If you are around 50, What was your favorite toy(s)?
 

Mine were definitely,

Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle, car, van and rocket
GI Joe with parachute
GI Joe with deep sea diving gear
Star Wars action figures
Mego Star Trek action figures
Mego Planet of the Apes action figures
Big Jim's Rescue Rig

My all time favorite is Hot Wheels orange track. I have plenty of straight and curved pieces and we had a four story home with three flights of stairs. I would hold the track down at the top of the stairs with a roller skate case full of skates. At the bottom of each stair it would hairpin to go down the next set until it got to a straight section all the way into a pile of clothes in the basement. I borrowed my Dad's stopwatch to time them and had my friend send them down. The silver Gremlin Grinder always won.

Then at some point we got Pong. JC Penny had a deal if you brought in your Pong you could get a Commodore 64 for $64. My parents did that for me and once I got the floppy drive I was on my C64 (or Atari 2600) every moment that I wasn't outside with my friends.

I was born in 1965 btw.

Please reply with your stories.

haha.....i'm not quite there...i'm a 70's baby...
but lets see..

I def had an Evil Kenevil stunt cycle...THAT THING WAS AWESOME..i always had scraped up knuckles on one hand from them scraping the ground when winding that base up..

i didn't' get into joes until the 80's

Had plenty of star wars figures..had the death star and a carrying case for the figures...

i had mego figures..i remember a few star trek ones..i had green arrow..batman, penguin.. a Batman Van.. i had the Sweat Hogs from Welcome back Kotter. (and the teacher) and their classroom.
i also had a life sized start trek phaser.

i had a sucker man..and strech armstrong..and the green monster that functioned just like stretch armstrong.
i had six million dollar man "doll"..and whatever his enemy was..he could change faces.

i had shogun warriors, and a godzilla the same size and functionality of those..i think his fist fired off..

i had SOOOO many race tracks..the kind they don't' really make today. there used to be an aisle in toys r us that was NOTHING but race tracks all put together and displayed up above the aisle...
I also did have the orange plastic tracks for the hot wheels

i had ( and loved ) Stompers 4X4s

i had pong, atari 2600, Commodore 64 ( i couldn't afford the floppy so i had the tape drive to save to..haha)

now that i think of it..I HAD TONS OF SHIT BACK THEN..HAHA..
good stuff

Any of you remember a single-wheeled racing toy from the 1970s that looked like a shiny dart, about 10"L x 3"W, with short rocket fins on either side of the tapered nose, and two larger fins with cross struts at the rear? Mine was red. You would take a thin plastic cord with teeth along one side, thread it through a hole alongside the wheel of the toy so it aligned with a matching gear built into the side of the wheel, and when you wrench the ripcord back out the way you inserted it, the wheel spun like crazy so you could set the thing down and watch it go zooming away from you for a surprisingly long distance. I haven't thought of that in 40 years. Can't remember what it was called, but it was lots of fun on a smooth surface.

Edit: Found it: Kenner SSP Racer (Mine was the "Laker Special." I suppose they were banned because some stupid kid put his finger in the gear.)

And Go Balls. I think that was their name. They were a clear plastic ball-shaped spring-loaded substitute for a yo-yo that would wind itself up, for kids who couldn't figure out how to operate a yo-yo.

Edit: Yo Balls. (Banned because some stupid kids wrapped the elastic strings around their necks.)

I also had a green plastic rocket that you filled with water and then manually pumped to build up pressure. Launched, it would shoot at least 40-50 feet in the air. Then real chemical rocketry. (I suppose that's probably banned now too.)

Remember Lawn Darts?! Ye gods, imagine the uproar if you pulled out a set of those nowadays. And I used to have guns: Han Solo's battery-operated blaster, a knock-off called the Sonic Fazer, a fairly realistic-looking set of die-cast cowboy cap-guns and holster, a crank-action pop gun, and eventually a Daisy BB gun.

I also had the original Millennium Falcon with battery-operated "sound effect." Spent a lot of hours playing with Star Wars action figures inside that.

I'm sure I'm not the only person here who rode a few hundred miles in a Big Wheel.

Good times. :D

I had stretch armstrong and my neighbor had suckerman. We pulled stretch armstrong so far his armpit ripped and this reddish jelly substance slowly leaked out after that. I think my Mom threw it out after that. :-)

We also had Jarts and clackers. My brother had his clackers break although no one was hurt. He could get the clackers really slamming hard to where if I was in the same room with him I hid behind something.

SSPs were great. I had the car and also the gyro thing that you got spinning and it was a super fast top and also it fit inside a car and could propel the car as well. It had a stand that you could balance it on while it spun too. I am trying to find the Red, Yellow Green, (Ready Set, Go) light that I believe it was for SSP but I'm not sure.

What about Shogun Warriors!!! Loved those!!!

I used to remember that I'm fond of the Star Wars action figures.

I was born in the late 70's, so my toy upbringing started in the 80's. I used to have G1 Optimus Prime, Soundwave, and I think Grimlock. So annoyed I don't have them anymore!
I also had other Transformers and GI Joes, but then I guess I stopped playing with toys as much when I discovered video games.
Started back up in the mid 90's when I got some Exo Squad figures and my collecting really took off in the early 2000's (when I started getting a regular wage :P ).

Anyway, long story short - my G1 Optimus Prime and Soundwave would have been my favourites.

My Grandfather worked for Ideal toys, every christmas we got Evil Kineval toys, I wish we would have kept them all.