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My favorite toy? Wow. I had a lot.

Well, not a lot of toys, but a lot of favorites. I only had a few toys at any given time, especially in comparison with the thigh-deep roomfuls of toys kids seem to have today. This led to me favoriting (it's a verb now, didn't you know?) most of them at some point or another.

One of my more memorable ones:

I got Castle Grayskull for my 8th birthday. I had gotten a few He-Man figures for making my first communion earlier in the year, and this rounded it off! It was my Big Gift. There was an elevator, a gun turret, a locking drawbridge and, most He-Manly of all, a chair-operated trap door that sent any unwanted guests down to an of agonizing doom atop a horrific .......printed.....sticker........of doom.....and tentacled...........doom. Hahaha!

Oh and a ladder and weapon rack. And a flag that got lost.

All with a convenient carrying handle so you could fold it up and take it to your imaginary friend's imaginary house! That was the best part.  **sigh**

After He-Man was popular, it turned into a great set to play with my Ghostbusters figures. (I told you, I didn't have a lot of toys. I learned to recycle.)

When I was even smaller I liked playing with my Playskool Tree House a lot (I remember the inside of the trunk elevator was slimy with a lubricant paste....ah, those pre-recall days....

...and there was another Weebles Tree House with a slide with little gates and a car and stuff too. That was fun. Weebles......they wobbled but they never fell down!! Remarkable.

Of course, some of my favorite toys weren't toys at all....like my grandmother's box of plastic food bins she kept under the counter (she washed them out and saved them....sherbet containers, butter tubs, everything), and her tubes of knitting needles, and the magnets from the fridge (north + north = weird!!!!) and all that other stuff that kids got a hold of before houses went on foam-covered lockdown.

What else? Hm. Well, Legos...although those were expensive and I didn't have a lot of them....Transformers....those were big Christmas items....battery-operated space guns, light-up swords, anything like that.....and I liked science sets too. Chemistry (mix it all up!) kits and microscopes. All fun.

I wasn't into Hot Wheels, Matchbox or GI Joe. I guess that's about it. Everything else was fair game.