Popular toys you could never get into as a child

[mvd]

I had some GI Joe figures, but I was never a fan. I focused on Transformers, Masters Of The Universe, and video games a lot more. Even as a child, I didn't want to have anything to do with real war.

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. My faves were all monster and outer-space oriented.

Models of war engines, but just to build, not to play with. No, wait, I had the bucket of green plastic soldiers.

And burned them, just to see the little strings come back down, as is so well-described in Negativland's "U2".

Edit: So I guess that excepting girl's toys, I may have had a phase including all of the standard boy's toys.

[AlCzervik]

2. Dolls, any of them.

[ChickMagic]

3. Barbie

My poor parents tried as they might to get me to like girly toys
but I wasn't having it. My Barbie got all her hair cut off. Then
she was stuffed full of black cats and tied to a fence. She made
a nice boom.

I liked my Secret Sam Secret Agent kit and my diecaster to make
toys. Ah, those were the days. Heat up an iron so hot that it
melts thick sheet plastic. Put a metal form on it so it can get
hot too. Press the plastic over the form and release toxic fumes.
I was about 7 when I did that.

I also liked the magic kits I got. That's the only thing that's
carried over to this day.

Secret Sam:

[grace0418]

4. I never liked dolls but my mom did so she'd always get them for me.

I did like my doll house, but just until I was done decorating it. I never liked actually playing with the dolls in it.

[AlCzervik]

5. one of my friends does doll restoration and in her house she has an entire

room filled with them, i swear it is the creepiest thing you've ever seen.

[grace0418]

6. *shudder* That would send me screaming from the room.

My mom was obsessed with this one doll she gave me. She kept claiming "HOW REALISTIC IT IS!" Well, it kinda was, in that it looked like a wrinkly, not-that-cute, newborn baby. But that only made it creepier because it was like something from a wax museum. Ugh!

To top it all off, my parents sold our family home when I was still in high school and hardly got to keep anything from my childhood. But my mom kept that damn doll. And a few years ago she fixed it up, bought some new clothes for it, and gave it to me (again) for my birthday. I mean, the thought was sweet I suppose, but I hated that doll when I was a kid. What the hell am I going to do with it now? I don't even have kids and if I did I wouldn't subject them to that awful thing. It just goes to show how clueless and self-absorbed she is. She never even noticed that I hid that doll at the back of my closet and NEVER played with it, EVER?

[AlCzervik]

7. eeekkk! Did you ever see the "Talking Tina" episode of the Twilight zone?

thats what springs to mind every time i see one of those "life like" dolls.

[Quantess]

8. Baby dolls.

They annoyed me.

[redqueen]

9. I could never get into most toys...

:shrug:

[mvd]

11. I lost interest fairly early

Around 10 or 11. Unfortunately, my grandparents got me this big MOTU Eternia playset as a gift, and I hardly played with it. On the plus side, I recently sold it for almost $500.

[catmandu57]

10. Tonka construction toys

Fire trucks i never liked any of that stuff.

[WinkyDink]

12. Monopoly.