The best toy ever

My grandpa has a bunch of old electric trains.
I used to play with them so much, he built a bunch of tracks
in his basement for me.
Passenger cars that lit up totally cool,
a coal car, mail car, and some more I'm not sure I remember right now.
The engines also smoked but you had to squeeze this liquid stuff in the smoke stack.
He says they are mine to keep, sometime later, and I want them.

I remember stopping to let people on and off.

I even had a Thomas the train complete set up.

Still do, but my gramps are waay cooler.

I could double jump but the black girls were waay better.

i actually never played with Lego as a kid, i never had the imagination, still dont now to be honest, but my OH has boxes and boxes of the stuff, as wel as jigsaws for M when hes older..

i dont really remember my fave toy...

I loved my Pocket Polly growing up!

Polly what?

Haha, I remember Polly Pocket! I had some of those, too.

I always liked playing with figurines and dolls, I liked to create stories with my characters lol

You know I grew up on a farm and although I had a some really nice toys I was more of an outside playing with my imagination type of kid. I would chase the pixies through the forest and splash around with the water nymphs in the streams. A stick was my magic wand and a hand full of pebbles was my bag full of treasure.

I did have a Wonder Woman doll which I adored tho.

Thanks AW, you have reminded me one of my favourite things as a kid. Going to our local woods and building dams in the little stream.

That was great fun, lots of us used to do it.

*hides her magic stick and bag of pebbles behind her back*

Ahem..yes. I do also so long for those times too. *cough cough* Look over there!  *runs away giggling*

No its not "kind of sad" its all the way effing sad.

No doubt about it, the happiest times involved being outside, with no toys whatsoever. Playing with your friends and using your imagination.

There are some woods not far from us where we take the dog for a walk. They back onto a couple of housing estates. I was just saying to the SO last week, that there is no sign in the entire woods of children's play.

In my day there would have been dens, and little fires, after we had clubbed together to buy beans and sausages.

The odd broken bike or scooter, and a few empty lemonade or milk bottles.

I loved my dolls the best. I love to write and it started when I was a child with my dolls. It was weird playing dolls with the other little girls because they just wanted to dress up their dolls in pretty outfits and parade them around, but that wasn't stimulating enough for me.

I had really elaborate stories with entire plots to them. I was only like 5-8 years old, but my barbies would do things like struggle with bullying in school and learn slowly how to confront their bullies, all while falling in love. They would also do things like become gymnasts. They had to do lots of practice despite the fact that their parents didn't approve of them becoming gymnasts and no one believe in them and then they would win the gold medal with a broken foot. Or they were teenagers secretly eloping with their boyfriends despite the fact that their parents didn't approve and trying to figure out how to put their lives back together afterwards.

I don't know. I had a lot of weird stories. LOL.

But when I tried to act them out with friends, they'd get mad at me because everything was supposed to be "happy" for barbie all the time and they didn't like that I had these plots where barbie had to struggle for whatever it was that she was striving for.

We used to have Barbie parties where everyone would bring
their fav dolls and we would trade clothes and stuff.
Usually a sleep over but not always.

I like your idea of making a play out of it.

You're way ahead of me on that.
Very creative.

Yes. I write every day.