Your Childhood Must-Have Toys

[mirage86]

All this talk about Christmas is making me nostalgic. We all grew up with some awesome toys, so let's share our favorite (or not so much) childhood Christmas gifts!

[mirage86]

One that I loved for a long time was Little Miss Magic Hair. One of my sisters also had her. I think my mom took away the little hair tool, but we still could get the doll's hair wet or take her outside. The cold made her hair change to rainbows, and heat brought it back to blond. I still think she was one of the best dolls I ever had.

[wegrowsheep]

Breyer horses. Still have some of them...

[baytosa2013]

I vividly remember NEEDING a newborn cabbage patch doll! I got him and still have him somewhere.

[tiffbot]

Nov 10, 2015 22:17:36 GMT -5 wegrowsheep said:

Breyer horses. Still have some of them...

I was JUST looking at the Sears wish book today and reminiscing over the Breyer horses page!!

[pghtruelove]

A soccer ball. That was all I wanted every year was soccer stuff!

[erbear]

Legos, Barbies, and cabbage patch dolls were all big.

I remember the Christmas I got my Sega Game Gear pretty vividly. It was all I had wanted and "Santa" had buried it so it was one of the last things I opened. My mom has a great photo of me in shock! We still have that thing somewhere.

[erbear]

Omg, Furby. Mine barked once and scared the day lights out of me, so I never played with it again, lol. Another toy still at my mom's!

[littlemissgrump]

Get ready to be jealous! One year I got this incredible set of NKOTB barbies. They were obviously the hottest dudes in my barbie collection!

Turns out my mom, I mean Santa, got them on super clearance. Apparently I was a little behind the times.

I'm not sure if I got this comforter (only the comforter, not the sheets or pillows ) the same year or the next year. Again super clearance. You will be happy to know I still have it to this very day, 20ish years later. It shall be passed on from generation to generation. That's a lie. It has turned into my dog's blanket. He loves it.

And another year I got this Baby Shivers. Such a weird doll concept. I had 3 others like it, not shivers but the kind that look pretty real. I was totally into baby dolls.

Edited to add the right photo

[erbear]

littlemissgrump, I had that bed set and I had the Jordan Knight doll with the stage!

[littlemissgrump]

Nov 11, 2015 2:08:01 GMT -5 erbear said:

littlemissgrump, I had that bed set and I had the Jordan Knight doll with the stage!

Did you have the whole bed set? Lucky! I totally had the stage too! Jordan and Jonathan were my faves!

[erbear]

Nov 11, 2015 2:22:01 GMT -5 littlemissgrump said:

Nov 11, 2015 2:08:01 GMT -5 erbear said:

littlemissgrump, I had that bed set and I had the Jordan Knight doll with the stage!

Did you have the whole bed set? Lucky! I totally had the stage too! Jordan and Jonathan were my faves!

Yep! my grandma bought it for me. I'm fairly sure that's the reason we held onto it; my grandma passed away by the following Christmas. I just remember kissing Jordan every night on my pillowcase, lol.

[billyhorrible]

Nov 10, 2015 23:54:39 GMT -5 @kej0004 said:

I'm pretty sure my mother murdered somebody in a KB Toys to get me this guy.

My mom was cleaning out my dad's office last week and found his furby. She's bringing it down for LBB this weekend.

[kemdupuis]

Nov 11, 2015 7:13:05 GMT -5 billyhorrible said:

Nov 10, 2015 23:54:39 GMT -5 @kej0004 said:

I'm pretty sure my mother murdered somebody in a KB Toys to get me this guy.

My mom was cleaning out my dad's office last week and found his furby. She's bringing it down for LBB this weekend.

Your dad had a furby?!

[carolyngrace]

Nov 10, 2015 23:52:05 GMT -5 pghtruelove said:

A soccer ball. That was all I wanted every year was soccer stuff!

I hope my kid is like you

[carolyngrace]

mirage86, I always wanted that doll but never got it!!

[carolyngrace]

littlemissgrump, Baby shivers - SO WEIRD. Barbies - SO JEALOUS!

[Bluedaisy]

Kristykristyleelee, I collect the really expensive Barbies now and keep them in their boxes.

My sister and I were huge doll girls. We had a really impressive Barbie collection but also had Water Babies, Quints, Precious Places, Cupcake dolls and Cabage Patches. The Water Babies were a definite favourite in our house.

[mirage86]

Nov 11, 2015 0:02:55 GMT -5 @kej0004 said:

But actually my absolute MUST HAVE from childhood...



Mario 64, Mario Kart, and Starfox. I could still probably play them for days straight.

Oh, Nintendo! Mario Kart 64 is still the best Mario Kart version, IMO. We usually received the systems and games as a family gift from my parents so it was easier for the kids to share. NES, SNES, N64, and GameCube are all still dearly loved by me and my sibs.

[littlemissgrump]

Joolschweets how could I shatter that illusion when that is our reality!
Bluedaisy I had so many quints, they turned into the barbies babies! And the Water Babies, I saved up for so long to get one then was quite disappointed because they were so much smaller than they seemed.

For the record, my baby shivers shivering machine broke after its first bath. I wasn't too sad about that, lol!

I will try to find a photo of the creepiest doll I've ever received.

[littlemissgrump]

So this photo has a lot going on in it. My creepy doll is the at the far side of the table, then there is the childbirth ed doll sitting in a pelvis, Tommy Pickles, Dill Pickles, and giant Baby Animal. Let's be real, this is all creepy

[mirage86]

littlemissgrump, I think one of my sisters had that doll! If not, it was one that looked a lot like it. I think the doll in the pelvis is creepier...

[thecatsmeow]

littlemissgrump, it is really something when the pelvis doll is not the creepy doll at the tea party! Hahaha!

[littlemissgrump]

Ha ha! True story, the pelvis doll is the creepy one.

[mrsdee1982]

littlemissgrump - I'm dying. That's the best picture ever.

[jessila]

+1 to Quints!

I loved Magic Nursery Babies, Trolls, and Barbies. Basically small things that you can dress up.

For those of you that don't know Magic Nursery here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_J11Pzrxr8

[billyhorrible]

kemdupuis, I wish I had a picture of my dad's offices (home and work) before he died. He had QUITE the toy collection. The armchair psychologist in me says its because he didn't have his own childhood (his father died when he was 7). LBB has his old toy story dolls (Buzz and Woody), he had various Tickle Me Elmos, Furbies, and superheroes, etc.

[kemdupuis]

billyhorrible- that's neat! Also, how sweet that your LBB has some of his things. Nice connection to his grandad.

[paintdadanta]

For me it was American Girl Dolls and books along with an ungodly amount of Beanie Babies.

[erbear]

stcyct I got my first American Girl doll at 12, too. I always wanted Molly, but I got the Girl of Today who looked like me. My mom has her for me to give LO and my mom bought LO an American Girl - Julie - because she said she felt badly she didn't ever get me Molly when I was a girl. So...LO has one in a box in her closet until she's old enough for it.

They still make Samantha, but they changed her outfits. I was not impressed when I saw that!