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Favorite Toy of the Century...what's yours?

Sep 14, 2012 8:35 AM

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/g-joe-favorite-toy-century-204700102.html
"The Children's Museum of Indianapolis announced on Tuesday that G.I. Joe beat out such childhood favorites as Raggedy Ann (number 11) and Mr. Potato Head (last place at number 20)."

To get their results, the museum asked the public to vote on the '100 Toys (and their Stories) that Define Our Childhood.' Museum curators had initially selected the top 100. The winners are:
1. GI Joe
2. Transformers
3. Lego
4. Barbie
5. View-Master
6. Bicycle
7. Cabbage Patch Kids
8. Crayons
9. Play-doh
10. Monopoly
11. Raggedly Ann
12. Spirograph
13. Etch A Sketch
14. Little Golden Books
15. Hot Wheels
16. Lincoln Logs
17. Candy Land
18. Roller Skates
19. Silly Putty
20. Mr. Potato Head

bobgt89 bobgt89

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Bucky balls

cengland0 cengland0
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Building blocks or similar.

mattysc mattysc
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Lego and Transformers.

90mcg112 90mcg112
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iPod Touch

birniei birniei
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Transformers
I still play with them.

Also Hot Wheels. I love those. Would spend hours playing with them

wickedd365 wickedd365
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Cardboard box and/or dirt. And siblings.

bnbsouthworth bnbsouthworth
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Tonka Trucks.

While they say they are indestructible, my brother and I were able to tear them up. However, they did last a lot longer than most of our toys.

pyxientx pyxientx
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What? No lawn darts?! WTF!

wilfbrim wilfbrim
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Lego for me...I just bought some the other day, actually.

kfujita kfujita
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Lego, the one true imagination toy!

inkycatz inkycatz
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Bicycle. We all have a need for travel, the wind in our faces, cards/balloons in our spokes, scruffy mutt on our heels.

havocsback havocsback
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Marbles. Anyone still have any of theirs?

crethwilm crethwilm
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GI Joe, of course. Many childhood hours were spent with mine.

jsimsace jsimsace
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blocks with channels + marbles.

cerberez cerberez
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Kinda funny how my mind tends to stray towards the gutter while reading this question. I will be a good girl though. ;)

dillydally dillydally
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@jsimsace: I agree! Followed by GI Jane. Fortunately, I never got a chance to play with Jane [that just doesn't sound right] so I still have a few different ones from the first run and a gaggle that were sold somewhere in the late 80s in a revival. All of the Janes are still in their packaging, never opened, think I should sell on Ebay and put the proceeds in my 401k?

drj48 drj48
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@drj48: I'd check ebay and see if any are selling.....are they worth anything to you, or just taking up space that could be converted to cash? :)

jsimsace jsimsace
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Ball in a cup!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYo5xYiyRuk&feature=related

Or log.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eusMzC7Rx7M

stile99 stile99
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pong

mkentosh mkentosh
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Nintendo

omnichad omnichad
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@omnichad: Nintendo isn't a toy. It's a way of life.

bluejester bluejester

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