Hmm, Tonka trucks, of all varieties, green army men, (which my sister cut all their heads off one day), bikes, trikes, mini bikes, etc., ropes, (long stories there) making a circus out of farm equipment after a tornado got through with them, horses, I guess it was outdoor stuff and I did make a fort.  The outdoor part may be because I wasn't really allowed indoors as a rule.

My sisters and I each got a Barbie one year. My mom glued their shoes on so they wouldn't get lost. I never saw that Barbie again and my sister has no recollection of me ever playing with it. I know she and my other sister played with them.

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I also played with boys toys too (lego and hot wheels)

When I was at my Mom's house it was the girl toys (I loved to play pretend games and brush/style their hair) and when I was at my Dad's house it was the boy toys.  My Dad (or was it my step-mom?) had stricter rules on what boys did and what girls did.  Not exactly rules, per se, but encouragement through what toys were purchased for me and having me play with my brother rather than my sister.

Ahhhh! Evil troll demons! Kill them before they lay eggs. Don't you know that whatever looks like a toy troll is a troll? Seriously i think they're kind of creepy.


I always played with Legos and toy cars. But most of the time i played video games on my computer or on my brother's old Nintendo 64 or my cousin's old Super Nintendo or on my brother's PS One.

Quote from: ZootAllures! on September 02, 2013, 05:10:37 AM
Ahhhh! Evil troll demons! Kill them before they lay eggs. Don't you know that whatever looks like a toy troll is a troll? Seriously i think they're kind of creepy.


I always played with Legos and toy cars. But most of the time i played video games on my computer or on my brother's old Nintendo 64 or my cousin's old Super Nintendo or on my brother's PS One.

I loved my trolls, especially the ones with the jeweled bellies.  Kinda wish I still had them 

i always made my legos shoot each other and occasionally filmed a few stop-motion scenes later on (man sitting on a park bench, car runs him over and stuff like that, i always played out rather violent scenes with them, even though i am not a violent person)

Outside I liked to explore. We had woods near the house that were always filled with adventure for a little kid.

Inside it was legos and games, plus Lincoln Logs! Loved building houses with them!

I had star wars toys, too, but mostly I explored the universe with the star ships and created weird plot twists with the figurines.

Personally I don't really belive in boy/girl toys I belive it just some part of our genderoles that if more guys are expected or learn how to play soccer than girls then sure more guys are going to like playing soccer. now when we look at it soccer become a kinda unisex thing and alot of girls are also enjoying the sport.

there have also been made some test where usual kindergardens been raisen there kids gender neutral for a week, and sure not all girls wanted to play outside and not all guys wanted to dress up, but alot of guys wanted to and alot of girls also liked playing outside.
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to say what I played I mostly played with my brothers dinosaurs and when I got older I played pokemon. I had a mix of male/female considered toy or hobby I liked soccer but I was also creative which im still am.

I didn't play with a lot of toys really. My parents were anti-popular toys anyway and prefered educational stuff. We had tons of lego and playmobil and built stuff or played stories with them. I also spent a lot of the time in our garden, swinging or climbing on the installation or in trees and playing make believe ( I had really complicated stories and if my brother bored me I'd ditch him and play alone oops). And reading, all the time and everywhere and everything. I loved the stories, fantasy and science fiction. Basically adventure stuff.
In school I had this friend I ran around the playground with playing Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings or Alladin with ( I was totally snape, legolas and the genie!) She played male characters as well so I didn't really care, people always wanted to join is because we were awesome at make believe ( I started doing theatre when I was 8 too, and I wrote stories... make believe is still my hobby). We also had this cool tree where we digged and found 'fossiles' and 'treasures'.
I have never really liked sports but that's meanly because I'm just not competitive,  I just don't get wanting to win, in boardgames I lose on purpose if it annoys other people they don't win :p
Me and my brother started playing barbiedolls at a later time, I had guys that were awesome and we cut the dolls hair and made stupid movies were a cow ate the barbie :p
Last year I cleaned out old toys and found all the girlbarbies in guyclothes and vice versa... pretty weird

I had Tonka trucks and my sister had dolls, and the thing is we both spent 80% of our time climbing trees and playing tag.

We actually spent a lot of time in a book too.

I feel sad for today's kids, too many doodads, and not enough playing.

Quote from: Natkat on September 02, 2013, 06:25:52 AMPersonally I don't really belive in boy/girl toys I belive it just some part of our genderoles

Yeah, there are a few books out there (my favorite one is Delusions of Gender) that pretty neatly debunk a lot of these studies since many, if not most, of them are conducted by dishonest researchers with an agenda.

As for me, personally, I had a pretty "nonbinary" play style I guess you could say, lol. I liked Barbies and model rockets. I played the crap out of Legos, and preferred to not play house, but rather "Ronbinson Crusoe" with my figures. I spent most of the time picking out places to set up base when outside, and building bases when inside. My friend's Jurassic Park dinosaur figures were some of my all-time favorites, alongside Digimon and Beast Wars figures. Human-shaped toys didn't do much for me unless I was playing with someone else who insisted. When we did roleplaying, I was always an animal character, or at least someone that could turn into one. Back then, being non-human was the closest thing I could think of to validate who I felt like I was on the inside. Now I know better.

