Who knew that there was a toy hall of fame?

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I didn't. But there is and one of this year's inductees is the Easy Bake Oven. I loved my EBO when I was growing up. In fact, I was just thinking about it the other day. I may have to see if it's still tucked away somewhere at my parents' house. And if so, dig it out.

It's not mentioned in the story, but I also loved my Lite Brite.

What were some of your favorite toys when you were growing up?

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[tourogal.livejournal.com]

i was more of an sports-oriented girl, so balls and sports stuff were big on my list. also fun were the lego freeform kits, matchbox cars, and my brother's GI joe guys.

[tourogal.livejournal.com]

also board games and boggle.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

I wasn't really much of a girly-girl either. I liked sports a lot too. I suspect one of the big attractions with the oven was getting to eat the results. :)

I remember playing a lot of board games too. At the moment I'm remembering Scrabble and Sorry with fondness. Also Chinese Checkers.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

ooo. Chinese Checkers.

I liked that, Chutes and Ladders (when I was smaller), um, Sorry, LIFE, and Clue.

Despite my love of language, I have never cared for scrabble or boggle or their ilk. Just can't wrap my head around letter puzzles like that I suppose. It's my kryptonite. LOL

[tourogal.livejournal.com]

i had this one game called solarquest. you could buy the moons and planets. i can't find it anywhere anymore. my friend and i played it every weekend for 5 years.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

Is this (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/1836) the game you're talking about? It looks neat.

[tourogal.livejournal.com]

Oh My Joss! Yes! that's it!

(why, yes, i get excited over the little things too!)

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

I never had an Easy Bake oven, I had the Holly Hobbie version.

I loved when I was *really* little my Fisher Price castle. I was disappointed the newer versions are more "boy" or "girl" oriented.

I loved my Barbie dolls and had a killer Star Wars collection, at least for the first two movies.

And man, would we play a lot with my dad's monopoly set.

And Merlin! That's dating me. I had that Merlin toy that was all the rage. You could play tic tac toe and name that tune and a few other games on it.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

I had the Fisher Price House. My little people's family name was Fido. Yeah. I don't know why. I played with that a lot. I would do these elaborate stories with them and I would be one of the participants. I was their giant friend ("Giant Alien"? heh) that would help them do all kinds of things like get on the roof, or fly, etc.

[jungleeyedgirl.livejournal.com]

I had the Fisher Price house too. with the doorbell and the dog house painted on the back.

And I had the Sesame Street thing LP is talking about below.

I lived for Lego myself. Though Lite Brite also rocked.

I have wanted a Snoopy Sno-cone maker since I was tiny and I asked for it every year and never got it. *pouts*

[cosmicbob.livejournal.com]

Major Matt Mason and the moon adventure stuff. Also I liked the plastic dinosaurs that came in little bricks and you put them in a heated chamber and they expanded into dinosaurs. I forget the name of that.

Cosmic Pre-Schooler likes Pokemon. He used to like Thomas the Tank Engine, but not so much any more.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the name either.

You have, however, reminded me of Shrinky Dinks.

[lovelypoet.livejournal.com]

Weebles, The Fischer-Price little people Sesame Street playset, both back when they were a choking hazzard. Stuffed animals were really my biggest thing, though.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

Weebles wobble but they don't fall down. :)

I was a fan of the stuffed animals too.

[rainbow.livejournal.com]

cindy always wanted an easy bake oven but mama arlene could nto afford one. insted she got the little pans and regular cake mix put int he little pans. you could not watch it so much but it aws still neat.

lite brite and barbies and a bike with a banana seat and hands down and mousetrap and life and monopoly and latter scarbble, i member. and jacks and chinese jumprope and regular jumprope and the monkey bars at school.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I was a total tomboy, and I have to admit that some of my favorite toys were my fake machine gun (it would make a noise when fired) and the cap guns we used to have back in the olden days. They looked just like real guns, which would be scary nowadays, but we lived in a world of imagination where real people didn't get hurt.

But...I think one of my most beloved toys, for a while anyway, was Dancerina. She was a doll who came wearing a pink tutu and wearing ballerina slippers. You could pose her up on one leg, and then press the crown on her head, and she would spin around--just like a real ballerina not!. Hee.

My friends and I played elaborate pretend games where we'd act out long stories or scenarios, each of us playing various parts--kind of like improv, except it wasn't humorous at all. We were deadly serious. *g* We didn't need any toys for that.

Oh, and RadioFlyer sleds were the best.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Oh, and EasyBake Ovens... I had a Suzie Homemaker over which was *much* better. It was like an real oven with a door that opened and everything. The pans and cake mixes and stuff were also larger. It was probably too dangerous, but we loved it.

And that reminds me of Creepy Crawlers. *g*

I never had a Lite Brite. I'm not sure those were around when I would have been of an age to have one. My kids had them, though. And lyraeinne had an Easy Bake Oven, too.

I also don't think the Fisher Price Little People were around when I was young, but my younger sister had the first version of those. She had the airplane. She also had an InchWorm ride-on toy that she really loved.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

It was probably too dangerous, but we loved it.

Heh. At another forum I frequent we were talking about this and all of the toys that were popular when we were kids that wouldn't/couldn't be on the market now.

In the last generation or so, childhood in America has become much less of "survival of the fittest" proposition than it used to be. ;)