For one thing, A Boomerang is not a toy, its a weapon. So sayeth Link.

And second, a Slinky is not a dumb toy! Slinky + Escalator = Hours of endless fun.

It's a little-known fact that another company designed their own version of the Space Hopper. I won't describe it, except to say that it was designed for adult females, and included something helped to prevent females from sliding off it.

This list of old time favorite toys brought back memories.

Rediscovering Your Favorite Toys - The All-Time Best List?


Does anyone remember Gnip Gnop and Lincoln Logs?

I had several of those type frisbees. They would certainly fly far...and if they landed in water, would sink like a rock.

I also had a pogo stick, and while I got to the point of being able to jump on it, it took way too much energy to actually get anywhere with it.

Although, a few years ago, at a New Year's Eve party, me and another guy found a pogo stick that belonged to the child of the host. We started this friendly competition with each other, on a small concrete patio where everyone was smoking. I don't know if the planets were aligned correctly, or it was the alcohol we had consumed, but for a brief period that night, we were pogo stick gods. We got to the point where we could actually jump over ten times with no hands. We'd just tighten our legs really tightly to the pogo stick. We also could jump, balance on the stick for several seconds, and then jump again. We eventually broke the kid's pogo stick in an attempt to jump with only one leg.

double post. please ignore.

I had most of these toys when I was a kid and enjoyed them. Didn't have the hippity-hop though but I used a friend's and they're fun too.

I did have a pogo stick and mastered it. I could leap up in the air and come down 10 feet away, it was awesome to do up until you fell off or the stick managed to hit you in the crotch. And let me tell you that hurts even on a girl. Oh yes it does.

This guy has to be a gamer with no physical abilities whatsoever. Poor thing.

Just checked out that link to favorite toys and I loved nok hockey.

No one listed clik-claks though (maybe because they were banned). Two hard glasslike spheres with a string and a loop. You put the loop around your finger and make the clik-clak spheres bang into each other at a high rate of speed. How many people actually lost an eye when the spheres started to shatter or got concussion when the thing hit them in the head. I don't think lawn darts were as dangerous as these things were.

I totally disagree that Yoyos and the Diablo suck. I'm on the border for the ball in a cup. I've enjoyed lots of time with all of the above.

My kids liked a lot Space Hopper. At a time anything seemed to be great as long as it is possible to race each other using it.
You should not use it in you backyard: the grass will not bounce it right. My kids used it on concrete, that worked very well.
As the sextoy is concerned there are other toys that are related to the sex industry. For example the vibrating broom celebrating the Harry Potter series. Rubber duckies are the other thing. I heard it confirmed several times, that the vibrating rubber duck beats any other vibrator.

So is a Yo-Yo

THey didn't put the ball and paddle on there either. THere is also a Family GUy episode with that in it when Stewie is playing with it. lol.

I was just about to say that. Some of them were lines with spikes on the end too.


Anyway, I'd like to point out that most of the toys on this list of toys that suck, are actually awesome toys. I love slinkies. Chemistry sets are great too, minus the obvious problems with uranium. If you could figure out the boomerang it was a lot of fun. I think I was the only kid in the neighborhood who knew how to throw one properly. A lot of these toys were great. I'd like to offer a big 'f-you' to this list and its creators.

No, that was Chris, and he replaced the toy with pictures of dirty women.

Yes, I know that one too, but there is another episode with Stewie playing with it, I think he's in the backseat of the car or something, but he talks about how he can't lose the ball because it's attached by a string. It's a real brief little part, but there is one with Stewie.