Quote from: Lo on September 02, 2013, 11:15:24 AM
Yeah, there are a few books out there (my favorite one is Delusions of Gender) that pretty neatly debunk a lot of these studies since many, if not most, of them are conducted by dishonest researchers with an agenda.

As for me, personally, I had a pretty "nonbinary" play style I guess you could say, lol. I liked Barbies and model rockets. I played the crap out of Legos, and preferred to not play house, but rather "Ronbinson Crusoe" with my figures. I spent most of the time picking out places to set up base when outside, and building bases when inside. My friend's Jurassic Park dinosaur figures were some of my all-time favorites, alongside Digimon and Beast Wars figures. Human-shaped toys didn't do much for me unless I was playing with someone else who insisted. When we did roleplaying, I was always an animal character, or at least someone that could turn into one. Back then, being non-human was the closest thing I could think of to validate who I felt like I was on the inside. Now I know better.

Oh yeah, I totally forgot I was always really into dinosaurs, I had a subscription to a dinosaur magazine and had all of these dinosaur toys from the Paleontology museum and the zoo and I loved going to the dinosaur part of the zoo.

I had a cabbage patch kid, who I loved dearly. There is an infamous family home movie of me, circa age four, explaining and demonstrating how I breastfeed him. I was a mainstay at the house center in Kindergarten.

Quote from: Glitterfly on September 02, 2013, 11:10:11 PM
Hey I was interested in dinos too, for like a week or two xD But I think it was only because of an exhibition we went to

The Magazine had a little something to keep you going.  Each issue would come with one peice of a "fossil" so to get the whole dinosaur you'd have to get every issue.  Tricks that companies use to hook kids....smh

Oh boy, diosaurs. Yeah, for a bit! Like every other kid! The ones in museums are so much cooler.

I remembered something else. There were these stuffed animals I absolutely had to have in bed with me until I was in high school I think. A koala, some cats ...

Oh yeah dinosaurs! We used to go to Drumheller in the summer to see the Tyrrell Museum. We also got those sand things where you can pretend to dig up dinosaurs.
Not a toy, but I was also the kid who got up three hours early, so I could read for three hours before I had to get ready for school.

Oh yeah, I used to 'fight' with sticks a lot. Always when in a forest I had to search the perfect "sword", lol. I was never good at it though, but I liked to dream I was.
I also loved climbing onto things. Trees, roofs (yes, roofs), small walls, everything, lol. I aspired to be the next Ezio! XD
Also fantasy-based roleplays and such, like "a hero's journey" kind 'o thing. And now I'm here LARP-ing... not much has changed, lol!

And yeah, dino's are awesome! Now I shifted to dragons, which are basically dino's, but with more fantasy and creativity!

I dreamed of having a treehouse too! Me, my dad and a friend worked on making one for hours, but then the next day the bullies destroyed it. (we didn't have a tree in our garden, so had to use a tree in a nearby patch of greenery) I and a friend from the neighbourhood dreamed of making our own 'fort' and then totally own the bullies from over there, lol. We even made plans -like little kids do- but obviously never got through with it.

Quote from: Erik Ezrin on September 03, 2013, 01:18:31 PM
Oh yeah, I used to 'fight' with sticks a lot. Always when in a forest I had to search the perfect "sword", lol. I was never good at it though, but I liked to dream I was.
I also loved climbing onto things. Trees, roofs (yes, roofs), small walls, everything, lol. I aspired to be the next Ezio! XD
Also fantasy-based roleplays and such, like "a hero's journey" kind 'o thing. And now I'm here LARP-ing... not much has changed, lol!

And yeah, dino's are awesome! Now I shifted to dragons, which are basically dino's, but with more fantasy and creativity!

I dreamed of having a treehouse too! Me, my dad and a friend worked on making one for hours, but then the next day the bullies destroyed it. (we didn't have a tree in our garden, so had to use a tree in a nearby patch of greenery) I and a friend from the neighbourhood dreamed of making our own 'fort' and then totally own the bullies from over there, lol. We even made plans -like little kids do- but obviously never got through with it.

I think we would have played well together as kids.

Lets see, I loooved legos, my cousins barbies and my little ponies. My sister was always having to steal back her she-ra and this one doll, I can't remember what she was called, something like starbright. Then, I discovered video games and became allergic to the sun. 

Quote from: Glitterfly on September 03, 2013, 09:43:51 AM
Did you have a caterpillar? ^^ I think everyone had a caterpillar I had a few bears but most of my stuffies weren't bears like some people, I had such a versatile collection xD Seals and dolphins and turtles and snakes and bears and dogs and foxes and mouses and hedgehogs and and...

No, no caterpillar. I would have loved a hedgehog! I had Bill the Cat and Opus, though. Garfield was another favorite for cartoons.

Quote from: Glitterfly on September 03, 2013, 09:43:51 AM
Did you have a caterpillar? ^^ I think everyone had a caterpillar I had a few bears but most of my stuffies weren't bears like some people, I had such a versatile collection xD Seals and dolphins and turtles and snakes and bears and dogs and foxes and mouses and hedgehogs and and...

I can honestly say I don't know a single person who has or has had a caterpillar that I know of.