[cerveza_fiesta]

I was thinking about this last night while not being able to sleep. What is, in your opinion the best toy ever invented?

I'm gonna go ahead and say

ETCH A SKETCH.

Etchasketches are an awesome toy in any conceivable sense. The Etchasketch:

• is safe for essentially all ages
• is genuinely fun to use for kids and adult weirdos that do insanely complex art on them.
• encourages artistic creativity
• is a fully reusable, long lasting artistic medium
• is nigh indestructible
• does not require power or batteries
• is super cheap
• requires at most 30 seconds of instruction even to the youngest child
• teaches a special kind hand-eye coordination.

Based on the above qualities, give you the best toy ever invented:



AMERICA (and etch a sketch) FUCK YEA

This post has been edited by cerveza_fiesta: 20 January 2012 - 03:25 PM

[Aptorian]

Motherfucking Castle Greyskull all up in this bitch!

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Perhaps only beat by the GI Joe mobile command center. AMMMRRRRICA FUCK YEAH!

[QuickTidal]

I would like to throw my support behind ALL of Apt's mentions. I had those and they all rocked ass!

Also, this was the OTHER G.I. Joe base I had that rocked.



And I'm going to add Tranformers Metroplex.

[Aptorian]

OH I knew I was forgetting something. I remember I used to hold battles between my transformers and my GI Joe. That City robot would always get in a fight with the mobile command center. Then of course those slippery Ninja Turtles would swoop in and kick everyone's ass. Mainly because they were bigger than my GI Joe and Transformer figures.

[End of Disc One]

I was always into building things.

[dktorode]

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[Mezla PigDog]

I quite enjoyed my My Little Pony Dream Castle but the less said about that the better around these parts.

Like Apt, my toys would be pitched in battle against each other. Transformers vs Barbies was worse than 'Nam! Particularly after we took scissors and felt tip pens to Barbies hair and turned them all into punks.

Not quite on topic......

[majomull]

For me it would be early 70's Tonka Trucks. They were made out of solid steel, and were big enough to actually dig and haul and all the cool stuff real construction equipment could do. The dumptruck was the best because you could ride it down hills.

[Lady Bliss]

Play-doh. Hours of moldable fun, and I even find the smell intoxicating.

This post has been edited by BlissFulnite: 20 January 2012 - 04:50 PM

[Daser]

Thats alot of indoor stuff. As soon as the ice was safe i would forget any Toys i owned and grab my skates(winter) or Soccerball (summer) and be gone.


If i do have to take something for inside and look at Cerveza`s list i would take a deck of cards.


I think it fills all the demands except that they are easy to destroy.

[bubba]

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[cerveza_fiesta]

Those are all great, but you're really just posting your favourites.

We're going for BEST toy ever invented. Give reasons too!

[Aptorian]

I am pretty sure that my toy could beat up your toy if they got into a fight, Cerveza.

[rhulad]

Lego.




Because you could build anything out of it.

[Aptorian]

 BlissFulnite, on 20 January 2012 - 04:49 PM, said:

Play-doh. Hours of moldable fun, and I even find the smell intoxicating.

I loved that stuff too. Then about 30 minutes later all the colorful playdough would somehow had turned it self into a horrible giant brownish ball of useless muddy puddy that more or less looked like the excretions of a tuberculosis patient in the end stages of his miserable life.

[Sinisdar Toste]

best toy ever invented?? well, what would the criteria be for that? first, i think staying power has to be taken into account. does it get passed down and enjoyed by generation after generation? second, can hours of fun be had, without any danger of breakage or other such problems, such as choking? third, can children of all ages play with it? fourth, does it stimulate brain activity, learning, or exersize? fifth, uh, can't think of a fifth, but with these four criteria, i think my vote has to go to the ever-popular super-soaker. just a brilliant toy. it gets kids out of the house and moving, they learn to either work in teams, or on their own to achieve water-fight victory. if you can stand, you can shoot a water-gun, and nobody gets hurt (unless your using those crazy ass high-psi backpacks).

[Use Of Weapons]

Lego tends to top surveys like this all the time. It was certainly the top of the Channel 4 100 Best Toys programme. All of the above featured, but Lego won.

[McLovin]

Hoo-wee what a trip down memory lane!

For the personal fave, I guess I gotta go with the original Kenner Star Wars action figures. We had the Millenium Falcon, X- and Y-wings, the Death Star, the Tattooine playset and the Hoth playset. I also dimly remember a Star Destroyer playset but I don't think we ever had that one. Many, many hours recreating the movies.

But to the OP, I guess I gotta second rhulad and say Lego. Because the only limits are your imagination and the laws of physics. Lego's gotten kind of corporate though, what with all the marketing tie-ins and single purpose sets.

(Even so, I covet the Lego Death Star, because that is just awesome.)

[McLovin]

And how could I forget that other staple of boyhood, the bag of little green plastic army men?

Now that was a blast...digging earthworks, building forts, and then lobbing rocks at your opponent's army. Highest body count wins

[amphibian]

The Perplexus has been such a fun toy that I have given three or four away. It's good for kids from about 6 or 7 all the way up to adults in their 70s. The simplicity of the puzzle objective (guide the ball bearing to the end of the maze) and the difficulty of actually doing so (took me months of sporadic attempts to finally beat the thing in one go) make this a truly long lasting toy.



I moved on to the Perplexus Epic, which is ridiculously hard. Currently able to get the ball to about 75 out of 125 maze positions in the puzzle.