What was the coolest toy you had as a kid?

[YY1]

I took a brief dive into 1/35 military models around 1983-85.
Patton tank
Ford "Mutt"
Field command center and officers.

I could see that was gonna be a "rabbit hole" before such term was in common use.
Had to resist (and save the $$$)

...after a long 1/72 scale stint.

 

[polywideblock]

I had a break from making models for about 20 years

 

[polywideblock]

 

[DeltaV]

Top three:

 

[Krooser]

I had the Remco Submarine. I was really into subs as a kid. About 3rd.grade, Superballs came out. I thought they were awesome. About 2.5" in diameter. I remember they cost $1.

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Cast iron John Deere pedal tractor.

We didn’t own a car when I was 8 so my Dad and I brought it home on the city bus.

 

[hanks73340]

GI Joe remote control tank. Got one for Christmas in 1962. Then in the summer of 63 while playing army with the other guys, they set it on fire stating that it got hit by German artillery. I hunted each one down over the next week and beat the snot out of them, Finally the parents of one of the guys actually apologized and bought me a new one. Then within the next week my dumbass dog chewed the **** out of it. Ended up getting an Erector set after Anger Management.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

MR50. Started riding when I was 9

Honda

 

[autoxcuda]

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I've got a brand new in the box #7 Daytona with headlights with some stuff I bought.

Shown on upper left of that picture.

 

[j-c-c-62]

Does an 18 year old qualify as a kid?

In my freshmen year at GT I was stuck on campus for Thanksgiving weekend. We weren't allowed personal cars. I had been toying with building the small hobby rockets. So, one afternoon during the break, me and a couple of roommates (one an AE, became a Honda Jet test pilot) walked over to the nearby vacant soccer field to launch a few rockets. You must remember GT was a Deep south very conservative campus, but not the case with other campuses during Vietnam. So, we launched one, everything went fine. Was prepping another mid field and had all the wires strung out and had the rocket mounted and I saw a Campus security Guard entering from the corner of the field and he was making a beeline for the rocket. He was a bit overweight, and I figured I could get to the launch controller before he could get to the rocket, so it became a race. I wasn't expecting him to draw his gun, like he was going to shoot the rocket??
Anyway, I won the race, perfect launch.
The Security was PO.
What we had not taken into consideration was the College President lived adjacent to the soccer field just behind the tree line out of sight.
Regardless, we had a blast, literally.

 

[Coelacanth]

I've got a brand new in the box #7 Daytona with headlights with some stuff I bought.

Shown on upper left of that picture.

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I loved AFX slot cars as a kid, and still do as an adult. I drafted a track layout back in my 20's that had the exact same number of outside curves for each lane, so that racing would be completely fair...each person would have the same number of turns to lean into the guardrails, and same number to take it easy. Some of my collection, I used acrylic makeup displays for the cars:

My final layout that I finally was motivated to build, in the doldrums of Covid; I made my own custom guardrails out of strips of Lexan siliconed to the track because I hate the snap-on kind, they get brittle, break, and the joints between guardrails sometimes mess up the cars as they lean into them. Made a bunch of trestles out of wood so the raised sections had nice smooth angles, and siliconed the track to the plywood. I used UV-reactive Sharpie paint pens to mark the lanes and guardrail edges so it looks extra cool in the dark under a black-light, my daughter named and helped design and color the track sign. I let her paint some of the crappy cars with UV-reactive markers.

 

[68-500]

Many trips around the sand box with these guys. I was into muscle tractors as much as muscle cars.