32 of the Most Popular Toys From the Last 145 Years

[Possessed Freak]

Tinker Toys
Erector Set

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

1. Frisbee
2. Hula-hoop
3. Play-DOH
4. Superball
5. Etch-a-sketch

That list is terrible. Too many highly popular toys are missing.

 

[Jeffg010]

what about a fucking hula hoop

 

[Jeffg010]

1. Frisbee
2. Hula-hoop
3. Play-DOH
4. Superball
5. Etch-a-sketch

That list is terrible. Too many highly popular toys are missing.

damn you beat me to it.

 

[zinfamous]

Firstly Lego doesn't have an s at the end.

Secondly plain Lego wasn't expensive really, the modern licenced stuff is (star wars Lego or harry potter Lego for example).

yeah, standard legos are very cheap and can be bought in gross. It's not just the licensed stuff, though, but the specific sets--"pirate cove" or whatever that contains 4 or 8 unique molded pieces, like wall corners or trees that make the typical sets very expensive.

The original Lego castle and town sets only ever contained standard Lego pieces, and you built everything from those. Now, the "castle" sets are some standard pieces with mostly molded unique pieces that individually take the place of several standard pieces. This is what makes them expensive today, and much less like Lego.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Doh - just noticed that the article is titled "32 of the most popular kids toys..." not "The 32 most popular kids toys. . . "

 

[zinfamous]

1. Frisbee
2. Hula-hoop
3. Play-DOH
4. Superball
5. Etch-a-sketch

That list is terrible. Too many highly popular toys are missing.

There are several "wind-up toy" and nearly identical toys from the same era that don't seem to offer any compelling argument for being individually included.

leaving out Hula-hoop, Play-Doh, etch-a-sketch seems a huge slight.

 

[WelshBloke]

... legos...

Gahh! It's fucking LEGO not Legos.

Fucking fuckety fuck!

No fucking S.

You're just fucking doing it to bastard piss me off now!

 

[uhohs]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9kB1ezSETU

 

[Red Storm]

Still have these: :awe:

 

[KidNiki1]

Gahh! It's fucking LEGO not Legos.

Fucking fuckety fuck!

No fucking S.

You're just fucking doing it to bastard piss me off now!

whats wrong with legos? my son loves legos. he has lots of sets made of legos. many people made of legos. he sure loves his legos.

 

[Drako]

1. Frisbee
2. Hula-hoop
3. Play-DOH
4. Superball
5. Etch-a-sketch

That list is terrible. Too many highly popular toys are missing.

6. Silly Putty

 

[WelshBloke]

whats wrong with legos? my son loves legos. he has lots of sets made of legos. many people made of legos. he sure loves his legos.

Raaaaaaa!!!!

I have no idea why that winds me up so much.

 

[Thebobo]

They missed my favorite one.

Oh remember the C=64 hook up to this so you could program in moves?

Also they missed HOT WHEELS!

 

[thegimp03]

I didn't see Hot Wheels, Tonka trucks, Cabbage Patch Kids...

 

[mmntech]

Dildos must be the 1st.

You must have had an odd childhood. :sneaky:

 

[MisterJackson]

Ok, I'm two pages in on this thread, and I have yet to see one of you mention that they list Transformers, but show a motherfucking GoBot. A Goddamned GoBot.

That is a serious, and egregious offense by Wired.

And I feel shame that none of my fellow nerds/geeks/childred of the best decade ever caught that.

 

[amish]

silly puddy or play doh

 

[alkemyst]

Dildos must be the 1st.

What you do with your ass is your business, but my answer would be women for the #1 toy.

 

[T9D]

Lego's

 

[Spungo]

I only scrolled through the first 10 or so. Are guns on the list? There was a time when every kid owned a gun.

 

[silverpig]

Jacks
Hula hoops
Hot wheels

How about wooden blocks with letters on them?

 

[WelshBloke]

Lego's

That apostrophe is assuaging my rage if not my confusion.