees and another 10 acres of land where I could dig holes and build stuff including tree houses!
Books, drawing materials, a slingshot I made for myself, throwing knives