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.