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The Toyroom
May 18, '07, 11:01 PM
Out of Lincoln Logs, Legos, Tinkertoys, Erector Sets I'd have to go with Legos. It seemed like every kid had Legos and Tinkertoys and you could make so much out of them. Lincoln Logs seemed too limited and the Erector Set always was intimidating to me as a youngster.

http://www.libraries.uc.edu/source/images/lincolnlogs.jpg

http://tantek.com/presentations/2006/11/building-blocks/legos.jpg

http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/images/Potpourri%20Page/tinkertoys2.JPG

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/ErectorSet.jpg
Johnny
May 18, '07, 11:26 PM
I loved my Tinker Toys. I have bought several vintage sets on Ebay in the last few years and bought a few sets at Thrift Stores.
ShadowAvenger
May 18, '07, 11:39 PM
I went with other because I had a can of Playskool Bricks (http://www.architoys.net/toys/toypages/playskoo.html), which were like Legos but had red, white and clear plastic bricks along with doors and windows that could actually swing open. I loved making spaceships with them and I would use the blue and yellow one by one bricks as people.

I had Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys but the Playskool Bricks were my favorite toy.
jwyblejr
May 19, '07, 12:51 AM
Tinker Toys. I was always making some kind of laser gun with them. They seemed perfect for making a home-made version of the guns they had in Black Hole.
Hulk
May 19, '07, 12:53 AM
Despite their lawyer, I have to vote Lego.
Lora
May 19, '07, 2:36 AM
Legos of course ;)
Merlyn1976
May 19, '07, 6:12 AM
Legos...I still have a 55 gallon drum filled to the brim with them....my older two kids LOVE to play with them....
English Paul
May 19, '07, 7:36 AM
Call me a naive European but there is only Lego that I recognise from that list. Erector looks very similar to what we know as Meccano.
It`s Lego all the way for me. I hated Meccano because most constructions involved bending the metal plates and the next build meant bending it back, metal fatigue set in and it snapped.
My son got some Meccano for christmas and it`s horrible stuff. The bending bit has been resolved using different materials but the tiny nuts and bolts are horrible for kids. It`s so badly thought out that the spanner provided is too big to fit in the gaps - hardly the way to keep kids attention.

Lego is still very popular in our house, especially with the Star Wars and other licenced sets.
The Space and Technic Lego was my favourite as a kid. I still have my Technic car chassis - the biggest Lego set I ever owned.
joshvox
May 19, '07, 8:48 AM
Gotta go with legos, although I loved playing with lincoln logs too.
Marvelmania
May 19, '07, 9:48 AM
Legos were all I ever had so it's hard to compare. Had many a enjoyable afternoon playing with them!
Megospidey
May 19, '07, 10:31 AM
I was a leg man...er...lego man back then
toys2cool
May 19, '07, 10:07 PM
Legos for me :grin:
Bo8a_Fett
Dec 1, '07, 6:16 AM
Lego is still tops for me....except one thing...now I have kids of my own and they've all had Lego at some point inevitably at some point in the dark of night you WILL tred on a Lego block in bare feet....IT IS THE WORST KIND OF PAIN PEOPLE!!!!...I mean nails, tacks, plugs...NOTHING compared to standing on a Lego brick.
ramsey37
Dec 1, '07, 8:14 AM
Lego is still tops for me....except one thing...now I have kids of my own and they've all had Lego at some point inevitably at some point in the dark of night you WILL tred on a Lego block in bare feet....IT IS THE WORST KIND OF PAIN PEOPLE!!!!...I mean nails, tacks, plugs...NOTHING compared to standing on a Lego brick.

Especially when you catch it right on the arch of your foot, where it's nice and tender. Nothin' like the ol' Lego dance in the wee hours, when you've got a full bladder and a block stuck in your foot! ;)
George
Bo8a_Fett
Dec 1, '07, 8:36 AM
You speak with the wisdom of one that has shared my pain ramsey......maybe we should start a "I survived a Lego attack" thread.
BaronSat
Dec 1, '07, 12:37 PM
Hmmmm, let me think about it......... I think............ LEGO.

What did you expect from a guy like me? :silly:
monkey tennis
Dec 1, '07, 2:33 PM
Lego everytime.
I used to love to make Lego blocker boots.
But for pain, how about Lego in a slipper.
Painful and comforting at the same time...oo er :terror:
ctc
Dec 1, '07, 11:20 PM
Hmmmm....

Gotta go with Lego. I've been fighting off the urge to reamass and rebuild the Lego Space (I guess it's Classic Space now) installation I had as a kid. Close second for me would probably be Capsella:Space. You could build all sort sof, er.... well.... it all looked like a translucent tungsten molecule; but it had these cool little guys.

Don C.