Here is just a selection of toys I had as a kid. Obviously this was in the days before snazzy games systems and computers and all that palava, where simple bits of plastic and cardboard wcould keep you entertained for hours.
In no particular order:
Buckaroo (which my brother broke 5 minutes after I received it on Christmas morning. It was never repaired)
Mousetrap
Operation
Kerplunk
Please post any toys you remember having as a kid.
A sock with a japanese cartoonie character on it called “Mr Osockee.”
some cold broken glass
superglue
animal traps that I found under the trailer
a box that I used to pretend to type on and talk to all my friends…not much has changed, except the glass is now hot.
are these like doctor games??
who needs those when you have cute cousins and a vast secluded garden… 
cabbage patch kids and then later the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards
games? Hungry hippos, memory, snakes and ladders, scruples, operation, pick-up sticks, battleship, uno…
Johnny West, Geronimo, General Custer and various horses…
I remember having operation, Build a Better Burger, hungry hippos and lots of transformers and Star wars stuff.
I also remember my brother had a snow speeder from Empire Strikes Back that he left on the driveway. When my dad got home from work he ran it over.
[quote=“Maoman”]Johnny West, Geronimo, General Custer and various horses…
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Geez man, you’ve just reminded me I had some Lone Ranger stuff. Quite a lot of stuff actually. I had totally forgotten about that for more than 20 years.
I also had some Action Man stuff, including a totally hilariously bad armoured car thing, and of course tonnes of Star Wars figures.
Lego and Meccano were also what probably got me into engineering.
Lego. Great stuff until they introduced too many molded parts that actually looked like things instead of allowing the kid to use the simple bricks to represent people, for example.
Gave all my Lego away to my ex-wifes kids in the 'Pines.
Model Railway (Hornby)
Those Airfix toy soldiers with plenty of tanks, buildings and landscapes made from chicken wire, papier mache and paint
Thanks for making me feel old.
BroonActionman
Yeah I gave a lot of stuff away too, stupidly. My cousins got my lego including my rather large collection of lego railway tracks (they were great, btw). I believe they also got my Corgi and Matchbox cars too.
Oh, I just remembered I also had Play People (not to be confused with Busy Bodies).
Never had a train set (apart from the lego one), but did have a fair few Airfix models. Really annoying when you got glue on the clear plastic parts, wasn’t it?
Fortunately, no-one, to my best recollection, ever asked me at the time how the pilot was supposed to see out of the cockpit of his ME-111/Spitfire/Stuka/Lancaster.
Did you paint them?
BroonAirfix
It didn’t look like that, of course, due to the pilot being glued to the canopy and the wings not fitting properly.
Whatever I wanted. Hehe.
I always wanted
Toys I had when I was a kid.
Lego, tons of it. Started with the normal stuff and than moved on to the Train stuff, the knights and later on the Lego technics. Together with my brother we had quite a lot of that stuff all together.
Always started with building like it should be, playing with it for a while and than put it into pieces and create own stuff. Great fun and kept us busy for hours and hours.
Lot’s of board games which we played with the whole family on weekends, mostly on rainy days or on winter evenings. Monopoly, Memory, and lots more which I can’t remember…
Football was a part too, with the kids from the neighbours. And if there was no football than anything which could kind of replace it, just needed to be kickable.
Skiing, was great fun, not even going to skiing resort first, just steping up the hill and preparing our own slopes down the hill in the small valley I grow up.
Building all kind of stuff in the snow with what ever tools we found, old shovels and stuff.
Swords which we made ourself out of wood, strange guns in the same style, etc., hunting around in the forests and building kind of fortresses and secret hiding places.
Constructing small dams in the river next to my parents house for better swimming holes, that was great fun and involved a lot of kids too.
Several of this models you have to build together, airplanes and ships mostly I think.
Tons of little cars and trucks.
The carerra race track, with different race cars, this remote controlled racing tracks.
and lots more through the years…let me feel old now too… 
Gt snowracer, dinky cars, marbles and a piece of equipment for almost every single sport. I think my mom liked me to play outside and I know I loved it.
mingshah: Can’t agree with you more about the Legos. (The space legos and the knights were my favorites, wasn’t too interested in the other kinds.)
kate.lin: Can you enlighten those of us who don’t recognize your bottom-most picture there? They appear to be either bottle-caps or poker/casino chips, but I can’t tell which. Either way it looks like you had an adventurous childhood, although I suppose drinking and gambling are probably not suitable for the younger children 
Tinkertoys
Legos
Hot Wheels cars
Bionic Man action figure with rocket ship
Nerf balls
Cap guns
Games like Mousetrap, Perfection, Operation, Sorry
Stickers/trading cards: Wacky Packages, Star Wars
I wanted to get Hungry Hungry Hippos and Rock’em Sock’em Robots, but never did.
Did you have the cap guns with the rolled paper caps or the string/circle of little plastic buckets, Chris? I always used to see the plastic ones as the gold standard when I was a kid (they were more expensive, as I recall, and generally came with cooler looking guns), but looking back I’m not sure that the paper ones weren’t more fun. Not only could you string out the paper on concrete and smash them with rocks and other things, but you could more easily open up the little paper bubbles and collect all the gun powder. Took forever, but gunpowder was pretty much priceless to us back then… 