Handmade wooden tops, handmade rope jump ropes, slinkies, hula hoops, tinker toys, board games, jacks, hopscotch chalk, baseballs, volleyballs, wooden baseball bats

Tinkertoys were #1 followed by Erector Sets, and Lincoln Logs

Star Wars, Lego, Transformers, He-man

1960s & 70s Breyer horses and I still love them so much. That & I loved weird shit like rubber snakes. ... super elastic bubble plastic... gumby & pokey.
I wasn't a doll person. The only dolls I ever cared about were the Sunshine family and my Alice in Wonderland Madame Alexander. I freaking HATED barbies. Hate hate hated them. (wasn't until they began making unusual ones when my girl was little that I ever appreciated them...blue fairytopia lol)

A pencil, a pencil sharpener and a notebook. I will write stories, make up rock bands, draw them on stage, made cover albums with my own creation of titles of songs, Draw everything from cowboys on horses to baseball players alignment on a play. Draw airplanes, tanks, spaceships, racecars, etc, etc, etc... best toy ever! I invented basketball and baseball games with throwing dices. Created teams, players, leagues. So of course later as adult I played some of those baseball, basketvall, football table games like Avalon Hill. My imagination and creativity was larger than all those little army soldiers and cowboys and indians I used to love so much.

I once scolded my mom for buying me dolls as a kid, but she said I preferred to dolls to the boy toys that my brothers played with (Tonka trucks, racetracks, balls of every size, blocks and logs...) The one thing that all everyone played with was a deck of cards - Cribbage, Euchre, Sheepshead, Poker, Blackjack, a dozen forms of Solitaire, I Doubt It (aka Bullshit), Crazy Eights, War, Go Fish, Concentration. We learned card tricks and how to cheat. An inexpensive way to keep a lot of kids busy for hours.

Elastic that you put around two friend's ankles and jumped over in various permutations of moves to a chant...

Interestingly, I grew up in the salt marshes of Virginia (on Chincoteague Island) and my toys were tadpoles, frogs and comic books. I've no idea what kids today would do in my situation...but it was a wonderful way to develop love for nature and imagination.

Evel Knievel's Stunt Bike! That and everything Star Wars.

I was born in 74, so I had things like Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, LEGOs, etc, but also Barbie dolls, Cabbage Patch dolls, and about a hundred Star Wars toys. I had a wee Fisher Price record player and also the cassette player. When I look back on it, it's interesting the kind of technological advances I saw in my childhood.

My favorite toy, though, was an electronics kit. Just a 'breadboard', a tonne of wires and diodes/transistors/etc, light bulbs, switches, dials, and instructions. I will say this about my parents, they weren't at all sexist when it came to kids' toys.

I had just about every gun that Mattel made in the 50's and into the 60's. I never owned a real gun and I am for gun control. Guess I got the 'Phallic' symbol quest out of my mind when I was young. LOL

Barbie. I used to dress my doll with tin foil and pretend she was an astronaut

John Deere toy tractors, Beatle cards, and bicycle.

Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs - and those little red bricks, i forget what they're called.